http://www.overcompensating.com/ en-us 1999-2008 Jeffrey Rowland Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 60 http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090703.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090703.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090703.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090703.png" width="780" height="570" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for July / 03 / 2009" title="If you say &#39;Carrot Top&#39; in front of a mirror 99 times, you have 24 hours to have sex with Carrot Top or you will die."></a><br /> Fourth of July 2009<br /> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Category_Code=SNF"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000002/snf-scare-sm.gif" align="left" hspace="6" border="1"></a> <font size="4">Happy Fourth of July!</font> Fourth of July is my second favorite holiday, next to <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20090202.html">Groundhog's Day</a>. Let us revisit Fourth of Julys past, <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080704.html">here</a> <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20070704.html">here</a> and <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20060704.html">here</a> and <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20050704.html">here</a>.<br /><br /> We'll be back Monday. <a href="http://topatoco.com/hey/" target="_blank">Go buy some stuff</a>! Or at least watch the trailer for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig" target="_blank">RoboGeisha</a>, jeez.
Fourth of July 2009
Happy Fourth of July! Fourth of July is my second favorite holiday, next to Groundhog's Day. Let us revisit Fourth of Julys past, here here and here and here.

We'll be back Monday. Go buy some stuff! Or at least watch the trailer for RoboGeisha, jeez.]]> http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090702.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090702.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090702.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090702.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for July / 02 / 2009" title="Tell me with a straight face you&#39;d be less inclined to try PCP if the tab wasn&#39;t wrapped in bacon and deep fried."></a><br /> Banking Safety<br /> <font size="4">The moral of the</font> story is to not be happy about anything unless you're sure someone more responsible than you can make sure nobody less responsible than you can take it away. <br /><br /> Weirdly, I just now noticed that my ten-year anniversary of putting comics on Internet passed on <a href="http://jjrowland.com/whenigrowup/19990614.html" target="_blank">June 14</a>. <a href="http://topatoco.com/">I've been distracted</a>. Anyway, although my updates are less clockworky and my overall attitude about things has become even more jaded, I still enjoy puttin' ink on paper the same as I did back when Clinton was President, and everybody who matters was still alive. I'm not good at benchmarks like this, honestly it feels like 50 years has passed since 1999.<br><br> It has been a pleasure of strangely agonizing proportions thus far, and I look forward to forgetting my next 10 year anniversary, when I am super-old.
Banking Safety
The moral of the story is to not be happy about anything unless you're sure someone more responsible than you can make sure nobody less responsible than you can take it away.

Weirdly, I just now noticed that my ten-year anniversary of putting comics on Internet passed on June 14. I've been distracted. Anyway, although my updates are less clockworky and my overall attitude about things has become even more jaded, I still enjoy puttin' ink on paper the same as I did back when Clinton was President, and everybody who matters was still alive. I'm not good at benchmarks like this, honestly it feels like 50 years has passed since 1999.

It has been a pleasure of strangely agonizing proportions thus far, and I look forward to forgetting my next 10 year anniversary, when I am super-old.]]> http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090630.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090630.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090630.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090630.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for June / 30 / 2009" title="If you remember when Rap used to be spelled Rapp my friend you are probably no longer a teen. "></a><br /> Teen Rapp<br /> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Category_Code=PFSC"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000002/psfc-continuous-sm.png" align="left" hspace="6" border="1"></a> <font size="4">Teens, man.</font> Little is known about the modern teen, except it is insane how fast they can text, and how difficult it is to find one when you have fallen down. Thanks to my sister <a href="http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?s=mashley&amp;Search=Search&amp;comic=676">Mashley</a> for the insight and to <a href="http://frontalot.com/index.php/" target="_blank">MC Frontalot</a> who sent me the idea for Schnappsenhosen in a barrage of desperate, possibly PCP-addled texts. <br /><br /> I had planned to do this before <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=199" target="_blank">Kate's comics about teens</a> so don't get any funny ideas, perhaps she and I can collaborate on some true to live YA, like maybe some teens that have jobs and their special power is the ability to control their own opinions.
Teen Rapp
Teens, man. Little is known about the modern teen, except it is insane how fast they can text, and how difficult it is to find one when you have fallen down. Thanks to my sister Mashley for the insight and to MC Frontalot who sent me the idea for Schnappsenhosen in a barrage of desperate, possibly PCP-addled texts.

I had planned to do this before Kate's comics about teens so don't get any funny ideas, perhaps she and I can collaborate on some true to live YA, like maybe some teens that have jobs and their special power is the ability to control their own opinions.]]> http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090629.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090629.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090629.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090629.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for June / 29 / 2009" title="In Edward Beetlehands, Daniel Day Lewis will act so hard that he will only be able to act for thirty minutes a day, eat 25,000 calories a day, and sleep the entire rest of the time."></a><br /> Transmittens vs. the Atlantic Ocean<br /> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Category_Code=PFSC"><img src="http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000002/psfc-continuous-sm.png" align="left" hspace="6" border="1"></a> <font size="4">It's been a wild</font> few days up here with <a href="http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?s=mashley&amp;Search=Search&amp;comic=676">Mashley</a> and <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080311.html">Brother Danny</a> and Quiet Jen, the Transmittens (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/transmittens" target="_blank">myspace</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Transmittens" target="_blank">last.fm</a>). And although Tim Burton isn't deviating from his <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/" target="_blank">streak</a> (after Alice in Wonderland he's remaking Frankenweenie), maybe he will change his mind after he catches wind of this idea. Call me, Tim. You're welcome. <br /><br />
Transmittens vs. the Atlantic Ocean
It's been a wild few days up here with Mashley and Brother Danny and Quiet Jen, the Transmittens (myspace, last.fm). And although Tim Burton isn't deviating from his streak (after Alice in Wonderland he's remaking Frankenweenie), maybe he will change his mind after he catches wind of this idea. Call me, Tim. You're welcome.

]]> http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090626.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090626.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090626.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090626.png" width="780" height="410" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for June / 26 / 2009" title="When you gotta go, you gotta go."></a><br /> Gotta Go<br /> <font size="4">You get all crazy</font> when you think about all that is, was, and ever will be is just some information biologically stamped into the electrified wad of goop in your noggin. I don't know about you but I don't trust that dang thing. For one, it's a glob. Secondly, <i>come on.</I> The only way you even believe it's real is because it also is what makes you alive. So if you think about it, it's pretty much cheating. <br /><br /> To be honest, at any given time I'm totally aware that there's at least a 1% chance it isn't even happening at all. <br /><br /> Also! If you are near Burlington, VT, you should go see <a href="http://www.myspace.com/transmittens" target="_blank">Transmittens</a> on Sunday night!
Gotta Go
You get all crazy when you think about all that is, was, and ever will be is just some information biologically stamped into the electrified wad of goop in your noggin. I don't know about you but I don't trust that dang thing. For one, it's a glob. Secondly, come on. The only way you even believe it's real is because it also is what makes you alive. So if you think about it, it's pretty much cheating.

To be honest, at any given time I'm totally aware that there's at least a 1% chance it isn't even happening at all.

Also! If you are near Burlington, VT, you should go see Transmittens on Sunday night!]]> http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090624.html http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090624.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 <a href="http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090624.html"><img src="http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20090624.png" width="780" height="583" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="strip for June / 24 / 2009" title="Now girls can go to the bathroom without being afraid of not being patriotic."></a><br /> Go Girl vsTruck Nutz<br /> <font size="4">This comic is</font> only funny if you know about <a href="http://www.go-girl.com/">Go-Girls</a> and <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080118.html">Truck</a> <a href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080429.html">Nutz</a>. And even then you might have a hard time. Anyway, hey! <br /><br /> And come see <a href="http://www.myspace.com/transmittens" target="_blank">Transmittens</a> this week! You have a chance, you just have to believe.
Go Girl vsTruck Nutz
This comic is only funny if you know about Go-Girls and Truck Nutz. And even then you might have a hard time. Anyway, hey!

And come see Transmittens this week! You have a chance, you just have to believe.]]>