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Apartment 3-G, 8/19/05

Not that it took Holmesian powers of deduction or anything, but I would like credit for correctly predicting that this Apartment 3-G storyline would be bone-crushingly boring.

In fact, the only way I can maintain consciousness while reading it is to pretend that Scott and Lu Ann’s goodie-goodie talk really consists of a series of double entendres.

“I’d like to take a container ship of calcium pills to his Dominican Republic.”

“I’d like to add something to her container.”

“I’d like to be invited to his Dominican Republic to help distribute everything once her container ship arrives.”

You can see the increasingly desperate straits that I’m finding myself in. Help!

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Ziggy, 8/18/05

You know, doing this blog, and therefore having to come up with something amusing once a day or so, has given me a certain amount of sympathy for cartoonists, who have to do the same. It’s harder than it looks. Sometimes you just end up staring at a blank piece of paper (or computer screen, in my case), despairing that anything funny will ever come out of your brain again.

But this … no. No. NO. See, because a robot’s voice is tinny, and maybe if it was coming out of a shell … well, no. Still, no. Sorry Tom and Tom II, but: no. No. No. I thank you for your time and effort, but: no. And no.

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A word of advice for anyone running a Web site: when your Web host starts sending you automated messages with subject lines like “The domain joshreads.com is about to exceed bandwidth limit,” you should pay attention sooner rather than later. A steady boost in traffic from my exposure on Yahoo! at the beginning of this month, combined with more multiple-graphic posts than usual lately, drove my traffic through the stratosphere and ate up my bandwidth allotment for August way early. Sorry about that! The bandwidth ceiling has now been pushed upwards, and I will be paying more attention to said warning e-mails in the future.

While I’ve got your attention, I should clarify the fact that J. Po first noted the Pruitt-with-two-Ts/Imus connection, though Smitty Smedlap did produce the stunning graphic that sealed the deal.