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It's pretty disgusting to think of the cheese produced by your great grandmother. That's just my two cents.

In other news, we should talk about dieselsweeties.com, the webcomic written by R Stevens, a.k.a., rstevens. He's putting on a little contest in which people write blogs about him, his comic or his taste for gross food to try to win prizes by tickling his fancy. R Stevens, prepare to be tickled.

Diesel Sweeties will soon be making the jump from the web to real live newspapers with syndication by United Features. To help the strip get into more papers, R is bribing his online readers (in a good way) to write letters to their local features editors asking them to pick up Diesel Sweeties. The bribe is an official Diesel Sweeties I.D. card signed by R Stevens himself which declares that the bearer of the card "Liked Diesel Sweeties BEFORE It Sold Out." Scroll down on this page to view the card.

Here's my advice to you R Stevens. You're going about this thing all wrong. No one is going to claim to be a fan of Diesel Sweeties once the process of selling out is complete. Anyone who receives one of your "true fan" cards will keep it hidden in shame once your comic has been tainted by newsprint and capitalism. Instead of creating an army of card carrying fans, you should work to amass something like a horde of card carrying undead anti-fans.

You see, soon all your web readers will cringe with shame when they see Diesel Sweeties in print, but none of them will stop reading. You will become a guilty pleasure. Diesel Sweeties will be read for the sake of "irony" with daily readers chuckling to themselves while simultaneously muttering, "I can't believe I'm reading this tripe."

I'm painting a picture of a future where it's cool to have "moved on" from Diesel Sweeties. Here's the beautiful part. The really cool kids will be sick of the strip even before you see print. You can get in on the action by replacing your fan card with this:



Remember, it's not official until you sign it! Since I'm in the UK I'll rattle off a letter to The Guardian and patiently await my anti-fan card.

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 Unknown, at 8:56 AM    Mariquita, at 11:10 AM  

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