Marine Ecology of the Middle East

It's finally here: PresenTense Magazine Issue One has been released to the public and is available now! This premier issue is full of colorful photographs, essays, and reviews, and if you flip to the end, you'll find my full backpage cartoon illustration, "Marine Ecology of the Middle East".

You can see the complete cartoon online here, but don't miss out on the rest of the issue! Visit PresenTense to find out where you can pick up a copy for yourself, or subscribe and support this new publication.

a zsidó robot

Zsidó is the Hungarian word for Jewish, and today the zsidó robot is happy to learn that my fellow ROI120 travel companions Bruno and Brigitta of Budapest will be translating my weekly ShaBot 6000 comic strips into Hungarian for their blog, Judapest.org.

This week's strip is too punny to be translated into Hungarian and still make sense, but future episodes will be fully translated.

Incidentally, you can also read ShaBot 6000 in Portugese and German.

Baby Chat

I saw my baby niece Lola yesterday, and I didn't even have to leave Brooklyn to do it. Finally, I was able to video conference online, cross-platform from Macintosh to Windows, using Skype for Mac 2.0 Beta.

What does this have to do with Jewish or robots, you may ask? Nothing, except that I suspect Lola may be a human-Cylon hybrid.

An Issue with Food

Whaddup, Shansta?
Heeb Magazine celebrated their eleventh issue, The Food Issue, with another kick-ass party last night. Held at Fat Baby on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the usual suspects made their appearance and posed for the ShaBlog.

Beth Pollak of PresenTense thinks PINK
Heeb's David Kelsey and Sarah Lefton of Jewish Fashion Conspiracy
Avi, David, and Adam Baruchowitz
Fellow ROI120ers Sarah Lefton and Rebecca Wiener, Senior Editor for Heeb
PresenTense Editor-in-Chief Ariel Beery obscured by powerful pre-party host E.V. of Jewschool
West coast's Sarah, and Yoseph of Cannabis Chassidis
Storahtelling David Wolkin and bright-eyed Lindsay of PresenTense and ROI120
Esther K., the Bot, and an encore appearance by Sarah Lefton

Rate the Crap

I got a promotional e-mail announcement for Rate the J.A.P., a disappointingly content-deprived website where you can rate the attractiveness of a scant few Jewish American Princesses on a scale of 1 to 10. Nothing great about the concept or site, but I did find the "Rate My Clit" Google Ad interesting ...