Comic for Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Posted: 7:40 am, Thursday, September 28th

I swear, this is going somewhere.

The Morning News has a kind of interesting little serial going on right now. I'm not terribly interested in whether or not the one chick is religious, but I like the descriptions of the guy's office.

This week's Sheldon's have concerned Grampa getting Sacagawea dollars as change from a vending machine, a subject near and dear to my heart. I don't think I've gotten into this ever in this space, but my father, bless him, is completely insane. He's obsessed with the success of the dollar coin, and has made it his personal mission to spread Sacagawea dollars around the Northeast. He was *delighted* to learn that you receive them as change from the MetroCard machines in the city. He gave me a roll of them for my twenty-fifth birthday (my parents are *huge* on giving people their age in dollar amounts - even up to my cousins' thirtieth birthdays, they have done this), which actually came in really handy because it was all the money I had when the blackout hit in 2003. He wears mismatched socks on the weekends, and anyone who points this out to him (it's not hard, oftentimes one sock is melon and the other kiwi) receives a Sacagawea as a reward. When small children visit my parents (which seems to happen with shocking regularity), they typically receive a Sacagawea just for the hell of it.

This part? This isn't going anywhere.

That's really all I've got. Been a quiet week at the ranch, which is nice, because last week was pretty busy 'round these parts. We finally got through the final season of Six Feet Under through Netflix yesterday - that really *was* one of the best series finales I've ever seen, although I'm still miffed that Peter King ruined it in one of his CNNSI columns a year and a half ago. I also finally beat Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2. I bought it shortly after it came out, played it about halfway through, got really frustrated with it, put it down for ten months, and picked it back up on Friday. It's got a lot of pretty scenery and muted colors, so I think it's, like, an autumn game or something. The ending makes very little sense - it's like they put all the plot into the end sequence - but it was a fun game. The character design on the colossi was fantastic.

OK, I'm done reviewing year-old video games, now. I'll see you all domani.

bullfrog

I used to work with a guy who had the mission of spreading the use of the dollar coin around the Southeast. So, bullfrog, your father is not alone. there are other nuts out there.

I'm going to go ahead and not tell Pop about that - he doesn't need to know there are those that share his vision.

Oh snap, some girls bout to throw down Woody-High style. Shit!

I am by nature, a very humble person when it comes to this strip - actually, no, what I am is a person with near-nil self-confidence when it comes to this strip. But, still, the point remains, there are not many strips where I can say, with all certainty and confidence, I am better than this guy.

Today's Awful Link from Something Awful is one of those strips.

http://www.furnation.com/FoxStudios/archive/ComicStrip/strip01.html

Wow, yeah that's pretty bad. Apparently Stan Lee is a teenaged anime character with a mustache that looks like two leaves.

Um, aren't comics supposed to be funny? Yours almost always make me grin, bullfrog.

Gee, thanks for linking to that comic. I kept reading (for all of three minutes) trying to figure out when it would stop sucking. I gave up when the talking fox costume arrived. Damn, there's three minutes I'll never get back. Don't even compare your strip to Foxfire, it's insulting.

True, that comic is terrible, and he didn't even draw St. Louis right, the moron.

Fuck yeah, Irish, you graduate them players.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/09/27/grad.rates.ap/index.html

I'm most shocked at Cal's ludicrously low graduation rate, and Tennessee's. I could've sworn Tennessee's was at about 22% when I was in collitch. Either the players have gotten smarter, or the credits less demanding. Guess which one I think it is?

And, geez, guys, I didn't mean to look at it for any length of time. I clicked three strips and ran away.

They still are minting those gold dollar coins?

The coolest thing that the US Treasury has done are those state quarter thing. Missouri's had something of a contraversy which the winning designer was miffed that his full design was not used for the coin. It was a bit overly illustrated, and it is just 25 cents we're talking about here. Besides, this is the same guy that tried (twice) to make a lasting fresco of the University of Missouri's tiger mascot only to have most of the tile pieces break off at the first sign of cold weather. I'd like to see them redesign the lincoln penny.

I figure Nevada's state coin would be two fuzzy dice and a World Series of Poker chip.

Hey- I think I just read my first Blog!!! (not cranberry). Wow- amazed I can still type after rolling up the universe in some strange Japanese game....