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I forgot what the header image on my profile here is and I'm delighted all over again.
08:23 PM - Jun 01, 2023
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I'd like this site better if "spouts" were called "spoots." "Did you see what he spooted yesterday?"

See, 100% improvement right there.
06:59 PM - May 02, 2023
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Still keeping a toe in here, just in case this becomes the Platform of Choice regardless of its backwards stance on "adult" material. I keep getting emails from them about how "Twitter is awful, going to die soon, but Spoutible is still great!" so, I mean, good on them for that I suppose.
04:09 PM - Apr 15, 2023
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Just checking in briefly...took the latest survey where I voted for adult material being allowed on this platform. Because by "adult material" they probably want you to think "straight-up porn" but this no-naughtiness policy will be weaponized against gay and trans people. Because it always is.
07:18 PM - Mar 23, 2023
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What can ever replace Twitter?

Spoutible: "HERE I AM" [immediately steps on rake, smacks self in face]
03:07 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Horrible Children with Passions and Interests and Oooh I Bet That One's Jewish"
08:58 PM - Feb 18, 2023
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Processing a full run of ZOT! (with several of the early issues autographed by Scott!) and boy what a good comic this is. Those amazingly weird bad guys (Dekko, 9-Jack-9). What a series.
09:24 PM - Feb 16, 2023
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I would have loved to have had one more Del Toro Hellboy movie too, but 1) the first two depended on DVD sales to help make money and that's not much of a thing anymore, and 2) Ron Perlman is 72 years old now, would he want to go through all that again?
07:49 PM - Feb 16, 2023
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I feel like some ineffable line was crossed when the Addams Family went from "Thing is part of a larger creature living within the walls and its hand is the only non-horrible part of it" to "Thing is entirely disembodied and can scurry freely about like a spider."
04:41 PM - Feb 16, 2023
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Me, whenever I get three or more checks during the week at the shop: "oh no, now I have to use the *back* of the deposit slip"
05:56 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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ACCOUNTANT UPDATE: my tax lady dropped by the store and picked up the documents I'd been trying to email to her and weren't going through. So that's done. And with luck, I should skate through without having to pay very much Let's hope.
08:38 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Every once in a while I think about how I entered the world of comics retail before the first Tim Burton Batman movie, and how I was there for all the Bat-madness that followed, watching from behind the counter. I wish I'd taken better notes instead of relying on fuzzy memories.
08:18 PM - Feb 13, 2023
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I *would* be finished with my taxes, except these two forms I have to email to my accountant aren't going through because my accountant has the single worst email service I've ever encountered.
04:52 PM - Feb 13, 2023
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Was just reminded that, as a kid, I drew a splash-page parody of Lee/Kirby monster comics, featuring "FONDUU, THE CHEESE DISH THAT WALKED LIKE A MAN"

FONDUU © and ™ me
08:25 PM - Feb 12, 2023
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As a reward for the Lark Kickstarter succeeding, Mark has released a freebie comic story we worked on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/...
05:57 PM - Feb 12, 2023
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Also there's the paranoia of "OH NO I FOUND SOMEONE ELSE HERE I KNOW ELSEWHERE THAT I HAVEN'T FOLLOWED YET I hope they don't hate me"
09:52 PM - Feb 11, 2023
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Also, I haven't read the documentation yet...what is that "Normal 0%" tag all about? AM I ZERO PERCENT NORMAL
09:43 PM - Feb 11, 2023
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I wish the decision would be made as to which social media site is going to be the one to replace Twitter, so we can all stop casting about and jumping on each new one that comes along to make sure we have our space.

That said, I like Spoutible as it's basically just a reskinned Twitter.
09:12 PM - Feb 11, 2023
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Sometime I try to picture news media or TV shows or whatever using whatever each new social media platform's equivalent of "tweet" is and I just don't see it. "Madonna announced in a spout today...." "Ben Affleck echoed J.Lo's spouts about...."
06:12 PM - Feb 10, 2023
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Mike Sterling
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In case there was any question this was the One True Mike Sterling.
09:31 PM - Feb 09, 2023
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Mike Sterling
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Yes, I'm here too. I apologize in advance.
09:16 PM - Feb 09, 2023
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