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with lightning speed

People are fast! Well, not me. But, other people. Basically, everyone else in the whole wide world is infinitely quick. I move like molasses, and am coming to Boston. They’ll wish it was little blinking lights shaped like Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters, oh they will. Or like little blinking sweaters with lights on them. They’ll dream of having that descend upon their city, the day I…

You know what? Screw molasses. From now on I move like LED’s.

Where was I? Fast people. Right. The latest comic features a couple of possible web addresses. Facelessbook.com was taken, actually, but it’s boring – apparently Facebook went and deleted somebody’s account because their email address violated their policy. I wonder what it could have been? My current bet is “sitonmyfacebook.com” but who knows? So I made up “hyperfriend.net”, and not six hours after I put up the comic I get an email from a reader who went and secured the domain, and redirected it to the comic: see for yourself, it’s nutty. Thanks, Ramin!

The other development is that Nobody Scores! reader Ian has set up a Facebook group dedicated to this little comic. Go here for Facebookness. I personally do not have a Facebook account so I can’t run a quality assurance check but I am sure it meets all reasonable gentlemanly standards. Beans as authorial stand-in speaks the truth and it has just been so long since I have heard from real life classmates that I’ve grown averse to the idea of Facebook. The light burns. I don’t even keep up with that ComicSpace thing on the sidebar anymore, it’s mostly a spam vector. Oh, you’re updating your comic twice a week? Awesome, me too! You’re telling me every single time you update? Fantabulous! Here’s an update from me! Yeah, I know, it’s a .exe file, you can click on it anyway, honest.

IMPETUSES

The two comics before that were directly inspired by videos seen on the internets. Ninjas were reinserted into my consciousness by this above-average Onion video, which earns its exceptional status by being watchable all the way through, even after the headline. It is noted that Beans makes a rather better ninja than Jane does.

The Art of Influence was a product of a series of meditations on puppetry, specifically the power of puppetry to make things awesomer, brought on by careful observation of this video, which I have scientifically determined to be the fourth best cover of “Satisfaction” ever, no mean feat. Observe how Amanda Palmer, who is awesome, benefits greatly from the awesomeness multiplier of the puppet. Science is clearly at work here.

MUST-SEE TV

I am a year late with this, it seems, but Let’s Paint TV is a thing of transcendent… beauty is not the word. “Rapture” is the word. I am not joking! You doubt me at your peril. Watching this will change your life. I do not say this lightly, but I wish I was him.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

It is Thanksgiving time in the States and this year I actually get to go see family! But this means a slight hiccup in production. There will be a comic on Monday the 19th, and I totally mean this, because I have to fly out on Tuesday. I get back the next Monday, so hopefully normal production can resume on the 27th.

The peanut gallery, and discussion of the names you’ve given your favorite inanimate objects, can be found in the interactive vortex of the comments. I have a 20-year-old pencil sharpener, I’m not kidding about the age. To properly suit such an eldritch machine, I have named him “Maugloth.”