Upshot (pardon the pun): Author Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes will be fired from a cannon, per his last wishes.
My take: These two sentences appeared back-to-back…
“”It’s expensive, but worth every penny,” Anita Thompson said. “I’d like to have several explosions. He loved explosions.”
“Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on February 20…”
Loved explosions indeed.
I told you it was tasteless. Blame CNN.
–Howard
Wheee! I managed to bang out four scripts! This means that I can sit down and draw tomorrow, thanks to the magic of INSOMNIA!
–Howard
I hate insomnia. This is the “my brain is on overdrive” variety… not my least favorite by any stretch, but certainly less fun than, say, SLEEPING.
Maybe I’ll write something useful… like Schlock scripts.
Maybe that’ll tire me, and I’ll fall asleep.
In an effort to defray the costs of hosting, I’ve gotten the Google Adsense ads running throughout the Schlock Mercenary archives.
Most of the ads are just “Comics” things that I doubt any of my readers are really interested in. You read Schlock Mercenary (if you do, that is) because you enjoy that strip, not because you’re a comics collector. Since Google only pays on click-through, the archives are not going to generate much revenue… except for strips where there are footnotes.
I find this both creepy and hilarious. This strip, which has a footnote about the infamous chupaqueso, was sporting four ads for cheese. I think writing footnotes just got more interesting for me…”Gee, what kind of whacked-out Google ads can I get to load under THIS strip?”
It’s been a horrifically busy weekend, what with the move and the only-barely-preannounced arrival of relatives. All my time was spent working with chalain on the site, tweaking the look and feel, and realizing just how HUGE my installation at Keenspot was. We still have a lot of work to do. It’s a good thing Google is making me giggle, or I’d be a basket-case.
–Howard