Comic for Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Posted: 7:55 am, Tuesday, February 26th

Hell fucking yeah, new Hold Steady in the can. Oh, Goddamn, I am excited. Boys and Girls in America was a step back, I think, but Almost Killed Me and Separation Sunday bought them a million second choices with me. I cannot freaking wait.

It never ceases to astound me the ways people find to use their time, and this is from me - the guy who does this with half his free time and rides the subway with the other half. A full translation of Final Fantasy VII to the NES, though. That's a whole new level of misusing this one life we've got.

(Of course I don't actually believe that. But, still - damn.)

Ye gods, am I Slick? (The character, not the adjective.)

I only have their Greatest Hits - or Live at Budokon, I guess - on tape, but, man, I kind of really dig Cheap Trick.

And now for my favorite find of the day (aside from 15's astounding discovery of MLBarack shirts, which still has me reeling in outer space like the music video from that one episode of ALF). This is some blog called Slacktivist, so A++ on the name already, but they've apparently been reading and destroying a few pages of Left Behind every day for years now. I'm only on like page 10 or so, and it's already more thought put into the book than the authors ever bothered. Plus, I'm getting all the benefit of sarcastically reading the book without having to bother myself. Which is nice - I actually came close to buying a used copy of Left Behind I this weekend for my own entertainment purposes. I think I'd rather go about it this way. Anyway, I linked to the first installment, from nearly five years ago. Just click the "Left Behind" tag to get 'em all and read up from the bottom of the page. Good times!

And, of course, I found that ALF video. Why even ask?

Holy God, that was terrible. Except for ALF pretending to be Stevie Wonder. That still killed.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Tuesday, February 26 2008, 07:50 am

By the way, Prof. Buttigieg, it was an honor to have you by. I met you once, briefly, but I spent a very nice evening chatting with your brother in Malta back in the day. You were not thoroughly unpleasant in the slightest.

Oh, good, Barack in traditional Somali garb is causing all the NY tabloids to come to climax today. That's good to see. Bonus points for the Post putting it on their cover with a "look how low Hillary will stoop!" sort of headline. Life in post-irony America is awesome.

I used to have an ALF sleeping bag. I loved that alien.

I just saw someone positing that No Country was the most violent flick to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture. I thought the Depahted was way more violent. Am I just a year older and more desensitized?

For some reason, I think NC was a lot more violent. Maybe I'm just blocking Departed, since I didn't think highly of it, but I can't remember much bloodshed other than your typical cops and robbers gunplay. Was Departed more violent than, say, Godfaddah?

The great embarrassment of my cinematic life: I have seen none of the four Godfathers.

I believe Depahted was more violent (and less excellent) than Goodfellas, if that helps. I'm thinking specifically of the scene where DiCaprio beats a guy's face in with the magazine rack.

I also think, since No Country was actually a meditation on violence, that the violence was more a fact and less a style, as it is in most of Scorsese's oeuvre.

Three Godfathers. I know that there are only three Godfathers. I have no idea why I said four.

I think I was counting that new Audi ad or whatever it is.

Did someone actually punched Obama? Or was I dreaming that?

Well you could have been right if you counted that weird made-for-TV Godfather Saga.

...though you probably shouldn't.

Oh. Fuck. Me.

Cheeseburger. In a Can.

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/taste_test_cheeseburger_in_a

I really feel sorry for Germany.

i hated no country. i thought it was a huge coen circle jerk.

Whoa, really? I don't know enough of their filmography to really judge it in that fashion. I guess I've seen... four of their movies? Fargo, Lebowski, O Brother and No Country... I know, I know, I've never seen Raising Arizona. All sorts of cinematic disappointments from me today.

Oh, and Bullfrog, apparently the Japanese had developed it from sliced bread in a can. I figure you can google it and be bedazzled.

I live....

Caught up on the last month...

That's about all I can say other than Go IRISH!

Consider me a rube who doesn't understand the appeal of Cormac McCarthy. I've never been a fan of novels with long, descriptive sections, but I really tried to give Mr. McCarthy a chance since he was adored by luminaries such as Buttigieg! and Federico, but I just kept falling into a coma. I suspect someone slightly younger and more male might be clever enough to appreciate Cormac, though. I'm more the sort to appreciate the cheeseburger in a can. In fact, when I worked in a building attached to a hospital I would occasionally go to the hospital cafeteria in the off hours because they, for a limited time, had this machine that claimed to have little gnomes working inside to make you burgers and fries and other crappy, microwaved 7-11 style goodies. Somehow the novelty of this compelled me to eat more than one flabby cheeseburger. So what I'm saying is my taste is suspect.