Comic for Friday, September 15th, 2006

Posted: 11:21 pm, Friday, September 15th

Pearls Before Swine got a mention in the comments yesterday, which was fitting, because their strip yesterday was hi-larious. It's funny because it references blogs that no one reads - a subject near and dear to my heart - and A-Rod's continuing sucktitude. Actually, he could be tearing the cover off the ball right now, and I'd have no idea. Baseball's been over for weeks. I don't know how the boys at Red Sox Diary are keeping it up.

My parents are in town this weekend and have to take the train from our apartment in Brooklyn to a wedding up by Columbia. If I were any sort of good son, I'd just suffer through the hour-plus train ride with them, but there's a chance I'd miss some of the Irish game if I did that. So I was looking for a high-res subway map that I could print and highlight their path for them on, but no luck. I did find this, though, which I would imagine would be immensely helpful for beginner straphangers. It has some directions that aren't to my personal taste - I would never transfer from the uptown F to the uptown 1/2/3 at 14th Street, I'd hop the A/C at Jay and take that to Columbus Circle for the 1/2/3, that walk at 14th is unpleasant - but if you're uncertain of a bar location in Tribecca or somewhere, it could be useful.

MicroSoft unveiled their mp3 player yesterday, and the only really cool part about it is the WiFi sharing that's good for three plays or three days, whatever comes first. I have a feeling that they're really shooting themselves in the eye by not making it compatible with stuff you bought of iTunes. I mean, guys, c'mon - the iTunes store is friggin' huge. I don't know if this means that you have to burn all your iTunes-purchased music to CD and then re-enter it into your computer in MS-Tunes or whatever they may have there, or if it's thoroughly impossible. If it's thoroughly impossible, that right there ensures I will never use the MicroSoft player, and very likely neither will millions of other iPod owners. Silly play, guys. By the way, all those iPod updates the other day came with an update to iTunes itself. For some reason, my old iTunes used to get a lot static from time to time when the processor decided it need to think about something. The new iTunes seems to have gotten around that, although it seems to have solved the problem by slowing up the other programs when the computer needs to think. I'm not sure how I feel about this... I'm pro, so far, but right now I've got a Not Responding Firefox that's not shutting down and it's kind of pissing me off, since it's keeping me from finishing this blog. Grr.

Other music news - evidently Green Day and U2 recorded a benefit single together for the Edge's charity organization to help New Orleans out. That's kind of wild.

The Morning News does part two of New York's parks, and I like this installment a lot better. I never felt as warmly toward Astoria Park as the author, when I lived there, but it was kind of a hike from my Steinway-ish location.

For no reason, Hieronymous Bosch. I had a poster of his on my wall in collitch. I think it's actually up in my closet right now, behind my jackets. (From the Soxaholix yesterday, now that I remember.)

Big game tomorrow, the Irish go up against the Michigan Wolverines. I'm more nervous about this game than I was Penn State or Georgia Tech, but I think I'm more confident, also, which makes no sense at all. Anyway, the Dead Schembechlers have been getting a lot of pub this week because of a mention on ESPN.com, and I know I linked to this exact song last year, but, damn, is Bo for 24 hilarious. There's really only one video choice when posting for the Irish-Skunkbears game, and that's the Rocket doin' his thing. Higher-quality .mpegs for Rocket, none of that YouTubery.

Go Irish! Beat Wolverines!

bullfrog

Just to be sure.

GO IRISH!!

Stuck at work today, getting out of here soon as the ND game kicks off in a little over an hour.

Glad to see the strip get back up.

Also glad to see my little superstition lives on!

Enjoy the wedding, and the "exclusive photos and video of Britney Spears"!

I was going to compliment you on your fine, fine comic and addicting links, but now that I know you allow Britney Spears perverts on your site, I feel dirty. 8)

Though the link you posted a while ago to the Pro-Life Britney statue made me the hero of my workplace. 8)

Keep it up man!

Congrats on the two-year thing. Personally I hope your strip gets picked up by a publication or something (if that's what you're going for) because I really enjoy it. I read that pimpness on a regular basis.

Also I think you need to get a comment-spam blocker, yo. Akismet for WordPress is a really good one.

I just read on your about page that you used to live in Astoria. I had no idea. I lived in that piece for a year too right near the 30th Ave stop.

Look on the bright side: Notre Dame just given Lloyd Carr even more rope to hang himself when he has his ass handed back to him by The Ohio State University. (And I watched that game. Carr clearly was as surprised how well Michigan was doing as the Notre Dame fans were.)

(And hey, the odds of two or more Division I teams seemingly eliglble to get to the BCS championship with no losses aren't particularly large.)