Comic for Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Posted: 7:35 am, Thursday, December 7th

Told you not to get used to shading. And this is my defense of Tool. I didn't hear from Reggie Ho all day yesterday, which makes me think he either didn't get a chance to read the strip, or he's no longer talking to me and I have to make another friend to round out the wedding party, but I do actually like Tool. Undertow and Aenema are classic albums, and I've managed my way through 10,000 Days a few times and I like it quite a bit.

Does anyone else see the ad for The Holiday and think, "Poor Kate Winslet?" I mean, Cameron Diaz gets Jude Law and Winslet gets stuck with Jack Black. I mean, I like Jack Black and all, but that's quite the differential. I suppose Winslet was the love interest in Titanic, but I fucking hated that movie.

We watched the William Shatner game show last night. Full disclosure, I loved Star Trek as a kid, but, man, this is Shat's true calling. I can best describe the show as a pretty tough trivia contest combined with the dumbest aspects of that awful Deal or No Deal show (ie, pretending that there's some skill to picking a number), combined with scantily clad dancing girls. Good times! I doubt I'll watch again.

I can't believe Ted Lilly got signed to a 4/$40 contract. Baseball's insane. Speaking of, Seth Mnookin (what the hell sort of last name is that?) writes a little defense of the JD Drew signing. I don't fully buy it, but it makes me a little less sick to my stomach about the JD Drew signing.

I entered this raffle over at Uni Watch Blog yesterday for a vintage collitch football helmet. The company doesn't have any old Irish helmets, so I don't really know what I'd take if I won - maybe a Navy helmet or something - but check out the West Virginia helmets from the '70s. Damn!

Sleestak (to whom I should've tipped my hat the other day for the Betty Boop shorts) has a point - this is the greatest motivational poster possible.

This page is just some stupid story about a high school sports team, but, damn, check out that ludicrous Lower Hudson logo they came up with. That thing’s fly, yo. In all my years of living in New York State, I’ve never once heard anyone refer to “Lo-Hud.”

Alright, that's what I've got.

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I have to ask, did Shattner look like a leacher? The commericals make him look so evil.

What the hell just happened to my post? Dammit. Uh, yeah, Shat was pretty lecherous. I'm sure all the girls have been sexually harrassed.

Moving on, the NY Post shows that it's going to keep hitting the neocon war drums, election results be damned! Today's cover beats my previous favorite awful Post cover, hands down.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12072006/frontback.htm

Not only are they pinching headline from the Simpsons (also a Murdoch property, so why not?), but I guess things are going pretty awesome in Iraq, so we should stay there forever and ever. Makes sense.

(My previous favorite awful Post cover is the second one on this page:

http://www.fivebuckstofriday.com/archive/archive102104.html)

Poor Kate Winslet? Poor Jude Law! Don't get the Cameron Diaz thing, no I don't. . Drew has good stats when he's not hurt, and when he is just put in Wily Mo. Hey, at least we don't have to get excited about maybe signing a 34 year pitcher with a bad arm that was let go a few years ago because he had . . . a bad arm. That he hasn't done anything about, mind you. This might be a terrific summer to watch the worst Yankee rotation in years.

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I am going to have to come to the defence of JB on this one. Black is a musician and amazingly funny. Jude Law is just a pretty boy. As a fat person who is both humble and amazingly funny JB is the catch of the century and Kate Winslet is lucky to be in the same room as him. After all, Tenacious D is fueled by Satan and they dont mind sucking on toes.

So I guess I *am* the only one that thinks that. Oh well. That entire movie looks like a clusterfuck, anyway. I can't understand why any of the four of those people are in it - they should all fire their agents.

I don't think Jack Black is either attractive or funny. Kate Winslet, however, rocks.

Have fun with J.D. Drew! snicker snicker

Alright, well, Pajiba's got my back. Or something.

The Holiday is opening on 2,200 screens, the trailers for which elicited this statement from Dan: It “adds a whole other level of dangerous wish-fulfillment by making you think that a guy that looks like Jack Black can land a girl that looks like Kate Winslet. And that’s just mean and misleading. Stupid Hollywood.”

You know, Cubs GM Jim Hendry WAS in the hospital working to finish the Ted Lilly signing. This might be the first actual instance of a bad signing being due to a GM on drugs.

I love Kate Winslet. It looks like they using a reverse Notting Hill scenario (worst Hugh Grant movie ever... and that's saying somethihg). Quirky American lands hot British chick who doesn't know any better.

And yes, I just admitted to seeing Notting Hill.

Not a fan of Lateralus?

Actually, never heard the whole disc for some reason. Hm, May 2001 release date. I was having a rough go of it just having moved to the city in May, 2001, maybe the logic was that I didn't need to be any more depressed than I already was.

Kate Winslet earned my everlasting appreciation for being in Eternal Sunset of the Spotless Mind, a film that absolutely *destroyed* me.

I can't wait to see The Holiday, no matter what kind of reviews it gets, just because I am an incredible romantic and a sap! But I can't stand Cameron Diaz.

Have fun, Grafe! (The Holiday got a D from the AV Club. Also, I think not even the stars of the Holiday have discussed it as much as we have here today.)

I heard a radio ad for that movie. Let me guess, some movie exec thought, "Hey, let's make Freaky Friday into a Christmas movie! Oh, we can't have them switch bodies? Okay...how about we have them swap wives! Like that ABC show!"

Exactly what compelled a company like Tribune trying to sell everything it has to spend $240 million on players that just seem rather fishy? And can we blame the Yankees for this?

Build it up to sell it at a higher price. However, I think at this point the lipstick on a pig analogy fits.

Yes, the Yankees are to blame for everything, always.

So, I am convinced The Holiday is taken from a Maeve Binchy novel (I shouldn't admit to having read this), Tara Road: http://www.maevebinchy.com/

I like Kate, not a huge fan of Cameron, but did meet her when she came to one of my high school football games around the time The Mask was released. Of course I had no idea who she was.

I tend to whine about chick flicks enough, that I am normally absolved from seeing them.