Hiya friends! I am currently banned from Facebook for the next 24 hours, so I thought I’d give an update here. “Coincidentally”, I’m having Instagram problems, because you know, I was born yesterday and I suspect nothing.
How’s everybody doing? Are you being good and not posting your honest opinions on social media? I hope so. I wouldn’t want you to experience the same BS I go through, where there are people paid to eff up your online presence if you dare to say anything negative about the worst president in the history of America, or about mentally ill self-mutilators who function as puppets for Non-Government Organizations eagerly destroying the country. Since I don’t typically wear a dunce cap, I certainly don’t utter a word of opinion about the antics in the Middle East. I see how that goes. It’s lose/lose.
Sarcasm aside, I’d like to take a moment to sincerely thank my supporters, because I am deep in the throes of financial destitution and quasi-suicidal depression. You are pretty much all I have in my life. Less than a month ago I almost didn’t have a home anymore. I stay positive to keep from totally giving up. Seeing the growth in my Patreon is a big deal for me. A BIG deal.
Okay, so:
1. Today’s Ceaseless Fables strip is late. I am trying to keep this from becoming a habit. Most of the time I am exhausted from construction work so it tends to get the short shrift. I work pretty much every day doing construction odd jobs and it still doesn’t make the nut. Nothing does in 2024. That is lamentably the world we live in. Everything is increasingly unaffordable and as far as I can tell no one cares.
2. As soon as I can wrangle the time I will be producing another What’s The Deal video, about another subject from John’s Arm: Armageddon. If you want a hint, it will be detailing the backstory of my most popular YouTube video. Patron Saints will see it first, reg’lar folks a month later. (I think the last WTD will be public on the 17th of this month.) Eventually exclusive videos and livestreams will be more frequent.
3. I found an archived copy of the Ren & Stimpy reboot and I planned to make a video commenting on it, but it’s so toothless and boring that I lost interest. Billy West, Robin Byrd, Amy Sedaris and about a hundred Korean animators all presumably got paychecks for it, so there’s that. It was produced in my home state and the original music all sounds like cheap/safe tangential Muzak, and it features the words “hell” and “bitch”. That’s about it.
Thanks as always for your time and support. Against all odds I am still alive, at least for now. For that I have you to thank. This is Month Two of my life out of print, after a 33-year uninterrupted streak. This is pretty much all I have.