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A day in the life...of VG Comics

It is Friday which means only one thing. I am enjoying my lunch of left-over buffalo wings (yes, I'm a man) and Diet Coke with the students of VG Comic Club. "VG Comic BOOK Club" is not the name, I learned today, because they are not just working on books, but also videos. This is a no-nonsense club.

My job as the club sponsor, is to sit in the corner of the room, listen, and on occassion throw in a courtesy laugh for the kid who hears crickets after the punch line of his comic book related joke. He happens to be one of my favorites, I mean, teachers don't have favorites! How silly.

Truthfully, the statements that fly out of these four boys' mouths make about as much sense to me as the a jean skirt paired with Uggs. I will attempt to document some of their priceless interactions in this post...

"We're working on a video, that'll probably come out after Christmas since I'm asking for a new video camera, one that doesn't suck."

"Yea, make sure it's digital."

"It'll be on youtube. I'm definitely going to have to create a director's account, obviously it'll be more than ten minutes long."

"The video is a Resident Evil Live Action Parody."

"We need a girl in it though."

"I know one actually. But I haven't talked to her since the fifth grade." (An epic two years ago)

"His name can be Resident Weevil, instead of Resident Evil."

"Good one."

"Ripper does have hair, black hair actually." For those of you not in the know, Ripper is a video game character. I mean really, where else would "Ripper" be from?

"What do you have for lunch?"

"Vienna sausages...alright you can have only one."

"Cool."

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