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| Halloween | [[person stepping down porch at night]] / This Halloween I'm going as a normal human, / Because, like ghosts and goblins, / They could be truly terrifying / If they existed. / [[Some myths really are terrifying.]] http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-30 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-31">http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-31 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Radio Pop | Say what you want about today's music,
/ but I feel that radio pop is the sound of the soul
/ vomiting onto the crotch
/ of progress. / [[a guitar's neck]] / {{Okay, so there's some good radio pop out there. }} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-02 |
| Pregnancy | Okay, so I admit that the cake I made to celebrate your pregnancy was a little crude.
/ But if you'd be willing to but down past the surface, you'd see that what counts is
/ Anatomical correctness / [[A cake depicting a pregnant belly with hands on its sides and a candle on top]] / {{The difference between a good pregnancy cake and a good fetus cake is icing.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-03 |
| Gender Equity | I care about gender equality, though sometimes I wonder about the battle we choose to fight. I just don't know how you can measure social progress in how many Y's you use to spell wymyn. / [[Red femininity (Venus) symbol on blue background]] / {{You can definitely measure social regression by the number of r's and l's used to spell "gurrrrrlll!"}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-04 |
| Word for You | Language has forgotten how to say your name. / My tongue comes up empty when I try to find the word for you. / Which is why I'm going with "buttsome." / [[an empty photo shoot set-up]] / {{I plan to use "buttsome" in essays.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-05 |
| Cynicism | I want to believe that cynicism comes
/ from loving the world too much to let
/ it get away with less. / [[Beach scene showing the beach, waves and coast in the distance, with two people: one taking a picture and the other waking along the beach]] / {{I want to crush this planet with a big, clumsy heart.}} / {{the original uneddited posting also said: that cynicism means crushing the planet with a big, clumsy heart.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-06 |
| Eight Words | Inuit culture gives us eight words for snow.
/ Somehow I feel robbed,
/ 'Cause all my culture ever gave me
/ Was eight different words
/ For blame. / [[Heaps of metal (cars?) sit piled in a junkyard waiting to be compacted]] / {{The more free you are with synonyms, the more you can find!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-10 |
| Remembrance Day | [[a huge cemetary of nearly-identical gravestones, with a domed building to the left]] / Text: I try to distract myself on Remembrance Day.
/ Like with those picture games they have in newspapers.
/ "Can you spot 16 million differences
/ between the world before and after the war?" / Text under image: "Photo taken by Redvers for the Wikimedia Commons, then released from copyright." / {{Dulce et decorum est pro patrii mori}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-11 |
| Everything's Out to Get You | The only sensible way to live when everything's out to get you
/ is to chase pigeons,
/ bite pedestrians,
/ and be out to get everything / [[Statue on cobblestone sidewalk with a leafless tree, a streetlight and the road in the background]] / {{"Which is why, my dear boy, peeing on this fountain is a gentleman's act."
/ P.S. This comic is based on a photo that a friend took, as was this one. (a link on 'this one' leads to the "Mortar Launcher" comic)}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-12 |
| Everyone Has One | I think that everyone has one,
/ A little piece of the heart that makes them interesting,
/ A little button that says,
/ "Do Not Push." / [[Pink heart with a large simple plaid pattern]] / {{What does this one do!?}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-13 |
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| I Fear the Bees | [[There are three sets of text, with what are probably flames in the backgrround- but that bit's not really all that important to the comic]] / Small Text in alternating yellow and white: I fear the bees, but not just for their stingers, their superior numbers, and their suicidal devotion to the hive.
/ I fear them because they have gotten away with the sickest prank in the history of the free market. / Large text in gold: Honey Nut Cheerios / Medium text in black: Bee vomit never tasted so good. / {{FIGHT THE POWERS THAT BEE!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-16 |
| Orfy the Wonderwhale | Orfy the Wonder Whale
/ cannot even save himself.
/ [[Drawing of a whale upside-down on its back on a beach]]
/ {{I feel really bad now. I'm going to go hug someone and say a prayer for Orfy.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-17 |
| Hurricane | [[There is a coconut tree, with the leaves pointing as though there was a strong wind to the right of the observer. There is text further to the right.]] / Text: I am unimpressed by your simile.
/ Don't say you will "Rock me like a Hurricane,"
/ Unless you can commit to dampness,
/ Property Damage,
/ And angry Floridians. / {{Here, why don't we say that you rocked me like an unexpected draft?}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-18 |
| The Day | [[small boats pulled up to the side of a pier]] / I remember the day / that the tides stopped, / and the moon vanished / into the dirty fountain / of the sky. / That was the day / that science shut / its mouth and / everything / made sense. / {{"The Day" means a unit of time here, I guess, and not actually the specific period where the sun happens to you. / PS: I write a lot of things I don't mean. }} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-19 |
| Questions of Love | [[two people stand facing each other, each with a hand around the stems of a flower bunch; two other people are standing on either side of them, watching]] / The questions of love are not / "Who?" / or "Why?" / but "How often?" / / {{I like that this comic can be both really creepy or really tender OR REALLY BOTH. / PS: This shot (I'm in it) was taken by Phil Saaltink of Little Worlds.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-20 |
| Ozone Layer | [[Hazy drawing of the earth from space]] / No, we didn't break the ozone layer.
/ It fell down the stairs. / {{This story is not being related to the emergency room doctor, but to Captain Planet!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-23 |
| Don't Bother (I) | Don't bother asking me,
/ "How's it going?"
/ When what you mean to say is,
/ "Tell me you're alright." / [[yellow tinted, posterized photograph of two people, one looking at the other with concern]] / {{Photo by Gallium_Arsenide, the lead photographer for Little Worlds.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-24 |
| Don't Bother (II) | [[man with golf club; actually, Derby from Little Worlds]] / The Best Things In Life Are Free
/ -sent From My iPhone / {{This comic features the first lower case letter in my cynic lettering (unless you count one ambiguously shrunk "c").}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-25 |
| Haiku for Nova Scotia | [[drawing of a thistle in bloom]] / Thistle on the moor / symbol of my Scottish pride: / stupid, pointy plant. / {{This comic was collectively written by four of the Little Worlds crew (Phil Saaltink, Aaron Baltz, Tom Dodge, and me [that's 4.25 syllables each!]). / (We all live in Halifax, NS.) }} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-26 |
| "Like a Book" | [[two hands, with a gold band on the left ring finger, hold a book upright and open to pages with elaborate ornamentation and text formatted in the style of verse]] / You read me like a book / that you won't bother finishing. / {{This is how I talk dirty to librarians. }} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-27 |
| Every Human | [[man looking down over a fence]] / It's easy to get bored of being human, / which is why it helps to remember that every human / is technically half-minotaur. / {{(Everyone is the human half of a minotaur, though some people are arguably 100% bull) / PS: This was inspired by one of Judah Friedlander's hats.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-11-30 |
| Bad with Names | [[girl sitting wrapped in a blanket; actually, Jasmine Minoza of the Little Worlds project]] / We all say that we're "bad with names."
/ I think we're just bad with other people. / {{...and it's not really a big deal since it's true for everyone}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-01 |
| Bad Days | [[drawing of ball pit balls]] / Bad days wait for us to discover them, lurking like turds in the ball pits of our lives. / {{Poop can be deep.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-02 |
| Operating Systems of Evolution | [[There is text above and below versions of the Windows, Apple, and Linux logos which are just different enough that it might not be a copyright issue.]] / Top: Operating Systems of Evolution / Under Windows: Darwindows
/ "Whatever, it'll sort itself out." / Under Apple: Lamarckintosh
/ "Your kids can enjoy it too!" / Under Penguin: Linnaeus Kernel
/ "Look, I've got folders!" / Bottom: "Yes, Linnaeus, we'll pretend people care about you too." / {{Poor, under-appreciated Linnaeus. You can build anything with his system if you have the patience to learn how it works.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-04 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-05">http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-05 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Our Love | [[a body of water, splashing up just after something has been dropped in it]] / Our love must be / like the sea, / ready to creep up the beaches / and take back / this melting planet. / {{Shore-dwellers, beware. }} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-07 |
| Security | [[airport finger number 18 against clear sky]] / Just once I want security to come to me and say.
/ "Everything is okay.
/ Here is a hug." / {{"Also, here's that puppy that you lost when you were six and always blamed yourself for. He's safe and he still loves you."}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-09 |
| Is Love | Love is patient: Love is kind,
/ except when it forgets that
/ I'm allergic to seafood.
/ Love can be boastful, conceited, and rude,
/ sometimes all at once
/ last night
/ in bed.
/ Love does not envy
/ unless Lust has a better deal. / Love is frightened by distances:
/ England is far and four months is long,
/ but Love endures like the rest of us,
/ trying to think of sports
/ or grandparents
/ when the mood isn't right. / In (more than) a word, there are three
/ things that last
/ six months or longer:
/ Faith, Hope and Love,
/ but the only one to hold back
/ your hair while you vomit
/ is Love. / [[a rocky shore]] / {{Happy six months, darling-dear. We both know that Corinthians had it coming.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-12-10 |
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