A special thanks to Larry Hooper for starring in this week’s comic. Go buy a copy or two of his CD, Rust.

Another special thanks to Gene Blishen for his photography. He contributed the two shots of Larry.

Thanks again, Guy.

Well, this has been several weeks in the making, but here is Guy Kawasaki’s guest appearance on LOLZIES!!1@!. He’s a very busy fellow, so I really appreciate his taking the time out to send me a few photos to use. Stay tuned for part 2 next week.

Guy is the creator of Alltop.com, a site that aggregates all the top content on the web across an ever-deepening list of categories. I met Guy on Twitter when some friends told me about Alltop and that he was good to follow on Twitter. The more I used Alltop, I learned that the content is deepened by it’s users suggesting new categories and new content for those categories, so, I told him I could send him a “fat stack of URLs” for a comics section if he was interested. He was game and tweeted for me to email him.

LOLZIES!!1@! didn’t make the list at first, but thanks to my sweet friends’ harassing Guy, it was on the site the next day. Good times. Guy asked if he could send me photos for a guest appearance in the comic, and here we are.

Guy’s got his mitts in a lot things. Here is his blog and another site he started called Truemors if you’d like to keep up with him.

Guy, thanks for being a champ about my little comic. If you’re ever in Fort Worth with any time to spare (unlikely as I know it is, I really do mean it) I’ll take you to Babe’s Chicken for the best fried chicken you might ever have. If you just have one night in Fort Worth, eating at Babe’s is the only right thing to do.

You can find the original story here on Fox News.

Remember to submit your wacky headlines to lolzies1 at gmail dot com. If yours is chosen, you’ll receive credit and a link to your website under the comic.

I realize now that some of you might not have appreciated the timing (Memorial Day) of yesterday’s comic due to the political message in it. Please give me a few beats to help you understand my intentions (or lack of).

Let me assure everyone that the Memorial Day timing was 100% due to my not thinking. I literally thought, “I’m here at my inlaw’s house. We are chilling, I have a free second and an extra comic in the can, I’ll post it now in case I’m too busy playing catch-up tomorrow. No one will read it until then anyway b/c they are all at parades or throwing frisbees.” It’s true, I think in complete sentences.

This is a text-book example of one of those times my dear wife says something like, “I wish you would read that text-book I gave you about thinking things through.” The political epithets in panel two, to me, were overdone to the point of caricature, thereby neutralizing their heat. That’s why I didn’t think they would register with anyone.

Political humor isn’t really my thing. I enjoy taking it in, but mostly because I’m a raging, frothing Moderate and enjoy a laugh at the extreme ends of anything. And while I love watching Stewart and Colbert, it’s not for the politics, it’s for the way they draw out contrast and irony in the world around them. For my viewing purposes, politics are just something on which to hang irony, and quite easily, that is, if you can stomach hours of watching CSPAN searching for set-up lines. And that’s what I was going for here, a coat-hanger for a little irony I’d found.

I took the photo of that street vendor myself when in NYC last year and forgot I had it. When I saw in my files, I thought the extreme nature of the messages in it would give me something stark to use for contrast. For me, this gag is more about the idea of the extremes than it is about the specific topic used. The Tear’s line about buyers remorse was more about a wink at how complicated the Emo Haircut’s emotions really are. He’s loyal to his party and his president, but, as is true with every category of life, he has trouble reconciling the conflict of not always agreeing with something to which he pledged loyalty. That makes him emotional and his tears exhausted.

Matt’s calling me on trendiness (comment in previous post, now deleted by request) is totally fair since I’ve never done anything political here, and since what would appear to be my first attempt is so abrasive, or, as my Mimi used to say, rough as a cob. Also warranted is the call about bad timing on Memorial Day had a political message really been my intent. But again, my only agenda here was the opportunism of finding a forgotten photo off of which I could easily bounce a followup gag.

Thanks again, Brent Dixon, for lending your gorg face to this little webcomic that could.

A special thanks to Brent Dixon for starring in the debut comic for the Emo Haircut series. Stay tuned!

News Verbatims has a new host and a new set. Please enjoy.

A special thanks to Ron from MA for submitting this week’s News Verbatim. Here is the full original story.

Here are two links for your Ginger studies:
Dail Mail article saying “Gingers might me extinct in 100 years.”
Wikipedia’s entry for Red Hair