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	August 19, 2003

SUPPORT THIS COMIC New from Christopher Baldwin, creator of the world's wordiest and most ornate comic strip Bruno, comes Little Dee, a much simpler strip with four characters, a bear, a dog, a vulture and the title character, a little lost girl. Simpler, but works on several levels, and it's very charming. Take a load off your soul and enjoy. Links to the complete set to date on my sidebar. 11:40:35 PM  trackback []  comment []

SEVEN DEADLY SINS I blew up today. I mean, I got really mad. People who are unreasonable can do that to me. So can people who are unfair, cruel, dishonest, greedy, intolerant, or relentlessly negative. I suppose those are my seven deadly sins of other people, the qualities I just can't bear in those I deal with personally or professionally. I won't bore you with the trivial details, except to say I got threatened with bodily harm, threatened with arrest, and almost run over by a tractor. While trying to cool down, I compiled my own list of seven personal deadly sins. I've resolved at various times in my life to overcome these character flaws, but so far without success. I suspect I'm in good company with many of them. If anyone has any self-improvement ideas for these, please let me know: Inarticulateness: especially under pressure, and despite all my blogging Gracelessness: in the social, rather than the physical, sense. Some people just instinctively know how to behave in difficult situations, how to defuse a situation, how to behave with what the British call 'aplomb'. I am completely plumbless. Intransigence: not so much stubbornness as just an inability to adapt and accept things I cannot change. I'm way too idealistic for my own good. Insensitivity: I'm a guy, maybe that's all I have to say on this. It's sad but true. Procrastination: everything last minute, no matter how I try to train myself to leave lots of time for things. Lack of stick-to-it-iveness: I'm sure there's a word for this, but I just don't persevere when the going gets rough. I hate to fight, hate conflict, would rather solve everything peacefully even if there is no peaceful answer. Maybe cowardice. Discontent: I'm unable to relax. Insomniac. Never really at peace. I don't think my personal deadly sins are as bad as the seven I can't abide in others. But thanks to personal deadly sin #7, that's small consolation. Anyway, I'm calmed down now. (Can't remember where I snatched this remarkable picture from. It was an online gallery of art works, and if I remember correctly the original was for sale. When I find the reference I'll put it up here.) 9:44:04 PM  trackback []  comment []

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