Comic for Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Posted: 12:10 am, Wednesday, August 9th

Even my black heart thinks this is cute.

As I write this on Tuesday evening, I don't know the results of the Lieberman-Lamont race yet. I do know that if Lieberman's actually looking to go balls-out cheapy on his website, I can get him a better deal than $15 a month. Wait, nevermind, Lamont won. I don't think Jomo can split the vote for a Republican come November. I hope.

It ain't today, either. The AV Club reports on Lollapalooza, where Sleater-Kinney played their last non-Portland show.

Remember the Harper's thing I linked to a while back about the people getting hard-ons for the rapture? Well, the Wall Street Journal's gotten in on the act.

Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie comes out today. Living in NYC when that went down, it'll probably always be too soon in my eyes, but I appreciate that Stone's just trying to tell a human story instead of anything conspiracy theory-ish (even if I buy into some of the theories). But since it's human stuff, all you really need is to watch Letterman's first 9/11 show again. I'll link this again in a month, but I can't tell you what it was like when something that wasn't the news finally came back on in September 2001. I only had one station for two weeks, because most of the broadcast antennae in the city were on top of the towers. When Letterman came on, I was in tears the entire time. (Just so I'm not getting too heavy on you, my other all-time favorite Letterman clip involves giant flyin' rats, but is sadly not yet on YouTube.)

Everybody catch the video of the 1903 Yale-Princeton game on Deadspin yesterday? First ever football game recorded on film. Friggin' crazy. I don't know how anyone ever scored back them.

Flipping off a Hummer has been done to death. To really say "Fuck you" to a Hummer owner, you now have to actually fuck the car. (Dick is a Killer and Call on Me on the second page are the best two.)

From time to time, I make the mistake of asking 2.0 what I should look for for today's nightmare. She always comes up with some disgusting fetish to make me look up. Frankly, I think Furries are the most fucked-up people out there, fetish-wise, but 2.0 makes a strong case for adult babies, like this guy. There's nothing that's not really NSFW there, but consider yourself warned all the same.

I tried finding, for some reason, Jim Sanson's one good kick in Notre Dame history, but came up with this, instead, for your Daily Irish.

I think we all agree that's pretty kick-ass.

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I remember seeing this on the air. It was David Letterman's finest hour. That week was Rudy Guliani's finest hour too.

I particularly remember seeing CNBC and the reporter who was litterly filled with dust from the demise of the trade center (apparently the NYSE building was like right across the street from the WTC or damn close). I had a Uncle who often worked at the WTC repairing its air conditioning system, and was going to go to work on it again on that day. Luckily he turned around as the airplanes hit the tower. The last time we were in flying into New York, my brother took a panorama picture of the New York skyline with the WTC buildings as the sun rose. It's a beautiful picture, and possibly be worth some money one day. It's hangs below an original photograph of Academic Hall at the University of Missouri - Columbia before it burned down that my father stole (he claims inadvertantly). Huh, I wonder if they want that back?

I also remember the shock of Good Morning America (and then again at CNN) as the second plane hit. There was no way anyone was going to be going to class that day. From what my Auntie Sunee has told me (and she's a Nurse), that was one hell of a week. I'm pretty sure she decided to retire after that tramatic incident, thinking she was too old for this stuff any more.

If I ever go to New York City, I will visit the place where the buildings fell. I love New York City!

And Leibermann did not make past the primary. A pity in a way. I don't want to get overly political, but my biggest political fear is that both parties are going so towards the extremes that they'll lose sense of what's important. And especially to lose any common sense of what truly needs to be done, and not to just follow what the even more extreme special interest groups will want you to do. At least Leibermann made some sense.

My apologies for my wistful reflections and half-rantings today. I was lured to your sight not because of your webcomic (althrough it's a hoot) but your discussion about New York City. I've been there a couple of times and every time, I wish I could just become a resident there. Maybe one day, I will.

did i miss something or should gramps be saying mena instead of lissa in panel 3?

Billy and Lissa used to date - evidently, they broke up because he was unfaithful, and Gramps favors Lissa quite a bit over the much more vapid (to this point) Mena.

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"Who said marriage has to last forever?"

Anybody want to buy a car from an anonymous spam poster on a webcomic? No? Shocking.

I'll be going into 9/11 thoughts in about a month, Miyaa, but the city's always got room for one more. As for Lieberman's loss, I'm not too shaken up about it. The Republican party is already quite far to the right, and for some stupid reason the Dems have been drifting to the middle for decades now, allowing the Repubs to go even further right. Instead of both parties going to the extreme, the middle's been pushed very far to the right, and the important things, such as a healthy population, have already been lost in favor of the 1% that control 90% of the wealth in this country. (Or whatever that stat actually is.)

Will I be able to look up an O'Shea on the '62 Mets?

No, because I didn't have the time to research someone with the backstory I've set in my nogging for Gramps. Would've been nice, though.

Yankees, on every level of baseball = Goat Fuckers.

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