Age Weakens Me. It Weakens Us All.

So Fly and I were talking earlier about how we used to be mighty when we were young. We could eat all sorts of crazy foods and never suffer at all. Apparently tonight, he discovered that he could no longer swallow an entire box of those little candies known as Nerds. The pain.. it was too severe. And I could identify with him.

When I was in my mid-teens, I was well known for scoring a bag of like 200 Pixi Stix and eating them all. And I'd wash them down with like 3 bottles of Jolt Cola. And that was all I'd eat that day. And I was completely fine. I didn't even get cavities! I was surely some sort of king of hero astronaut popes.. or some other mighty person.

Also, when I was thirteen or so, I even developed my own drink called Thunder Charge, which was a mix of Jolt Cola, regular cola (either Coke or Pepsi, I cannot remember), vanilla ice cream or vanilla extract, and a whole fuckton of sugar. I could only drink it a little at a time before my vision doubled. I should have marketed it.

I should have done a lot of things.

However, nowadays, I can't eat even two Twinkies in a row without feeling like I am going to vomit endless amounts of liquid sugar for 5 hours. I also can't eat very hot things after I ate that marble-sized dollop of wasabi that one day when I was fairly hungry. I had a stomach ache for two days after that and haven't been the same since. Hell, it's even to the point where I get a not-so-good stomach reaction if I eat beef, the mildest of all meats next to the gentle chicken.

Sigh. I really want one of those gas station burritos now that I used to eat all the time. This talking of past dietary habits has given me a nostalgic hunger. I shall have to travel up to the PDQ Gas Station at the Hartland/Delafield, WI, exit again so that they can sell me a burrito. I will use their ghetto microwave, just like old times. Mmmm.

Oh - and since I have gotten at least one complaint from a person who enjoys my comics, complaining that I don't draw them often enough, I might as well state this publicly, where 2 readers and the other Staff Writers who already know this will read it:

I finished a comic on Monday. Jeremy just decided to put XV's parasite article up first for some reason. If you are going to take an angry revolution to the streets, take it to Jeremy's streets - not mine.

Yes.