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The Rockwood Mailbag

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Updated on May 11, 2004
		May 9, 2004 Admittedly, as a PC user, I enjoy seeing this even more than Team Rockwood does, but even Douglas Adams expressed his occasional...exasperation with his beloved Mac... BTW, don't forget Towel Day! It's way more fun than 6.02257x10^23. --Brian Layman
		Oh, Brian. Why must you turn this web site into a house of flame? By the way, there is some rough language in Brian's first link, just so you'll know. However, OUR latest Mac/PC story is this: Another PC-based department where Brian works had spent literally a week (okay, about 30 work-hours) trying to get a large (40-inch by 60-inch) Illustrator document to save on their 3-month-old PC. Finally, after multiple failures and backed up against a deadline, in rode Brian and his 3-year-old Mac to the rescue. It took 10 minutes to download the Illustrator CS demo and the remainder of the hour to save the document to a printable version. One hour versus thirty. We'll take those odds. But thanks for the heads up on Towel Day. We're still upset that we missed Star Wars Day, if for no other reason than we love puns!
		May 10, 2004 I write this letter with some reluctance. When I first started reading Rockwood, it was funny. There was a light-hearted sense of humour. Now, the not-funny comics are starting to outnumber the funny comics. I do realize that we can't expect all your comics to be gems, and I'd like to applaud you for spending your free-time writing and drawing Rockwood. But everytime you veer into the political realm, you become unfunny. You start sounding like a hysterical Bush apologist. That's your right however. I just think that you are funnier when you are doing non-political humour. Hope you're enjoying your new house! --Michael
		Is being a hysterical Bush apologist better or worse than being a hysterical Bush hater? We hardly think we qualify for either, Michael. Including Monday's strip, our political strips this year have been limited to some joshing about Kerry's VP choice, a couple of pokes at crazy-man Howard Dean, and a questioning of Richard Clarke and the hysteria around him. We don't think that seven strips in five months is a whole lot, and we don't think that any of our strips approached the viciousness unleashed against one single soldier that--in theory--Rall supports, even if he doesn't support the war. Look, Rall is a Bush-hater. That's fine. As president and as a public figure, the price Bush has to pay is that a lot of people won't like him. And although Rall's style is caustic, until now we hadn't seen him stoop to libeling an individual soldier for his military service. By contrast, Robin Williams doesn't care for Bush either, but he does support the troops. You won't see any anti-Robin Williams cartoons in Rockwood because of that. If calling Rall on his tastelessness makes us Bush apologists, well, fine. We can take that. But our only real regret is that we couldn't have drawn him any smaller. Oh, and the house is great. Thanks for asking!
		May 10, 2004 Maybe he'll pull a Seinfeld and make fun of people with cancer. --Syn
		That'd be a step up for Rall, Syn. Of course, from where he is now, that's the only direction to go.
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