3rd of August 2008
As I sit here, at my virus riddled shitty old compaq, with my 3Data modem balanced on my head (surprisingly, this is the only way I can get good conection to the internet today) I am filled with a bitter hate for everything and everyone. I am off now, to kick a football for the dog.
The Kav
21 July 2008
Quick update on last weeks post: Jolie named her kids Knox and Vivienne, so I guess I was right on the pretentious name front.
Getting down to business, I know the artwork is shitty in the comic at the moment, but that’s just because my artist has just suffered a recent blow to her personal life and is unable to work at the moment: all her artwork, including the strips for Pods of Truth, has been burnt in a great big fiery blaze. Bare with us for the mo’, because it’s me that’s currently doing the artwork and I cant really draw for toffee. On that note, I’d like to say I’m really proud of panel 4 in this week’s strip, where Rizzo punches Strut on the nose. I think it looks good and it is the first time I’ve ever tried to draw an action shot.
I know this week’s update is a little late, but that is because of my internet connection. I have one of those ‘easy to use and reliable’ plug in data modems and the fucking thing never has any connection to a mobile mast. The makers, 3, claim it is because of the weather fluctuations recently, but I’ve had it for about a year now and it’s always been shit. And besides, you can make some allowances for the cloud cover destroying the signal if the weather’s bad, but the weather today is good (first good day in about three weeks to be fair. I suppose we should be talking about global warming and pollution, but there’s very little proven scientific fact that we are responsible for the weather. For example, carbon dioxide is considered to be the main cause of global warming, but the levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere are very low, and while they are growing at a steady weight the weather is too changeable and fluctuating for any one scientist to link it with carbon dioxide levels. Well, that was before Al Gore, but frankly he is an idiot. And besides, my carbon footprint is only 0.8, while the average person’s is 8.0, so fuck you it’s not my fault)
Where was I? Oh right, my internet connection.
Anyway cloud cover may cause some atmospheric static with mobile (or ‘cell’) phone-card systems, but today there is very little cloud and the sun is out, and my connection is still shit. So take that, 3 Ireland!
Or should it be me taking it from you? Oh well, never mind.
- the Kav
13th July 2008
I’m sure I was outraged and irritated by various different shenanigans taking place in the news this week, but not a whole lot is coming to mind. One thing I am glad of is that Angelina Jolie has finally had her twin babies; a boy and a girl (insert pretentious or ‘humble’ names here – my money is on Balthus and Cristobella, or else Hope and Unending Glory For The People If We All Rise Up Against Poverty And Un-Fairness In Trade).
I for one am glad these miracle children are finally amongst us. We have been waiting for thousands of years for the second coming of Christ and it is about….
Wait, you mean these babies aren’t the children of Gods? This is not the second coming? But, I thought, what with all the media attention and the media whorishness surrounding the birth, this was surely a case of some magical coming of the Chosen Ones, and not the simple birth of two ordinary mortals. After all, wasn’t the last one, Shilo, described as “the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ”? Surely that child must have cured cancer and AIDS and HIV and eliminated world hunger and child slavery (which still exists today) to have gained such an impressive nickname even before her birth. Perhaps this new pair will eliminate the incessant baying of under-exercised, over weight, t.v. and celebrity obsessed twats that live vicariously through media whores such as ‘Ms Ambassador’ Jolie and her husband (who always looks perpetually bemused by all the attention around him) .
I think the solution to this particular problem is simple: all the newspapers should stick to reporting the news. While this was going on, the babies that could be Jesus or the Anti-Christ being born that is:
- 15 people died in a suicide blast in Pakistan
- The Dublin stock market has begun to fall, leading to a recession
- Supermarkets are still pushing alcohol down our throats by offering it for 1 cent
- Gardí that have been covering documents in a murder case for 12 years were cleared of all wrong-doing
- It took the attack on some UN Peacekeepers to finally level charges of Genocide against the Sudanese government
- The HSE have just spent €1.5 million a week on travel expenses for their staff while teenagers with depression and serious mental illnesses are left to die without any adequate care
Still, maybe the babies Pitt-Jollie can do something about it. It doesn’t look like the people of Ireland care all that much.
-the Kav
