From:
Subject: centipede in my bed
To: oddtodd7@hotmail.com
OMG I just googled this because I am staying with my mom for a few days in my old house. Yes I am a 26 year old woman.. LOL And yes, I am TERRIFIED of bugs! My husband knows when I yell "JOSEPH COME FAST!" It means there is a scary bug trying to get me! Soo.. just like any night we are staying with my mom I put my 3yo son to bed first, and I get ready for bed while he is falling asleep. Only this night, I walk back in to bring him his 2nd cup of water and decide to lay with him. Pull the covers back and see it... right there in the bed with MY SON! I yell.. maybe scream, CALEB GET OUT OF THE BED! And as any good 3 year old would he looks and says "Why?" As the centipede is crawling lightning speed towards his side I start swatting in his direction yelling BUG! BUG! GET UP NOW!! So he promptly jumps up and in my arms starts crying because daddy is at work and can't kill it and mommy just scared the crap out of him. GAAH! And the centipede? GONE! It vanished just like yours! I mean, I stripped the bed, picked up the mattress.. everything! No sign of it. So my mom hearing the chaos gets up (its past 11PM now) to see what is going on. She actually agreed with me that we should sleep in the family room! LOL! Tomorrow the search continues for that darn bug... tonight, we are in a different room. I hate bugs!!
Sugar & Spice Bowtique
...its what girls are made of!
www.myspace.com/sugarandspicebowtique
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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:40:05 -0700
From: scott
Subject: greetings from the west coast
To: oddtodd7@hotmail.com
todd,
yo.. been a fan of the site since your first cartoon
was posted back in like 2002, or something like that.
i was working at a huge dot com at the time, it was a
start up surf, skate and snow website and catalog
business. basically what the fools did was to start
real huge and hire all these important industry people
away from their current jobs in order to start this
crazy business. i was hired as a writer / skateboard
consultant - since i grew up a skateboarder my whole
life. needless to say about a year after working there
about half the people got laid off, but i was able to
keep my job. i worked there for another 2 years and
there were hardly any of us left. i was then relegated
to mail bombings and marketing bullshit. day after day
of sitting behind a computer and answering emails and
just fucking around. i finally got fired when i
responded to some kids email by telling him to fuck
off - not a good thing to brag about and forward to
other people in the company.
so after that i couldn't find a job for a while. then
i decided to get a job at a plant nursery and went
back to community school for plants. did that for a
while and now i have my own small landscaping /
gardening business. pretty sweet. i dig it. i get to
be outside all the time and for the most part people
are cool. it is still work though.
so that is a brief synopsis of me. but wanted to tell
you how much i dig your site. my good friend mike and
i have been avid fans since the beginning. currently i
would have to say i think the whole deng diary is so
damn funny. i just get such a kick out of his emails
and pictures.
anyhow, attached are a few of my favorite things -
kelloggs corn pops - man those things go down so easy.
ever notice how hard it is sometimes to eat cereal?
pops are the bomb. you gotta try them again if you
haven't. york peppermint patties! who would've
thought. sounds like an old lady candy if you ask me,
but man are they good. and of course negra modelo
beer. perhaps the best dark mexican beer on the
planet. sometimes after landscaping all day i get home
and drink one on the couch, and then take one into the
shower with me. i know it sounds ridiculous, but i
have affectionately named it my "shower beer".
so back to my buddy mike, he is quite a case. he has
been unemployed for almost 2 years and is just
hopeless when it comes to getting a job. i keep
telling him to just go out and get a job at starbucks
or something just to make money, but he is so
lethargic and to be honest, not that savy when it
comes to gaining employment. recently he is applying
at libraries. he is taking online courses for his
degree in library science. we'll see. if anyone has
done more wall staring than you, it is definitely him.
anyway, he is a good guy and we both have the same
sense of humor - you know, making fun of people and
crazy stuff that happens. his favorite director is
werner herzog - man does that guy make ridiculous
films. we also love john waters. always been huge
simpsons fans, but hate family guy. fuck the family
guy. we also are huge movie fans but i have more
conventional taste that him. mike just watched german
cinema these days.
mike needs some encouragement. he is also terrible
with the ladies. he is still a virgin at the age of
28. i am really worried about that. not to say i am a
lady killer, but i have had my fair share of steady
lady friends. i just choose to be single cause women
drive me nuts. mike is also a worrier. like most of
us. at one point about a year ago he actually went
nuts and called the police on himself and had himself
taken to the looney bin. took his shoelaces and
everything. he is better now, but just needs a damn
job - or else he'll be movin back in with his parents
and sports banners. ha ha.
hope this mail isn't too long and random. just thought
i'd share some thoughts and stuff. oh yeah, i live in
laguna beach, but am originally from pennsylvania. and
there is a bob cat that drinks out of the pool and
shits on the roof outside my living room window. see
attached pic.
have faith - b positive
scott
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To: oddtodd7@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:11:52 -0400
Subject: Your movies on Widescreen
From:
Hi tOdd,
Dude, your stuff looks SO good on my 46" Sony Bravia LCD!
(No, it's not stretched or pulled. It displays the extra
stuff from the left & right of the standard viewing frame.)
I'd love to send you a few screenshots, but I know a lot
of people don't like/need their inboxes full of pictures
or attachments. And even with broadband, when you see
that Data/Receive LED flashing like crazy for over 10
seconds, you know somebody got a little too overexuberant.
Plus, which email address would you prefer to receive them?
If you choose to receive them at all!
Each pic runs between 100k-125k, and are all 640x480 px.
No, I'm not going to bombard you w/ 20 pix or so, but,
dude, your stuff looks SO good on widescreen!
.swf files enlarge nicely, as you know. Any live-action
video files just show more and more artifacts as they are
enlarged. But any .swf file displays beautifully!
Anyone tells you that you have to convert to .flv files,
Ignore them!
Well, there's my rant. I really enjoy your stuff. I have
a separate folder on my harddrive with your name on it!
I just keep adding to it.
Once a month?
I love you man, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Hope Dr Mental (which looks AWESOME, BTW) is in full production.
Your choice of music, Todd; You totally blow me away.
Even the few times where I am familiar with the music
there is NOTHING that made me say "I wouldn't of used that."
Flash Gordon/Queen in Dr Mental took me a while after I
said to myself "Where'd I hear that?" (repeat 20x)
The last time I saw Flash Gordon, I think I was in Junior HS
and watched it on my dad's Betamax. (No, I'm not... )
All your choice of music rocks!
Including the dance stuff.
Which got me wondering...
How can a guy who has no money get to go to the dance clubs
to hear all the new stuff? Or the cool stuff?
Well, sorry for the extra long note on your out-of-town day,
but I've been meaning to write for a while, and I guess I got
a little too overexuberant.
Better text than attachments!
Later, dude!
Gotta watch Dr. Mental again...
Patrick
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:46:06 +0100
From:
To: oddtodd7@hotmail.com
Subject: Smiles!
Hey Todd,
Your website make me smile.
I'm pretty fickle, so it's literally one of the few I stick with, safe in the knowledge of it's amusing-ness. (Sorry, I couldn't think of an actually word!)
Keep it up!
And hugs to Roscoe. He's such a cutie!
S xx
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Subject: feel better
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:11:09 -0400
From:
To: oddtodd7@hotmail.com
Hi Todd,
I hope you have a nice weekend even if you're feeling crappy. Keep
drinking
that Earl Grey.
Since you lost your camera I'm sending you one (and I'm telling you just
so you
don't run out and spend all kinds of monay on a new one). It uses film, so
I'm
not sure it's what you want, but if not, maybe one of your nephews would
like it
or something.
Feel better soon.
Give Roscoe a scratch on the head for me.
Best,
Maris
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