Comic for Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Posted: 7:42 am, Wednesday, April 19th

A t-shirt trifecta to get things started today! I'm not going to lie, I totally did not recognize this one. The other two are awesome ones from web comics - Daily Dinosaur is always incredibly funny, but I've never really been big on their t-shirts. This one? (scroll down - it's the first one) This one's awesome. The other one is for the ladies - a knitting shirt from Diesel Sweeties. Damn you, R. Stevens, always making shirts that the hip girls will flock to like nuts. Damn you! By the way, I know I've been talking about t-shirts and what-not forever (actually, I haven't mentioned it in months), but the time is near when I should probably try and market the site, or something. 2.0 is a big proponent of stickers, I think pins may also be a good idea. Pins, however, seem to be pricier to produce. I dunno, anyone feel one way or another on this? Stickers do have the added perk of me being able to slap them in bar bathrooms or streetlight poles or what-not.

I don’t read the NY Times Book Review, but I would like to say that I completely hated Madame Bovary. For those of you who haven’t read the book, the main character uses a *lot* of promissory notes, which reminded me of losing at (the game of) Life. Man, it’s bad enough I’m stuck reading this snoozer of a book over the summer before senior year, but it has to keep making me think of the time I somehow wound up $200,000 in debt playing Life? That’s just awful.

Other book news - I noticed a bunch of new books I kind of want to read when strolling by the book store in Grand Central the other night. Jose Saramago has a sequel to Blindness out (Blindness is a must-read, by the way - Saramago is incredible and that one's by far his most accessible), and my man Noam has a new one that is sure to depress me to all hell and back. I worry about when Noam and Howard pass - they're both relatively advanced in years. They're so far ahead of the rest of us raving paranoiac lefties that I worry about anyone stepping up to fill the void. The other one's a Roth - I've only ever read his Great American Novel, which was good but not what I was hoping it would be, but the summary of this one sounds interesting. First things first, though, I've got two DeLillos my mom gave me for an Easter basket.

We watched the Sandlot last week. It’s a lot goofier than I remembered. Still, this guy might have a point - Pujols is clearly the best player in the NL right now. Speaking of baseball, this idea is way too sensical to ever actually happen. I think the Dodgers would step in, too, to prevent it from happening.

I know it was up for an Oscar and everything, but probably some of you haven't seen Good Night and Good Luck yet - you should seriously check it out. It's excellent.

By the way, my team won our softball game last night, 15-3. It was on Roosevelt Island, but we took the F, not the tram, which is usually awesome but yesterday, not so much.

bullfrog

What sort of name is SURI??? http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/18/c ruise.holmes/index.html

So, Grafe, do you still adore Katie Holmes??

The sort that you give an alien child. A-duh.

i just finished blindness last week. i can't wait to read seeing!!!

Reading the comment thread at Human Goiter-Sox Fan just now, I learned that the Herald had a write-in for entry music for Paps. Super Bon-Bon, by the dearly departed Soul Coughing (Ruby Vroom is the only CD I own that Tree approves of) came in second.

http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg? articleid=135731

If I were a major leaguer, I'm fairly certain I'd have to enter to something Andrew WK-ish, or maybe the Pumpkins' Tales of a Scorched Earth. We were talking about doing this for our softball team a few years back, except with suggestions like "It's Raining Men" and stuff. Which would also be hilarious. Actually, I bet the Halloween theme would be pretty cool for a closer to enter to.

Enter sandman is Mariano Rivera's entrance so thats out. Personally Id have to go with Walk by Pantera.

Here's something from a few years back where ESPN's Page 3 (do they still have that?) had a bunch of at-bat music.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?pag e=atbatsongs/index

I just checked out the Goat Fuckers - Tom Gordon was still with the team and apparently entered to Queen's Flash Gordon song. I cannot think of a less intimidating song. And I'm including It's Raining Men in there.

I'm still thinking Andrew WK's "Ready to Die" is pretty good for a closer - "you'd better get ready to die" pretty much spells it out for you right there. I wish I had my iPod with me. Hell, I wish my iPod were working. I need to get to the Apple store.

I wish baseball players would try to screw with the crowd with their music every once in a while. If a closer entered to the Law and Order opening theme, that would kill me. Ten seconds of stunned confusion, a lifetime of laughter.

"teledildonics"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/17/224628 /002

"Karl Rove, the president's most influential adviser and a dominant force in the Bush administration since its beginning, surrendered key policy responsibilities today while press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation."

Why am I scared?? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2006/04/19/AR2006041900897.html

Which leads to this tongue-in-cheek from yesterday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/g raphic/2006/04/18/GR2006041800688.html

Shit, we won't have McClellan to kick around anymore? That's too bad.

What is this abstinence thing? I must've missed this. I couldn't tell how much of that article was a joke or no.

I saw this on the news this morning about $4.50 gas in Brooklyn.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/410113p -346997c.html

I guess the place has really small tanks and is mostly an auto shop. I can't believe some moran actually filled up their car there - at most, put a gallon in and go down the street where it'll be a buck less. That said, $2.93 for a gallon of gas? Fuck you, guy who just got the $400 million retirement package for engineering the ExxonMobil merge. Gee, what a fucking brainstorm, joining two ridiculously profitable companies to become one mega-sickeningly profitable company.