phrases and such
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009I got some email questions about contributor lists and publicity junk for I Saw You… yesterday, so those questions can be answered by the blog for it, which can be seen here
I like to keep the projects kind of separate which I guess is confusing but so is Sesame Street. It’s so multi-cultural and someone lives in a trash can. Sounds like San Francisco.
ps. Hey Brooklyn kids! there’s a book release party at Desert Island on Friday from 7-9, info here
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February 18th, 2009 at 9:15 am
My family does this too! It’s nice to know that us pretentious jerks of the world have company.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Is it me, or have the funny ones been coming in great frequency lately?
February 18th, 2009 at 9:43 am
If you, Julia, ever find yourself a mother, I hope you put the “translation” of your mom’s quote in your kid’s high school yearbook.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Everyone in your family cept your little brother has the same eyes. why is that?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Let me rephrase lol, how come your little brother dosent have the same eyes as the rest of your family?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am
It kills me when my mom curses. She’s a nurse from a farming family and they have tons of great blue collar curses. My favorite you ask? My mom uses this one when somebody is complaining a lot.
Looking for sympathy? Here’s a dictionary, look between shit and syphilis.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Q&A’s:
-Is it me, or have the funny ones been coming in great frequency lately?
I’ve just been posting more often. I make a ton of comics but they’re often too time sensitive to put online. You guys see about half of the fart party comics I make, the rest are hidden away on the world’s shittiest laptop or shoved in folders under my couch. There are other comics too, but they hate the internet and don’t want to be associated with it, little inky bastards. Oh, whoa, it’s weird to make a comic anthropomorphic. I don’t recommend ever doing that again.
-how come your little brother dosent have the same eyes as the rest of your family?
if I gave us all the same eyes, we’d be the cartoon equivalent of the Coneheads.
-If you, Julia, ever find yourself a mother, I hope you put the “translation” of your mom’s quote in your kid’s high school yearbook.
I doubt that’s a concern as I’ve pretty much pickled my insides, but let’s hope it never comes to that whole babies thing. yuck.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I don’t care who says it, crap fuck is hilarious.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
That’s so funny! I heard that saying before, but put differently…
I was walking past 2 homeless guys who looked a lot like Gilligan and Skipper from Giligan’s Island.
But homeless Skipper had his hand on the thigh of homeless Gilligan, and as I walked past them.. Homeless Skipper said “You know, life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread you got, the less shit you have to taste.. but there’s always gonna be shit”
I about doubled over laughing.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Dude crap fuck IS helarious, a fantastic term of dismay if ive ever heard one
February 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
My sister and I do that too! It is so nice to know we are not alone, only we have a couple we throw to each other in Ancient Greek because we’re giant dorks like that.
Also, crap fuck is becoming my new go to swear. It’s so simple yet so expressive.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
A POX ON THEE!
That’s all I got
February 19th, 2009 at 12:16 am
I said ‘fuck’ in front of my mom the other day, she was all shocked-like and like..’what did you say?’. I was just like, ‘nothing’.
But then Midnight Run was on tv and they said fuck like 800 times in a span of 5 seconds, and she was like, ‘is this this the kind of movie for you?’ and I was like, ‘when did you become such a prude? we’re both adults here and this is an adult movie, for adults!’. She just walked off like ‘pff.’ and a disappointed head nod.
So I’m wondering, are you ‘pickled’ like the invisible girl from Family Guy?
February 19th, 2009 at 12:21 am
“Sound & fury signifying nothing” is one of my favorite concepts! I think that’s pretty much what life is all about!
February 19th, 2009 at 12:23 am
It makes me laugh whenever people get upset by the work “fuck.” WTF???
February 19th, 2009 at 12:57 am
ahaha. I love making fun of my family, especially my mom in comic form. I just put one up about her ex boyfriends.
Are you doing any fun book promotions out here in SF??
February 19th, 2009 at 1:28 am
My family says “Pray tell” alot. “What, pray tell, is that shit you’re cooking on the stove?”
February 19th, 2009 at 2:18 am
I finally made it to the end of the archives! In two days flat, no less. I think that says a lot about my sleeping habits. And look, just in time for an event, if I dare venture outside of Manhattan’s warm embrace! (I probably do.)
It’s wonderful, though, that by the time I get to the most recent entry, I have nothing to say. Bravo, me.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Julia, I too use the single spies quote. My mother always quoted too . I guess we are not as unique as we think. My daughter and I however like to quote bugs bunny best.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
nice.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
What I want to know (apart from where are the t-shirts) is why, if your little brother doesn’t have the family’s eyes, why the fog monster from SF does.
On second thoughts, don’t answer that.
February 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Does the shape of the eyes have anything to do with an enlightened look at how life is? Like a perspective you, your mother, and your brother all share? If that were the case, then perhaps one day he too will find himself seeing things that certain way and earn his eyes that day.
Like when I told my father than his father(my grandfather) imagined he(my father) would want to spend his twilight years in a windowless room with a typewriter and a Two side-by-side TV sets. My dad looked at me with a smile on his face and said “I think my father gets me”.
That was enlightening, in a different sense.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Well gracious, I’ve been using the Claudius “when sorrows come” line for years! In fact, I used it on my dad yesterday morning.
Well I’ll be!
February 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
“When you have to eat a shit sandwich, take big bites”
March 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I used to live near an old swedish guy when I was a kid. I remembre him to this day because he would say “for crap’s sake”