I Feel Like I've Died And Gone To Fifth Grade

So, with encouragement from Seattle's @Svengali_Lad, I put the call out to my Twitter followers:

Assignment: Full name of superspy agency whose acronym spells a bad word.

Within seconds, the shadows of imaginary espionage were hiding agents of C.L.I.T., of F.U.C.K., of B.A.L.L.S., of A.S.S.P.L.A.Y., and more. Excerpts from that top secret list, and the agents responsible:

@MattSpringer:
Covert Undercover Ninja Team

Tactical Insertion Technology Service

Covert Handlers Of Airborne Directives

Advanced Surgical Strike - Post Lateral Army - Yemen

@BrianReed:
Combat Operation Cyborgs -- *K* Series (Underwater Combat, Killing, Exploration, and Rescue Squad)

Warren Ellis' Tactical Commando Unit Number Two

@Svengali_Lad:
Bureau Overseeing Licensed Laser Operating Commie Killing Spies

Temporal Universe Research Department Syracuse

People Eating Yetis European Reserve

Federated Underground Commando Knights

@thatoneyoyoguy
Platoon Uncovering Nondisclosures And Nabbing Intelligence

@seanjackson:
Biological Alien Lifeform and Logistic Systems

The Wicked Organization Granting Infernal Revenge and Libelous Slander On Nerds Expecting Calamity Under Pressure

@Obi1thejedi:
Covert Unknown Machiavellian Spies Hunters Of Terrorist Squads

Special Ordnance Defensive Overseer Multiple Intelligence Tactical Expert

@raycornwall:
Forensic Undersecretaries Contemplating Killing French Annoyances Completely Ensuring Security

@jessnevins:
Joint Operation Headquarters Nexus, Battling Yemenese Racial and Nationalist Extremists.

@Brownout_Girl:
Terrestrial Investigation Termination Society

@OriginalSpunky
Systematic Hits In Territorial Situations Tactically Orchestrated Random Ministrations.

@Big_Tiger:
Contraband Liberating Information Technician

Biologists' Unified Knowledge Against Kindergarten Education

@adamwitt:
Yearly Engineered Attack and Search Team In Nefariously Fearsome, Exceptionally Caustic Times In Ontario and Nicaragua

@stealthmunchkin:
Commando Ultra Marine Squad - Hostile Organisation Takedown

@OriginalSpunky:
Association Systematic Smart Machines Under No CHair

Hidden Agenda IRefuttable Proof Interpersonal Erogenous Situations

Tri Unified Reactive Defence Biological Underground Reagent Grouping Lower Abdominal Repository

Phallic Insufferable Sluicegate Secreted Harbored Artery Rigid Defence Overt Nethers

I Joined SarahPAC For Free Just To Get The Emails & The First One Arrived Today

It starts:
...then goes on to say what a week it has been, truly touched by your notes of support, look forward to working with you, shared ideas and goals, serious challenges ahead, America's best days are ahead of us, accomplish together through SarahPAC, blah-blah-fucking-blah. Then it goes, I swear:

And of course:


You can sign up for Sarah's bullshit PAC here and her bullshit Facebook group here.

CRAPPY ECONOMY vs. PLANET OF BEER! (re-post)

well, it's been over 1 (one) hole week sence my last blog! but here's a little sumething from one of my my myspace freinds, Brian (Sendelbach). it's a re-post! so ENJOIY!

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As just about everyone in the world doesn't know, I have a book coming out in March. It's called PLANET OF BEER: A SMELL OF STEVE TREASURY, and it's the distillation of many years' worth my weekly comic strip, Smell of Steve.

I'm pretty excited about the book. It's big, it's in full color, and it's the first time all these comic strips will be appearing in one place.

Only one wrinkle: Because of the usual Crappy Economy factors everyone's so familiar with now, PLANET OF BEER might not get published at all. The publisher, Dark Horse, claims that unless orders go up somewhat, they're going to pull the book.

Beyond the economy thing, it's been a challenge to market PLANET OF BEER. How do you describe comic strips that feature celebrities such as Nick Nolte and Sammy Hagar (as well as pop culture figures like Fonzie) in starring roles? How do you describe characters like President Carter & Kenny, Black Aquaman, and Bougle Gluce in a way that doesn't sound wacky and contrived? And how do you explain that Smell of Steve started off as a kind of conceptual art project, and ended up as, well...a different kind of conceptual art project?

Anyway, I'm a crappy salesman, and it's a crappy time to be selling anything. So this is no PLANET OF BEER hard-sell. I'm just letting you know that the book is available for pre-order here:

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Beer-Brian-Sendelbach/dp/1595822569/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231177975&sr=8-1

(Price is a little over 10 bucks. Plus shipping.)

Also, my smellofsteve.com site mysteriously went up in smoke a couple months back. But, if you want, you can check out more of my work here on the myspace thing:

http://www.myspace.com/smellofsteve

Feel free to be my "friend"! Same with the facebook deal:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-Sendelbach/110622095113?ref=mf


One last thing. If you're with the "media" -- or if you write one of those new-fangled "blurgs" or "blags" that everyone seems to be talking about -- I wouldn't completely HATE you if you saw fit to mention PLANET OF BEER in some way, shape or form. Y'know: "Save the Whales", "Save the Rainforest", "Save the PLANET OF BEER." Something like that.

I'm also available for interviews, hula dances, and -- with the right amount of orders -- completely inappropriate back rubs.

(Kidding! I'm married.)

Yours, Yours, and Forever Yours,

-Brian (Sendelbach)


P.S. If you have nothing better to do right now, here are some of the quotes for PLANET OF BEER's back cover:


"Smell of Steve, Inc." is to cartooning what the dada movement was to art -- a brilliantly absurd self-parody, better read than imitated.
-Ted Rall, ATTITUDE 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists

"Smell of Steve, Inc." is a printed page tuned to an alien frequency -- as if the very paper you hold is receiving coded transmissions from an alien space brain....[Sendelbach's] work is hysterically funny, and he is one of the most original cartoonists working today.
-Chris Reilly, THE PULSE

If Philip K Dick loved pop-culture and drew comics, this might be the result.
-Shannon Wheeler, Too Much Coffee Man creator

I have seen the PLANET OF BEER, and it is beautiful. I urge you to sign
on for this journey, and when you reach it, you
will weep tears of joy. Tears of BEER.
-- Joe MacLeod, "Mr. Wrong" columnist, Alcoholic

And Again

Batman Curse Kills Again

Van Johnson (The Minstrel) died today at 92, cutting the number of surviving Bat-villains to 10: Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriweather, Joan Collins, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Glynis Johns, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Rush, Malachi Throne and Eli Wallach. This is the first time the Very Slow Batman Curse (1966 model) has struck since the death of Shelley Winters (Ma Parker), nearly three years ago.

Every Time I Start To, You Know, Produce, Someone Thinks Up A New Obstacle

Like Google Magazine Search. More info here and here. Happy not working!

"To Be A Champion...You Have to Live On The Edge." SMUCKER'S® STARS ON ICE®!!! Edgy-ass Smuckers®!

Pouring one out for Studs Terkel, 1912-2008 http://ping.fm/Xi1DU

Exciting Discovery

Cocktails have Wikipedia entries.

Twitter Forever

@NotoriousBIG