Comic for Monday, February 25th, 2008

Posted: 7:55 am, Monday, February 25th

Alright, sorry about Lissa's word bubble - that's pretty bush-league of me, but I'm having trouble with my Illustrator to fix it right now... Don't know how that shifted on me. I'll try to upload it at the office and get it straightened out.

Not a lot got done this weekend at Five Bucks HQ, squad. Actually, I guess that's not entirely true. We caught No Country for Old Men on Friday night, which is recommended by this site, in case you think it may've been one of those Gladiator-English Patient-Titanic sorts of Oscars where it actually went to a crappy movie (I suppose Gladiator wasn't crappy, per se, but it certainly wasn't better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). In parts, it was even funnier than Fargo (can anyone write regional dialects better than the Coens?), and in other parts, more stylishly violent than Pulp Fiction. It totally earned the Oscars it earned. Javier whatever-his-last-name-is was a totally convincing inhuman killing machine. Just chilling. Anyway, great flick. Better than There Will Be Blood, using largely the same color palette and earthy backdrop. Has anyone read the book? I've not read any McCarthy. I actually thought he was a young dude, which is evidently quite wrong.

Saturday was Crownover's annual celebration of her 21st birthday, but we also hit the Met and the Cask Festival at the Brazen Head on Atlantic. Aside from being uncomfortably crowded, the Cask Fest was awesome - so excellent beer to be sampled at that thing. There's another coming in May, according to this site. Recommended for beer fans, which I figure to be about 95% of my readership.

And, keeping up my tendency to be about five years behind the curve when it comes to television (ever since getting into the UK Office in '02, about three years before it hit stateside, I have been about the last on board with everything, as evidenced by my just watching the first disc of the Wire), 15's sister loaned us the Battlestar Galatica first season set, and we're about five hours in. So far, so good. The mini-series was better than the first two episodes of the show, but I'm digging it, and 2.0 is freaking loving it, which I wasn't expecting. I get the feeling Battlestar is what Deep Space Nine would've liked to be if only they had thought to have Odo's people be the big bad guys at the beginning of the series, instead of having those first two seasons be excruciatingly boring, and if they weren't saddled with a very well-defined and sacrosanct universe.

And then of course there were the Oscars last night. Stewart was good, and CK was right about the music from Once, as that song was really nice. I can't believe it beat the full gospel choir with the precocious little girl - the Academy usually eats that shit up. Tight production, too, three and a half hours is Goddamn brisk for the Oscars.

I'll try to have more links n' whatnot ready for tomorrow, squad.

bullfrog

Zero -- Monday, February 25 2008, 08:08 am

BSG is worth your time. Mrs. Zero had to drag me into kicking and screaming, but she was right. Last season starts soon.

How funny was A-rod with his testing comments? Is he THAT starved for attention that he has to exaggerate how many times he got jabbed? I can't wait for about 8 years from now when he's a singles hitter making 846 million and getting booed every game by MFY fans.

Zero

for all those who care...the Irish extended their home game winning streak to 36 games in a row. now the 2nd longest active winning streak in the country. who knew the JACC was such a tough place to play?

Our record at home while we were students was unexpectedly good, too, MNP - nothing like now, but considering we were probably five games over .500 during our tenure, it was pretty awesome.

Dan is a big fan of cormac mccarthy- says he has an interesting writing style. But he has't finished reading no country for old men yet (hence we haven't seen the movie yet either). But we did see there will be blood, and i don't think they should give out oscars for over-acting... other than the song from "once" i thought the oscars were boring as hell and turned it off.

Finally fixed the word bubble. Sorry about that from earlier.

I didn't think Day-Lewis overacted that role, but I guess I can see it.

Since Cormac McCarty was actually *at* the Oscars, the Coens must've done a pretty good job with the adaptation.

Also, I liked the Wii gag with the little girl from the Harlem choir.

9 for 11 behind the arc. Most 3's ever in Irish Basketball history. 30 points. I don't remember the guy's name, but damn he was good. He could have had 40 or 50 if he wanted to.

The only thing I kept thinking when I heard that Javiar Bardem won was, he looks a lot like Lou Ferringo from the TV series, The Incredible Hulk.

So, how long will it be before Kevin "I should have just texted the guy" Sampson finds a new gig as a TV analyst or an NBA lackey? (I think his career as a head or assistant basketball coach at the college level is done.) I shudder to think that Indiana would even consider rehiring Bobby Knight.

McAlarney - the kid who got kicked out for having a joint in the car last year. He and Tory Jackson have been playing awesome lately, now that teams are locking down on the 'Gode and his haircut.

Sampson's done at the collitch level. I don't know jack about how coaching styles translate between collitch and the NBA, but I can't see a way he gets another shot in the NCAA.

From the always-up-on-stuff Peter King:

"What was the bigger upset? Giants over Pats? Or No Country for Old Men over There Will Be Blood?"

That would be the Giants over Pats. Where the hell did you see anyone picking There Will Be Blood over No Country for Old Men?

Peter King hasn't quite been the same since Inside the NFL was canned by HBO.

Yay, Go Fug has started their Oscar takedown.

http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/

the coolest thing ever:

http://www.obamaofdreams.com

My mind is blown, UK Office Gareth-style. Find of the year, dude.

hey j - 3 blocks from your office - http://www.wnbc.com/news/15403989/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

Yikes! Good thing I ate at my desk today.

I am a kick-ass humanities professor at ND and I am the all-time favorite teacher of several readers of this site. I am Maltese, which in and of itself makes me pretty damn awesome, and I am a world-renowned Joyce expert, so I'm not dumb. My brother owns a bar on Malta--Tree has been there for sure and I think you might have been there as well, Frog. I present all of this merely to reinforce my credentials when it comes to judging all things that are excellent.

Cormac McCarthy is a friggin genius. The MacArthurs says so and I say so. It is so. I had my freshman humanities class read Suttree, which is crazy dense and just plain crazy in many ways. My students were not ready for it but I was patient with them and nurtured in them a naive appreciation of the material. The Border Trilogy (which includes All the Pretty Horses (adapted into a terrible Matt Damn Penelope Cruz flick), The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain) is far more accessible to new McCarthy readers and is actually a joy to read, which cannot be said for much of his other stuff. In No Country and The Road he's pared down his language even further so that the words themselves, apart from the meaning they impart, become forces to reckon with. Open No Country at random, stare at the page, and let the old-man power emanating from the book knock you out of your chair. Onto your ass. And it will hurt. Your ass.

I like him and the Coen Brothers like him and goddamn Oprah likes him. He's the real deal.

Just thought I should share this with all of you. I visit daily for the excellent toon (I never get sick of people telling Pete to shut the fuck up) and I've enjoyed the in-depth literary analysis presented in fora past, so I thought someone needed to step up to the plate for Cormac. And I figured that it might as well be me, a Maltese badass who’s been singing his praises for years under the glow of the Dome.

Buttigieg Out!