Cleaning out ma closet

(Crosspost)

Really odd things going on with my sleep pattern, almost to the point of being nocturnal. Mom and Dad coming to visit next week, so it's the usual batten down the hatches time. Do you need anything hauled away? Mom asks, but getting rid of an ex's stuff doesn't really work like that. Furniture is easily dealt with and gone long ago. Drawers of photographs, on the other hand, are another matter, and a pickup truck isn't really what's called for. Some sort of emotional electromagnet, maybe. Still, threshed my way through the main closet today, so progress made. Having the right boxes helps.

Webcomics I'm currently following, in no particular order.


Skin Horse
Something Positive
Questionable Content
Girl Genius
Girls with Slingshots
Fans!
Order of the Stick
XKCD
The Rack
Penny Arcade

And sometimes PVP, Devil's Panties, Punch n' Pie, Least I Could Do, and a few others.

It's funny, but except for Penny Arcade and PVP, none of these are strips I followed when I first got into webcomics.  A few from that era are still around - Sluggy Freelance, Scary-go Round, and Goats, for instance - but most have folded, or mutated into other forms.  Skin Horse is the sequel to Narbonic, for instance, and the mutation of Fluble (Amazingly, still on the web in archival form even if its official site is down) into the glory that is the Fafblog is a wonderful thing.  But it's odd what an impermanent medium the webcomic seems to be.  I wonder how much of the current web's content will wind up being lost 10 or 20 years from now?

Bonus: Fafblog interviews John McCain:


FB: Now let's get right down to it. Why should you be president?
MCCAIN: One word, my friends: leadership. As a Navy pilot I was shot down over Vietnam, as a member of the United States Senate I was beaten by my captors for five and a half years, and as your president I will continue to courageously endure those beatings for America.
FB: Well you make a pretty convincing case, John McCain, but why shouldn't I vote for a president who has even more experience being tortured, like Congressman Sheikh Mohammed or Senator Jesus or that guy who gets his head exploded at the beginning of Scanners?
MCCAIN: Because I know the problems Americans are going through right now. The American people are angry, my friends. They're hurt. They've been beaten by their captors for five and a half years. And they need a leader who's willing to stop federal tax dollars from going to research harbor seal DNA.
FB: We might lose our jobs and we might lose our homes and we might have to sell our youngest, weakest children to black market organ scavengers for a cardboard box and a can of refried beans, but we'll always be safe in the knowledge that our taxes aren't going to further our understanding of marine biology.
MCCAIN: Oh, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, my friends. Do you realize that federal earmarks last year directed literally thousands of your tax dollars to children's hospitals? Think about that now! Hospitals! For children!
FB: Now look John McCain, everybody wants to shut down children's hospitals, but how're you really gonna do it what with all the Washington gridlock and the Beltway infighting and the fatcat lobbyists from Big Children? I mean Ronald Reagan promised us he'd destroy the government and twenty years later we're still stuck with a functioning public sewage system.