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Hello again, my Creatures.

Nothing super profound to add today. Today’s Stick Comic has to do with the confusing Meat Thermometer we had the pleasure of using this past Turkey Day. It had words on one side and numbers (presumably TEMPeratures) on the other side. I would expect the thermometer to move in a clockwise fashion, which it most certainly did not. The result was a comic, which is always good times, and we did NOT under cook the  bird and get sick (which is an even BETTER time.).

My brother caught this week’s earlier comic about his pretty rad Moss Beard. I had to assure him, as I am assuring you, dear Creatures, that he does NOT look homeless…it’s actually just really hard to draw stick people with beards!

That’s all for now, and as always: thanks for reading!

Happy Thanksgiving, my Creatures.

Today’s Life On a Stick comic is completely unrelated to the holiday, but here is a Hand Turkey instead. Please enjoy all his MAJESTY.

Hope you all are having a safe and happy holiday and are eating all of the food. I know I will be.

It’s that time of year again, Creatures! The Christmas music is already blaring on the overhead speakers, the lines are already forming (and the people in them already getting agitated), and some Silliness is already rearing it’s ugly head. Like the latest Life On a Stick comic. “No sir, you can still use the escalator; just hop over that barricade, avoid the gaping hole, climb up the stairs and then do the same thing up at the top. It’s EASY!” That’s right, Black Friday is upon us, and it’s only going to get…Sillier from here on out.

In all seriousness, though, my working in the retail industry has thus far, failed to kill my Christmas spirit. So long as I can separate Retail Christmas (rampant consumerism, grouchiness, and rudeness) from Actual Christmas (decorating my house, seeing loved ones, and eating delicious treats), I will be listening to Christmas music in my car from Black Friday til Christmas. But I like to celebrate Thanksgiving first, so not until Friday. Yes.

Oh, and HEY: RSS feeds!

They’re here for both of the comics if you want to subscribe separately, but I’d love it if you’d subscribe to ALL of my ramblings, so DO click on the (currently) SECRET RSS link, which can be found lurking beneath the Home Button in the blue space between the menu bar and the Life On a Stick box.

*erm* I’ll be getting that fixed/more visible soon!

Until then, Happy Early Thanksgiving, and, as always, thanks for reading!

Today’s Life On a Stick comic centers around the candy Laffy Taffy.

It was always one of my favorite candies, growing up, not because of the jokes on the wrapper, but because it came in banana-flavored. I think I may be in the minority here, but I’ve always loved the taste of fake banana and will go out of my way to obtain it. It’s a really bizarre flavor that doesn’t ACTually equate with authentic banana and some out makes my mouth feel all warm, the way mint makes it feel cool. It’s hard to explain adequately.

ANYway, for those who may not have known, Laffy Taffy is a (surprise!) taffy that comes individually wrapped up and each wrapper has a couple of jokes printed on it. Kids get to submit these jokes, so you can imagine what the sense of humor is like on them. The worst thing is, even though I know, I KNOW the joke on the wrapper is going to be terrible, I practically can’t eat a piece without first reading and then, usually, groaning.

And now that Raf’s around, sharing the pain! MWAHAHAHAHA!

Hello, my creatures!

Just a quick note to say that I really enjoyed reading your guesses (and getting some ideas for next year) for the On the Couch Halloween costumes! I think between all of you guys, you guessed them all…Except for the Challenge Costume: Kurockha…Didn’t really intend for it to happen that way, but Kuro’s reference IS kind of obscure. But without further adieu:

Taffy: Nyan Cat

PoJo: Tony Stark

Delria: Navi the Fairy (from Legend of Zelda)

Scurvy: PSY (from the Gangnam Style video)

Sausage: Dracula

Pine: Frankenstein’s Monster *snerk* Frankenpine.

Wendy: Finn (from Adventure Time)

Gatekeeper: Ghostbuster

Cricket: Pinkie Pie

Tacit: Catwoman

Jazz: Kyoshi Warrior (from Avatar: the Last Airbender)

And finally, Kurochka! Drum roll please………… The Chief Blue Meanie (from Yellow Submarine). It might have been a little easier if his feet weren’t so obscured by the other characters, but there you have it!

And with that: I now return you to Taffy’s irregularly scheduled rampaging. That’s all for now, and thanks for reading!

Halloween’s tomorrow! Check out the cast of On the Couch’s costumes.

And yeah, I’m aware I misspelled Halloween in the comic’s title. Stupid Photoshop Type Tool, never registers correctly when one types double letters! Ah well, it shall be fixed IN THE FUTURE. Happy Halloween!

That’s all for now, my creatures, and as always: Thanks for reading!

Hello again, my creatures!

I am pleased to announce that the posting problems have been solved, and were due to…*ahem*…user error. I won’t embarrass myself further by going into detail. Still working on the rss thing, I know that for right now, it’s only hooked up to the blog posts, but I’m working on getting the comics on board as well. More as developments continue!

In other news: Hey! Halloween is just around the corner, what are you guys going to dress up as? I can’t wait to put up some pics of my costume this year (any excuse to dress up!). I’m headed to a 1920s themed party, costumed appropriately, though not as a flapper. And Tuesday’s On the Couch comic will be my annual torture my…dress up my imaginary friends parade, and I think I’ve got some good costumes in the lineup for them. Hope you enjoy!

That’s all for now, and as always, thanks for reading!

Just wanted to let you Creatures know that I’m going to be trying to fix some of the bugs that are going on around here. Namely trying to get my scheduled postings to actually post correctly, and the rss feeds on the comics up and running again. I’m using Life On a Stick as the guinea pig again since it’s not as reliant upon continuity as On the Couch is…Okay, Stick isn’t reliant on continuity at ALL!

ANYway, there may be some instances of missing comics or double posts, but I’ll be monitoring closely to keep that from happening or, at the very least, have my mistakes showing for as little time as possible ^_^;

Thanks for all the support and patience, please continue to let me know if problems come up so I can address them as quickly as possible. I want you guys to be able to enjoy my comics with ease! That’s all for now, and as always: Thanks for reading!

Hello, my Creatures!

I wanted to thank you guys for your patience with what appeared to be a posting of the same comic twice today. I’m still learning my way around the settings and options here in WordPress, and it looks like there are a few kinks to work out with the scheduling process. Still working on the problem, and for now I have removed the double post. Life On a Stick #309 is stranded somewhere in the ether that is the internet, but I’ll have it straightened out very soon!

Tomorrow’s On the Couch comic should go up without a problem, though over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be trying to figure out what some of the bugs are, so please bear with me if something like this happens again. In the meantime: How about those photos from Anime Weekend Atlanta that I’d meant to post up a year ago awhile back?