H&M used to be a pretty good store for clothing that was ok, but would deteriorate over the next several months. Somehow a few years back they got it into their head to raise the price on everything. I stopped shopping there. I’d rather pay $5 more and get the versions of the clothing that lasts a few years rather than get the slightly cheaper stuff that doesn’t. They are good for accessories that you don’t use that much. I got an awesome decorative scarf there for $8. That will last forever because I don’t wear those very often.

Similarly with other businesses and…well…everything….it seems that people just don’t give a shit anymore. Many people are pissy ALL the time and aren’t wanting to do more than the minimum. At least that is how it feels here in New Jersey.

Is it just where I live or is it where you live as well?

It’s sad. Most of the neighborhoods here are populated with shuttered buildings because the politicians in charge have done an awesome job of stealing all of the money for themselves so that they can buy a 38th car. Then there’s the one business that purports to be a coffeehouse but they can’t make coffee so they decided to make Mexican food instead. I walked in and I asked them if they could make me a cappuccino since it said it was a coffeehouse on the outside, and it used to serve espresso drinks. Nope. They can’t make coffee anymore. This is a coffeehouse that only serves Mexican Food. What the hell.

I like Mexican Food but come on guys–that’s not a coffeehouse if there is no coffee/espresso in it.

It’s like no one gives a shit anymore and there is a haze of everyone not caring.

I then ask myself if this is really my life.

I live near a park so I like to bike a lot. I hate stationary bikes and besides – I don’t own one. I am really dedicated to my fitness regimen.

So basically what I’m saying is that this comic really happened and I had brown mud go up my ass.

I’m sure many of you can identify with the comic today even if you aren’t artists.

I grew up without healthcare. When I could finally afford a dentist I had 13 cavities all at once. To this day I have medical issues that could have been avoided if I had been able to get medical care. It can’t be fixed. I will live in chronic pain for my entire life.

It’s as if some seem to think that it’s someone’s fault for not having healthcare. This to me is bullshit. I was abandoned by my birth mother and kept in a state of legal limbo until I was 12. It is not a child’s fault and how dare anyone claiming to be pro-life not care about the welfare of children that are born? I had no access to any sort of healthcare. The only thing I ever got was the stuff that you had to get to be accepted into school. I remember many times being unable to start school because my family couldn’t afford to get me the exams.

It’s different today. Most jobs in my area don’t even offer healthcare. I’m lucky enough to get insurance through Harknell, but I live in fear of getting a disease. If I become unable to work I would literally be finished.

But anyway, I’ve been trying to figure out how to hack my brain. I’ve been having terrible trouble booting my brain up for art. Once my brain kicks over into the art zone it comes out fast. But getting to that point has been a challenge. I don’t know if it’s depression or fatigue or overworking myself or what.

When your brain seems to resist, what do you do to make it go? HALP HALP.

Who has all of these stocks? It sure isn’t most of us. So, when is our recovery set to happen? One could make a very strong claim that we’ve (the non 1%) been in a recession for a long time before this “Great Recession” hit.

So, when is “Reality” really going to set in for most people? Do you really need to be smacked even harder? Or do we all just go along with the lovely lie being spread, and ignore the men behind the ugly economic curtain while they pull it even more closed?

I guess I’ll see you in line–the soup line that is….

I was so happy when I watched the Game of Thrones season 3 premiere. The season premiere rocked it and made me remember what good TV was. I hope that The Walking Dead picks it up next season. In the meantime I’m just here for the Tyrion.

My computer still is a shit, guys. I literally can’t make comics anymore on it so I’m getting a new iMac tonight (yay, early birthday present!) and getting that straightened out. This is why you get a My Annoying Life today instead of a Stupid and Insane. When I make a line it takes 6 seconds for the line to populate in the screen. It’s like working in some very annoying quicksand.

I am frustrated. I guess this is kind of on topic with the subject of this comic. Post-college life is not exactly what I expected. Mostly it’s due to the instability of the economy. It seems that I can’t get a job anywhere for more than a few years because everything keeps going out of business. It’s shocking since I fall under the “highly-skilled and insanely motivated” category. I’d like to comment more on this, but I can’t for many reasons – one of which is that I do not like to discuss politics on the internet. Let’s just say that I am disgusted and tired. But that could also be because it’s 2AM and my slow-ass computer kept me up all night because I INSISTED on getting the comic done.

I am also at the point in my life where I am successful enough that it’s a bit isolating. I’d love to have others who are also on this path to commiserate with as we all are dealing with the same issues. I am often in a position of being the teacher. I love helping people, but I think I crave a creative atmosphere where there is collaboration.

I don’t know what to do about it.

I remember checking my Twitter during the midseason finale of The Walking Dead and basically just seeing people give a play by play of the show like if they were calling a football game. Luckily for me at the time I didn’t watch the show and had no idea who the characters were to be spoiled but I exclaimed to Harknell that I was glad I didn’t watch The Walking Dead because people were just spoiling the hell out of it.

Now I do watch the show and I basically refuse to check the internet before I watch the episode that week and black out Twitter for that hour.

I wonder what these people think. They certainly aren’t adding anything interesting to the show when they are just announcing the major plot points as they see it. I mean, no one ever said, “OH GEE THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A SHITTY RADIO RECAP VERSION OF THE SHOW SO I DON’T HAVE TO TURN MY TV ON THANKS MAN SO APPRECIATED ALL CAPS.”

Livetweet stuff commenting on it instead of reporting it with spoilers. I mean, come on, guys. For example:

I guess that many people still believe that geek or nerd culture is underground like it was years ago and were upset that The Man was coming into their world. I have news for them – The Man is already here and he’s in your living room eating your hot dogs.

I have to laugh when those who decry commercialism still post about what they’ve bought from the same large corporations they purport to be against. Geek is actually super popular and trendy right now to the point that I can’t wait until this fad dies down. I’m the jerk who just likes what she likes and gets easily tired of hearing about things when they are in her face all the time. I know that the reason I could no longer stand anime was because people kept throwing it in my face all the time every day. I think I’m turned off by overt obsessiveness. Yet than again I quietly obsess over whatever it is that I like. I am possibly a dumbass. There’s that. I’m well on my way to be either Stedtler or Waldorf.

My reaction about the Marvel acquisition was only remarking that one large company was just going to be swallowed by another large company again. This is disturbing only because of that concept. As I predicted everyone ate up what Disney Marvel was selling just as fast as they were complaining. But is Marvel being owned by Disney really that different than the corporation that Marvel already was? It’s not like Marvel was a family-owned company.

Today’s comic was our absurd joke on what we felt people might have been fearing. Heh!