Comic for Monday, January 9th, 2006

Posted: 12:00 am, Monday, January 9th

I surface from helping 2.0 design our sims' house to issue this communique.

I have no freaking idea what it actually was, but something that I cleaned out of our fridge the other day smelled like hell. I have a feeling it was some cold cuts that went bad while we were home for Christmas, but I didn't go sniffing everything I was throwing out to investigate. Several years ago, in my first apartment, I evidently left some ham in the back of the fridge for about seven months - the odor was incredible. As I recall, it was somehow hidden - maybe in one of those little drawers that are mislabeled "Crisper" when all that really happens there is you put food in and it becomes mush. I think that's the true measure of when you become an adult - when you're actually together enough to use the food that you put in the Crisper drawer before it spoils. As it stands right now, we've got two of those drawers in our fridge, and they both remain unused. Keep in mind, we don't have a big fridge, and what we do have is oftentimes pretty crowded because of the wasted space of those two drawers, but I know if I go so far as to try and alleviate the crowded conditions by putting something in there, it will merely turn green and fuzzy overnight.

What else we got..? As of right now, I'm three for three in the playoff pool at the office, unless someone changed all my picks on me. I've got the Steelers in the afternoon game, and they're the dogs, so if they cover, I get two points for picking them for some reason. (The girl that runs the pool in the office is Canadian and is forever throwing these weird rules into our pick 'ems - you need to hold a degree in advanced physics to figure out our Final Four brackets.) The Skins managed to beat the Bucs in Tampa despite not playing their offense in the second half, which made for one of the strangest NFL games I've ever seen. And nice to see Sean Taylor doing his alma mater good by spitting in someone's face. Honestly, Miami, even Florida State managed to turn out Warrick Dunn as their obligatory good guy. Over in the AFC, David Givens caught a touchdown pass, evidently the fifth straight playoff game he's done this in. Good thing Bob Davie kept him on special teams for four years. God.

No, but, honestly, I did other things than watch television all weekend. I made a list of resolutions last week, one of which was to run a few times a week. This sounds a bit goofy since I ran the marathon, but unless I have someothing to run *for,* I generally am quite bad about keeping up the running. So, resolution made, effort made. Ran around the park for my first miles logged since the 'thon, and boy oh boy do my legs ache. Fan-tastic. Also started a draft of a query letter to some lit agents (one of ye olde resolutions was to submit the book to an agent/publisher by the end of the month), and did this little ad banner for the site (a third was to reach a certain number of readers with the site):

Someone who left a comment way back after that Katrina webcomic-thon thing requesting a banner - well, months later, finally got to it. I've got a few others planned, this is just the first one I got around to doing. Oh, does it look like she's dancing? She's supposed to be dancing. I drew it with her standing up and then rotated the image - I hope it doesn't look like she's flat on her back waiting for some dude to come along and have relations. Anyway, hopefully I'll have one or two more ready by next weekend or so. 2.0 envisioned one with all four of the gang in it, which would require them to be quite small. She thinks this one makes the strip look sexier than it is. Which I guess is OK - lure in the newbies with sex? Should she just be naked with pixelated breasts and ladybits? I dunno. Oh, I made this little thing to stick on frappr maps, too:

I don't know why I'm posting that here - it would be weird if you guys decided to post that as your picture on those map things whenever you throw your name on one, but, hell, if you're moved to do it, don't let me stand in your way.

Dear God, I'm watching the CBS pregame thing right now and they had a McDonald's-sponsored segment showing big hits from football games and ranking them on the "Pounder Index." They added little explosion-looking things when the guys got hit, as if I wouldn't notice there was contact there on my own. Evidently this is supposed to make me want to buy a hamburger-like sandwich.

What else do I have? Um. Not too much, I guess. By the way, that's the Emmy on top of the fridge, and a magnet from the Student Union Board at ND with the movie schedule from the spring semester of 2000, I think. I still have it stuck on my fridge around here. OK, well, no links today because I don't particularly feel like trolling the web right now, but I'll probably find some crap during the day to throw up here. I think there was one thing from Friday I meant to link to that never got to - I'll see when I get to the office.

bullfrog

Pete and Ron have an Emmy? When/how did this happen? (Sorry if I missed this or just forgot.)

I cleaned out my fridge last night for the New Year and sadly it greatly resembled Ron's fridge (though thank God there was no smell). I had some cream fraiche that had been there since February, and I just threw away one piece of Tupperware because it really wasn't worth discovering what the black thing was inside it. Resolution for 2006: Let no black things grow in the fridge.

New Year's Resolution: Stop watching Wild Card Weekend Games! Those were the four worst games I have watched all season (excluding any game in which the Texans were involved). NFL, I know you like to make money by having Wild Card weekend, but let's be honest...it's just a bunch of second tier teams playing to see who gets to get their asses whooped by a good team the following week. Congrats Skins but I walk farther from my front door to the car than you had in offense. And, Giants...good thing you got Eli. On the bright side, three interceptions and looking totally clueless is better than throwing four interceptions.

The Emmy appeared back in August, for Outstanding Writing in a Mini-Series.

http://www.fivebuckstofriday.com/archive/archi ve080205.html

Reggie, I think the biggest loser in the playoffs was actually the losing team that scored the most points - evidently, Palmer's going to be out for half the season next year with that knee injury from the second snap.

No one actually likes Carson Palmer anyway.

CK, do you still have that Cheesecake-in-a-Jar from about five years ago? (Although I can see that being more in Jen's fridge, than in Pete's...)

Now, doesn't this just sound like being in college all over again? And why would you agree to be in an article like this??

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/sund aystyles/08MELROSE.html?pagewanted=2

Did you know Starbucks has a "short Cappucino" that's cheaper than the tall? I think this Slate article is a little over-the-top : the Short Cappucino is only 30 cents cheaper, that's hardly a plane fare...but interesting - http://www.slate.com/id/2133754?nav=wp

I'm only about eight paragraphs in, and that is a freaking hall of famer from the Times there, MNP.

Made all the better by the NY Times style of referring to everyone as "Mr." or "Ms." or whatever. "Rachel," "Monica," and "Joey" would do just fine in this case.

I think you and 2.0 should move in and join the scandal.

I don't know what you think this webcomics gig pays, MNP - did you see the rent on that building?!