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	<title>Creating a Comic &#187; News &amp; Updates</title>
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		<title>Oversharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the recent bombardment of social networking nonsense around here. I&#8217;m still not exactly sure what happened, but I think the typically well-behaved Sociable had a few too many drinks at a recent plug-in update party, vomiting brightly-colored share buttons all over the place. Then it took the absentee landlord weeks to even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My apologies for the recent bombardment of <strong>social networking nonsense</strong> around here. </p>
<div style="float: right; text-align:center;"><a href="http://blog.navigationarts.com/how-social-listening-can-optimize-experience-design/"><img class="alignright" style="margin: 5px; align:right;" title="Too Much Sharing" src="http://creatingacomic.com/images/share-images.jpg" alt="" width="220" /></a></div>
<p>I&#8217;m still not exactly sure what happened, but I think the typically well-behaved <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/">Sociable</a> had a few too many drinks at a recent plug-in update party, <strong>vomiting brightly-colored share buttons</strong> all over the place.</p>
<p>Then it took the absentee landlord weeks to even notice, of course&#8230; Anyway, the <strong>pearls of wisdom</strong> offered here are yours to do with as you please: to share, to hoard, to make into a necklace and fling &#8212; it&#8217;s entirely up to you.<sup><a href="http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/oversharing/#footnote_0_3969" id="identifier_0_3969" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="And your consenting adult partner.">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Believe me, I&#8217;m just grateful that <em>this</em> is the site you&#8217;ve chosen to visit while <strong>pretending to work</strong>.
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<li id="footnote_0_3969" class="footnote">And your consenting adult partner.</li>
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		<title>Cause and effect is a thing that exists</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/cause-effect-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, in a fit of drunken pique, this girl I&#8217;ve been seeing ripped the cell phone right out of my hands and then smashed it into the wall, breaking it. The phone now makes these interesting techno-strangling noises when various buttons are mashed, but that&#8217;s about all it can do. I can no longer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last night, in a fit of drunken pique, this girl I&#8217;ve been seeing <strong>ripped</strong> the cell phone right out of my hands and then <strong>smashed</strong> it into the wall, breaking it.  The phone now makes these interesting techno-strangling noises when various buttons are mashed, but that&#8217;s about all it can do. I can <strong>no longer send and receive</strong> phone calls. <sup><a href="http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/cause-effect-exist/#footnote_0_3926" id="identifier_0_3926" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I can still send/receive text messages, if you need to get in touch or want to continuing harassing me with dong shots">1</a></sup></p>
<p>The wherefores and what-fors that led to her blind smashy rage are mildly amusing, but I&#8217;m going to skip them for now because they distract from the point, which is: <strong>my phone is now broken</strong>, and this is because <em>she broke it</em>. </p>
<p>Again, this happened <strong>last night</strong>. </p>
<p>Cut to the present: <em>she</em> is apparently mad at <em>me</em> right now because &#8212; for 100% realsies &#8212; I have been <strong>too hard to reach</strong> all day.</p>
<p>So anyway, at least I&#8217;ve learned something important about this girl. It&#8217;s something that probably should&#8217;ve been obvious about her right from the beginning, long before this weekend: <strong>she is Totally. The. One!</strong>
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<li id="footnote_0_3926" class="footnote">I can still send/receive text messages, if you need to get in touch or want to continuing harassing me with <a href="http://www.andrewjrivers.com">dong shots</a></li>
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		<title>Click the Facebook “Like” button for ripped abs</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingacomic.com/2010/facebook-like-button-is-blog-applause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know when the site has new content, but find the RSS feed way too frickin&#8217; nerdy? Then click the Facebook &#8220;Like&#8221; button and my new posts will maybe show up in Facebook&#8217;s inscrutable and probably racist News Feed. The Like button is sort of the blog version of audience applause, and my immense [...]]]></description>
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<p>Want to know when the site has new content, but find the <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CreatingAComic">RSS feed</a> way too frickin&#8217; nerdy? Then click the Facebook &#8220;Like&#8221; button and my new posts will <em>maybe</em> show up in Facebook&#8217;s inscrutable and <strong>probably racist</strong> News Feed.</p>
<p><strong>The Like button</strong> is sort of the blog version of <strong>audience applause</strong>, and my <a href="http://www.creatingacomic.com/2009/why-do-you-do-comedy/">immense comic neediness</a> appreciates the gentle head pat. Thanks, my e-friends&#8230;</p>
<p>Oh yeah: technically speaking, this probably won&#8217;t do jack shit for your abs—so you should probably come <a href="http://www.creatingacomic.com/2010/this-here-indemnification-agreement-is-binding/">join my gym</a> instead.<sup><a href="http://www.creatingacomic.com/2010/facebook-like-button-is-blog-applause/#footnote_0_3437" id="identifier_0_3437" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="My own abs are already ripped enough to deserve a nickname, but that Jersey Shore douche already shark-jumped that shit for the rest of us.">1</a></sup>
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<li id="footnote_0_3437" class="footnote">My own abs are already ripped enough to deserve a nickname, but that <em>Jersey Shore</em> douche already shark-jumped that shit for the rest of us.</li>
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