Comic for Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Posted: 7:10 am, Wednesday, May 30th

So I got home from volleyball last - an epic trouncing was dealt to the other team, somehow - and 2.0 and I settled in to watch something on PBS about birds. It had almost no narration whatsoever, it was mostly just birds flying around. It was oddly completely awesome. The coolest bird I saw was this guy. He's got some awesome anime-style tailfeathers, and check out the bizarre airsac things he has during courtin'. Wild. Birds are crazy, man. Oh, what was the other guy... Oh, right, the Western grebe. OK, so he looks pretty boring right here. Now he's getting a bit jazzed. And now he's running across the water like a maniac. Whoo! Really, check your local listings, that bird is nuts.

The Sunday Morning QB - because, really, it's never too early to be thinking about Irish football, the season being just barely over three months off - pegs the Irish for a 7-5 season. That seems fair-ish. The team's only got something like 6 fourth-year seniors because Ty chose not to recruit at all his second off-season, and the schedule's pretty rough to begin the season (seriously, what sort of AD sets up back-to-back road games at the two biggest stadia in the country?). That said, I'll still be heart-broken with each loss.

Wow, I'm listening to the Mets game right now, and Armando Benetiz walked Reyes, balked, gave up a sac bunt, and then balked him home. That is the most pathetic blown save I've ever seen/heard in my life. And then he gives up a home run to the guy at the plate. Brutal. I'll be happy when Barry Bonds retires/paralyzes himself with steroids so that I can root for the Giants again, because I liked their stadium and loved their city. But 'til that happens, they totally deserve Armando Benetiz.

My softball team plays the local alumni chapter of tOSU tonight. They beat us last year, and were kind of massive douchebags doing so. So I'm hoping my team worked all the crap out of our system in the whitewashing we absorbed a few weeks ago. I kind of wish I was on top of it enough to go out and buy head-to-toe Florida Gators stuff for the team for this game. ("On top of it" and also "had enough cash.")

OK, it's one thing to be a Sox bar in the city, but Professor Thom's apparently also has a horror-movie night Tuesday in their upstairs. They're making a real push to be my favorite bar in the city these days. Yesterday was 28 Days Later. You get a free shot every time someone dies. Had I gone, this blog entry would probably not occur this morning. I'm going to have to try the Kayraoke one night. Oh, man, good times.

In perhaps the hippest thing Sweaty's ever done in his life, he somehow saw a Bright Eyes concert over the weekend. I am at a luss as to how this could've happened.

Alright, scalliwags, get to work.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, May 30 2007, 08:42 am

Oh, man, Fat Bastard is appearing at Bryant Park today, because they're for some reason showing the Goat Fuckers' game on the big screen tonight. If my softball team hasn't left for Roosevelt Island yet, I'm going to go boo him.

This list of unforgettable cartoon theme songs is BS. I don't think I can remember any of 6-10 on them, and they totally left off Inspector Gadget and the freaking Smurfs. There is no more indelible tune than that "la-la-lalala-laa, laa-la-lala-laaaaa". Argh, I just ruined my own day.

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/15-painfully-unforgettable-cartoon-theme-songs.html

Also, the Batman cartoon shouldn't count because it's just the theme from the '89 Burton flick.

By the way, I caught the "The Bat-man" cartoon this Saturday morning. It is about a third as awesome as the Batman cartoon from my junior high days. They tried to keep the art-deco building styles, but with kind of freak-ass renderings of the villains and a vaguely anime styling for the heroes. No good.

You could always buy the Gators gear...wear it...and then return it to the store after a little Febreeze.

Now you see why I am going to hell.

I am hipster. I'm shocked that you would think otherwise.

2.0, at least you didn't buy a portable TV to watch in a stadium while it was raining and then return it.

That was an awesome freaking time.

And, oh, *hell* yes.

http://kevinyoukilis.mlblogs.com/kevinyoukilis/

I don't get it...did Youkilis have an INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUN? It wasn't clear from his blog.

Which do you think is better, that...or the STOLEN HOME BASE on the Yankees?

Hmmmmm...

Ah yes, I had forgotten about the portable TV incident. I hope you properly repented that sin Jeremiah.

R. Kelly has a new album out this week.

That is all.

What, no comment on the bimbo A-Rod is dating? Or that the Yankees are 6½ under .500, and it looks like they're not going to get out of the cellar?

The worst thing about the whole Inspector Gadget thing was that in trying to be more educational, they tried to produce a series called, "Inspector Gadget's Field Trip" in the 90's. Brutal. So is the new "The Batman" series.

The Smurfs are a French thing, just so that you'd know.

Come to think of it, if they had to redo the whole Inspector Gadget, they would focus completely on Penny Gadget now, and have her have a goofy boyfriend.

have we done this already?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FCXlCkY4Y5g

I bet it would be interesting to read what Dubya said in 2001. Man, a lot has changed since then.

Sorry, above is a bit stale. It's in reference to yesterday's post.

All I remember from it was he mentioned Doris Day. The whole debacle really irked the crap out of me.

Fuck the sage grouse. The ruffed grouse is the O.G. of the grouse family. Every Pennsylvanian knows that. Shit, it's our state bird.