Comic for Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Posted: 7:35 am, Tuesday, September 5th

Welcome back to work, everyone. Blech, huh? Hope you all had a rockin' Labor Day weekend. 2.0 and I made the most of it, pulling a Lissa and rolling in at three not once but twice over the weekend. That hasn't happened in years. My Canadian friend got married down on the beach on Sunday, in a beautiful ceremony with beautiful weather after Saturday's monsoon of ridiculousness. It rained and winded all damn day here on Saturday, making it perfect stew weather for the Irish game. As for the Irish, ugly, but 1-0 is a whole shitload better than 0-1, and it was nice to see Charlie make a halftime adjustment for the first time since he's been at Notre Dame. The defense was pretty decent, although they were greatly helped by Chan Gailey being Chan Gailey, and the offense will obviously come around. I don't think another team on the schedule has the combination of linebackers and d-line that Tech had to make those blitzes work well enough to disrupt the passing game like that.. Maybe SoCal, but by that time, the offense will be clicking pretty good. Anyway, that's more than enough about the game. Check out this sweet picture of Ndukwe separating Calvin Johnson from the ball, though. Along with Carlson's catch where he tipped the ball to himself while being tackled, it was the prettiest play of the game.

We watched Brick over the weekend, too. It was really pretty awesome. The dialogue was hilarious. It's a noir mystery set in a high school, so a recurring line was something to the nature of, "Tell them I need words. They know where I eat lunch." Awesome. The kid from Third Rock from the Sun was the main character, and did a great job.

By the way, it is friggin' difficult to find a picture of Leah Remini as Stacy Carosi on the interweb.

I'm getting psyched up for Bully, but in the meantime, the hateful wing of the Christian fundamentalists are getting into the video game sphere with an adaption of their shitriffic Left Behind books. The Daily Show decided to address it last week sometime.

Oh, back to the weather on Saturday. It was windy as hell in Brooklyn, and this big-ass tree in Prospect Park got taken down. I'm assuming this guy had some rot going on inside that weakened him to the weather, but, still, the trunk was about as thick 'round as I am tall, so it was quite the sight. If the little wimpy remnants of Ernesto made this big tree buckle and fall, I am officially terrified of actually ever being in a hurricane. I mean, check this nonsense out:

To sum up: six pictures of a tree that fell over; zero pictures of a friend's wedding. That's how I roll, man. That's how I roll.

Alright, so, short week, thank goodness. Hope everyone settles back into the daily grind, 'specially if there's any school kids in the room. My Ma is starting her last year in the teaching profession, so this is likely the last time I'll ever think to wish you people good luck at the beginning of a school year unless a six-year old randomly moves into our apartment. Oh, and, hey, word to the Croc Hunter. I was rather inexplicably saddened to learn of his death. He always seemed like a pretty nice guy.

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Of all the ways to go out, a stingray was not high on my list. Of course, if it was a devil ray, perhaps we could blame Tampa Bay for it.

I wonder if Brick is out of the same mold as young Scott Baio movie about essentially 1920-ish Chicago-ish children gangsters with automatic pie guns? Yes, I said pie guns. Now there's a death I'd enjoy. Death by lemon mergaine pie.

What happened with the Irish this weekend. They were looking rather suspect against Reggie Ball and the Bumblebee's. The Hokies would have won 300-0, but they didnt feel like it. Miyaa, I have to disagree on the Croc Hunters death. Taking a Sting Ray barb through the heart seems like a manly way to go. I also heard that he slew the sting ray with his pocket knife. After that he skinned it and created a raft for some 300 people who were trapped at sea. He also balanced the australian budget. Indeed a manly way to go...

At least thats what Fox News said he did.

Sorry if a blank post happens... slipped and hit enter instead of tab (read: I need more coffee). Thanks for the link to that pic, I now have a new desktop background.

Scenario: 4th and 1

If you're Chan Gailey... gutless punt. If you're Charlie Weis... go for it and ice the game.

Ah, the Irish will be fine. There was a little rust on the passing game - Brady missed Samardzija wide open in the end zone, Rhema clunked one right off his hands, and a BS holding call on the first drive all took points off the board. It's not like Miami-Florida State levels of futility were on display out there. I'd be worried about Georgia Tech if your Hokies play them - if they realize that they're allowed to throw to Calvin Johnson for the entire game and that the running back from Oklahoma is actually pretty good, they could make a bit of noise in the ACC.

Of course, Gailey's a terrible coach. So maybe not.

Oh, forgot to say, I didn't like the ND ad. It was better than last year's 'higher power' spot, but "Judge like a champion today" didn't really sound the way they wanted it to, I don't think.

So, you don't have a gold paper saying, Draw like a Champion today?

Oh, Colorado. What the hell happened to you?

AP dropped ND to 4th... tied with Auburn AND jumped the Condoms ahead of us. Unbelievable. I can't wait for ND to start scheduling craptastic teams (Duke's on the schedule soon) and then get blasted for it. SC plays Arkansas,a team they've beaten by approximately 8 million points the last two years, Texas plays North Texas (weren't they in NECCESARY ROUGHNESS?) and they move them in front of the Irish.

Un-freakin-real.

I'm actually psyched about Colorado dropping their opener to Montana State or whoever. ND's in a recruiting battle with Colorado for an OL prospect out of Denver, and hopefully that disaster will make him think Irish.

I'm not worried about the polls. If the Irish run the table, there's no way they're being left out of the title game. A one-loss Irish team makes it over an undefeated West Virginia. Hide the couches.

Necessary Roughness starring Scott Bakula was featured at the Texas State University

That is 'tTSU' - not to be confused with 'tOSU'.