Comic for Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Posted: 12:10 am, Tuesday, August 15th

Everytime I have someone in the strip be kind of an over-the-top assbag like Tim and Jim here, or like Billy, or even Katie to some degree earlier in the summer, I wonder to myself, "Is this believable? Am I making them suck *too* much?" And then I encounter someone in the real world like the three jackholes a few blankets in front of me at the Bryant Park flick last night who have no regard whatsoever for anyone around them. Drunk, high or just plain cretinous, those three sucked and sucked hard. So I stand by today's strip.

Just so everyone knows, though, my toast at Reggie Ho's wedding was better than Lissa's is right here.

A short post tonight, since I got home pretty late and had to spend twenty minutes miffed that the DVD I had burning when I left in the morning decided not to, because of whatever the hell I deleted off my computer over the weekend. And where the fuck is Dell with my customer support? Get on this, chums! Anyway, barebones post today and I'm sorry.

Observing Catholics in the crowd, my mother would like me to remind you that it's the Assumption today, a holy day of obligation. Get ye to church, or risk hell.

Threadless has a sale! Everybody get their t-shirts.

Mike Frank's unstoppable power hour had Lou "the demigod" Holtz on last night. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet - I save my podcasts for my runs - but I'm sure it's hilarious and awesome, all the same time.

Today's nightmare is more a hypocrite than a nightmare - if you have a handle like "Fuck MySpace! & Your Drama!", you may want to go ahead and delete any comments that have sparkly .gifs wishing you a happy Monday with a big mug of beer in them. Just sayin'.

That's all I've got - busy at the office, late gettin' home. Hopefully, more tomorry.

bullfrog

I don't ever recall being in wedding where the bridesmaid said anything about the bride. Of course, if I were at my sister's wedding, I'd probably say something like, "What the hell are you thinking sis? You'd better not be having kids right away. You can't afford it."

It was probably a good idea I wasn't at the wedding. It was ugly with a capital U as it was. It would have been a better idea if they had just eloped to Las Vegas and saved everyone the trouble of an ugly mother-daughter wedding confrontation.

It's evidently not the traditional way to do things - Reggie Ho told me this - but I've been to one's where it's happened. At one reader's wedding, the maid of honor busted out, "And may all the ins and outs and ups and downs of you marriage be between the sheets," which was the awesomest thing I had ever heard up to that point. (Since displaced by "And a groundball, stabbed by Foulke! He has it, and he underhands to first and the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions!")

Gotta tell ya, that quote that's your very favorite strikes loathing into my heart, Bullfrog. bad memories.

If anyone wants to read about geeky mathemeticians getting excited about coffee cups equalling donuts and rabbits' heads equalling baseballs, this article is actually really well written. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

For a second, I thought I had somehow insulted your wedding, then I re-read what I had written (I overslept this morning, the brain's taking some time to warm up). Sorry, man. I've said it before, Cards fans didn't deserve their first trip to the Series since the 80s to end that way, and I would've rather beaten any other NL team than the Cards. The Loo is a-OK with me.

my cousin's wedding last year, mostly an older crowd (he's kind of a tool and thus has few friends), and here's the opening joke by the best man. "I'm not very good at public speaking, so these are going to be the two most uncomfortable minutes of my life, as opposed to later tonight when Brian (the groom) will give Lori (bride) the two most uncomfortable minutes of her life." Dead silence. Well, except for Mrs. Z and I burying our faces against one another trying to keep the laughter in. I thought the bride's father was going to go up there and punch him in the nose. I prefer a little Ogden Nash myself: (for the groom, natch) To keep that marriage brimming, with love in the marriage cup, whenever you're wrong admit it, whenever you're right, shut up.

Zero Bronx? No, thonx!

I think it's a testament about how sucky the Cardinals are now and the disappointment surrounding the new ballpark that when I think of 2004, I don't think "We got swept in the World Series! Stupid Red Sox!" anymore, rather I think of beautiful Old Busch, winning 105 games, Jim Edmond's Game 6 walkoff jack, clinching the pennant (dude! Jeff Suppan outdueled Roger Clemens!), etc.

It was a fun year, despite the ending.

I am deeply offended that the douchetards in this strip talk like my blog. Well, not really.

I thought the maid-of-honor toast is pretty much tradition now too. It's happened at the past two weddings I've attended.

The 'for real, yo'? Yeah, could be - I think I was more consciously channeling Rob the Bouncer's site, though. When I need dialogue for numbnuts, I think of the morans he deals with. Or random fools on the subway. Ugh, I had a few winners on the train with me a few weeks back. Those guys were detestable.

ND is a "new Ivie" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14325172/site/newsweek/page/8/

That list is bullshit, MNP - Boston Collitch is on it.

Anyone out there know anything Sunset Park, Brooklyn? Someone in my office is looking for a place to live and just asked me about it. I am wholly unfamiliar with the area.