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This question has been hovering over my life for several years, and I need resolution. Did Barko the Cigarette Dog (of Iron Fist fame) CARRY packs of cigarettes? Did he smoke cigarettes? Did he ROLL cigarettes with his TINY PAWS? Please elaborate.

Barko was a WWI-era Cigarette Dog trench-runner. Like a St. Bernard but with smokes.

Hi! I could use your advice. My fiancee recently wrote a script for a comic. He spent months working on it, asked for and listened to notes from his friends, and made something genuinely fun and promising. He submitted it to one of the few publishers that

I’d suggest he find someone to draw it, someone like him that’s looking to learn this stuff. I found the actual process of working with someone as they tried to turn whatever I wrote as a script into a comic was as educational as trying write the script. Does that make sense? Feedback from professionals isn’t what your guy needs; not really. He needs road miles. I mean – I don’t know what *anybody* needs, not really, butif he’s anything like I was, anyway, he’ll learn more from just going ahe...

Hi! I could use your advice. My fiancee recently wrote a script for a comic. He spent months working on it, asked for and listened to notes from his friends, and made something genuinely fun and promising. He submitted it to one of the few publishers that

I’d suggest he find someone to draw it, someone like him that’s looking to learn this stuff. I found the actual process of working with someone as they tried to turn whatever I wrote as a script into a comic was as educational as trying write the script. Does that make sense? Feedback from professionals isn’t what your guy needs; not really. He needs road miles. I mean – I don’t know what *anybody* needs, not really, butif he’s anything like I was, anyway, he’ll learn more from just going ahe...

I'm a 7th grade ELA teacher and I was allowed to select a new text for all 7th graders to read this year. I selected My Life as a Weapon. We started reading on Friday. I have never had all five of my classes sit down, shut up, pay attention, and partici

wow, that’s awesome. it’s a big question though – tell me more about your 7th graders. what are they learning, what else are they reading, what’s the rest of the year looking like?

I'm a 7th grade ELA teacher and I was allowed to select a new text for all 7th graders to read this year. I selected My Life as a Weapon. We started reading on Friday. I have never had all five of my classes sit down, shut up, pay attention, and partici

wow, that’s awesome. it’s a big question though – tell me more about your 7th graders. what are they learning, what else are they reading, what’s the rest of the year looking like?

Hi, Matt, did Kelly Sue save you a piece of noncompliant cheesecake?

cheesecake is alas not my jam (as it were) but henry loved it.

therealdjqualls:The Ernest Hemingway/Fred Durst collaboration...

therealdjqualls:

The Ernest Hemingway/Fred Durst collaboration I’ve been waiting for

junglecaterpie:acting

junglecaterpie:

acting

kellysue:13 years. look, i’m so skinny the wedding ring...

kellysue:

13 years.

look, i’m so skinny the wedding ring doesn’t fit

i’m either getting smarter or i just wrote a whole lot less this...

i’m either getting smarter or i just wrote a whole lot less this month