Comic for Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Posted: 7:41 am, Tuesday, October 31st

Lissa's more of a Tinkerbell-ish than Poison Ivy, but I guess the latter would've worked just fine, really. This fulfills a request - Wood's, I believe - for a babboon strip from a few weeks back. I'd been meaning to get back to Pete's ongoing conflict with the primates, anyway. Happy Halloween, everyone. Pajiba recommends some great bad horror movies to celebrate the day with. 2.0 and I watched Freddy v. Jason last night for the first time since our third or so date - man, what a fantastic flick. Death abounds, one of the chicks from Undeclared is the heroine, just good, good stuff. Hoo-ah! (For a more classic Halloween, the Bride of Frankenstein can't be beat.)

I bet you were all wondering the religions of your various favorite superheroes. Wonder no more! Superman is evidently Methodist. I had no idea. The Hulk is a lapsed Catholic - Daredevil appears to be the highest-profile Catholic hero. These people really seem to do their research. How strange.

The AV Club takes on Now That's What I Call Music. A cookie to the person who guesses which of these horrendous songs an ex-girlfriend put on a mix tape for me one upon a time.

Sportszilla does a statistical analysis of David Eckstein who, while a Cardinal and therefore infallible to several readers, is massively overrepresented in the sports page. This piece is slightly something of a takedown on Eckstein, but I'm mostly linking to it because of the end part, about how Eckstein is perceived as trying so hard because he's a doofy white guy just like most of the sportswriters that are constantly trumpeting him as a player we need to pay attention to. It's nothing compared to the past few weeks of Fire Joe Morgan, and it's really a good point that this dude makes.

I had a long point there about lazy journalism, but it wasn't coming out right and it's getting a little late. (This is one of the first times I've ever actually edited this space - yowza!)

Monday Night Football just wrapped up - I had benched Drew Brees and felt dumb for having 383 and 3 touchdowns ride pine. Until Tom Brady threw 372 and four touchdowns. Sweet. Speaking of awesome quarterbacks named Brady, I think the reason we beat Navy is because our players are ten times the size.

Jack Black played a skinhead on Life Goes On? Why doesn't this come up in every interview he ever does? Who wouldn't want to hear about this? Wow.

One quick last thing, since it's late and I'm tired - Falafel O'Reilly was on Letterman Friday night, which I actually saw upon arriving in Baltimore. I didn't think Dave did an especially good job - he cannot hide his hatred for O'Reilly, which is completely understandable - but I was, of course, misled by the one shut-up moment that O'Reilly had, about Ansar al-Islam. Dave answered that he didn't know what he (Letterman) was talking about, but he didn't think O'Reilly did, either. And, as it turns out, O'Reilly was just lying through his fucking shit-stained teeth. (Video in there, too.) Ugh, that guy.

Anyway! Go find a sincere pumpkin patch, I'll see you tomorrow.

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Blessed Union of Souls, "She like me for me." That's your kind of music.

Holy shit, that took like two minutes. Nice work, Reggie Ho.

Congrats to fellow blogger/reader/slick-talker Pat - not only does he agree with me on subway seats, but he also just got engaged.

http://stacked.patrickstack.com/

Also, the one day I don't bother to update the time stamp, there's already three comments before 7:41. Maaaan.

I just knew that you were a huge Blessed Union of Souls fan. That, combined with the fact that I calculated the approximate date of when such a mixtape may have been made (anything after Now 6 being too late in time) and the fact that the title was the ever-so-cheesy "She likes me for me," made it a really easy guess. Do I get a prize?

Baboons! To be honest I wasnt sure if I wanted the Pats to beat Minnesota. They are NFC garbage so I was hoping the Pats might lose a heart breaker so they could stomp on Indy the next week. Its a fact, the pats dont lose two in a row. But its also a fact that Peyton Manning is scared of Brady...

And he voted for Bush...

And was an isolationist during WWII...

And shot JFK...

The list goes on...

It's true, the isolationist policies of the Manning family are one of the big knocks on them. Also, the fact that Eli and Peyton combined do not have a signature win in their pro or collitch careers. (Eli may've won a bowl game or something, I didn't bother to look up the Ole Miss records.)

You get a cookie, Reggie Ho, I clearly outlined the rules of the contest. Nice detective work there, too.

I think Ron looks like the Ambiguously Gay Duo? Well, one of them.

Yeah, it came out looking a bit like that, but he's Spaceman Spiff. The ray gun, lightning bolt, and glasses are all markedly different.

That would make Batman an agnostic, right? And really, if Superman was really Methodist, he'd have much more of a business sense of religion (although he could literally make copper wire out of a penny).

In the latest issue of ESPN, the Magazine, Buster Olney essentially makes the case that A-Rod has the best chance to be traded to the Cardinals, although, that's very unlikely to happen.

As about as likely as Boston is to dealing Manny.

When did this comment section get a spell-checker? Or does the read dotted line under "ESPN" indicate your hatred for it?

Miyaa, you must've upgraded to Firefox 2.0. It has integrated spell-checking.

This is slightly Halloween related. The DC area is running a campaign ad for James Webb in which Mark Warner says something like: "We need someone who doesn't move right or left but forward." Everytime I see that, I think of the Clinton/Kodos debate speech from Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII:

My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Thanks for the props. The Punisher is Catholic? He must be of the Antonin Scalia ultra-orthodox variety, what with the morality-based killing and all.

I remember in Punisher War Journals 12 and 13, they made a big deal out of the fact that he and the Bushwhacker were both former seminarians. Why in God's name I remember the exact issue numbers of that storyline is completely beyond me.

RAW, my favorite bit of that speech is, "Very well, abortions for some, miniature American flags for others." I find a lot of opportunity to fit that into conversation.

Ah, I did get Firefox 2.0. That would explain things.

Funniest line I've heard about Halloween this year: Host: "Halloween is a time to play dress-up and pretend you're somebody else." Voice Impersonating President Bush: "Hey, this year, I'm dressing up as the Commander-in-Chief." (From A Prairie Home Companion)

How odd - I just received a solicitation to participate in Monkey Day Comics. I have no idea what this is, but I assume that the babboons will qualify me. Good enough.

Love the Spaceman Spiff!! This is coming from someone sitting in his office dressed as Fred Flintstone, mind you.

And now I've got "or that guy who played in Fargo" running through my head over and over again.

Talk about scary.

Happy Halloween, y'all!