Dork Tower: Health and Unhealth

[womzilla]

I'm happy to have discovered the joys of LJ syndication to tide me over until I get around to setting up my own RSS reader, because it makes it easier for me to keep up with some things.

John Kovalic's comic strip "Dork Tower"--LJ syndicated as dorktowerfeed--is an irregularly updated, often hilarious, comic strip about gamers, pop culture, and stuff. I have a page of links to comic strips that I read regularly--two different custom pages of daily comic strips through the Houston Chronicle, PVP, and some others, but the strips which are irregularly updated are annoying to access that way, since I hate clicking on the link and seeing a strip which hasn't been updated in two weeks.

Anyway. Dork Tower. The latest installment is part of a series about how low-carb diets are being missold as "eat all the fat you can cram down your gullet and still lose weight" diets, centering around a KFC ad trying to present fried chicken as a low-carb healthy food.

The punchline shows Carson (a sentient muskrat) watching a TV commerical:



"Rat poison. No carbs. Never had them, never will..."

Of course, two of the members of my family are currently taking rat poison for their health, and I'm seriously contemplating doing the same. Warfarin, the leading ingredient in many rodenticide mixtures, is marketed pharmaceutically as coumadin, the only currently available oral anti-coagulant.

And it's low-fat, and goes great on salads. (Okay, probably it doesn't. Don't try it.)

Comments

[sraun]

That's a neat thing about Opera - I have a folder of comic URLs, I select "open" on the folder, and Opera opens all the URL's in separate windows. I just close the irregular, unupdated ones after a glance.

Oh - the Dork Tower sequence is being a hoot!

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

The Daily Show had a hilarious bit about an ad which promoted vodka as having no carbs. "You know what else has no carbs? Heroin! Unfortunately, it's very high in ... heroin."