Creating a Comic » True Life Stories http://www.creatingacomic.com Bombing, killing, and other occupational hazards Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:40:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dear Great Britain: Learn to spell http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/dear-great-britain-learn-to-spell/ http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/dear-great-britain-learn-to-spell/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:04:20 +0000 CJ http://www.creatingacomic.com/?p=3940 Paraphrase of a recent text conversation with a female friend I’ll call Sassy:

Sassy: You should go, Siobhan is there :)
 CJ: No thanks, I'm still annoyed about 10pm girl
 Sassy:  I misunderstood her message anyway, she's at home
 CJ: For future reference, how the eff do you pronounce
       your friend's name
 Sassy: Siobhan = "Shyvonne" like Evonne. It's Celtic

OK, well, it’s also goddamn retarded.

]]> http://www.creatingacomic.com/2011/dear-great-britain-learn-to-spell/feed/ 2 “Foodie” is a silly word http://www.creatingacomic.com/2010/foodie-is-a-silly-word/ http://www.creatingacomic.com/2010/foodie-is-a-silly-word/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:00:05 +0000 CJ http://www.creatingacomic.com/?p=2753 “I’m definitely a foodie,” she said. What does that even mean? This has annoyed me for a while now.

I mean, I’m pretty damn enthusiastic about food, too — in that I eat some of it every single day. Multiple times per day, usually. And I prefer good food to crappy food. Doesn’t everyone?

I guess I’m unclear on why we needed this silly new term. If my bed has high thread count sheets, does that make me a sleepie? How about my lifelong, no-holds-barred addiction to fresh oxygen?

If you like to cook, well, fine; there’s already a word for that. But foodie just seems like a less self-aware way of saying gastronomically pretentious.

Unfortunately we already have several terms for the phenomenon wherein (a) I have a big mouth and (b) can’t help sharing these thoughts with the girl I just met; terms like retarded. And going home alone.

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Please bear in mind that this critique came from my friend/co-worker’s long-time girlfriend. Call me crazy, but it seems like a good thing that I don’t get all pervo when in close contact with the significant others of… others.

So how should I go about demonstrating greater hugging sincerity, then? I feel like dialing up the crotch-rubbing would be a step in the wrong direction. Ditto the creepy lower-back hand rub. Help me out here, ladies.

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