It’s a parody of “Elf Comic,” by Merrivius. The redhead elf is always raging at the boring human with uneven eyes in the comic.

You can read it for free on Webtoons. I absolutely love this webcomic; it’s the only one I follow on Webtoons.

My old ass read this as, “Do I have a drip?” and I’m scouring the image, looking for a leak somewhere.

Goddamn kids and their newfangled Internet slang. Get off my lawn!

There’s a popular brand here in Minnesota called Kemps Ice Cream that makes a “Peppermint Bon Bon” flavor. It’s my absolute favorite ice cream of all time.

Despite the name, it’s the good “creme de menthe” mint, not the strong York peppermint patties kind. And the chocolate is just fine shavings, so they melt in your mouth without any hard or chunky texture in your smooth ice cream.

The brand was bought by some ice cream company in Kansas City, but it’s still headquartered here in Minnesota, so I believe the brand has spread out across the Midwest a bit. If you’re in the region, you should seek it out.

Every accusation is a confession.

tik taks

As a middle-aged man who’s never used TikTok before, this is how I’m gonna refer to it from now on.

“There’s is no Dana, only Zuul.”

I’m not a fan of Amazon’s business practices, but when I was stationed overseas with the US military for 8+ years, they were the fastest and most reliable way for me to order supplies from back home, so my wife and I got a Prime account for the benefits. We could get our goods in about a week, as opposed to 2-3 weeks for a regular account.

Now I’m recently retired, living back home in the US, and I’d like to give up our Prime account, but there’s apparently a distribution warehouse near our home, so every time I order something, it asks if I want it delivered within the next few hours. Goddamn, that’s better home delivery service than Walmart in my area! That makes it very difficult to give up.

My wife and I generally vote with our money. If we don’t approve of a company, then we refuse to spend money on them. But Amazon is, unfortunately, one service we haven’t cut off yet. Maybe one day.

Hey, this was from Trudy & Doug’s Patreon last night, from their list of incomplete comic ideas. They’re the duo that make Oglaf comics.

As someone named Coby, I liked that no one else seemingly shared my name. I’ve never run into another Coby in my entire life. Although I know they exist because a simple Google search brings up a handful of people with that name. But every time I hear “Coby,” I know someone’s trying to get my attention.

Then Kobe Bryant showed up and became famous. Now I hear “Kobe!” everywhere I go, and it’s giving me whiplash. I keep thinking people are talking about me, or calling for me, and it’s just people throwing trash into a basket from across the room.

It’s a damn shame what happened to Kobe, but I’m a bit relieved that almost no one seems to be calling out his name anymore. Although I constantly need to spell out my name every time I give it to people, because they always write it as “Kobe” now. I used to get “Colby” or “Cody” all the time. Now it’s just “Kobe.”

I’ve been blocking ads for so long, I didn’t even know what they look like nowadays. A buddy of mine started a YouTube stream on Discord’s YouTube app recently and apparently, my ad blockers couldn’t prevent ads from that application, so they popped up anyway.

And apparently, my first ad (of 2 ads) was a 3-hour infomercial about mental health care or something.

And apparently, ads were custom for each viewer.

So while my friend is streaming a video for our voice chat group to watch, I’m sitting here, letting a 3-hour infomercial play and getting confused at my friends’ commentary on this supposed video.

I got about 10 minutes in before I noticed the “skip” button at the bottom of the screen. I wasn’t really paying attention, but I noticed that my friends were laughing and commenting at weird places in the video and I was struggling to make sense of their discussion.

Who the hell posts a 3-hour ad before a YouTube video?!

As someone who served 20 years in the US military… we created the Reserves so we don’t ever have to enact a draft again. There are enough people serving in the Reserves to cover us if we go to war. It’s our compromise to avoid drafting people ever again.

Heck, I joined just before the Iraq war started back in the early 2000s and folks in the Reserves were shocked to find out they were tagged to go to war first. The active duty military is already running operations around the globe; we can’t just abandon all our bases and active missions to run to war. So we sent in the Reserves first to set up shop and create a stable environment before moving active duty personnel and resources to the region. As an active duty member, working for a deployment squadron at the time, I didn’t actually see Iraq until 2007.

To be more precise, there are career fields in the military that are designed specifically for boots-on-ground operations, and those active duty career fields were technically the first members to go to war. But after an area was secured, then we’d send in Reserves behind them to help set up and maintain local bases and operations until active duty could eventually filter in and take over full-time.

I’ve been saying it for years, but my ideal scenario for a reinvented Bond story would be to make a TV miniseries that’s loyal to the original books. A period piece, set in the 1950s that explored Ian Fleming’s original gritty, alcoholic, borderline suicidal Bond who has nothing but the next job in his life. Not the suave, charming, sophisticated womanizer and luxury sports car driver from the 1960s movies and on.

I actually loved the Daniel Craig Bond films because it was the closest we’ve ever seen to the original version of Bond from the novels. Although I absolutely hate the end of his arc. (No spoilers)

I also think they promoted him from rookie 00 agent to tired, grizzled old veteran way too quickly. The first film (Casino Royale) was a masterpiece; one of the best Bond films we’ve ever had, and a great modern retelling of the first ever Bond novel. But Barbara Broccoli panicked when his second film flopped hard, and spent the rest of the Daniel Craig arc trying to win back audiences instead of telling good, engaging stories.

I think reinventing Bond as a TV miniseries would be better, because we could do multiple episodes to tell a grand story arc from the books, or a single episode for the short stories that Ian Fleming compiled. We would have room to tell a good tale without being confined to the limits of film. And it would be fascinating to see Bond in his original era, having to function off raw skill and intellect rather than gadgets.

Thank you for not calling it “Daylight Savings Time.” That’s never been the correct name, but almost everyone here in America has decided to call it that for some reason.

Of course, but I’m just providing real-world context to this headline. For the Democrats to “take control of the military,” it would have to mean that Trump royally screwed up.

Speaking as a retired military member: The President is the Commander in Chief. He has absolute control over the US military. You’re telling me that ol’ Donny lost control of his own military to… Democrats? Who don’t currently have control of our federal government?

So either Trump is lying, or he’s just announced what a pathetic leader he is. Can’t even control his government with a majority party.

Note for those passing through and not reading articles:

This is not a summary of the article, but OP’s suggestion for a solution. The article talks about creating a yeast product that’s lacking in bees’ diet due to climate change and a lack of diversity in flowers.

OP suggests combatting the effects climate change has on biodiversity by planting your own diverse flowers. Which may work, or climate change may just kill those too.

A childhood friend of mine has a Harvard degree in finance. He is currently looking for a new job. He submitted 102 applications before he got a single callback. They didn’t hire him.

That was a little over a year ago. He’s still job hunting today. Fortunately, he still has work with his old company. He’s not submitting his 2 weeks until he has another job lined up. But he just can’t get callbacks with anyone. It’s insane out there right now.

I would watch this show.