Comic for Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Posted: 7:40 am, Thursday, July 6th

Man, there are some bad landlords in New York. At least Ron's isn't listed on there. He's got that going for him.

Geez, who knew Delaware was so fucked up? It just sits there being small.

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the publication of one of my all-time favorite newspaper articles. Dear reader, thrill to the tales of the Jersey guido!

Speaking of old stuff, the Onion is taking two weeks to do some backslapping for their tenth anniversary. Each weekday 'til next Friday, they're doing the best-of a certain year (today ushers in the high point of the magazine - 1999 to 2001, I don't think there was anything funnier going than the Onion). Anyway, yesterday, this one was under the best photos of 1998, and it tied in nicely to me wanting the Confederate flag classified/banned as hate speech.

We are a mere 58 days from the kickoff of the 2006 Fightin' Irish National Championship World Tour, and the spreads have been posted for the first week's action. Irish are 7.5 favorites over Georgia Tech. Outstanding.

Aside from the co-opting of the Statue of Liberty from a welcoming emblem of America’s immigrant past into a rather narrow minded Christian icon, I find the most interesting part of this article to be that the Memphis daily paper is called the Commercial Appeal. That tops the Cleveland Plain-Dealer as the goofiest name for a newspaper I’ve ever heard.

While the Sox decide to keep losing to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, it's always encouraging to do some prognostication. Since the season's *just* over halfway over, it's easy to do some predictin'. The Sox project to 100 wins. I'll take it.

Playboy bunny background, a nonsensical NBA logo ripoff promoting pimps, a photo of weed, and a lot of middle fingers. Could it be - could it - yes, it is, it's the MySpace nightmare of the day! Congrats, "®¥ÅN".

I'm going to leave today with this absolutely brilliant YouTube clip courtesy the always-useful-but-usually-in-another-way elbo.ws. I don't think I've mentioned it here (but I don't exactly make a secret of it) - I *love* the 10 Commandments with Charlton Heston. Non-ironically. It's just a fantastic movie. Anyway, here is a trailer for it, made more awesome to a tune of twenty powers. You need sound. Like, you really need it. (They did one for Jaws, too, which is pretty good but not nearly as brilliant as the 10 Commandments one, although it does feature the only halfway decent use of that awful You're Beautiful song that I've ever encountered.)

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Those (D)-Rays sure are going to be tough in the second half of the season. Maybe they'll make a run at the World Series? Maybe the Sox should pick up Canseco in order to beat the (D)-Rays.

I'm trying not to think of Tampa, St. Pete's, or even Ybor City, thank you very much.

I picked up a copy of the newsprint Onion on the subway ride this morning, instead of writing strips like I should've been doing. (Sorry.) It's a 1906 Dumb Century edition instead of a greatest hits, and the AV Club is all new. There's an interview with Robert Downey Jr. about a Scanner Darkly, and Downey's got some really odd speech affectations.

"A Scanner Darkly is a bit more of a mirror than The Da Vinci Code, which is kind of like a Ferrari engine of a bastardization of a book I love, Holy Blood, Holy Grail."

"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a fucking Maserati engine of a plot."

Even stranger is that it seems to be a good thing in the instance of the Maserati engine and a bad thing with the Ferrari engine... Huh.

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/50150

Boo, Court of Appeals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06c nd-marriage.html?hp&ex=1152244800&en=85a00e86c6e42a03&ei=509 4&partner=homepage

Man, seriously? I post an obscure guido article on the three-year anniversary of its publication, *and* the 10 Commandments as teen comedy, and nobody has anything to say other than the Ho getting on me about the Sox? Wow.

Um... I thought the 10 commandments video was hilarious, and I passed it on to other people. Thanks!

*Thank you.* Is a little validation too much to ask for? (he says, gnashing his teeth and rending his garments)

I thought the Ron progression was fucking brilliant!

Damn, Katie is a straight-up bitch. And Ron's existential crisis is one we've all gone through at one time or another. Isn't that the whole purpose of life in New York?