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    <description>a semi-autobiographical comic based in new york</description>
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    <copyright>© 2003-2007 Derek Lieu</copyright>
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      <title>Bathroom Damage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Don't believe me? <a href="http://www.kickinthehead.org/temp/toilet_broken.jpg">Check this out</a>. Sorry for the bathroom oriented comics week. Barring any more extraordinary circumstances I don't think tomorrow's will be.]]></description>
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      <title>Bathroom Commentary</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Actually I already know who the person was, and I even know that they're horribly embarrassed for whistling because they initially thought they knew who the person in the stall was, but it wasn't. Now they know though because I know they read my comic and will probably be IMing me in T-minus 3...2...1...</p>

<p>Check out my <a href="http://dereklieu.wordpress.com">new blog here.</a> Today is my review of "My Japanese Coach" for Nintendo DS. (These blog links will stop after today, I don't mean to spam.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Subway Destination</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Okay so maybe they didn't run onto the subway car gleefully, but they definitely said that as I was getting out of the uptown Q train at Union Square.</p>

<p>Check out my <a href="http://dereklieu.wordpress.com">new blog here.</a> Today is the first article about movie trailer trivia!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Sexy Foreign Films</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These ads are all over midtown right now for these $300 video goggle sort of things. There are a few other photos with different genres of shows, but this one struck me as particularly absurd. Why is it "sexy foreign films?" What the heck is even an example of a "sexy foreign film?" I'm just picturing the original saying "foreign films" until some marketing people decided it sounded too boring so they decided that "sexy foreign films" would sound better. The absurdity is multiplied because they put it with the only person in the ad campaign who looks like they have a ethnic or mixed ethnic background.]]></description>
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      <title>New Blog!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>My long dead Livejournal has just about turned to dust so I decided to create a <a href="http://dereklieu.wordpress.com">totally new blog talking about my hobbies</a>. Specifically I'm going to use it to talk about restaurants and shops in New York, movies (with a focus on kung fu movies), movie trailers, anime and video games. These just about cover the things that dominate my life in and outside of work. Only thing I'm not going to talk about is Apple Computer stuff because I know how annoying it is to hear Apple fans gush about Apple products, and it just wouldn't be that interesting. </p>

<p>Yesterday while I should've been doing my comic I was messing around with the Wordpress themes, widgets until past midnight. Then I realized I should just do a comic about making the blog since that would also be a good way to tell people about it. Also in my navbar I replaced my even-deader-than-my-livejournal forum button with a blog button! Most of the time was spent finding one with a color scheme I liked, but then I realized for easy reference I wanted the "categories" page to have a list of posts without the content so in the end I chose utility over beauty.</p>

<p>The blog will be separate from my comic so there will be virtually no crossover. The only things that will cross over will probably be stuff about restaurants and food in New York. I have an introductory post and my first restaurant review for Minca Ramen Factory. Please check it out, I hope it will be interesting to people other than just my immediate family.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Employee Appreciation Day pt 2</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I spend $2.00 on my bagel with cream cheese. Back in the day (less than two years ago I think) it was $1.55. If for some reason I haven't bought my half gallon of Tropicana orange juice from the deli in Brooklyn (it's at least one dollar cheaper than buying in Manhattan) then I buy a small orange juice which is actually $2.25.]]></description>
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      <title>Employee Appreciation Day</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This may or may not have happened at a place that I've been employed. Can you feel it?]]></description>
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      <title>Widescreen Future</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Since Election Night I've had my TV actually hooked up with an antenna so I've been thinking about this lately. It's been ages since I watched regular TV so I hadn't realized that so much of it was already HD. Commercials, news and lots of TV shows are already HD. This weekend I had the I'll-watch-anything-in-HD syndrome though I don't have cable so I wasn't watching nature programs. I was watching regular TV which is far worse. </p>

<p>Then I got to thinking that generations of kids will be growing up with widescreen TVs and wonder why it is that not all shows fill the entire screen. Also the term "full screen" will probably disappear eventually if/when all TVs are widescreen. Will movies lose more novelty as our TV becomes more cinematic?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I don't know about other cities, but the day after the election I got this feeling of a glow over the city. Sure on the subway people had their usual street faces, but looking at them I felt like underneath they're much happier or at least more optimistic. I'd say it's pretty safe to say considering over 60% of New York voted for Obama. </p>

<p>I'm sure at some point the glow will wear off and we'll be back to being irritated at each other for small things, but for now it's a good feeling. Though maybe the inauguration will give the glow a boost again. I know for now just thinking about it instantly puts a smile on my face.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>2008 - Barack Obama is President-Elect!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Last night I went to The Onion's election party which had comedy routines and CNN on the TVs in the bar. I didn't watch the comedy routines, and instead stayed in the bar with friends watching the results of the election as they came out. Whooping and cheering whenever Barack Obama won a state and booing whenever John McCain won a state. I didn't think that there'd be a winner by the time I left the bar, but I stayed until after midnight screaming my lungs out after the west coast polls closed and Obama had officially became the president-elect. </p>

<p>I took pictures and hugged all my friends nearby, all the way almost never believing what was happening was actually happening. On the way home I heard the hooping and hollering of people on the street for this truly historic moment. This is a moment in time that I will never forget, and will be proud to tell future generations to. </p>

<p>If I sound a bit incoherent right now it's because of all the celebrating I did at said bar, and now I sit at home still scarcely believing that what is happening now is actually happening.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Election Day 2008</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Since I'm writing this about six hours before I'll actually be at the voting area I have no idea if they'll still be using the same old voting machines. I hope they are, I'm rather fond of that large handle you have to pull to close and open the curtains, it has a very satisfying feel to it. </p>

<p>A friend of mine was saying yesterday: "I don't just want Obama to win I want it to be a LANDSLIDE." Here's hoping.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Day Before Election Day 2008</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I was talking to my mom yesterday, and she kept on reminding me to vote. Actually most of the emails and phone calls for the past few weeks have been reminding me to vote. Though it seems a bit absurd for me to hear that at this people because for I don't know how long I've been checking election related news BY CHOICE every single day for a very long time. Sufficient to say I've never been this informed about a presidential election in my entire life. </p>

<p>Yes I know states don't get much bluer than New York, but I'm going to be up very bright and early Tuesday morning to vote. This is the first time ever that I know I've had DREAMS about getting up to place my vote. My hands will probably be trembling as I do it for real tomorrow.</p>

<p>I know from obsessively checking my web counter that I don't get much more than 100 views a day, but if you're a registered voter in the U.S. this is my reminder for you to GO OUT AND VOTE!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Halloween 2008</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I passed by New York Costume on Broadway last night and seriously the line was at least a block long, it was pretty ridiculous. I wonder how long it took for the person in back to go and get their costume.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I think word is starting to get out that I was the one who posted the sign in the kitchen asking for my spoon back. It doesn't matter so much since my spoon is in the cup at my desk, but if people know how anal I am about my own spoon it can't hurt.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Okay so it's kind of a retread of yesterday's comic, but I wanted to give an update. So my spoon still wasn't returned after lunch time so I made a sign that read something like: <i>"Do you have a metal spoon at your desk that isn't yours? Well it's probably mine. Please wash it and return it to the dish rack. Actually it's TWO spoons. Thank you</i></p>

<p>The spoon I most recently brought to work was in the sink by the end of the day, but still no sign of the first one which went missing a while ago. I'm not holding out as much hope for that one, but we'll see.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[So yesterday during lunchtime my spoon was gone AGAIN! Even worse is that by the end of the day it still hadn't returned. If it's not there tomorrow I'm leaving a note in the kitchen, and if/when I get it back that spoon is staying at my desk when I'm not using it. Grrrrrr.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ages ago I brought my own metal spoon to work for when I'm eating lunch I bring to work. At some point it mysteriously vanished. So I brought another spoon and a day or two afterwards found it in the sink meaning someone else was using it. Is it naive of me to think that people when eating lunch will look at a spoon and say "Hey, this isn't my spoon I will not use this." I know what spoon is mine and I know that the spoons aren't property of the company and therefore not communal. Is this just me or is this a little gross?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the entrance to my subway station it used to just be someone giving out Metro New York, but now AM New York is there too handing out papers. I'm of the belief that the people handing out the papers don't get paid enough to care if people take theirs or not, but I just thought it was kind of a funny situation.]]></description>
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