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News from Behind the Monitor

January 24th, 2008

Hey there, person reading this. Thanks for checking out the comic. Thanks also for checking out this newspost.

    News item #1:

Currently, you have to click on each comic to view a full-size version. This is a huge pain, and I apologize for it. My webguy Dwight and I are trying to find a solution despite our profound non-knowledge of PHP, and we hope to resolve the problem soon. We may even bring in some outside help if we have to.

    News item #2:

Jay has a blog, and he updated it the other day with a new post. If you’d like to get a glimpse of his life in words rather than pictures, surf on over and maybe even leave him a comment. It can get lonely on the internet sometimes, so I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 8:55 am and is filed under news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “News from Behind the Monitor”

  1. Warren Says:
    January 24th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    If you subscribe to the RSS feed, you get the full-sized comic. You’re one of the few that actually does that, so thanks!!

  2. Jackson Says:
    January 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    You can thank Dwight for that functionality, Warren. I wasn’t even aware we did that!

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January 24th, 2008

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Comic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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  1. John Peterson Says:
    January 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Tobacco ain’t crack, it’s our heritage. Cigarettes aren’t heroin, they’re just cigarettes. It ain’t no sin to smoke. Is this really all the comic is about? Why doesn’t Blondie develop an addiction to painkillers and internet porn?

  2. Jackson Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    Thanks for commenting, John–it’s interesting to see an opinion differing from those of the comic’s characters. I’m curious now: what do you see as the benefits and drawbacks of smoking, and do you believe that in general the benefits outweigh the drawbacks? Or vice versa?

  3. John Peterson Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    I don’t see it so much in terms of benefits and drawbacks; I just see it as a quotidian delight that can be enjoyed in moderation, without slavish servitude or rigorous abstinence. There is no failure of morality in smoking or drinking in moderation; in fact, while one may certainly choose to avoid smoking, the harsh prohibition of the act strikes me as an unduly authoritarian consequence of the cult of the body, which exhorts us all to live a healthy life and watch what we eat and don’t smoke and do yoga and drink plenty of water, while either ignoring the life of the spirit completely or even advocating a life of pleasure-seeking within those body-loving guidelines.

    It strikes me as an outside/inside of the cup situation.

  4. Dwight Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    So, if someone wants to quit smoking (for whatever reason) and they find that it is difficult, and that there is almost another person in them who doesn’t want to quit, you don’t think that addiction might possibly be sinful?

    I don’t think smoking is bad in itself, and I enjoy a cigar or a pipe from time to time, but I think if it became an addiction, for me it would be a sin.

  5. Charles Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    I’m with Dwight on this, though perhaps not for the same reasons.

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