<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533</id><updated>2011-08-01T14:04:50.830-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Please Please Don't Read This</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-1323351720546281567</id><published>2010-02-15T00:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T00:55:46.239-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hope My Thoughts Reach You</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S3kL4AlfNHI/AAAAAAAAAEE/En1Fk0gDxaw/s1600-h/val.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S3kL4AlfNHI/AAAAAAAAAEE/En1Fk0gDxaw/s400/val.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438391081884398706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Happy (Post) Valentine's Day&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-1323351720546281567?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/1323351720546281567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/1323351720546281567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2010/02/hope-my-thoughts-reach-you.html' title='Hope My Thoughts Reach You'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S3kL4AlfNHI/AAAAAAAAAEE/En1Fk0gDxaw/s72-c/val.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-1352657124883071716</id><published>2010-02-05T21:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T22:01:37.558-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yea</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S20FUslk00I/AAAAAAAAAD8/CpYIVDcPqWg/s1600-h/ejp_2_a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S20FUslk00I/AAAAAAAAAD8/CpYIVDcPqWg/s320/ejp_2_a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435006178430341954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Help me think of the characters' last names!  I'm thinking something Frenchy for Becky and something loud for Patty.  And something that doesn't start with Z for Jay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-1352657124883071716?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/1352657124883071716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/1352657124883071716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2010/02/yea.html' title='Yea'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S20FUslk00I/AAAAAAAAAD8/CpYIVDcPqWg/s72-c/ejp_2_a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-8151411207966562397</id><published>2010-01-24T14:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T14:28:54.874-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A New New Beginning</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S1zJIce3JFI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Unap5gYCch0/s1600-h/ejp_1_a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S1zJIce3JFI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Unap5gYCch0/s320/ejp_1_a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430436397623747666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, trying a different story line again.  Basically I don't have the writing skills to keep up one plot for long.  Maybe I should forget about plotting.  Now there's a fine idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, if you're new here, don't look back at the old posts.  They kinda suck.  Even more than this one.  Yea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-8151411207966562397?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8151411207966562397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8151411207966562397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2010/01/ok-trying-different-story-line-again.html' title='A New New Beginning'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/S1zJIce3JFI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Unap5gYCch0/s72-c/ejp_1_a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-2030066092782383134</id><published>2008-07-17T21:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T22:01:26.214-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SSUUTB</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SIAivx3pOPI/AAAAAAAAADE/FI2zIYFECmk/s1600-h/comic13+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224213771985697010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SIAivx3pOPI/AAAAAAAAADE/FI2zIYFECmk/s400/comic13+copy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; You have no chance to survive make your time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-2030066092782383134?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/2030066092782383134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/2030066092782383134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/ssuutb.html' title='SSUUTB'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SIAivx3pOPI/AAAAAAAAADE/FI2zIYFECmk/s72-c/comic13+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-5522840156661702749</id><published>2008-07-15T20:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T21:00:36.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Winter of Our Discontent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SH1yHBa8MPI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hAWrVWhW6y4/s1600-h/comic12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223456607785726194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SH1yHBa8MPI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hAWrVWhW6y4/s400/comic12.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Bonus points for those who can figure out the references in this series.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-5522840156661702749?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/5522840156661702749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/5522840156661702749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/winter-of-our-discontent.html' title='The Winter of Our Discontent'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SH1yHBa8MPI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hAWrVWhW6y4/s72-c/comic12.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-2923518082065121030</id><published>2008-07-14T22:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-14T22:54:18.731-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Back When NASA Was Still Figuring Out the Metric System</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHw7GOr2IzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/yUZ6dAVn41k/s1600-h/comic11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223114646050186034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHw7GOr2IzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/yUZ6dAVn41k/s400/comic11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm gonna try a little side story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-2923518082065121030?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/2923518082065121030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/2923518082065121030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/back-when-nasa-was-still-figuring-out.html' title='Back When NASA Was Still Figuring Out the Metric System'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHw7GOr2IzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/yUZ6dAVn41k/s72-c/comic11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-8960450381356133001</id><published>2008-07-09T20:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:28:40.492-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Immaculate Conception, and by "Immaculate" We Mean Slightly Briny</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMnSfKjHI/AAAAAAAAABk/UvfPdpQX-FM/s1600-h/comic10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221515424588008562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMnSfKjHI/AAAAAAAAABk/UvfPdpQX-FM/s400/comic10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I think I've got Botticelli down. Soon I'll be selling fake DaVinci's.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-8960450381356133001?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8960450381356133001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8960450381356133001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/immaculate-conception-and-by-immaculate.html' title='Immaculate Conception, and by &quot;Immaculate&quot; We Mean Slightly Briny'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMnSfKjHI/AAAAAAAAABk/UvfPdpQX-FM/s72-c/comic10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-8621794673539305818</id><published>2008-07-05T15:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:24:34.584-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Crzy Azns</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMC_pdTcI/AAAAAAAAABc/x5q_P9nq30o/s1600-h/comic9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221514801055616450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMC_pdTcI/AAAAAAAAABc/x5q_P9nq30o/s400/comic9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope the nerdisms didn't put anybody off. Trust me, it could have been worse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-8621794673539305818?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8621794673539305818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8621794673539305818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/crzy-azns_05.html' title='Crzy Azns'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaMC_pdTcI/AAAAAAAAABc/x5q_P9nq30o/s72-c/comic9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-90069402991307666</id><published>2008-07-02T15:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:29:43.994-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kinda Like Yeast, Or Hydras</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNSMh9tDI/AAAAAAAAABs/TxpPptZZgPE/s1600-h/comic8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221516161723511858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNSMh9tDI/AAAAAAAAABs/TxpPptZZgPE/s400/comic8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaLFSUj5GI/AAAAAAAAABM/hZLsigMdHQ4/s1600-h/comic8.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-90069402991307666?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/90069402991307666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/90069402991307666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/07/kinda-like-yeast-or-hydras_02.html' title='Kinda Like Yeast, Or Hydras'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNSMh9tDI/AAAAAAAAABs/TxpPptZZgPE/s72-c/comic8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-8880115360697552616</id><published>2008-06-30T15:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:34:39.455-07:00</updated><title type='text'>There's a Trend In Your Characters</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNk7k46WI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0YfvyJXFyEE/s1600-h/comic7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221516483589892450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNk7k46WI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0YfvyJXFyEE/s400/comic7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I'm back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I took a step back and asked myself, why do all my characters become angry? Maybe I'm an angry person and I'm projecting myself onto these cartoons. Or maybe there's something wrong with my protagonist. Yes, I think I'm subconsciously turning him into someone who says exactly the wrong things to people. Poor guy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;-BEN&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-8880115360697552616?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8880115360697552616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8880115360697552616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/theres-trend-in-your-characters_30.html' title='There&apos;s a Trend In Your Characters'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaNk7k46WI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0YfvyJXFyEE/s72-c/comic7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-3123322578811022526</id><published>2008-06-24T15:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:39:37.580-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Brief History of The Carrot, In a Nutshell, Part 2</title><content type='html'>For those of you in my somewhat limited readership who were wondering whatever happened to Monday's comic... well, it was somewhere along these lines:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaOpc7CzdI/AAAAAAAAAB8/Wk6KiTHkT4c/s1600-h/comic6_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221517660772290002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaOpc7CzdI/AAAAAAAAAB8/Wk6KiTHkT4c/s400/comic6_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There, look, I've made up for the missing comic. Any pun in there (if hypothetically speaking there were one) is definitely not intended. Which is why I obviously don't have a speech bubble that directly relies upon said nonexistent pun.&lt;br /&gt;I can't think of a good emoticon for sarcasm...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-3123322578811022526?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/3123322578811022526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/3123322578811022526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/brief-history-of-carrot-in-nutshell_6899.html' title='A Brief History of The Carrot, In a Nutshell, Part 2'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaOpc7CzdI/AAAAAAAAAB8/Wk6KiTHkT4c/s72-c/comic6_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-579994941756375127</id><published>2008-06-24T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:40:44.739-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Brief History of The Carrot, In a Nutshell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaPwRSJIHI/AAAAAAAAACE/rcxxV_1WHws/s1600-h/comic6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221518877418659954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaPwRSJIHI/AAAAAAAAACE/rcxxV_1WHws/s400/comic6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Just to be clear, let's assume "The Carrot" in the title is not some generalization representing the entire carrot race, but a specific reference to the one pictured above. Otherwise, one would think there should be many brief histories, as this is only the first great carrot massacre. Hmm, idea for the future....?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-579994941756375127?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/579994941756375127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/579994941756375127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/brief-history-of-carrot-in-nutshell_2833.html' title='A Brief History of The Carrot, In a Nutshell'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaPwRSJIHI/AAAAAAAAACE/rcxxV_1WHws/s72-c/comic6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-195308938080118359</id><published>2008-06-19T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-02T19:13:06.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dangerously Cheesy</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241612255913988834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SL3yk1QWUuI/AAAAAAAAADM/FuX3TwqpwzI/s400/comic5_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQCDjCa1I/AAAAAAAAACM/2NSa4jdEIuU/s1600-h/comic5.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hmm, late again. Looks like I'll be doing MWF on good weeks and Tuesday Thursday when I'm busy. Well, until next time, folks. Oh, and Rabidfang says hi: ^^&lt;br /&gt;PS - Thanks to Billyshears06 for helping with teh dialoguez&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-195308938080118359?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/195308938080118359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/195308938080118359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/dangerously-cheesy_19.html' title='Dangerously Cheesy'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SL3yk1QWUuI/AAAAAAAAADM/FuX3TwqpwzI/s72-c/comic5_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-869708713827742200</id><published>2008-06-17T14:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:42:10.047-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Onomatopoeia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQNs2Is6I/AAAAAAAAACU/4Zqc7oXWaow/s1600-h/comic4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221519383033590690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQNs2Is6I/AAAAAAAAACU/4Zqc7oXWaow/s400/comic4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Whoops. This is a little late. Onomatopoeia is a nasty word to spell. Sure, you know what it means, but the word itself is used sparingly, and if you've never written it down before you have to think, "Okay, this is how it sounds, but it's Greek, so I should add some random vowels over here." Thank you Google.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-869708713827742200?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/869708713827742200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/869708713827742200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/onomatopoeia_17.html' title='Onomatopoeia'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQNs2Is6I/AAAAAAAAACU/4Zqc7oXWaow/s72-c/comic4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-8454412813905543097</id><published>2008-06-13T15:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:48:43.818-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bienvenido a Mi Casa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaRrt4ruGI/AAAAAAAAACs/OyPvOS4g2Qg/s1600-h/comic3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221520998220413026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaRrt4ruGI/AAAAAAAAACs/OyPvOS4g2Qg/s400/comic3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Numero Tres is here. I'm gonna try to update every Mon Wednes and Fri day as long as I can.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-8454412813905543097?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8454412813905543097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/8454412813905543097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/bienvenido-mi-casa_13.html' title='Bienvenido a Mi Casa'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaRrt4ruGI/AAAAAAAAACs/OyPvOS4g2Qg/s72-c/comic3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-3645200264871539261</id><published>2008-06-11T14:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:43:17.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Universal Language</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQcEgAt2I/AAAAAAAAACc/78BmHxdgXk0/s1600-h/comic2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221519629901412194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQcEgAt2I/AAAAAAAAACc/78BmHxdgXk0/s400/comic2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sorry Carl Sagan, apparently math isn't the ultimate language. I respectfully posit that English has qualities that may make it more desirable as a universal communications medium -- such as its sophisticated rules for spelling and its whimsical verb conjugation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-3645200264871539261?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/3645200264871539261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/3645200264871539261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/universal-language_11.html' title='A Universal Language'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQcEgAt2I/AAAAAAAAACc/78BmHxdgXk0/s72-c/comic2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297920994907080533.post-5054505618423749404</id><published>2008-06-09T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T15:45:32.821-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Um, Welcome to Earth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQqJsvslI/AAAAAAAAACk/UuY7RNVxaxo/s1600-h/comic1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221519871815168594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQqJsvslI/AAAAAAAAACk/UuY7RNVxaxo/s400/comic1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's the first, let me know what yall think&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7297920994907080533-5054505618423749404?l=thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/5054505618423749404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7297920994907080533/posts/default/5054505618423749404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousand-one-nights.blogspot.com/2008/06/um-welcome-to-earth_09.html' title='Um, Welcome to Earth'/><author><name>AL</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08427274197545566418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xsKUIb4I6uI/SHaQqJsvslI/AAAAAAAAACk/UuY7RNVxaxo/s72-c/comic1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
