Comic for Friday, May 16th, 2008

Posted: 8:00 am, Friday, May 16th

This was supposed to be Monday's strip (The Bad Guys Won!, about the '86 Mets, is what I was searching for when I took a trip to crazyinternetteryworld the other day), but I was having a hard time with the punchline for what was supposed to be today. Good thing I had a buffer!

We're leaving for Minneapolis tonight for our friend Spacegirl's wedding-ish (she got married just her and her boy last year around this time, and is having the celebration tomorrow), and of course the Twins and the Saints are both out of town. 2.0 wants to see the Walker, and I wish there was some sort of musical tour to do. (The Replacements once vomited here, this is the Penetration Park that the Hold Steady sing about, Prince completely lost his mind here...) I know there's something in Spacegirl's town, a pizzeria or something, where Charles Schulz drew on the wall, but I don't think that's Minneapolis itself.

I'm unfamiliar with whatever WWBF means, I'm assuming it's Who Would [x] Fuck?, but, I dunno, I liked this Diesel Sweeties, anyway. And that bring me to my political rage of the day. I wish I could stay coherent when outraged, like Olbermann does - this is about as pissed off at Bush as I've ever seen him (and, seriously, lying about when you gave up golf, that's pretty lame). Whenever I get my anger on, well, you guys know - I just kind of sputter about bug-eyed, yelling fragments and not getting much of anything said. And that was even before Shitwit went and compared the willingness to talk - just talk, mind you - with Iran and Syria to appeasing the Nazis back in '39. Pelosi's embarrassed for him, Biden's pissed, and the Philly papers are talking treason. I guess this is predictable, since the Republicans are running scared, but, God, the man's just such a colossal asshole. (Proving my earlier point about my coherence when mad.)

But, hey, the news ain't all bad! (Of course, I didn't consider this. Fuckity fuck.)(Some bigot on the NewsHour just said, "When Civil Rights become civil wrongs and destroy marriage in the process..." My apologies to my friends in California, some of whom may have thought they were married as late as last night, not knowing that their marriages have been rendered lifeless wastelands. I'm still trying to judge the fallout at Five Bucks World HQ. Everything seems good, but 2.0 *did* just get back from California... Also, is it all marriage that's been destroyed? Or just in Cal?)

And there will be new entertainment in the subway stations soon, too.

How the hell had someone gone all this time without seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark? That makes less sense to me than not seeing Star Wars. God, I know the fourth one's going to suck, and I can't help it, I'm going to have to see it. I watch the ads, and I can sense it's going to suck, but then I hear the score, and I'm sucked back in again. Did you know Harrison Ford is older now than Sean Connery was in the Last Crusade? Oh, for fuck's sake.

And, man, did Lost rock last night.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Friday, May 16 2008, 08:42 am

Bad celebrity renders in video games - pretty funny stuff. (The graphics, I kind of skimmed the commentary.)

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-worst-celebrity-renders-of-all-time/a-2008051512756473018

From now on, whenever I'm having a bad day, I think I'll just watch this highlight again and again.

http://letsgosox.blogspot.com/2008/05/for-now.html

I don't own "The Bad Guys Won", I've read it though. However, I do have "The Worst Team Money Could Buy" about the 1992 Vince Coleman-era Mets if you're interested in reading about an all-time stinker.

Oh, and can we get Willie the hell out of here already??? The clock is ticking, buddy.

I made the Martha Stewart Mac and Cheese last night after practice and sweet mother of mary is it good. I didn't expect to be making a roux for mac and cheese (she doesn't call it a roux, but butter's a fat, right?) and I'm not really a big fan of the stuff usually but I was shoveling piping hot forkfuls into my mouth at midnight.

Holy CRAP it's good.

Zero

NSFW audio on this one, but it's pretty awesome - the dance remix of Bill O'Reilly's freak-out over having to read something about Sting playing us out.

http://www.myspace.com/revolucian

Yeah, yeah, a MySpace link. So sue me.

I've been meaning to check in on you, Ondy - your boys are playing some listless ball lately.

Hmm. I can't remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, actually. I've definitely seen the last one loads of times though (the one with Sean Connery)... On the other hand, I've played the Raiders of the Lost ark Atari game loads of times.

(BTW, I'm the artist formerly known as 15. I'm sorry, I can't salute Jim Edmonds when he is now a cub. I figured this was close enough not to confuse people... and it's Willie McGee's number! At least until he's not playing for the cubs anymore I have to do this... )

Oh, man, Raiders is the bomb. You should check it out. And now I have to update my phone with your new moniker.

Also, the friend whose wedding-ish I'm going to tomorrow is one of those annoying really good people who registered for stuff like Heifer International and MercyCorps instead of Crate and Barrel and a PlayStation. So I just bought a llama for their wedding.

This is two years in a row where I've actually had trouble liking a Met team, and that's not good. I don't know if it's because they make 3 out of 4 games difficult to watch, or that the 2007 disaster was so painful, but they bring no smile to my face whatsoever, even after a W. A .500 club, gross.

I had assumed there was no way they could continue the malaise that was the Great Collapse, but when I'm hearing Keith say things like "They should be beating up on these smaller-market teams" it's like they are just rebroadcasting the games against the Nationals at the end of last year. I've never been a huge Shea fan, but the dump at least deserves a better send-off than the product on the field this year.

One thing I will say though, is that even though they were butchers on the basepaths yesterday, the Mets also hit into quite a bit of bad luck and outstanding fielding by Washington. I think the Mets are so hated by the rest of the NL that everyone's up for them and turns it up to eleven.

And by the way, was that Raiders game for Atari the only one that used two joysticks?

Our neighbors sold their dairy farm and are now raising llamas. People are crashing their cars at the sight such strange beastly creatures. The last time something similar happened was when my mother immigrated here from Thailand about thirty years ago. I'd hate to think what happened if Obama tried to drive through my little backward community.

Also, I'm kind of out of the loop, so what exactly is this hubbub about Bush and his appeasement talk?

(And yes, Olbermann is right. Bush should really shut up now.)

Mr. MNP has seen NONE of the Indiana Jones movies. I tried to make him watch one and he thought it was stupid. If I had known this before I married him, it might have changed things, but I'm stuck now.

He likened the willingness to talk with Iran to Chamberlain in 1939.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/bush-compares-obama-to-na_n_101859.html

We had a llama farm near my house growing up. Or alpaca. I'm not sure.

Oh, man, this is long, but it's worth it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/hardball-shoutfest-matthe_n_102020.html

It's It's My Park! day tomorrow. Despite its image, New York actually has a ton of freaking parks, from tiny little things in the middle of intersections in Astoria to Prospect Park to the massive sprawl of those parks up in the Bronx that I don't even know the name of. (Hyde? Lefferts? What's the big one?) If I were around tomorrow, I'd totally go plant a potato at the Leffert's House in Prospect.

http://partnershipforparks.org/impd/find.html

http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/75986?o5943=

It's also e-cycling day in Prospect on Sunday.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/pr2008/30308.shtml

As odd as it is for a weddingish where my gift was a llama, and where I'll be hanging with my friends from collitch in an arboretum instead of some skeevy underpass bus stop, I am getting psyched up for my Minneapolis trip with Separation Sunday right now. Holly was a hoodrat, but by now you probably knew that.

Bullfrog

Here's a rock and roll atlas of the city of Minneapolis (St. Paul, Chanhassen (Prince) and points around, too)

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/CP_RockAtlas.jpg

Have fun in the City of Lakes!

Some cool places near downtown, if not otherwise busy

First Avenue (Downtown - They are playing dance musice this Saturday night I see) 400 Bar (Cedar Avenue near Downtown and the U) CC Bar ("Here comes a regular") Nye's Polanaise (A little taste of 'Nordeast' MPLS)

Wait, Prince is from Chanhassen? We're staying in the Chanhassen Inn (this decision was made, in all honesty, because there is a Bw-3s next door - unless I've been lied to). Oh, that'll make 2.0 excited.

Price is from there - I know this because my big brother got a flat in front of his house once (he went to collitch in Minneapolis) and had to go in to call for help (before cell phones). he only met Prince's dogs, though. Who probably aren't really Prince's dogs, but Prince's eat-people-trying-to-break-in-animals. So maybe you and 2.0 can get a flat?

Prince is from MPLS - He's a graduate of the now defunct Central High. It would have been long bus ride on the MTC from Chanhassen to jam with all the guys in the North Side. He may have family out there and his Paisley Park studio is there, too, out on HWY 5.

I read MNP's post about 4 times before realizing that she was using flat to refer to a tire, not an apartment. I didn't think she was the type to fake an accent.

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