Archive for August, 2009

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Rubber and Glue

by Seraphine Khorana on August 30th, 2009
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Rubber and Glue

I wish I could be more like a duck. Duck feathers have a multi-layered structure which is very hydrophobic – in other words, water rolls off a duck’s back like yesterday’s worries.

Something extraordinary must have taken place; he looks to me as if he were in imminent danger of serious apoplexy. The lower part of his face is composed enough, but the upper part is drawn and distorted. Then there is that peculiar look about the eyes that indicates an effusion of serum in the brain.
Quotation from Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot

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Yammering

by Seraphine Khorana on August 28th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Yammering

I hate yammering. It’s embarrassing. Somebody teach me not to be psycho.

All day in the one chair
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged
In rambling talk with an image of air:
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
Poem by W.B. Yeats, Broken Dreams

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Dear Employee

by Seraphine Khorana on August 26th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Dear Employee

“Your paycheck will be delivered via Thought Transference. Please ensure you have a valid connection with the Human Resource Department or your salary could be delayed indefinitely.”

When you have too much month for your paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day, abundance will come to you.
Quotation from Sydney Madwed

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Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

by Seraphine Khorana on August 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

Everyone wants full disclosure. What everyone gets is indecipherable legalese and footnotes. The general rule is: The longer the disclosure, the riskier the thing being disclosed.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Quotation from Jane Austen

(To employ a return, models and other likely readers of Encore Seraphine (either casually, temporarily, permanently, blindly or on secondment) to carry out the object of the attraction upon such terms and conditions as they may from time to time consider desirable, or not, and to terminate such extension or harmony, and to unpay their interest, readership, right to post, gratitude or miscellaneous charges out of their rich uncle’s pocket and to confer upon any mark or substitute model so appointed the right to exercise without liability or severability any discretion or misconception which may be vested in the original comic therein without prior notification, including exclusions, or vice versa).

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A Peep Out of Me

by Seraphine Khorana on August 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
A Peep Out of Me

1. Make some noise. It’s life affirming.
2. “What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind.”
3. Years from now, nobody will remember anyway.

Come, come, come, come, give me your hand.
What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
Spoken by Lady Macbeth, The Tragedy of Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare

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“To who ever is taking my money, please stop.”

by Seraphine Khorana on August 20th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
“To who ever is taking my money, please stop.”

I love roadside stands that sell fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs and flowers. Some growers use an honor system: take what you want, leave some money on the table. It seems to work, since most people are honest.

Sweet Lemonade Kid Slapped (New York Post) 10-year old girl and her father fined for illegal lemonade and cookie stand.

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“I have Clamato”

by Seraphine Khorana on August 18th, 2009
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“I have Clamato”

I love Canadians. Not only do they use blubber to keep warm, but their national cocktail is the Bloody Caesar. It’s like a Bloody Mary, except they use Mott’s Clamato instead of tomato juice. And they garnish it with a pickle. (I’ll wait to try the vegetarian version.)

Of a lady come from Cape Cod she remarked: “She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.”
Quotation from Louis Kronenberger

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Experience Here Counts Double

by Seraphine Khorana on August 17th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Experience Here Counts Double

When you are with your best friend, the value of time is doubled.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Poem by Robert Frost, A Time to Talk

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Can you come back tomorrow?

by Seraphine Khorana on August 15th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Can you come back tomorrow?

I used to Overflow with frequency, but I’m getting better at Underflowing. This feels to me like reverting to the mean, which I’m told is normal, but it makes me feel ordinary. Underflow denotes a loss of precision, which is closely approximated by zero. I want to be greater than zero.

In behavior, normal refers to a lack of significant deviation from the average.
Definition of Normal according to Wikipedia.org

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Sugar Rush!

by Seraphine Khorana on August 14th, 2009
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Sugar Rush!

Food companies are warning that sugar shortages may soon affect the supply of cookies, breakfast cereals, chewing gum and chocolate. I’m going to hoard animal cookies. Also M&Ms because they can be used as cash currency in an emergency. What will you hoard?

Sugar shortage means higher grocery prices (Examiner.com) Will people actually try fresh, real food for a change?

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Feed the Bears

by Seraphine Khorana on August 12th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Feed the Bears

Is this an allegory, metaphor or simile?

Autopsy: Bear Killed Woman Who Fed Animals 74-year-old’s Partially Eaten Body Found Outside Her Colorado Home

P.S. It’s a tragedy.

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Cash for Clunkers

by Seraphine Khorana on August 10th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers is a government program offering “cash” towards the purchase of a new car in return for junking an older automobile. The purpose of the program is to stimulate the economy and to encourage the purchase of more fuel-efficient automobiles.

Some of the folks who drive a beater all the time are unlikely to get a new car loan.
Quotation from Art Spinella, CNW Research

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America’s Best Hope for Healthcare

by Seraphine Khorana on August 9th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
America’s Best Hope for Healthcare

Sadly, the global supply of swine flu vaccine won’t be able to meet demand. The health care industry will sell into market demand, so the vaccine will disproportionately reach those wealthy enough to afford it. Ultimately, it may prove poor public policy if the swine flu is allowed to flourish in overcrowded developing countries, where the disease could ultimately mutate into something even more deadly.

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Desperately Seeking Squeaky Fromme

by Seraphine Khorana on August 6th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Desperately Seeking Squeaky Fromme

Is it strange that some people seek to have relationships with high-profile criminals, including murderers and rapists? Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner, has received at least three marriage proposals while on death row at San Quentin prison. Both Erik and Lyle Menendez, brothers convicted of murdering their parents, got married while in prison. Maybe marrying somebody famous (or dangerous) makes you feel special…

Squeaky Fromme Soon Out of Prison (SFGate.com) Fromme stood vigil at the Charles Manson trial and, like other supporters, carved an “X” on her forehead as a sign of solidarity. Manson, who had recruited her off the streets in Southern California, called her “Squeaky” because of her voice.

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Circling the Drain

by Seraphine Khorana on August 4th, 2009
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Circling the Drain

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring or drinking.
Quotation from Bill Cosby

A lonely lake, a lonely shore,
A lone pine leaning on the moon;
All night the water-beating wings
Of a solitary loon.
With mournful wail from dusk to dawn
She gibbered at the taunting stars—
A hermit-soul gone raving mad
And beating at her bars.
Poem by Lew Sarett, The Loon

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The Lip Trick

by Seraphine Khorana on August 2nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Lip Trick

I’ll be a park and thou shalt be my deer.
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:
Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
Poem by William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

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