Friday, 18 April 2025

Proofreading poetry Pt 2 (Dave's weekly update #587)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:
The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
 
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Longtime AMOC readers may remember back in September when I needed help with a fundraiser for my daughter's middle school dance team. Well, she's back with a fundraiser for her HIGH SCHOOL Dance team. 

So, she's got a calendar for May. Thirty-one squares, you pay the date. So, as an example, Dave Sim's birthday: May 17th would "cost" seventeen bucks. 

Last time I offered prints of Dave's Taylor Swift pieces he did for my kids:
 I have a few sets left...

But, I'm fairly certain that the people who would be willing to chip in ALREADY did last time, and have these. So, I'm thinking of what I could offer... All I can think of is my rejected Turtles card idea:

No idea if I'll do it as a regular card size, or postcard size, or what. More as I make up my damn mind...

BUT that's not all:
The school board gives the dance team $4000 for the year. The team (of 21 girls) has expenses of $9100+. So each kid needs to find a Sponsor.
 
Sponsors get their name/logo on the team's banner (that is at every game they dance at), and on the Fan shirt.

My (lame) employer MIGHT give me the two hundred bucks minimum they're looking for.

I THOUGHT of asking Dave and getting the AV logo on there, but sponsoring a team of mostly underage girls? I can hear the "NO!" from here.

Then I thought, how about a small "local" business. I could ask MJ Sewall if he wanted to pay $200 to get the Alfies Fish & Chips (610 N H St, Lompoc, CA) logo on there... 
But he's a small business owner during his busiest time of year, and how does advertising on the banner of a local high school dance team located two thousand two hundred and forty-eight miles away help his business at all? (I mean, I think it'd be funny...)

Then I thought of getting the brave and loyal AMOCteers to chip in and get the AMOC logo on there... 
  












But: Which one?

But, then I thought, what about a treat for the long-suffering members of the Little Orphan Aardvark Secret Society, and get Aardvark on there:
And then I thought about it, and what would be AMAZING is to get brave and loyal Cerebus fans to chip in and get THIS on there:
Click for bigger

SO, if we can raise AT LEAST Two Hundred American dollars, I'll get this onto my kids dance team banner AND the fan shirts along with a bunch of other loser's logos.

AND I'll make Pud's Tavern merch on the AMOC TeePublic Shoppee.

If you want to make this dream a reality, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com titled "Pud's Tavern" and how much you're willing to give, and I'll let you know where/how to get me the money.

Anyway,
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: A "fun" look at Narutobus variant covers?
  • Sunday: Cerebus back when the tighter continuity started...
  • MondayThe Monday Report, Aardvark-Vanaheim business, and I'm posting the glamourpuss SDOAR pages...
  • Tuesday: Jen's posted all the Dave and Carson pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, and has moved on to the mock-ups Dave produced after that. Donate to The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe to see Dave's mock-ups for the next 400 pages (eventually). $200 until page 112 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. And AND, Birdsong has donated a Carson Grubaugh original SDOAR painting (it was gonna be a cover for an early version.) Jen has all "the deets".
  • Wednesday: Hobbs posts the beginnings of a possible future Cerebus in Hell? Kickstarter Dave DRAWN variant cover.
  • Thursday: Margaret's IS done with Albatross One. If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here, anyway not knowing where to head next, Margaret has decided to go with the LAST notebook, from page one to the end. Currently: Issue #287.
  • Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)
Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.

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  • glamourpuss #18 page 14
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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..."Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".
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Next Time: Well Dave's been faxing me a storm, so probably that.

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