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I’ve just spent the last two and a half hours working on trying to make sure the comments system in all the different parts of Modern Evil are working properly. I’ll be working on it for another while longer, too. I believe I have resolved all comments-related problems though, and if you have any more comment-making related problems, please email me! teel@modernevil.com Please! I want the site to work, guys!

Update:

I was wrong. I did figure out what I can do to resolve the problem, but it disables a fair amount of Modern Evil’s functionality. I will see what I can do, but still, please report when you see errors or have problems or things don’t seem to be working correctly.

Okay, so I just got two fun emails in a row from automated systems. If only I had friends to send me emails half as fun as the ones computers send me automatically… Anyway, here’s a handy hint for those of you making chocolate-based holiday recipes:

“You can replace up to three-quarters of the shortening in chocolaty recipes with a puree of dried plums. The puree will add a dense, fudge-like texture to recipes and works especially well with chocolate. What’s more, dried plums, or prunes, are an excellent source of boron and fiber.”

Now, other than the fact that I liked prunes anyway, I’m wondering if boron is actually something I want to eat. Or maybe I’m thinking of something else…

So, since I posted my resume all over the internet and signed up to have new job postings from several sites emailed to me as soon as possible, I’ve been getting email just about every day with every job listed everywhere in GMPhoenix. Some sites are more clever than others about what jobs they send me. Here is an example from an email I just received from a site I don’t remember ever visiting:

“Below are the Jobs that might be of interest to you…

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A little more on Invader Zim. So, after watching the XMas special, I downloaded The Doom Song. For those of you unfamiliar with The Doom Song, I’m not sure I can convey it to you fully, but imagine Gir (if you cannot imagine Gir, give up hope of understanding) and Zim on their way to Earth for the first time. As soon as they leave the Urkin homeworld, Gir says “I’m gonna sing The Doom Song!” and then basically sings as you would expect Gir to sing, a song consisting entirely of the word “Doom” repeated over and over to a tune only Gir could have made up. The scene goes black for a moment and then comes back up, saying “Six months later” and Zim is looking very bored and very frustrated and Gir has not yet stopped singing. Zim says “Will you pleeease stop singing?”, then the computer announces that they are approaching Earth, and Gir finally reaches the end of his song.

Now, on TV this whole sequence took up only about 32 seconds. When I say I downloaded The Doom Song, I mean I downloaded a 32 second .mp3 file that consists of this scene. I have it on repeat. I have had it on repeat since last night when I downloaded it. Now, Zim became annoyed with Gir’s singing, but I’m here to tell you that in listening to what I have of The Doom Song over and over again, it is not Gir that annoys me, but Zim. Him and his computer keep talking over Gir’s rendition of The Doom Song. I think that without Zim’s voice, I could listen to The Doom Song for six months, no problem.

That is all.

So, I was sitting here, trying to determine what I would watch while waiting for Taken to begin, while I get started on the last six or eight hours of work for my final Drawing assignment, and I came across the all new Invader Zim Christmas special. I tried calling around to my friends to let them know, but they either didn’t answer or didn’t have cable, so it’s just me here watching Zim convince the world he’s Santa. He’s introduced a new Christmas tradition: Everyone in the world will build a giant teleporter that will send all humans to their doom. One human seems to questions this, asking “Will being teleported to our doom be Christmas-y and fun?” Zim, of course, responds that it will, and the humans begin work as slaves to Zim.

Excellent quotes from the episode:

“Heil Santa! Heil Santa!”

“Gaz! I’m trapped in a frozen wasteland!” “Who isn’t?”

“Will you believe the giant robot boy who launched Santa into outer space, or will you believe me, the Easter Platypus? Easter shrimp for everyone!” “Yay!”