Saturday In The Park With Piraro

This Saturday I'll be in Los Angeles all damn day hosting an outdoor festival thing called Worldfest. It will be both fun and funny. Please drop by and say hello. If you mention to me that you saw this blog, I will give you an invisible, weightless bowling ball. I'll even autograph it if you want. CHNW will be there, too, so this is your chance to meet the lettuce bikini goddess in person!

As usual, I'll be selling books and trading cards. These first packs of trading cards will be collector's items, don't forget.

Click on the poster image for a larger, legible version!

A Bizarre B&B

Recently, CHNW and I spent a few days at a very cool new B&B in Hollywood, CA, called Hollywood Bed & Breakfast. It's run by a cool couple who call themselves William and Nina, and is entirely renovated and decorated by their own four hands. To say this place is visually unique is an understatement.

Ever surface of every room of the house is painted, mosaicked, or in some other way adorned in an unusual fashion. The photo below is the front door, which is only one small snippet of the odd concoction of styles inside. Even though it is visually exotic, the whole house is very comfortable, the pool area is gorgeous, and the location is terrific: corner of Orange Grove Ave. and Hollywood Blvd. behind a huge fence and lots of greenery.

The B&B business is brand new, we were their first guests, in fact, so chalk this up under "undiscovered gems." Contact them via email or go here.

hollywoodbandb@earthlink.net

Tell them Dan and his Crazy Half-Nekked Wife sent you.

Tiger Bait

Bizarro is a subsidiary of Human Endeavors Amalgamated. Please enjoy responsibly.

This cartoon is an example of one of those rare occasions when I didn't feel I needed to exaggerate reality.

Not long ago, some idiots were taunting a tiger at a zoo and the clever cat jumped out and attacked them. What strikes me as sad about a story like this is that innocent animals are kept in prisons so jackasses can gawk at and taunt them. Like when Roy was eaten by a tiger in his magic show in Las Vegas a few years back, I always root for the unwilling participant in these episodes.

The tiger in the zoo story was, of course, shot and killed, which is the usual sentence for any animal that finally cracks under human pressure.

It isn't hard to imagine that, given the chance, the mangled nitwits from the zoo episode would return to the enclosure to taunt the cat again. If humans weren't so damned good at avoiding natural selection, we wouldn't have so many of these types around. Most would be eaten by tigers before given the chance to reproduce.

FCBM4 Day 7

It's day Seven of the fourth annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Eva Volin, who listed her five comics as:

1. Johnny Hiro
2. Delilah Dirk and the Treasure of Constantinople
3. Antique Bakery
4. Bookhunter
5. Runaways

Eva seems like she'll appreciate something off the beaten path, so I have for her the second issue of the Paul Pope's future-Mars comic THB.

For Eva's bonus comic, I'm sending her the Uncle Scrooge ashcan.

Eva's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
31 entries
14 free comics sent so far
24 days remaining

FCBM4 Update

Whew! I got entry #31 today, which means I'll be able to give away free comics at least once per day throughout Free Comic Book Month (I always worry until that 31st entry arrives!) A big thanks to Mike, David and TangognaT for their help in spreading the word!

I dropped the first batch off at the post office today, so hopefully the first group will get their free comics within the next few days.

Keep those entries coming!

One Less Teenager

Today's Bizarro is available in four designer finishes, including "Faux Suede" and "Vegas Bling!"

I'm not one of those cranky people who want to outlaw skateboarding in public areas, any more than I want to outlaw roller blades or bicycles. As a regular cyclist and motorcycle rider, I'd much sooner outlaw SUVs.

I do, however, think that if you're engaging in one of the aforementioned activities in public and hit a pedestrian, you should lose your constitutional rights for a period of 90 seconds. That means the offended party has a minute and a half to retaliate without fear of prosecution.

Seems fair to me.

New Library Comics: Week of April 28, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Fandel, Jennifer. George Eastman and the Kodak camera / Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2007.

Lemke, Donald B. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the personal computer / Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2007.

Robbins, Trina. Hedy Lamarr and a secret communication system / Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2007.


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