We’re back online after a minor setback with our dns. It appears someone is performing a distributed Denial of Service attack on Everydns.net, which, quite frankly, sucks. When script kiddies take it upon themselves to screw things up for the rest of us it just makes me sad. And angry. And gets me wishing we had the death penalty for stupidity. Or something.

As a result of this, the dns service I use has been migrated to this machine itself, so in the future, barring that the machine fries, service should continue working as normal. Thanks for your understanding. Next comic will be up on time as usual.

— sergio at 02:34 PM     Comments (0)

Ok. New comic’s up. I think this hour can hardly be called Monday. I don’t see the Sun rising yet though, so it will be marked Monday. This was a rather busy week, so I ended up doing all the work late this night, hence the… interesting hours at which I’m posting this. I may have had one too many cups of coffee yesterday too…

I want to thank all of you guys and girls dearly for all the support you’ve given me and the comic by voting on the Top Web Comics list. The voting started to pick up almost halfway through the month and we’ve already made it to place 74-ish. Here’s the really cool thing: That list resets itself each month, so at the start of next month everyone will be at zero and the odds of scoring a high place are higher, plus, the increased visibility helps the hits (did that make sense? Damn! it’s 5 o’clock!). Please come by whenever you can and vote. Everyone can vote once per day. In return, I’ll try to put up as many extras as I can. I’m talking wallpapers, pinups, bikini shots (you know you want them) and all sorts of goodies. Stay tuned, use the shoutbox, drop me an email, it’s all good.

— sergio at 05:09 AM     Comments (0)

I’m starting to see a pattern in the update times for the strip, so if you want to be sure you get the latest comic, your best bet would be Tuesday morning. At least until I pre-make some strips to have a buffer (hopefully soon). If you guys want to check this place out everyday for the occasional rants anyway it’s no problem to me =).

I plan on putting up a section with my short stories in here, and to finally start rotating the picture at the front page (start a gallery too). All that plus amazing acts by trained monkeys after I get some sleep. See you.

— sergio at 01:28 AM     Comments (0)

Saw Lucía y el Sexo (sex and Lucia) yesterday. Franco-Spanish production. It was strangely attractive. The characters kept getting naked and engaging in pseudo-hard core pornographic situations for most of the first half of the movie. The story, however, is quite engaging.

I don’t like giving away details of the plot of movies like this, so I’ll only tell you that this one tells the story of Lucía (Paz Vega), a waitress that is in love with writer Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa), and how they affect and are affected by the lives of Elena (Najwa Nimri), her daughter, the girl who takes care of said daughter, her porn-star mother, her lover and the novel that Lorenzo is writing, which brings it all together.

It is a remarkable feat that the movie carries a story worthy of a soap opera in its unbelievable twists and turns and complex turns of events, and yet somehow manages to pull it off. You care for these people and actually believe in them and in this unlikely world they live in, where everyone is troubled by more problems than they can bear, and deserves a nice deal at the end. The emotional strip tease is much deeper than the physical, slapping you with raw, in-your-face emotions, specially at the end.

This one is definitely a your-mileage-may-vary kind of movie. There were people who left the theater early, and a lot more that couldn’t decide if they hated it, loved it or wanted to get some sleep. If you feel intrigued by this writeup, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy it. If you don’t, at least be assured that all women in the movie are gorgeous and you get to see them naked a lot of times.

— sergio at 12:27 PM     Comments (1)

Valentine’s day. Pffffftt! Right now, there are happy couples everywhere having nice dinners and eating flowers or whatever happy couples do this time of year. It’s out there. You can’t look around and not see a heart shaped chocolate box telling you what you should be doing to please that special someone and live happily ever after. Hell, if there was a sad, pathetic, maniacally-depressed-lonely-guys day, do you think we would go and rub it in your faces with ads and shotgun-shaped Vodka bottles??? No! the hell we would! we’d have the decency to stay home, hook on the computer and sulk in privacy… Which is mainly what we do today… Damn. Maybe this is our day. Got to celebrate. Where’s the beer?

Shit, that felt good. Well, good luck to all you guys who do have someone to exchange oddly shaped chocolate boxes with today. I guess I’ll pop a Smiths album in the stereo and get nicely drunk now. Bye.

— sergio at 08:34 PM     Comments (0)

New comic’s up. Too tired now to think straight. I’m kinda proud of how this one ended up. Lots of new visitors today from Slashdot. I hope you guys stay for the long haul. Don’t forget to vote for me on the Top Web Comics button to the left. I crave the sweet sweet flavor of a two-digit place in that list. Out now.

— sergio at 01:18 AM     Comments (0)

Went to see s1m0ne (what the hell? is l33t sp34k now considered cool??). It’s bad. Not your run-of-the-mill bad. It stinks with that oh, this movie could have been much better stench. You know it. You got it after Episode I, Episode II and will get it after Episode III.

Anyway, this movie tried to be a lot of things and got none of them right. It got off to a nice, stupid comedy start (which isn’t wrong in my book), but then, out of the blue it decided to somehow incorporate a romantic interest for Pacino’s character (that guy was so a schizophrenic) and no, it’s not the cgi character, which would have made more sense than him trying to shag his ex. Then we’re treated to a pseudo-serious treatment on how real is not so or whatever. Trust me, everyone has stopped caring by that point. That and the incredibly unlikely dialogue the supporting cast have to deliver make this piece of crap really unbearable for the last 40 minutes.

A friend of mine (Alan) has a category for this kind of movie: Redemption movies. In which hollywood people accept that they are a bunch of self-obsessed assholes on an ego-trip and think that self-awareness somehow makes everything right. Hey, we’re stupid, but we know it! so that’s cool, right?. God. Avoid this thing like the plague.

— sergio at 12:52 PM     Comments (1)

I ran into an ex-girlfriend last Sunday. It had been about three years since I last saw her. That made me remember a lot of stuff.

What attracted me the most about her, and ultimately the cause of our breakup, was that we had extreme differences in the way we see the world. She believes in spirits, energy forces, alternative healing methods and whatnot. This - I found - is quite an endearing quality to someone who, like me, is… let’s say spiritually challenged.

When you have a job like mine, which is somewhat akin to the Dilbert situation, and every problem ultimately responds to a logical approach, you sometimes need a little magic in your life. I think my being with her was my attempt to vicariously live that life, to hear the voice of the Earth, to know the illumination that comes with the awakening of the Chakras. To catch a glimpse of all of those things I think it would be nice to believe in, but I don’t.

This whole affair saddened me a bit, while at the same time it made me feel good. Funny how the mind does that to you sometimes.

— sergio at 01:53 AM     Comments (0)

Fuck it. As of today, I’m starting to call “Monday” whatever goes between the actual Monday night and Tuesday morning. So this comic went up Monday. ‘Cause I said so! and screw Greenwich!

The site had a one-day blackout last Thursday due to server problems. It won’t happen again, hopefully, so don’t be afraid to come by. This thing is still here and will be for a while. Remember to click on the Top Web Comics thingie to the left, I appreciate all of your support.

— sergio at 01:30 AM     Comments (0)