Blogger Goes Batshit:
  For those of you reading Ask LBB on Livejournal or in a feed reader of some sort, I have no clue why Blogger suddenly decided to republish more than a dozen of my recent entries. Unlike the last time this happened, I wasn't muddling about in the archives, or doing anything else that could have caused it. Blogger just seems to have had a Gary Busey moment. Sorry about that.

Whoops.

  So I was doing some blog maintenance, adding tags to old entries. I didn't realize it would republish huge swaths of my archives in one shot. Sorry to everyone whose feed readers/friends pages were overloaded with my drivel. I'll go back to three posts a week now.

  Congratulations to my good friend Pab. He recently signed a three year syndication for his webcomic, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. We're celebrating by revisiting a question he asked right around the time that TNAoQV was just getting started.

Dear Little Bald Bastard,
  What do you get when you fall in love?
- Pab

Dear Pab,
  If you're very lucky, you get a lifetime of happiness, sprinkled liberally with passionate moments and almost no questions about strange genital growths.

  If you're not so lucky, you wind up on Maury for an episode called "My Girlfriend Slept With My Best Friend And Also His Dog And By The Way She's A Man With Three Nuts."

Dear Little Bald Bastard,
  How come Coach bags cost so much when they're probably made by starving children in Nairobi getting paid three cents a day?
- Jenn

Dear Jenn,
  Because it's expensive to be a responsible corporate citizen. Environmentally efficient "green" factories, comprehensive employee benefits, massive donations to underprivileged families, leather taken exclusively from cows that die of happiness; these things are costly, and you should be proud to trade an obscene amount of money for the pleasure of knowing your hideous shoulder bag is contributing to the well being of the whole planet.

  Then again, it's possible that you're paying half a kajillion dollars for ten dollars worth of materials and labor because the popularity of the brand allows its manufacturer to get away with an obscene markup just by virtue of the name. But you're too smart to pay a wildly inflated price for a mediocre product just because of a logo on a tag, aren't you?

  Next week on Ask LBB, lose weight through a simple combination of diet and exercise!

  In honor of my friend Angie's birthday, check out this post from the last time we hung out.


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