Comic for Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Posted: 7:18 am, Thursday, May 24th

NOT REALLY A SPOILER, BUT SOMETHING TO DO WITH LOST, SO HEADS-UP: Wtf was up with Lost last night? What a thoroughly unsatisfying season finale. I can't believe we have to wait 'til January to see what the hell the last fifteen minutes were all about. God.

Yeah, I thought I'd gotten over the Smashing Pumpkins, but evidently not. Sorry, looks like I'll be posting a shitload 'til the new album comes out in early July. By the way, and I say this from time to time, but never read the comments on Stereogum. Everyone's a really unhappy hipster that just gets angry about everything. Anyway, that song's not as rockin' as the Tarantula one that's out there, but the video's good. Of course, they person shooting it keeps the camera tracked on Corgan, so we (I) still don't know who else is in the reconstituted band.

Oh, man, there was a really excellent thing on the News Hour the other day about the cost of the War in Iraq. You can read about it, or stream the video, here. A lot of competing economic views on it, and one macroeconomic analysis figures the cost will be at about two trillion. That's the high end, but even the low end is at a shade over one trillion, I think. Anyway, one of the best pieces I've ever heard on the News Hours. Really fascinating stuff. And there's an interactive cost-of-the-war-ometer for you to play with, too.

Man, seriously, MLB, just end your marketing push. This is brutal. Just sell five-toed socks, instead. Winners like them.

This is absolutely hilarious.

Uh, yeah, so as I mentioned, my coworker left on her pregnancy leave and yesterday was her first day out of the office. And I had to call her on the phone like four times. My summer is going to be pain.

bullfrog

Secretary -- Thursday, May 24 2007, 08:19 am

I actually really enjoyed Lost last night...except not as a season finale. I love Hurley and Charlie!

I agree. I think my expectations don't include closure, so it's not such a problem for me that nothing ever makes sense.

You know, I was just thinking, everyone on that show has some sort of Daddy issue. What's that about?

Probably means JJ Abrams has a daddy issue. Wasn't that a thing on Alias, too?

I liked the episode, it was just a terribly frustrating season finale.

SPOILER: Was that an alternate-reality future? Clues: the bridge thing was pretty clearly It's a Wonderful Life; Jack said "we shouldn't've left," when we don't know that they did leave for sure and it was kind of the question posed at the end of 'island-time,'; we already know thanks to Des that time is something you can play with to some degree in the Lostiverse; and Jack said, "You go find my Dad" to the other doctor, indicating a different timeline from the island.

The 'go find my dad' thing was what provided the set-up for the ending, because it blind-sided me. I'm thinking Charlie's fine because that porthole looked huge behind him. And I'm not an explosives expert but if Mikhail was as close as he looked when that grenade blew he would have been concussed into next year. All in all, I liked it. Unattended funeral - Sawyer? And how about how dark the 'good guys' are getting? Add Hurley, Desmond, and Bernard (dude, haven't you ever heard of lying?) to the rolls of those who shalt kill. Zero

Charlie had better be alive, because that was the most useless and unnecessary self-sacrifice I've ever seen.

How about Walt? I was so excited to see him!

Was that Walt or has Locke gone insane?

I really wasn't thinking we'd see Locke again 'til maybe the fifth season.

LOST: There are a lot of 4-dimension theories I've read about. Desmond altering the future, present, AND past, etc. I, too, was confused about Jack refering to his dad as if he was still alive.

2.0 - the daddy issues are pretty well discussed on the Entertainment Weekly reviews of the show (including an interview with Cuse and the other guy a few weeks ago). The reviews also link to a few other bloggers with interesting (although I think a little contrived) theories. www.ew.com

e-Thanks e. I figured I wasn't on to anything new, it just dawned on me while brushing my teeth this morning. I will check it out.

I was just reading through their interview with Dominic (aka Charlie) and he really is off the show - with possibilities of showing up in flash backs, of course.

Frog - Check out BGS... D. Jones got picked up on marijauna charges last night.

Guess there's one less in the QB race.

Clausen starts for sure.

Charges have apparently already been dropped. The Robot Genius obviously is stronger than Brey.

So I'm listening to the Suicide Machines' Battle Hymns at the office right now - because I am on the corporate fast-track, you see - and Punch and Jah just came on back to back on shuffle. I mention this because Punck is five seconds long and Jah is seven, or something like that. Using my leet math skills, I have (probably erroneously) decided that the odds of those songs following each other are 2 in 22! I have no idea what number 22! is, but it's probably really high.

High like Demetrius Jones! Oh, God, I'm hilarious.

Nice post, Frog. Maybe you're due for a pregnancy leave...

Apparently it's the old "I borrowed somebody's car, that's not my weed" excuse. Except that somebody actually stepped up and claimed it.

Interesting to see how this gets handled....

I only need a few days, MJL. I should put a heavy box on my leg and lay on the floor until someone comes along to find me, then go on worker's comp.

I was talking to a guy who works for Rockstar Games last night at a party, and he said that the second GTA IV trailer should be out soon.

Also, as you probably knew, the music for the first trailer was adapted from "Koyanisqatsi" by Philip Glass. Glass did the rewriting/adaptation himself.

EEEEEEE.

Today, Sarah Lane posted an interesting question on her blog. I figured you might be able to answer.

"At a major league baseball game, does the batter himself pick the particular song the stadium plays as he walks up to the plate, or is a random song designed to perk up the crowd, and not to be associated with the batter specifically?

the blog domain is http://sarahlane.typepad.com/ by the way.

I went out to dinner, and people answered her. The batters/pitchers select their own at-bat/entrance music. We've been trying to get my softball team to do this for years. Mine would be "Party 'til You Puke," by the Buddha godhead of rock, Andrew WK.