Comic for Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Posted: 7:18 am, Tuesday, May 15th

I'm giving Dreamweaver CS3 a shot right now, so I hope everyone's getting to read this a-OK. I already had to answer some pop-up box about some tags maybe not showing up in IE or something. I don't know. I haven't even fired up Illustrator CS3 yet - this is all very exciting for me. Between CS3 and the new Wilco album today, the week is off to a roaring start. Let's see if it can keep up the pace.

2.0 and I went to the MoMA a week or two ago to kill time in between work and meeting with a DJ. It was the first time I'd been there in maybe a year or so, and there's some good stuff up right now. It's the final week of the Jeff Wall exhibit, which was pretty cool - oh, actually, it just came down yesterday. Whoops. OK, so you missed that. But the Comics Abstraction show is still up, which was pretty cool. My favorites were the Neuenschwander panels and the Parreno word bubbles. Pretty cool stuff. My favorite exhibit, though, was Projects 85 by Dan Perjovschi. It's just a bunch of drawings on the big wall by the obelisk, but it's fantastic stuff. I really highly recommend it. A lot of stuff like this. I couldn't find a picture of my favorite one to link, but it's a dude looking through the American flag as if it were Venetian blinds. I just really love it.

The New York Times had a good thing about artists - musicians, really - who relentlessly market themselves over the web, which reminds me that I really need to do some of that.

Staten Island may in fact be the safest place in the whole city, but I hope this drip doesn't think that New York is half as dangerous as I'm sure Liberty City is going to wind up being. Poisonous. Fuck you in the eye, buddy. Wait, did I just prove his point? Shoot.

Despite Mara's last line, I'm actually not broken up about the Gilmore Girls going to the big fast-talking diner in the sky tonight. The last two seasons haven't been that hot, and, really, I'm mostly just grateful that they're not doing anything stupid like having Lorelai and Rory both have kids at the same time in the last episode. That would've been brutal. I actually think Rosenthal helmed a pretty decent second half of this season after having to dig out from the wreckage that Amy Sherman-Pallandino left him with upon her departure, but, still, it's time. Of course, the "next week on the Gilmore Girls" basically gave away the ending of the series last week. So there's that. But I guess I can't really complain. Like Luke and Lorelai *weren't* going to wind up together. I'm rambling. I should go.

Oh! The crack Five Bucks research team has discovered that the GYC is, in fact, open. Repeat: Open.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Tuesday, May 15 2007, 08:39 am

Man, I just saw something that I thought I knew on the subway - second stop from my house - but I thought she lived a few more stops down the line, still, and I just kind of hardly made eye contact with her, and I couldn't decide if I should go talk to her or not, but I wanted to listen to the Wilco album, and then I looked again when she wasn't paying attention, and I couldn't decide if it was actually her or not, so I had to spend the entire subway ride facing the other way on the train and I even left through a different door than usual because she was sitting next to my normal exit. I hate it when that happens.

Living in a smaller city that stuff happens ALL the time, bullfrog. Sometimes I just want to grocery shop in peace, not have conversations with random work people...

#15, I trust you are thrilled about this? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/theater/theaterspecial/15cnd-tony.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Yes indeed! Go go go Spring Awakening! Since Legally Blonde hasn't been nominated, I'd be pretty shocked if Spring Awakening doesn't win at this point. YEA!

I love Tony season!

so when is the fbtf crack research team GOING to gyc?

I, for one, am glad that Staten Island is left out of the game. Not because it's a violent game, but because Staten Island fucking blows ass. And I lived there!

I was dating a girl once who was in-between jobs and was worried she may have to move back home to Staten Island. She asked me if I'd still date her and I told her no, I'd done a long-distance relationship once and wasn't really interested in it again. I played if off as a joke, but, yeah, about that... Aside from driving to IKEA, the only time I've ever been on Staten is to go through the ferry terminal after arriving, to go straight back to Manhattan. There's not much there.

Early and often, SKT, early and often.

Pat, what would you say is the Dump to Not Dump ratio on Staten Island?

Oh, yeah, we were talking about that last night - I guess I could look this up somewhere, but I figured 30-40% of Staten was landfill.

That's what I said. You thought it was like 80% dump!

"mostly dump" was the wording used I believe

I said "mostly" and then revised my statement to say that ,50% landfill was probably too much.

>50%, sorry.

Only after I scoffed, and I don't recall any 30-40%. Revisionist history I tell you!

And in other news. Somebody missed the Rapture:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Jerry-Falwell.html?hp

Oh, that's a shame.

I wonder who will attend *that* funeral.

although the last 2 gg seasons have been phenomenally crappy, i will cry little salty tears at the end of the last episode. i'm not proud to admit it, but there you are. it's a reliable go-to in my house, and even tom has been known to watch an episode on occasion, but only, as is the reason for many guys, because he likes to imagine what it would be like to be the meat in a gilmore sandwich. hey, maybe even a triple-decker - that emily IS a handsome woman.

Geez, we've got all of 808 in the house today.

Emily is one of the three most sexless women I've ever seen, Creany.

808 - whooo GROOOOOOOOPER!

Who are the other two?

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/808/index.html

808 - Fattie? Moose? Clever trousers?

i keed, i keed. emily could use a good bonin', though. and to you two ladies, buongiorno, principesse. (am i murdering that?)

So, anyone can simply post up here... speak with the comic artist and what not?

Amazing, This surely is the greatest comic in all the land.

been reading this a long time... never looked this far south before.

Also, I weeped like a woman during the last episode. Whats this about rosenthal? I thought it was dame who plays roary's fault. (I forget her real name.) Did she not decide to quit?