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| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [['Mina is on a sledding dish being pulled by two dogs]] / [[Although the dogs aren't attached to the dish by any means, they 'pull' the dish up a snowy hill]] / [[They take flight against a starry sky]] / [[A giant BoxJam head appears near the flying sled - the dogs take notice]] / [[The giant BoxJam looks sternly down at 'Mina as the dogs scatter and the dish stops]] / [[Reveal: It's a dream emanating from 'Mina's head as she lies in her crib]]
/ 'Mina: *Sigh* http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010126.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam is at a supermarket checkout, with an militantly optimistic person in line behind him]]
/ Militantly Optimistic Person (MOP): Hey, friend, you look sad!
/ BoxJam: Uh... / MOP: Be happy, pal! Life is good! Don't sweat the small stuff! / MOP: The world's your oyster, right? C'mon, cheer up! Lemmee see a smile!
/ BoxJam: I'm not sad. / [[BoxJam walks off with his groceries. MOP looks mad]]
/ MOP (thinking): Jerk. http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010129.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Ms. BoxJam checks herself out in the mirror from several different angles.]] / [[She walks away from the mirror]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: It's all good... http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010130.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam is chased by a bag of trash over a beach. The bag gets larger and larger, closer and closer, a la "The Prisoner" giant balloon chases.]] / [[BoxJam looks at the perpetually full kitchen trash can.]]
/ BoxJam: *Sigh* http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010131.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Ms. BoxJam holds a present; BoxJam an easel]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: Happy Frugality Day! I got you a CD player!
/ BoxJam: Happy Frugality Day! I sold all my CDs so I could get you this easel! / [[Ms. BoxJam looks crestfallen]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: I sold all my paints and brushes. I could get you a book...
/ BoxJam: I sold our lamps. I could get you some earrings... / Ms. BoxJam: I sold my piercings. Maybe we should just return this stuff...
/ BoxJam: I sold the receipts. Oh, and the car. http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010201.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam is on his roof, dressed as a WWI-era fighter pilot]]
/ BoxJam (thinking): Here's the WWI flying ace patrolling the dawn skies at Couer du Loop... / [[He looks behind him, where Little BoxJam and BoxJamina are also sitting on top of the roof]] / BoxJam (thinking): He has his kids with him... http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010202.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam is watching TV]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: You watch too much T.V. / < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010205.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam and Ms. BoxJam sit at a table with half-eaten Chinese food]]
/ Ms. BoxJam (reading): "There is no meditation more powerful than the pause during a morning walk to remember a departed friend." / Ms. BoxJam (thinking): Please don't... please don't... please don't... / BoxJam: In BED! http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010206.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | Inset: The world and the way it would be if the word 'the' was replaced with 'nud.' / BoxJam: Did you like yesterday's Chinese food?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Yes, but this vegetarian chili you made is good too! / BoxJam: It'd be better with a beer.
/ Ms. BoxJam: No beer for me, but I'll have a glass of wine, if you please... / Inset: OK, so nobody use the word 'the' today... http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010207.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam and Ms. BoxJam are standing outside]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: Did I tell you the Touchstones are going on vacation by themselves? Can you imagine going on vacation without the kids? / [[A series of thought balloons]] / [[Postcard shows BoxJam and Ms. BoxJam, alone, wading in breakers on a beach]]
/ Caption: Having a great time... At the Beach! / [[Postcard looks the same, but a fist has punched through it]] / [[Postcard looks the same, but the hole the fist punched through is now being stretched open by Little BoxJam]] / [[Postcard looks the same, but Little BoxJam has dropped through the hole into the water - he's got an inner tube around him. BoxJamina is now climbing through the hole.]] / [[Postcard looks the same, but Little BoxJam is splashing BoxJam, and BoxJamina, who has now dropped into the water, has her arms outstretched to BoxJam]]
/ BoxJamina: Up! Up! / [[back to scene of BoxJam and Ms. BoxJam standing outside]]
/ BoxJam: No. http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010208.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Ms. BoxJam and BoxJam are reading]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: This says that liking some losers is fine, but liking them BECAUSE they're losers is unhealthy.
/ BoxJam: Huh. You say that as though it has some relevance to me. / Ms. BoxJam: Well, who's your favorite baseball team?
/ BoxJam: The Cubs. / Ms. BoxJam: Football team? Hockey team? Basketball team?
/ BoxJam: Saints. Capitals. Generals. / < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010209.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam walks by a pile of large bricks - an 'aha' mark registers above his head]] / [[BoxJam lays out a careful rectangle of the blocks]] / [[He very precisely builds up a low wall of blocks, with a window in place. The perspective is severe.]] / [[As he plumbs his work finished thus far, Little BoxJam begins haphazardly adding blocks at strange angles.]] / [[BoxJam reacts with alarm as Little BoxJam keeps adding all sorts and shapes of blocks, including a block with a tire on its side, to what was a perfect creation.]] / [[BoxJam watches his Lego project helplessly as Little BoxJam has elbowed in, adding Legos whatever way he pleases.]]
/ BoxJam: *sigh* http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010212.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Ms. BoxJam reads a letter]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: Hmm... Mensa wants me to take a test... they think I could get in...
/ BoxJam: Pretty elitist - are you gonna? / Ms. BoxJam: No more elitist than an orchestra, or a football team...
/ BoxJam: Orchestras are trying to play good music. Football teams are trying to win football games. What does Mensa do? / Ms. BoxJam: According to this, they're going to try to take over the world...
/ BoxJam: And the funny thing is, I would actually respect that more! http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010213.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam walks through a library, past a librarians' desk. Over the desk hangs a sign: Shh!]] / [[Outside the library (sign: LIBRARY) BoxJam meets Ms. BoxJam]]
/ Ms. BoxJam: You get your book?
/ BoxJam: Yeah. / Ms. BoxJam: The librarian is pretty homely, isn't she? / < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010214.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam and Ms. BoxJam sit against a pole. Ms. BoxJam is toying with a skein of yarn or a cat's cradle or something]]
/ BoxJam: You know how sitcoms'll have cute little kids on them?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Yeah...
/ BoxJam: And you know how, if the show lasts a few seasons, the kid outgrows his or her cuteness?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Yeah... / BoxJam: And you know how, even though the kid's a bad actor, they feel obligated to have an episode or two a season about that kid?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Sure...
/ BoxJam: And how, invariably, even though they've never mentioned it before and never will again, one show will be about the kid being in a band?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Mmm-hmm... / [[Ms. BoxJam's cat's cradle is getting more tangled]]
/ BoxJam: And you know how, they'll have a scene with the band playing, with a couple of fans trying to suggest a crowd?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Uh-huh...
/ BoxJam: And you know how the band sounds totally soulless?
/ Ms. BoxJam: Yep. / [[Ms. BoxJam has bound her wrists together]]
/ BoxJam: Man, that's the best... http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010215.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Ms. BoxJam sits by candlelight, writing]]
/ Ms. BoxJam's Journal: February 16 - The chimpanzees have undergone a transformation of late that I cannot explain... / Ms. BoxJam's Journal: Once independent and noble, the tribe has grown lazy, turgid, and, if I may anthropomorphize a bit, downright silly... / [[Ms. BoxJam contemplates, pen to mouth]]
/ Ms. BoxJam's Journal: But why? Is it our very study? Could our expedition into Kenya, to observe, be changing the observed, like the proverbial thermometer in the beaker? Sadly, I fear I know the answer... / [[BoxJam appears behind Ms. BoxJam, holding a beer, with a chimpanzee dressed in army fatigues and holding his nose]]
/ BoxJam: Hey honey! I taught General Chimps-kopf how to dance "The Swim!"
/ Ms. BoxJam's Journal: ...and I understand why Jane Goodall never got married... / {{Note - Napoleon (artist of the strip "Snail Dust") told me Jane Goodall did in fact get married. Oh well}} http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010216.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[A bunch of prairie dog BoxJam's are poking out of their holes]] / [[They see something]] / [[A fllying Ms. BoxJam, holding a bag of trash, swoops low over the holes - too late - the BoxJams have ducked underground.]] / < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010219.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam and the Orange guy at the 'Wait Here' sign]] / [[The Orange Guy Sneezes]]
/ < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010220.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[A bunch of kids are sitting on a bench.]]
/ Narration: The game was tied at 40- and I was ready to come off the bench! First, though, coach wanted to try the new hotshot transfer from Kensington... / [[Same bench, but a kid is missing.]]
/ Narration: We were down 10 when Travis White went it, then David Simon, Rudy Flittner and Kurt Keiser, and then Roger Bingham, the short kid with glasses. / [[Same bench, but only one kid's left. A basketball bouncing out of bounds is grabbed by a little kid appearing from under the bench.]]
/ Narration: Then, down 35, coach decided to try his innovative new "just use four guys" attack. I almost got to touch the ball once when it went out of bounds, but the coach's toddler came out from under the bench and grabbed it. / [[Little BoxJam, Ms. BoxJam and BoxJam sitting together. Little BoxJam holds a basketball.]]
/ Little BoxJam: Don't most dads eventually delude themselves into believing they were good on their high school teams?
/ Ms. BoxJam: High school? This was sixth grade P.E!
/ BoxJam: OH MY GOD IT STILL HURTS!! http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010221.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | BoxJam: You know how sometimes you go to get a drink at the water cooler, and when you get too close to stop you realize the two people at the water cooler are having a conversation, and so then in getting the water and interrupting them, you have to make a production out of it, and be all, "Gotta get me some of this gooood water!"? / BoxJam: And pull the Dixie cup out of the dispenser with a very deliberate motion, not a flourish yet, but still the kind of thing that could well be accompanied by a cluck, all so you make it clear you're just getting some damned water, and not trying to listen in on their stupid precious conversation!? Die! Die! Everybody die! / Ms. BoxJam: "Not a flourish yet?" http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010222.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | Sign on boat: Municipal Garbage / [[Garbageman empties bag after bag of garbage from one can, with presumably the BoxJams' house in the distance.]] / [[Garbageman clambers over the vast pile of garbage bags in the boat, now considerably lower in the water.]] / [[He continues to pour bags out of the same can]]
/ Garbageman (thinking): I hate this house... / [[BoxJam appears in the distance carrying a bag of garbage.]] http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010223.html |
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| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Boxam gets a jar of peanut butter out of the cupboard.]] / [[BoxJam goes off and fetches a jar of jelly and some bread, and opens the drawer for a knife.]] / [[BoxJam spreads peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread.]] / [[BoxJam puts everything away and puts the finished sandwich on a plate.]] / BoxJam: I hate peanut butter and jelly... http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010227.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | BoxJam: Will I ever be successful at cartooning? < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010228.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam reads while it rains outside.]] / [[An ox appears in the window, catching BoxJam's attention.]] / [[Ms. BoxJam appears, guiding a plow behind the ox.]] / BoxJam: Fine. I'll see about getting someone to improve the drainage.
/ Ms. BoxJam: Now? I was just about to plant the rice! http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010301.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[BoxJam sits in a chair looking at a TV screen that reads 'No trash']]
/ Trio of Ms. BoxJams: [[singing]] You... don't have to take out the trash... tonighhht...
/ Hollywood-style sign outside window: No Trash Tonight / Trio: You... just sit there and drink beer... that's riiighhht... / Trio: There's no such thing as trash, not while I'm arooouuund...
/ [[Ms. BoxJam walks in with a bag of trash.]] / Ms. BoxJam: Computer, end program...
/ [[Trio, chair, TV, and window all fade away.]] / [[BoxJam sits in the corner of an empty holodeck, with Ms. BoxJam and trash there]]
/ BoxJam: < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010302.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | Ms. BoxJam: You had this much done on the doodle half an hour ago!
/ BoxJam: Yeah... I need to use the phrase "Indian burial ground," but I want to come up with something more P.C... / Ms. BoxJam: "Native American burial ground" doesn't have the same magic, does it? You can always mention a specific tribe - does that work? / BoxJam: Cherokee burial grounds. Tsala burial grounds. Iroquois burial grounds. Seminole burial grounds. Crow burial grounds. Catawba burial grounds. Choctaw burial grounds. Cheyenne burial grounds. Inuit burial grounds. Lakota Sioux burial grounds. Powatan burial grounds. Massachusett burial grounds. Chickasaw burial grounds. Tuscarora burial grounds. Hopi burial grounds. Illinois burial grounds. Oneida burial grounds. Navajo burial grounds. Blackfoot burial grounds. Apache burial grounds. Chippewa burial grounds. Seneca burial grounds. Mohawk burial grounds. Nez Perce burial grounds. Comm[[obscured - presumably Commanchee]]e burial grounds. Creek burial grounds. / Ms. BoxJam: And yet, I'm confident you'll cause this phrase the indignity of being in some "Scooby Doo" parody...
/ BoxJam: The Catawba would place water by the corpse's head before burial; symboli ripples signified peace of spirit. http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010305.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | BoxJam: The sink broke.
/ Ms. BoxJam: How could a sink "break"? / BoxJam: I don't know. Sometimes I think this house was built on an old Chippewa burial ground...
/ Ms. BoxJam: That's your excuse for everything! Milk went bad. "Old Chippewa burial ground." Table exploded. "Old Chippewa burial ground." TV sucked the kids into another dimension. "Old Chippewa burial ground." / BoxJam: Well, we do keep finding those old bones, and the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal couldn"t find any explanation for the bloody finger paintings...
/ Ms. BoxJam: And James Randi said the million dollars was ours! Big deal! What do those losers know? http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010306.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[A freckle-faced girl stands with a bunny next to her]]
/ Little girl: Clancy, it sure is a nice day!
/ Bunny: It sure is! / Little girl: What should we do?
/ Clancy: I don't know...what do you wanna do? / Little Girl: I dunno... / [[They stand there]]
/ < http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010307.html |
| BoxJam's Doodle Comics | [[Space. A misshapen rock, the earth, and (the moon?) are visible]] / [[The misshapen rock is close to the earth. The earth's atmosphere is visible distinct from the surface]] / [[A meteor streaks toward the ground, where there are three dots]] / [[The meteor goes faster and gets closer]] / [[The 'Wait Here Sign,' the Orange Guy and BoxJam. A small rock hits the Orange guy in the gut.]]
/ Orange Guy: OW! / [[The meteorite sits on the ground. The Orange guy feels where it hit him.]]
/ BoxJam (thinking): Jerk. http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20010308.html |
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