No, not really. My Mac’s hard drive DID crash — and burn — and I cannot blame Ms. Bellucci or Salma Hayek for what happened.

So all you thousands of ‘Jerk subscribers who eagerly await my e-mail reminder message each week had to do without last week… and probably this week, too. All I can do right now is just post a new strip each week and hope for a Pavlovian response from all my drooling doggies.

So, more news later. Bear with me while I get my Mac up and running.

***UPDATE***

A trip to Fry’s and $50 later, I have a new hard drive. The old hard drive is gone forever. I lost a handful of Cool Jerk strips (luckily I draw all ‘Jerks with brush and ink, so all I really lost were a few scans of those originals) and other stuff here and there… but all in all the disaster rated a 3 on the 0-10 scale of Computer DOOM.

I cannot stress the importance of making off-CPU dupes of files.