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Joe Mathlete Will Draw Anything You Ask Him To On An Index Card

"Totally not accepting orders for at least the next few weeks, on account of things"

From here:

"Nick and Elly sit at a Jandek concert, pondering his genius"
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

"Where's Waldo? In 'Hell" by Hieronymous Bosch"
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

"Joe Mathlete Takes a Year to Draw An Index Card"
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

And... I think that's it
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

"Joe Mathlete being my boyfriend"
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

"A polar bear beating Bill's ass while Payne eats a popsicle"
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

"Patrick Swayze Riding a Unicorn with Sam Elliot (Moustached Sam Elliot)"
by Joe Mathlete

"a Oaxacan cockfight"
by Joe Mathlete

"George the bad cat being very bad"
by Joe Mathlete

JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

in 500 words or less

From here:

A bright and shiny future
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

20th Century Fox Film Corporation is an asshole
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

This bears mentioning
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

Marmaduke Explained running every Monday Wednesday and Friday
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

Marmaduke Explained lives.
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

29-95.com - a few words about a thing/future of Marmaduke Explained
by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

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by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

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by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

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by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete)

Everything

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by ????? (noreply@blogger.com) at NayaKura -- ???? ????

Iran attacks US over Afghanistan
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Northern Rock sees reduced losses
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Jerusalem row clouds Biden visit
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

US activist Granny D dies at 100
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Ashton sets out diplomatic vision
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Economic storm not over, says PM
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Onions ruled out of opening Test
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Actor Sheen 'set for TV return'
at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Random feed

From Conditional Axe:

Announcement
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

In Absentia
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

I Present A Solution To The Current Economic Crisis
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

My Ever-Expanding Ego
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Minx Closes Doors, DC Continues To Display Immunity to Self-Promotion
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Final Score: Murder Simulators 32, Thompson 0
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Comics News - Baltimore Pre-Game
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Gambit Week Supplemental: Dream of World Peace
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Link Love
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

A series of tubes.

Joe Mathlete vs. The Internet blogcircle (See site here)

Exactly what it sounds like except not really.

    And you're going to need to choose a username, so that you can edit your settings later:


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A bright and shiny future

Posted 2010-01-19 18:47:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

Thanks in part to Hollywood's refusal to pass up a terrible, terrible idea (see previous post), this is shaping up to be a busy year for me. I've got a couple of announcements I'm not quite ready to announce yet, but in the meantime didja notice the slick new layout we put together for the new Marmaduke Explained archives over at 29-95.com? It's now much easier to navigate, and I'm working towards getting the previous installments posted there as well. Can't you already feel how much life is already improved? Food tastes better, music sounds better, laughter comes from the heart.

If you've got some perverse loyalty to Blogger.com (who, to be fair, have been very very good to me) and have yet to check out the new stuff, you're missing scads of important water cooler moments such as

"Marmaduke is afraid of vacuum cleaners because he is a dog and all dogs are afraid of vacuum cleaners"

and

"Marmaduke expressed his anal glands on some throw pillows to indicate which couch his owner-couple should purchase"

and

"Marmaduke is cosplaying as Natasha Henstridge's character in Species"

and

"Marmaduke writer/creator Brad Anderson is like totally tripping"

and

an emo joke at least four years past its expiration date.

I draw cartoons, too - yellow ones about dating and green ones about everything except dating. Why yes, they ARE highly derivative of the Far Side! Thank you for noticing.

The future: so bright it stings.

20th Century Fox Film Corporation is an asshole

Posted 2010-01-07 02:10:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE



Hit me with all you've got, Owen Wilson. I will keep fighting the good fight.

This bears mentioning

Posted 2009-10-30 17:43:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

I'm still explaining Marmaduke, quite regularly. Today this happened and I figured I ought to share.

Here's a link to the new Marmaduke Explained archive again, and here's a way to find a lot of the other stuff I'm writing at 29-95.com. Also you can just google "Joe Mathlete" any old time you want and see what pops up. I've done it before, it's neat. You should try it with your own name, too.

Marmaduke Explained running every Monday Wednesday and Friday

Posted 2009-05-18 08:55:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

For the time being at least. On 29-95.com, a website on the internet. Check 'em out at http://29-95.com/timesuck; if you click on the tag ("Marmaduke Explained") on any given post you can get to all the previous ones pretty easily.

I've only been doing them a few weeks there and already I've hit my first "just a bunch of all-caps swearing at Brad Anderson" wall. C'est la 'duke.

If you are into Twitter I have one of those now

Posted 2009-05-18 08:36:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG

It's right here. I've only been doing haiku so far and I think I'm going to be able to stick with it. Feel free to be my Twitterbuddy or however that works.

I am Twitterbuddies with Slim Thug, it's awesome. He doesn't want to take blood pressure medicine because he won't be able to get an erection. This is a fact that I know.

Also totally do go to www.29-95.com/timesuck to see things I do.

(side note: if you would describe yourself as "into Twitter" without being prompted, no offense but we would probably not hang out as I still don't get what it's about and in a lot of ways I am weird about the internet to begin with)

Hi there Houston: I will be at the Art Car Parade Saturday drawing stuff for free

Posted 2009-05-08 18:20:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG


The Art Car Parade is an annual event here in town where people who drive Art Cars come from all over the country and close down streets I usually drive on and a lot of years I forget about it until I have somewhere to go and I see all these orange cones and I go "shit, it's this thing again." I have been before and it's pretty neat, though; people from all over the country who drive Art Cars (which can range from cars meticulously decorated to look like things like sharks or tanks or cockroaches to just cars with a bunch of random shit glued to them for no good reason) come to my town and go crazy for several days, and it culminates in a big parade on Saturday.

I have been set up with a little booth where I'm drawing pictures for people, taking requests like with the thing I used to do with index cards. It should be a lot of fun. Come say hi if you live where I live and are going to be at the parade and I'll draw you something silly.

In other news, Funniest British and/or Jewish Comedy and/or Music Trios Week continues for some reason on 29-95.com. Finalists include The Beastie Boys, the crew from the Ricky Gervais Podcast, Yo La Tengo, Stella, and The Police (that one should be up sometime later today).

Marmaduke Explained lives.

Posted 2009-05-04 21:15:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

Lookit lookit lookit the first post over here at 29-95.com. I'm totally doing these on a regular basis again. They've got RSS feeds and other web two point oh things I honest to god still don't understand, if that makes it easier on you. Also, like I said in my last post I'm writing other stuff (this week is Funniest British and/or Jewish Comedy and/or Music Trios Week, for some reason. I'm also reviewing The Godfather Part III - again, for some reason).


I'm probably one step closer to getting sued. Break out the champagne!

What you have been missing if you haven't been looking at 29-95.com

Posted 2009-05-04 21:23:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG

A bunch of stuff by a bunch of people writing about stuff, first of all. If you were specifically interested in stuff I was doing:


A review of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond on mute

A Shrek-themed wedding and the existence of Warcraft pornography make me upset

How Was I Not Fired, Part Two

Lotsa comics (scroll down a little bit)

One of my favorite local bands plays a song in my living room

Marmaduke Explained (still pisses me off after almost three goddamn years)

Coming soon: a review of the Godfather Part III where I mostly just ask a bunch of angry rhetorical questions and swear, a review of the Wolverine movie co-authored by my childhood, and a continued listing all week of the Funniest British and/or Jewish Comedy and/or Music Trios.

Check out the Now Train, future-style! (tm)

(sorry)

29-95.com - a few words about a thing/future of Marmaduke Explained

Posted 2009-04-24 03:43:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

So:

I'm writing for a new website, like on an everyday-type basis. It's called 29-95.com and it's based out of Houston, my hometown. They've got most of my stuff in the "Time Suck" section, on account it's SO ADDICTIVE IT LITERALLY SUCKS AWAY YOUR SPARE TIME LIKE A VAMPIRE. So far it's a couple of crudely-drawn comic strips, "Sauce Policy" and "Dating is Hard," as well as a work in a similar vein to my Great American Blog stuff. Some highlights:

What I Think Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" Sounds Like, Without Ever Having Heard It

How Was I Not Fired

Can Your Preacher Turn Into an Airplane?

Drawing Index Cards, Live In Person

Ruined Movie Soundtrack Smorgasbord

Now: I know a lot of you never cared too much about the other stuff I've done, and that's cool; I always thought it was silly when the host on SNL wanted to sing a song, regardless of their background or interests or whatever. I mention this here rather than on my other blog for three reasons:

1. It stands to reason this blog just gets more traffic, even when it hasn't been updated in forever (which is often lately)
2. I did mention it on my other blog, in more depth
3. Starting sometime in the next few weeks, I will be doing Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke on 29-95 on a regular basis OH SNAP ASHTON!

Still working out some specifics, but yes, after over a year I will be back on a regular schedule explaining Marmaduke. Stay "tuned" for more information; I'll let you know what I know when I know it. For now, if you'd like to read some more in-depth thoughts about the new site, please read 'em here.

Beats,

Joe Mathlete

29-95.com - Joe Mathlete returns to the internet! Like, every damn day!

Posted 2009-04-24 02:34:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG

First of all: 29-95.com. BUT: Maybe more importantly:


What I Think Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" Sounds Like, Without Ever Having Heard It

How Was I Not Fired

Can Your Preacher Turn Into an Airplane?

Drawing Index Cards, Live In Person

Ruined Movie Soundtrack Smorgasbord

As you guys have noticed, I don't update this blog very often anymore, nor any of the blogs I keep. There are reasons for this: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You may not find all of those valid or relevant, but they were all factors for me laying lower than I did in, say, 2007. But if you miss those heady times when I worked an office job and was so bored that every day I'd do something like replace one word from every CNN.com headline with "Grandpa" (I had better days, too), well, I wanted to let you know I'm writing stuff on a daily basis again, and you should read it 'cuz it's good.

The website, like it says up there, is 29-95.com. That's the latitude and longitude of Houston, my hometown, of which I am very fond (true story: I am actually wearing a shirt that says "it's okay to (heart) Houston" right now; I considered taking a webcam picture of the lame coincidence but a) seemed contrived and b) I've had the flu for a week and a half and I look like a doodoo zombie.) Though the site is Houston-centric, I won't actually be writing about Houston too often, though.

My section's called Time Suck, though I'll sometimes be doing work in other sections. I'll be giving them at least one post a day, plus two original comics, "Sauce Policy" and "Dating is Hard" (you can scroll down to see the first few) and a poorly-shot video of a band playing in my living room every two weeks. They haven't really set any limits for me; they've actually used the words "my playground" more than once, which I am okay with.

Honestly, the guys who have started the site have been enormously cool to me; my editor, Sara Cress, has given me an enormous amount of creative freedom, and between my freelancers checks and living like a pauper in an extraordinarily affordable city I am able to live mostly off of this. After a year and a half of working mostly as a movie theater lackey (see above, "How Was I Not Fired"), a grocery store food guy (it was a really good one but had crazy downsides, and anyway they fired me) and an actor (shut up), it will be wonderful to focus on writing goofy shit again, and drawing goofy shit again, and actually spending time on the internet again. I hope you'll check it out.

Beats,

Joe Mathlete

P.S. -- I literally did almost forget this: Starting soon, I will be doing Marmaduke Explained on the new site. Like, regularly.


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Posted 2009-04-22 00:15:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Marmaduke's owner-man can justify it however he wants, but there is only one explanation: he lets Marmaduke dig because he is a big pussy.

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Posted 2009-04-13 06:39:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Marmaduke tipped a cab driver with a bone. But presumably he paid the actual fare with cash, which honestly seems much weirder to me...

Sometimes I find myself thinking about these things for too long and it's never good for my health.

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Posted 2009-04-06 19:11:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

Marmaduke creator Brad Anderson has a dim awareness that something significant is going on in the news lately with economics, and he might as well try to write a comic strip about it.

Dating is Hard

Posted 2009-04-03 20:20:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG


Side note - I have a big announcement to make soon. Really!

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Posted 2009-04-01 20:32:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE

Marmaduke is so big and humongous, it would take a whole entire tow truck just to pull him off the sofa!

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Posted 2009-03-30 09:41:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Marmaduke is about to sodomize a banker into signing his owner-man's loan papers.

And yes, before I get any emails, Marmaduke will probably eat the banker after he sodomizes him. What else would he do?

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Posted 2009-03-26 16:49:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Marmaduke vomited the contents of a child's toybox and a couple of femurs onto an old lady.

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Posted 2009-03-25 02:41:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Taaaaaaaake... Onnnnnn... Meeeeeee...

The Mathletes - Linger (Cranberries cover)

Posted 2009-03-16 20:11:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE'S GREAT AMERICAN BLOG

Sometimes I have ideas, and sometimes I carry out these ideas.



The Mathletes - Les Os (Unicorns cover) video coming soon.

http://myspace.com/themathletes

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Posted 2009-03-16 05:27:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Mathlete) at JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY'S MARMADUKE


Marmaduke is yellow on Sundays and brown the rest of the week.

(I don't read the Sunday Marmadukes very often, and with good reason. I don't know what it is but the dialogue reads like it was translated from some another language. A CONFLICT OVER WHO IS THE BOSS isn't exactly A WINNER IS YOU or ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US, but I think a copyeditor couldn't hurt here. Also maybe somebody to come up with a joke every now and then.)