Comic for Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Posted: 12:20 am, Tuesday, May 9th

I'm actually crazy tired right now, but I found a decent amount of stuff to share today... We'll see how quickly I can burn through it all and get myself to bed.

2.0's show opening went great. Considering all the promo-ing got screwed up by Design Station (which, just in case anyone in the room ever needs a printer, should never ever ever be used because they suck unlimited amounts of ass and I hope this shows up when you get Googled, Design Sucktion - haha, eat it!), there was a very good turn out, and all the artists seemed extremely pleased with the layout and write-ups everything got. Plus, there was beef jerky. Except that was actually only for me. Whatever. Anyway, it's up for two weeks still, so if you get a chance to drop by Pratt, you know what to do. I'll be leaving the card up just so's you know.

Alright, what else do we have.. I totally missed that Rensselaer got a shout-out in Doonesbury last week. Anyone graduating anytime soon (2.0 and Reggie, among others), if you feel like skipping the ceremony, just read this, the mash-up tape of all commencement addresses.

Scroll down this X-E article about mid-way, and you'll find the ad for the GI Joe figure of the Fridge (I guess that was a pun). I totally had the Fridge figure. It was the only 900 number my parents ever let me call. I still remember the secret code you needed – “PTI,” for Physical Training Inspector. Which is funny, because the only thing worse for our fighting men and women than having this man train them is having this man lead them. Obviously, that's a picture of Shitwit (although it's a good one, and one I hadn't seen before, so be sure to check it out), and here's Tom Tomorrow with some polls on ye olde failure as compared to Nixon. Tom Tomorrow lead to the Voice, lead to Sutton Impact and his take on the installation of Fox News as the press secretary. Then there's this. I was all ready to get hot and bothered at this moran’s assertion that catching a fish was the best moment of his presidency.. and then I thought about his presidency. And then I vomited.

I love 1994. The Pumpkins were in full swing, I had just gotten my license, the glaciers were in much better shape, and Teri Hatcher didn’t have a book. Or a pendant. Honestly, what is the mindset of someone who would buy that pendant? Holy God.

Sox-Goat Fuckers tonight! Quick baseball tidbits to get you warmed up - the week in quotes, and Posnanski getting me so depressed about the Royals that even though I have no affiliation outside of Tree and CK to the team, *I* want to start up an ownership group to try and buy them away from Glass.

By the way, as I mentioned yesterday, I have a MySpace page. Grafe rightly raked me over the coals for this, but, you know, whatever. It got me thinking about the possible fun applications of MySpace for this site. I've decided that, every day now, we're going to have a feature called The Horrors of MySpace, in which I give myself five MySpacesters to find a simply unforgiveable .html layout. Today's winner is "playgirl," and I have to warn you, if flashing lights give you epileptic fits, you're not going to want to look at this link. (sound, I'd imagine)

Oh, one last thing. I had another reaction to Lissa's line in panel three, which would've made no sense given where Ron's at right now. So welcome to the first and only planned installment of Five Bucks to Friday in an Alternate Universe!

OK, I need to go to bed. Go Sox!

bullfrog

Sorry for the coal rakeage, Mondays are not my best days. In fact, feel free to delete all of my Monday posts.

In case you take me up on the offer, I would like to reiterate, dude, myspace?

Okay, I'm done now.

If I delete your Monday posts, it just looks like I'm talking to myself at various points in the day. I get enough strange looks, I don't need them on the internet, too.

Strange article about Pedro and his flower garden in the Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/sports/baseb all/09pedro.html?hp&ex=1147233600&en=0fe2be411d0a4e2f&ei=509 4&partner=homepage

I love that he says he "lives a very normal life" on an 8 acre estate with a 6 bedroom Tudor in CT for which he paid $4 mil. Yeah, normal, right.

I thought Zach from Saved by the Bell was gay? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2006/05/08/AR2006050800798.html

What? Why?

And, ad, what, you don't have a winter home back up in Michigan to go to whenever you get homesick for snow?

I don't know, he just always seemed like he must be gay in real life to me. Or maybe it was Slater. oh, well.

Zach played a male prostitute on a made-for-TV movie years ago. (That I'm ashamed to say I watched.) I think that puts his sexuality into question.

Although I've only ever seen the last, least interesting 20 minutes of it, I've been led to believe that the E! True Hollywood Story about Saved by the Bell alludes to massive sexual shenanigans amongst the cast of SBtB, but all of it was hetero.

Radiohead debuted a bunch of new stuff in concert the other day, and evidently the whole set is available at:

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002585.html

Hope it stays up 'til I get home...

fantastic job on the exhibit, [2.0]!!!

Somehow the picture of Pedro whispering tenderly to a bunch of flowers makes him that much more of a badass in my eyes, like the bad guy in The Professional who liked to listen to Beethoven while he killed people. I think I'm going to blog about this.

The extremely odd connotation that popped up in my mind was actually that it makes him quite like Count Fosco in Wilkie Collins' the Woman in White. I'm only halfway through the book, but Fosco is an imposing guy who talks to his pet mice and somehow is the only one that could tame this shrewish woman that's his wife, and also calms down the psychotic bad guy.

Of course, this analogy could completely fall apart in the second half of the book. Also, the Professional is slightly more recognizable than the Woman in White.

Know that we have always been down, down.

If by winter home you mean my old bedroom in the parents' house, then sure... but I don't even get my own bathroom.

I'm laying out one of my company's newsletters right now, and there's an article on business practices in India. Here is a bullet point pertaining to business cards:

"If you have a university degree or any honor, put it on your business card."

I'm assuming the 'any honor' part means, you know, summa cum laude or something, but to me it reads like, "If you have any honor or pride or anything of the sort, put it on your business card."

I can't wait to see the google hits I get now that "cum laude" appears on the site...