{"id":2450,"date":"2012-02-24T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:09:14","slug":"little-things-mean-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Little things mean a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t make in on the Comics Curmudgeon<\/em> “Comments of the Week” very often.\u00a0 That’s okay. I really enjoy doing the PhotoShop mashup thing the best…<\/p>\n

Only it’s REALLY FREAKIN’ COOL<\/strong><\/em> when one of my verbal tirades gets a COTW Honorable Mention!!!\u00a0 I’m posting them here, because it’s a nice perk, with so many folks reading Josh’s site.\u00a0 It’s even cooler than having had a letter posted at FOOB HQ (well, unless it was a really vitriolic letter, and might’ve led to someone’s firing because it made LJ pitch a fit). Schadenfreude R Us.<\/em><\/p>\n

[The links don’t work.\u00a0 Come on…do you really<\/em> want to see old panels of Family Circus<\/em>, Mary Worth<\/em>, or FBOFW<\/em>?\u00a0 On second thought, maybe they do…oh, these wacky techno times!]<\/p>\n

24 February 2012:<\/strong> \u201cWhere\u2019s the beret and the two-foot long cigarette holder? How am I supposed to know this fellow<\/a> is in The Industry???\u201d\u2013bats:[\u00a0 [This involved Mark Trail’s good friend “Steve,” a film-maker and a ringer for your basic ascot-wearing Charles Nelson Reilly affected type.]<\/p>\n

15 January 2011<\/strong>: \u201cThe Bora Bora Lagoon<\/a> Resort on Ventura Blvd in L.A. is probably 30 miles or so from Santa Royale. Mary might even drive the happy couple [Adrian and Scott] there, instructing them carefully on contraceptive methods as she does.\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n

25 January 2010:<\/strong> \u201cI think Chip\u2019s friend<\/a> works as an organ-grinder\u2019s monkey on the weekends.\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n

29 March 2010:<\/strong> The Phantom<\/i> \u2014 \u201cWhat a woman! I\u2019d be blind not to notice! But she\u2019s not Diana! Because Diana is dead, and this one is walking around and breathing and talking and stuff. Unless she\u2019s a vampire! Or a zombie! Is there such a thing as a beautiful zombie? With a boat? She can\u2019t be a vampire, because we\u2019re standing out here in broad daylight \u2014 unless she\u2019s one of those sparkly ones from that book Heloise was reading! Or was Kit reading that? I wonder who they borrowed it from; I\u2019ll bet it was Guran! And if I were blind, shouldn\u2019t I be Daredevil instead?\u201d\u2013bats:[\u00a0 [There was an explosion where Diana worked and if appeared Diana had died in it … it was an insidious plot to make Kit think she had, only he discovers her in Gravelines (or something) prison!]<\/p>\n

22 June 2009<\/strong>:\u201cWhy is Shannon such an apparently angry child? Because she\u2019s drawn poorly? Because the \u2018fun afternoon\u2019 cousin Toni promised is \u2018visiting\u2019 with a banged-up invalid? Because Brad doesn\u2019t have cable?\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n

11 May 2009<\/strong>: \u201cI like the fact that Jeffy seems mortified by Dolly\u2019s \u2018extravagant\u2019 offer of cold cereal to Mommy on her special day<\/a>. I suspect he suggested to the others that they make pancakes and bacon, or perhaps cheese blintzes, for her, and now he has to wear one of PJ\u2019s snugglies, to hide the bruises.\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n

29 July 2008<\/strong>: \u201cI think Jeff and Mary have, consciously or not, begun a platitude-to-the-death competition<\/a>. Who will win? Or are there ever winners in such a God-forsaken battle of bon mots?<\/em>\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n

10 March 2008<\/strong>:\u00a0 This is Josh’s account of the Mega-Meetup in Tucson.\u00a0 It was GREAT.\u00a0 We laughed. We ate. We met a Web celebrity (Josh!) and his lovely wife (Amber!). We laughed. We took photos. We met an honest-to-gosh real comic-strip cartoonist (Bob Weber, Jr.).\u00a0 And a number of faithful Curminions (I <3 Mooncattie).\u00a0 We laughed some more.\u00a0 We didn’t even get thrown out of the restaurant.<\/p>\n

27 October 2007<\/strong>: \u201c\u2018My book! My writing! I\u2019m just like Hemingway!\u2019 Yeah, without the pistol.\u201d \u2013bats :[ on Mike Patterson<\/p>\n

22 July 2007<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m wondering when Dee\u2019s going to start thinking hard about pulling a Kelpforth on the entire Maison de Patterson<\/a> and taking it down to its smoldering, glowing embers. \u2018Do you think your mom would mind if we removed all trace of her existence here for 30 years by immolation?\u2019\u201d \u2013bats :[<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t make in on the Comics Curmudgeon “Comments of the Week” very often.\u00a0 That’s okay. I really enjoy doing the PhotoShop mashup thing the best… Only it’s REALLY FREAKIN’ COOL when one of my verbal tirades gets a COTW Honorable Mention!!!\u00a0 I’m posting them here, because it’s a nice perk, with so many folks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}