Comic for Monday, March 31st, 2008

Posted: 7:25 am, Monday, March 31st

Has everyone seen the King of Kong? RAW was recommending it to me for a while, and we finally caught it about a week and a half ago, I think. Man, what a great flick. I wish two weeks haven't gone by, because I had a lot more to talk about this thing when I saw it. Nuts. Anyway, here's the official high score for Elevator Action. For some reason, I totally loved Elevator Action when I was a kid. You could shoot the lights out, man! It was awesome! I played it at Chuck E. Cheese every time I went there. Second only to the Star Wars arcade game when I was a wee bairn. (Checking out more on Twin Galaxies - there is definitely an opening in Game Boy Tetris, which I was playing earlier this evening... I can totally make it as number 7.)

By the way, I LiveTraced the marquee in - my unemployment has allowed me time to screw around with stuff I never needed in Illustrator before. It's a brave new day! Or something.

OK, so the Braves are in DC for one game, and then go play Pittsburgh, and the Nats themselves are up in Philly for a day game tomorrow? Who are the ad wizards that came up with that one? But, man, do I like having baseball to listen to while I work.

Somebody posted this opener to the Irish-Noles game from '93 on NDNation the other day. Man, that is some schmaltz right there, but I'm ready to run through a freaking wall. God, I hope we don't suck this year.

Caught this Muxtape thing the other day on Stereogum, kind of really like it. I think I'll make one tomorrow... Hell, I've got relatively little to do, I can probably churn out a good mix a day for you. I also see that MIA is playing McCarren Pool in June - yikes, tix are thirty-seven fifty. Damn. Papa needs a job.

I never knew that Cuba was so incredibly biodiverse and fucking terrifying until yesterday evening when we caught some of Nature on PBS last night. It's a pain in the ass to embed video from Nature, and they don't have the best clip, so lemme see if I can find it on YouTube real quick. Dammit, I can't. Alright, evidently, these millions and millions of crabs live in the dry forest on Cuba, and have to spawn in the sea. So these millions of freaking bright red crabs all scuttle their way into the ocean, just the land moving in one huge carpet of crabs. And even though they live on the land, they dehydrate really easily, so these crabs just grab right onto the AC ducts near hotels, to keep cool. They'll just walk right around people, and cover the road entirely. It's just wild. And then there was this cave this one dude went to. Because of all the bats in the cave, it was 120 degrees inside, just from their body heat, and it was amazingly humid in there because of all the bat urine on the ground. So not only is it pitch black, boiling hot, and piss-smelling, but then there's a big fucking snake hanging off the ceiling, using its own echo location to chomp the bats. God. Dude, get out of that cave!

Alright, we're good. Stay out of Cuban caves.

bullfrog

Zero -- Monday, March 31 2008, 08:38 am

Elevator Action rocks. Still.

Shared love for Agent Otto can't stop me from saying 'Screw your Irish' for beating MSU in playoff hockey. Can't anyone let State win anything?

Zero

My sister, in a flat voice this morning as she watched a news story about baseball: "It starts."

Happy opening day!!!!!

Dude, opening day was last Tuesday. Zing! I believe my wife is discussing going to the Cards bar with you as I type this.

To share the continuing saga of Texas politics-- I spent 8 hours in the Exposition Center where they hold rodeos caucusing for Obama at the Travis County Convention. I left feeling like I'd been stuck in an airport for 8 hours. Is it wrong to feel like democracy now owes me big?

Why are there still caucuses going on? I'm very confused.

This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

http://www.blinkenlights.nl/thereg/

This is Texas-- We did precinct caucuses which gave a rough idea of how the 67 caucus delegates would be divided; this was the county caucus which got us a bit closer to a real number; and the state convention is in June. It really isn't until the state convention that anyone will be positive as to how the final 67 delegates in Texas will be divvied up.

Obama is doing very well in the caucuses though, so he may overtake Clinton in the final Texas delegate count.

Dear God, that's complicated.

Just checked in on Deadspin - holy crap, Shitwit talked with Joe Morgan in the booth for an inning and a half last night? That is mind-boggling to me. I have never been happier in my lifetime that I don't get ESPN at the house. I would've had an aneurysm.

I never thought to look up the Gameboy Tetris scores before. It seems to be a neglected category. I definitely scored 230,000+ once. I was so pleased with myself that I took a picture with the intention of sending it to Nintendo Power, but the picture didn't come out very well.

I only topped 200,000 once that I can remember, and I think my high is 191 lines. Level 19 just got ridiculous. I hit 146 last night, which I was pretty happy with, since I'm not, you know, 12 anymore.

I saw the Georgie Boy, Joe Morgan, and the other guy commentary on ESPN last night. Very awkward. Seemed like nobody knew what to say so Morgan just started kissing ass. Then they talked about the Rangers and how much they sucked.

It would have been great if Joe Morgan asked how much of the housing crisis and sub-prime loans debacle could be attributed to the faulty economic policies of his administration. Or if he asked Da Prez who he thought would win American Idol. That would have worked too.

There's not a lot of people I'd give Joe Morgan the chance of outwitting, but Shitwit is one of them.

I'm listening to the Tigers-Royals game right now (fuck, I love baseball season), and I just heard an ad for this service:

http://thedesignate.com/

I think that's a great idea, I'm just astounded that it's in existence. Wild.

GilgaMeche on the mound for the opener! Two-thirds god, one-third man!

Joe Morgan and our President did have a long conversation regarding prompting baseball in urban areas and how MLB and other organizations really should do so. It wasn't all meaningless Morgan ass kissing.

Not my president!

The Detroit ads are quickly becoming my favorite of the season (not hard to do, it's the only broadcast I've heard). For every strikeout the Tigers' staff records this year, the Masons donate $25 to a teaching fun. The Masons! I didn't know they still did anything. (Other than, you know, control the world.)

Yeah, one of their branches, the Shriners, does circuses.

What is it, 15-0 Tigers by now?

1-0 in the fourth, I think. Definitely 1-0, I'm pretty sure it's the bottom of the fourth. They're tagging Gilga, but the Royals gunned down Maggli-O at the plate last inning.

Back to Irish hockey, here's the ESPN U segment on the squad.

http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html#7148867375267417212

How the fuck does Michigan have the most national titles in hockey? I thought that was like Minnesota or North Dakota's thing. Oh, how I hate.

This entire article confuses me too much for words.

http://jezebel.com/374080/dear-ivy-league-virgins-did-you-ever-think-maybe-fucking-once-in-awhile-would-make-you-more-fun

Holy shit, Ichiro is awesome.

http://www.enjoytheenjoyment.com/2008/03/ichiro-is-testing-you.html

Oh man, Pete and classic gaming. Niiiiice. Make sure you have a Crystal Castles machine in the background.