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Comic for Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Posted: 7:45 am, Tuesday, January 10th 2.0 and I are watching this thing on PBS right now called Country Boys that is depressing as all bloody hell. It's kind of Hoop Dreams set in Eastern Kentucky except without even the vague promise of basketball to get the kids out of poverty and despair. As you may recall from Hoop Dreams, that was the only vague promise of getting the kids out of poverty and despair. So, yeah, Country Boys: Uplifting. Um, anyway. Oh, mentioned some New Year's resolutions yesterday, didn't know Boondocks did an entire week of resolutions last week. Figure what the hell, why not link to that. I meant to link to this strip last week, too, about editors and proofreading, which is appropriate, because it was CK that got me going on the resolution talk in the first place. My company's policy is one space after a period. I don't really understand why that is. Personally, I like two. Of course, the program I use to do this site doesn't allow two spaces in succecssion. Wow, this is almost as interesting as yesterday when I talked about running. Awesome blog entry from some dude out there about Mutant League Football, the old Sega game where you could kill the other team. I had forgotten some of the little features of that game, and definitely forgot the character Bones Jackson. Good times, though. And I know I've called you guys to action in the past - generally about such things as the Supreme Court or the American Family Association being douchebags, stuff like that - and I'm going to have to do it one more time. Here's a little petition to get a new Mutant League Football game produced. Also, by the way, you know, if you feel like petitioning... Now that you've had to listen to me shill, here, I'll reward you with a picture of Gheorghe Muresan. Whooo! Also found a little meme thing, those are always fun, and this one deals with music, which I enjoy. So, here goes:
Oh, speaking of music, I got my mom the new Neil Diamond album for Christmas, and it's actually really good. I didn't put it on my computer because I'm almost positive that it's one of those Sony spyware CDs, but it's available through the iTunes store... Um, yeah, between the Goo-Goo Dolls and Neil Diamond, I've really ruined any vague hip cache I may've had (from the people who don't actually know me, since the people that do know me know that I have no hip cache). And last thing for today. I mentioned the Grammy on top of the fridge yesterday, and wanted to know if I had to remember stuff like that, or if I do templates out of everything. I do have a few - the couch, the chair and window that are in today's strip, Ron's cube, and a few other things I can't really think of right now... Oh, Jen's bed, with the picture of the three of the Domers from their collitch days. Not as many as I used to - I'm trying to get away from so much copy and paste. For instance, I generally redraw the characters at the beginning of every strip, and depending on how much they have to move, I'll either copy and paste them or redraw them entirely. It actually sometimes takes less time to completely redraw them - the reason I do the cut and paste is to try and keep the characters a consistent size. I draw the strip in Illustrator and it's kind of hard to keep the zoom-in consistent, so copy and paste, while a little cheap, is the way I try and keep the quality, such as it is, assured. Even if I redraw the characters entirely, I usually keep the outline of their heads, since I draw from the head first. Um, and that's a little bit of how Five Bucks comes to you every day. Maybe I'll do a step-by-step frame some day... I think this once again falls into "things no one is actually interested in that Bullfrog talks about," but what can you do? I guess not read the site - please don't do that, though. By the way, I'm still getting folks coming to the site based on Yahoo searches for "Brady Quinn's sister." (I'm the tenth result, or at least I was as of the other day.) Guys, it's been a week since the Fiesta Bowl. Move on. But drop by any time. Hey, finally a new Gilmore Girls tonight. Hopefully the writers have forgotten during the layoff that they had given Luke a daughter, but probably not. Well, at least if it upsets me I can go and watch part two of Country Boys and get so depressed that I forget the Gilmores entirely by eleven. bullfrog 2.0 -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 08:46 am This is pretty iTunes snobbish but...I'm game. Sort by song title: First: "!!!!!!!" by The Roots Last: [Japanese] (or what I will call "the na-na song" by the good folks at Katamari Damacy
Sort by Length: First: "C.E.O Outro" by M.E.T.H.O.D Man 0:04 Last: [an episode of Majority Report] AirAmerica 1:53 Sort by artist: First: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead Last: Zero 7 Sort By Album: First: (What's the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis Last: Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police Top Five Most Played Songs: "Franco Un-American" by NoFX "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes "Seperation of Church and Skate" NoFX "Another Travelin' Song" by Bright Eyes "American Errorist" by NoFX (that's weird, I haven't listened to NoFX in some time) 10 most recently played songs: 1-10 a series of Mash-ups and remixes "Gold Digger remix" by Diplo "Another one Bites the Funk" (Queen and Daft Punk) "Radio Hollaback" (The Clash and G Stefani) SHUT UP! "Somebody Kill Me" (The Clash and Killers) "Freak Me Out" (Chic/Beastie Boys/Ferdinand) "Que Onda Guero remix" by The Mae-Shi "Down Under 2005 remix" "Independant Women" (Destiny's Child/Fugazi) "Led Snooplein" (Zep/Snoop) "Never Feel Good" (Cake/Gorillaz)
Licia -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 11:39 am Grammy? Yesterday it was an Emmy. Get your story straight
Bullfrog! These are really important details! Bullfrog -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 11:40 am That's embarrassing - it's an Emmy. Why would they award a
Grammy for Outstanding Writing in a Mini-Series? I'm sorry.
I may actually retroactively edit that one. I've got to stop
writing these things while watching television. Bullfrog -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 12:06 pm Hm. Spike Jonze is apparently going to helm the Dave Eggers-scripted Where the Wild Things Are flick. This is going to be fascinating. I hope David Fincer and Jonathon Safran Foer get together for the Wind and the Willows sometime soon. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell
_article&articleID=VR1117935686&categoryID=13&cs=1 Ondy -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 12:31 pm Is anyone here familiar-enough with the novel "Last of the Mohicans"? If so, could you please explain the whole bear-suit scene
to me? Was it supposed to venture into some kind of
mysticism or fantastic here? I figured out enough that
Hawkeye tied up the shaman and dressed up in his bear suit
to go rescue Alice. But we're talking the 1700's here, how
could his costume been good enough to fool the Hurons? Or
are we supposed to infer that the Hurons were easily duped?
The whole thing just didn't make much sense to me, maybe
someone can enlighten me. Thank you. dave -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 12:49 pm interested in a rob thomas cover of 1979?: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa
/wa/viewAlbum?p=107631792&s=143441 dave -- Tuesday, January 10 2006, 12:58 pm i case anyone cares, this guy is one year old today:
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January 10, 2006
Rice denied Hall
By David Lefort, Boston.com Staff
Former Red Sox slugger Jim Rice was again denied election
to the Baseball Hall of Fame today, falling about 10 percent
shy of the necessary percentage of votes needed for
election.
This was thought to be Rice’s best chance for election to
the Hall, with such a weak class of potential inductees.
Pitcher Bruce Sutter was the only player to be elected this
year, with 76.9 percent of the vote, just more than the 75
percent needed.
Rice received 64.8 percent of the vote, the highest total
he’s ever received. Last year, he got just over 59 percent.
Players needed 390 votes to gain election. Jim Rice fell 53
votes short, finishing second with 337 votes, one ahead of
Goose Gossage.
Sutter became just the fourth relief pitcher given
baseball's highest honor. Also denied was Andre Dawson, who
spent two seasons with the Red Sox. Dawson received 61
percent of the votes.
Sutter was on the ballot for the 13th time, the first
player elected in his 13th try or later since Ralph Kiner in
1975. Rice was appearing for the 12th time and has three
years remaining on the writers' ballot. Gossage was on the
ballot for the seventh time.
It might be difficult for Rice and Gossage to gain votes
next year, when Cal Ripken Jr., Tony Gwynn and Mark McGwire
appear on the ballot for the first time. Each voter may
select up to 10 players.
The other players in the Hall who primarily were
relievers are Hoyt Wilhelm (elected in 1985), Rollie Fingers
(1992) and Dennis Eckersley (2004). When I was.. I'm guessing under four, I pointed to the
television screen and told my mom that I wanted "nice
chocolate skin like that man" had, that man being Jim Rice.
So for providing an early life lesson on interracial peace,
we'll make Jim Rice the first inductee of the Five Bucks to
Friday Hall of Fame whenever I get around to building it.
It'll be a while, since I never thought of it before this
second right here. Happy b-day to the pup, too.
Ondy - never read Last of the Mohicans, but here's this
from SparkNotes:
Disguise
Cooper uses the motif of disguise to resolve plot
difficulties and to provide comic relief. The fantastical
nature of the disguises also detracts from the believability
of Cooper’s story. Indians who have known the land their
whole life, for example, mistake a man disguised in a beaver
costume as an actual beaver. These unrealistically
convincing costumes are part of Cooper’s move away from
realism. Disguise is characteristic of the romantic genre,
which favors excesses of imagination over the confinements
of reason. The Last of the Mohicans wants to be
simultaneously a historically specific narrative, an
adventure novel, and a romance. Cooper plays with the comic
possibilities of romance, especially by exaggerating human
appearances. Disguise therefore proves not only a practical
solution to plot dilemmas but an indication that Cooper
intends to make his novel partly an amusing romance.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/themes.
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