Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:23 UTC

Despite my high typo rate online, I cannot turn off my proofreading/copy-editing eyes when reading. Today: a 1940s scene has an editor demanding material "stat"... a medical term that I suspect didn't leak into the mainstream before TV hospital dramas.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 03:43 UTC

Merge two films Friday the 13th King of Scotland

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

Ah, a Pinkoberry flavor

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:51 UTC

While I've only seen the faint hints of this at the moment, let me put this forth now: No, victims of abuse do not owe you or the world to come forward. More power to those who do, but their attacker already put enough of an unwanted burden on them. They do not need more

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

This is where you hire an 8 year old assistant. Every eight year old draws Cybertrucks by default.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

Today's mail brings two.pieces of art from the ever-skilled @tessfowler.bsky.social - one a comics page, one a bit of production design for a project we did together, Jenny's City.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

While other comics publishers are being bought out, I have no aim of selling my company. In fact, I've made that our motto: "Nobody buys About Comics!"

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

If you pay him, Shaenon, it stops being about the art! (Chuckles in evil publisher.)

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Finally got to disk utility, but it tells me it cannot fix this thing. And I've been doing data backups for years, not sure when I last did a proper system backup. If ever.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

I asked a squirrel, but they couldn't answer because they had nuts in their mouth.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

Kind of day I'm having. May be time to give up on this ancient machine... and start paying Adobe their damned $660 per year.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

Congratulations on introducing your kid to the basics of working in comics. Just be sure that you promised to pay him, fail to do so for months, then have a $90 million movie made about the cat for which he gets paid in "special thanks".

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 03:26 UTC

The sort of kid that would think of that is also the kind who would start with "I wish for five more wishes", and they just turn you off when you try to pull that.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:56 UTC

(To be fair, Christian's forcing things on Jews may be the one thing which is reasonably described as "Judeo-Christian tradition".)

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Any time someone says "Judeo-Christian", check your wallet and your watch. I guarantee you it's not the Jewish Sabbath they plan to legally protect, but they will force the Christian Sabbath on the Jews.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

Did they have root beer in the truck? Because root beer floats.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

Here are the Dietz wieners you requested.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

My #PortfolioDay post:

The

Meanwhile...

obfuscate

For those looking for sequential samples:

I think,
therefore I am
a chipmunk.

Freelance writer, decades of experience. I know many of the words. Dozens, in fact

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:33 UTC

I worry about the DoT officer who is ranking fourteen year olds and considering many of them "tens".

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:25 UTC

Fletcher wrote three chapters today. How did you do?

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:34 UTC

Newspapers.com doesn't have everything, and I no longer have my newspaperarchive.com access, which catches some of what it misses.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

Having a newspapers.com subscription is like owning a pickup truck.... there's always someone.who could use your help. Glad to do it!

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

If you want the AP story sans photo, here you go. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

While I could find several papers carrying the AP story, none had the photo. The only photo I found searching 1999-2002 is this one.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

Boston Globe. Here you go!

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

The best ones that I don't see yet mentioned is "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" on Homefront and "Runaway", which was re-lyriced for Crime Story.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

Really, I think the game to get to know anyone is Truth Or Dare.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

Best episode? Unanswerable. Best two minutes? Easy.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Along semi-similar lines, the other day I was thinking of something like this as a "Southern Pride" piece. (Forgive the quick mockup.)

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:30 UTC

Make a band meatier Captain Beefierheart

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

Today's cartoon book to scan and reprint had this back cover. Yes, for 3 cents you could mail this 96 page booklet to any of the 48 states in 1954.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Knowing who the creator is, I'm pretty sure he's fine with taking that slap for this reason.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Folks should both listen to what Rex says and take the lesson that when writing in all caps, your initialisms should have periods in them... doubly so if you're using a non-standard letter order as this does.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

Make a band more vegetable Zucchini Bread. (I'm sure I'm far too late to be introducing Talking Heads of Lettuce or Artichoke Heart.)

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

The one next door seems to get several folks avday at least checking it out.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

I listened to it in audiobook this week, and enjoyed it, but was not expecting to be as right-wing as it was... very prepper-y, and empathy is literally a weakness. Also, something done in the back half of the book would've had you or I tsktsked had we written it.

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 06:45 UTC

Give them a CD and they'll be that much closer to learning the whole alphabet!

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 06:23 UTC

Make a band more vegetable Pectin Machine

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Nat Gertler @nat.gertler.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:26 UTC

Watching the original Ghostbusters with my 14 year old. Not a perfect film, but culturally necessary. Yesterday we watched Deadpool. Before that, Blazing Saddles. Sharing these things is how we connect, and how I give him cultural language.

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