Comic for Monday, January 26, 2009

Posted: 6:30 am, Monday, January 26th

I believe shortly after our 'moon in Costa Rica, I lost many of my best t-shirts. My Wilco shirt, my Sleater-Kinney shirt, my Spice Cake shirt, the diabolical hot dog and the Hold Steady... The casualty list is horrifying. I don't know if that's where Not My President went off to, but imagine my distress last Wednesday when I finally was able to wear that shirt in 100% honesty and could not find the damn thing. Honestly, is someone eating my t-shirts?

Driving to Saturday school on, uh, Saturday morning, the muffler fell off the bottom of my car. I took it to Pep Boys, and they have told me $500. Yeah, right. 1-877-Kars for Kids, hello?

51 and TeaVee were over Friday night to watch some Battlestar and drink some wine and eat some pasta salad, and they brought and then loaned us their WiiFit, which is 100% awesome. The male trainer is a little, um, weird (he has a tiny ponytail), but the yoga stuff is a lot of fun, and some of the exercises are actually fairly strenuous. Battlestar was also quite good. 2.0 theorizes that they're *all* Cylons, which I think is an idea with legs. Because Starbuck and Ellen can't both be the fifth Cylon. (I had actually thought it was D, 'til she popped herself there.)

'Twas an active weekend - we went out to Gottino Saturday night for our friends' wedding celebration. They got married off in Hawai'i (poor them) and had an open bar and tapas thing the other night for all their friends. The food was friggin' tremendous, if anyone ever wants tiny Italian dishes. There was like nine different types of bruschette, one of which was piled with pork. Pork Pile. Good name for a band.

The Irish home streak, alas.

Long-time readers know that I am absolutely fascinated by Scientology, and this one right here's one of the best Scientology stories I've heard in a long time. The dude who sells ShamWows on the telly and wears an operator's headset is a former Scientologist who was booted from the cult for making a bad movie. He's using the proceeds from ShamWow to try and fight the SOBs. Fascinating stuff. I can't believe 2.0 found an article on that dude online.

I don't know why, but the Scientology thing reminded me of Slacktivist's demolition of Left Behind, which I need to pick back up. The entry where the Anti-Christ addresses the UN is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Awesome review of a WWF album from the 80s. I highly recommend checking out Jimmy Hart's bizarre dis track aimed at Rick Springfield.

This excites me greatly.

And, finally, great Daily Show clip from Thursday. At about the 40% mark, Stewart plays a clip from Papa Bear saying that sometimes we *do* have to compromise our values to be safe. Ah, good times.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Monday, January 26 2009, 07:00 am

Well no, see you're not explaining it exactly right. I think they're all the fifth cylon, yes, but also that the fifth cylon is a model that is able to look different and reproduce. The fifth cylon is a technological advancement from the other models.

Hmmm. Your page ate my first attempt at a comment. What are you feeding it?

If I can give any advice, don't ever take your car to a Pep Boys or any other like chain for anything more than an oil change. The 'mechanics' are usually bottom of the barrel and the places absolutely gouge the hell out of their customers. Find a local mechanic if you can.

you give us such good links, here's one from The Soup friday night. has some cursing in the commentary, so I reckon NSFW for some of us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUbsc_a-e3g

Zero

not the diabolical hotdog!! i love that one. boo.

I wanna know, there's going to be an upcoming Joe Torre book: will you buy it or not? (Even if it's just for the "A-Fraud" section.)

If I know my husband, he won't buy Torre's book. He'd never give money to Torre, but if it is in any way damaging to the goat fuckers, he'll read it.

Remember, he ready Bill O'Reilly's book first book. He bought that on half.com, and it was a library copy.

Joe Torre is a greedy old man. The bottom line the reason he is writing this book because the Yankees wouldn't dare continue to pay him to be the highest paid manager in baseball. I am sorry... I don't think a manager who takes naps during games should be the highest paid manager in baseball!

Fuck Joe Torre. The Yankees resurrected his career, spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the best players and handed him championships and a ticket to the hall of fame. He helps write this garbage while he's still a major league manager - fucking ingrate. Half the fucking stupid Yankee fans will probably agree with him too. What a scumbag.

Awesome. Those two posts make at least one of those Goat Fucking championships almost worth it!

As I understand it, it's the tell-all book equivalent of nuclear radiation fallout. And yes, Coach is probably right in suggesting is more or less an old man bitching and moaning about the whole situation.

Strip will be up in maybe an hour and a half or so, gang. I've got a special schedule this week for Regents, so I don't have to roll into school until noon. Which means I haven't drawn the strip for today yet. Lazy bones!