Comic for Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Posted: 12:16 am, Tuesday, May 30th

Hey-o, squad. Hope everyone had a rockin' Memorial Day weekend and threw a mental thanks to a vet at the very least. Back in the day, I marched in my high school band and for eight straight years had to march in the annual town Memorial Day parade in some ungodly hideous uniform that was twenty-plus years old. A decade removed from this horrible tradition, I actually kind of miss it (in theory). Some one of these years, I think I'm going to wind up dragging poor ol' 2.0 up to my hilltop hometown and watch the 4-H float go by while chewing a blade of grass or something.

So, anyway, I actually had a very active and not extremely restful weekend, and have a ton to tell you about. Unfortunately, it's almost midnight as I'm typing this and we've been out rejoicing in the glorious actually summer-ish weather, and I'm not in much condition to share everything with you. Know that it's going to be a busy week around the site, though.

Alright, so you may ask, what do I have for you to thank you for stopping by *today* and to entice you to come by the rest of the week? Well, I'm pretty sure there's going to be a Five and Dime each of the next three days, because 2.0 and I saw the Al Gore flick on Friday and it's awesome (go to it). Two free summer events of note; the Hold Steady, America's most rocking bar band, are playing a free show in late July at Castle Clinton down on the Battery, and this coming Monday, Drink at Work managed to yet again plan a comedy show the night of my softball game. The Gowanus Yacht Club is open and rocking hard, I am happy to announce. If you ever find a psychedlic desktop wallpaper of the Beatles, you'd damn well better make it your MySpace background, a-duh. And as I go, check out this picture I managed to get of the final out at the Sox game (Schill's 200th) 2.0, Sweats and I went to on Saturday night.

Alright, I'll be back with some much tomorrow, you'll be all like, 'Bullfrog, shut up.' Honest.

bullfrog

what's going on in panel 4?

Oh, shoot, that didn't come out well? Pete's chasing Ron down the street for the B-52s crack. Darn, I didn't even think that was too big of a nonsequitor even.

Oh, for some reason, i though pete was saying that. somehow i missed the exclamation point and the buble trail. what did i tell you about letting me post on mondays? err. . .tuesdays. whatever.

The Promo West arena in Columbus, OH sells 32 oz brews. The cups/buckets in which they are served definitely belong in a deli. "I'll take 3 lbs of the potato salad, please."

How did you dig the show?

??? I still don't get it. What does rock lobster have to do with the B-52s?

See inconvenient truth, it's really well done.

That means you Mom!

Well, it's the name of a B-52s song, for starters, but it's also kind of a slip Pete made in proclaiming something's awesomeness in the past.

http://www.fivebuckstofriday.com/2006/archive0 60330.html

You'd think I would've learned from the confusion I caused some people the first time I used this joke. Well, that's just not the Five Bucks way. This amuses *me,* God dammit, and I'll be going back to the well if I feel like it!

I can't comment too much because I don't Flogging Molly's music that well, but they certainly seemed to be giving it a good treatment, i.e. they weren't just going through the motions. You don't see the penny whistle and the accordian everyday, so that was cool. They made a few Irish Catholic cracks about how weird it was to be doing a show on a Sunday.

The two opening bands made my ears bleed, in a bad way.

I'm sure it wasn't OzFest caliber, but relative to my limited experience there was quite a bit of bouncing in the pit. Good fun there, and no major bruises. Helps to go to the show w/ 3 guys that are 250+. Also, I shot the breeze for 2 minutes w/ a guy wearing a kilt and "the shirt" circa 1997. I counted about 5 mohawks. All-ages show, though, so I felt pretty old.

Of interest (my own, at least), Umphrey's McGee, Ani Difranco, and O.A.R. are on the near term docket for www.promowestlive.com. I don't know if McGee is actually any good, but I have yet to get to a show of theirs, so it's on my list.

frogger,

i totally got the whole b-52s rock lobster crack.

and i read it at 4 this am.

Thanks, Skitters.

I saw Umphrey's McGee a few years back at the Bowery Ballroom, which is hilarious, since I couldn't be bothered to see them play Senior Bar when they were still a campus band.

Not really my thing, but they seemed to be able to play their instruments.

Wow. I just checked out MySpace for the first time (it was blocked on my old work computer). Craziness. I did a search for people I went to college with, and some scary faces popped up. That's a dangerous site. Yet strangely intriguing.

I got the joke, which was bad because I was holding the just-dozed-off-in-my-lap-at-3:30am-up-since-1:30am baby in my lap, and when I snorted she woke up. So yeah, it's your fault.

"Five Bucks to Friday - Where we wake up your infant as soon as you get her to sleep." Yeah, I may not use that one in promo pieces, Zero.