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corral  (n.): An enclosure for confining livestock.

My wife, my 16 month old son and I packed up and headed to the new Golden Corral for my birthday Saturday. Yeah, hardly an exciting way to celebrate, but when you’re married and you have a toddler, sometimes you just want to go somewhere with as little hassle as possible. Besides, all I really wanted for dinner was some chicken, potatoes and some corn, so the restaurant seemed like a good choice.

Keeping in tune with yesterday's blog post, Wednesday's Taking Up Space takes aim at a familiar and favorite target - the TV news media.


Around the web:

The media circus is in full swing for missing child Caylee Anthony. Media outlets from every network and cable news channel have their giant rolling studios camped out on the street where the missing child's grandparents live. Oddly, one local news station decided to do a story on... the media's overwhelming coverage!

And without ANY SENSE OF IRONY!

"Hi, we're from the media and we'd like to interview you on how much the media's presence in your quiet neighborhood is bothering you."

A new Taking Up Space is up. In my haste to build the newly designed Todd and Penguin site, I forgot to link to my other comics. woops!

I'll post more tonight.

Onion's AV Club lists the 22 most unflattering comic confessionals in autobiographical comics.

From Robert Crumb taking advantage of a drunken date to Marjane Satrapi's getting an innocent man arrested, these artists' confessions dare you to like them, or at least understand them, as they pour it all out on the page for the world to see.

I posted a new Taking Up Space which may be one of the funniest comics I've done in two years. Funny because it's true.

I also posted a friends only LJ update which you can check out here.

I used to be cool. While my formative years were spent in geekish pursuits such as listening to heavy metal, playing Dungeons & Dragons and reading comic books, (which are all considerably cooler pursuits these days), I didn’t hit my cool stride until I was in my 20’s. It was during that time that my musical tastes and collection had earned me street cred among all the cool people. I listened to artists and bands years before most of my friends heard of them. I’d gone from high school outcast to the cool go-to guy for all music related questions.

Tomorrow I go for Employment Assistance through the unemployment office. I'm not sure what it entails but I am guessing that whoever counsels me on my job search will do everything they can to crush my dreams of having another job I like.