Comic for Friday, September 5, 2008

Posted: 6:30 am, Friday, September 5th

One week down, I guess about 39 left!

So, I've got Homeboy's next ad for you, right here. It starts with shots of McCain's wife, and goes, "Watch for GOP convention - $4,500. Dress for GOP convention - $3,000. Earrings for GOP convention - $280,000. Average household income in America - $50,000. Change - priceless." Run with it.

Man, what a bummer that My Name is Bruce is looking like crap. I'll totally Netflix it anyway. I cannot deny The Chin.

Another thing I cannot deny, as anyone who's been reading the site for any length of time knows: Peanuts. Pour one out for Bill Melendez, one of the producers of the Charlie Brown Christmas. 91 years and a well-earned rest, good sir. Thanks for all the teary-eyed December evenings after Linus gives his speech.

The first interview of the Gallagher brothers I ever read was back in high school in a Rolling Stone (back before the magazine hit the total shit that it is now), and I have to say, I hated them, terribly. But then I read this bit where Noel's talking about Guitar Hero.

If it puts little plastic guitars into kids' hands and fires their imaginations, I think that's a good thing. It's harmless fun, innit.

I'd rather that genre of video games than somebody getting their fucking head chopped off with a samurai sword while getting fucked by a goblin up the arse with a laser. Do you know what I mean?

Noel, brother, I totally understand.

I can totally deny the music of the 80s, since I was kept in a box in upstate New York for the entire decade, but I cannot deny Carrie Brownstein, my favorite member of Sleater-Kinney, and since she's on this week's All Songs Considered, I have to say, listen to it. The topic: Were the 80s Really That Bad? All signs point to yes.

Oh, one final thing I cannot deny - FUCKING IRISH FOOTBALL. WHOOOO! I am finally excited for the season, holla. Good thing, since the season starts tomorrow. Former co-worker Ivor, send me your predictions if you're reading. If not, I'll try to hit you up tomorrow.

Go Irish! Beat... Aztecs... Sigh.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Friday, September 5 2008, 06:39 am

I'm with Lissa...I don't know.

I'll wait to let some other people think it through before it gets spelled out.

I do promise, however, that I won't do a football joke every single week. With a three-a-week sked, that would just be obnoxious. (If ND somehow beats USC at the end of the season, though, I do reserve the right to make this strip all Irish football all the time.)

Forever?

Is it because the Irish are playing cupcakes?

People keep saying that about Mizzou, too, and I keep saying "STOP talking about cupcakes! I'm getting hungry!"

There was an old movie called "They Call Me Bruce" about some Asian dude named Bruce, who kept getting confused with Bruce Lee. One scene I remember was he got hit by a car and it was a Toyota, and he gets up and goes "I just got hit by a Toyota, oh what a feeling" - back when "Oh what a feeling" was Toyota's slogan. Real funny stuff. You should Netflix that one instead.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084786/

Mmm...cupcakes. Preferably these cupcakes:

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/007128red_velvet_cupcakes_with_cream_cheese_frosting.php

A "children's book" about the Republican ticket:

http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

Michigan seems rather overwhelmed against Miami of Ohio, only winning 14-6. Ohio State had trailed most of their game versus Ohio before a couple of INT for TD seals their victory, 26-14. I ask you, is it so freaking hard to have actual working HDTV screens in a bar, where people are buying themselves into a stupor?

Through a quarter and a half, it looks like it is going to be a very long year for the Irish again.

How do you miss a 27 yard Field Goal, Walker?!

Nevermind, I didn't see the center messed up the snap.

Boy, we suck.

Christ on a cross, the fact that they're celebrating a Goddamn go-ahead TD in the fourth quarter against San fucking Diego fucking State is the most fucking embarrassing thing I've ever seen out of a fucking Irish team in history. Fuck me, offensive genius, it took you until the fucking fourth quarter to realize that slant patterns may be a good idea? Fuckety fuck fuck squirrel, you'd better score 20 more fucking points in this fucking game.

A win is a win. Floyd looks good. Uh... the weather was nice?

That's all I've got.

I've calmed down a bit. Our run game has me terrified, but most of the passing game, I can live with. And we all knew d-line would be trouble. Still, fuck me.