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As Homer would say, “D’oh!” In a move that wasted $1.2 million in printing costs, the service produced 1 billion of “The Simpsons” stamps and sold 318 million.

The Postal Service inspector general in a report singled out the overproduction of stamps marking the 20th anniversary of the cartoon’s run on News Corp.’s Fox network as an example of failing to align stamp production with demand.

“If the Postal Service can’t address a simple matter such as determining how many commemorative stamps to produce, it shows they can’t address the larger problems,” Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, said. “Unfortunately, even a small item can create larger problems.”

The Postal Service earlier this month said it posted a loss of $5.2 billion in its third quarter and may lose $15 billion in the year ending Sept. 30. It has asked for Congress’s help in cutting costs by eliminating a requirement to pre-pay for future retirees’ health care and letting it stop Saturday mail delivery.

The service could save $2 million annually by ending overproduction of stamps that, like the Simpsons run, end up being destroyed when they don’t sell, the inspector general said.

Mark Saunders, a Postal Service spokesman, declined to comment on the report or why the service produced so many Simpson stamps. “They want the response to the IG to speak for itself,” he said in an interview.

“Unfortunately, even a small item can create larger problems.”

POSTAL SERVICE CAN'T SELL

STAMPS OF 'THE SIMPSONS'

As reported by Bloomberg, Post Office stuck with 682 Million Simpsons stamps it can not sell. D'ohhh!!!

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via: SFGate

String cheese is one of those snack foods that kids go nuts for; and parents love it for its convenience. It's easy to pack in a lunch and is almost impossible to make a mess out of. And because of this, we don't really think twice about this snack food at all. But, maybe we should. If there's any food that should be questioned, you'd think that a string-able cheese would be high on the list. It's a cheese that can do what no other cheese does: it breaks into string-like strands.

But why is string cheese stringy? Has it undergone some insane, and really-bad-for-you process? Is it pumped full of chemicals we can't pronounce that may or may not have side effects? We wanted to squash our curiosity, and so we looked into it. And we found that there's nothing scary behind string cheese -- it's just all about the processing.

String cheese is just mozzarella cheese that has been heated to 140 degrees. At this temperature the cheese becomes very stretchy and the milk proteins move around and line up together in a row. It's this alignment that makes string cheese so stringy! And that's all there is to it. No strange processing. No toxic chemicals. Just the realigning of milk proteins.

Despite the fact that this cheese is string-able, some people still choose to not pull it apart.

WHAT MAKES STRING CHEESE

SO STRINGY?

via: Huffpost

#1) Stop Trying To Imitate Ben Templesmith

Just stop it. Yes, I understand that Templesmith doesn’t seem bound by the chains of anatomy or staying within proper ink lines, which is appealing to artists of limited talent, but that was a conscious choice on Templesmith’s part for 30 Days of Night. He doesn’t always draw like that. He can draw other things. In the decade since that book came out, he’s done so. Templesmith was just riffing on Brian Froud anyway, for God’s sake.

It’s getting to the point where horror comics in general and zombie comics in particular have a canned, cliched art style not unlike the Jim Lee look you find in way too many superhero books to this day. It’s getting to the point where a book like Revival can have an art style that’s way too Jim Lee-esque and I’m happy to see it because at least it’s not another Templesmith knock-off.

#2) Don’t Just Recycle The Same Goddamn Romero Plot

The best current example of this is the superb Vertigo series The New Deadwardians. It’s basically a Masterpiece Theater murder mystery with more vampires and ugly death, but what makes it work is that Dan Abnett makes zombies a key element of the setting without having a bunch of survivors holed up in the Tower of London arguing over who’s better at ruling over the ashes of the human race.

Dan Abnett has instead turned zombies into a commentary on English class structures, but that’s just the setting for a curious and involving story. Half the time the zombies aren’t important…but they’re always there.

In other words, stop trying to rip off Kirkman.

#3) If You Have One Unique Idea, Go With That and Ditch the Cliches

Deadworld: War of the Dead, just released, is a great example of what could have been. Most of the book is essentially a litany of cliches: chick with a katana, dude with long coat wandering post-apocalyptic world, survivors holed up in some military facility that was formerly the site of awful crimes. I’m aware that this is building on a book that’s been publishing sporadically since 1986 but cliches are cliches.

HOW TO MAKE A "ZOMBIE" COMIC WORTH READING

5 STEPS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

The most frustrating things about zombie comics, right now, is that there are just too damn many of them and far too damn many of those have the potential to actually be good and fail.

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Via: Uproxx

NOT REALLY

WHAT YOU EXPECTED, HUH?

via: Ameblo

FILED UNDER: GROSS

If I ruled the world...

Move over, Mayor Bloomberg. Your big-size soda ban was a great start, but, in the Great Soda Wars, you’ve been upstaged by Bolivia.

The central South American country has announced that it will ban the Coca-Cola company by the end of the year. Specifically, Bolivia’s Minister of External Affairs, David Choquehuanca, has said that Coca-Cola will be expelled on December 21 as that date is the same on which the Mayan calendar enters a new cycle. The reason: To celebrate the “end of capitalism.”

Forbes quotes Choquehuanca speaking at a political rally for Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales:

“The twenty-first of December 2012 is the end of selfishness, of division. The twenty-first of December has to be the end of Coca-Cola and the beginning of mocochinche (a local peach-flavored soft drink). “The planets will line up after 26,000 years. It is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism.”

The Bolivian government has been planning to celebrate this date in other ways, including various events that will take place at the Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on La Isla del Sol, one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca.

It’s not the first time a large American corporation has found itself out of favor with the country of about 11 million. McDonalds was unable to make a profit there and pulled out in the early 2000s.

The consumption of Coca-Cola products has tripled in Bolivia since 2001 and has increased notably in all Latin American countries. As WorldCrunch says, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has called on his citizens to drink Uvita, a grape juice produced by a state-run company, instead of Coke. According to the Bolivian website Opinion, both Cuba and North Korea ban Coke.

STUPID COUNTRIES:

BOLIVIA

Bolivia Bans Coca Cola To Honor Mayan “End of Capitalism." I wonder how that's gonna work out for ya. Stupid governments should focus on real issues. What a joke.

Via: alternatenewsmedia2012

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Why do people dance and sing...

in my pee?

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

- Ernest Hemingway

PLANETARY ALIGNMENT WITH THE GIZA

PYRAMIDS, IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE IN 2,737 YEARS.

Brain Beanie

Now, that's what I call a thinking cap.

Wonderful photoshoot with Alysha Nett by Mr. Glass. View the set right here.

"Tony was my dear friend and I will really miss him. He was a creative visionary whose mark on film is immeasurable," My deepest sorrow and thoughts are with his family at this time."

Tom Cruise on the passing of his friend Tony Scott

source: LA Times

Rick Ross makes it to the cover of Rolling Stone. I think this officially puts Rick Ross in the forefront as one of the best to ever do it as Rolling Stone has always been a landmark publication in the eyes of the music industry and this is the ultimate co-sign. Issue is now at the newsstands. Pick it up!

ROLLIN'

ROSS

Rick Ross Makes the Cover of Rolling Stone.

via: The305

Melissa Clarke

She's young, hot and British. But yes, she has all her teeth. She has beautiful teeth actually.

Break Up Make Up

Phonekerchief: My Phone Is Off For You

'The Simpsons' Stamps Don't Sell

Try Hard Every Day

String Cheese: What Makes It Stringy?

How To Make A Good Zombie Comic

Cockroach Princess

Always Remember - Be Nice!

Big Business is a Big World

Bolivia Bans Coca Cola - "End of Capitalism."

Sad Cloud

Ernest Hemingway - The Best People

Planetary Alignment (2012)

Thinking Cap

She-Freak (1967)

Alysha Nett by Mr. Glass

Tom Cruise Will Miss Tony Scott

Rick Ross Makes Rollin' Stone

Melissa Clarke: Young, Hot and British

That's All Folks!