It's wrong!

A free Mary Worth icon for your use. Right click and save it, then post it anytime you need to make a point. Use Mary's icy blue shadow visage to make your point.

[sarcasm] Ooh! I can crop an image! I'm so cool! [/sarcasm]

Icons

Funny out of context panel:
Get your Terry Bryson icon:

I wonder if Terry Farrell from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine served as the model for Terry Bryson?

Get a befuddled Toby Cameron icon:

Phishing for a space bar

The person behind Enormoushop.com has done it again! Wait for the redirect and check out the private information of Toby Cameron. Click on the link at the bottom of the update account page to get back to the normal page and check on the link in the upper right corner to see videos of bunnies doing tricks.

Re-register her account again? She has fallen for this scam before? Why does Ian leave her unsupervised?

A bonus Toby Cameron avatar:

She will do anything to make sure her beloved Ian receives that slightly used DVD that he desires.

Love is risking identity theft to fulfill the desires of your beloved.

Today's Lunch: 4.25.2008

Kashi Chicken Florentine, the package:

The contents inside the package melted a bit and made the package wet.

The actual product after microwaving:

This is the last Kashi meal in my stash. I've documented all the Kashi entrees except for the Lemongrass Coconut Chicken. The Chicken Florentine is the most visually unappealing of all the Kashi meals and not all that tasty. I ate it but did not enjoy it.

I should have had what this guy is having:

It may lack visual appeal but at least he's enjoying the heck out of it. This image needs a slogan. Feel free to suggest one in the comments.

Day 28 - Drew's rebutall!!!

Drew responds with three exclamation points. The meeting is winding down. Will Mary Worth appear soon?

This conversation has gone on so long that the proprietor of the Junction Cafe reupholstered the the chairs and altered the table tops. 27 days of battleship gray and now we have magenta and pink. Vera has also changed her overcoat and purse.

Two bonus avatars from today's strip:

It's your screwed up eye, Vera.
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For fun, I timed myself running a single mile without using a treadmill. Just the road, a GPS and my legs determining my speed. I ran a mile in 9:48.

Creep-o-meter

My running friends do not understand why I don't run in the early mornings. There are plenty of good reasons to do so but none of them sufficiently compelling enough for me to wake up so early. I will get up early if only there is a prospect of a nap soon afterwards. Otherwise, I'm just like Susan for the rest of the day.

Wilbur is climbing further and further up the creep-o-meter. Right now, he's at a 7.

It only takes four large muscles to bitch slap the cheerfulness out of a morning person. Working large muscle groups burns more calories.

Bonus avatar from Rex Morgan M.D.:

Fist of Fury

Bonus avatar of Dawn Weston's Fist of Fury: What's up with the plot pacing in Mary Worth? A single conversation can take a week and a half but the discovery of Drew's two timing takes two days. Does Giella ever look at a drawing once he has completed it? Dawn changed shirts between Sunday and Monday. I wonder if Giella looks at a panel once he has completed it. It would explain some of the continuity errors.

Variations on a Gag

Bonus avatar courtesy of Rex Morgan MD:

Variations on a gag:

Sometimes, I feel like Dilbert in the last panel after going through yet another anti-racism/ anti-oppression/ embrace diversity workshop or presentation.

In the United States, the dentists wear masks to protect the patient. I would think that the set up in the last panel would make access to the teeth more difficult.

Who hasn't dreamt of this happening?

You might be a tad obsessed with Mary Worth if you find yourself attempting to imitate the poses as drawn. The hand pose in the second panel is doable but a tad painful. No, I can't draw hands any better. I know alumni from the University of Texas (t.u. for us Aggies) and other schools with that shade of orange as a school color would love to know where Dr. Drew purchases his lab coats. The matching pants can be found easily.

Wink!

Stanley sleeps at the office because he cannot sleep at home. Not with the crazy woman that lives in his house.

Did Dr. Whitepants really say, "Wink!"? Dr. Whitepants must be close retirement thus everyone tolerates his behavior because of his impending departure.

Drew's reaction makes a nice Live Journal icon.

Enjoy!

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I love Mary Worth because I can skip reading it for a week and not miss anything. Bonus avatar: Dawn Weston regarding pool party.

A new week and a sense of focus. I drew 15 cartoons while on vacation. I managed to scan, color and letter two of them. I have one scanned but it still needs color and lettering.

I registered for the San Antonio Marathon (Nov. 11, 2007). I will begin training for that race next week. I downloaded a training plan from Runner's World. It only has two days of running a week. This plan emphasizes quality over quantity. I could slip in an extra easy run if I wanted to. I will have the opportunity to try tempo runs and speed work.

This week I plan on just doing three 30 minute runs incorporating slow/ fast intervals.

I anticipate a busy week at work.

Party? Are You Serious?

A little Mary Worth avatar fun featuring Vera Shields:

Bob Thaves has died but his son can write a good gag. Maybe Frank and Ernest will not become a zombie strip, a mere shell of a once good comic strip haunting newspapers around the world.

So many ways to add to Vera's line in the second panel.

Party? Are you serious? I can't rest on my laurels, I have to get that next promotion!

Party? Are you serious? You expect me to stoop to attending a party with you Santa Royale hoi polloi?! I may not live in Pacific Hills any longer but that does not mean I have to socialize with the likes of you!

Party? Are you serious? Geriatrics in bathing suits, ewwww!

Party? Are you serious? Is that creepy Professor Cameron going to be there?

Party? Are you serious? Look, Mary I'm grateful for your help but I really find parties quite draining. I prefer one on one or very small group socializing. Large parties make me really uncomfortable.

Party? Are you serious? A large typhoon is expected to reach landfall this weekend. Shouldn't we evacuate?

Party? Are you serious? You want me to come to the party even though I acted a bit brusque at the last pool party?

Party? Are you serious? No, Vera, I'm being silly. I'm going to kill you and make a casserole out of your still beating heart.

Now the interactive portion. Add your own line in the comments.

Party? Are you serious? _________________

They are all around..

I can't avoid them!

An icon/ avatar from Mark Trail for your enjoyment:

From the second panel of this comic...For those who do not read Mark Trail, a synopsis of the story line that led to today's strip:

Some corrupt county officials want the county to buy their land to build a new airport on it. Problem: the county already has a perfectly good airport. So the county officials hire a shady hunting guide to put a bunch of birds around the airport thus creating a danger to aircraft. The airport becomes unusable thus the county has to build a new airport and a couple of officials have some land that they can sell. Mark Trail will uncover the plot and foil our villains.

Bad guys executing a ridiculously elaborate scheme in order to make a profit should be a familiar plot to anyone who grew up watching Scooby-Doo. Instead of ghosts, we have birds. Instead of meddling kids, we have a meddling wildlife biologist. In both, somebody is wearing a kerchief.

AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comics and Al Gore

Right now a sickeningly sweet smell invades my office. My co-worker is calling physical plant. I hope it's not anything poisonous. The smell is only at my end of the hallway.

I read today's Joy of Tech which lead me to this picture:

Al Gore in his office, May 2007 from Time Magazine. What does Al Gore really do with three 30 inch monitors? Sweet consolation prize for not becoming president. I guess he wants to fully explore his invention.

Icon: Vera's brother, Von

What did Vera do that pissed off Von so much that he threw her out? The perspective in the second panel is giving me a headache. The smell in my office is not helping matters much. I opened a window.

I believe you speak for all of us, Jeremy.

Isaac

Today's icon: Vera surprise.

I spent my lunch hour yesterday tending to Isaac and Loki. Isaac spent the day in his kennel because he jumps over the fence.

I tried a harness attached to a line that is attached to a tree yesterday evening but either he or Loki chewed it and Isaac got loose. Fortunately, Isaac did not jump over the fence. I guess he decided to stay because he did not see us leave. Isaac stays in the yard as long as he does not see you leave.

Because of the lunch time fence jumping, I took Isaac to the office. He behaved well. Other than the fence jumping Isaac is a well-behaved dog.

I will spend my lunch hour the rest of the work week letting Isaac out to play and stretch his very long legs. I'm ahead on my cartoons so a few days without drawing will not throw off the schedule.

If you want a sweet, lovable, big dog check out Isaac at http://www.woodstocktexas.org Make sure you have at least a 6 foot fence or can take him outside periodically. Despite Isaac's size he is a great indoor dog.

Another beautiful day, another icon

Another beautiful day and another Mary Worth icon. A classic Mary Worth audible punctuation dialog balloon. Why not, huh? That would make more sense since a sound goes with the word. A question mark by itself does not have a sound. It alters the sound of a word, unless one hails from parts of the southern United States. People from those regions tend to make every sentence sound like a question.

I noticed that KFC no longer advertises its Famous Bowls. I guess the demographic that enjoys its food in a huge pile rather than separated does not have as much disposable income as thought by the marketers at KFC. In the non-cracker south, gravy does not belong on top of corn. Non-cracker south includes most of the southern United States.

Why does Kentucky Fried Chicken use a sample from "Sweet Home Alabama" in its commercials? The unavailability of songs about Kentucky suitable for marketing products?

A trip to the landfill

Bonus icons from Mary Worth:

Went to the landfill to film the WFSC 409 tour. Not much to see because the rains made the roads around the work site too messy. Captured some footage of turkey buzzards going through the garbage and ignoring the workers nearby. The landfill manager said that this facility now has a small population of sea gulls that came in with the storms. College Station is more than 100 miles from the nearest ocean. I did not see any of the sea gulls but I will check the footage more carefully. The sea gulls may have blended in with the garbage.

Yesterday, I went to a seminar on blogging and how other departments are using blogs to communicate. I will make another attempt to explain how our department can use a blog as a newsletter and for other communication. Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a wall whenever I attempt to explain the positive potential of blogging and other communication mediums. Maybe it's my own inability to communicate effectively.

I'm thinking about putting an RSS feed on aperfectworld.org so that people don't have to visit every day. It would cause less frustration whenever I don't update because of server problems, personal issues, bad weather or any number of reasons.

This afternoon I get to figure out how an older version of a web page ended up on display and try to fix it. I need a different exclamation of frustration. Fuck! and its variants is not appropriate for a professional atmosphere. Neither is an Hawaiian shirt but I'm wearing one today. I'll try "Bob Saget!" - it has the same cadence as "God Damnit!" but without the potential of eternal damnation. I got the Bob Saget idea from some videos of a Tourette's sufferer who uses Bob Saget as a curse. I hope Bob Saget does not have any supernatural powers.

I love my job but not enough to do it for free.

The first day of Spring, hooray!

Bonus icon:
The indifference of Mary Worth

Asking the right questions can also make most religions seem ridiculous. Fortunately, in the United States a boycott or a loud protest is the worst thing that can happen. Other places and times, death.

Yeah, yeah, blah blah, blahdeblah blah blah. Vera really starts at the bottom by taking a job that no longer exists. Mary Worth does not care she just wants your soul. Mary plucks the world's tiniest violin.

The first day of spring and I see this. Tom Wilson owes me something for disturbing me on the first day of spring. Ziggy does not wear pants and now he's modest? I wonder if this is before or after Ziggy has taken of business? The more I think about this comic the more disturbed I become.

I spend a great of time going over these entries to eliminate instances of passive voice. I do it for most of my writing. I do this to avoid the disapproval of an English teacher I had not seen in nearly 20 years. I doubt she reads this. I wonder if any of Ms. Kessler's other former students do this or am I just nuts?

Ms. Kessler taught junior and senior English at Spring High School in Spring, Texas.

Bonus icons:
Icon 1: Every time I meddle, I touch myself!
Icon 2: Now bend over and relax.
My only hope is that Ella is stringing Mary along. Just as Mary is about to release her guilt, Ella channels Aldo and forces Mary to face the inky dark blackness of her soul.

Who am I kidding? This is "Mary Worth". I'll read on Monday and find that the story has moved on or Ella is still dispensing the platitudes.

What has happened to me? Why do I care about this comic strip?

My God, my life is so full of trivial concerns. Better than the bitter struggle for survival. Or is it?