Comic for Friday, February 1st, 2008

Posted: 7:35 am, Friday, February 1st

I mentioned Easter Heathman passing the other day, and Blue-Gray Sky unearthed a video of him, talking about how he took on the unofficial title of caretaker for the Rockne crash site. Nice old guy. And on an entirely different note, I am fucking psyched about the John Tenuta hire. Holy hell. I believe that mouth-breather over at MGoBlog had been pining after him for the Michigan d-coordinator position, so that makes this even fucking sweeter. Hot dog! (The completely batshit insane Marco is, as one would expect, very excited.)

So! Lost! (Mild spoilers) Man, I'm glad to have that show back. For the eight episodes or however many that got produced before the writer's strike. Anyway, pretty unusual to kick things off with a Hurley episode instead of a Jack or Locke joint. And it was nice of the writers to remember that Hurley has a history of mental trouble, too. Now if we could only get back to the four-toed statue. I like that they're advertising it to people who've never watched before, too, because last night's episode was so out-there that only about half of it made much sense to me, even, and I've spent three seasons on the island already. Question: Was that Locke in the cabin with the bizarro invisible guy?

While the love-in was going on in LA, 2.0 and I were making signs for the homeboy last night. There's stuff going on all over in New York the next few days before the primary, so everybody get on out there if you've nothing else to do before the Super Bowl. As I've said, we'll be crossing the Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow (barring Godawful weather, not in the forecast), and then get your voting thumbs ready for Tuesday.

Also this weekend: the Super Bowl. I was very excited for this about two weeks ago, and now I don't particularly care. 2.0's going to make empanadas and I'm going to try those tater skins from Elise's site, and I bought some fancy potato chips from the new Union Market that went in near CK's apartment, and I think we're just going to kick back and let the HD wash over us while listening to music to keep me from getting pissed at Joe Buck. One amusing thing is that there's all sorts of stupid news stories on the game, including the inevitable Manhattan v. New England clam chowder debate. People: Manhattan clam chowder is for the mentally ill. That's all there is to it. And not like the good mentally ill, like me and Hurley. It's for cutters.

Alright, Monday, y'all.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Friday, February 1 2008, 07:34 am

The AV Club's got the Lost capsule up already:

http://www.avclub.com/content/tvclub/lost/the_beginning_of_the_end

Irish basketball extended their home win streak to 32! in OT! Only I didn't get to watch the OT b/c I live in ACC country and Duke always takes presidence. grr.

Personally, if Ms. Wolf wanted to set me up with my own gallery I'd probably take her up on that offer.

...I'm just sayin'

One loser deserves another...

...seriously.

I thought it was Locke's eye in the peephole.

Who, Jen?

I'm sure it's been TiVo'd frame-by-frame and proven. E, you seem to hit the Losternets - has this been proven conclusively yet?

I've never watched a complete episode of LOST before, but I watched last night's and felt I hung in there pretty well. (It helps that I've read all the Entertainment Weekly plot summaries even though I don't follow the show.) I love the fact that they just cut from present time to island time with zilch explanation or transition and trust the viewer to figure it out (or at the least, to be intrigued, which pays off in the same way storytellingwise).

nothing official, but I might rewatch it tonight. Doc Jensen on ew.com had a good write-up, too.

A quiet room, watching the internet and ditching class on my birthday. The best gift I could give myself.

Now, I wish I wasn't 30+ and didn't know any better...

I'd like to open up a discussion:

Is Marco really batshit insane or is he just a brilliant satirist?