If Popeye has the strength to squeeze a can of spinach so hard that the lid rips open and the spinach flies up in the air… why does he need the spinach?

Bread not circuses. I’m watching a video about the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium and the billion dollars of taxpayer money various levels of government have given the ultra-rich Terry Pegula to build this thing. Plus, new seat licences and higher ticket prices are going to leave many fans in the dust.

The Pope condemning global wealth inequality is the right message from the wrong person. Your literal palace is its own country, pal.

Ricardo Montalbán screaming “THIS IS CETI-ALPHA FIVE!” is the single greatest line read in the history of cinema. You either agree or you’re wrong on purpose.

we have always been at war with eastasia.

Spent the evening cleaning and tidying while listening to the Jays thump the Yankees on the radio. Life ain’t too bad.

Found a slightly better spot for my living room cat cam so I can see three of the four most likely places she will be. It’s called “good parenting”, folks!

I play this Buzzfeed game almost every day. I’m never gonna bookmark it. My friend Andy used to play it every day too and he’d always post his results. I used to go to his feed and use the link in his results and compare my time. Now that he’s gone, it’s my excuse to see his photo and say hello.

Gave Chloe some catnip for the first time in forever. She seems pretty mellow.

If I ever did a TikTok dance video, it would be to recreate this Rodney Dangerfield classic. youtu.be/Q0X-oA2l-1E?...

I made short ribs and garlic mashed potatoes today because I’m friggin’ awesome and I deserve awesome stuff.

5:30pm is still too early in the day for one person to have smoked and drank enough to make an entire bus smell like this. These are 3am smells.

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Fuck him. He’s rude to droids.

This would be a great time for a significant other to be here to cuddle up with me and let me tell them how cool my night was and then they tell me how cool I am and I would ask them about their night and they’d tell me equally cool stuff and I could tell them how cool they are… and then kissing. 😊

Stopped to grab a quick bite on my way to run some errands. This place has two counters and two tables. 16 seats, total…. and a sign that says “no dine in please”. Friendly.

A former co-worker posted a Charlie Kirk photo with the message “RIP. If you don’t like it, unfriend me.” So I took him at face value and unfriended him. If your heroes make their bones by sowing bigotry or hate, we probably don’t have much to say to one another anyways.

Ted Cruz thinks he’s charming. I wish there were enough voters in Texas who understood that he isn’t.

Call it virtue signalling, if you like. Either way, Disney doesn’t need my money.

How about a Star Trek zombie story where all of Starfleet’s cannon fodder return from the grave to attack the bridge crew? “Red Shirts Risen” “Night of the Living Ensigns” “The Walking Red”

I have Big Bottom by Spinal Tap stuck in my head. This is not a complaint cuz that is a legit great song.

I tried to imagine Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor wearing the green and purple battle armor but it feels incredibly wrong.

Is “bird blindness” a real thing? 😁

Again, VIA Rail gets me to my destination only 20 minutes behind schedule. That’s something of a minor miracle for VIA.

I’m going to start a company that runs interventions for Disney Adults.

Sad to read that Ken Dryden has died.

I was thinking last night about how I had tried to start watching Corrie again a few weeks ago and made it through a small handful of episodes and hadn’t bothered again since then. Then I see this post and I’m really at peace with not watching anymore. At best, I wish I actually missed it.

Tonight I am reminded that Gul Dukat is the absolute greatest villain in all of Star Trek lore. If you want to argue for Khan, I’ll entertain it but that’s where the debate ends.

New stickers arrive today. New enamel pins arrive tomorrow. I’ve got sketch covers for days! Fan Expo Canada starts Thursday. Artist Alley. Table A16. Find me. 😃

Wrestled two matches today: one was a mixed tag and the other was an intergender singles match. Both matches went pretty damn good. I’m really happy about them. But for now, this broken down old man is gonna take a nice long shower and curl up in the A/C with his cat. DEUCES!

I just saw a sweet little cat up for adoption at PetSmart and they named it “Labubu”… and I was suddenly sad for the cat. All the other cats are gonna make merciless fun of her.

@olbermann.bsky.social - listening to today’s podcast and was inspired to do some doodling.

In my upcoming comic, Last Mammal On Earth, the main character has a past as a musician so, as a throwaway joke, I named her band “Pussycat and the Josies”… I can hear my Mom’s voice in my head saying “you really think you’re funny, don’t you?” 😁

Listening to Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel talk about the uncertain potency of homemade pot brownies and I’m picturing Robert De Niro in Casino bitching about blueberries in the muffins. youtu.be/5oF1Rd5kis4?...

Finally got around to ordering a pair of new corner box stickers for Fan Expo Canada: a Savage Land Rogue and a variation on the original Spider-Man sticker I did. The art for Rogue is based on this sketch cover I completed yesterday.

In my head cannon, Alan Alda and Donald Sutherland were secretly friends who went on adventures together, lovin’ women and outsmartin’ bad guys as The Two Hawkeyes. But in this world, Wayne Rogers and Elliot Gould were very standoffish to one another.

If you think about it, the life of a rock is a sort of Benjamin Button existence. You start out as a mountain or maybe even a whole continent. But over the eons, you’re worn down by earthquakes and glaciers and rivers and rain and other rocks under you’re a boulder, a stone, a rock, a pebble.

Dry shampoo is shampooing your hair the same way spraying on Ax body spray is taking a shower.

I never intended to visit any place on earth where either alligators or crocodiles may be roaming, wild and free because filling my pants with fear-related poop is NOT a goal. That being said, I’ve been to Orlando, FL twice and I consider myself lucky to have never had that freak encounter.

Added some NEW SKETCH COVERS to my webstore in advance of Fan Expo Canada. Claim yours before they’re gone at themerchtable.ca or DM me to order your favourite character on a custom cover!

IT’S NOT A “SELFIE” IF SOMEONE TAKES THE PHOTO FOR YOU, JACKASS!

I’m working on a Star Wars story about a Mandalorian bounty hunter who beats the shit out of people with a beskar baseball bat. His name is Boba Chette.

Here’s an odd fact that might win you a bar bet someday. Roger Bowen, who played Col. Henry Blake in the movie version of MASH and McLean Stevenson, the tv Blake, died on consecutive days in February 1996.

We lost a friend Thursday afternoon. It doesn’t get any easier the more frequently it happens. And with so many of my friends past the half century mark, this is a hardship we will all endure over and over in these latter years.

I still tear up when Radar comes into the O.R. to inform everyone that Henry’s helicopter was shot down over the Sea of Japan.

Work in progress of Harley and Ivy based on an old Bettie Page photo

At least now any shitty choices he makes only affect him.

Mentally ill man pacing back and forth on a Toronto subway train, yelling about “Donald S Trump” and how we are already the 51st State and an f-slur about an Irishman who’s name I didn’t catch. As I was about to exit at my station, he walks by and says “sorry, I didn’t mean to drop the n-bomb”. ☹️

It’s always very cool to see photos from friends at San Diego Comic Con but, this year, I find myself wondering… Are there and BIPOC people visiting the show from OUTSIDE the United States? If so, how has their travel experience changed this year?

I like when the cat falls asleep right up against me. Chloe is always going to be a skittish little furball but, just like her owner, sometimes the anxiety clears and she just enjoys feeling connected.