<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730</id><updated>2008-09-14T08:45:22.524-05:00</updated><title type='text'>chubsucker</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CHUBSUCKER.COM&lt;/b&gt; features Flash
                          cartoon animations produced by &lt;a href="http://www.macboy.com"&gt;macboy.com&amp;reg;&lt;/a&gt;,
                          and other weird stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
                        &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/lakechub.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;chubsucker&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is
                          a handsome freshwater fish!&lt;/p&gt;</subtitle><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-5623136778942455689</id><published>2007-06-23T23:12:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T23:19:29.686-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Classy Sign</title><summary type='text'>
I was more interested the Learning Annex before I moved that paper aside.

</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2007/06/classy-sign.html' title='Classy Sign'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=5623136778942455689' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/5623136778942455689'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/5623136778942455689'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-8211035121201602145</id><published>2007-04-14T14:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T14:44:03.376-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><title type='text'>Suicide Bombers Suck</title><summary type='text'>It looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship for these flexible and impressively endowed suicide bombers, as reported in the CNN.com article, "Suicide bombers strike Casablanca" Story Highlights section.

UPDATE: The Story Highlights have since been corrected.  Can you find the error?</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2007/04/suicide-bombers-suck.html' title='Suicide Bombers Suck'/><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/04/14/morocco.bombers.ap/index.html' title='Suicide Bombers Suck'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=8211035121201602145' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/8211035121201602145'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/8211035121201602145'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-3924983962450670354</id><published>2007-01-31T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T12:27:46.387-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Park Slope'/><title type='text'>Bussed Up</title><summary type='text'>
Last week there was a bus accident here in Park Slope on 7th Avenue.  Apparently the bus lost control and smashed head on into some parked cars, then backed up into a tree and storefront.  Here's what it looked like when I arrived on the scene.





School bus hits seven parked cars</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2007/01/bussed-up.html' title='Bussed Up'/><link rel='related' href='http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/25/park_slope_bus.php' title='Bussed Up'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=3924983962450670354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/3924983962450670354'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/3924983962450670354'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-116529261608628259</id><published>2006-12-04T23:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T23:23:36.096-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Down with Wikipedia</title><summary type='text'>Wikipedia is a wonderful open-source encyclopedia project, maintained online by thousands of worldwide contributors who compose, edit, and monitor articles about every topic imaginable.  The content is updated by the minute, and has vastly more current information than any printed encyclopedia ever could.

But, on the Down side, you'll get the occasional saboteur who wants to have fun with his </summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2006/12/down-with-wikipedia.html' title='Down with Wikipedia'/><link rel='related' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome' title='Down with Wikipedia'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=116529261608628259' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/116529261608628259'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/116529261608628259'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-115655486836874555</id><published>2006-08-25T20:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-25T20:14:28.380-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Observer</title><summary type='text'>I produced this cartoon for a "Cyanide and Happiness" guest art week hosted by Explosm.net.  They didn't chose my strip, so I'm posting it here.  Click it to view full-size.

Check out more "Cyanide and Happiness", it's one of my favorite Internet comics!</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2006/08/observer.html' title='The Observer'/><link rel='related' href='http://explosm.net/comics/' title='The Observer'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=115655486836874555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/115655486836874555'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/115655486836874555'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-113811554821434351</id><published>2006-01-24T10:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T14:40:57.161-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><title type='text'>Sex.com SOLD!</title><summary type='text'>
After a long battle to regain control of his coveted domain name, which I documented in a Flash cartoon holiday greeting card, Gary Kremen has sold Sex.com for about $14M.</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2006/01/sexcom-sold.html' title='Sex.com SOLD!'/><link rel='related' href='http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=4cf16e63-a2ac-4cbf-9580-9c888824341a&amp;k=98881' title='Sex.com SOLD!'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=113811554821434351' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113811554821434351'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113811554821434351'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-113212035322373713</id><published>2005-11-16T00:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T14:40:57.162-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><title type='text'>Stealing Sex.com doesn't pay</title><summary type='text'>
Two years ago I produced a cartoon for Gary Kremen, the current and rightful owner of adult website portal sex.com.  The Flash cartoon, "How the Grinch Stole Sex Dot Com", is the story of how con artist Stephen Cohen stole the valuable domain name sex.com from Gary Kremen, by forging a letter to Network Solutions.

At the time of producing the cartoon, the gonif Cohen was still at large.  On </summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/11/stealing-sexcom-doesnt-pay.html' title='Stealing Sex.com doesn&apos;t pay'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=113212035322373713' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113212035322373713'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113212035322373713'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-113130367730675836</id><published>2005-11-06T12:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-09T20:10:23.046-05:00</updated><title type='text'>NYC Marathon: 7-Mile Piss Break</title><summary type='text'>Shortly after the 7-mile mark in the ING New York City Marathon, runners passing through Park Slope, Brooklyn on 4th Ave. are treated to a Poland Spring sponsored water station.  Fortunately for the runners, now tanked up on H2O, a vacant lot perfect for a quick piss is just one block away.  This impromptu public urinal served many runners well today.

I like "Toby", whose purple polka-dotted </summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/11/nyc-marathon-7-mile-piss-break.html' title='NYC Marathon: 7-Mile Piss Break'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=113130367730675836' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113130367730675836'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/113130367730675836'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-112926314842952392</id><published>2005-10-13T23:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-13T23:14:42.613-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And It's Some Show, Too</title><summary type='text'>Here is a comic strip clipped from an old 1924 newspaper I found in the frame of an old map, scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop.  I don't get it:


The strip is by Jerry Doyle, a political cartoonist from the New Deal era.

Here is the text from the comic strip:

Gent: "Boy o'boy!! This bill would certainly make a Scotchman dig deep!"
Bill 1: "Why Men Leave Home? Featuring Tommy Loughran"
Bill 2</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/10/and-its-some-show-too.html' title='And It&apos;s Some Show, Too'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=112926314842952392' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112926314842952392'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112926314842952392'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-112917637501320361</id><published>2005-10-12T22:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T23:26:05.713-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fat Soap</title><summary type='text'>Dove boasts their bold new campaign for Real Beauty, Dove Firming lotion and cream for curvy women. Looking at the La-Mar Reducing Soap ad on the left, found in an American newspaper from 1924, Dove's "Firming" concept doesn't seem all that new. In fact, very little has changed in the last eighty years. Snake oil is still snake oil, no matter what century or how many cute chubby chicks are in the</summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/10/fat-soap.html' title='Fat Soap'/><link rel='related' href='http://www.dove.com/real_beauty/default.asp' title='Fat Soap'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=112917637501320361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112917637501320361'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112917637501320361'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-112912856303304345</id><published>2005-10-12T09:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T10:03:47.790-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My Squirrelfriends</title><summary type='text'>Click the images below to watch QuickTime movies

Mad Squirrel

This is Jimmy Squirrel (who, I later learned is actually a female.) She comes around my apartment window sill here in Park Slope every year, begging for handouts. This time she was very aggressive. I think it is because she was pregnant. Listen carefully to this clip, you can hear her growling and chattering her teeth!

Squirrel </summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/10/my-squirrelfriends.html' title='My Squirrelfriends'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=112912856303304345' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112912856303304345'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112912856303304345'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17750730.post-112908933654290223</id><published>2005-10-11T22:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T17:54:00.076-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Park Slope'/><title type='text'>Yin &amp; Yang</title><summary type='text'>The quintessential interracial squirrel couple of Park Slope

We live in a wonderfully diverse neighborhood, where squirrels of all colors and sexual orientations can express their love for each other, openly and freely. These two baby squirrels are like a microcosm of that Park Slope vibe. Dark and light, entwined in a harmonious Squirrel Swirl, these little rascals remind me of a furry yin and </summary><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chubsucker.com/2005/10/yin-yang.html' title='Yin &amp; Yang'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17750730&amp;postID=112908933654290223' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chubsucker.com/atom.xml' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112908933654290223'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17750730/posts/default/112908933654290223'/><author><name>William Levin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01644680999111762542</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry></feed>