Comic for Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Posted: 12:10 am, Wednesday, January 18th

I had to fight to keep myself from calling it "crotch-blocking," which was the TV-safe way of saying cock-blocking that Undeclared came up with, and which may actually be funnier. But since no one would get that without reading the blog, and since I try to more or less keep the blog separate from the strip, I decided against it. The operating theory is that the blog should elucidate my frame of mind when I wrote the strip, but keep from having to spell the strip out. I don't think I've failed in that too often. I hope.

So, it's pouring out, which is perfectly normal weather for mid-January in New York. We'd better keep burning fossil fuels. Oh, wait, no, there's celebrity shit to discuss. Ignore the weather, check out Scarlett Johansson's cleavage from the Golden Globes. Speaking of Ms. Johansson, she opens the door for one of my readers in this article, echoing something he has said in doubting that humans are monogamous creatures. She then promptly shuts the door on this reader by describing her current co-star in terms I have heard the same reader described in from time to time. You know who you are. Although I don't know if you've ever carried a flame for Scarlett Johansson, so what difference does it make?

Lonely hearted? Click here. You can thank me later.

My friend Drolett loves the song "Jesse's Girl." I got her an autographed picture of Rick Springfield for Christmas one year. Whenever I am in a bar and it comes on the jukebox, I dial her number and leave the phone on for the length of the song. It is a testament to how much she likes this song that she still speaks to me. At any rate, here are some places you may find Jesse's girl today.

I think I linked to some of Clinton Portis's weird costumes earlier, but now that Washington's season ended in Seattle, he's launched a retrospective on his personal website, along with some in-depth information on the costumes that you wouldn't know just from watching the press conferences. I like crazy football players.

Little article from the Voice about Shitwit (hey, I haven't actually mentioned him in a while - I must be going soft in my old age) skipping out an apolitical protest in New Orleans for one of his spectacularly awesome pre-arranged press junkets with lockstep right-wing zombies over at the future site of Trent Lott's new house. It's going to be a fantastic house. I, for one, am looking forward to sitting on the porch.

By the way, on politics, Michigeese got herself published in the Austin Statesman yesterday. Some dope compared the Dems' half-hearted mini-filis to torture, AD set him straight. Attagirl.

Last thing, found a new comic to keep tabs on - Little Dee got written up in the Webcomics Examiner, and I checked it out. It's really something else. I've only made it through maybe six weeks of the archive (which dates to June 2004), but am enjoying it immensely so far. Out of the rest of the comics I link to, it reminds me the most of Sheldon (in both tone and presentation - newspaper-quality cartooning, this one), and something else about it, the sweetness and quietness, maybe, reminds me of the beautiful Count Your Sheep, which I don't believe I've ever mentioned on this page before, but is a smashing webcomic. What a run-on that sentence was.

It's gotten late.. I'm going to take the advice of Count Your Sheep and go to bed.

bullfrog

Who is Calvin Schiraldi? (I forget what you call the message that pops up when I move my mouse over the comic)

And on the topic of cleveage at The Golden Globes...I think Drew Barrymore's lack of a bra warrants some attention, too. http://cinematical.com/2006/01/16/golden-globe s-put-a-bra-on-drew/

He was a less-than-spectacular closer for the Red Sox in 1986, Secretary.

I think the Pam Anderson outfit was my favorite from that thing. What a disaster.

Axl Rose makes an appearance at a party and holds a conversation with a reporter without breaking down! Whoa!

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/91 55514

Jeremiah know's how I feel about the weather we've been having these days. Right now in NYC it's in the upper 50's with heavy rain and very high winds. Things more in keeping with...say...Spring. Anyway, looking up "weird weather" on Google brought me to this piece of Christian paranoia. See...I'm not the only one!

http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/bookl ets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104413534

Just to clarify, 2.0 believes the weather is a sign of end times because of our blatant destruction of the earth's resources, not because the second coming is near. Unless she's been watching the 700 Club since finishing her thesis, but I don't think she has been.

I love it - John Daly drinks 7,120 Diet Cokes a year. bloody hell, that much Nutrasweet will kill ya, won't it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/dining/18dal y.html

He estimates that, too. Who estimates a number like 7,120?

Pat's my man.

...And of course Mary's my homegirl.

Love thee, Notre Dame.

I just finally remembered what book the bouncer's reading in the first panel - Last of the Mohicans, for Ondy, there. Of course, you can only see one word of the title.

I do not understand why my site turns up in some of the searches it does... I've gotten two folks today who Yahoo-ed "idiot coworker" and "joey porter nickname." Bizarre.

in my personal opinion, wearing no bra was one of the best roles drew barrymore has ever done.

I think my favorite two moments of Drew Barrymore's are a) the Letterman episode where she flashed him and b) back in '92 or whenever, when all three networks churned out shit-tastic made-for-TV Amy Fischer movies, and one of them had a critic's blurb, "The role Drew Barrymore was born to play!" Granted, this was right as she was coming out of her coke-hazed teenage years, but, man, what a horrible thing for someone to say. "You're born to play the role of the 'Long Island Lolita!'"

By the way, pretty much my favorite book cover design of all time is this Lolita cover:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0739322060/sr =1-1/qid=1137620754/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7581511-9902467?%5Fenco ding=UTF8

yeah, he makes me wear those saddle shoes all the time.

maybe jen, lissa or kelly would look good with the 'lolita' look? you should try to work it in a comic. could you even work in a bulldog in it sometime?

that was my comments, BTW

Jen could rock the baby-doll look, Lissa never would. Could happen, she's evidently desperate to try and land Ron, for some reaosn. As for dogs, the only pups to work their way in so far have been dauchsunds (sp) because 2.0 literally says, "I want to eat him" every time we pass a weiner dog. I do not understand it.