Comic for Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Posted: 7:21 am, Tuesday, October 10th

Dear God, and I thought my Columbus Day strip was a bit over-the-top. Check out B.C. For those of you who haven't read up on everyone's favorite funny page cavemen since you were a kid, B.C. creator Johnny Hart is something of a fundy nutbag - most of the humor in the comic, then, is derived from the irony that he has a comic featuring dinosaurs, since the Bible made no mention of them. Even still, I'm baffled by how this comic got through any sort of editorial process. "I'm going to buy a relief pitcher from Haiti." Wow.

I didn't look at the web much yesterday, in a totally failed effort to be really productive on my day off, so I don't have much for you here. I did actually go to the park with my sketch pad and plot out a bit of the strip, so you'll be treated to a few weeks of strips that actually have had thought put into them instead of, "Uh-oh, I need to put *something* up tomorrow, let's have Pete's cousin Oliver move in with the boys." So that's something. Deadspin did have this funny blog about Brady Quinn getting e-mails from Mark Foley, though.

And Stereogum found this on YouTube, and since I love Almost Famous a whole lot - I can't *believe* I didn't instantly dump the girl I was dating at the time when she didn't like that movie - we'll just sign off with that and hope for an eventful day around the web looking toward tomorrow.

bullfrog

"I'm baffled by how this comic got through any sort of editorial process."

I'm often baffled by that as well. B.C. and Mallard Fillmore both.

I don't read Mallard Fillmore, but that one is at least out-and-out conservative, and, to the best of my knowledge, only would be offensive to someone of, say, my leanings, and really is less offensive and more just irksome. This B.C. strip, though, I mean.. Geez.

It all reminds me of the excellent Prehistory of the Far Side book, where Gary Larson runs all the strips that got pulled by his editors. They're all *way* less offensive than this B.C. strip. To me, anyway. I don't know.

By the way, as I'm sure you can all tell, there is approximately zero quality control here at Five Bucks to Friday.

Per my comments about english majors yesterday, I dont know if I had a point other than them getting days off. Maybe it was a jealousy thing. There is no english department at Rensselaer so I can only hypothesize that english majors read books and discussed interesting things while I was trying to compute and balance the load per joint of a six part tressel bridge with type 6 re-bar until 2am sunday thru thursday. But I digress. Almost famous is a good movie. I always thought it was based on the Allman Brothers Band. Am I way off on that thought process?

I thought it was based on Crowe's time spent interview Led Zeppelin, but I could be wrong.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5923743/this_time_cameron_crowe_gets_zeppelin_for_movie_soundtrack

Don't worry, there was no offense - I had a semester in which I actually had no finals, to the rage-filled consternation of my then-roommate. And you pretty much nailed the life of an English major - the things we discussed were only sometimes interesting, but, yeah, mostly I majored in reading and writing. Hey, someone has to write the proposals for your bridges.

Woohoo Cialis!

Don't cheer the spam, dear.

nice color palette today--

I was going to say something about yesterday's cartoon, something on the order of it's not as if North America would have never been discovered by some other white European explorer, but I decided not to.

BC is just not a very good comic. Neither is his medieval version called the Wizard of Id.

The Vikings found Newfoundland in, what, the 1200s? (Evidently right around 1000.) But, yeah, point taken. And since everything else reminds me of TV, there's no reason for this not to, also.

"George, who was your favorite expolorer."

"De Soto."

"De Soto? What'd *he* do?"

"Discovered the Mississippi!"

"Yeah, they never would've found *that.*"

Agreed: Almost Famous is awesome cinema. I don't know why, but I love the type of trivia mentioned in Frog's linked Rolling Stone article.

Probably anybody who cares already knows this, but there is a special feature on the *School of Rock* DVD very much in this same vein. Jack Black has a couple thousand extras behind him while he begs to use "Immigrant Song".

I always wondered about the Fast Times gaffe until I listened to the commentary track on the DVD, and they explain that entire thing. (This also explains the otherwise-inexplicable cover of Battle of Evermore on the Singles soundtrack.)

Some Hokie love for the Irish, Wood. A first-timer's account of gameday at ND. Awesome snapshot at the bottom, of the entire Stanford D wondering how the hell that ball got to Rhema *that* quickly.

http://www.planetblacksburg.com/sports/cates-101006-notredame.php

I feel your pain Wood. While we were figuring out the loads in bridge/ truss joints, other people were outside throwing a frisbee and interacting with their peers! Damned liberal arts majors.

Thou shalt rock out to Metallica... This reminds me of my all time favorite football movie "The Program." Rudy is number three behind Necessary Roughness, sorry domers. Regardless it turns out Lattimer from The Program has a myspace page. And he agreed to be my friend. I had no idea he was the new leatherface.

http://www.myspace.com/andrew_bryniarski

At least you didn't rate the Last Boy Scout ahead of Rudy...

Rudy does beat out some amazing football movies. Paper Lion, the original longest yard, remember the titans, any given sunday (also starring lattimer).

Ask yourself tho frog, does Samwise Gamgee really beat the Guy from Quantum Leap... we all know the answer.

Man, in the Return of the King, when he says, "I can't carry it, Mr. Frodo... But I can carry you!", the only thing that kept me from busting out with "RU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!" in the theater was the fact that 2.0 and I hadn't been dating that long yet and she'd probably leave me before the ship sailed for the Gray Havens.

Any Given Sunday lost me by staging its title game on astroturf. I can't abide by that.

I don't think I knew there was a film of Paper Lion - was it basically just a documentary as Plimpton wrote his book? Plimpton = boss.

Wow, Alan Alda was in Paper Lion. How the hell have I never known about this?

As an English major I can say that I got really good at ultimate frisbee during college.

Thanks for commenting in the middle of all this spam - this is what I get for going to the local watering hole in the evening.