Gleek!
September 21st, 2010

Gleek!

You know, when I was a small child (and presumably less, ahem, mature than I am perceived to be now), we had a word “gleek”.

If I am recalling correctly, it referred to the act of projecting a small amount of spittle, sometimes to the distance of several feet, hitting a target with accuracy.

I was never capable of accomplishing this feat, although I believe I was targeted at least a couple of times during my elementary school days (a period some of you might refer to as “grammar school”, but I never understood that because I didn’t do well in grammar.  I was more of a maths person.)

But I digress.

Nowadays of course, the terminology refers to a very different act and or person – someone who is a fan of the hit show “Glee”, which returns tonight on Fox (Normaltivity is not sponsored by Fox or any Fox subsidiaries, near as we can tell, anyway).  And as it would happen, both Spencer and myself are fans of the show (Spencer a bit more than  me I think, but I still enjoy it).

But perhaps you have only heard of this show.  Perhaps you don’t know yet what all the fuss is about.  If this is the case, then look no further!  We’ve created a handy guide to help you figure out whether or not Glee is right for you.  Just start where it says “Start” and follow your truthful answers to your destiny.

Dan

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P.S. – The last comic was supposed to be posted with a Normaltivicast! that recapped our summers.  We’ve run into a bit of technical difficulty (by which I mean I haven’t finished editing it yet) so it’ll go up shortly as its own thing.  My bad.


Normaltivicast #10 – Finally! (The “End of Summer Blah-Blah”)

Remember that we were supposed to have a Normaltivicast for you a month ago?

Yeah, my bad.  Anyway, here’s our end of summer podcast!  The topics include:

- Spencer is super busy!

- What we did this summer!

- People quitting on the internet!

- How we would quit our jobs!

- Spencer talks about who he wants to punch in the face!

- We finally discuss Transformers:  Revenge of the Fallen!

- Summer Movies!  (In particular Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)

MUSIC:  “Come Back To You” by Silence is Sexy – http://www.silenceissexy.nl


The Archivists of History!

Does anyone else find it strange that now there have been a full four comics that were “drawn” by Dan?  I only ask because I (as Dan) am not what one would call artistically gifted.  I think I did one awesome painting once in a summer art class when I was like eleven, but if you look you can see very clearly where my brush works end and the expert work of the teacher (who I guess felt sorry for me and decided it would be nice for me to end the session with at least one piece that didn’t look like I had been drinking heavily in front of the canvas) began.

I’ll give you a hint:  the face of the seal (for some reason it was a painting of a seal) does not look like the work of an eleven year old.

Another point of interest (while we’re being all self-referential) is that of the four comics that I have produced, a full three of them comment on our inability to complete a proper “new” comic.  Perhaps it is because I have few ideas when it comes to the humor of the panel.

Or perhaps it is intended as a message, a public calling-out of sorts upon the artist half of our team to get his act together.  After all, we have only so much time and much work still to be done.

We have a new project in the works, something that I will not divulge just yet but let me say that it simply involves us in yet another attempt to cash in on our own genius. Whether or not we succeed is, naturally, immaterial; our goal is simply to “see” how it goes.

But in the meantime, a new Normaltivicast!  Finally we reach double digits (although I think we called at least three separate podcasts our 9th, a mistake we are likely to make again).  Once again we return, way too late, to discuss numerous topics in what I like to call our “End of Summer Blah Blah” – a recap of our summers.  Recorded in Late August.  But posted in Mid September.  Because we’re fancy like that.

Topics include:

- Spencer is super busy!

- What we did this summer!

- People quitting on the internet!

- How we would quit our jobs!

- Spencer talks about who he wants to punch in the face!

- We finally discuss Transformers:  Revenge of the Fallen!

- Summer Movies!  (In particular Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)

Today’s comic also refers to events of the summer.  Although you may notice that there is a slight edit within the comic (you’ll know it when you see it).  This is because I was way too lazy to go back and draw another panel.