Comic for Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Posted: 7:05 am, Wednesday, June 20th

So, the big news from New York City - New York City?! Get my rope! - is that Bloomy has bailed on the GOP and is mebbe thinking of a White House run. Frankly, I don't really think he's got a shot. I just think the field is too crowded as it is - especially with New Yorkers, who, as I understand it, aren't always the most popular folks 'cross the country - and I go back to ol' TR and the Bull Moose Party re: the viability of third parties in this land of ours. On the other hand, I like Bloomberg a lot more than I ever thought I would've when he won back in November '01, and he's done a mostly pretty good job here in La Mele Grande. (As opposed to Giuliani, who was a thug 'til 9/11, pretty much.) Anyway, should be interesting. (Speaking of interesting, I don't think I've ever seen the Daily News and the Post look so incredibly similar in quite a while... Not even the five-year mark of 9/11.)(And just 'cause I haven't said it in a while, fuck you, Post, you're garbage.)

Geez, I had a whole ton of links ready for today, but I don't seem to have them handy. And actually, by 'whole ton', I think I had like five. But I still can't find them. Which I guess is all the better for me, because I'm already a little late by my new standards of getting to work really early for no clear reason. I'm kind of a sucker for punishment that way. I'll check in with crap as I find it during the day. Oh, man, and I am digging the new White Stripes album.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, June 20 2007, 09:14 am

So moved am I by Icky Thump that I just looked to see when the Stripes are on tour - 2.0, Princess Di and I saw them in support of Elephant lo these many years ago and they were awesome, so I know that they're worth the cost of a ticket. Apparently their next New York date is Madison Square Garden. Not the Theater at MSG - but the actual Garden. Seriously? Can the Stripes play a 20,000-seat arena as a headliner? Last time, we saw them at the Roseland, and I'd say that was about perfect for them.

how did he get off for this? http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/19/oj-did-it-leaked-online/#continuedcontents

My good friends the Ninja Consultants - who should really get a sidebar link, my bad - had an anime-viewing party back in December, where they screened Neon Genesis Evangelion, a mech anime that made some sense and then apparently got its budget slashed and proceeded to make no sense whatsoever. It got to the point where, during the series finale, there were drawings on lined paper during this bizarre montage sequence that lasted about twenty minutes. Seriously, made no sense.

Anyway, that series evidently has a coffee.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/drink-up/neon-genesis-evangelion-in-coffee-form-270475.php

Oh, OJ. You horrible, horrible person.

when are they playing?

Does Pete ever wash this Superunknown shirt he seems to wear all the time? It must be pretty rank at this point.

I'd worry more about his Tool t-shirt. There was a strip at one point where *Ron* was doing laundry.. I'd assume Pete just throws his stuff in Ron's basket and mooches off him that way. It probably gets cleaned.

Um, I think the Stripes are playing on July 26th? Maybe? Don't really recall.

Random baseball time: When did it become cool for the Rockies to be referred to in shorthand as "Rox"?

Answer: When they started to use that humidor to put their baseballs and Havana cigars in. It's one of those ideas Pete would have thought up.

I'm not surprised about Evangelion coffee. Of course, this is Japan we're talking about. They have Hello Kitty Vibrators, so really they'll market just about anything. Like the energy drinks they sold in conjunction with the Final Fantasy MMORPG game that looked like healing potions.

Hmmm... hadn't heard that.

I guess it's better than the "Keys".

The biggest miscarriage of justice involving this was when the Colorado Avalanche decided they wanted to be the "Avs" and not the "Lanche". I think The Lanche is awesome... that is, if I cared about hockey anymore.

Oh, yeah. Thanks to you, Bullfrog, I have the Neon Genesis Evangelion's opening credit song playing in my head now. It's not even that good of an opening song. At least it's not Sailor Moon.

The always-loathsome John Sterling seems to have inspired someone to make a blog out of his home run call.

http://johnsterling.blogspot.com/

My favorite is the ticker that says the Goat Fuckers are 5-2 since that dude started his blog. NO WAY, a dude just became interested/motivated to make a Yankees blog right after they turned their season around and started playing good?! MY HEAD ASPLODE.

Breath Jeremiah, Breath.

I would like to see some footage of said head asplosion.

Unfortunately, they don't value me enough to equip my officle with a security cam, E.

Wow! Don't mess with Texas!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Crash_Assault.html

ad, do you want to weigh in on violence in your city??

Bullfrog: you could get a webcam...

Wow, that was grisly.

Also, it took two years for someone to get to Texas with word of the Emancipation Proclamation?

That's kinda misleading. The Emancipation Proclamation did free slaves in the Confederacy, but as you can imagine, the CSA didn't really like the idea of the Union prez freeing their slaves. In reality, it was a tool by the Union to free slaves once they occupied CSA territory. Of course, the slaves were still considered property, so it would have been the same as saying, 'when we come into Georgia, we get all your horses'. It wasn't until the Constitutional Amendments (13-15) that they were legally 'freed'. Of course in some places it still took awhile.

Anyone want to guess who on the site was a history major in collitch?