Comic for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Posted: 7:40 am, Tuesday, August 22nd

OK, so today you'll get a blogpost written by someone who feels human, unlike yesterday's, which was written by someone who felt like the side of beef that Rocky trained against. Dear Lord.

So, Sunday, during my recovery process, we watched the second disc of Freaks and Geeks, which I am continuing to love, and also Grosse Point Blank, because my ten-year high school reunion is this coming Saturday. (I also watched an awesome show on PBS about ice cream.) I was looking forward a lot more to the whole thing when I signed up to attend back in April than I am now, but Grosse Point Blank reenergized me a bit for thing. Because, dear reader, I am a professional killer. Well, no, but I can't really come up with another reason to have watched that right before my reunion. It did get me in the mood for the proceedings somewhat, although I return home about four or five times a year and have not disappeared utterly (just semi-utterly) from old Berne-Knox-Westerlo in the past ten years. And I'm certainly not going to rekindle an old flame, what with, you know, living with 2.0. And the reunion's not even being held in the gym, like in the film, so we've got all those different things going on. I guess I mostly wanted to watch the scene when they first get to the reunion, with all the super-awkward exchanges. But one thing that really struck me from Grosse Point Blank was that everyone in the reunion scene looked at least 35, not a uniform 28 across the board. It's just not that likely that *everyone* has fallen into their niche of life in the mere ten years from 18 to 28. Which probably everyone reading this has already come to realize, but, hey, it's my blog. I'll ramble when I feel like it. So, yeah, high school reunion on Saturday. Hopefully, it'll be just like everyone's swelled. (Since I haven't.)

What else do we have going on? Well, I really enjoyed doing this strip today, for one. As you can probably guess by the fact I've been subjecting you to daily ND finds around the web all month, I share Ron's enthusiasm in the last panel. Even moreso now that baseball season is effectively over for me. Let's get the Daily Irish out of the way early today... Here's Ray Zellars just embarrassing some dude from Purdue.

God damn!

Why is it that psychos like bin Laden and Kim Jong Il both have some odd deep-seeded love for American celebs despite wanting to destroy us? And it's shocking to think that bin Laden putting a hit on her husband probably could've been the best thing to happen to Whitney Houston in the last 10 years.

Cool article explaining things that, twelve years ago, could've been the little stand-up bits that lead in to Seinfeld episodes.

Um, well, this is certainly nuts.

Today's Nightmare is kind of confusing - it's the page of Aldo Kelrast, the guy stalking Mary Worth in the comics page these days. (I only know this because of the rocktastic Comics Curmudgeon, of course.) I'm a little confused because the person's passing themselves off as Aldo, but seems to have filled in all the background info as their actual own information. Like, Aldo looks a bit over thirty in Mary Worth, and hasn't mentioned attending NYU. I'm also fairly certain no love of Modest Mouse or Jeff Buckley has come up in the strip. All in all, kind of a weird fake MySpace profile.

bullfrog

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I can't believe how big your boys are!! And positively adorable.

Mama's good looks, clearly.

What a run. Even Holtz was loving it. And the Purdue coach just staring at the ground...what a great clip.

I now think Heaven is like being able to run with the speed and grace of Rocket and the bone-crushing death-bringing power of Zellars. You could just take two steps to get to full speed, and run straight through brick walls. It would be great.

By the way, Davie thought it would be a good idea to hire that shoegazing coach as his offensive coordinator. And then it somehow got worse with Kevin Rogers and Wild Bill taking the reins from there.

If anyone has the NCAA Football 07 video game and just let the computer run through the football season until the start of the bowl season, I wonder what kind of record would the computer predict Notre Dame would have?

I did that back with the '99 version, and someone random like Virginia came out on top.