Mimi and Eunice

Merit

In book called Privilege,
Author talks about “merit”.
Here’s my summary

Famous

Want to be famous
Until I become famous
Ungrateful comic

My Side of the Street

My side of the street
Was covered with excrement.
Now it’s on your side.

Ancestry is Destiny

Some of my ancestors were Slavs, the original slaves:

slave (n.) late 13c., “person who is the property of another,” from O.Fr. esclave (13c.), from M.L. Sclavus “slave” (cf. It. schiavo, Fr. esclave, Sp. esclavo), originally “Slav” (see Slav), so called because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.

My other ancestors were Jews, the original victims. So please don’t play ancestral victim with me. Not because I’ll win, but because it is an extremely stupid game.

Haiku:
Ancestral victims?
Your ancestral oppressors
Are just as dead now.

Alternate Haiku:
Ancestral victims
Yet we all are descended
from the survivors

Copyright Reform

This one’s going into the book.

Update: I’m going to try to write a haiku for every Mimi & Eunice comic this week. Today’s:

Real artists don’t wait
For lawyers and officials
To give permission.

Mimi & Eunice’s Post-Rapture Special

Brand Delusion

Based on a brilliant typo in a techdirt.com comment.

Coping Strategies

I’m posting this as a reminder to myself.

No

I have to say no all the time now, but I still feel like I’m betraying my past self.

Help me choose 40 Mimi & Eunice IP comics!

Regarding my Kickstarter project:

My current task is to select the 40 Mimi & Eunice IP cartoons the minibook will contain. You can sift through the whole IP category here. My current list is below, but it can change. If there are any real winners that aren’t on this list, please let me know by posting its URL in the comments. And please let me know what losers are on my list I should drop, to make room for better ones. Thanks!

1    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/26/patent/
2    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/27/censorship/
3    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/28/price-vs-value/
4    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/28/stealing/
5    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/30/thief/
6    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/30/intellectual-pooperty/
7    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/31/genius/
8    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/06/thou-shalt-not-steal/
9    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/13/free-as-in-free-markets/
10    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/14/freetards/
11    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/15/rivalrous-vs-non-rivalrous/
12    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/25/for-the-children/
13    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/30/something-for-nothing/
14    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/09/06/lawyerarchy/
15    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/09/24/permission/
16    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/09/28/balance/
17    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/01/non-commercial/
18    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/15/authoritarian/
19    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/25/added-value/
20    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/26/watermark/
21    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/27/viral-patent/
22    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/10/29/927/
23    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/17/obscurity/
24    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/22/stealing-labor/
25    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/23/killing-music/
26    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/24/principles/
27    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/02/limits-to-speech/
28    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/14/incentive-to-create/
29    http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/15/balance-again/
30    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/01/04/ye-olde-technologie/
31    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/01/05/killer-of-scribes/
32    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/01/06/ownership/
33    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/02/23/incentive-to-create-ii/
34    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/02/25/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
35    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/01/un-original-business-model/
36    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/10/my-works-are-like-my-children/
37    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/22/protection/
38    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/29/so-much-potential/
39    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/04/11/incentivized-creation/
40    http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/04/20/hitch-your-wagon/