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Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Feedback Loopy
First some blog stuff, then I will respond to reader comments:
Eva posted her pics from the island run day, includes pic of a giant dog and trapped racoon. Meanwhile, Nadia attended the Comic Arts Fest and Doors Open and saw some guerilla gardeners.
Merv bathed the flea-infested beastie. Christie found the best song ever [and others].
Now for politics: In the midnight hour, Andrew Spicer reads more, more, more. Overheard at the gym by Dead Robot:
"With all the research I've been doing I have discovered that the terrorists who died during 9-11 were all extremely handsome men. Despite the US trying to villainize them."
And now, READER COMMENTS! Here's some feedback on the smoking comic.
Yan writes:
This seems untrue, and thus unfunny. Smokers look like they're doing something idiotic, which is not the same as looking idiotic. They're sucking on a stick. Does that look more idiotic than chewing gum, or sucking on a lollipop, or licking an icecream cone, or chewing on a pencil, or shovelling food into your mouth? Vision skewed by self-righteousness. See what is there.
Yan attempts to do what I did in the Bruce Mau post but fails miserably because there's a difference between being accurate and taking things too literally. Yan, quit smoking.
Dave writes:
Meh - I believe that everyone's free to do as they wish. I don't smoke, because it's my choice, I don't think smokers look stupid or anything.
If the first sentence is true, then Dave should have no problem with me drawing a comic featuring a character who says that smokers look like idiots. Because they do. Dave continues:
I also doubt all the fear raised by saying "Smoking causes cancer", of all the smokers I've known, they've lived long lives - the only person I do know that developed lung cancer never smoked a day in his life.
I have never known anyone who has been to Antarctica, therefore, not only do people not go to Antarctica, the continent does not exist. Dave later retracts that statement but insists:
... but if we are going to make fun of a certain group of lifestyle choices for the risks they cause, then other factors must also be paid attention to as well (including diet, sun exposure, lack exercise).
I don't undertsand the point he's trying to make. I have made fun of other lifestyle choices in comics, such as eating fast food. This is the first time I've done a smoking comic. WHY DOES DAVE LOVE SMOKING SO MUCH?
daddyg then observes:
good points. some medical journals report that obesity-related conditions will pass cancer as a cause of mortality and morbidity in the next 20 years.
Those must not be very good journals, because cancer is an obesity-related condition (ha ha, SLAM!).
SeanieD ends up completely off-topic:
Hey...what about bloggers who wear socks with their sandals?!?!? NOW THAT IS IDIOTIC!!!!
One time! I did that ONE TIME! TWO FREAKIN' YEARS AGO!
In the end, I agree with Paul:
Smoking a cigarette is equivalent to holding a sign that says "I'm an ignorant, selfish moron." I'm surprised people aren't embarassed to be smokers. It's a weakness, a waste of money and a hazard to your health (as well as others).
12:53 AM
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