Comic for Friday, June 9th, 2006

Posted: 6:57 am, Friday, June 9th

Since the only thing harder than waiting for a new season of Lost is waiting for anew season of Fightin’ Irish football, I’m dropping a bit of each on you this Friday. This Salon article (you’ll have to watch an ad for Man Bites Dog or something) came out right after the finale, but I just found it yesterday. It’s a pretty interesting character sketch of everyone on the island and has tons of spoilers about the season finale, in case someone’s *way* behind on their TiVo out there. And as for the Irish, oh, boy, Zibby will beat the crap out of someone! Whoo! I’m going to a wedding, so I’m counting on YouTube to provide me with the fight on Sunday afternoon. I’m torn between wanting Zibby to just whale him out cold with one punch, or take his time beating the living crap out of him for the tOSU jersey. Apparently, about 40 of the boys are going to be in town for the match. Damn!

The World Cup starts today, huzzah, huzzoo. Tree will be our man on the scene next week, which is exciting for him. Here, just so you know what team you're watching on the telly at the bar, is a Uni Watch dedicated to the World Cup. Also, interesting bit on the Iranian team - it's illegal to be a Holocaust denier in Germany. Well, good for them. We have a much more lenient stance on hate-speech in this country.

Which leads me to Ann Coulter! Anyone catch her seminal performance on the Today Show the other day? Ann's upset at the 9/11 widows, saying that she's "never seen anyone enjoying their husband's death so much." Breathtaking stuff, really. The one thing I wish is that, instead of saying “Look, you are getting testy with me,” she had broken out, “Matt, you’re being glib.” Crooks and Liars is all over this, wondering/hoping about the affect this will have on Ann Coulter's inexplicable popularity in the mainstream press, and giving you footage of Keith Olbermann tearing the harpy shrew apart. As NoFX says, "you're wrong for not hating Ann Coulter."

So, that said, everyone go see An Inconvenient Truth. It’s getting great reviews, and, while worrisome, will not leave you depressed as all shit at the end. I promise. And if you’re going to the movies for something else, why not buy a ticket for Inconvenient Truth and theater-hop? X-Men 3 won’t miss the ten bucks, and some of your ticket goes toward trying to keep us from dying in a Class 8 hurricane.

Oh, and while I'm on politics, hey, the elephants lost another vote!

I don't care much about the NBA or the Finals - I like Shaq because of his timeless, "I'm like the Pythagorean Theory, nobody can solve me" quite, and I like the Mavs because Mark Cuban is freaking hilarious - but this Dirk Nowitzki quote is awesome. If you're a Cingular customer (by the way, who has a good service that's not Sprint? I'm looking to change), you can have Dirk tell you when someone is calling, and he ends his little schpiel with 'Gong Show.' What the hell? That's his catchphrase? 'Gong Show?' Awesome.

I randomly found this pretty sweet, sad story about the comedians that were on right before the Beatles' second set on the Ed Sullivan Show, and bombed. It's an entertaining read, if you've nothing to do.

MySpace was a bit goofy yesterday - evidently some problem with the backgrounds. So I decided to search for drug terminology, because I figured that the sort of people that build their MySpace pages around their drug proclivities are sure to have nightmare-worthy designs. And you know what? I figured right. I can't say that, were I a dealer, I would think to establish a MySpace page advertising my business. Something about that seems like a bad idea. What's really sad is that the dude still only has 62 Friendsters.

Oh well. Alright, happy weekend, everyone. I'll be back on Monday with what are sure to be absolutely thrilling tales of a wedding. In the meantime, Wilco found whatever cowbell you may have been lacking in your life.

bullfrog

"This American Life" on NPR did a story about the comedians and Ed Sullivan. It was fantastic. I'll try and a find a link for you later today.

Reggie likes Shaq too. Hard not to like him or his nonsensical rants. Plus, the Diesel is from the greatest place on the planet...Newark, New Jersey.

I think Katie's a little brat.

Well, she *is* younger than the rest of the gang.

Wait, that was kind of an incomplete thought. Youth does not equal bad, although I retain the right to rail against "the damn kids." I just meant that since she's still in collitch - where, as we all now know, things are much simpler - she's got a much different worldview than the others.

Because I'm a dork, I'm reading a comic book blog right now called Dave's Long Box, which is a perfect name. The guy just ended a post with:

"If you don't think that's cool, then you are my enemy and I must crush you."

That's hilarious.

http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/05/might y-thor-362-marvel-comics-1985.html

I agree completely, #15.

$638 on prom? seriously? I don't think I spent more than $100.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/fashion/thur sdaystyles/08skin.html

I don't know if I can remember an event that had a larger discrepency from expectation to actuality than prom. I think my tab was around $150 between ticket, tux and limo, though.

This game is really amusing me for some reason. I suspect it's due to my lower-than-average IQ.

http://www.pepsi.co.jp/special/game.html

And I'm out - have a good weekend, crowd. Gong show!

Now that I think about it, I was quite the little brat during college, too. Props on the realism, bullfrog.

(But I'm still annoyed with her!)

Don't you love how defensive we all get of your main characters when we don't like the "newbies" ?

Please let 2.o know there's a Weegee exhibit opening today at the International Museum of Photography.

Reggie - the Mets got Muh-RAIR-ro! Truly, a championship season is in the works in Flushing.

Greatings to you. Can you help me to find any more info?

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