Comic for Monday, March 27th, 2006

Posted: 12:06 am, Monday, March 27th

Welcome to the week, gang. We had E in town this past weekend, and our little walk around Soho saw us duck into a bar at three for a quick rest and then roll home at about one thirty after not getting back to walking. People just kept joining on, what can I say? I'm repaying the favor this coming weekend by trucking down to the capital in the Greyhound party wagon, and then we're gonna... run a ten miler, actually. So it will be nothing the same. Whatever.

How 'bout George Mason? Crazy. My bracket is officially completely finished. My worst-to-first in the office pool next year is going to shock the hell out of everyone, just you wait and see. Gee, it just dawned on me that I'm going to be in DC during the GMU Final Four game. I bet that will be kind of crazy. Tangentally related - sweet McSweeney's list about the March Madness, bad brackets, and Shitwit's logic.

Tagentally related to that and circling back to DC, E loaned me Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation. It's a good primer for getting ready to go down and run around DC. Also, she name checks Sleater-Kinney pretty early in. Sweet.

Baseball starts next Sunday night - the ChiSox and A's - and it still seems strange to me that the season's not opening with the Reds playing. When did we stop doing that? I guess when we started shipping teams to Puerto Rico or Japan or wherever to kick the season off, huh? Meh. Anyway, quite excited for baseball to get started. As is this guy, who actually is such a Royals fan that he has a Royals blog, and is such a brave person that he could stomach the idea of running a season preview for KC. Goodness.

CBS's promo for Survivor just defined Wild Card as "not knowing what will happen next," breaking it down with a dictionary-looking entry and everything. I don't think that's any conceivable definition of wild card, honestly.

I have to warn you - this is a positively freaking bizarre statue of Britney Spears. This is supposedly a pro-life sculpture. The good news is that it's going to be on display in Brooklyn. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to go check it out at some point.

Am I nuts, or is Truman Capote the bad guy in Mission Impossible 3?

Not to be a downer, but things sound really bad in Iraq. 30 beheaded bodies turning up in the streets of Baghdad? On the second page of that article, there's mention of Shiite death squads responsible for over 200 killings around all of Iraq. Earlier yesterday (I'm presuming it was an early draft - you know how newspapers do that, put a barebones article up first and then when they get the version that will go in the hard copy, they put that up - seems to have happened here), the number was 300. Man, it's just a mess over there.

Anyway, that's all I have at the moment. I'll be back from time to time during the day, I'm sure. Unless I'm too busy picking up for one of my gold-bricking colleagues who took today off. Friggin' gold-bricker.

bullfrog

Just to burst Pete's bubble further...turns out that disability insurance takes 90 days to kick in, so he actually would be sitting around getting no $$ for 90 days and then on day 91 he'd start getting paid again. and typically a broken arm only takes 8 weeks to heal... (My younger bro works in construction and just broke his arm :)

I forget what the original joke was when I wrote this one, but it wasn't this. In between the first and second panels, I remembered Pete actually kind of has a job at the moment. This is what I get for putting most of my effort into dressing the girls nicely.

Do I dare ask how you found the Britney Spears statue? Nothing cements a Pro-Life message like a bearskin rug, though.

Zero

stereogum.com, and I think I've since seen it on gawker, too.

I question attempting to give birth doggy-style, as it seems as if gravity would be working against you, but if anyone would attempt it, it would be Britney Spears.

Bullfrog, I think it's White Sox vs. Indians for the Sunday Nighter.

Also, it's Wrestlemania Sunday, even though the card really bites it this year.

The funny part is I think a friend lives across the street from this gallery... Brooklyn is starting to scare me!!!

actually giving birth doggy style is really great ergonomically and infinitely more easy than the traditional feet in the stirrups - alleviates back pressure, easier for the baby... it is a favored position of the birthing hippy dippy set and since ms spears had an elective c-section ("because it will hurt too much") i highly doubt that she gave birth on all fours...because, you know, that would involve actually thinking about what she was doing instead of slipping into a nice drug induced amnesia while the docs cut the baby out.

Learn something new every day.

SKT - you shouldn't give out that information for free... I've seen what a good medical expert can charge per hour!!!

Also, I consider Ms. Spears to be more of the trailer-trash set than the hippy dippy.

oh if i came across like i was calling britney hippy dippy, i am sorry. she nasty.

Somebody has been spending too much time with Cheney (and during Lent no less):

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID= 20060327-100356-7854r

Can't say I'm surprised that Tavarez punched a guy.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=23 86484

The Boston Red Sox: The only team that cares enough to have beef with the D-Rays.

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