Comic for Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Posted: 7:41 am, Wednesday, October 25th

Man, Gilmore Girls was lame last night.

I know Tuesday Morning Quarterback is an oppressively long read. I love his columns, and even still I sometimes just read the football-related stuff. If you do that, too, be sure not to miss this obit that he discussed yesterday - the second one on this page, for Harald Lindes. Damn, that guy did a lot. My favorite is the throwaway line at the end that his son was in Dire Straits.

I find it really interesting that the same guy designed all these logos.

Has anyone seen this battle of the album covers? (sound) It's awesome.

Found this guy's blog who was doing the nightly middle finger to MTV for a while, there, and he put up the video to Fake Plastic Trees, which I had actually never seen. It's as close to perfect of a song as I've ever heard, and the video falls way, way short of being worthy of it. Still, what the hell, here it is. Is it just me, or does Thom Yorke look like Martin Short in it? God, I can't stand Martin Short.

At least this AIDS prevention ad is bizarre. Which reminds me of a lead-in to a news story about Sesame Street in other nations that I saw the other day where a Muppet is telling another Muppet, "This is a memory box I made when my mother died of AIDS." Initially shocked, I quickly just got angry at the won't-somebody-think-of-the-children crowd for wanting to keep kids in the dark about stuff like AIDS while at the same time preaching abstinence as the only method of prevention all in the name of some innocence that doesn't really exist anyway.

Anyway, that's all I got right now. Gots to get to work!

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Reggie agrees with Bullfrog's conclusion on Gilmore Girls. What a silly waste of time that episode was.

I'm shocked - shocked! - that Rory was jealous of the hot British chick. Who could've seen that coming? And could the writers have been a bit less subtle with the Chris-Luke comparison in the sequence where he's showing Lorelai his ex-wife's letter? My mother was probably watching NCIS or something a hundred and fifty miles away, and *she* picked up on that.

I missed last night's Gilmore, though Geeta is a long-time fan who's somehow drawn me in. I can't figure out whether Rory or Lorelei is hotter. I'm going with Rory in a close shave.

Also I think it's hilarious that two of you Notre Dame dudes are such big Gilmore fans.

You missed nothing, plot-wise.

I started watching in season three, and it wasn't even close back then - Lorelai blew Rory out of the water. It's much closer now, but I still give the nod to Lorelai. I forget why I started watching... Oh, right, I had just given up on That 70s Show and three of my friends talked about the Gilmores all the time, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I think it was a Luke-centric episode, and I've always liked his character, even last year when they made him really irrtational. The show's losing a lot of steam, but it and Lost are the only two I make sure to catch/tape. (Can I still admit to taping things? Should I just lie and say I DVR it?)

No idea what Reggie Ho's deal is.

For those of you who haven't discovered it yet, abc.com is airing most of its popular shows for free the week after it first airs. I've been able to catch up on Grey's Anatomy and Lost the next day (I won't admit to doing it at work....). Actually, it looks like you could watch more than the most recent episode, but I haven't tried.

I like Lorelai is hotter, but that is because Rory hasn't changed since she was in that movie Tuck Everlasting.

Wow, that Tuck Everlasting reference may be the most obscure pop culture reference I've ever heard you make, E. I originally wanted to boo, but I think I've moved toward applause now. Attagirl.

Resume: starting watching Gilmores in the second season. Don't believe I've missed an episode since. Have the DVD's of seasons 3 and 4 in case you have an interest in renting them from me. Rory is much hotter than Lorelei. It's like a BCS conference champ against a service academy. Not sure why both are so darn pale this season though.

Lorelai is definitely hotter. And I think Rory was most recently in that movie about the jeans that fit 5 different girls perfectly. (I'm ashamed to say I watched it...I think it was on cable.)

Actually, I didn't think last night's Gilmore Girls was that bad... maybe since I'm a female I don't mind watching a bunch of smooching between Rory and Logan.

And Christopher is at least getting to the point where I don't feel like punching him in the face all the time.

Anyone watch Veronica Mars afterwards? I usually don't, but I'm starting to get sucked in.

Uh, gee, thanks for not booing me.

Harald Lindes's funeral must had been one hell of a storyfest. The guy's life must have been one adventure after another. And the kid's a drummer with Dire Straits? Dude.

Rand must have been rolling his grave that one of his best logos involves one the worst corporate fleecing in the whole world.

Next thing you'll be telling me is that Lissa's life at the magazine is straight out of The Devil Wears Prada.

I'm just surprised TNT hasn't grabbed Gilmore Girls and blugdeon the show to death like they did with the other CW top show: Charmed. Not that I care, I don't have a television. So I have to go to a bar to watch Cardinals - Tigers tonight. Enough promos of House, please! It's not even that good!

Today's discussion is going to really skew my Google references.

KT, I feel as if I should be watching Veronia Mars, but don't want to have to commit to another show. Sec, you're right, Rory was in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which I have on CK's authority is a good book), but right before that, she was a treacherous prostitue in Sin City. E, you are welcome.

My aunt *always* asks me if I'm watching House. The answer has always been no (except I did see maybe twenty minutes of one episode because I was flipping around numbly after the Fiesta Bowl and just needed something to keep my mind off Ted Ginn, Jr., running ninety yards at a time).

House is AWESOME. Seriously, Hugh Laurie can do anything. He and Chris Carpenter could probably take over the world!

The book was okay in a young adult sorta way (more realistic portrayal of girls than Sweet Valley High or Babysitters Club). There are actually 3-4 in the series and a second movie is being made, I believe.

Speaking of Devil Wears Prada, has anyone watched Ugly Betty? I keep seeing articles about how great the show is, but haven't managed to watch it. I guess I could take my own advice and go to abc.com

The odds that 15 could make it through a post about House without mentioning the Cards were precisely zero.

Haven't seen it, E, sorry. And, yeah, I meant in a YA way - CK's a children's book editor, so she reads a lot of that sort o' thang.

Lissa's more likely to be the Prada-wearing devil than she is Anne Hathaway. Unless my impressions of that film are entirely incorrect.

There's a fairly good chance that tonight's World Series game will be postponed (43 and 90% chance for rain forecasted at gametime), which means it's also a pretty good chance the Cards might see Kenny Rogers at the New Busch Stadium in Game 5. Hey, it's dirty hands night!

I thought Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was something like the Red Hat society, the Ya-Ya Girls or the Sweet Potato Queens. When people are faced with midlife crisis, guys go for the cars and younger women. Girls start party clubs. Devious. Midlife Crisis are overrated.

The SOTTP is about teenage girls that find a pair of jeans. They make an agreement over the summer to each wear the jeans and then send them to the next girl. Amazingly, each girl has some sort of life-changing experience in the jeans. I think one rebuilds the relationship with her father that moved out when she was young, etc. The book was fairly well written, but the stories are cliches and the characters standard fare for YA girls' fiction.

However, my bookclub made me read a HORRIBLE example of midlife crisis womens fiction: Annie Friedman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral. Save yourselves, it is too late for me.

I agree with e, pretty much, so if I did once recommend "Sisterhood," I disclaim it. "The Year of Secret Assignments" by Jaclyn Moriarty is a much better, funnier, and more original example of teen chick lit.

However, I saw the "Sisterhood" movie in the theatre with my book group. The highlight was my friend Ari embarrassing a middle-aged man with a raincoat in his lap out of the theatre before the film even began. And America Ferrara, from "Ugly Betty," was in the SOTTP movie too, to make this all circular.

D'oh. I was probably wrong and just remembered you mentioning it, CK. My bad. I second the Year of Secret Assignments, though - that was awesome.