Frequent Occurrences

This happens far too often

Worst...Eye Doctor...EVER

A Walter and Perry Moment

We totally need to get married! And have a motor home! And then we can drive in our house! Our house will drive! (Sorry about the reference, you non-"Home Movies"-fans...you really ought to watch it)

Today was a bad day

Panic! at the Disco

They have not forgotten

Just in Time for the Holidays!

A fun new party game! Because we can't play 'obscene santa' two years in a row.

Something Must Be Done

She's been like this for over a year now...

...and it will be too much of a hassle to change it now.

The Night before the GRE Exam

it's going to be a long day tomorrow.

We'll Be Back Next Week

and this time, we're bringing coffee. and gloves.

Someday I Will Kill Them Myself

A Complex is Born

Ancient Greece: All Wars and...

* Plut. Ant. 70.

Timon was an Athenian and reached adulthood during the Peloponnesian War... He was presented in comedy as hostile and misanthropic...Once at the "Festival of the Pitchers", he and Apemantes were both feasting together, just the two of them. Apemantes said, “O Timon, how lovely this symposium of ours,” and he replied, “it would be, if you weren't here.”

It is said that when the Athenians were holding an assembly he went up to the bema and said, “I have a small site for a house, O Athenian men, with a fig tree growing on it, from which many of my fellow citizens have hanged themselves. I’m going to build a house on that spot, and I wanted to speak to the people so that anyone wishing to can still hang themselves before the fig is cut down."...

Panel 4: The Pigeons Die

Cast of Characters

Archive

We've been making these for over a year now. Here are some highlights (most of which will require an explanation...which will kill the humour by the time we've explained it. Inside jokes suck like that.). Keep in mind that we made these comics a year ago and some of the characters have changed. For example, the image used for the undergraduate student will now forever be known as Jessica's sister and so on.

Jessica's Archive

#1)


The primary deity as a monkey? This is what inspired it. The comic itself was originally inspired by a South Park episode. Don't ask us which one. The punchline? Well, as it said in our interests, Serena likes coffee.

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The following comics feature something that we like to call "The Rage Motif". Last year we were first year M.A. students so we had a lot of rage. We can't claim credit for the 'second hand' joke. It's something we've heard Matthew use and it's based on a poor translation in an Asian video game. Our favourite response to 'now who's second hand?' has always been 'your mom'.

#2)

Really, does this require an explanation? She's moved away to Texas so there is no need for these comics anymore.

#3)


Based on this blog entry

#4)


First dates can be horrific especially with this guy. Inspired by hearing the rendition of this actual 3 hour date from Serena and then Jessica sitting down with the guy herself and realizing that everything Serena said was true.

#5)


First year essays can be horrific especially the excuses that the students invent on why they didn't finish the essay.

#6)


Matthew's favourite activity (telling us to put sugar packets down our shirts).

(That waiter was really into me; I still have the love notes he passed me on napkins with my bill - dizzyweasel)

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Serena's Archive

#1
SJ and I were riding the bus to school one morning, and there was some cheese sitting on the hump near the front of the bus. I was like, "Dude, weird, cheese" and some nerdy kid a few seats back freaked out on me saying, "THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CHEESE! It has calcium and it's delicious! It's my cheese!" Right, like I'm going to argue with a socially retarded nutter on the HSR. Sure dude, you keep your cheese.

#2

Seriously, they do this. Every day.

#3

You know who you are and what this was about :)

#4

Jessica managed to make it through nearly 5 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer several years AFTER it aired without any plot spoilers by any of her friends, all of whom had seen it. Until one fateful night, when SJ's brother's slightly dim gf ruined it all.

#5

I'm a union rep for our department. It was not until the first meeting that I fully realized what that would entail. Many, many hippie-filled hours of communist bullshit, that's what! He needs a chain of daisies, really.

About Us

dizzyweasel: Dizzyweasel is Serena Witzke, a graduate student in Classics at McMaster University. She has many (neglected) blogs and starts a lot of things she doesn't finish. She enjoys coffee (a lot), Apple computers, Myspace, piercings, car rides and grammar.

vespeezy: Vespeezy is Jessica Vahl, also a graduate student in Classics at McMaster University, specializing in archaeology. She adds this blog to a long list of time wasters that include Myspace and Facebook, and will try to use this to procrastinate as often as possible. Jessica enjoys digging for treasure, soccer (watching not playing), traveling, cheesecake, and watching Lost.

Limited By Our Medium: Limited By Our Medium is a blog project by Serena and Jessica, updated whenever we feel like it. We post solely through comics created at Strip Generator. These may or may not be accompanied by explanations (it's more pretentious if you have to guess!). We call it "Limited By Our Medium" because it's pretty hard to describe everyday events through the few characters and objects provided by Strip Generator. You try depicting stuff that happens in cars or bed. Or things that involve characters moving above the one ground line. Can't do it!

The blog has been in the works for over a year, after SJ, a mutual friend, introduced us to the Strip Generator medium. Much time wasting was had by all.