Comic for Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Posted: 7:45 am, Wednesday, January 11th

Not a whole crazy lot of stuff going on today, gang. Ron's workin' away at his laptop by his staircase bookshelf. That was probably my favorite thing about my first apartment - although the list of good things about that apartment is pretty short. I lived in a basement underneath a screaming family of insane people (who were, unfortunately, my landlords), and there was a staircase that went up to a door into where they lived. The door was kept locked, thankfully, and I used the staircase for storage - board games, boxes of Christmas decorations, stuff like that. But I used the slats between the railing to hold all my books, and it was a pretty cool makeshift bookcase. I eventually moved out and had to buy a bookcase, but it was worth not living underneath barbarians.

Helluva TMQ yesterday.. Actually, now that I say that, I don't actually remember much besides what I copied out of it to make note of in this blog. Meh, whatever. And I just noticed this, but the little property title of that site is "NFL.com - the official website of Super Bowl XL." I'm glad no one beat you to the web rights for that, NFL.com. Must've been ferocious bidding. Anyway, TMQ. Great quote that, if for some reason I am coaching the softball team again this year, is going to be our team motto:

When teammates yell about blame during a game, they might as well hit the showers and head out for a blueberry-almond martini.

My company softball team is more than famous - from the Latin, 'infamous' - for abandoning the play as it is happening in the field to start yelling at each other. From now on, whoever does that has to drink blueberry-almond martinis at the bar afterwards, regardless of the atmosphere of the bar we go to. As we always go to dive bars, hopefully the bartender will just kill the yelling teammate.

Also, for those who don't know, TMQ assigns nicknames to everyone and everything, some more arcane than others. Joe Gibbs, coach of the Redskins, has been nicknamed Professor Dumbledore. This is partially because TMQ calls the petulant owner of the Skins Dobby the House Elf (or was that what he called Spurrier? I can't remember), and partially because Joe Gibbs is friggin' brilliant. Anyway, this ran yesterday:

Professor Dumbledore Lives! In the NFL, and I'm Guessing in the Next Potter, Too : When Joe Gibbs came back, yours truly highlighted his 16-5 postseason record and opined, "TMQ considers this the single-greatest accomplishment by an NFL coach." Now he's 17-5.

I never even considered Dumbledore coming back. I figure the closest we'll get is his portrait in the Headmaster's office, but since Harry's not intending on going back to Hogwart's, we'll likely only see that once. I'm also not certain the rules of the portraiture in the Potterverse, so I don't know if the portrait will be able to give any explanation of the Snape situation or what. But I'd bet the car (I hate the car) on Dumbledore stays dead. (I guess maybe he could be a ghost, since I'm pretty sure the qualification of being a ghost in the Potterverse is not wanting to be dead yet, and Dumbledore may feel like he can't leave Harry yet, something like that... But alive? Doubt it.)

Seemingly in-depth article on Robert Rauschenberg in the Voice... 2.0 loves that guy, and he's got an exhibition at the Met that, for some reason, we haven't made it to yet. Soon, with a report to follow, I'm sure.

Goodness, the Black Table is calling it quits. I didn't see this one coming. Their stuff can be kind of hit or miss, but I've enjoyed it a lot more than I haven't, so I'm bummed. They've got a going-away party coming up, though, so that's nice.

bullfrog

First VY and know LenDale going pro...our odds of being in the national championship picture just increased substantially. Now, if they would only take me back as the kicker we could solidify our, at time, shaky kicking game.

I think we've got a good kicker coming in with the freshmen, Reggie. I'd be happier with a defensive lineman of some sort coming in, but a good kicker wouldn't hurt.