Comic for Friday, March 9th, 2007

Posted: 8:35 am, Friday, March 9th

This right here? Probably my most favorite thing the USC football team has ever done. You dumb, dumb fucks. I love it. I can't wait for that program to eventually get taken down by the NCAA. (I'll be waiting quite a while for that one.)

It’s time for another installment of Bullfrog-finds-another-site-in-the-Gawker-family-and-loves-it-but-ultimately-forgets-it-in-two-days! (Anyone remember my brief obsession with lifehacker? Although, to be fair, that ended primarily because I am a moran and fell over while holding my computer. Seven to eight more business days and I get that sucker back!) Today’s site: Consumerist! I doubt I'll actually either remember this on Thursday or have the patience to wait in line, but, hey, free coffee. Someone else with Verizon try this and get back to me. And the choices here, well! I barely know who to pull for. I'd say Exxon's got the longest odds, although, I'm fairly certain that they have never paid a dime for cleanup of the Valdez oil spill, so that's something.

Oh, speaking of the environment, nice cover story by SI this week. Not one of the more in-depth stories on global warming I've ever read, and it ends much more hopefully than an article on the same topic in, say, Harper's would, but I admire that they're bringing the issue to a segment of the population probably less-inclined to think about it that the Harper's crowd. Also, it's a nice reminder that while SI's marketshare has slipped, they're still head and shoulders above that abortion ESPN calls a magazine.

Sports! Samardzija seems to be doing OK in very limited spring training action. I have no idea how the Cubs plan to bring him along, but I have to assume it's at a dangerously quick pace. Although Pinella *has* to have a better track record with young arms than Dusty Baker did.

I actually kind of like this shirt. First slogan-y internet shirt I've seen in a while that I did.

This pic was linked to from Deadspin yesterday. That doesn’t even look like the popularly accepted iconography of Jesus. Really, it looks more like this guy’s Adam Duritz tattoo with a really bad (in a different style) haircut. Is He rising out of the fairway, or stuck in quicksand? Where are the clubs? Jesus makes a lousy caddy, evidently. But that is some loving attention given to the creases in that old man’s golf pants. I know, that sounds really creepy, but look at that! Someone spent more time on this ridiculous picture than I have on the entire run of Five Bucks to Friday.

You know what's not going to take off? Conservapedia. By the way, an actual story on the ABC evening news the other day was that - OMG!!1! - Wikipedia may not be totally reliable. "Some college professors are even going so far as to ban it from being used as a source for papers." Holy fucking shit, I should hope so! Go to a damn library! If I were a high school teacher even, I wouldn't allow that nonsense.

And because it's Friday, Deep Blue Sea, with Norwegian subtitles, or something.

Go Irish! Beat Hoyas!

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Hey, one of you Loonatics - what the hell's a Billiken?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/men/teams/stloui/

I don't know, but my dad, mom and stepmom are all billikens, so I bet I can find out for you!

I like being called a loonatic!

A billiken's a charm doll of some sort, I believe.... Oh hold on, just looked it up and there's more info on (possibly unreliable) wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken

Or I can just search the internet for 30 seconds. http://slubillikens.cstv.com/trads/billiken.html

Darn, 15! beat me to it! but note MY site is the official one.

Maybe USC is just trying to get fans in Virginia and places south?

AND seeing as how I do *hate* verizon and their willingness to overbill me at any chance they get, maybe I will move my cell phone to Nevada. I wonder if it could reside in The Bellagio?

I know I link to Pajiba reviews a lot, but it's not only because most of their reviewers have taste in flicks very similar to my own (although they were really big on Slither, which I dug but thought missed the target by a wide mark, and 2.0 hated), but because of the sheer amount and variety of flicks they review. Case in point, Maxed-Out, which I hadn't heard about 'til just now. A documentary on credit card companies and their sometimes illegal and generally unethical practices. Sounds awesome.

http://www.pajiba.com/maxed-out.htm

My attention span lasted longer than a day! More from Consumerist and cell phone companies (who suck only slightly less than the credit card people).

http://consumerist.com/consumer/cellphones/roundup-readers-who-canceled-their-cellphones-without-terminationfee-242852.php

Considering that St. Louis University is a Jesuit University, well they must have been drunk when they decided on this mascot. (Charm dolls should not look so demonic.)

Verizon! Was there ever such a more annoying commerical than the "Can You Hear Me, Now?" guy? As Adam Sandler famously said, "Who were the ad wizards that came up with this one?"

What infraction was committed?

Oh, with Ron's driving? Just general bad luck. Although I actually have seen speed traps on the BQE lately. Non-New Yorkers, the BQE is like the dystopian Wild West of highways that's always under construction and poorly maintained at the same time. A whole team of ad wizards designed this thing. In six years of driving it, this cop car that hides just shy of the Williamsburg exits driving from Brooklyn to Queens is the first cop I've ever seen that's not responding to a call.

But, Tree, feel free to fill in the blank as to why they got pulled over. This strip came out a bit more suggestive than I actually intended it to.

By the way, Schilling's blog is actually a pretty good read. I haven't been keeping up with it that much, but he goes into interesting depth about his first inning of work against the Twins yesterday.

http://38pitches.com/

Yeah, you lose a lot of the detail (such as it is) in Mara's face when the image got shrunk. She looks like she's staring nervously ahead, when she's really looking nervously out the corner of her eyes. Subtle difference, but the first implies (to me, anyway) desperately trying to appear innocent, and the second is acknowledged dread.

I like the Reno 911! mustache on the cop.

Thankfully, he's not wearing tight shorts.

Well, it just seemed to me that he would be paranoid about speeding so it couldn't be that. I know Ron isn't you, but given my experiences driving with you, I'm going to choose to believe he was pulled over for tailgaiting.

Maybe he was pulled over for vehicular manslaughter, Tree. Maybe he ran his wise-mouthed friend over five times. Maybe that.

Maybe it was one of his turn signals was broken or something?

I love March http://bracket.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/basketball-as-a-second-language/

Readers who know me personally, especially those from high school and collitch, know that "self-esteem" is not my strong point. I've gotten my act together a bit since then and even sway into ridiculous self-aggrandizing around these parts every once in a while, but every man is a god on the internet (man in the mankind way, not just us XYers).

But Tycho from Penny-Arcade blows me at my most self-deprecating away in the last paragraph of his post today.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/

Yeah, I vote for a broken "directional" that Pete broke while driving the car while Ron was busy getting his license revoked.

Of course a directional is a fictional part of a car - but this is a comic that has no bearing to real life.

You're a week late on that one, Sweats.

My favorite KSK post since the Sex Cannon was created.

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/03/big-daddy-drew-answers-all-of-pussycat.html

Geez, maybe I need to read KSK now that the NFL is over, because this is a good post, too.

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ksk-mock-draft-movie-action-scenes-in.html

I'm not sure what I would pick, although I've definitely stumbled home drunk from a bar and watched only the action sequences of Braveheart, Two Towers and Return of the King in the past.

My vote is changing lanes without looking over his shoulder. I know Ron exhibited a knowledge of side view mirror blind spots, but so does the real Jeremiah.

Mind you, he's never seen me drive, so this is all very easy for me to say.