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by arbi
8-31-08
(the part of the moose is played here by the mouse.)
Once upon a time, I had been at a job long enough to have a week paid vacation. So I rented a car and drove across canada to have dinner with a guy in halifax. 4000 miles.
Five years later, I wrote it down, called it the moose story. Because there was a moose in it. But that computer got stolen, and I didn't have a backup. So recently I rewrote it.
It had too much sexual content to put on my blogs,and was too literate for the smut sites, so it didn't really have an audience. But it, the original not the rewrite, was one of the few pieces of my
writing that I've liked. It's too detailed to try to fit into a three panel comic.
stay tuned for next week's exciting episode, a boy and his aardvark
Really short version : I went to canada and saw a moose. The end.

 

by arbi
9-01-08
http://worlddominationtoys.com/drsteel/
The arbitrary aardvark has a new nemisis. He's Dr. Steel. He's bent on world domination from his secret island laboratory and has an army of toy soldiers.
back and forth. side to side. you are powerless to resist me.
Hmm. He has 20,000 myspace friends. I have 200. This will be a challenge.
I went over to one of my tech guys, and they'd been converted into toy soldiers. One corrupted teen was about to go out stenciling Dr. Steel stencils around town.
forth and back, side to side. you are getting very sleepy.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com/ Dr._Steel
Only I, the arbitrary aardvark, can stop this madness. I'll need a little help. It's time to choose up sides, people. (Yes, i'm getting very sleepy, but it's 4 am)

 

by arbi
9-01-08
I got the brief to the courier who will file it tomorrow. $5. Laundry's done, trash out, I'm packed, off to evansville for a week.
This panel left blank, in case I get online this week somehow.
(i didn't)

 

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/10/new-brad-sucks-cd-ou.html
Brad sucks!
He's so Out of It.
by arbi, 9-11-08

 

by arbi
9-16-08
I might be sick, but I'm probably hung over. Delayed reaction from saturday at a law school reunion in missouri, where the drinks were free and too strong.
My car wouldn't go into 3rd gear so i spent sunday taking back roads home, and on monday I had my usual 3 drinks at the club, and now i feel wrecked.
http://www.michaelweinreb.com
I was reading jared diamond's "guns germs and steel" but i think i left it in the hotel. Now I'll have to buy a copy just to see how it turns out.
So instead I'm reading "kings of new york", good book about a high school chess team.
I bought it at an outlet mall, where i also got a whistling teakettle i needed, and bought levis 501s, first new pair of pants in ten years.
Off to spend the rest of the day in bed. (actually i stayed at the computer all day, doing nothing.)

 

by arbi
9-17-08
I didn't do a whole lot today, but more than nothing.
I forgot to take the weekly trash out to the curb last night, so I killed bugs that were growing in the trash, and adjusted the garden a bit, I called mom, after my sister emailed and said "call mom."
I went thru a stack of papers in the front room, didn't find the title so i didn't go get plates today. There's another stack papers next to me I could look in.
The landlord came over and fixed? the leaky faucet, and i put batteries in the remote so it works now. Next thing to fix would be the phone, or I could go pick up branches that are strewn around from
Ike.
That's it for now. Like I said, I didn't get much done today. Right now I'm making rice, and chasing spiders and moths.

 

by arbi
9-18-08
cashed my study check, used it to pay off my credit card, got some walking around money for the club tonight,
otherwise uneventful day, doesn't rate a full comic.

 

by arbi
9-19-08
i missed talk like a pirate day? arr. http://thepiratebay.org/
So far today's been productive. I found the title to the volvo, got plates $80, bought some (3) books ($20), went to traffic court and learned both tickets against me have been dismissed. Did laundry.
Next up, go thru to do list, put away laundry.
Right now, except for $100 in lawyer dues and $2k in back real estate taxes, I don't owe anybody anything (excluding moral debts to my mom and that guy who loaned me a jack in brownsburg.)
Not being in debt is one of my big life goals.
On monday, corey and ben have their one year anniversary of when i introduced them, so we will go drink at the club - which is what we do anyway on mondays.
I don't have any appointments or deadlines. I'm free to go to my list and figure out which crisis to work on next. Maybe the IRS situation, trying to get some penalties refunded.
Maybe finding a realtor for the new house, or collecting rent at the old house, or cleaning the basement.

 

by arbi
9-19-08
<- far right
In 2012, McCain'll be 76, too old to run...
far left (no, your other left) ->
In 2012, I'll be 72, just the right age to run.

 

by arbi
9-20-08
today: did nothing. I mean, even less nothing than usual.
My biggest accomplishment was probably hanging up the laundry. I sorted a bucket of zinnia seeds. Anybody want some zinnia seeds? send a SASE.
On the other paw, I booked a screening for a $3700 gig in north carolina next week, so, road trip.
Will need to decide whether to greyhound or risk my car.
I could go hit the bar, but I'm going to stay in with a good book and old movies on cable.

 

by arbi
9-21-08
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422341,00.html
911, what is your emergency?
Woof! Woof.
What's that? You say Timmy fell down the well behind the old barn?
Woof!
Oh, is that you Buddy? Your master having a seizure again? Good dog. On our way.

 

by arbi
9-23-08
Another day of not doing anything, although had a pretty good time at the club last came home and wrote a memo, which I should proofread due to alcohol,
and I also have a lead on a possible jimmy kimmel appearance [nope they never called] they want to interview a lab rat. i was gonna ride my bike today but i didn't.
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2008/09/also_on_the_lis.html
so all i've got today is a websnark blog entry about a soundtrack of songs about mad science.
bradsucks is mentioned, backing up mc frontalot

 

by arbi
9-25-08
I was about to leave for north carolina when I got an email saying it had been cancelled, so now I don't have any plans.
When I have a specific project like "go to north carolina" i can usually get it done, but when i don't, i just sit here and play solitaire all day or read comics, surf the web etc.
I finished the book I was reading (by the guy who wrote The Princess Bride) and I'm caught up on the internet, so I guess I should take a walk or mow the lawn or something.
Yikes how did it get to be 2:30, I thought it was around 11:00.
( i ended up doing nothing)
OK, I'll go get a tire fixed and maybe mow a lawn or two. (or play solitaire)
and then i should look over my to-do list.

 

by arbi
9-26-08
Today's lunch: one package mutton gravy (does not contain mutton, it just looked interesting at the store.)
one onion, one poato, one sweet potato, diced. from my garden a couple okra, tomatoes and a sprig of mint. boil for an hour.
this stuff is hot and spicy, almost too hot to eat. just the way i like it.
now i got some in my eye.
bon appetit!

 

http://www.penguincomic.com/?p=47 (the part of the seal is played by dolphin1)
$8 for a vodka collins?
by arbi, 9-26-08

 

by arbi
9-27-08
But Butch, I can't swim!
You moron, Sundance. The fall'll probably kill you!
rip paul newman, 83, cancer.
Let's pop open a bottle of salad dressing for a toast
I think I'll wander downtown and cut the heads off some parking meters.
playin the harp here boss

 

by arbi
9-27-08
I'm involved in a long-term relationship...
... he didn't kick me out till 7 am this morning.
Actually it's the third time we've hooked up
he's talking about how he wants to be my boyfriend
about which i'm skeptical, based on a long string of heartbreaks
I told him to tell me that again when he's sober.

 

by arbi
9-27-08
lolcats episode #950
We're in your bank,
http://flickr.com/photos/apelad/2889662481/
bailing it out.

 

by arbi
9-30-08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080929/ sc_space/ hubblespacetelescopesuffersseriousfailure; _ylt=Aock2gYzc04TTq8o6ltMf.wiANEA
Oh shi-
yes boss?
Anyway I had a productive day, got the tires fixed, checked the mail, did a bank run, read two memos, bought a tool, booked a screening, mowed a lawn, tried to fix my brake light, went to the club.
Today's stock market crash didn't affect me much.
tomorrow i just need to fix the brake light, install my plates, re-write a memo, send some emails, clean my apartment, replace a lock, buy a phone charger, find my mechanic, write a brief and a motio
I probably won't do any of those.

 

by arbi
9-30-08
Senators McCain, O'Bama and Biden today endorsed the bailout bill,
offically know as the Troubled Asset Relief Program
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/749892372/
In a moment we'll have commentary by our general manager, K'pow.
then, sports and weather.
http://www.chansluts.com/c/tg/ (nsfw)
It's a TARP!

 

by arbi
10-01-08
did today:
10 hours of writing a brief and a couple motions.
* "justyn steele"
2 hours of spider solitaire
1 hour of googling porn of the guy* who danced for me last night at the club, posting it to the chans
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
1 hour reheating coffee and spanish rice with fish curry sauce*
* sauce does not contain fish; is sauce for fish served with rice instead.

 

by arbi
10-03-08
Celtic Thunder is coming to indy, but the tickets are like $70, so i'll skip it. Thought about putting up craigslist ad will **** **** for tickets, but then I didn't.
Today: made $50 for being on a panel of research subjects. But my lawyer dues were late so that was $65, and I bought coffee.
Got to sit in the Indiana Statehouse chambers for a free CLE about Lincoln's law practice.
But I might go see Southern Culture on the Skids sunday night at the vogue.
Yesterday I rode my bike 10 miles to buy Anathem, but the bookstore was out of it. Was a nice ride tho, and i got miso at a sushi place.
Last night at the club I found out the guy who on sunday said he wanted to be my boyfriend was drunk that night and doesn't remember anything he said. So I'm not going to tell him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONSNTmOxpw celtic thunder
Other than that it's been a fun week at the club. Maybe tonight I'll check out a new after hours club.
Booked a screening in Madison Wisconsin in a couple weeks. I -need- to go thru my to do list but I am avoiding it.

 

by arbi
10-06-08
Do you have Anathem?
An anthem? Sure. You want the Sousa audiocassete or the Kate Smith?
so this guy came in and asked for an anthem, but then he just gave me a funny look and left.
Maybe he meant "Anthem" by Ayn Rand.
I dunno. That makes 6 times this week.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9knz_59X0qY
Last night I went to see southern culture on the skids at the vogue, but it would have been a waste of $15
except the opening band was good, folkpunk rock about vampires, syphillis, menstruation, zombies, necrophilia and canibalism.
by arbi, 10-06-08

 

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/ 2008/10/8/
Do ya feel lucky punk? Huh? Do ya?
by arbi, 10-08-08

 

by arbi
10-08-08
Yesterday I drove 500 miles for a screening. It's only a $900 study. I probably won't get in, because I'll probably test positive for poppy seed muffin.
On rt 40 I picked up a hitchiking drunken indian hobo who'd spent too much time and brain cells following the greatful dead, so he was entertaining.
My transmission worked most of the time. The hobo says i need a new modulator value.
I got to the place in illinois where I supposed to screen, but they sent me to the missouri office instead, an extra hassle I didn't need.
stood up. didn't do anything today.
If I get in, it'll be the next two weekends, meanwhile I'll be screening for anything better.
I have a date tonight with the guy who doesn't remember asking me to be his boyfriend. We went out monday which went only so-so.

 

by arbi
10-09-08
Do you have "Skillfull Squash" by Ian Robinson?
No, but we could order it.
"Pumpkindred"?
er, no?
"The Punmpkinhouse Gang"?
!

 

by arbi
10-11-08
Today I checked the mail, did the laundry, scored about $100 of groceries, was late to a friend's birthday party, got a story posted to the electionlawblog.
I noticed the groceries when I went to check the mail, but when I went back for them after dark italian dressing had spilled on them, so I just spent a while repackaging stuff.
Yesterday I went to a great punk rock show in somebody's basement. $5. 3 beers, woke up still feeling drunk.
I left my tenant a box of lobsters, since he recently caught up $600 in rent and i didn't feel like messing with lobsters.
In today's mail, aside from the answering machine my mom sent, thanks mom, there were a lot of new developments in a west virginia case i'm only slightly involved in.
Injunction dissolved, appeal filed, new judge, a lot happened last week that i'm just catching up on. Now I smell like Italian dressing, must wash, must sleep.

 

http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/kane2742/
apparently Kane2742 graduated or something.
He was pretty good.
by arbi, 10-11-08

 

by arbi
10-11-08
Today I didn't do anything. I picked and sorted some flower seeds - cosmos and marigolds and zinnias, if you want some send a SASE to box 29164, 46229-0164.
dinner was collard greens and tomato from my garden and sweet potato with brown gravy and balti spice.
there were some clubs and shows i could have gone to tonight but it's easier to just stay in - i want to read a bit more of anathem,
but first i would have to tear myself away from the computer

 
by arbi, 10-13-08

 

by arbi
10-13-08
The only thing I did today was buy a suit, $13. I used to have a bunch of suits, I'm not sure where they got to. I have a hearing in federal court tomorrow.
The hearing went well. A week later, the judge denied the injunction, so now I'm off to the 7th circuit.
after the hearing, i took a nap then headed out for a 1330 mile road trip, got back yesterday.

 

by arbi
11-03-08
Ok, it's been two weeks since I've made a comic. Wasn't online in st louis, then i was tied up doing an appeal to the seventh circuit.
Tomorrow after trying to vote I'll drive up to chicago and file it. Gas is at $1.95. I filled my tank for $25.
somebody will get this one.
I didn't get my laundry done, but it was a good day. Filed some motions at 3 am. Got my appendix jammed in the kinko's copier so I had to redo it so I didnt make it to Chicago today.
Did the mail, the bank, checked on my house, got to city hall too late to early vote. Off to the club. Dinner was sambar peas spinach onion and tomato

 

by arbi
11-05-08
today i stayed in. just soaking up election results.
yesterday 400 miles chicago and back, then a party, then the club.
oh yeah, and when i went to vote, they didn't let me.
they were supposed to give me a provisional ballot after i didn't show ID.
i missed a call from madison, and i'd forgotten i was maybe supposed to go up there today to start a $3600 study, so now i'm broker, but i need the time for this lawsuit stuff.
edit the next day: going to baltimore tonight to screen for a study tomorrow.

 

by arbi
11-06-08
AccentuateNegative/447129
Boy yesterday was great.
By an overwhelming majority, you voted to make it illegal to pen up farm animals in cramped enclosures.
But enough about gay marriage...

 

by arbi
11-08-08
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/teenscene/s_597374.html
I'm just back from a road trip to baltimore. 40 hours, 1300 miles, wild goose chase, didn't get the gig.
more comic after i've had some sleep.
next week i go back and do it again.
twice i had to make crazy detours when the highway was blocked off. hung out in breezewood with some drunk truckers for awhile before i found a back road shortcut out of there.
Indiana to baltimore in 11 hours nonstop to be on time for an 8 am appointment.
i've had about 3 hours sleep.

 

by arbi
11-09-08
You do not just -walk- into Tudor.

 

by arbi
11-10-08
My sleep schedule was a little off already from my road trip, and then last night my neighbor comes by to borrow a cup of sugar... at 3 am. I didn't get back to sleep till dawn.
This is like the 3rd time, and so far she's never brought back the sugar.
I would try even harder to discourage her from coming over, but she's the only company I get.

 

by arbi
11-10-08
So far today I've mostly done the easy stuff: picked up the mail, did the laundry, sawed a padlock off my garage door, mailed a package.
At the moment the rest of this comic is blank, waiting for me to get more done. The 7th circuit wants some paperwork by today.
i caught a cold on my road trip, it's what happens when i don't sleep for a couple days. so i'm busy sneezing and blowing my nose. makes me want to go to bed instead of hanging up laundry.
so right now it looks like nothing more gonna get done today. bath, coffee, off to the club.
I have a new houseguest, a british unemployed chef. He's been cleaning.

 

by arbi
11-19-08
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/ http://www.monkeylaw.org/ http://www.roguerobot.com/
lately this comic gets updated about as often as the bonobo conspiracy
or monkey law. or roguerobot.
http://ghastlycomic.livejournal.com/
or filthy lies. or dex lives. or ghastly
no, ghastly does new drawings in his notebook. you just have to follow the links.
anyway, i just haven't been feeling that daily compulsion to make a strip. either i'm too busy, or i'm doing nothing.
i didn't have high expectations of this strip , it was kind of a placeholder. but it led to ghastly's blog and he's been having some kickass adventures. go read them. or not.

 

by arbi
11-19-08
I didn't get much done today. Went out middle of the night taught my houseguest how to dumpster dive. We stocked up on enough to get through the next couple weeks.
I boxed up a bunch of boxes of books and loaded them into my car to take to the new house tomorrow, and i put away some laundry.
I had a visit from a racoon which was fun, and I brought in the last of the tomatoes from the garden.
I made a bunch of calls about studies, and turned down a $500 study in ohio, but otherwise nothing except a waitlist in kansas.
the guy i didnt go for sushi tonight with called and we'll do something this weekend
I didn't get anything done on any of the memos and briefs I should be working on.
I'm not sure tomorrow looks much better. The hard part about boxing up books is i keep finding ones i want to read.

 

by arbi
11-20-08
I was about 10 comics deep into ghastly's "blog is hell" series before I noticed that, dinosour comics style, all the panels are the same,
with only the text changing.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/ghastly/bih/series.php?view=archive&chapter=27054

 

by arbi
11-22-08
Last week I hacksawed the hasp off the garage door at my new place and used 2x4s to bar the main door.
I've got some pretty determined crackheads who like to hang out there.
So this week they had pried open the main door and broke my hacksaw. I brought a load of 4x4s, now I just need a hammer and bigass nails.
My study buddy from milwaukee should be showing up in a week or two to move in (to the house, not the garage.) We still don't have electric yet, but he says he's used to camping out.

 

by arbi
11-25-08
today - 375 mile road trip, evansville and back. screened for a study. i have caught a cold from the not sleeping and the kissing strange men at the club parts. i am exhausted.
gas at 1.51/gl so trip cost me $30, not counting the speeding ticket.
i had a good time at my favorite coffeehouse in evansville, struck up or joined interesting conversations.
had to repot a bunch of plants when i got back and put away groceries, so i'm still not in bed.
finished bridget jones diary, left it at the bookshelf at the coffeehouse. it only cost me 10 cents.

 

ragu4u/449294/
i herd you liek...
mudkips?
by arbi, 11-26-08

 

by arbi
11-26-08
I'm on my way to my 30th high school reunion, after thanksgiving at mom's.
From our third grade class, rick is a rocket scientist, robert's a doctor, laurie is a lawyer married to a rocket scientist, dave owns his own hitech company, and i'm a bum.
On the other hand, I'm a civil rights lawyer, a bit overweight, who drives a volvo wagon.
I should fit right in.
I at least still have hair.

 

by arbi
12-01-08
The reunion went pretty well. Hung out with my doctors-and-rocket-scientists friends, most of us from Mrs. Golden's 3rd grade class.
The other group at our table seemed to be Greeks who knew each other through their cousins' restaurants. Pretty much everybody has their own niche at these things.
vegan thx: Broiled tomatoes provencal, baked potato, broccoli, apple crisp, coffee.
Rain, snow, fog, freezing rain on the way home and i'm still getting caught up. Simon, my english roommate moved out while I was away, suits us both fine. Jake's on his way here from Milwaukee with a
U-haul. The snow's pretty bad there so he's a bit late.
Hung out with mom, went shopping and for Chinese, found out my sister is getting divorced and my divorced sister is dating.
Bought a fake-amish hat and hex sign in Amish country on the way back.

 

/christopher7murphy/449782/
Subway - Eat Flesh!
get ben't
by arbi, 12-05-08

 

by arbi
12-05-08
monday: came back from east coast. roommate bolted, after calling phone sex lines pretending to be me.
tuesday: unloaded a moving van. new roommate at the new house.
wednesday: drove 375 miles so they could test my blood again for upcoming study.
today: did nothing. checked the mail, laundry, took locks and bagels to the new house, went to the club.
tomorrow (today, it's 3 am) the clinic should call and tell me if i'm in or not, and the handyman comes over at noon to look at putting in electric.
satyrday, i either start the study or not. so it was a week of getting no memos done, so i might be missing deadlines by now.

 

by arbi
12-05-08
So I went to the laundromat, because it's free to dry on thursdays.
In Clint Eastwood's new movie, he plays an old coot who yells "get off my lawn!" I feel like that, because the washers cost 7 quarters instead of 5, and i feel like my dad talking about 5 cent cokes
while i was there, there was a battery and an assault, almost a mini-riot, two different incidents.
both of them involving blacks. none of the non-black customers cause any problems there.
it harshed my vibe. it's on the same street i had to move from after several incidents of violent robberies by black guys.
i think my new roommate is pretty naive. he has a bunch of stuff i wouldn't own, because it will just attact burglars. so stay tuned and i'll keep a running count of the burglaries during 2009.

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