WaffleDevoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.Off to America- May 24, 2008 Today (May 24 if you're reading this on the ROCR.net front page), I'm going to Amsterdam to stay with a friend, so I won't have to get up at some God-awful hour to go to Amsterdam Airport on Sunday morning. From there, I'll be off to Nashville, Tennessee, where I'll be spending the next three weeks with Aggie. New comics may be delayed.http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002190.html Civil rights in the Netherlands: The Nekschot affair- May 18, 2008 Following on the previous post in which I rag on the US for denying travelers from abroad basic (one might say self-evident) human rights, it's worth noticing that the erosion of human rights within the Netherlands is proceeding at a steady pace as well. I had several long rants planned on the high-profile arrest of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot last Tuesday, on the basis of a complaint against him filed in 2005, for inciting racial hatred through his cartoons. I'm not going to post any of...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002189.html I really didn't want to read about this- May 18, 2008 From Scary Go Round - US customs as seen from the point of view of someone who travels in a lot. For the longest time, I've been telling myself I wasn't going to travel to the United States - not as long as being in transit means I have no rights, not as long as I have to be fingerprinted, prodded, questioned and poked before I'm allowed in, not as long as shit like this can happen, not as long as George Bush is President and the dumb fucks who voted for him in 2004 are still allowed not just..http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002188.html Note to everyone who has my cell phone number- May 12, 2008 Like a moron, I put my trousers in the washer with my cell phone still in them (it was pretty much the only time in history I had my cell phone in a trouser pocket to start with). Needless to say, you can't call me on it right now. Strangely, the Internet says it might well blink back to life, but it's gonna take a day or two. I'll live.http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002187.html Concluding the art swap, and what happens next- May 10, 2008 Aggie has already announced it in her newsblog so it's time I did the same. The art swap we've been doing will end in June, and Aggie will return to drawing American Gothic Daily herself. However, she will continue drawing Feral for a little longer. The reasons for that are simple: Aggie is a faster artist than me, she wants to see me write the story towards the end and is willing to twist my arm into writing it, and I want to get back to that other ROCR storyline, Invasion, which I've now...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002186.html Extra catch-up update plus coloured version of page for April 8- May 9, 2008 Aggie's been very busy (and very lovely, but that's a whole 'nother matter). Not only has she done a Thursday update in colour to catch up with the one-a-week schedule, but she's also gone back and added watercolours to the update for April 8. That one, in which Krakatoa dreamed of running with a pack of wolves, was already one of the best pages in the sequence she's done, but it's even better now, so go have another look at it. Of course, uploading it to the mirror site at Webcomicsnation...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002185.html |