October 24th, 2007
Spandexellent
You know at some point in the future, 80s hair-metal is going to be looked upon much the same way as Morris dancing.
Grown men re-enacting Saxon, ‘Maiden and Europe wearing silly costumes and wigs.
Actually, that’s not the future… that’s now.
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
I frequently confuse the future with the present. And sometimes I run around asking people what year it is and screaming “YES!!!! I’VE DONE IT!!!! MY MACHINE WORKS!!!”
haha.
I was recently on a 1000km roadtrip with two ppl who seemed fascinated with 80’s music. And wouldn’t let me choose the tunes, even tho it was my car. Evil.
That is classic Joe. I confused today with yesterday and arrived at tafe 1/2hour late, but still 2 hours early. GRRR
Last party I was at, I soaked the bandage around my hand in glo-stik juice and told ppl that I beat the crap outta Predator, but I think next time I will do the time machine one.
It is getting harder and harder to weird ppl out, but that just may work.
mmm, europe. should that say ’spandexcellent’ as opposed to ’spandexellent’?
PMSL @ Justine. I just read it with out noticing.
Hey Adam, Justine and I came up with a strip you could do.
Right in your style aswell.
Should I email it to you???
Haha! So true, on all counts.
Seems as good a time as any to mention that I do vocals for a (parody) death-metal band. Sort of the death-metal version of Spinal Tap, but funnier.
http://www.myspace.com/fleshsocket
But any way, the point was to tell you this story: in the quest for better vocals, our other vocalist (Ulf) ended up with the mic so far back in his mouth that he ticked his uvula, and chocked on the microphone. In the chocking, he couldn’t open his mouth quite wide enough to get the mic out, so he kept chocking, and spiting, and hacking, and coughing. And no one noticed, because it sounded so metal! It actually sounded so great, we kept it for the new album. But the mic was so soaked in heavy-metal-slobber that it was ruined. Almost as good a way to ruin musical equipment as burning guitars. Almost.
Why not? 80’s bands made great show.
Britney’s getting old & everyone’s in rehab.
Speaking of getting times confused Ben, the other day me and mum were going to Rangers and thought we were late, then realised we were early, sat in the car waiting, went in only to fine out we were, in fact, an entire week early. d’oh is the phrase suitable here i believe.
Oh yeah. announcement:
I’m 15 now! i’ve aged! yes, it was my birthday yesterday and I am now 15. a year older in just 24 hours, aye?
anyways, thought you might like to know. plus, i just wanted to boast that it was my birthday :p
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Happy birthday, Maddie, and congratulations on making it this far.
Ther’s some intersting things going on in this comment thread… I’ll be back later when I have some time to chat about some of them…
congrats, maddie!
Happy birthday Maddie!
My fiancee’s little sister just turned 16 on Tuesday, you two are almost exactly one year apart. Not that that means anything, but random co’ink’ee’dinks are neat.
Remember that as birthday girl, you’re entitled to greater than or equal too 50% of the cake!
mmm, cake.
is spandex illegal yet?
we need to take action on that, i think.
A whole week, haha, classic.
Happy Birthday Maddie. I can’t even remember my 15th, tho I am fairly confident I had fun ^_0
No I am certain it is not illegal, but it should be in the Geneva Convention as a crime against humanity. Even models and atheletes look silly wearing it, what gives normal ppl the idea that they will look any better?
I take it that from these comments, a lot of readers were the type of kids that would show up for school on a Saturday.
GJB – So long as you mention the flux capacitor when you do that, everyone will be happy.
Justine – Yup. I’ll change it when I can.
Ben – So, do you and Justine know each other in real-life, so to speak? Anyway, yes feel free to email me with anything. You should be able to find my address on this site somewhere.
Roo – One day, Fleshsocket will be huge. We’ll all be long dead, but the cockroaches love it so.
I thought of this strip whilst watching a band… they had a dodgy mike that wasn’t earthed and so every time the singer touched his lips to it you’d see him flinch… still kept going though – that’s metal.
Seraphine – I’ll meet you half way. Britney (or Bee-to-the-ritney) should have an 80s hair-metal revival. She’ll need some hair though.
Spandex is alas still very legal, though generally frowned upon, especially at funerals.
So, I might as well ask here. I’m thinking of adding threaded comments to the site. I’ll mention it in a post this coming week, but I’d like to know what you think. Would you find it easier if you could reply to peoples comments rather than everyone as a whole or do you enjoy the mass of themes and conversations that torrent towards the bottom of the page?
We vaguely know eachother via an interconnected network of electrical tubes, sometimes called the electrical interweb, mustn’t be confused with the other interweb which is speculated to be powered by Diesel.
I like the comments the way they are now, tho I hate recieving an email everytime some one responds after I have responded. Tho I like to know what every one says, so I have no good solution at present.
I kinda like the idea of threads… it would allow the conversation more freedom to branch and diverge, and allow more connectedness. Maybe. And if you end up with hundreds of responses per comic at some point (it’ll happen sooner rather than later, I think), it’ll make the comments more manageable.
Up to you, it’s fun either way.
Thanks to people who have said happy birthday to me, hugs to all of you! (Ben, Tia, Adam, Roo). actually, hugs to everyone. i’m in a huggy mood.
and yeah, thanks Adam. I’m surprised I have, it’s weird to think I’m halfway to 30 and halfway through my second decade of existance..wonder if I’ll make it to my third?
Hmm…threads…I think I’d probably prefer it as it is now, I like the whole mass conversation thing we have. but, as Roo says, it’s probably fun either way.
I hate birthdays. Especially my own. I always get really depressed and reclusive from the time I realize my birthday is soon approaching to an arbitrary time after my birthday has passed.
I believe this stems from my earliest memory, which is of my fourth birthday party when I went off to play with my newly acquired toys (one of which was the super-awesome Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Car) and THE BASTARDS ATE ALL MY CAKE WITHOUT SAVING ME ANY!!!
Sorry, every time someone mentions birthdays I am compelled to tell that story.