Comic for Monday, June 26th, 2006

Posted: 7:40 am, Monday, June 26th

Whoooo-ha, how's everyone doing? We're having a short one today because 2.0 and I busy walking around Brooklyn most of yesterday because it finally stopped raining and we needed to get out of the house. After Friday evening's outing at the GYC, most of the weekend was a washout - we were going to hit the Mermaid Parade on Saturday, but, alas, alack. So we lazied around instead. I finally saw some World Cup matches - Germany v. Argentina oughtta be pretty good, right? Bummer about the Sox getting rained out on my birthday, but at least the Goat Fuckers only split their double header (plus, they got shut out by some dude named 'Anibel,' which can't help the ego). (2.0 tells me this is not pronounced Annabelle, but Aneebuhlay... less embarrassing.)

When I drew this, 2.0 walked by and said, "I think Lissa has a drinking problem." Which made me think for as often as you see the characters with a drink in their hand, they're almost never drunk. So you're always either seeing their first drink, or they're freaking unstoppable. Either way, uh, I have no point. Oh, and this would've been a good strip to run last week when all the subject lines were crazy band names, but what can you do?

2.0 actually just left Slate because she hates the new design so much. Wow.

God bless YouTube - I've seriously been trying to find a video clip of Clive Clemmons' Inappropriate Response Channel for seven years. My old roommate Sweaty liked to talk about his "cock n' balls" in mixed company a lot in collitch, so we'd throw a penalty flag and yell "inappropriate!" at him, even though RAW and I were the only ones who had seen the sketch. By the way, the temptation for me to misspell inappropriate is overwhelming.

Things to do! There's a Drink at Work show at the Ace of Clubs tonight, and if the rain holds, To Have and Have Not is at Bryant. An Inconvenient Truth continues to do well, and Al Gore has a new terrifying message for you.

Finally - and, I know, it's brief - today's MySpace nightmare was chosen because of its proximity to my birthday. Check out the ridiculous countdown this person has to their next birthday. A solid eleven and a half months away. Yikes. Oh, wait... I'm looking at it right now. It looks like she broke up with her boyfriend or something over the weekend and took her birthday countdown down. Well. Shoot. I'm still going with it, because I'm typing this at seven thirty in the morning, and that's too Goddamn early to subject myself to MySpace.

bullfrog

Actually, when I told you that I thought it was spelled differently...now I am not so sure.

your characters may have a drinking problem but i personally like to see someone start their monday morning with a martini.

or at least i assume it is monday morning in fivebucksland - is jen drinking coffee?

Jen is drinking coffee - I have no idea what day it is there. Since it would be hilarious if it's Monday morning, let's go with that.

The Goat Fuckers only had 6,809 on hand for last night's game? WOW. I hope somebody wrote down Kay or the always loathsome Sterling's impressions on that. I'm trying to imagine anything short of a Godzilla attack causing that small of a crowd at Fenway.

Even better, from the Daily News:

"Perhaps comforted by a crowd that had dwindled to a familiar size from the 53,615 in the opener, the Marlins used their speed to manufacture runs."

So, Yankees fans, it's *your* fault for not showing up. Way to let the team down.

Oh, man, the Slate redesign that 2.0 shrieked at first thing in the morning was perpetrated by Stacked! Now *I* have to check it out.

http://stacked.patrickstack.com/archives/2006/ 06/26/tha-hot-new-shit/

How cool is it that Warren Buffet is giving away $38 billion of his $44 billion fortune? I read an article once where he said his kids didn't need that much money, he'd make sure that they had plenty to live on, but he wasn't going to let them run amok, he was going to make sure his money was used for good. Also, check it out: all of Buffet's kids run their own charitable foundations. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/business/26b uffett.html?hp&ex=1151380800&en=db528d55ed9f06b1&ei=5094&par tner=homepage

Off topic (as if that ever mattered): I'm looking for a decent photo of Bill Laimbeer in a Notre Dame uniform. GIS is letting me down. Plus, I'm supposed to get to work soon.

Wow. That nicely killed any chatter. I have a knack.

Sorry, Mikey. I was looking for one, but no dice.. Checking out eBay and everything.

Italy won on what the interweb is calling some shady officiating, and now the Sox are knuckling under for the sweep against the Phils. (That was hilarious, because, you see, Wake is on the mound.)

I feel bad, doesn't the Stacked guy read this site? Well, I'm sure I'll get used to it...

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Cool...blog spam. Looks like it originated from Korea.

And that's the end of *that* chapter.

No worries, babe, I think he's sleeping all day today.

"2.0 actually just left Slate because she hates the new design so much. Wow."

What? Nooooooooooo!

In all seriousness, what's so bad about it?

P.S. I wasn't involved in the design process; that all happened before I came on board. I just coded the thing.

Also I like the article pages a lot. The TOC has some flaws, but the articles I think are a vast improvement.

I'm going to write a fourth post just because I'm loopy after leaving work at 6 a.m. this morning, then coming back into the office at 11 after being woken up twice in the interim by site-issue phone calls.

She'll have to explain - I was typing furiously to get the post up before I took off for the day. I think she was just jarred by the difference.

And I'm sure you'll be psyched to learn this, but if you click on the Picture of the Day, the Elvis photo? The nav bar on the left is the old one, as is the logo.

I can't believe they made you come in at eleven. Dear God.

Yeah, Today's Pictures, Today's Cartoons, Doonesbury and meaningoflife.tv are actually external sites that use our shell template. We're having some issues with all of them.

Hi Pat. It's true, it really was a knee jerk reaction. I read Slate before my morning cup of coffee, and change is a very bad thing when it comes before my morning cup of coffee. I also have to admit I don't particularly like the font choice for the logo. I *am* partial to serifs though...could be just a general prejudice I have.

And that's a whole lot of maroon isn't it?

But! I do like the way the navigation bar on the left works! Really, I do.

aaron spelling died?!?!