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THEY LIVE: The Hideous Truth About The City of Ruston, Washington
Kind of like that scene from the movie cocoon
posted Dec 7, 2010
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FACT: The City of Ruston has some of the highest concentrations of lead and arsenic in south Puget Sound. FACT: Every resident, including but not limited to the Ruston City Council are likely "fundamentally different" life-based organisms. FACT: We can joke about them in cartoons, but the reality is they aren't going anywhere.
Comments [25]
 by debivans on 12/7/2010 @ 1:55am | HA! It's true, all known life on Earth is made up mainly of six elements: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur and phosphorus. And some scientist (see NPR science website) has recently found some little life that seems to substitute arsenic for phosphorus in a funky arsenic-laced lake in California. Arsenic and Phosphorus are right next to each other on the periodic table of the elements, making it an easy transition. We Tacomans are not a funky little life form in a Cali lake. Although, I do remember a great T-Town band called Smelter that rocked this town in the early 90's and I think I may be just as infected with the memory of power chords and the image of the stack being imploded as anything. OK, I have lost my point or never had one to begin with. I'm going to bed now. Thanks. |
 by cisserosmiley on 12/7/2010 @ 2:09am | i still think we're moving there |
 by marumaruyopparai on 12/7/2010 @ 6:35am | Some of your best work here as far as I'm concerned. |
 by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 8:02am | THE TACOMIC would like to thank commenter izenmania for the idea of doing a cartoon about the arsenic microbes. Submit your ideas to the Tacomic Tip line today!
www.holisticforgeworks.com/contact/ |
 by dolly varden on 12/7/2010 @ 8:23am | Very funny. |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 8:54am | DIRT ALERT! www.tpchd.org/page.php?id=111 (public service announcement)  |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 8:58am | wow, they have videos now!
www.tpchd.org/page.php?id=442 |
 by thriceallamerican on 12/7/2010 @ 8:59am | Comic Sans alert! |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 8:59am | oh sucker punch! |
 by captiveyak on 12/7/2010 @ 9:17am | whenever i feel depressed, i go rock-licking in Ruston. |
 by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 12/7/2010 @ 9:22am | Did JayRay do that sign for the health department for $50k? The woman in the overalls looks a bit like our mayor. |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 9:22am | Buck up sir! nothing is worth licking smelter slag !
(Just ignore low bar) |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 9:23am | @jayray holy crap that would be a funny angle. |
by captiveyak on 12/7/2010 @ 10:12am | Why doesn't CLAW start a PR company? They've got the writing prowess, the art skills, the thorough understanding of human psychology, current trends finesse, sex appeal, a certain transcendent civic savviness... the list goes on. |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 10:19am | we're still working on the 501c paperwork.. (COUGH mark monlux lazy COUGH) |
by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 12/7/2010 @ 10:33am | you should become a 501c4, c-4 is an explosive and I see CLAW as being incendiary. |
 by The Jinxmedic on 12/7/2010 @ 10:55am | Hmmm... ... that has potential. |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 11:01am | CLAW doing "Random Hacks of Kindness" ?
www.npr.org/2010/12/06/131853415/hackath... |
 by fredo on 12/7/2010 @ 7:36pm | wonderfully imaginative. nice work RR |
by NineInchNachos on 12/7/2010 @ 8:12pm | Thanks Fredo! |
by NineInchNachos on 12/8/2010 @ 9:16am | heh mattbors.com/blog/?p=2944 |
 by narndt on 12/8/2010 @ 10:57am | They must have paid JayRay about a ker-billion dollars to make that video! |
 by jenyum on 12/8/2010 @ 11:53am | The science behind this Tacomic is fatally flawed! I am outraged, outraged I tell you!
www.slate.com/id/2276919/pagenum/2 (*Actually, this Tacomic is pretty flawless, and I'm sure that when NASA does discover arsenic-based life we'll find out that it's been walking the mean streets of Ruston for decades.) |
by marumaruyopparai on 12/9/2010 @ 3:21am | NASA can't seem to catch a break when it comes to PR and credibility these days, Mars or bust baby. |
 by Adam the Alien on 12/9/2010 @ 9:18am | This comic still makes me giggle.
@Jenyum From everything I've read, whether or not the research is flawed is still under considerable debate. |
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