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Strip #196 — Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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Notes, Thoughts, &c.

Ben's Notes

I've just started listening to Webcomics Weekly, a podcast by Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett, Scott Kurtz, and Kris Straub about making webcomics. If you make a webcomic, plan on starting one, or just like hearing informed people talk about them, you should listen to it.

Some of their tips aren't relevant to me because I don't draw, but most of the advice they have is applicable and interesting. Lots of tips on writing, composition, character names, and so on.

Lewis's Notes

I have two important things to share today. One is a list of underappreciated classic Disney movies that are totally awesome, compiled from memory. The other is a bit of advice.

The Great Mouse Detective, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone, The Black Cauldron, The Emperor's New Groove. Did I say "The Great Mouse Detective"? Oh, I did? Well it belongs on the list twice. Best Disney movie ever.

And now for the advice. Friends don't let friends read Rand. You find her self-interested ethical views appealing? Go to the source. Reading Ayn Rand instead of Aristotle is like reading the noveliation of "Ghost Dad" instead of reading Hamlet.* I'm not an uninformed hater, by the way. I've read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living, Anthem, portions of the Romantic Manifesto, and I have even seen a production of "The Night of January 16th." But I promise you that it is bad to get your Aristotle diluted through a crazy-person's championing of robber-barony. That is all.

*See, because Hamlet's father communicates with him as a ghost, but other than that, there aren't a lot of important similarities, and Hamlet is obviously way better.


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