Comic for Friday, April 4th, 2008

Posted: 12:00 am, Friday, April 4th

How has this Patton Oswalt skit been out there for over a month, and this is the first I've heard of it? It's all about killing George Lucas with a shovel. The audio's a little NSFW, but, trust me, unemployment is kind of the bomb, so it's worth the risk.

What the hell, I thought we weren't supposed to be getting Lost reruns anymore, with this 16-episode season setup they're rocking? Is this like the mid-season hiatus because of the writer's strike or something? I finally catch up to where we're at, and I tune in last night for a rerun. Also, I'm pretty miffed that my Sci-Fi network mysteriously disappeared yesterday, because I'd really like to watch Battlestar at my own home tonight. Oh well. It'll be good for me to get out of the house, I suppose.

2.0 and I were at the Botanic Garden the other day, and I thought maybe I'll start tinkering with a bonsai tree in the not-too-distant future. I'd do a root-over-rock tree, myself, because they're pretty cool to see, and evidently are a bit easier, because your primary concern is to get a cool rock. I think I could hack that. I switched to a .png for the comic today - I think it gets the gradients a little better, but now I see some pixilating. Meh.

Told you I was going to dig the High Snobiety - check out that fly denim Zippo. Man, if I had that Zippo and this car... It would all be over, let me tell you.

OK, so is the Atlantic Yards dead or no? Because the Brooklyn Paper pretty much said it was in this week's edition (or the most recent edition to make its way to our pizza parlor), but Gothamist doesn't seem as ironclad, and I haven't gotten word from Develop Don't Destroy, who would be dancing in the streets if the project was struck dead. (By the way, fucking, boo, Brooklyn Museum.)

Do they riot over this?

Some dude neel25 has cut a bunch of individual highlight reels together for Irish players from the 90s. Marc Edwards' is pretty impressive.

And, hell, here's McDougal, the last good 15 we've had. After falling just short of the national title in '93, he also almost quarterbacked the Chicago ... somebodyorothers to the Big Game championship in the XFL, but McDougal alone cannot hold back the magic that is Tommy Maddox and the LA Xtreme, or whoever.

bullfrog

e -- Friday, April 4 2008, 08:33 am

re Lost - they have showed all the ones they filmed before the strike. It resumes at the end of the month.

Y'know, if it makes you feel any better, we're in Directv's "free preview" week for extra innings, so since we'll be at my house, we can watch the sox or the cards before BSG.

Woo noodles! I can't think of any other foods, either..

The only thing I can think of for battlestar galactica is an algae based food (the Passage episode), so like cream corn, porridge, and oatmeal type foods.

Amazing how the phrase "The Final Season" can create such excitement, inspire hope and yet be depressing all at the same time. I believe the word bitter-sweet was invited for just such an occasion.

Thanks, E, that saves me having to try and remember to watch the next few weeks.

No worries - they seem to advertise new LOST pretty well, so I think we'll know when it starts.

I'm not sure if I watch anything else on ABC, is the problem. Oh, wait, no, Jeopardy. OK, I am good. Full steam ahead!

thanks for the bitter ani - just what i need to make it to the last bell.

I would make Cylon Soup. Or Coup. It would be a simple broth with one meatball in it, and the meatball would drift from one side of the bowl to the other in a straight line.

'Course, to get that to work, I'd have to put a magnet in the meatball and then another one on the bottom of the bowl and somehow move the outside magnet.

That would be one crazy meatball, Dan.

Hey, I like meatballs, and anything for a crazy theme.

Wait'll you see my angel-hair pasta that resembles Lorne Greene's head.

I'd go with Saki because that's probably the closest thing to motor oil that the "Oh my god...we're robots?" Cylons will have to feast on.

I figure not being human is Pete's price for success in just about everything else before he stumbles and heads down to Hell.

Rush Limbaugh, coming up with even more creative and offensive ways to insult feminists.

http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/and_then_there_are_days.php

So I guess he'll vote for McCain, after all?