August 26, 2006

August 26, 2006 by Dave Sorry to all who are reading this comic and noticing the huge delays in new comics.

1. Due to all the unexpected travelling I've been doing, the comic took a short hiatus
2. There should be a new one any day now
3. The updating for the comic may change soon. To what frequency, I don't rightly know

I am in the works of another comic, so some of my time has been partitioned to that little project.

Enough of the excuses. New things to come soon.

I will stop being lazy. I will stop being a stereotype of my lost and listless generation.

Ennui isn't just the air that I breath. It's my everything.

It's the dog I own. The cute girl who avoids me.

The cool dudes who point at my boogy woogy haircut and laugh.

I will change. I will discover initiative. I will discover purpose.

I will join the army and serve my country proper.

... ahhh, nevermind.

****end communication****

July 17, 2006

July 17, 2006 by Dave So... I've returned from my two week volunteering experience in the Philippines with a street children program. Needless to say, it was an amazing experience, although at times very difficult and humbling. I will comment on it in greater detail later once I've had more time to digest the experience.

But for now, check out this goddamn ugly picture of what happened to my big toe during an ULTIMATE FRISBEE game. Pretty rock and roll. It's not broken, but looks pretty leprous.

June 26, 2006

June 26, 2006 by Dave Yo yo yo... what up my peeps. Just me updating here from the Philippines where I'm volunteering for about two weeks. Comics will continue when I return on the 10th (or slightly after, depending how lazy I am)

I went on a drive with my volunteer boss late at night in a van to pick up street kids who ran away from the group shelter. It was a real sobering experience that is really difficult to put into words... I may try to eventually, but not now. The food in the PHIPS (that's the cool way to say the Philippines) is good, but super fattening. Most people here have kind of a pot belly. Transportation here scares me because there are no traffic lights, it's just pretty much running on the "I won't hit you" honors system.

till lata
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June 23, 2006

June 23, 2006 by Dave Hey all.

So Bountiful Pleasures is taking a brief hiatus from June 24th - July 10th. The reason for this is that I'm volunteering in the Philippines for two weeks with this program. I am volunteering with the street children program, and it should be very interesting. Supposedly they have a lot of internet cafes there, so I will try and update. See you guys soon.

June 18, 2006

June 18, 2006 by Dave My eyes are so sore that I'm afraid to close them for the fear of more pain.

Sometimes I'm amazed that they open in the morning and that they don't fuse into a giant scab, and I just bump around my apartment with my scabby eyes. Ol' Scab Eyes they'd call me. I'd have my own booth at a Carnival and children of all ages can pay 5 cents to try and pry my eyes apart with a tiny little crowbar.

Gonna be a long day today.

June 15, 2006

June 15, 2006 by Dave Some bored musings:

1. If you burp underwater, does it really count?
2. If I yell at myself in the mirror and criticize all of my problems, does that really set me on the straight and narrow?
3. Does a Werewolf, really wear anything?
4. Is it a bad idea to look at the MSN pics of your ex who hasn't spoken to you in 2 years... and kinda... you know... wonder?
5. Would Harry Potter like it if you called him Harold, or would he just kind of shuffle away awkwardly?
6. Was this mole always here?

June 11, 2006

June 11, 2006 by Dave This weekend I went to the Yosakoi festival in Sapporo (Japan).

This is essentially a huge group dance competition involving semi-modernized versions of traditional Japanese dances. Each group of dancers moves down this closed off street, and perform their synchronized dances. It was pretty much the same as You Got Served, except there wasn't an amazing plot involved in the Yosakoi, just crazy-ass beat down dancing.

As I watched the massive groups of people do completely synchronized dances all day, it's not hard to believe that this is the culture that made Para-Para, and Dance Dance Revolution. This country loves doing things in sync... like sucking!!!

ha ha ha... oh my

June 7, 2006

June 7, 2006 by Dave Do you like Jack London stories? The kind about men when they were godless primate heathens chissled out of an iceberg and thrown into the asshole of the world with nothing more than a toothpick and a handfull of pubic hair? Do you like your Jack London stories to be about a hipster guitarist and his psychologiacl battle with a man in a bear suit?

Then you should check out The Parkas' video for Darling, The Wolves. It's pretty damned scary... if by that you mean scary funny... *cough* .... awkward

June 5, 2006

June 5, 2006 by Dave I saw the two craziest things at the same time the other day. Separately they really aren't that crazy, but in tandem (literally 10 seconds apart from each other) it amplifies the crazy beyond normal sanity consumption limits. These sanity consumption limits are put there for a reason damnit... there should be no bypassing these.

1. As I was walking through a large park in Sapporo (in Japan where I live now), I saw three Japanese college dudes playing badminton in the park. Which wasn't that crazy, except that they were all wearing pink bunny ears and one of them was the referee and was taking it very seriously. He may have had a whistle, I can't remember. Yes, yes I know, that is a really important detail and really affects the outcome of the joke. But I'm not sure.

2. As soon as I had to digest that, I turned around and saw a man biking down the street brushing his teeth. WTF?!? Usually if you are in that much of a hurry that you have to brush your teeth, or comb your hair, or shave on the go... you're usually in a DAMN CAR that goes way faster than a bike. Perhaps this guy just thought that it was a good idea, and didn't consider the wonderful repurcussions of a toothbrush thrust through the roof of your mouth tickling the ganglions of your brain.

Ganglions need a good tickling, but not with toothpaste dude. Not with toothpaste.

May 27, 2006

May 27, 2006 by Dave This week has been nutty.

Some of you may or may not know, but I am one of the many aimless, directionless, educated, generation Y, westerner, blah deh blah deh blah, teaching English in an Asian country. Seems like a good option while you figure your stuff out right?

Anyway, that's the background story. The real story this week, starts NOW.

So I went on a school trip with one of my Japanese Jr. Highschools. I was the token tag-along foreigner which for the most part was pretty funny. I got to pretend to be the tour bus driver, and point out stupid things and say terrible Japanese to many a cheers and awkward laughing from the kids.

1. "To your right is Tokyo Disney Land... it burnt down."
2. "To your left is nothing."
3. "To your right is sushi."

(BTW... my Japanese rules)

I saw many temples and shrines, which were beautiful, but meaningless to me. Even if I could understand what the guides were saying, I lack the historical knowledge to put it into a proper meaningful context.

One good memory, is at the end of the trip all the students were taking pictures of everyone else (before they said goodbye), and I was trying to sneak into every picture... because I'm narcissistic and everyone should have my picture. But I tripped on some dirt and fell to a heap in front of 200 students. AWESOME

MORAL: We must destroy all the dirt in the world.