Comic for Monday, January 14th, 2008

Posted: 7:10 am, Monday, January 14th

Yeah, that's right. A 17-year old joke from the Wayne's World book that's probably even older than that. I don't know, I guess I didn't feel much like sweating this day. (Actually, I drew this one with a huge bandage on my thumb, the first day after the incident, so gimme a break.)

Pour a 40 to Johnny Podres, gang, hero of the '55 Dodgers. My mom is a Dodgers fan from their Brooklyn days - she lived Upstate, in Rome, so when they bailed to the West Coast, it didn't really directly affect her the way it did people in the borough, and she remained a fan of the Blue Sox - and I'm sure she's upset about this one. There's a bar near the Empire State Building - Foley's, I think - with a wall full of autographed baseballs, and one is a Podres ball, which is the picture that pops up on my cell phone when Ma calls. Anyway, the Brooklyn Dodgers just turned a little bit more into something just in the history books with Podres' passing. Marty Markowitz should get on erecting a Podres statue somewhere.

Four or five years ago, I for some reason found myself in an American Apparel store almost every week. I haven't been into one of their stores in almost a year - I was looking at some ringer shirts for the Homeboy shirts before I went with Cafe Press there - and almost everything of theirs I own is a t-shirt I bought at a concert these days, but I of course see their creepy ads everywhere, with not-really-attractive-girls wearing odd clothing and looking glumly ironic or something. Anyway, yeah, those clothes are all horrible on actual people.

The old man from Zelda is enough to make me want to take up cross-stitch.

I'm off to jury duty, gang, so discuss amongst yourselves.

bullfrog

MJL -- Monday, January 14 2008, 09:43 am

Who's up for a quick Bloody Mary before the staff meeting?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e4092902-becc-11dc-8c61-0000779fd2ac.html

How about Ryan Grant? Notre Dame alumni (Computer Science AND Economics...I think. I'm not sure exactly, couldn't remember from the stat that Fox gave during the game.) and 7th guy in NFL playoff history to have a 200+ yard game.

Does the trade of Rolen for Glaus mean that Toronto will get more given the current Looney-Dollar exchange rate?

Nobody saw this coming out of Grant. I really hope this all, you know, natural ability, here.