Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

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Smita the mp3 blogger

Smita is an mp3 blogger and Brett‘s girlfriend. She leaves him for the Internet, which knows her taste better.

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Popularity rank 1 #253. Back together

August 21, 2009

BRETT: Honey, I'm happy we're back together.
SMITA: Me too, sweetie. The Cloud seemed like a perfect boyfriend...

SMITA: But there're some things you can do that an intangible and ever-changing manifestation of my Internet preferences never could...

BRETT: Like sex?
SMITA: No. No, I had sex with him. It was great.

SMITA: But you... you'll LIE to me.
BRETT: Yes I will.

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Popularity rank 2 #252. Moving in with The Cloud

August 20, 2009

BRETT: I give up, Cloud. You're a better boyfriend than I could ever be. Date her. Move in with her. Whatever.
THE CLOUD: Oh, we won't move in together.

SMITA: WHAT? Why NOT?
THE CLOUD: Well, I don't have the bandwidth to upload YOU, and your place... smells like VANILLA.

SMITA: Vanilla smells GOOD!
THE CLOUD: Not THAT much vanilla.
SMITA: UNSUBSCRIBE!!
THE CLOUD: Very well. POOF

BRETT: Um... I like vanilla.
SMITA: You're BACK in!

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Popularity rank 3 #248. Catsitting web history

August 16, 2009

BRETT: So now that you're dating her, has she... told you stuff about me?
THE CLOUD: No. But I have access to her Web history while you were catsitting for her.

THE CLOUD: It paints an odd picture. You spent all your time at two sites: McSweeneys.com and "Big Tits At School".

BRETT: HEY... I went to that second one IRONICALLY.

BRETT: At FIRST...
THE CLOUD: Interestingly, you alt-tabbed between the two a LOT...

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Popularity rank 4 #247. Post-breakup Facebook strategy

August 15, 2009

BRETT: So she's "hidden" me. But I'll still see her and all her friends in my feed.
THE CLOUD: Well, I can unfriend them.

BRETT: NO! I don't want her to think I'm GIVING UP on her!
THE CLOUD: Of course, then I can just HIDE them.

BRETT: Well, but I want to keep tabs on them... though not her GUY friends.
THE CLOUD: I... suppose I could create a LIST that-

BRETT: While you're at it, hide her stupid KICKBALL TEAM pictures!
THE CLOUD: OK, um... now do you have Greasemonkey installed?

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Popularity rank 5 #245. The Cloud’s favorite band

August 13, 2009

BRETT: Does your "cloud boyfriend" like music?
THE CLOUD: 65.3% of males matching Smita's most desired demographic list "Moby Grape" as a favorite band.

THE CLOUD: So Moby Grape is MY favorite band.
BRETT: Ugh... Can't you see how PHONY that is?

BRETT: He just morphs to whatever you want!
SMITA: Yes. He is... a SYCOPHANT.

SMITA: But he's very transparent about the process...
THE CLOUD: My ass-kissing is completely open source.

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