People, Last day to get your name in for the gift exchange thingy-ma-bob. go to press and click the link.

Aww, baby gorilla! Baby gorilla face! Baby gorilla hands! Proud nurturing protective gorilla babymama!

Jeezus! I'm saying stuff and it's going in one ear and out of the other.

It's like I have to request things 3 times before people are understanding. I don't think I'm being unclear. Reading comprehension?

We need to remove graphic and copy. "Will this do?" Yes, but remove the graphic and copy. "Ok, here." Ok, but we still need to remove the copy. "That will look weird." WE NEED TO REMOVE THE FUCKING COPY!!!

DJ, do we work in the same office?

My local iteration of Tino keeps calling me to ask for pieces of information which I have already given him in writing. And it's not like he's asking for clarification, it's like he just CAN'T FUCKING READ. So I'm having to send him an email and then basically call him and read the exact same email out loud and even then I'm not sure it's getting through.

(And because I need the documentation, I can't just skip sending the email in the first place. All I can do is continue to bang my head against the desk and thank the stars that I'm in a different building and he can't see the expression on my face as I STAB HIM WITH MY BRAIN.)

What are people doing for Halloween?

Fall colors road trip through the Ozarks to the Ouachitas.

I feel like I've sent the same email over and over. To top it off, we've just switched marketing companies and the email sends are completely fucked because they both think they're doing the send for a certain date, oh and we're running 2 sites so...yeah.

DJ, do we work in the same office?

I wish. Then we could at least go to lunch and bitch about it.

Dracula: a novel of hot Victorian sluts

In honor of Halloween, cartoonist Kate Beaton read Dracula and made a series of comics about the classic vampire novel. In a series of strips gets at the book's true face of horror: sexually-liberated women.

Beaton is primarily known for her historical comics, but lately she's turned her attention toward classic literature. And this week, she decided to read Dracula, which inspired this tweet:

I'm reading Dracula, it's a book about sluts. Sluts are pretty exciting and sexy but you don't want them in the house, as they ruin society.

eta: More comics here: [link]

eta²: Notes from the artist:

I love it when Halloween comes around and I get to make comics for it! Here we have Bram Stoker's Dracula, a book written to tell ladies that if you're not a submissive waif, society goes to hell and ungodly monsters are going to turn you into child killing horrors and someone is going to drive a bowie knife through your heart/cut off your head/etc. As you deserve! Thanks Bram! I wrote it down so as to remember it.

But don't get me wrong, I prefer my vampires to be moustachioed 1890s types more than the sexy kind you see nowadays. Maybe Carmilla was sexy, I forget. Anyway.

Aww, baby gorilla! Baby gorilla face! Baby gorilla hands! Proud nurturing protective gorilla babymama!

I KNOW!

I don't have Halloween plans, but tomorrow I'm going to learn how to worm compost, which is SPOOOOKY.