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Aug. 7th, 2008 | 08:43 pm



Poor Yeats. He even wrote, as a poet for the country I guess, a half-arsed eulogy for Major John MacBride when that fellow went and got hisself killed in the Easter Rising.

oh yes oh yes I must make a comic of the Easter Rising (James Connolly, be still my heart)

Oh and yes I have been home in Nova Scotia at a family reunion or the past couple weeks, I am so hungover and tired my body is not going to forgive me for months and months and months.

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H. Duck

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from: [info]eptified
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 11:55 pm (UTC)
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"come into the garden maud" is best recited to the tune of the can can

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:07 am (UTC)
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I did not know this

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Feathers and confectionary airs

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from: [info]puritybrown
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 11:56 pm (UTC)
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If you do a comic about the Rising, will you do one about the fact that they dug trenches in Stephen's Green? Because apparently that's what you do when you're at war: you dig trenches. Even if you're in a city park, surrounded by tall buildings. Yup.

Oh! Oh! And one of the major bases for the rebels was a biscuit factory. A biscuit factory. ...at least the troops were fed? On biscuits, but still.

Sometimes, it amazes me that Ireland ever became a sovereign nation.

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leslesrev

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from: [info]leslesrev
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 05:58 pm (UTC)
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hey, napolean ate biscuits, and it worked for him.

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Bill

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from: [info]mycroftholmes
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 11:56 pm (UTC)
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

(...wow.)

Oh poor Yeats, what foul treachery blackened your artist's soul? Oh right, that bitch Maude!

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Matt

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from: [info]mattmatt
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 02:05 am (UTC)
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Nothing to say. I just had to chime in with this userpic.

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Ryan Pequin

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from: [info]ryanpeq
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 11:56 pm (UTC)
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going home is a harrowing experience! i too am finding my body fairly destroyed by the elements (and booze)

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Rescue Archaeologist

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from: [info]talcotts
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 11:58 pm (UTC)
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This just made my night. Thank you!
I love how you can watch his heart break in the third panel.
I love your facial expressions.
Erm, the ones you draw.
Although I suppose yours are probably okay as well.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:48 am (UTC)
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mine look bad in photographs

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mr_lambi

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from: [info]mr_lambi
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:00 am (UTC)
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The birth of emo?

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Nick

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from: [info]captrenault
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:05 am (UTC)
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Didn't know Yeats had a spiral notebook.

The things I learn from you...

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:08 am (UTC)
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Everyone I draw with a notebook has the same notebook

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annemjw

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from: [info]annemjw
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:07 am (UTC)
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Bahahaha, love the background action.

And now back to my boring essay about Wordsworth! Oh Wordsworth, I think you underestimate how much I don't caaaaaare.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:48 am (UTC)
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hahahah

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annemjw

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from: [info]annemjw
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:07 am (UTC)
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Also, two comics in a row! Double the comic excitement!

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George

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from: [info]jestermotley
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:25 am (UTC)
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Awww, well Ms. Beaton luckily you have many hundred man-servants to take care of all you chorres and make sure your body is taken care of.

Obviously, I'm not Yeats, I couldn't think of a way to say that didn't vaguely sound sexual, which i DO NOT mean it to sound as. Seriously, my intention was nothing of the sort.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:49 am (UTC)
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I did not know I had this resource

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Hollschen

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from: [info]evil_holls
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:29 am (UTC)
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oh, this is so so good. I always cringed reading those horrible Yeats love encounters.

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Crustacelicious

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from: [info]astrocrabpuff
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
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Somehow in high-school English class they always sounded so - stupid. Who knew they could be enhanced with a spiral bound notebook and some shooting?

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floofyscorp

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from: [info]floofyscorp
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:33 am (UTC)
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I love this, yeats was such a silly crazy man. I never got to use all the insane trivia my english teacher told us about him in the exam though, pity as that always seemed to stick better than the poetry dissection bits.

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Shih Tzu

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from: [info]shihtzu
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:43 am (UTC)
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Hahaha, poor Yeats! He was a hundred years too early for the revenge of the nerds. I also like this biography quote I found on Wikipedia: "when he duly asked Maud to marry him, and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter."

It is great to have Kate Beaton comics again! Please get as wasted as you choose, so like Yeats, you can temper your art through suffering. No wait that's rude

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:49 am (UTC)
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her daughter said no too! He regretted it later

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bigsby

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from: [info]lordstarfish
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:45 am (UTC)
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Yeats! You could write me faggy poems, I would love them.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:50 am (UTC)
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a book of faggy poems comin up

that maude, she got a way with disrespectin' words

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Alright In Sort Of A Limited Way For An Off-Night

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from: [info]grammardog
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:54 am (UTC)
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I love this one so hard.

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Monstro Wolfhard

Gryeat job!

from: [info]monstro
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:56 am (UTC)
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Yeats, more like ... "Gryeats".

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Monstro Wolfhard

Re: Gryeat job!

from: [info]monstro
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:56 am (UTC)
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Ugh, regret.

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Teka Lynn

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from: [info]tekalynn
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 12:59 am (UTC)
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Bwa ha ha! Poor Yeats.

(Not.)

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The Medieval Geek

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from: [info]matrygg
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:00 am (UTC)
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Speaking of Connolly, have you heard the song James Connolly, by Black 47? I can't find a good video of it, but the lyrics are here.

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Nerdgasms "Hussein" Arugula

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from: [info]wmk06
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 07:32 am (UTC)
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The first time I heard that song I almost wet my pants during the spoken word portion, but I have since grown to love it. Glad you recc'd it...I completely forgot!

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PalusButeo

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from: [info]palusbuteo
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:04 am (UTC)
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Hot Damn your comics RAWK!

Love the facial expressions! Just priceless!

You really have a knack for being able to illustrate 'pregnant pauses', and background schenanegans are just too funny!

These two and the one with Nikoli Tesla are certainly among my favorites :D

Keep on rockin!

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 12th, 2008 07:20 pm (UTC)
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haha thanks!

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from: [info]emperoroficecreamcakes.blogspot.com
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:12 am (UTC)
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Ahh, Yeats. It is well-known that he had a planchette in place of a peen; no wonder it led him all woo-woo astray.

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NoBodies

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from: [info]endzero
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:26 am (UTC)
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oh man, Easter Rising, that started on my b-day. my grandparents always made a big deal about this.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 12th, 2008 07:20 pm (UTC)
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nice! your grandparents are cool I mean

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lilacsigil

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from: [info]lilacsigil
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:28 am (UTC)
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A ha ha THE MIGHTY DISDAIN on her face!

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Paul le Fou

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from: [info]paul_le_fou
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:30 am (UTC)
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Good to have you back, Beaton.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 12th, 2008 07:21 pm (UTC)
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why hello

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Electra

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from: [info]starlady38
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:31 am (UTC)
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Oh man. and when he finally did get married he didn't give two cents about his kids, it's so blindingly obvious from family photos it's painful.

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victoriavandal

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from: [info]victoriavandal
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 09:30 am (UTC)
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And his poor bloody wife! She had to pretend she was getting spirit messages to interest him in her!

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liexile

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from: [info]liexile
date: Aug. 8th, 2008 01:54 am (UTC)
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Welcome back. Looking forward to some new family comics. Aspirin every 4 hours and lots of water will have right in no time. Avoid red wine at all costs.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Aug. 12th, 2008 07:21 pm (UTC)
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ah I think I will leave them be this time

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