Overcompensating: The Government GoesThrough Your Trash

Overcompensating: The Government GoesThrough Your Trash http://www.overcompensating.com/ en-us 1999-2008 Jeffrey Rowland Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 60 strip for May / 09 / 2008: Daily Affirmation http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080509.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080509.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080509.png" width="774" height="415" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 09 / 2008"> Daily Affirmation <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/spdr-beaton-reading-sm.gif" border="0" align="left" hspace="6"></a> Another fairly obvious clue that we are in fact living in a big, dumb MMORPG is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mI808JK6-Q" target="_blank">trailer</a> for the new movie "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014775/" target="_blank">Beverly Hills Chihuahua</a>" which wins some award for being able to offend virtually every living thing in the universe yet somehow remaining technically unoffensive. <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/spdr-cat.gif" border="0" align="right" hspace="6"></a> Also! It is my perfectly normal pleasure to finally introduce <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR">Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo</a>, which is a place for artists who haven't really had a lot of experience in the dangerously oversaturated internet t-shirt industry. It's also a chance for TopatoCo to prove itself superior by adding more things that are amazing to look at, play with, and own. Right now we've got stuff from <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=BEAT">Kate Beaton</a>, <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SIAS">Ryan Sias, <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=FORS">Matt Forsythe</a>, and <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=BF">Buttercup Festival</a> and I'm talking to even more people. Next week we'll be in the process of moving <a href="http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/">White Ninja</a> all the way over and there are about a billion of <a href="http://www.baldwinpage.com/">Chris Baldwin</a>'s <a href="http://www.littledee.net/">books</a> waiting to get coded in! It seems that TopatoCo is the cool place to be at, and in a few months I'll be able to hire some thugs and spend more time drawing comics!
Daily Affirmation

Another fairly obvious clue that we are in fact living in a big, dumb MMORPG is the trailer for the new movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" which wins some award for being able to offend virtually every living thing in the universe yet somehow remaining technically unoffensive.

Also! It is my perfectly normal pleasure to finally introduce Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo, which is a place for artists who haven't really had a lot of experience in the dangerously oversaturated internet t-shirt industry. It's also a chance for TopatoCo to prove itself superior by adding more things that are amazing to look at, play with, and own. Right now we've got stuff from Kate Beaton, Ryan Sias, Matt Forsythe, and Buttercup Festival and I'm talking to even more people.

Next week we'll be in the process of moving White Ninja all the way over and there are about a billion of Chris Baldwin's books waiting to get coded in! It seems that TopatoCo is the cool place to be at, and in a few months I'll be able to hire some thugs and spend more time drawing comics!]]> strip for May / 08 / 2008: Ass Nickels http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080508.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080508.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080508.png" width="774" height="415" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 08 / 2008"> Ass Nickels <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/spdr-beaton-glasses-sm.gif" border="0" align="left" hspace="6"></a>Even though everybody's known it for at least a year, the Government finally admitted <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gQ_5aPTZvEsDV495atf27Iory8uwD90GFE6G0" target="_blank">how much it actually costs to make coins</a>. How come the people in charge of money don't understand anything about money? It is because these are all people who have never been inside of a grocery store? <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/spdr-cat.gif" border="0" align="right" hspace="6"></a> Also! It is my perfectly normal pleasure to finally introduce <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SPDR">Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo</a>, which is a place for artists who haven't really had a lot of experience in the dangerously oversaturated internet t-shirt industry. It's also a chance for TopatoCo to prove itself superior by adding more things that are amazing to look at, play with, and own. Right now we've got stuff from <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=BEAT">Kate Beaton</a>, <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=SIAS">Ryan Sias, <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=FORS">Matt Forsythe</a>, and <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=BF">Buttercup Festival</a> and I'm talking to even more people. Next week we'll be in the process of moving <a href="http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/">White Ninja</a> all the way over and there are about a billion of <a href="http://www.baldwinpage.com/">Chris Baldwin</a>'s <a href="http://www.littledee.net/">books</a> waiting to get coded in! It seems that TopatoCo is the cool place to be at, and in a few months I'll be able to hire some thugs and spend more time drawing comics!
Ass Nickels

Even though everybody's known it for at least a year, the Government finally admitted how much it actually costs to make coins. How come the people in charge of money don't understand anything about money? It is because these are all people who have never been inside of a grocery store?

Also! It is my perfectly normal pleasure to finally introduce Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo, which is a place for artists who haven't really had a lot of experience in the dangerously oversaturated internet t-shirt industry. It's also a chance for TopatoCo to prove itself superior by adding more things that are amazing to look at, play with, and own. Right now we've got stuff from Kate Beaton, Ryan Sias, Matt Forsythe, and Buttercup Festival and I'm talking to even more people.

Next week we'll be in the process of moving White Ninja all the way over and there are about a billion of Chris Baldwin's books waiting to get coded in! It seems that TopatoCo is the cool place to be at, and in a few months I'll be able to hire some thugs and spend more time drawing comics!]]> strip for May / 07 / 2008: The Seven Habits of Incredibly Douchey Hipsters http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080507.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080507.html Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080507.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 07 / 2008"> The Seven Habits of Incredibly Douchey Hipsters Dangit, what the heck is up with all those hipster douchebags having Japanese girlfriends? What is up with that? I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with it, it's just... why? Exciting things at <a href="http://www.topatoco.com">TopatoCo</a> this week as soon as I finish them, you can foller the forceably succinct <a href="http://twitter.com/topatoco/" target="_blank">TopatoCo twitter tweets</a> or subscribe to the <a href="http://www.rsspect.com/rss/topatoco.xml" target="_blank">TopatoCo RSS feed</a> if you're more into things that'll not be ruined in six months to be da first to know about these exciting things.
The Seven Habits of Incredibly Douchey Hipsters
Dangit, what the heck is up with all those hipster douchebags having Japanese girlfriends? What is up with that? I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with it, it's just... why?

Exciting things at TopatoCo this week as soon as I finish them, you can foller the forceably succinct TopatoCo twitter tweets or subscribe to the TopatoCo RSS feed if you're more into things that'll not be ruined in six months to be da first to know about these exciting things.]]> strip for May / 06 / 2008: The Legend of Joey Softerworld http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080506.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080506.html Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080506.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 06 / 2008"> The Legend of Joey Softerworld <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=WIGU"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/wigu-exist-sm.gif" border="0" align="left" hspace="6"></a> Very little was changed about the reality of this comic... or was it? It doesn't matter, <a href="http://asofterworld.com/">Joey Softerworld</a> is an uncouth vermin man and he is the reason people have to put up signs everywhere telling us please not to do things that should be considered <a href="http://asofterworld.com/oqindex.php" target="_blank">universally unacceptible</a>. If you invite Joey Softerworld into your home someone or something is going to get made-out with before the night is over. Since that isn't necessarily a bad thing you can contact him on his website. The problem with making a comic-style journal is that it takes way longer to make than a words-only journal and honestly the things that go on in my life are either too horrifying or banal to be able to write down, and I'm far too hideous in actuality to constitute a perpetual video feed, which is why OC is sometimes either late or completely unavailable. It is for this reason Wigu's Last Stand begins May 22. Either it will succeed this time or not succeed, and in the event of unsuccessfulness I will move on to a completely different comical story. The Tinkles haunt me in my dreams and must be given one more chance.
The Legend of Joey Softerworld

Very little was changed about the reality of this comic... or was it? It doesn't matter, Joey Softerworld is an uncouth vermin man and he is the reason people have to put up signs everywhere telling us please not to do things that should be considered universally unacceptible. If you invite Joey Softerworld into your home someone or something is going to get made-out with before the night is over. Since that isn't necessarily a bad thing you can contact him on his website.

The problem with making a comic-style journal is that it takes way longer to make than a words-only journal and honestly the things that go on in my life are either too horrifying or banal to be able to write down, and I'm far too hideous in actuality to constitute a perpetual video feed, which is why OC is sometimes either late or completely unavailable. It is for this reason Wigu's Last Stand begins May 22. Either it will succeed this time or not succeed, and in the event of unsuccessfulness I will move on to a completely different comical story. The Tinkles haunt me in my dreams and must be given one more chance.]]> strip for May / 02 / 2008: Personal Responsibility http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080502.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080502.html Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080502.png" width="774" height="415" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 02 / 2008"> Personal Responsibility <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=LG"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/lg-cunt-sm.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="6"></a> Man I ain't got much to say today! The <a href="http://little-gamers.com/" target="_blank">Littlest Gamers</a> have dropped <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=LG-CUNTABILITY&Category_Code=LG" target="_blank">a new shirt</a> that is their most European shirt ever, and on Monday I'm launchin' Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo. What is Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo? I will tell you on Monday. My friend <a href="http://www.asofterworld.com/">Joey Softerworld</a> is coming over in a little bit and since it's almost Cinco de Mayo the amount we are going to drink will be vaguely excusable if not approximately seasonal. Did you guys see that Cloverfield movie? I think it was my favorite movie I've ever seen of all time. I'm gonna buy it and set the entire movie as my desktop. I guess I lied about not having much to say today. Have a good weekend, America.
Personal Responsibility

Man I ain't got much to say today! The Littlest Gamers have dropped a new shirt that is their most European shirt ever, and on Monday I'm launchin' Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo. What is Sheriff Pony's Designer Rodeo? I will tell you on Monday.

My friend Joey Softerworld is coming over in a little bit and since it's almost Cinco de Mayo the amount we are going to drink will be vaguely excusable if not approximately seasonal.

Did you guys see that Cloverfield movie? I think it was my favorite movie I've ever seen of all time. I'm gonna buy it and set the entire movie as my desktop. I guess I lied about not having much to say today. Have a good weekend, America.]]> strip for May / 01 / 2008: Ode to a Star http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080501.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080501.html Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 <img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080501.png" width="774" height="415" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for May / 01 / 2008"> Ode to a Star <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=WIGU"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/wigu-exist-sm.gif" border="0" align="left" hspace="6"></a> The preceding is what happens when one listens to <a href="http://www.astronomycast.com/" target="_blank">Astronomy Cast</a> while simultaneously jonesing for some Raisin Bran. I hope it is not lost on the unknowing. It makes you wonder though, will anybody be around to see our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_Life.png">sun turn into a red giant</a>? What with the way the universe works, it's possible for us to actually cross paths with some other solar system sometime in the future and maybe trade off a planet or two. Odds are modern humans won't make it even close on account of constantly battling for basic necessities and plain old vanity, not to mention those oh-so-fashionable blinders that only allow most of us to see only a couple generations forward and backward. 
Ode to a Star

The preceding is what happens when one listens to Astronomy Cast while simultaneously jonesing for some Raisin Bran. I hope it is not lost on the unknowing.

It makes you wonder though, will anybody be around to see our sun turn into a red giant? What with the way the universe works, it's possible for us to actually cross paths with some other solar system sometime in the future and maybe trade off a planet or two. Odds are modern humans won't make it even close on account of constantly battling for basic necessities and plain old vanity, not to mention those oh-so-fashionable blinders that only allow most of us to see only a couple generations forward and backward.

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