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2014-03-29

by shaenon on March 29, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Moe Lane
    March 29, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    …I do not want Zombie Emperor Norton I to go away.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 29, 2014, 10:11 am | # | Reply

      Seconded.

      • KA$H
        March 6, 2016, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

        thirdeded

    • Darkstarr
      May 13, 2016, 6:03 am | # | Reply

      Sad part is that if Shaenon lived in Seattle, she’d probably have added a Zombie Ivar Haglund to this story arc as well!

      Now that would be awesome, even for someone like me who feels that zombies have been totally done to death!

  2. ngmatt8652
    March 29, 2014, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    sooooooooooo, that was it? no huge thing to get in the way? no thing comeing out of left field? thats it, no incident? for this team that is NOT a good sign.

    • Tetra Valent
      March 29, 2014, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      There’s still time for Unity to get back into character and make that headline come true.

    • Candace
      March 29, 2014, 2:40 am | # | Reply

      Wait for it…

    • Z2
      January 13, 2016, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      I come from the future bearing “Good News!”

  3. Andrew
    March 29, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Having been to San Jose…it deserves to be eaten.

    • oneuniverse2
      March 29, 2014, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      There are other towns that deserve it more, but, from what I remember SJ is a good candidate.

      • Squirrel
        March 29, 2014, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        I hope it leaves the one tapioca milk tea place that uses real canned lychee fruit instead of powder and got adopted by a stray cat that sits on people’s laps if they sit outside… 🙁

        • CoffeeRun
          March 29, 2014, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

          Do you mean Hydration or a different Milk tea place with a friendly stray cat in San Jose? I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more than one with that criteria.

          • pharmakeusubik
            October 24, 2014, 12:29 am | #

            A place with that many milk tea cats can’t be that bad. Best reset your sights towards Milpitas.

  4. Manifesta
    March 29, 2014, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Jeff and Shaenon: I implore whichever one of you came up with

    “All I did was try to be nice instead of mean.”
    “It’s remarkable how few leaders aspire so high”

    to run for public office.

    • reynard61
      March 30, 2014, 12:01 am | # | Reply

      Unfortunately, considering the current political climate, he or she would probably lose. No, let the idiots and bloviators among us dance their demented minuet in the hive of scum and villainy that is Politics. The world is far better served by Shaenon and Jeff doing exactly what they’re doing now.

  5. Andrew Trembley
    March 29, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    More likely it would be “Swamp Eats Alviso.”

    And nobody would be the wiser.

    • Altarboy
      March 29, 2014, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      Alviso would be more nutritious, if you were a swamp.

    • jdreyfuss
      March 29, 2014, 9:07 am | # | Reply

      If it made it all the way to Santa Clara, what would the 49ers do? I mean, I know the Raiders would just move to LA again, but would the 49ers just give up on leaving Candlestick?

  6. Jay Eff
    March 29, 2014, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    I say, “Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Space” is an even better headline.

    • jdreyfuss
      March 29, 2014, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      “Nazi-Acquired Space Buddha Eats San Jose”

  7. dexitroboper
    March 29, 2014, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    I think today’s file name “and the taupe” would be an even better headline.

  8. daibhidc
    March 29, 2014, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    (Tune: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?)

    Will the swamp monster eat San Jose?
    If the plan were to go wong.
    (And the likeliehood’s strong),
    Then the headlines would say,

    That swamp monster just ate San Jose.
    Venus is all you would find,
    No more mankind,
    In San Jose.

    Venus is a great big swamp thing,
    Put a waste pipe down as a free bar
    As the sewage flows through there’ll be no need to spar,
    Down the pipe it runs to the plant mass,
    And Venus consumes all there is,
    Metabolising and passing gas.

    Will the swamp monster eat San Jose?
    Unity’s now thinking “Wait,
    It would be really great,
    For the headlines to say,

    That swamp monster just ate San Jose.”
    Venus is all you would find,
    No more mankind,
    In San Jose.

    Norton I says it’s a good plan,
    Venus is angry and far from home,
    Seperate from New Orleans she feels so alone.
    Unity’s trying a nicer way,
    Make Venus feel she’s got a friend,
    And no more zombies will she slay.

    Will the swamp monster eat San Jose?
    Unity’s plan should work out okay,
    Missed chance for headlines in San Jose

    • Classic Steve
      March 29, 2014, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      I knew someone would use that song!

  9. jdreyfuss
    March 29, 2014, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Hey, wait. K.T. is still in the pipe. Is she experiencing the “burns coming out” portion of her Agent Orange cocktail?

  10. Eddurd
    March 29, 2014, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Daibhidc, I was going to use that same tune. That’s what I get for sleeping in on Saturday.

  11. Smithnik
    March 29, 2014, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

    Now we’re back to the Unity we know and love.
    Still, it would be unfortunate if we lost Milpitas as collateral damage to the monster eating San Jose. Losing an entire town of computer hardware companies and Asian restaurants would be truly terrible.

  12. pharmakeusubik
    March 29, 2014, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    San Jose is far too dry for a swamp monster’s meal. It would be dried out before it even started on the suburbs. Altarboy is much closer to the mark. It could have Drawbridge for an appetizer.

  13. NullSet
    March 29, 2014, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

    I suspect Emperor Norton is hinting at plans to install Unity as the new emperor, with his leader remark there.

  14. Saberbeam
    March 30, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Since Emperor Norton believes that the people of Colma desire democracy, I think that Empress Unity is not a likely possibility (which is too bad, cause that would be boss). However, if Emperor Norton does step down, he could make a great consultant for the Skin Horse team.

  15. Guesticus
    March 30, 2014, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

    Just got reminded how homocidal fruit already took out San Jose in the late ’70s

  16. freddiefreelance
    March 31, 2014, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

    “Swamp Monster eats Hanford” just seems much more likely.

  17. WJS
    July 11, 2019, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    I certainly hope they’re not going to just ignore that it killed dozens of people.
    And before any clever-dick says “But it was only hungry!” that mitigates theft, not mass-murder.

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