Comic for Friday, January 19th, 2007

Posted: 9:00 am, Friday, January 19th

This is one of those strips that worked better in my head. Also, I actually drew and scrapped a panel for this one that really varied things up in panels 1-3, but then I thought it actually worked better if Jen just sat on the bed. An interesting dilemma, as usually I don't have to fight myself to keep the characters from being static.

On this day, January 19th of the year 2007, it finally fucking snowed in Brooklyn! Of course, it's probably all already melted. But, still.

This ICQ chat that Something Awful ran the other day amused me without actually entertaining me, right up 'til he gives the guy an e-mail address. Comedy gold.

I took an Irish film class back in collitch (I know, at Notre Dame - the hell you say!), and one of the things we watched was this miniseries called Family, penned by Roddy Doyle. Evidently, he's written a book following one of the characters - the one I remember least well from the miniseries, possibly because I don't believe we watched the entire thing, and we may not have watched her episode. (If memory serves, it was a four-part miniseries, and each episode centered around one of the family members, husband, wife, daughter, son - kind of like that old NES game, Legacy of the Wizard.) Anyway, long story short: Family is the most fucking depressing thing I've ever seen in my life.

These next three are all from Uni Watch Blog. Check out the awesome Kill Bill-themed paintings on the Thrashers' goalie mask. That's pretty sweet, even though that looks nothing like Uma Thurman. And then we have Li'l Jon on the back. What the hell?

And for my final little series of links, big ups to Duck and Cover, a blog that, for some reason, dedicates itself to tracking Mallard Fillmore, an unfunny strip drawn by a detestable man. (I mean, honestly, dude, two DUIs in four months? Stay off the road, jerk.) Evidently, Fillmore has been penning strange little poems for about a straight month now, and they're getting weirder and weirder - one's about Kentucky winning a bowl game, one's about Boise State winning a bowl game, and this one is evidently operating under the misconception that the Baghdad Times carries Mallard Fillmore, because it appears to be addressed to the people of Iraq. The real kicker is that because of the industry standard lag time between cartoonist and newspaper, all of these just ran this week. So not only are they poorly illustrated, poorly written, and not funny, but they're not even current. (Today's is also priceless.)

So, happy Friday! This week hasn't seemed as murderously interminable as last, although I suppose it's because we had Monday off. Well, make the most of your weekend, gang. I'll be back on Monday and we'll see if I can reach some sort of compromise with my laptop where it works and I stop cursing at it.

bullfrog

Powlus!?

Bullfrog, ever thought about just getting a Mac laptop? The Adobe software just works much better on Macs than PCs. Oh, yeah. They're coming out with a CS3 sometime later on this year (*shakes a fist at Adobe*) and with Vista and all (*shakes a fist at Microsoft*).

Jen is so heading towards an While You Were Sleeping romantic comedy ending. We just need a subway to interrupt Jen's self-rationalizations.

I have, but my company keeps providing all of our design software for the PC platform. An Apple laptop would be expensive enough, but if I had to buy CS3 myself, I'd have to start robbing banks to pay for everything.

Powlus what, MJ? Powlus the new QB coach? Yeah, I never expected that, either. Perhaps our own Ron's star will rise a bit if his namesake is successful in shedding the putz label.

Hey man, what did you think of that show last night? pretty damn good. the ending blew my mind too.

Loved it, although it was a little heavy on the new stuff. Actually, thinking about it now, I guess they got about five off of Separation Sunday and four or five off Almost Killed Me, didn't they? That's a decent mix, I guess. The second encore was fantastic - I've been wanting to see them play Knuckles forever, and I considered getting up on the stage but figured the view was better from where I was. Now for Certain Songs and Modesto Is Not That Sweet...

I had never been to a show at Northsix before - yeah, I don't know, either - and really dug the venue. After countless shows at Irving, where a can of Heineken is like six bucks or something, even the $4 PBRs seemed somewhat reasonable.

I don't suppose you saw the fistfight? We were standing relatively close to the entrance to the hallway where everyone waits for the bathrooms, and these two dudes just started going at it during Southtown Girls, I think it was. The one guy did like a quintuple pump-fake and then just fucking *pegged* the guy in the eye. I think he must've busted his glasses or something, it didn't sound like any punch I'd ever heard. Don't know what it was all about, but the guy that landed the big hit was definitely up on stage during Killer Parties. Good times!

I was so busy rocking out last night that I totally forgot Colbert and the Best Novelist Ever were doing their home-and-home yesterday. Clips are available at Crooks and Liars, don't spoil anything for me, I haven't watched them yet.

http://crooksandliars.com/

If you want to read the ultimate demise of Bill Simmons (which you've occasionally commented on), jump to the Worldwide Leaders site and find his latest offering (link below). While the blather about Colts-Patriots is pretty standard, it's the "Sports Gal Speaks" column that deals the death blow.

Doughnut Day??? Seriously, WTF.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070119

I had the same reaction, kind of. For me, it's gotten to the point where I'd rather listen to Sports Gal talk about doughnuts than I would Sports Guy talk about almost anything. (Also, I've been reading lately for the sole purpose of keeping tabs on whether or not she's still beating him in picking the NFL games. Which she is.)