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Oct 9, 2010, 3:55 pm
The Google Images filter settings are nothing more than a sham. Type in the names of pretty much any cartoon characters, and you'll get fanart of a sexually explicit nature sprinkled among the more innocuous results. And this not just with the "recommended" Moderate SafeSearch setting, oh no; even i... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2010, 2:33 pm
"Post-it posted on a Post cereal box. Postopia, a state one enters post-operation.
Heave a supercharged battery into a live wire fire, watch what happens, and--here's the important part--don't blame me.
From flashes of lightning we go to rumbles of thunder, and I wish we didn't. I had a grand total ... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2010, 2:05 pm
I have only one thing to say about this year's American political voting season:
This guy is awesome.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Secret of Platform 13", by Eva Ibbotson ((c) 1994) Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2010, 4:20 pm
Well, I hope you're happy, Ike Davis. I hope you're happy with your decision to go ahead and play on Yom Kippur 5770. After all, with your team wallowing in fourth place, 13 games out and going nowhere, your contributions on the field were absoultely necessary--nay, even vital--to assuring your team... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 4:33 pm
You can catch glimpses of me at 2:48-2:51 and 3:25-3:27 - that's 5 whole seconds of airtime! Wow!!
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Boy Who Saved Baseball", by John H. Ritter ((c) 2003) Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2010, 3:14 pm
It all started on my other blog, with some bleeptard writing anti-Semitic slurs on a post showcasing my cartoon about the Demjanjuk Trial. Defiantly, I answered with an uncompromising statement of my principles.
Today this person
found said post, ask me not exactly how--it's at times like this that... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 11:09 am
That there's my 130th cartoon drawn for The Jerusalem Post, submitted yesterday and slated to appear exclusively online. That's the twelfth of the thirty I drew since the last update in the 356th post to be seen by the general public (overall total: 67, or just a touch over half of the total).
Sub... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2010, 9:13 am
Both knees on the ground and hands clasped in front. Simple, really.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Well, Duh!: Our Stupid World, and Welcome to It", by Bob Fenster ((c) 2004) Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2010, 3:25 pm
9,000 DAYS, people.
Another milestone comes and passes...
TODAY'S BOOK: "East is East", by George Mikes ((c) 1958) Comment - Like
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Jul 5, 2010, 4:20 pm
The New Adventures of Little Toot has got to be one of the most obscure animated movies of all time. I can barely find any proof for its existence on the Internet, and its entire IMDb entry was written by me. (Thankfully, I'd had the foresight to preserve the cast list for posterity before the video... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2010, 6:53 am
"My name is Url. His name is H.T. Tepee.
Over the past month, besides visits from the usual suspects--Israel, America (particulary Denver[=Eric]) and Portugal (Bernardo, from 'Funchal, Madeira')--this blog has also received hits from Estonia, Indonesia, Chile, Japan, and--gasp!--even Canada. I belie... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 2:29 pm
This will make absolutely no sense to anyone but myself.
What if our homemade Bat Mitzvah movie (Officially known as "Sibling Wars/Everyone Has a Little Sister", mentioned last month in the 361st post), had a TVTropes entry? Let me find out. You can all ignore this and stare at the lovely nonexisten... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 10:16 am
Due to a drastically reduced posting rate, it's taken six months and two weeks to reach this milestone since the five thousandth hit (the first time the length between milestones has gone up), and three years, eight months and nine days overall. This time, the lucky fellow hails from Hollywood, Flor... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 7:02 am
READY!
See the man, running through the maze.
WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA
See the helmet. It is yellow, like his suit. It resembles a pizza pie with a slice missing.
WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA
See...
The letters stenciled above his tinted visor...
P A C
WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA
The man runs. He cannot remember why he i... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 4:48 pm
came tonight to Beit Shemesh, led once again by the indefatigable Avi Liberman, this time bringing along Wayne Cotter, Johnny Sanchez and Bob Zany. As usual, most primo lines below.
AL: Israel just got condemned by the UN. Over here, we call that "Wednesday".
WC: Benjamin Franklin discovered electri... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 3:26 pm
I'm writing this from the scene of the crime--or, rather, nearby. Tonight was my sister's bat mitzvah celebration, and my brothers and I cobbled together a fairly-well-made-if-I-do-say-so-myself "tribute" video for the occasion. It was witty, well-edited, and wildly popular.
This isn't it.
After the... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2010, 4:48 am
How's this for odd:
Remember my classual Waka Waka anthem, prominently featuring my priorly-coined catchphrase? Its lyrics have now popped in the unlikeliest of places: the official anthem of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. (??!?)
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", by Shakira ft. Freshlyground
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Apr 5, 2010, 3:14 pm
Please welcome rookie sensation Jenrry Mejia, making his debut in the big leagues as none other than the twenty-fourth New York Met to wear #32! Woo!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Faith and the Electric Dogs", by Patrick Jennings ((c) 1999) Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2010, 6:13 am
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Poor ol' Russell Jay Kuntz (pronounced 'Koonts'). Doomed to become one of the most hilariously misnamed athletes of all time--#1 according to one online poll--and the only such person in my sports card collection (several thousand baseball and nine basketball).
TODAY'S BOOK: 'The True Confessions ... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2010, 4:43 pm
The above is my 100th cartoon drawn for The Jerusalem Post. Unfortunately it did not get submitted; in fact more than half lately haven't. Still, 15 of the 30 submitted since the 327th post have gotten in (making exactly 55% overall), so that's something. Four of those also appeared on the Post's we... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 3:44 pm
Tomorrow will be Jonathan Pollard's 8,888th consecutive day in prison.
There's nothing terribly significant about the fact in and of itself. It's just a number. 8 8 8 8. It just means that 8,887 days of jailtime have already passed, with G-d only knows how many more to go.
Jonathan Pollard is a spy.... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2010, 9:09 am
"If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?"
--joke received from the Interwebs, c. 2005
Mother (translating a document): "What's the opposite of 'progress'?"
Me: "Congress!!!"
--today
March Hare: "Why don't you start at the beginning?"
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Mar 6, 2010, 1:18 pm
Well, at least one selfishly good thing has come out of this cluster****ed ****storm: I've been granted permanent linkage in another blog. Say hello to Shelly's Comic Book Shelf, which is, you guessed it, yet another comics-related blog. Apparently my latest rage-induced rant was impressive enough t... Comment - Like
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Mar 4, 2010, 6:44 am
PROLOGUE:
DC, you ____ing b______s!
NOW ON TO THE MAIN EVENT:
It has been said that, if the entire population of China was to walk in front of you nine abreast, the procession would never end due to the rate of birth. Well, if the readers of DC Comics--and any person who loves decent comics in gener... Comment - Like
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Mar 2, 2010, 4:52 pm
Curious about my Purim costume's weaponry? Probably not, but here's what they were constructed of anyway!
Der Zwei-X Raygun, Mk. II
Main body is drum tripod. Special timer attached to right side with belt; copper pot knob-piece taped on for olde timey funke ambience. Laser scope from brother's BB g... Comment - Like
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Feb 28, 2010, 4:32 pm
Greetinks from der Israelcountrie, I am Herr Doktor Gunther von Vilhelm, szientist off der schteampunk varietien, undt I am not really real beink also an ego-altern off Herr Menachem Jerenberg (aka MakFanOffMetz) created especiallink fur Purimschpiel!
I haff googles, ein trench-koaten, ein hatski, ... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2010, 8:18 am
Ladies and germs, feast your eyes upon my very first professionally illustrated book!!
UPDATE: Sample chapter (complete with sample illustration!) available for reading here!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Hate You Forever: How to Channel Your Rage into Effective Supervillainy", by M.D. Wilson ((c) 2010) Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2010, 4:32 pm
A few posts back I laughed at the inadvertently dirty language in a short story's narration. Since then, I chanced upon an old English project: a diary written from the perspective of a young alien on another planet. The confused grammar in the April 13th entry caught my eye, and after a good laugh,... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2010, 3:28 am
Wherever there is trouble, Israel is there to lend a helping hand. May G-d be with the people of Haiti. (Unprinted cartoon submitted to The Jerusalem Post.)
TODAY'S BOOK: "Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter", by Ellen MacGregor ((c) 1953) Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2010, 10:42 am
There is practically no way the author did not know how those top two paragraphs could be misinterpreted.
FYI, this is an excerpt from "Brothers Beyond the Void", a 1952 short story by Paul Fairman, reprinted in "The Twilight Zone: The Original Series" ((c) 1985). Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2010, 1:37 pm
"'There was a young fellow of Stroud
Who dressed himself up in a shroud.
When they called him a freak
He replied, "I'm unique
And don't wish to be one of the crowd."'
--Livingston, M.C., A Lollygag of Limericks (1978), p. 11
'A meticulous person of Grange
Once declared, "Though my friends think me s... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2010, 6:51 am
Well I suppose it;s time close out another year's list month. This time, I'm drawing the blinds with a unique sort of list: my top 10 favorite unpublished Jerusalem Post cartoons!
#10 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi arrives in Libya to great fanfare, 8/25/2009
Yeah, meting out justice based on the honor s... Comment - Like
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Jan 8, 2010, 4:50 am
Ah, fanfiction.net, thou hast proven the truth of Sturgeon's Law many times over. And yet, out of the foul muck and mire, the Mary Sues and the Canon Rapes, some good things doth arise...
TOP 25 FAVORITE FF.NET FANFICTIONS
25. Scrat's Haiku (Ice Age, K)
Yes, it's a haiku. But it's a... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2010, 4:16 pm
What shall I list off today? How about some animation companies that I've been neglecting!
TOP 10 DREAMWORKS ANIMATION MOVIES:
1. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2. Kung Fu Panda
3. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
4. Flushed Away
5. The Prince of Egypt
6. Over the Hedge
7. Sp... Comment - Like
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