* When will Ezra Klein grow up and learn politics is just a game?

* The Big Picture’s 2009 in Pictures.

* At right: Savage Chickens, “Philosopher Hero.”

* David Bowie’s first American fan letter.

* Behold the Tenure-o-meter.

* And science has proven Facebook makes you fat. Via Eric Barker.

/esse cara é demais.

Have a party to stave off the Monday blues! Via www.savagechickens.com, which is awesome.

Couldn’t resist to post this one:

Crushed, but still addicted to Doug Savage’s Savage Chickens.

Is it Caturday yet?
No, sorry, it’s only Hensday.

If you like chickens, you’ll love Savage Chickens.

This is the Friday Post #38 for October 2 2009.

Strange?  Define Strange.

As a blog-administrator I get to filter all comments to the page before they are displayed publically.  The majority of the spam is deleted by myself or caught by Askimet, the utility in WordPress that takes care of that function.

On Tuesday, Sept 29 there was a link in my Comments section referring to a post I’d written earlier this week about LigerCat, a new PubMed search tool.  The in-coming link looked like this (screenshot shown below):

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Image credit: http://www.wordpress.com - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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Intrigued, I clicked on the address of the referring page and below is a screenshot of their synopsis of what I wrote:

PubMed Poke Apparatus grown in 2009?  Heaven help us all. 

Image credit: http://tiny.cc/I78dS - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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Cartoonist Doug Savage writes a blog called Savage Chickens and invented the term “sleepworking” with this post from Aug 28 2008:

Photo credit: http://www.savagechickens.com/2008/08 - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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These videos come with a couple of caveats: Don’t try this at home. Some activities could result in serious bodily injury. Never jump off a roof, no matter what your friends say to you.  In questionable taste.

Getting hit in the eye by a pair of flying sunglasses would be no laughing matter.  These videos should remind us that there is, and will always be, a need for a new generation of Emergency Medicine physicians due in part to the poor coordination (or questionable judgment) of young people when it comes to acting like daredevils on (or with) sports equipment.

However, the young men in question have obviously practiced their sports often, are well-trained in them, and (admit it) it is creepily fascinating to observe their accuracy.

.First:  Sunglasses Catching

Video credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prfAENSh2k - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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Second:  Pants Jumping

Video credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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Last:  Laptop Catching is so out of the scope of this blog, I’m not even going to post the URL for it.  You can find it on your own.

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And that’s the Friday Post #38 for Oct 2 2009, folks.  Have a restful, enjoyable weekend!

I have absolutely nothing nice to say about anything at this current moment in time – so I hope you enjoyed the comic.

Vale mais do que todos os filmes do Tarantino juntos…

Savage Chickens e o serie de benzi desenate cu gaini corporatiste pe post-it-uri. Savage Chickens au un umor absurd si care creaza dependenta.

Mi-ar placea sa primesc tricoul Life is an adventure fiindca are un mesaj ironic (si totusi extrem de potrivit stilului meu nebunesc de viata )

Pentru cei care nu disting bine imprimeul, adaug si poza cu plasuta cu acelasi imprimeu (a nu se interpreta ca imi doresc o sacosa…se accepta doar daca e plina cu bani).

Doug Savage has made great use out of his post it notes.

That or I have become too easily amused by robots, chickens, dry humor, and narcissists. 

Some cartoons are just lame. And other are lame, yet funny. Thankfully, Savage Chickens falls into the latter category. I give you Exhibit A.

Savage Chickens on choice.

Be sure to heck this out.  Funny as hell:

http://www.savagechickens.com/

In the meantime, I´m still on my odissey to find agent representation in USA, Canada and United Kingdom. Iwould search around the globe, but I only know portuguese and english well, and I´m sure I couldn´t translate my books to other languages (I suck at spanish and japanese).

Just visited the blog of one of my favourite writers, Helen DeWitt (http://paperpools.blogspot.com), and found out the she is plaing to write 5 books in 2009. This is insane, but I´m very excited, ´cause I love The  Last Samurai so much.

A few days ago, Jambuku left me a link for a site called savage chickens.  If you’re in need of some merriment, visit this site and enjoy.  I’m a cartoon nut anyway and when another toonster creates something special I adore it.  Thanks Jam, you’re da bestest!

A flow chart of my relationship with Savage Chickens:

Discovery: “Oh cool. I like Post-its. I like Pythonesque, punilicious quips about Hot Yoga/The Slim Reaper. I like tofu.”

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Dabbling: “I’m not going to be able to stop until I’ve seen the entire back archives, am I?”

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Addiction: “Just one more…”

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Obsession: “Sure I’ll eat/sleep/study/work/listen to my lecturer… after I’ve finished trawling the archives.”

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Closure: (days later) “Done!… More please?”

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Subscription: “DING! You have ONE new Savage Chickens email.”

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Twitter: *Tweetdeck ‘new tweet’ chirp*

More blog-appropriate proof (v.) that these Post-it-icisms are truly brilliant:

Uma excelente descoberta: Savage Chickens. São tiras feitas em post-its para manter a sanidade do autor. Um tipo de malvados, mas que me lembra muito do humor da Menina Choyo.