Comic for Friday, April 27th, 2007

Posted: 7:15 am, Friday, April 27th

Enough softball! Just in time for me to play softball today! Maybe! If it's not rained out. More importantly - dear *God*, how did it get to be the end of April already? Lord, time does fly. Looks like the rain will also probably nix the Sox-Goat Fuckers game tonight, which is too bad, although the Sox haven't had a day off in almost two weeks, so maybe it's not so bad. And, hey, good first start from Philip Hughes last night. I'm quaking in my boots.

I'm really glad that I decided to have Pete grow a mustache instead of have him lose an arm. It's really easy to add a 'stache when you draw an entire strip forgetting about the recent change in appearance - last year, when I constantly forgot that Pete had his arm in a cast, it was a much bigger pain in the ass to go back and correct things.

Is anyone else extremely leery of 28 Weeks Later? 28 Days Later was beyond awesome, but for some reason, I'm just not feeling this sequel.

Awesome ad on the Twins radio network yesterday where Ron Gardenhire was talking about how the local hardware store is better than the big box store because it’s owned by local folk instead of some big corporation, and whoever the woman in the ad is (his wife?) goes, “Oh, I get it. Like rooting for the Twins, instead of the Yankees!” That’s awesome. Also during the Twins game, there was an ad for propane grills. Hank Hill would be proud.

Oh, man, the dude who sang Monster Mash died. I would totally vote to Wake him.

This guy right here, not much of a speaker. You only have to watch 'til about halfway through (although, if you watch all the way through, the person who gets ushered out is, as it says on the page, an ex-Army Colonel who resigned in protest of the war). I can understand the dude's point - don't agree with it, but, honestly, I can understand it - but if he had simply turned the phrase in a positive light, instead, like, "Well, I hope it's not *your* family," or something, it wouldn't be nearly as awful.

Not to end the week on such a downer, let's settle something 2.0 and I were talking about the other night. My vote is 'not.'

bullfrog

Juliette has that weird, placid face, like she got the super-sized botox injection. Not hot. Nice and evil, though.

Zero

Stop the presses! Wily Mo, he hit the ball!

does that poll feature let you see who voted for what? Can I vote 50 times or woud you know?

I'll be rockin' like the southerner I am becoming tonight: FREE BIRD!

Okay, I guess I'm in the minority... I think she is hot. Maybe it's some kind of Mrs. Claus fetish I didn't know I had??? (Santa Claus 2: Electric Bugaloo).

Crazy thing about the Monster Mash dude, he was 24 when he recorded it. I suddenly feel not very accomplished....

Do I even want to know what "concert" you're seeing tonight, E?

Or is it a jamboree?

Or a revival?

I'm more likely to see "Hot Fuzz" instead of Twenty Eight Weeks later (28 days later was one damn scary film). "Fuzz" is made by the same guys that did "Shaun of the Dead." And that was both a hilarious and scary zombie film, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to cop flicks. (I hear there's a lot of boom going on during the second half of the movie.)

Oh as a suggestion for your next poll: Gary Thorne: Professional Douche Bag or Not? (He's the Orioles radio play-by-play announcer that said he knows that the whole Shilling red sock was painted, not blood. Or something to that effect.)

We don't get a picture or anything like the real hot or not?

I don't think we need a *poll* to figure out if Thorne's a douchebag or not.

I apparently can add pictures to these polls, but I was throwing this together on my way to the office, so, next time.

Wow. She's not hot, huh. I really don't understand men I guess.

Rowdy Frynds: Lynyrd Skynyrd & Hank Williams, Jr. Where is my confederate flag when I need one!?!? It is probaby time for me to learn NASCAR driver numbers.

She's not unattractive, it's just that she gets blown out of the water by Kate, Sun and Claire.

I like that the 'y' in Friends isn't replacing the same sound it does in either Lynyrd or Skynyrd. Styll, I don't knyw whyt to myke of thys concyrt yyyy seeiny, E. I gys yt cyld be wyrse.

We can't all like obscure punk....

I am with you 2.0 - I think Juliet is very attractive.

Skynyrd should do the thing INXS did where they have a reality show to replace Van Zant.

If the question is whether she's the "hottest" on Lost.. then yes, I agree, she's not.

I think what makes Juliet/Elizabeth Mitchell (yes, I had to look that up) hot is she seems "attainable hot" versus Scarlett Johansson's "can't get within 100 feet w/o getting tazered hot".

e - Tony Stewart #20... all you need to know.

Is there a 37? I'd root for 37, I guess. (My softball number, in honor of the great Bill Spaceman Lee. And now Hideki Okajima.)

Jamie McMurray is #37, but he's technically in the Busch Series which is like the Minors, except that the Nascar drivers drive in Busch Series races, and the Busch guys can drive in a limited amount of Nascar Races. I have no idea why this is, but I guess it's similar to "Optioning" someone back to the minors.... um.. yeah.

This is the extent of my knowledge as I live above the Mason-Dixon.

That's another one I don't understand, this interest in Scarlett Johansson. I mean, yeah she's attractive, but people think she's some kind of superhuman beauty. To me she's sort of a regular pretty girl with expensive clothes and make-up artists.

I guess if I had to vote who the hottest Lost girl is I'd go with Kate. I say this for the same reason I think Sawyer is hotter than Jack; they're both badasses. That said I'd probably avoid Sawyer like the plague if presented with the opportunity.

"Like rooting for the Twins, instead of the Yankees!” "

Except not! Because the Twins' owner is immensely rich, too. It's not like he's some shlub from down the street who happens to own his hometown team. Dude's worth over a billion dollars. (Although he did grow up in Minnesota...) Which makes him kinda as corporate as the Yankees. His problem, besides being 91 years old, is that he's extremely cheap. So it's a bad simile.

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

2.0 - If you don't mind me asking, who would you consider hot in general, celebrity wise??

True. Pohlad was - at the time of the contraction talks a few years back, anyway - richer than Big Stein, if I recall correctly.

What about Anne Hathaway? I think she is a striking actress.

i think scarlett johanssen looks like she just ate cheese.

meaning that she looks like she has bad breath

the only person that really comes to mind right now is Clive Owens.

Mrs. Z feels that Scarlett Johanssen 'looks as if someone parked a potato in the center of her face' (the nose from dead on) and advises that Charisma Carpenter is a better object for male ogling.

Zero

Zero - I can't argue with the first few pix that come up on Google Image for Ms. Carpenter. For any who might go, definitely NSFW... as I unfortunately (fortunately?) just found out.

As a fully hetero male, confident in my sexuality, I can say... without a doubt... yes, Clive Owens is a man.