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Monday, April 6th, 2009you can read Kevin’s article here
(note: the title of the article isn’t in reference to me…but it is…however I absolutely do not want to start some tedious thread about hipsters because the subject is boring and annoying. Comments in reference to it will be deleted. End of discussion. Hopefully forever.)
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Nice. I enjoy reading your step dad’s articles (the ones you reference, anyway). Keep us posted on the war.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Oh my god, hipsters are so annoying! Bedford avenue chuck taylors trucker hat stuff white people like viagra nerd glasses helperflank cumberbund.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
aaarg GLIDDEN! if it wasn’t you being a smartass…
okay that gets a free pass due to satire but NO MORE.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Ha ha, that thing from your stepdad is hilarious. What a bizarre pair of venues in which to perpetrate a literary intrafamilial spat. IT’S ON!
April 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
House of Kraut. Ha. Thanks for sharing your step-dad’s article. I like his sense of humor and I look forward to reading his next strike. Perhaps you can link it when/if he does? I have in my mind a picture of your parents hobbling back to Napa in a state of wounded disarray as if they’ve battled the masses of some far-off, savage land. Hope they had a lovely time!
April 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
yer Mom needs a pimp cane like House!
April 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hey Julia, theres an entry on UrbanDictionary for “Juliafication” -
The act or process of acting like Julia in the context of stupidity in areas of common knowledge and/or freaking out over any given celebrity, but most commonly Orlando Bloom.
Juliafication at its finest:
“How do they fit so many files inside that tiny computer?” or “OMG, OMG, OMG, ORLANDO BLOOM!!!*any or a combination of hyperventilation, fainting, or dying*”
i know its nothing to do with you but either way, WTF!?
April 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
haha i just looked that up and there are tons of urban definitions for Julia but they’re mostly incorrect as the second definition purports that
“Julias are people that love everybody and are loved by everyone.”
haha that’s funny because it’s not true
April 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
oh wait, these falsities are way funnier:
-A julia will most likely become a mother because they love kids.
-they care a lot about fashion and clothes
-a funky fresh individual who has got it goinngg ONNNN.
-julia is pretty much the sex.
-Lacking in vanity, jealousy, obscenity, or the unappealing physical traits
haaa! that game was fun for about 3 minutes.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I got a cane, but had to pass up the Dr. House cane for a practical, orthopedic, metal one with a comfort grip handle! (The pimp cane was too tall for me…)
April 6th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I like the cut of that Kevin fellow’s jib.
I sometimes find myself wishing I had my dad’s old canes. He was one stylish cripple.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
This is a comment on parental reactions, not hipsters, so I hope it will squeak by.
I currently live in south Brooklyn’s Chinatown. When my mom first came to visit the place, she was like “wow, where are all the hipsters?” because she apparently assumed that all of Brooklyn now looks like Bedford Ave. She was equally confused by the strollers in Park Slope. I believe her exact words were something like “look at all the OLD people here.” Ah, parents. In her defense, she hasn’t lived in New York since the late 70s when (to her) all of Brooklyn was like a scene from “Serpico.”
April 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I have a nice solid driftwood walking stick that not only looks boss but doubles as a handy bludgeoning/monkey control device. So don’t fuck with me or I’ll poke you in the spleen.
Also, comic-strip Julia’s mom is just adorable.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I like anybody who uses the word “rube”. Hannibal Lecter was pretty much the only person who I thought sounded natural saying it until now. Especially since he self-applies the term.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Did you take them to see Guys and Dolls? : ()
April 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
“She cartoons full-time. She has published three books. A fourth is under contract with a division of Random House.”
Ok I have the fart party, I know about ‘I saw you…’, and what’s the 3rd book? there’s a 2nd fart party already out?
April 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
What I like most about your comics is that they are personal and candid, in spite of artistic or literary exaggeration. It’s how I felt when I finished reading Fart Party, Vol 1 - I enjoyed it thoroughly. And these stick figure journals, too.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
haha.. I love that your mom knows what a pimp cane is… Also love your step-dad’s writing.. you guys are awesome..
April 7th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Julia,
Just wanted to say how much I dig your site. Mostly it’s because of the way you love everybody and everybody loves you, but also because of your devotion to children and your seemingly paradoxical lack of vanity and attention to fashion. Plus, I share your obsession with Orlando Bloom — Yummmm! You are a funky, fresh individual who’s got it going ONNNN.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:12 am
“Mostly it’s because of the way you love everybody and everybody loves you”
hahaha!
April 7th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Yeah, its true “funky fresh.”
April 7th, 2009 at 5:48 am
“what’s the 3rd book? there’s a 2nd fart party already out?”
Fart Party Vol 2 comes out in June, that’s the third one. He jumped the gun a bit in saying 3 were out already, only 2 are.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Aw, I didn’t think they were the “laughing stock of the Fart Party universe.” The worst thing I saw was someone calling them “quaint.”
April 7th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Oh parents and their desire to get up early. You should’ve just taken them to Dunkin Donuts and pretended that’s what you were talking about the whole time.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Yeah, the city that never sleeps my ass. It sleeps in late, goes to bed early, and takes a lot of naps. There needs to be a timetable or a flowchart at least to show what is open when. Going to NY city without a plan is insanity.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I love how you step-dad writes “heavily Polish”. Pierogies are heavily Polish. maybe he really wanted to say Heavenly Polish. Btw I bought Missed Connections from Rachel Dukes at the Emerald City Comic Con
April 8th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Every time I go to NYC, no matter the time or weather, there are like a million people outside. walking what appears to be aimless. I was in Brooklyn and it was raining super hard and people were just standing around chatting like the sun was smiling on them! i couldnt believe it. Then someone told me that its probably because they only go inside their apartments to sleep… New York apartment can not be that bad.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
i saw an old lady with a cane that was actually a wooden saw. i wondered if it were possible to walk with a real saw but i think that might be impossible.
i hope your mom is better now!