Stuck at work for another hour. Then a long weekend, hopefully, so I can finish the NaNo.

Meanwhile, here's an important lesson:

How to Ride a Pony

I'm not so sure about the crab blood, though.

( A word of advice about tiger traps... )

Just had to post a link to this.

Wiley's latest comment on "population control"

All week the Unabridged comic has been running a sequence that shows what each library staff member was doing on Christmas, tied together by phone calls to each from youth services librarian Dewey (who is home sick in bed with the flu on Christmas day.) In today's strip, Buddy the Book Beaver appears. He's the library mascot and has been the brunt ( Read more... )

So I finished the whole thing. I had to, it was quite compulsive. It feels unusual to have a comic story actually come to an end with nothing more forthcoming, but it was well done just the same. The characters are just adorable, every one of them, and if the setting is a little over the top, it just serves to showcase the interactions that much ( Read more... )

Severe thunderstorm watch here all afternoon and evening. All we got was a little spattering of rain and a lot of clouds, though. I guess central Illinois got plastered with the tornado warnings and heavy rains. It looked very impressive on the radar about 3 or 4 pm ( Read more... )

Sometimes something in the Sunday comics just hits too close to home.

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