Comic for Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Posted: 7:45 am, Tuesday, January 31st

Kind of a sequel/variation on theme from yesterday's installment. It doesn't happen nearly as much now, but there were times early in my tenure at the office when I would say something sarcastically, and no one had any idea what I was talking about. My buddy Leahy once related a similar story. "I think everyone just thinks I'm a dick," he said. Thankfully, I now run with an equally sarcastic and angry crowd. But poor Jen is in a pretty small workplace, so...

What do we have here... I haven't been reading Wonkette for a while - political rage fatigue - but evidently there's a new team running it. I guess because Ana Marie Wilcox got a book deal a while back. Anyway, they had this article about Congressional staffers getting all the Congess IP addresses banned from wikipedia, because they were editing their bosses' bios. I am *so* bummed out that I didn't know that at the time. Anyway, here's the wikipedia explanation of that. You can recap a little bit of what we've missed by reading this - my favorite is that someone evidently edited wikipedia's entry of Scott McClellan to include the fact that he is a douche. Frankly, I don't see the problem here, but, well...

There's an article on Rolling Stone about Howard Stern and his new Sirius show. It's not a flattering article, so if you're a Stern fan, you may not want to read it. I've never been big on Stern - I've always found his show kind of boring. But, at any rate, the reason I'm linking to it - my God, is that what Stern looks like now? He doesn't look anything like Stern! He looks like Weird Al Yankovich! Man, unless you've been in a terible accident, it's best to just stay away from plastic surgery.

I'm watching Antique Roadshow with 2.0 right now, and this dude in Houston is showing off his beer can collection. One of the readers may be interested to know that Iron City beer was the first to have had the pull top can. Before that, you either had to punch a hole in the top of the car, or it actually had a bottle cap on it.

From beer to cooking. MNP and I were trading cooking blogs yesterday (I know, I'm a girl, shut up), and she passed along the Wednesday Chef. We've got some pancetta, sage and capers in the fridge right now, so I'm going to make this tonight - I'll let you know how it is tomorrow.

After trout tonight, a new Gilmore Girls, which is nice. Too bad Lost tomorrow is a rerun. But while I was checking to see about that, I noticed the store at Lost's site - check this ridiculousness out.

Finally, before I bail, my friend KT (not to be confused with reader ktbb) sent me a link to Pandora the other day. You enter a band name, and they choose some music that they think you'd like based on that. I haven't really gotten to give it much of a spin yet, but I'm really looking forward to it. Somehow, it's free.

That's all I've got right now. I'll be around.

bullfrog

I plugged in "The Late Greats" by Wilco...and the third song I got was "The Late Greats" by Wilco.

I guess they just can't be topped.

Hey, what were we gonna look up on Wikipedia last night?

Some interesting articles out there today about the applause fest tonight. This one is pretty tongue-in-cheek: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2006/01/30/AR2006013001162.html

Coretta Scott King died last night - I suspect it was in protest to Alito getting the nod. Glad we can get him confirmed and sworn in so he can join tonight's party. Whoo hoo!

However, Tim Kaine, the new VA governor will be giving the minority response. This is not the former governor who is positioning to run in 2008, but we gotta support any Dem that can win in a 'red' state!

I wonder if the GOP Congressmen can trump their inked-thumb stunt from last year.

Yeah, disclaimers: I guess pandora is *not* free, it just gives you a trial. I couldn't get it to restart with a new band last night after trying it out, but, to be honest, I didn't try very hard.

We were looking up George Hamilton to see what the deal with his tan was - wikipedia didn't have much. I guess he's just always tan.

Sweet Jesus, is this country fucked.

I don't even remember the inked-thumb thing - I haven't been able to watch a state of the union address since Shitwit got in. The bumbling cadence of his efforts to communicate in English inspires me to kill.

And I forgot to put this up last night: Jack White and some other dude have formed a side-project band - you can hear their first two songs at

http://www.theraconteurs.com/

Not too shabby.

It was right after the Iraq elections - so to show their solidarity and "success" all the GOP Congressmen inked their thumbs and then held them up when the cameras flashed to them.

I am not sure I want to up my blood pressure tonight, either.

I figure it had something to do with that. Ain't nothin' like some good ol' groupthink. I'm like two minutes away from moving to New Guinea and giving it a shot living among the tribesmen.

Seems he's been in 106 film and an additional 42 in which he's played himself...I've always wondered about that guy.

Also, he's served as producer of 4 more films and revieved a special thanks for his help in the Making of the Godfather III.

What does that mean? That he was dating Sophia Coppola at the time or something?

that post link is hilarious, E.

I seem to be in a funk right now at the office, so, at the suggestion of E, I have put my hood up. All I need now is my Drive Shaft tee and a statue of Mary stuffed with heroin.

more good sox news, please welcome SS alex gonzalez: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/content/printer_ friendly/mlb/y2006/m01/d31/c1303932.jsp http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=231287 5&type=story

no more holes to fill, woo hoo!

Yeah, the Soxaholix was (were?) on that earlier..

http://www.soxaholix.com/

I guess I'm down with this. Didn't have to send off any other prospects, so that's cool.

MNP, CNNSI had this at the end of their collitch hoops notebook:

Is there a more snake-bitten team in the country than Notre Dame? The Irish are currently tied for 14th place (yes, there's such a thing) at 1-6 in the Big East, but two of the defeats, at Pittsburgh and Georgetown, came in double-overtime. At Marquette, it was a ridiculous Steve Novak fallaway jumper with 1.1 seconds left that did them in, and Saturday against Villanova, the Irish rallied from a 17-point deficit to briefly take the lead in the last minutes only to lose on a Kyle Lowry tip-in with 1.7 seconds left. Meanwhile, coach Mike Brey, whose team hasn't reached the NCAAs since 2003, is in danger of falling behind Tommy Amaker for the role of favored Mike Krzyzewski protégé.

Oh, if Brey can just manage one good win everyone will love him again. I hate how fickle fans are towards coaches. sometimes you're just bloody unlucky.

I personally don't think David Lee Roth (of Roth Radio) is as bad as the writer of that Howard article makes him sound. Hearing him make fun of Motley Crue was pretty funny this morning.

Since I appear to be back in the Wonkette swing of things (but Wonkette is two dudes now, this seems so wrong), it only seems fair to mention that they list some drinking games for tonight's speech. If any of you are planning on subjecting yourself to this thing, you're going to need all the fortification you can get - this one seemed to be the best.

http://www.drinkinggame.us/

Oh, if only I didn't have to work tomorrow...

From my friend Jimmy's LJ:

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall in the same week. It is an ironic juxtaposition: One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication.

The other involves a groundhog.

Hey jeremiah! well we only have looked at a couple or your cartoons and this one was really funny! just thought id let you know...