Comic for Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Posted: 6:10 am, Monday, January 21st

Sorry for the hand-drawing and the weird Dr. TJ Eckleburg eyes there at the end, but it's a giddy mood here at World HQ. First off, Illustrator crashed halfway through my original drawing, and while I did have time to do a spur-o-the-moment strip, I didn't have time to do one and a half. So you get the hand-drawn. Complete with bizarre sizing and poorly executed metaphors. Fuck yeah, it's a whole new world!

Speaking of a whole new world, I can't believe this is the first strip I've done in a non-Bush-run world. I gave my wife the first hug we've ever shared in a world without the grim spectre of Shitwit right when I got home from school yesterday. Dag, can you believe we survived eight years of that apocalyptic asshole?

Cleanse the palette with some excellent Star Wars-abilia!

I would watch that movie a hundred times before ever subjecting myself to Episode II ever again.

I have a new favorite section in the Times! Streetscapes looks at crazy-cool buildings in the city, focusing on bizarre gargolyes or insane mansions owned by apparently insane men. Awesome stuff.

Scott Pilgrim news, here!

Franz Nicolay track, here!

Back to the speech. I liked it. Clearly, it's a call to duty and a call to service. I like that. There were ads on CNN about service yesterday, and I think that's good. It would be a shame to let all of Obama's organizing work go to naught, so hopefully there is direction for the clearly ready, willing and able masses. I also liked the us-against-hopeless odds part that I pinched for the strip. Like the ever-sage Samwise said, "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, January 21 2009, 06:32 am

I was going to include this in the post today, but it felt better as an add-in, since I actually am much more happy about Obama being in than Shitwit being out. But it's a nice postscript on his failed, arrogant administration.

http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/2009/01/century-from-now.html

Sweet!

http://specials.washingtonpost.com/inauguration/mosaic/

I volunteered as part of the National Day of Service on Monday. Fifty people showed up to work at a soup kitchen in Brownsville (a way-out part of Brooklyn) -- there were more volunteers than clients! The masses really are "ready, willing, and able," as you said; I'm glad our president seems willing and eager to harness that energy at last.

And I wore my "Barack is my Homeboy" shirt yesterday with pride.

From today's WSJ: "Mr. Obama arrived at the Oval Office at 8:35 a.m. on Wednesday and spent 10 minutes in his new office alone. He read a note left for him by President George W. Bush, sealed in an envelope marked, "To GBP 44, From GBP 43.""

Great Big President? Grand Poohbah President? General Brigadier President?

Does it stand for something painfully obvious that will make me look like a total dork?

I made the executive decision at lunch that I want to start becoming a more informed voter, know who my representatives/senators are, and understand about what they are voting.

So I google, etc, and get THIS load of CRAP...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.RES.58:

Above, the colon at the end needs to be part of the URL.

They voted today at 1:38 p.m. I wonder if the "Noes" were from Oklahoma.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll029.xml

"Jason Altmire (born March 7, 1968) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's Fourth Congressional district.

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in 1986 he matriculated at Florida State University, in Tallahassee. Following a lengthy rehabilitation of his knee injury, he tried out for and made the Seminole football team."

Goodness, MJL, the 'Noles and the Gators are two clearly different schools.

Yes, Frog, it's a fact I haven't missed. "Noes" is not me making a typo for 'noles. On the congressional role call, the 5 people that voted "No" are counted as the "Noes", as in more than one No.

'Twas an anonymous commenter that educated us about one of the Noes. One of the Noes was indeed a 'Nole, hence his reluctance to congressionally endorse the Gators.

The first few lines of the bill: RESOLUTION

Commending the University of Florida Gators for winning the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.

Whereas, on January 8, 2009, the University of Florida Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14 in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Miami, Florida;

Whereas the Gators have become one of the premier athletic and academic institutions in the country;

Whereas this BCS National Championship is the University of Florida's 22nd national championship in all sports;

Whereas the Gators' victory over Oklahoma was the third football national title for the University of Florida and the second in the past three seasons, the others being won in 1996 and 2007;