I expertly avoided jury duty this last week. I was very fortunate. I had a great number. We’ll see if I’m so lucky next time…

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We’ve all heard the phrase “money can’t buy you happiness.”

I’m assuming that’s true.

I wouldn’t know. I’d love to test it out though.

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Freeloader. Slacker. Mooch. Sponge. Locust. Bottom feeder. Bum. We all know one of these people. The guy who never brings anything to the table. The guy in the group who expects you to do all the work and then share in the credit. The guy who is always short a couple bucks. The guy who shows up and asks what’s for dinner. The roommate who eats all your leftover pizza when he thinks you’re all done with it. (Actually…I might be that roommate…)

We all know one of these people. Heck, at varying times in our lives (I’m looking at you college years) we’ve probably BEEN one of these people. But there comes a time in everyone’s life when you just can’t allow this behavior anymore. You need to speak your mind. You need to think of yourself. You have to stand up tall and proud and say:

“Dude. You need to start wearing your own underwear.”

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I finished this comic strip one minute before my self-imposed deadline of 12:29am. But I have a good defense. I’ve been working. A lot. Lots of working. So much working. Look at me go, being all responsible and working so very much and so very hard. And even though I’m so very tired, I stayed up extra late to finish this comic strip. Because that’s the kind of guy I am. So there ya go.

I’ll write something better next week. Promise.

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Every week I sit here and do my little comic strip. I have a nice little schedule I keep. I typically create the comic strips on Mondays, and then write these snarky little blog posts on Tuesdays. Then they get posted every Wednesday at 12:29 am (y’know because you’ll do fine with twenty-nine).

Some months I lose all sanity and go on a comic publishing frenzy. Like in January I did comic strips and posts 5 days a week. It was intense. A frenzy of epic proportions. Last October I did comic strips 6 days a week. That was also intense. But I like doing it. I hope they are of some entertainment value to some of you. I wish I could do them more.

Unfortunately just like in today’s comic strip I have these annoying little people who always want me to pay bills. They always want my money. They keep coming back month after month. Truly relentless. But hey, that’s alright, because I have a fancy college degree! Surely my fancy college degree which I spent tens of thousands of dollars on will help be garner that high paying salary job that will enable me to silence those annoying bills…right?? Right?!?!

So my college degree is doing its part to help pay the bills (-cough-). Michael and the rest of my raccoon cartoons are doing their part as well. It’s not much, but they do help a little…sometimes…when they aren’t too busy eating pizza and drinking Yoo-hoos. Mmmm….Yoo-hoo…

But wouldn’t it be nice if I could entertain you on a more regular basis? Just think… If my cartoons generated a more reliable income I could afford to devote more time for comic strip making and snarky post writing! You could grace the pages of my website not once a week, but three times! Maybe four! Or…dare I say it?? FIVE! How sweet would that be?!

The increased updates would cause increased traffic to my site, which would in turn would cause increased advertising revenue. Then I could afford to advertise for the site more, which would lead to more and more traffic, would would lead to more and more revenue, would would lead to more and more updates, which would lead to COMPLETE ULTIMATE POWER OVER THE INTERNETS.

Ok. Maybe that’s an exaggeration. Maybe. But you get my point.

Which is why I’m tactfully persuading you, my readers, to help support the cartoon goodness.

Interesting fact: If everyone who visited my website were to donate a dollar over the course of a year, I could make this my full time job. Unrealistic? You betcha.

How about this: If just one third of the people who visit this site regularly were to donate a dollar a month, I could make this my full time job. Unlikely? Probably. But it’s still kind of cool when you think about it.

So I encourage you to ponder what to do with that extra dollar lying around your house. If you like the comic strips, or the snarky blog posts, or the animated cartoons, and would like to see more of them more regularly, you might consider investing that dollar in a certain raccoon themed website. I promise I’ll always keep the updates coming, as long as I am able and can afford to. And if you are feeling lucky, you can always make that donation in the form of a ticket purchase in our Sell-out raffle.

Thank you for your support. Here are some unicorns.

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Oddly appropriate…

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Seriously. Apartments in the bay area are so ridiculously expensive. $1000 a month for a studio apt?! Sweet! That’s a total steal around here! It’s lame. I don’t like it. I think we should do it like they do on the island of Yap, where everyone is given a plot of land the moment they’re born. That’d be awesome. Unless I was given something in the East Bay…

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