3-8-2022 was one of those days when everything seemed to need to be fixed at once but i will ATTEMPT to post a proper website for 3-9, I know this is very important to me that I do this.
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decisions, decisions!


In the end I could not resist a good old fashioned crispy hormone, but I had to send it back because while the preparers remembered to include the pickle chips I requested for the frites, they neglected to leave the weird slimy aioli off the main event sandwich, although the server insisted “I told them no aioli!” Officially it is supposed to be a sauce made of garlic, olive oil and salt but in trendy american restaurants that charge $15 minimum for a sandwich that is a code word for “disgusting mayonnaise to disguise the lack of flavor on everything but meant to sound fancier than mayonnaise.” The Popeyes restaurant chain also puts mayonaiz on its sandwiches by default but those cost about one third the price, are comparable in size and are actually properly seasoned if you succeed in getting your request for no mayonaiz heeded. I don’t know if the sandwiches are hormone or aren’t, admittedly, and they don’t come with french fries but I didn’t ask for french fries! And when I get them anyway the quantity I receive is lately not outstanding. Though it looks marginally less silly in that bowl than essentially the exact same order the last time I was at a Friendly’s joint, evidently in 2016

am I supposed to be impressed by this cage on a stick? it also looks as if I was denied a complementary pickle on this occasion, even though friendly’s was at one time the only place that would give me such material.

another “artisinal” restaurant, another nearly identical chicken sandwich, another underwhelming quantity of french fries in a weird bowl, plus pickle fragments that I probably had to request. Word has gone out within the past decade that potato scraps must be limited and not touch sandwiches and brined cucumber scraps must be yet more tightly rationed, even at locations that dare be properly lit and not have dark wood tables. I think this establishment was called Haywire. Haywire is of course a well-known informal terminology for a situation that is completely under control. Think about it, rectangular plates are much more spatially efficient than circular ones. Since this is USAmerica, we can’t solve a problem without immediately filling the void with another problem that we charge premium prices for. The space made efficient is remade inefficient by putting extra sets of spaces within it that don’t need to be there. It’s like those “hatchdimals” and “lol surprise” dolls my niece was so obsessed with for a while, that came in huge expensive packages which mostly contained more layers of packaging, and then in the middle would be a tiny little doll that possibly would be one she already had, because it’s not legally underaged gambling if their parents have to buy it for them, I suppose. For stuff that I buy for myself however I would definitely prefer they stop directing the money toward the acquisition and cleaning of funny serving vessels.

ah that’s more like it…no! That is NOT more like it! I mean put more food on the plate, not make the plate smaller!

I assume the serving size is based on how many fries this guy can fit in his jacket pocket.
but it could be worse

does this look like eight dollars worth of soup to you? this same dining zone also provided me with a refill on my iced tea without me requesting it, and then charged for an extra cup of iced tea on the receipt. and it was UNSWEETENED iced tea. I had to do the work of making it actually taste like something myself, QUITE for free. I appreciate that they totally filled the cup at least, why that was two bowls of soup worth of liquid!

on another occasion, since for the time being I end up taking someone to restaurants that I don’t necessarily want to be at weekly, or more, depending on how susceptible to guilt I am, I noticed several of these chairs outside the building, and an employee came out and asked me why I was taking pictures of them. I thought they looked neat. They did. on the day when i was overcharged for soup the chairs were very cheap but I was concerned about being seen taking pictures of them. My guess is the staff are aware of the detereorating furniture and were looking to get me to admit that but i hadn’t noticed it then! And you know what I don’t care about using crummy furniture if the eating experience is enjoyable, and it rather wasn’t. If you think I order too many chicken sandwiches, this place only has steak and fish sort of junk and it is worse and costs twice as much. just a trashy dumb defensive place all around.

it even has a perimeter wall like it is expecting invaders. however we have much more effective modern ways of averting needless warfare

I actually made this dumb little image edit days ago –after this extremely popular twitter post that isn’t necessary to look at, the link is just to keep me from posting a picture of it– but abstained from posting it, unsure if it was only funny to me because I was completely out of touch with the world. Or if it looked more like Richard Nixon than Vladimir Putin. All Jack Kirby men have a bit of Nixon in them. But maybe sanctions actually WILL work? Or maybe they’ll just, as usual, punish everyone except the autocrats who always remain quite well taken care of, who if they need anything just grab it from someone beneath them, and blame outsiders imposing sanctions and act yet more erratically. can anything REALLY be done?

ah jolly good I feel better now.

because I do not manage my time at all well lately, spending too much of the past week drawing and adjusting bells on the subject of the past week’s website post, and have yet to conclude that task, here from several weeks before then is

a robision drawing for a person called Kynikos of a creature also named Kynikos[s] who seeks the attention of fish in an unorthodox manner while wearing a strange hat. Kynikos has also helped me to locate several more archive pages whose formatting had gone totally screwy once entries on them migrated from the main page, which is evidently less pedantic about unclosed < center > tags, and I was able to correct that formatting. I cannot verify that they were also hiding in a puddle or required a special hat to find, but that would explain how I missed them until now. Few of my hats are special.

I seem to have neglected to state that “the wizard of squawk” from several weeks ago was also a robisioned piece! I have now added text to explain that, but I felt it prudent to explain that I failed to explain that. In fact I initially failed to explain it altogether; I only remembered to add an additional comment that was meant to follow the bit that I forgot wasn’t there yet. But now it is.

this idiot again. still not done, even with these frames, with additional motions yet to be started on, but I am no longer concerned that the object being carried is too boring or looks too much like I think it looks like a gun. A trumpet plunger with bells or hershey kisses hanging off the back is indeed preferable, yes.

I presume the fired-out bits will be similar to the old version, but I think that every time and change my mind after I already started trying to keep it like the old version.

An earlier attempt that is less like a plunger but I was concerned it might instead be compared to a body part popularized in a famous Kurt Vonnegut illustration.

holding a frosting tube

like I drew in cholesteronslaught (except too small and not riding a pie) after making the very old sprites, but then forgot about until after I had already started on the new sprites. this looks alright for the moment but I would need to redraw the arms for every angle, rather than creating a stringy monstrosity that needs to be drawn around the arms and that unlike a tube has no real world counterpart so that I can never know if it really looks correct or doesn’t and may spend an indefinite period trying to bring to that point.

armless (and yet toeless) variant, wearing something more like what the less violent, tattooed version of this creature had on in my december 2006 website header, and as is typical i didn’t bother to consult what that was since I was surprised to see that I included such a classy flower all those years ago when I finally got around to checking, and I only checked so I could have the correct link to it.

the first head variant. i thought i could include a leg variant also, that makes the creature slightly shorter. Neither really works! If you look closely, I mean. Most people never look at anything closely, but I cannot help doing so. I can try and fudge their positions in the sprite assembler but if nothing else and I can’t ultimately recycle any parts inside the game it is a foundation for a separate idiot. what is the fun of giving two different foes the same weapon? because they aren’t meant to be different, they are meant to be of equalish rank but look different despite that.
The line weight looks different simply because my drawing tablet of 4.6 years told me last night that it was done so I did this up to now with a mouse again. I’m worried this might actually look better and I have made things worse by freaking out so much lately when the tablet increasingly refused to work without being done, so that I needed to stop and restart the whole system, wasting time and rage in the process, but for any other sort of drawing the non-rodenty way is preferable.

a fancifully-colored commission for MordecaiPants of a contrarily-dressed sorcerial bird-person

because, as is increasingly the case, that is what I have this week, not because there is anything especially noteworthy about it. I am “glad” I can say it is because of spending a majority of my time trying to but not necessarily accomplishing anything, at least not of personal benefit, rather than simply because I am lazy. My laziness is very complex!