| [from the desk of Stickboy]
Lieben! I’m back! I was thinking about hibernating, but my heart wouldn’t buy it, so here I am, awake, taking the swift foot of time in my ass. How are you, darlings? I’m keeping a sweaty stiff upper lip, trying to hold fast through this final burst of Indian Summer (or Native American Summer, for those of you playing along at Columbia, Oberlin and UC Berkeley – or in Mumbai), waiting for the sort of weather that’s appropriate for one such as myself with my distinctive taste in hats, scarves and cardigans. It was an enervating summer, my only respite a few, sporadic visits to the Jersey Shore, where I sought the cooling whisper of the Atlantic shoreline, the brisk, sweet sting of every broken wave. Why have I battled my way back to the Eden of your junk mail folder? To prove, as always, that there are two things you can absolutely, positively count on, spam and Pretty Sure. Two classic strips from 2002, “Brushes with Greatness” and “Kill Cat Stevens” are now available as PDFs, 24 hours a day – http://www.oliosonline.org/Olios/stickboy/brushes/BrusheswithGreatness.pdf http://www.oliosonline.org/Olios/stickboy/catstevens/KillCatStevens.pdf Come on, you know you’re spending half the night online anyway – why not stop by? http://www.oliosonline.org/comfusion/stickboy.html All your Pretty Sure favorites, including classic strips like “Destroy Your Life” and “The Gay Pill,” are now available in html and as PDFs. Print ‘em all! Keep a few spares in your bag – hand them to the Jews for Jesus kids when they shove those flyers at you, leave a couple on the clipboard after you finish the personality test at the Scientology table, fold them into your hymnals before you leave mass… Okay, a brief list of words and phrases that are permanently verboten (in no particular order) – blogosphere New strips coming in December, and we still have merchandise available (I know, I thought it’d all be sold out by now, too) – http://www.cafepress.com/sticky_tbs I should be harping at you to buy stuff: emailing you coupons, partnering with a chain of convenience stores, a Jessica Alba movie, a Major League Soccer team, an erectile dysfunction medication…all the stuff is probably manufactured in some Third World sweatshop anyway. I’m obviously a terrible capitalist. That said, I’ve been ghostwriting Dilbert since August – I’m writing to you from deep within a massive pile of money. If you’ve got friends, henchmen, underlings, cellmates, fellow addicts in your 12-step program, some of the other kids in Bible study, other staffers at Socialist Worker, anyone you think might appreciate the comic sucker punch and scatological self-deprecation that have made Pretty Sure a legend in my parents’ house and on my therapist’s couch, PLEASE forward that individual’s email address to me, Stickboy, and I will personally invite said lucky person to the paradise of Pretty Sure. I’ve come to save you from the flood. Tell everyone. La victoria es nuestra! http://www.oliosonline.org/comfusion/stickboy.html I’ll see you in December, stuffed with candy corn, turkey and dread. Upcoming strips include “Tales of Dietary Madness,” “Story Hour,” “My Jewish Museum” and I think something about genital warts, depending on how I respond to the liquid nitrogen. Danke! Abschiedskuß! Ich bin, |