Apologies...

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 7:57 am

Today's comic is now up...my lame ass excuse is that the keen server was down the whole time I was trying to upload and update last night.
So, please accept, as a token of my apology, this crappy picture of a monkey I just drew in MS Paint.

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 8:09 am

One of my relatives refuses to apologize for being late when stuck in traffic. He says that the situation was beyond his control and that he has nothing to be sorry for, as he could make no positive impact on the problem.

I like that approach when it comes to webcomics. Sometimes the server goes down, especially in the middle of the night, and furthermore taking down the SMTP server that would let you e-mail tech support, and a comic can't be uploaded. Sometimes the artist has a Life Drawing final and cannot draw as he already spent the last six hours painstakingly copying the human form with charcoal and really doesn't want to deal with it again. Sometimes I'm in another state. End result -- things don't happen.

People who treat a webcomic as a public service that they need on a regular basis should pay for it, allowing for the purchase of expensive web space, staff, etcetera to keep the comic reliably running. Failing a business model of efficiency, things happen and sometimes the comic does not appear.

Did you try your darndest? Sure. Is the comic still functioning now? Absolutely. So don't worry about the readers; no matter how clogged the pipe may get, as long as quality entertainment continues to flow, they will read.

- Akhmed Al-Fayyed

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 8:14 am

Sometimes your computer decides to take a dump on you and not work (even though that's the computer's ONE job and it's not even a hard one), and all this is happening not only nearing your comic's deadline, but the deadline for several final papers you've already started and now have to start again!! Aaaaah!!

Anyway, don't worry Kat. We'll be here. Cute monkey though. ^_^

[ This Message was edited by: justinpie on 2002-04-18 09:15 ]

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 8:23 am

Thanks, al_fayyed!
I know, rationally, that these things happen and I shouldn't worry...but I'm just such a control freak!
The server problem WAS beyond my control...but arguably, it was my fault that the next day's comic wasn't ready to scan until 11:30 the night before!
But thank you, you're absolutely right, and that made me feel better.
Aww, it's gonna be ok, Justin! *sings that song, whatever it's called, that goes "eva-reeee thing is gonna be alrighttttt...."*

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:31 pm

Part of me thinks this song only exists on Planet Kathleen, but I know you'd go nutty trying to find the song, and you need studytime, so I'll take your word for it.

Anyway, yeah. How much time do you think it takes between the Photoshop and watercolor CV versions, kat? Is it about the same amount of time, or does one take way longer than the other?

Exit · Post by **Exit** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 1:02 pm

The song your thinking of Kat is 'One Love' by Bob Marley.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 10:03 pm

No it's not!
...this was a few years ago, sung by some dude with blond hair. Got played all over the radio, and got annoying.
Yeah, that narrows it down!
Edit: To answer your question, the computer coloring takes longer because I'm not used to it. With practice, I think I could get the times about equal.

[ This Message was edited by: kathleenJ on 2002-04-18 23:05 ]

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 5:46 am

On 2002-04-18 23:03, kathleenJ wrote:
No it's not!
...this was a few years ago, sung by some dude with blond hair!

Is it Macy Gray?

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 8:07 am

Well, I don't see why it couldn't be!

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 8:18 am

You're thinking "Lullabye" by Shawn Mullins, whom according to his press photos has cut his hair.

Unfortunately, two Bob Marley songs have really similar lyrics:

"No Woman No Cry" has a chorus of "Everything 's gonna be alright"
"One Love" has the line:
"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right"

- Akhmed Al-Fayyed

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 8:25 am

Oh yeah! I remember that song! "kinda like Nashville... with a tan..." Hehehe I was never satisfied with that song. Sometimes I liked the singy parts and hated the croaky talking parts, and sometimes I liked the talking and hated the whiny singing. I'll never be happy till I'm not satisfied!

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 8:30 am

Of Bob Marley songs, though, I like "Is This Love," which is the most honest of the "I want to get you in bed" reggae songs.

I once had to read a book on how Bob Marley was a cross-cultural hero, but it actually didn't prove that; it proved that Bob Marley was very much into Rastafarianism. Which is just one culture. It sort of killed "Exodus," "Buffalo Soldier," and "Straight Up Stand Up" for me.

- Akhmed Al-Fayyed

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 9:27 am

On 2002-04-19 09:18, al_fayyed wrote:
You're thinking "Lullabye" by Shawn Mullins

YES!!! That's it! Thank you!
With the switches from whiny singing to croaky talking..."I told her, I ain't so sure about this place"...
Gah, and now it'll be stuck in my head all day.
Ah, Bob Marley, the cross-cultural hero of Rastafarianism! I like him, when I'm in the occasional reggae mood. And although it wasn't the song I was thinking of, points for bringing him up - I'd forgotten he did a song with basically the same lyric.
That reminds me...I had a Film Studies exam last night, part of which (the easy part) was just a bunch of little movie trivia questions about movies we'd looked at in class.
And one of them was "Which film featured the unexpected appearance of a Rasta cyclist?"
It was Thelma and Louise, but I was like...the hell?! What an odd thing to focus on...it was maybe a two minute scene.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 11:16 am

Maybe the rasta cyclist represents something, like someone breaking away from a repressed people to find ones own individuality, mirroring Thelma and Louise's struggle for independence in a male-dominated society. Or maybe the prof just thought it was funny.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 11:27 am

I'm leaning towards the latter.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 3:59 pm

Now I have such an urge to rent that movie again. It's a favorite.

Probably one of my all time favorite movie moments...is when Thelma turns badass and robs the store.
(with better luck than Kristan had in my comic today)

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 4:01 pm

*anxiously awaits the sequel...*

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 9:41 pm

"Gentlemen...we can rebuild them. We have the technology."
Ahem.
Under cover of darkness, a stealthy team of militant feminists salvages the car wreckage from the Grand Canyon, and takes it to a top secret underground laborotory deep beneath the University of Arkansas research facilities. Thelma and Louise are slowly rebuilt - enhanced with robotic arms and legs, bullet-firing bras, and kung-fu grip. They survive...but are more machine than woman. They now roam America's highways by night in their convertible, fixed up to kind of look like the batmobile, fighting for justice and kicking the ass of anyone who looks at them funny. And shooting stuff and watching it blow up.

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 5:58 am

Or, like The Lost World or Blade 2, they can ignore that inconvenient "dying thing." Just because you saw it didn't mean it had to happen. Look at Highlander 2 -- changing the entire nature of the movie.

- Akhmed Al-Fayyed

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 9:08 am

Or look at the cinematic tour-de-force I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Didn't she get killed at the very end of the first one?
Oh man, what a pile of fetid crap.