Comic for Friday, September 21st, 2007

Posted: 7:20 am, Friday, September 21st

I was so glad that no one yesterday piped up and blew the joke for today. Of course, I evidently set this one up back in freaking January, so why would anyone remember it? I said it the other day: Tightly. Plotted.

I'm seeing the Chemical Brothers in McCarren Pool Park tomorrow. If you think this sounds completely unlike a show I would see, well, you're right. Tickets were a gift. I'm kind of looking forward to it, since it overlaps the second half of the Irish game. You have no idea how painful it was to type that sentence.

Bizarre re-recording of the White Stripes' best song off their new album. I was jazzed for this until I heard the execution. Now I just think it's bizarre.

One of my aunts, who is really a trip, sent 2.0 and I a very generous check the other day, along with a note typewritten on some nice paper. This aunt writes everything - including the check - by typewriter, because her handwriting is very close to hieroglyphics in its appearance. Anyway, the note, excerpted:

Perhaps you can find a beautiful blanket with our check. We use puffs here but they are always under the spread when we want to nap under a handy blanket. I trust there are still American mills producing choice bedding.

Looking past the first two sentences - the impracticality of using a check as a locating device, the fact that I have no idea what "puffs" are - I *love* the last sentence. It's like my aunt and I are in on a private joke about the low quality of American mills these days. Alternately, it's like I run a slipshod mill here in America, and my aunt is disdainful of the quality of my product. Also, looking at her note, I see I've been mispelling her name my entire life. Great.

This all reminds me, I'm getting married in three weeks. I have no idea what this is going to do to the schedule of the strip. I will try and find some happy medium that works out for everyone.

Friday bonus tunage!

Wait, Romero's making another zombie flick? Hot damn!

None of these hold a candle to the tongue-lashing my bachelor party gave Scobee.

Alright, Irish affirmation: Blue-Gray Sky breaks down the Demetrius situation better than any major news outlet and re-affirms that the whole scholarship thing is not just us being dicks, it's us being terrible at PR, which is a lot better. And then we see the utter depths that this shitfest has driven omahadomer to. He drops the f-bomb. I cannot believe this. But, God, c'mon, team, play with some fucking heart tomorrow.

Go Irish! Beat Spartans!

bullfrog

MNP -- Friday, September 21 2007, 07:59 am

Looking back at the January strip...the boys' eyes have gotten bigger over time. Intentional?

Oh, right, we're foes this week. Uhm, Go MSU! Try to beat a team that isn't Div 1-AA! Get to 4-0 and set us up for a crushing defeat against the Blue and Corn!

Seriously, figure on your first win this week. State is terrible.

Zero

"Terrible" would be a massive upgrade for the Irish. I mean, I believe, but I'm kind of delusional that way.

MNP, no, not really. Just evolution, I guess? I kind of consider this strip

http://www.fivebuckstofriday.com/2006/archive060526.html

to be when my style leveled out, although I see their eyes weren't really dimpled yet.. Whenever I started doing that, I really started getting a lot more expressiveness from the gang.

But that strip was when I at least formalized the size of the panels. They were pretty willy-nilly 'til then.

I'm making a cameo appearance (true story, I used to know a chick who's name was Cameo) at the Domeland next weekend because my little cousin's getting married somewhere in the Niles area, and I'm really looking forward to seeing this statue of Ara:

http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html#6886838343088595989

Why would anyone name their child "Cameo?" My head just exploded.

I don't know. I'm sure I asked her, but this was a long time ago and I don't really recall what the explanation was. She wasn't a stripper, if anyone's thinking that.

By the way, I had kind of intended to make fun of Stewart Mandel's no-doubt ass-faced article about why ND needs to join the Big N over on CNNSI, but I went out to dinner last night, instead.

Well I'll finally get to watch the whole game uninterrupted. No wedding, no 'tending. Maybe that will help break the cycle of ineptitudness.

If they lose to Monkey State... I may pull a Ron & Pete and shave off the face hair I started in August.

Without further ado... GO IRISH!! (PLEASE???)

The song isn't working for me for some reason, but from the first word, is that some "Smoke City" in the house?

Well played, my friend.

Really? Is anyone else having trouble, or is it just Tree's branch of Fremulon?

'Tis indeed. A little warm-up for next week.

What a bizarre line from Peter King's NFL pick 'em column:

This is the type of game Mario Williams was brought to Houston to win. "But it's not just me," he said via the miracle of the cell phone this week.

"The miracle of the cell phone." Fuck the heck?

Two FJM references in two comments! Whoo, me!

Even though I am evidently a hipster by its findings, I really liked this graph.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/most-awful/most-awful-minorities.php?page=3

Oh, wait, no, my pants are normal-sized, if not loose on me. Great, I'm a normal person after all! (Proving my entire high school wrong.)

Oh, shit!

http://smashingpumpkins.com/audio

why is PBR hipster material? i was unaware. some of us drink it because it's cheap (about the same price as beast at my local distributor) and it can come in pounders.

It's the ironic beer of choice with the hipsters in Williamsburg. I drink it because it's the cheapest thing at every bar. I bought a deuce-deuce bottle of it the other day - dear God, it's shit when not in an ice cold can.

For all the zombie-lovers out there: THE ZOMBIE GAME!

1) What is a zombie's favorite state?

2) What is a zombie's favorite arts and crafts material?

3) Who is a zombie's favorite B-list actor?

Answers:

1) MAAAAIIIINNE!!!!

2) cello-PHAAAANNNEE!!!

3) Billy ZAAAAAANNNNEEE!!!!

Holy unexpected, Batman.

The Spartans have a guy named "Saint-Dic" on their team. Saint Dick? We're going to lose to a guy named Saint Dick? For God's sake, win, Irish.

Man, first our dollar drops to be even with the Canucks, now it looks like Monopoly money just like theirs, too.

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/09/21/mn_five_dollar_bill.jpg

My condolences for Notre Dame's first 0-4 start ever. I'm beginning to wonder if they can beat Navy at this point.

Well, the sun came up today. That's kind of a surprise, all things considered.

I was filled with hope after the first half. We all know what happened after that. I think the only positive that came out of yesterday is on of my buddys getting a raging picture of me, dressed as a leprechaun, high fiving the real leprechaun in row one of the student section.

Oh well, time to go bail Noah out of the county lockup. Apparently if you blow over a .08 you are taken directly to county now.