Comic for Friday, January 5th, 2007

Posted: 7:35 am, Friday, January 5th

Hm, this is kind of a nice one to end the first week of '07 with - hopefully Pete's line is a hint that things may be moving more quickly in the plot this year.

Dear Lord. This is evidently a video from a government-funded abstinence-education program. I am reminded of Dark Helmet's speech at the end of Spaceballs whenever Shitwit goes on about astinence-only education, except instead of "Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb," it's more like, "Sex will always triumph over abstinence because billions of years of evolution have programmed us with the need to propagate the species, and modern advancements have made it possible for us to get our get-down on without necessarily propagating the species, and Bush is dumb."

Retrocrush did his annual annoying things of the year list recently - I especially liked 79, 69, 66 and 7.

Alright, that's all I've got for right now. I avoided the internets as much as I could yesterday, as is my wont after the Irish crap the bed. I did check the Nation every once in a while to see if Minter had been let go yet, but evidently that sort of thing is done after national signing day. (The Irish message board, not the magazine, by the way.) The Army All-American bowl thing is tomorrow and the Irish could scoop up as many as eight new commitments, and God could we use them. Um, other news... I'm going to spend much of tomorrow playing bocce indoors and pretending that it's not glacier-meltingly warm in New York, and Sunday - and I bet you're all super-jealous of this - I get to drive an hour and a half up 87 and check out florists!!1! Whoo! (And also a caterer, which I actually am looking forward to.)

OK, carry on.

bullfrog

A witch! A witch! Burn 'er!

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/game/default.htm

So he's not going to go see the show?

I'm impressed by Ron's maturity, but I'd love to hear what Kelly had to say . . .

How well do I plan this strip? It didn't dawn on me until CK just mentioned it that, gee, maybe I should investigate the show.

Wow Jeremiah.

I thought you should know Tom Tomorrow is leaving the Voice. I heard there is a petition to keep it on somewhere online. Maybe this is old news, and if so, you can pretend I've said nothing.

A scoop! A scoop for the lady.

Here's the news announcement and a link for the petition. I generally read the Voice online, and the strip has only disappeared from the print edition, so I never would've noticed this. I imagine this is all some of the fallout from the Voice's massive editorial upheaval of the last year and a half or so (I believe they had an editor in chief last one whole day at one point), but, still, Tom Tomorrow is an outstanding cartoonist and social voice.

http://thismodernworld.com/3439

Brief other story about Tom Tomorrow, according to one of my favorite profs at Notre Dame (who has sadly since died of cancer), Tom Tomorrow is a profoundly unhappy person. Not that he's, like, depressed or something, but he is evidently always on and always has something stuck in his craw. Which is how I like my political cartoonists (and which is why I am not one myself - Sugar Bowl aside, I'm usually pretty chipper).

Scathing reviews are so much fun - the worst movies of 2006, Pajiba edition.

http://www.pajiba.com/the-golden-pajibas-the-worst-of-2006.htm

For anyone who wants to join me in cheering on the Irish BBall team vs. Georgetown tomorrow...they're on ESPN Full Court tomorrow at noon (Eastern). Normally that would be Pay per view, but apparently Full Court is on free preview for the next week, so you should be able to get it if you're not cheap like Bullfrog and refuse to pay for tv :)

"Cheap like Bullfrog"? Yeesh. It's more a choice of "do you want Bullfrog to have cable, or do you want Five Bucks to Friday to continue"? I could watch the History Channel all day, I've discovered.

Which prof died of cancer? There might be other programs having previews. I think the NHL package is doing a free week, too.

Good ol' Vacca. I actually have my classical epic notebook here at my desk at work for some reason. He went a few years ago. MJL may remember what it was - I want to say brain, but whatever it was, it got him in like six months or so.

not 'muscular rabbit' vacca?!

I wasn't in Rome the semester he was there, Skitters, so I don't know. I think it was the same guy, though. Bob, I think his first name was?

I think it was his wife in Rome.

He was pretty damn cool.

http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/au2004/obits.html

Some quick wit and wisdom of Prof. Vacca, from the margins of the notebook I inexplicably have in my office:

"Book 7 of the Aenead is covered on the final. Stupid book that it is."

"If you've never listened to [opera that I didn't get the name of], you really must. Otherwise, you fail the course."

"There are no motives in fairy tales. Why is Cinderella's stepmother wicked? Because that's what she's paid to do!"

"More eris, dammit!"

"In 19th-century opera, everyone dies from tuberculosis. Which doesn't hurt their lungs enough to prevent another aria."

On the Iliad: "It's not a feel-good culture. You live in a world that is really fucked-up, and you don't control it."

My notes are excellent.

I remember most of those. And I don't remember the name of the opera. And the ones I don't remember, I was probably sleeping through. Not Vacca's fault on that one, though.

Oh, man, remember how we'd switch off making coffee between the two of us? Tweren't nobody falling asleep during class on days it was my shift to make the coffee.

sorry, was just teasing. if you saw our direct tv bill, which includes the NFL sunday ticket for Mr. MNP you'd realize I'm just bitter.