Comic for Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Posted: 8:45 am, Wednesday, April 4th

Freshman year, Reggie Ho played this album by either Buck-O-Nine or Bim-skala-bim a lot that had a track called In the Biblical Sense. I promptly began trailing people's declaratives with "in the Biblical sense!" whether or not it made any sense. I don't really know why I did this - the leading theory is that I'm an idiot. At any rate, Jen uses it correctly here.

Let's hope Beckett is on today, because the Sox need to win two in a row so that I get my dollar from Tree.

Interesting article on Bloomberg's war on food here in the city. My view of what gets reported nationally is hampered by a) living in New York City and b) not watching the national news, but I'm going to assume that there's probably been a big stink made over our transfat ban. If not, there's a transfat ban on the restaurants in New York City. (I have no idea if this ban will extend to the wild frontier that is Chinatown - I suppose that it is intended to, but to what extent it will be enforced down there is anyone's guess.) The bar that my softball team went to the other night is our old regular, and the bar food there has been severely downgraded. If this is an effect of the ban or just a kitchen revamp, it's hard to say. But it was immensely disappointing, all the same. The only reason I got into this was that 2.0 was telling me about the thirteen healthiest foods that she read about in a magazine or heard about on NPR or something yesterday. Most of these foods, I avoid like the plague - blueberries, for instance, are awful things that make me gag. I actually faked an allergy to get out of having to eat the blueberry pancakes I took at camp one year, because the rule was that you had to eat everything you took. Unfortunately, I can't find that article anywhere. In the meantime, here is a handy site called the World's Healthiest Foods, that plans your daily diet for you. Huh!

Still no sighting of my laptop from Dell, although the fellow I spoke with on the phone last Friday assured me it would be this week sometime. I have my doubts.

Let's see... That's really all I have. I think I'm actually going to get to watch Lost tonight for the first time in a month. I've yet to catch up on any of the episodes I've missed, and I hear things have actually been happening, which is kind of a bitch. But I'm willing to bet I'll be able to follow the plot OK.

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Oh, man, I like today's Sheldon.

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The more health code violations a restaurant has, generally, the better the food is. Especially true for asian restaurants, and very especially true for Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese food. And no, Chinese do not do "transfat bans."

I believe Dice-K is suppose to pitch for the Red Sox today. If there was a team whom might give the best chance for a no-hitter by Dicey, it would be the KC Royals.

I think that the restaurants outside of Chinatown will be forced to comply. I'm mostly wondering about the ones in Chinatown proper - they are as numerous and as always-shifting as the desert sands, so I think it would be impossible to regulate them.

Matsuzaka and Greinke go at it tomorrow, actually. In the afternoon, so I'll be listening on the radio at the office. Tonight's Beckett and - dear God - Odalis Perez, I believe.

A Buck O Nine reference? I knew there was a reason I keep reading your blog.

I like the Goatfuckers pennant in the background. I've started referring to them as such at work, I wont say its starting a revolution but it has been met with enthusiam by the remainder of the New England natives.

Forty five days until the move.

Buck O Nine it is, then. Thanks, Sean.

Forty-five days 'til the move to the Bend? Just in time for the humid season! The complete and total opposite of the cold and biting Bend winters! Ah, South Bend, Indiana. Father Sorin must have been a masochist to settle there.

Oh, yes, it's Odalis Perez. Tremble before him.

Wow, Obama raised $25 million. I didn't expect him to get close to Hillary. At some point here I'm going to have to figure out who to support, huh?

Sadly, I have no mythological nickname for Odalis Perez. Oh, wait, Odysseus. That wasn't so hard. Also, befitting a journeyman pitcher. SNAP!

Not sure which news story I've read today that symbolizes the upcoming apocalypse more: Japanese lining up in droves at the opening of a Krispy Kreme story in Tokyo, or a guy named Steve Swindel could have been the next Yankee's President if he could have just stayed married to George Steinbrenner's daughter! (Named Jennifer, by the way.) (Also, if George dies tomorrow, the Yankees wouldn't know who would replace them until the lawsuits would be settled in 2025, because no one has a clue. Needless to say, it looks pretty good for Red Sox fans.)

I've always thought Swindel was the perfect last name for a Steinbrenner relative.

I have some friends who are really into anime, so nothing the Japanese do is capable of surprising me anymore.

Am I nuts, or does this Sox t-shirt give us credit for winning the '67 Series?

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