I’m actually starting to feel guilty for not keeping the blog more up-to-date, but with the blog move and filing the posts plus work is currently kicking my derriere, I’ve had very little time to actually write. So I thought I would introduce you to a piece that is hidden on the website that not many may have read.

Every day (Internet connection willing) I send out a comic strip to my friends and those signed up on the list so they can have a little something in their inbox when they wake up or get to work. Surprisingly, many people actually appreciate a quck smile before they start their day, so I’ve kept it up for, geez, I think 5 or 6 years. At one point a couple of years ago, I had a friend ask me what the hell it was all about, so I wrote a very corporate-sounding introduction for the comic service, which I thought ended up being pretty funny.

Here it is in its full glory without having to find the link in the signup window to actually read it. Click on the link to the left labeled “Comic Of The Day” to see the page; otherwise enjoy this propaganda.

The Comic Of The Day Story

Do you like such daily comic strips as FoxTrot, Rhymes With Orange and Calvin & Hobbes? Then the people at TheWebPen.net have a deal for you. Every day hundreds of our employees go through a large list of comic strips — including some web comics you may not have heard of — and test them for content, laughability and an overall sense of just feelin’ good. Then once a day, they are sent to your email inbox (excluding our personal holidays).

You see, we here at TheWebPen.net take our comics seriously. Sounds funny, huh? Well, it’s not. We take each and every comic and put it through a rigorous double test. We read it when it is first printed and, if it makes us laugh, we store it in our holding folder until it is time for that comic to be released. Upon its release date, we read it again and, if it makes us laugh a second time, we lovingly wrap it within an email and it is sent to you to be enjoyed over and over again. (Pending legal action, we are no longer allowed to discuss what happens to comics that don’t make us laugh a second time)

These comics of the day include a full-color (well, most of the time) Sunday strip. You will never have to get up late on Sunday morning for that embarrassing excursion into the front yard wearing nothing but your bathrobe and a ‘head pressed up against the headboard’ hairdo to get the paper again. Besides, that Sunday paper is just too darn heavy anyway.

And that’s not all! With your comic of the day, you’ll read dedications to persons that you don’t even know. And maybe one day (if you’re lucky) you’ll get a comic dedicated to you! Also included in the email are updates for the boss’s pet project, Monkey’s Uncle Comedy Improv AND what song he is listening to when he makes the final decision and hits the send button, so you, YOU, can have a giggle, chortle, guffaw or just a smile.

How can you NOT be interested now? Why not just sign up for the Comic Of The Day list? It’s so easy. Just enter your email and hit subscribe. It will give you the sense of satisfaction that the WB Network envies and the Rolling Stones lament.

TheWebPen.net and the Comic Of The Day. Proudly making laugh lines on everyone’s face for over 5 years! Offer not valid to cranks. Some settling may occur.

Listening to: Damaged By Love - Tom Petty

Let me guess — the only word you understood in that title was ‘iTunes’. Fear not for here is a link to the write-up I did and a link to iTunes to check them out. No really! Go! Go now! If nothing else, buy “Clap (See The Stars)”. It’s one of the catchiest songs of the year.

Listening to: Clap (See The Stars) (Better Late Mix) - The Myrmidons

DNA did not match and so John Mark Karr’s 15 minutes of fame has ended. Now the flimsy evidence used to get Karr back to America is now in question. Gee, how shocking that a man confesses to a crime that family claims he wasn’t near and comes so soon after the death of the Ramsey matriarch is released. It was a teeny bit obvious that he was simply obsessing over JonBenet and wanted attention. Or was that just me?

Plus the National Inquirer says he didn’t do it, so I have to believe especially when they use an 80’s photo of Karr looking like Gary Numan. THAT was the freaky part.

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Now let’s hope we don’t get any repeat confessors a la Spartacus.

Listening to: Straight On - Heart

I found this on Kav’s blog and had to know. I consider myslef a geek, thank you very much. In my world there is only one difference between nerds and geeks:

NERD: has no social skills
GEEK: has mad social skills