Comic for Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Posted: 7:35 am, Wednesday, January 3rd

This is a very eventful blog entry already - I just fell and damn near broke my laptop scooting over the bed. I succeeded in breaking 2.0's bedside table (an old classroom desk-chair combo) and busting up my knee something fierce. I'm writing this with my knee wrapped in ice - I'd like to see Scott Kurtz do *that*! OK, enough back-patting for my sticktoitiveness and denigrating for my clutziness. Let's get to a bunch of crap I found on the interweb last night.

I happened across two utterly random instances of Andrew W.K. yesterday. One was in a discussion with Sweaty, and the second was catching up on A Sox Fan in Pinstripe Territory, where Jere did some research and found Andrew's brother, the soon-to-be pro golfer. That is simply outstanding. Also, it reminded me of an Overcompensating strip from two years ago. Since I couldn't remember whatever my blogger ID is to give Jere that link, I'm hoping he notices the references from this site and enjoys Mr. Rowland's work. Mr. Rowland, whom I sure does not have his knee wrapped in ice right now.

Man, baseball players and managers sure do say some dumb shit. Thanks to the Prospectus for cataloging it all through '06.

Oh, I added the Apple Emulator to the links at the side, because there's nothing better than playing the Oregon Trail during a really, really slow day at the office. Another thing I'm going to work on is a page in the museum that's solely YouTube fall of fame-worthy clips, since, as we'll get to, some clips have been disappearing lately from that most valuable of interweb sites.

Also, notice that Ron has not gotten a new calendar yet. (That's the official excuse - really, I drew this about a month ago, but realized I needed the three days of this particular story arc to get going on Christmas stuff.)v

I consider myself pretty observant of my Seinfeld episodes, but there were some names on this list that I've never, ever noticed. Nate from Six Feet Under was one of the white supremecists? Jon Favreau was Eric the Clown?! The irritating girl from Will and Grace was the woman dating George in the double-dip the chip episode? Good finds, McEntegart. Or your readers, whomever.

Stereogum listed off their top 20 live shows of 2006 and somehow didn't mention the Sleater-Kinney show at Webster Hall back in August. Maybe the dude didn't make it there, but that's inconceivable. Status Ain't Hood guy, whose primary forte is hip-hop, gave the gals some love in the Voice (also, sounds like that Jay-Z show was insane).

On this final day of collitch football, the AV Club entertains us with 12 defunct bowl games. Dear God, there was actually once a Salad Bowl. Number 12 is a doozy, too – I didn’t know that the Citrus Bowl had been officially renamed the Capital One Bowl until New Year’s Day, and the fact that the Peach Bowl, usually one of the most entertaining bowl games, is now officially the Chik Fil-A bowl, that also upsets me. What a poorly constructed sentence. Moving on.

I actually didn't watch the Rose Bowl the other day, sparing myself the stress of actively having to root for a Pete Carroll-coached team, and sparing 2.0 any additional football (the things I do for that girl). From the sounds of it, I should be glad. That's a lot of advertising. Reggie Ho's report of the Fiesta Bowl taking forever also does not encourage me (although I suppose I'm happy enough to hear that there are no dancing robots involved).

And now, regarding the Sugar Bowl, with the mighty mighty Irish... I tried finding some YouTube clips to post, but it seems like a lot of the Irish clips from the '91 Sugar Bowl, and Bob Davie's most Davie-esque moment (ie, having Jarious take the safety, blow a knee, and miss a BCS bowl), have been pulled. I'm guessing it's some of the fallout from Google buying them. So, what I've got for the bowl preview is this Q&A between Her Loyal Sons and And the Valley Shook (it's the Valley Shook doing the A-ing in this case). It's a good Q&A overall, although the LSU guy asking "Has Jeff ever dropped a ball?" clearly did watch, um, last year's bowl game. Mer.

Anyway, I'm not feeling tremendously chipper about tonight's game, although I think it is not at all impossible for us to win. Early reports from Baton Rouge sounded like the Tigers were actually going to be the first team in history to overlook us, but then evidently JaMarcus Russell got the idea that if he plays a good game tonight, he can displace Brady as the number one pick in April. Fantastic. If there's one realm where I think we definitely have the advantage, it's the Robot Genius v. Les Miles. Unless their lines are that much better than ours, I think that can be enough.

Go Irish! Beat Tigers!

bullfrog

Well, I echo the sentiment about tonight. Turns out we are having a little get together. Expectations are much, much lower than last year, so I'll either get heartburn from the Irish losing a close one, or the chili that I whipped up last night.

Russell as the #1 pick... funny. He's more Daunte Culpepper than Vince Young. Unless some blockbuster trade happens, I think April will bring us the beginning of the "Brady Quinn Era" in Oakland.

GO IRISH!!!

I remember the excitement of trying to make the MicroPC.com Bowl. But I wonder how long it is until that manager's prediction (from your quote page) comes true and we have the IBM Yankees of New York.

Quiet day, lead by me. Oh well. Alright, squad, root root root for the road team tonight. For glory!

Not that I ever put money down, but man, we're 8.5 point dogs.

Bye-bye, Rick Minter.