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This image is for Part 3 of my comic, but I'm working on the back end of the story now. It's got me plucking at my beard.

The thing about Fish Outta Water stories is that ignorance is a short lived thing... unless someone is determined to stay that way.

cont'd...
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I sometimes think the big difference between me and a real comic artist is the willingness to let minor things slide because they got the job done.

That radiator grill would have me breaking out the ruler and making sure each line was as straight as a bullet. It doesn't matter that it reads already
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I don't want to raise everyone's expectations too high but I think I have a new karaoke standard.

#MusicSky
ludacris area codes
YouTube video by mjdoomreviews
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November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was in Gunsan Korea when I had to get an x-ray for my lower back at a public hospital.

The nurse came to me looking like she was gonna tell me I had cancer. "I'm sorry, but your insurance doesn't cover this. You'll have to pay ₩100,000!"

About CDN$100.

I smiled at the concern AND at the price.
in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed

a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Clear retelling of Momotaro.
むかしストリート - 桃男 -|Once Upon A Dance Time - Peach Boy -
YouTube video by コメアニメ
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Gen X falling for Gen X-bait is embarrassing.

Back then we'd spit boiling hate at anyone telling us pop culture peaked with Perry Como and Kirk Douglas. But a bunch of us literally spent a decade yelling, "You kids don't know what real ghost busting looks like!"

Fucking lead poisoning, man.
Green Apple Watermelon Slurpee (2019-2019): As the name suggests, this was a bright green, watermelon & green apple-flavored slush drink. Released exclusively in Canadian 7-11 stores, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original "Ghostbusters".
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In South Korea, Nov 11 is Pepero Day. (Their Memorial Day is June 6)

It's one of those days that exist solely to sell things like our Valentines Day. I've been told it's because the 11/11 on the calendar looks like Pepero sticks.

Korea transforms the week before as...
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
RIFTS was the most Gen X of Gen X TTRPGs.

Like you open it up and Faith No More starts playing and all of your shoes turn into Sketchers.

...

Now I kinda want to run it.
Art by Keith Parkinson ‘The Minions of Splewgorth’ for RIFTS RPG (1990)
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Linux Rasslin' Music - We Can't Be Stopped by Geto Boys.

Somehow they managed to create a handful of perfect hip hop songs that stood the test of time, while simultaneously having a discography that was one endless Double Dog Dare.

In the dictionary next to "Aged Poorly"

6/10 gangstas

#MusicSky
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Canadian martial arts schools are filled with fash?!?!?!??!

This is such a shock I have fallen into a swoon!
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Obviously when your democracy, culture, and future are under assault by humanity's worst, the best move is to quit your position of power so the enemy can take it and use it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A true warrior sees the strength in both claw hammer and scruggs.

#MusicSky
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Spring Garden Road between the Gardens and the library should be converted to bikes & feet only. Argyle: Roof it over like a Japanese shotengai.

Allow drinking outside. It's not 1938 and we don't have scores of drunk violent military boys tearing up the city every weekend.

I can fix Halifax.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It took a bit of fighting because Inkscape kept not doing the things I asked, but I managed to take a step forward and get some dialog inside some word balloons just now.

Yuri Gagarin has gone from entering space to going into orbit.

#wip #comics #inkscape
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I love this fever dream of an episode. It's too bad Herberts hate it.
I guess eventually I had to talk about Star Trek's stupid space hippie episode. My video all about it is now public, please share!
youtu.be/bnaxqPZuD54
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hrm. Been noticing an uptick in word blindness in my posts. Frustrating.
a close up of a spoon in a bowl of soup on a plate .
Alt: a close up of a spoon in a bowl of soup on a plate .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
YouTube has sending me recommendations like this for the last two days.

This is not a complaint.
Poppin Taco & Boogaloo Shrimp 1983
YouTube video by DJ Hector
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Building some templates for Krita that match the aspect ratios of my scanned pen & paper originals may seem like boring shit but I assure you this test page here is a huge step forward.

I just put Yuri Gagarin into orbit.

#wip #comics #art
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Sandwich Guy goes free and BlueSky crashes in celebration.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"I am Sandwich Guy!"
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I dusted off Inkscape to slap this title on here. I'm looking for good tutorials about making word balloons on YouTube right now but most everything is near a decade old.

I assume the program hasn't changed that much since then? Hard to know with tech companies.

But if it works out, bye-bye CSP.
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Learning Krita Update:

= Drawing a comic with it =

Pretty darned good, actually!

= Lettering a comic with it =

I think I'll have to blow the dust off the Ames Guide soon and get back to practice.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
BlueSky is gonna be pretty entertaining today!
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I got people who treat going into a podunk little port city like Halifax like they were gonna need Snake Plissken to come in and rescue them later.
My cousin is a die hard Republican in Arlington. I doubt she thinks her neighbors want to do anything to her or her family. She just thinks us white yuppie libs are dupes and naive about the "dangerous" cities. She also refuses to go into DC.
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
1. I heard the words "Using AI" in their plans. I did NOT hear the words "Tax the rich and corporations".

2. The NDP are talking about abstaining so they don't get blamed for a snap election.

3. If you want healthcare, join the army.

#cdnpoli
CBC News: The National | Carney unveils his 1st federal budget
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM