Comic for Friday, February 8th, 2008

Posted: 7:15 am, Friday, February 8th

I went back a few months to re-read some strips and remind me of everything I've done here (I know, it's so tightly plotted, you'd think I have instant recall on these matters), and it has dawned on me that Lissa almost always has a pained expression when answering the door. She should make Jen do it.

I really doubt the dude from Matchbox 20 can play Sweet Child O' Mine on a real guitar.

We should totally get a Five Bucks wing of the Minnesota Fantasy Legislature league going. It is amazing what people have the time to think of.

The second main comment on this AV Club thread is awesome in its patheticness. I'm envisioning a guy just waiting around with his comment on cut-n-paste, waiting for a new thread to start. And then he got jumped in line. Hilarious.

Why Hillary should worry - more on the Super Tuesday fallout and how the homeboy is going to win. Fuck yes.

The Hood Internet has that Runnin' With the Devil vocal track from the other day laid over the beat from Hypnotize, and it is fantastic. I also wish the picture on that link was real and not 'shopped, because that would be a hilarious meeting.

I actually think the Russian military's new women's winter gear is, uh, kinda hot. But I liked Star Trek back in the day, so I guess it would appeal to that part of me.

I had no idea Charlie Brown was in the Punt, Pass and Kick competition once upon a time. Since it aired in '94, shouldn't Charlie Brown have been in the Tampa Bay Bucs' creamsicle unis? I mean, the Niners were still in their Montana-Young glory days. At the very least, put him in the oh-so-close Bills' threads.

I got my renters' insurance bill yesterday - a whopping $101 for something ridiculous like ten or a hundred grand worth of coverage. As my first apartment flooded, requiring a replacement for the motherboard of my laptop, I'm still operating on house money with the renters' insurance, and likely always will be. But every year when I get my bill, I think of this girl I went to collitch with, Stephen's Katie, who lived a few blocks away from the World Trade Center and left her windows open on September 11th, 2001. She had no renters' insurance. It cost like five grand to get all the ash cleared out of there.

Alright, gang, have a rockin' weekend. Go Irish, beat whatever it is Marquette is calling themselves these days.

bullfrog

15 -- Friday, February 8 2008, 07:51 am

To all the other red sox fans who comment here:

red sox single game tickets went on sale a few weeks ago???? Nooooo!!!! I didn't think any teams started selling them until late Feb or early March so it didn't occur to me to check. my cunning plan to get tickets for the cardinals series has been foiled...

Shoot, dude, I thought you were on that. I actually missed the on-sale date myself, too - Jere at Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory is the man to see about schedules and stuff that. Dude is on top of that shit.

You should contact the Cards and tell 'em you made those Spezio things for New Yorkers during the '06 run. That should be worth a comp ticket or two.

single games are gone, but the lottery for the Monster Seats (yay!) and the bizarro way-up-in-right-field bleachers hasn't occurred yet. So sayeth Mrs. Z, who wants her some Monster tickets.

Zero

Yeah, I missed the single gamers, but I'm in the lottos for the Monster and the weird seats. Lost opening day and the Goat Fucker games already, hoping to hit on something, eventually. If not, I guess my trip in May to Camden will be one visit to the boys this year.

Slightly nervous about Schill's shoulder...

BF - I too am fascinated by the phenomenon of people always trying to be first in the comments section on blogs, etc. by writing "First" or some such shit.

One that did make me laugh out loud, however, was: "These pretzels are making me FIRSTY."

I am astounded at how often it happens on the AV Club in particular. It's like 99% of the threads have a FIRST! on it. Is it a hipster meta-joke at this point?

Wow, totally random from last week's Lost (episode one of the season), from the AV Club blog:

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. O is the 15th. HO = 815.

In addition to the Ho-Hos and the sculpture that resembled an H on top of an O at the sanitarium, the contributors at Lostpedia noted that when Jack and Hurley play "Horse," Jack gets stuck with H-O.

Silly. And yet....

i'm 12 years old -- i think this is hilarious - "NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. lends his face to a candy bar called "Big Mo'."

I agree that that is hilarious, given the target market for that candy bar. I guess the term 'mo hasn't made it down South yet?

By the way, you know what's a good book?

To Kill a Mockingbird.

I'm re-reading it for the first time since ninth grade, and that book just kills.

Awesome Sinfest today.

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2712

Fuck, you know what's about $1.3 billion too much?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/07/new.yankee.stadium.ap/index.html

Same article, I can almost guarantee this won't happen:

The community groups sued because two city parks were razed to make way for the new stadium. The Yankees have said the lost parkland would be replaced at the site of the old stadium and elsewhere in the Bronx.

"Mockingbird" is on my annual reading list as well -although I always find myself reading it around Opening Day. It reminds me of hope (something us Pirate fans need desperately - if not audaciously). Right now I'm rereading "Crime and Punishment". For some reason my reading habits are always influenced by the weather...

I dug Crime and Punishment, but I dig most all Dostoyevsky. I should really read a more modern translation of the Brothers K. And Tolstoy. Perhaps this will be the year I tackle War and Peace.

It's funny, I realized that I have never actually seen another adult on the subway reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It's like everyone reads it in ninth grade and loves it and never revisits it.

Love it.

http://kotaku.com/photogallery/jimiyo/1000681741

The GTAIV site just went live. The first thing I saw was the Steinway Beer Garden. Holy fucking shit, this is going to be so awesome.

A funny column on the perils of Obamamania (linked through Andrew Sullivan, which #15 and FBtF introduced me to -- damn you both): http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein8feb08,0,3418234.column

Wow, I love this line:

"That's the gayest e-mail I've ever read, and I get notes from guys who've seen me on E!"

First off, seeing that at a real paper's site, even the op-ed column, is hilarious.

Second, it took me a few seconds to realize he meant E! the TV channel, and not E the drug. (Or E the commentor.)

Zing!

Oh, man, Clemens' wife is a juicer, too?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/08/clemenswife.HGH.ap/index.html

That *totally* explains why she threw the potted plant against the wall in the Sprint (or whatever) ad last spring!

And the Irish make it 34 straight at home. damn, we look good

Maybe they should switch the men's basketball coach and the football coach? (By the way, Charlie Weis allowing his offensive coordinator to call the offensive plays next fall: good idea.)

Loved the Joel Stein piece. To do some blatant name-dropping, he and I used to talk hockey around the Time Mag offices when he worked there. He's very friendly in person, and obviously funny. That being the case, I'm surprised the LA Times hasn't fired him, since they seem determined to destroy every other good thing about their paper.