Comic for Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Posted: 7:27 am, Thursday, November 16th

Been meaning to mention this, but Sox Fan in Pinstripe Territory got to it first (and by 'first,' I mean, actually remembered to do it). We drove past the Pit of Hell on the way upstate last weekend, and that cheesy-ass sign that they have out front that says stuff like "Tampa Bay, June 24-26," or "Thanks for a great season" after their first-round elimination every year is currently displaying "NY Yankees Salute Rutgers." I've got a couple of kids in my office that went to Rutgers and were down in Piscataway for the game last Thursday - they came into work on Friday all giddy and complaining that they didn't stay out partying because they had nowhere to crash on campus. Fools, after a big win, everyone is everyone's friend. You can crash anywhere. (The nice thing about this statement is that none of my Domers can call BS on me, because thanks to Bob Davie, we did not have a big win in our four years of collitch. Fucking Bob Davie.)

Also on the drive last weekend, we passed a house already decked for Christmas with the most abysmal set of Christmas lights I've ever seen. The strings were so heavy on the red and blue that it looked like a big purple mess. Awful. Also, last Saturday was the 11th. Veterans' Day is way too fucking early to have your Christmas lights up, you wanker. I'm still pissed at the Target and K-Mart ads that are running. (And Wal-Mart. Always with the fucking Wal-Mart.) About the only jumpstart on Christmas I'm not pissed off about is going on over at Drink at Work, because I'm sure they can keep up these awesome attack ads and forgotten Christmas specials for quite some time. (I - and probably Tree - would totally watch a Burgertime Chanukah.)(Quick story, when I first moved down to the city, I lived with my aunt and uncle for a few months, including all of December. My uncle is Jewish, so we celebrated Chanukah with him on the first night. My aunt and I sang Adam's Sandler's Chanukah Song the entire time. We're very sensitive.)

I don't know why, but this really entertained me. The perfection myth was actually the impetus behind the Thanksgiving-ishes that I throw every year. The dress code was originally that of someone attending the 1953 Yale-Harvard game. Which for some reason equates perfection in my mind. I don't know, I'm a bit of a moran.

One of my friends so loves the song Jessie's Girl that I actually got her an autographed picture of Rick Springfield for Christmas four years back. Today, Mr. Springfield steps into the rocker's studio for a little Q&A. It's funny he mentions sappy AT&T ads, because 2.0 and I were just the other day discussing those old "the touch, the feel of cotton" ads. What a meloncholy jingle that was - I think it actually made me cry as a little kid watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade once.

(ROUNDABOUT GILMORE SPOILER) And a random finale, celebrity karaoke from the Ellen show. If that dude had seen Heidi Klum singing the wheels on the bus, he may not have written that play and not have taken over the Gilmore Girls, and Luke and Lorelai would be together today instead of that abomination from the other night. Also, apparently The Office isn't a mega-hit yet, because they still had to identify that dude as being from The Office, instead of just by his name. Keep goin', gang, you'll get there.

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Finally watched Gilmores. Not a fan of where this is going. Those little brats from those American Eagle's commercials had it right for once...he pushed her into this. What a mistake! Can't wait for the big throwdown with Luke. He's going to go Mike Tyson on him.

Seriously, what is the fucking deal with the American Eagle girls after each episode? It's like Cliffs Notes to the show you just watched - a discussion guide, if you will. And the aerie brand they're trying to promote makes me think of Dove body lotion, not clothing.

I was glad to see Marty back. I always liked Marty. But the entire Christopher and Lorelai conversation in Paris -- good God, that was awful dialogue, as well as a terrible plot development for the show.

Kick his ass, Luke.

I always liked Marty, too. I found his refusal to acknowledge knowing Rory interesting - I'm assuming he started dating flighty art girl right after getting his hopes crushed by Rory and probably said awful things about her/Logan and doesn't want them coming out, but it's probably going to be more contrived than that. Hopefully, Rory decides she likes Marty and he goes for it and the flighty art girl's life is ruined, because Rory generally seems to leave a trail of corpses everywhere she goes.

The fact that no one's brought up anything that I missed leads me to believe I really do only need to watch the last fifteen minutes of this show.

Only in a Wal-Mart can you secretly buy your wife a nightie while she's in the next aisle buying laundry detergent because you haven't changed your shirt in like fifteen weeks.

I'm liking the Targets more and more. The stuff look much better and I also like the fact that they aren't open twenty-four hours. You see very strange things happen at 2 AM when you have to go to Wal-Mart to buy something. Like entire families shopping at 2 AM. That's the father, mother, and their children, who clearly should have been in bed hours ago. Plus, if it's a Super Target, their sushi is pretty good for pre-chilled sushi.

I don't know who has the bigger issues to deal with: Jen or Pete.

Depending on his digestion, I'd go with Pete and the burrito.

I like Target a lot. Which is hilarious, because I despise Wal-Mart for largely political reasons, and Target's employment policies are only marginally better. But they do have such nice design.

Still my favorite, though: Meijer.

A million reasons, a single store.

I've never heard of Meijer.

I think it's pretty Upper Midwest-centric. It was the local everything-all-the-time store in the Bend. Here's their site, complete with punctuation that makes my eyes bleed in the lead graphic.

http://www.meijer.com/

I just entered to win a PS3 on their website, but the small print says I need to live in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan or Ohio. Drat. MJL, win me a PS3, boy.

"On this day, in 1902, a cartoon by Clifford Berryman appeared in the Washington Star prompting the Teddy Bear craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi."

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/aa/roosevelt/aa_roosevelt_bears_1_e.jpg

I'm fairly certain that key FiveBucks panels will be commemorated in the year 2110. I'll leave it to Frog to point out exactly which panels those would be.

I.. also.. am certain. Right..

First 45 minutes of the show was pretty good...story about Lane and her twins is pretty amusing.

Lane's having twins? Yikes. OK, so I did miss something. Oh well.