This weekend I’ll be yammering on a panel with Bill Griffith, R Sikoryak and Charles Brownstein about what it’s like to be a cartoonist in NYC on Saturday, March 24th at Columbia University 3pm-4pm. More info here . The panel is called ‘Alternative New York’ whatever that means. Come see us talk at a fancy college
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I was lucky to be on the ground floor when this kind of stuff happened.
Heh, when I was 17 I was awakened the day after Christmas by two boys at my window who both liked me. One of them left a Dr. Pepper bottle standing upright outside & I had planned to dispose of it but my mom saw it first. When she commented on it I lied & said I heard my sister letting her boyfriend in her window the night before. Ha!
Sweet seventeen…
Great story!
nice stuff..and totally points out what a non-socially adept person I was in high school as I didn’t even think to do this.
Ahh, I remember the first time my mother caught me having sex with a boy… he was fucking the living shit out me, did I mention I’m a guy…? good times, good times…
I never got snuck out of anyone’s bedroom when i was a teen
I never was in anyone else’s bedroom, for that matter. damn you final fantasy for destroying my social life!!!
You should consider yourself lucky you even got that much! I was an unfortunate soul who didn’t even get to kiss someone till I was in my twenties! I wasn’t even a loser or ugly, just insecure and messed up in the head from asshole peers and going to catholic school. Thankfully it fucked me up real good and now I’m super interesting because I’m even more strange than I was before those adolescent nightmare years! Thanks for sharing though, although part of me hates you for being so ungrateful in that last panel. Lol. Still loved the comic though! You rock!
Why do you think college is bullshit, Julia?
Probably because college is bullshit. You spend thousands of dollars and put yourself into great debt, only to need on the job training for any job you actually end up getting anyway. The only ones who really benefit from college are doctors and the like who absolutely just cant learn that stuff all on their own. Also, have you been to college and seen the idiots there? Its babysitting and just a workforce entry delay system at best for most of them. If everyone entered the work force ready to work, we would all just replace our parents jobs and then they would be obsolete. Honestly, its still good for most of the people who go just because they would never learn anything new on their on own otherwise because to the average person learning on your own is viewed as “uncool” or pointless as you don’t get any fancy piece of paper that you could hoard over others to make yourself feel better than them and to prove to others that your “smart” with. Also college makes stupid people feel like they know everything because someone who has “credentials” told them what they were told by someone who had “credentials.” It creates experts who then are extremely limited and narrow minded in their thinking because they think they know everything about something. Also, college is practically forced upon us as the only option which you are made to feel you must IMMEDIATELY ENTER after high school even though just about every last single 18 year old has no way of really knowing what on earth they will want to do with their life because they havent even had a real chance to start living it yet! But by the time you realize this mistake, your already 20-100k in debt and have a degree that you would of probably been better off not having, cause you could of found your true calling if you would of just lived life instead of staying in the brainwashed state that says you need someone to teach you how to live life before you can actually do it. And on and on and on. Im sure Julia is smart enough to come up with probably even more reasons that these too.
I just wasn’t into it
I do hoard my fancy piece of paper over others to make myself feel better.
I love the way his hands were crossed in the closet!
Ha great story, tho you didn’t actually get caught with a boy tho right?
heh, i’m with cooper on that. mr/mrs boogy butt went a little too much into it, especially how julia summed it up in just 5 words.
Cute, though like Nick said you technically didn’t get caught. You’re being a tad misleading, aren’t you Ms. Wertz?
I kind of wish I’d tried for something more ambitious than communications for my undergraduate. My dreams of being an ace reporter were dashed by the reality of only being able to find work for shady SEO marketing agencies. The graduate degree I’m working towards now is actually necessary for what I want to do though, and it was a field I’d considered entering long before I ever declared my regrettable major.