Not all of us were born evil

 I've spend most of the day building history back from the start of my records in 2013 through to August 2014. I felt it would be a good idea to build some forward so this doesn't give the appearance of being an abandoned blog that's having a fitful resurrection.

I guess faking the history of a blog is one form of evil. Another is in this Diesel Sweeties. Unusually for my DS collection it isn't primarily about coffee, but some coffee links follow.

A heart full of love

Another Diesel Sweeties cartoon leads the list. Another Coffee related posting. Perhaps I have a problem, perhaps I just like DS on coffee?

Salad days.

Just because it consists of raw vegetables it doesn't mean your salad is healthy. There's good reasons why we invented cooking, and in any case a salad consisting only of raw vegetables would not necessarily be easy to digest. I spent a few years making a lot of pure vegan salads (I was never a vegan, but was having a lot of salad). Schizmatic give us this description of the Salad Sundae. It reminds me a lot of why I gave up my pure salads.

Coffee, cream, and juice.

I have an ongoing habit of teasing my wife over her frothy milky vaguely coffee flavoured hot milkshakes.

Sareen Akharjalian tells it like it is in this episode of Ink on the side.

"if you take a ton of sugar with your coffee, you DON’T like coffee. Trust me, you’re just a sugar addict. Ain’t nothin wrong with that! Just admit it, and come join my Anonymous group for candy addicts."

The unthinking man's army from another universe

Spelling mistakes cost lives is an irregular strip by  Scottish educated English artist Darren Cullen.He's done some amazing work including a mock storefront and website offering payday loans for primary school children (and possibly preschoolers, I don't remember 100%.)

Doing Without

Today's number one is this entry from Breaking Fitt's Law. Unfortunately it was the second-to-last instalment of this webcomic before it quietly went on hiatis.

Number two comes from Diesel Sweeties. There's things we need and things we only think we need. Once you get past Oxygen, Water, and "Pizza" (Complex carbs, fats, a little protein and some vegetables) everything else is just a detail They, of course, understand something similar.

Food Dairy and Accupuncture

3D Printing and food. What could be better? OK, 3D printing and replacement organs but we don't need a transplant every day. This seems to be Schizmatic's first entry in this blog. This surprises me as I know I saw several of the Little blue images while doing earlier pages.

It only makes him want coffee

First thing in the morning I have some water. Ice cold and straight from the tap. When I smoked used to have a cigarette with it, after this I have my first coffee of the day. Don't try to make much sense out of me before that first cup of coffee.

Diesel Sweeties deals with a similar effect

Clothing care labels

 The Doghouse informs us that clothing care labels are getting ever more complicated. Of course given that "fashion" now includes "Distressed (pre-torn) jeans" one really has to wonder.

Hitting the moon with hammers

Nasa's plans were weird, if you ignored the politics that is. Addressing the science, sort of.

Clean skin

From Callous, you may think your skin is clean, but scrub as you like you'll never get rid of the bacteria. Even if you get rid of the surface ones, your inner bits probably have more bacteria than human cells. This works because bacteria are a lot smaller.

Can't remember the words

It's a really bad pun, but it's the best I have. Can't remember the words from Web Donuts.

Food and camping special

Another myth. Two guys sharing a bed must be head to foot (Strangely enough when I was a  child it was called "Head to Tail" which if you think about it is even weirder) failing which they will turn gay.

 What is it about being gay that it is so easy to become? I've never noticed a strong desire to switch from fish to chestnuts. Are these all tales told by closeted gays who are in denial to explain their lapses?

Original on Amazing Super Powers.

Special food issue

 I found I'd been saving a whole bunch of food related cartoons in this time period. I've bumped a few non food related ones to the next posting but this is basically as it happened in my twisted mind.

First up today we have a debut on bacon sandwiches from Callous Comics.  Callous occasionally makes me laugh out loud but more often just gives me a wry smile. I also tend to confuse it with both Donald Duck and with  the PhD comic. I don't follow Donald Duck and no anthropomorphic animals are in PhD so I don't understand why the confusion.

Placebo effect monkey

This is the first entry in my archives for Kyle Sanders' sceptical webcomic Carbon Dating. As a cynic and sceptic myself, I look forward to reading his cartoons Here he discusses the logical fallacy argument from antiquity especially as related to the placebo effect as related to needle bearing monkeys.

Telepathic coffee stealing aliens

Another Diesel Sweeties, and another coffee pot runs dry.  What can I say, I like Diesel Sweeties and I like coffee.

Dumb Phone February

This is interesting. February 2014 was a month where I only kept enough in my archives to do one page. Obviously I wasn't planning this blog back then. It's been very rewarding reading back through all the strips I kept. Some I had forgotten and others revisited on a regular basis. Some, naturally I no longer understand why I kept them, but you don't get to see them.

The best of the month again goes to Wrong Hands for this piece on the Vintage Smartphone.

That first cup of coffee

I have to admit that I'm a great fan of coffee and not just for the caffeine. When I was a child and long before I drank coffee the grocery shops had large grinders where people selected the coffee they liked and then ground the beans. When I accompanied Mum to the grocers I loved standing by those machines and breathing the coffee aroma.

Wrong Hands gets the first place again on the last day of January 2014 for the caffeine causality loop.

Last kiss for Ant-man

Moving along into November 2013 it's obvious that I discovered John Lustig's "Last Kiss"  around this time.  I saved several of these strips, in their "Go Comics" incarnation. Moving over to his own site much later. Also of note were Chaos Life and The System.

And So It Began

 In the beginning Google shut down Google reader. I was used to getting my news, blogs and web comics via reader so I found myself a replacement. I chose Feed-on-feeds and created a test installation. Around 2 years later I am still using that original install.


At some point in the process I started saving cartoons (web comics) that I found especially poignant or otherwise good.