Here's a recent conversation between  fisk and  lizardbeth on Twitter, with links to the actual tweets for verification...

JayRNaylor: Here's the tiny tree my mother sent me. Looks better in the dark. Cat not included. http://www.jaynaylor.com/images3/Littletree.jpg

Lizardbeth: JayRNaylor where's Linus's blanker?

JayRNaylor: Lizardbeth Linus hit puberty and his blanket gets used for other things.

I DEMAND SCRITCHEEEEES!

Hey, it works for cats and feasoxes.

I tend to work at places that openly wish their customers a "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". I'm always prepared to offer a "Happy Hannukkah" to someone if they're Jewish. One day, somebody responded to my "Merry Christmas" with "I don't celebrate Christmas". I wasn't prepared for that, for some reason. I think I just wished him a nice day, like any other day(or maybe a happy December?). Now I'm thinking I should respond to that with "Happy Festivus, then".
Yeah, it's not totally widely-known, mostly by Seinfeld fans, but Festivus IS for the rest of us. If he's aware of Festivus, I might have gotten a laugh.

An Etsy seller named "frosti" has made an R2-D2 hoodie & a Robin(Batman) hoodie! The R2 hoodie even has detail on the hood itself so you actually have a good shot at fooling Luke Skywalker.
See both of these awesome, nerdy hoodies at http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/20/r2-d2-hoodie/ and check out her other hoodies as well!

~hoodiephile

I'm trying to deal with my hateful co-worker, but when nearly everything she says to me is an insult, it's very hard. I try to be nice to her, but she won't be nice to me. I really don't know why she hates me so much. As far as she knows, I'm a heterosexual Caucasian Christian(like her), so I see no possibility of prejudice. I try to only say positive things to her, but if she or someone else blames me for something she did, I have to take the blame off of me. Maybe if I had offered to clean up the stuff she accidentally dropped on the floor, that could have prevented the argument we had tonight, if that was indeed a seed for our spat. I would have mentioned, "I'm not the one that dropped this on the floor, but I'll go ahead and pick it up anyway.", just so there's no blame on me.
What I said COULD be interpreted as an insult, but I was giving an accurate description of how her blaring music makes me feel. I accept that she likes that music, but she doesn't accept that it's annoying to me.

My manager is going to have a chat with us, probably tomorrow. I need to prepare for this so nothing's left out. I want to make it clear to her that I AM trying to be nice to her, but she's making it hard to do or not acknowledging my good intentions. She either thinks I'm stupid or is just using that as an insult. It's just her perception.

I'm looking for ways to be friends with her, whether she likes it or not. One way I figure is finding out what movies she likes. I know we both liked Bolt. We can relate on some movies, I'm sure.
I might ask her if she hates any of my favorite genres of music. I accept that she loves Country. Fine. I love electronica, parodies and heavy metal. If she hates any of those genres, I can certainly accept it. I also SORTA like old country music. They have fewer of the cliches today's country music has, like always mentioning a truck, a dog, alcohol, or having an overabundance of patriotism. The things I hate most about Country music, in addition to those cliches, is the over-done country accent, overabundance of violin or honky-tonk guitar, and a heavy religious theme. CLASSIC country music has none or very little of these aggravations. I should mention that Willie Nelson is good in my opinion.

I wish I was more in touch with emotions. I'm WAY too logical. I'm never offended with the truth. Yes, I'm short, so what? I stutter a little? I agree. I rarely talk? Yeah, although this co-worker would like that. I try not to talk to her as a result. I definitely rarely show emotion unless I'm angry. I don't smile that much. I've tried smiling more, but it's hard around her, and around my fast food job. I do need to find a better-fitting job, but my lack of ambition is a problem as well. Depression will do that to a person.

If you have a zen method of dealing with hateful co-workers, let me know.

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Right now I should be finished with a project I have just barely started. Instead I've been dicking around Second Life and now I'm typing this journal. I really lack ambition in general. Those jobs I was planning on applying to? Still haven't applied. Still complacent with minimum wage when I have great technical skills. I should just go out and grab a nice job. Yeah, let me sleep on it for another year. Not even this Monster energy drink helps. If anything, it brings my energy up to a normal level. I just want to sleep all the time. Can someone literally be bored to death? I might manage it.
Maybe I should get a job where I get to ride thrill rides. Maybe if I had a job that made me feel useful, I'd have some ambition. Maybe just a higher-paying job will bring me out of this funk.
I'm 26 and I still live with my mom. We're behind on various bills. I hate this house. Mom's tolerable, but handy to have around. When your clothes get washed while you're sleeping in, that's very nice.

Maybe this is what it feels like to have had a dementor suck your soul out. Really I've been like this for maybe 8 years.

I think being dangled by the tail would be kinda fun right now, but I know it would only last for a few moments, then I'd be back to depressed.
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For Halloween, I went to work dressed up as a raccoon, but got fired because I spent all day obsessively washing my hands and my food. I'm just acting the part!
Yeah, just kidding, but at the end of the day I got on Second Life with the intention of wearing my Flying Spaghetti Monster costume. Unfortunately, nobody reacted to the costume. In fact, I couldn't find much happening on the Furnation region. I must've gotten there way too late. So instead I had cybersex with a tattooed lady(while wearing my raccoon avatar) and chatted with a person of indeterminate gender about 3D design. Both were fun to chat with and we shared inventory items.

Also, I found out a few days ago that you can't shoot a gun while wearing the Flying Spaghetti Monster costume. Sure, you can shoot, but His Noodly Appendages are in front of the eyes and the gun isn't visible. The real FSM is immune to zombies, but the costume is a hindrance for combat.

Diana Nock, creator of The Intrepid Girlbot, has made a mask of the raccoon character from her awesome comic! It's a mask with a mask! I love it!
Oh, and there's one of the titular character as well.
http://www.intrepidgirlbot.com/2009.....the-best-part/

September 24th. That's the date on the oldest submission on my unread list.
I seriously need to dig through FA more often if I'm looking at stuff 3 weeks old. My submission list is at 234 & still growing. This might take a while.

A teenage co-worker asked me today if I'm a virgin. I told her that's too personal of a question. She didn't see why, & assumed I'm not. She assumed I'm NOT because I refused to answer? I'm flattered, but I'm a 27 year old guy. If I refuse to answer the question "are you a virgin?", that would normally mean yes. Although what I actually meant was, "It's really none of your fuckin' business. Why are you asking, jailbait?".

I'm quite happy that I haven't risked getting STDs or spawned a child that I have to look over for at least 18 years.

"I can't think of a kid belonging to a religion any more than I can think of them as belonging to a political party. They aren't grown enough to know better." -Fisk Black, from Original Life, drawn by Jay Naylor.

From today's comic, as Fisk and his wife are discussing the grandmother wanting to take the kids to the synagogue.

Found this really good article on humanists.net debunking some of the top myths people have about atheists. For instance, the myth that atheists have no morals. For most morals that religious people hold, there's a logical and rational reason for that moral. We hold morals for these logical and rational reasons. "Do to others as you would have them do to you"? That's the basis for building helpful relationships! Doesn't take fear of eternal damnation for me to support that.

http://avijit.humanists.net/article.....eist_myths.htm

A COAT MADE OF TEDDY BEARS!!!

As much as I have a plushie fetish, and would love to have teddy bears all over me, this almost makes me think of a coat made of cats, stuffed and sewn. How could cuteness be so ruined?@

On Nightline tonight, they interviewed Michael Moore, who talked about how capitalism is eeevil. At the end, they asked for viewer feedback. I typed a message on their "Closing Arguments" page, but then decided that I really don't know the nature of that forum. There's likely a lot of trolling, lots of debate, and lots of tempers rising. I know that a lot of people will be using that forum, simply because it's a nationally-syndicated show, so these things are very likely. I'm not going to risk committing myself to any debates that might stem from my comment. I just want to post and be done with it. A one-post stand, if you will. So I'm going to post my message here(expanded a little, since that forum seems better for shorter messages), and you may respond if you want. I'm more familiar with you guys, so it won't be as overwhelming as posting to Nightline's site. So here's my answer to, "Is capitalism evil?":

Capitalism rewards good work. Plain and simple.

Sure, there are exceptions. Sure, it's not perfect. But if all was shared equally, a farmer would be complacent with low-quality and low-yield crops. Charity is good, but I can't support a system that doesn't reward people for doing a good job.

The reason I say charity is good, is because if less-fortunate people are helped, there will be fewer less-fortunate people bringing us down. BUT, only give if you can spare it. Don't force others to chip in. Let's keep charity a choice, so people don't become less-fortunate because they gave more than they could. Some people ACTUALLY NEED more money than others. I have simple needs, so I can live on my $12,000/yr salary(can't be very happy on that though). Some people have health problems, or children, or a home business, or do more traveling, or don't have roommates, or really like their Starbucks(blegh, coffee). Let them be happy. If they worked hard for their reliable car, let them use their money on it.

From what I watched, Michael Moore's only complaints were of people taking advantage of capitalism. People will take advantage of any system you throw at them.

Woah, I just saw the latest Ozy And Millie update and in the "grown-up" Ozy, he's wearing an earring in his left ear. I'm PRETTY SURE that means he's gay. It's no secret that I've had a gay crush on him ever since I first discovered Ozy And Millie. Sure, he's a ficticious character and his cartoonist would never approve of adult-oriented fan art, but my crush on Ozy just got stronger.

I wish I could post images in a journal, or put images not taken by me in my gallery, but at least I can give you a link. Presenting..... CEILING RACCOON!

I found this when searching for pictures of raccoon penises(image has nothing to do with this, don't worry), for reference material. The reason my fursona has a human penis is because there's an extreme lack of photos of raccoon penises. Mostly just penis bones or that photo of the raccoon humping that dog. I found the Zeta toy of a raccoon penis years ago(site's down as I search and type this), but they didn't have much reference material to work with either when sculpting, so it lacks reliability. I GUESS from some drawings that it twists around a little bit at the tip kinda like a screw(or maybe a lightning bolt, or maybe some other zig-zag), and the bone ends partway through that tip. I'm tempted to give a real raccoon some Viagra just to get 3D reference material. This wouldn't likely happen, considering I don't have access to Viagra OR raccoons, let alone male raccoons. Trapping a raccoon would be tricky if there are even any in this town. Plus Viagra is untested on raccoons, and thus would probably kill it. Happily.

Even tried YouTube. Titles too often tease. I did find one of a raccoon jacking off. Shot from behind. Plus one video of 2 raccoons fucking, penis hidden inside female of course.

I've FINALLY gotten a furry avatar I'm somewhat happy with. I even have an assortment of penises to match it!
At an area called Moonlight, I was able to get a fully-customizable wolf avatar for free. I've been customizing it to an extreme extent. I've completely fucked it up a few times in the name of practice. I think the final touches will require paying to upload a texture. I might be able to do it without a texture, but I think the upload cost is about a penny. No problem.
I've successfully given the wolf a raccoon tail, by changing the colors on each section of tail. The snout still needs some work, as well as that texture I was talking about for the all-important mask. The snout can be wrong, but there HAS to be a mask.
I'll definitely upload pictures once it's finished.

Some things I'm not sure about yet: when editing the mask, I want to REMOVE some of the prims. I can't find that option. The undo function sucks, which is why I've had to start over several times. I eventually started saving each stopping point as a new avatar so I have unlimited undos.

Still looking for various furry hangouts, especially ones where I can go pantsless with anatomical correctness.

Okay, SOMEbody on my watch list asked where people are hanging out on Second Life recently, but now that I'm on Second Life, I can't remember who asked it so I can see the answers. It may have been on my other FA watch list, but I'm sure it was with this account.
So where DO furries hang out on Second Life? Not sure where to go. Also, if you know where that journal entry is where someone asked the same question, a link to it would be nice.
I did go to one dance club where there was a dragon and some canine creature, forgot what it was. I'm sure SL keeps a record of where I've been.

It's been maybe 20 years since I've watched Disney's Robin Hood. Finally rented it, and was unsure about watching it with my mom, because I totally expected to pop a boner. Robin IS pretty hot, and so is Maid Marian. And bunnies. Lots of bunny butts. AND RACCOONS!
Thankfully, I just got distracted by all the sexiness. I get hypnotized by tail movements. WHY must I have embarrassing fetishes?! Why are all the characters pants-less!!!

So yeah, Robin Hood is sexy. I even recognized the shot used in someone's icon with the caption, "Did somebody say 'yiff'?". I forget who has/had that icon, but it caused a smirk when I reached that part.

Hiss looked up Robin's tunic at his butt, heh.

...being drenched while wearing clothes. Working as a dishwasher isn't all that bad.

Normally when I jack off, I make sure there aren't any cats in the room. It just seems rude, plus they're spayed/neutered, so that makes it seem insulting. But I'm wondering... is there really any point? They see me naked occasionally, especially during the week that my mom was away. I'm certain that they wouldn't act any differently around me, since they seem to forgive rather easily.
I'm thinking that mostly it would just confuse them.

http://www.mediastorm.org/workshops_0007.htm

I still think they could do better, like using more attractive humans and non-IT people, but it doesn't portray it in a sexual manner at all. It portrays us as people who basically wear masks so we can be more ourselves. It's a fun thing.

I got this link via Dragoneer on Twitter. He was excited to see an FA:United shirt in there.

Since FA recently made a Facebook group(having technical problems with it), I finally decided to get a Facebook account. I had figured I would get one eventually anyway.

This is apparently my profile's address.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php.....00000074254258

The weather for today is "Scat storms". Sounds like shitty weather.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pit...../s_627410.html

From Dragoneer's Twitter:
PA state Senate staffer busted for soliciting 15-year-old for sex. Fursuit sex. This will not end well.
"Alan Panda Bear" was on FA, too. Accounts don't appear to have been used. Thank god. FA won't be subpoena'd this night!