Comic for Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Posted: 7:20 am, Thursday, January 31st

2.0, 15, 15's sister, some random girl and I spent an hour and a half stumping for Obama in the middle of Times Square last night, freezing our asses off, yelling, and handing out buttons. Well, handing out buttons for the first half hour, anyway, those things went quickly. We met with mostly support, a few Hillary supporters, and two older women who took our picture and then told us "we're Republicans from Texas, we just want to show our friends back home that there actually are people backing Obama." I didn't see if a cab hit them in the next block or not. Anyway, there's a sign painting event for Barack tonight that I may hit early and then go home and watch Lost - Lost! whoo! - and then a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday at noon and a concurrent rally in Columbus Circle for ladies for Barack or something (run by the lady who ran last night's thing), if anyone's looking to get involved. The Audacity of Park Slope doesn't seem to have updated their site lately, or I could say what's going on most locally for... uh, me, I guess. (Because there's not a Windsor Terrace for Barack organization. I guess that's up to me and 2.0, and we dropped the ball. Oh well.)

Two awesome articles in the Times - one on Patrick Stewart reviving his Shakespearean career. I’m really shocked that he was only like 45 or 46 when Star Trek the Next Generation started filming. And there's an awesome, awesome article by Uni Watch's own Paul Lukas on the survival of the beefsteak. Those of you who have read Joseph Mitchell's face-rocking Up in the Old Hotel will remember beefsteaks from the tale All You Can Hold for Five Bucks. Basically, it's a gluttony-o-thon from way back that has somehow survived in New Jersey. Tree will no doubt be booking a flight to Hasbrouck Heights soon.

That's really all I've got today - catching up to work has been a bitch, sorry.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Thursday, January 31 2008, 08:28 am

It's always a good day when the Fuck the Heck tag gets broken out at FJM, and this is one of my all-time favorite of their articles. Highly recommended:

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/01/honestly-one-of-weirdest-things-i-have.html

Patrick Stewart's Claudius was the first time I saw him, and he just ruled that production. Derek Jacobi was a simpering version of Hamlet and Stewart was just pure steel. When they face off after the dumb show Stewart just stares him down. It's awesome. Suffice to say I was very surprised years later to see him in Star Trek.

We keep Ellsbury and Lester, MFY don't get Santana. It's all good.

Zero

The earliest thing I ever saw him in was actually I, Claudius, which also starred Derek Jacobi. I just added that Hamlet production to the queue, so I'll be seeing that in... probably less time than it'll take them to ship me a Blu-Ray copy of Harry Potter 5. Fuckers.

I was kind of excited to hear Patrick Stewart's voice in Oblivion. Of course, then he died about two minutes in.

I just wonder how long will it be before either Hiliary or Obama lands a verbal low-blow bringing race or feminism into the debate.

I don't like how there will be three hours of political coverage during the Sunday run-up to the Super Bowl. Please keep your conservative pandering away from my Sports coverage, please!

I saw Stewart perform his one man version of A Christmas Carol once. Fascinating. He's also stars in a BBC (soon to be shown in the states?) show about a detective who uses science to solve crimes. [sarcasm] Crime show about science, what will they think of next? [/sarcasm]

Holy crap, Lynda Carter is one of the voices in Oblivion?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0462271/

A comics-related comment that might interest some people--

I don't know if anyone else reads 'For Better or For Worse' (it's my secret vice), but lately they've been running old strips from the 1970s, and man -- from a feminist perspective, it gives you a sinking feeling to realize things were that bad. (Or, really, to see characters you have really come to like, being that bad.) And then a further sinking feeling to realize that while things may have improved, they haven't really gotten that much better in certain areas. An undergraduate at an all-women's college here at Oxford once told me, 'Feminism is boring. 'http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/

FOOB in the 70s and 80s was actually a really good strip (politics being just a reflection, obviously, and not Johnson's creation). I remember some 60s Minutes segment or something where she was talking about how she knew what every room in the Patterson's house looks like, and that really blew my eight-year old mind. (Didn't really realize that would just totally be second nature once you get into the swing of things.)

I was also extremely confused as to why they spelled it "cheque".

this bet is hilarious (but very wasteful) http://gothamist.com/2008/01/30/mayors_of_nyc_a.php

These bets always confuse me. The losing mayor has to send food from his city, right? But why would the winning city want the loser's food? Wouldn't they want their own food?

I do have to say that New York is putting up better grub there, though.

It just dawned on me - years after we changed our official corporate color - that my company's old Pantone code was 187. I can't believe I didn't walk around singing "187 on a motherfuckin' cop" all the time.

and how is dunkin donuts coffee a boston food? lame.

Dunkin' was founded in New England - kind of Providence, RI (hence the Dunkin Donuts Center, where the Friars play), kind of Quincy, Mass.

The donuts in Providence are of an unbelievable quality, I find.

This is the absolute opposite of the Jerramy Stevens article I linked to the other day, one that's actually hopeful (despite some sad parts). This is a great series the Seattle Times did.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004152847_rbkelley300.html

And considering how the Giants play in New Jersey...why couldn't they just pitted Boston Legal versus the Sopranos?

Oh, man, I'd forgotten about this, too:

http://deadspin.com/351012/bear-down-barack-obama

The comment thread on the Ditka link, while predictable, still makes me chuckle quite a bit.

Holy shit, the Irish supposedly just hired John Tenuta, the D-coordinator at Georgia Tech the last two years.

http://rakesofmallow.com/story/2008/1/31/155516/591

If true, this is effing outstanding.

Shoot, was I not supposed to say that?

http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/author/admin/

Planning on driving to or fro the north chicago 'burbs? Best wait until after the snow... Geez, you'd think folks around here had never seen the stuff.

http://www.gcmtravelstats.com/Default.aspx?selLinks1=135 http://www.gcmtravelstats.com/Default.aspx?selLinks1=154