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Hi everybody! We managed to get back to Baltimore on our own power and in our own car — Hooray! A complete weekend report, including details of all the awesome people I met, is forthcoming, probably tomorrow, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging any longer on the already delayed COMMENTS OF THE WEEK! (Remembering of course that the comments from when I was away aren’t in the running, despite their hilariousness [and yes, I have been at least scanning them…]).

Here’s the A-number-one, king-of-the-hill comment:

“I can’t go to the Charterstone pool party. I’m busy trying to line up a place where I can have some face-to-face contact with prospective donors. How can I do that? Let me think… Hmmmm… How can I access a group of upper-middle-class adults with no kids and disposable incomes in an informal and congenial setting? Where do such places exist? Mary, will you stop bugging me about your goddamned pool party already?” –Hogen Mogen

And the pretty-darn-hilarious in their own right runners up:

“Blaze is unaware of the federal law that prevents anyone wearing a neckerchief from serving as someone’s legal guardian.” –Reid

“I just got another laugh out of Margo’s inappropriate scowl in the first panel. She probably doesn’t even know she’s doing it. Why so angry, Margo? ‘Angry? Shut up! I’m trying to look concerned. Someone woke me and now I’m in some sort of hospital and Lu Ann’s dead or whatever and I’m kind of horny and these people aren’t talking about me and GOD I’M BORED.'” –Old Bean

“Dilton’s thought bubble should read, ‘Why does everyone talk about me as though I weren’t here? Sweet Jesus, what I wouldn’t do for a little human interaction.'” –The Spectacular Spider-Brick

“If I’d had a chance to put money on which old strip would be the first to introduce a hot interspecies lesbian storyline in an effort to spark interest among our jaded youth, I would be a great deal poorer and damning Mark Trail even more vehemently than usual.” –Hawkwoman

“You gotta admire Peter Parker’s smooth pickup technique, though. The only thing sexier than a chest full of hair and gold chains to disco-era ladykind is an alarmist headline about left-wing terrorism. Puts the ‘baad’ in ‘Baader-Meinhoff.'” –arto

“The sight of someone thinking is apparently a fascinating rarity in Archie and Betty’s world.” –Prankster

“Please tell me Mark intends to dissect that thing on the tarmac. Headline: Local recluse found performing voodoo ritual at airport! Sought for questioning related to earlier plane/bird incident!” –Spoony Bard

“Katy grew back her hair in solidarity with her softball coach, who was recently diagnosed with not having cancer.” –t.a.m.s.y.

“Does anyone else hear Cherry Trail’s boldfaced ‘WE LOVE YOU’ as a dozen dozen voices of the damned chanting in unison? Just me? Okay, carry on.” –Artist formerly known as Ben

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Hi there everybody! I’ve had some really awesome and great experiences in New York this weekend, both at the ROFL! shindig Friday night (at which I was not victorious, but that’s OK, since I was really nervous and I think I did my best stuff in the first round) and at the Mocca artfest today. At both, I had lots of encounters with many fine Comics Curmudgeon readers, who are without exception awesome and friendly and fun and good looking. I will be posting a somewhat longer account of my experiences, naming individuals and offering a few pictures, soon! But for now I just want to say that you were all cool and I loved talking to you and I really appreciate all of you reading my site and being fans.

You know who I don’t like and don’t appreicate, however? The New York traffic enforcement department, who towed and impounded our car for being in a bus stop zone, despite the fact that we were not, in fact, in a bus stop zone.

You know who else I don’t like or appreciate? The Maryland MVA, for putting the wrong license plate number on our vehicle registration, which means that that NY traffic enforcement won’t release our car back to us.

New posts coming when we get the hell out of New York, which may be, you know, never.

Update: Slight retraction: Having now strolled past the sad, empty spot where our car used to be, I have to admit that it is in fact a bus stop. A very poorly marked bus stop, but a bus stop nonetheless.

Nevertheless, they’re still being dicks about the license plate issue. Come on you bastards the VIN number on the registration matches and you saw that OUR GOD-DAMNED KEYS OPENED THE DOOR why on earth would we be trying to grift you out of a 1994 Toyota Corrolla for fuck’s sake.

Second update: WE (“WE” BEING “AMBER, THE CAR, AND MYSELF”) ARE BACK IN BALTIMORE. COTW COMING TONIGHT; MORE TO FOLLOW LATER SOON MAYBE.

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Apartment 3-G, 6/22/07

“Thank God! Her mental functions don’t seem to have been affected at all!”

Pluggers, 6/22/07

Pluggers smell worse than you can possibly imagine.

Folks, I am off to make my mark in the Big Apple this weekend! As of Thursday morning, there were still tickets available to the show I’m in up there Friday night, so for God’s sake come and serve as my rooting section, I beg of you.

Also, at some point on Sunday (I cannot guarantee yet what time, but probably in the first half of the day) I will probably be wandering about at the MoCCA artfest. How long I stay will be determined by how awkward I find it not really knowing anyone, but if you happen to be there, look for me! I will look pretty much like this (I’m even bringing that shirt to wear).

Sadly, due to my absence this weekend, I won’t be posting until Sunday night or Monday morning, and am putting a cap on comment of the week as of right now. Thus, the comments on this thread are free from performance pressure! GO NUTS WITH THE ANARCHY, EVERYBODY!

While you’re here contemplating my absence, though, you may come to think, “Gee, why didn’t I get one o’ them swell Margo!Boxcar!Saturn! shirts when I had the chance?” Well, fear not: if we can get enough interest (and “enough interest” means preorders for at least 24 shirts and/or 36 mugs), you can have that second chance — and this time, they’re in cranberry! HOTT!

Shirts are $17 + $5 S&H. Mugs are $13 + $5 S&H. Gotta have ’em both? $30 + $5 S&H. As before, you can order at the site of faithful reader willethompson, the mad genius who designed them.