Comic for Monday, February 16, 2009

Posted: 7:35 am, Monday, February 16th

She almost made it, there. Non-Domers, there is a laundry service at ND, to which I subscribed my freshman year. My mother sewed little nametags with my initials, last name and ID number into all of my clothes (socks included). I don't believe I have any underwear with the tags remaining, but I have a few t-shirts, still.

I'm home today, which is why it's after seven o'clock when the strip is going up. Handily, I've been ill since the moment school ended on Friday. I made a brief recovery Saturday night, and then was promptly laid low all day yesterday, and coughed constantly last night. I effing hate being sick, and am very bad at it. Hopefully today is the turning point, because I've got big plans for this week.

Wild article in the Times about a hidden, unused tunnel under Atlantic and Court. Dude thinks there's a steam engine buried under there, too.

Alright, that's all I've got. As I said, I was sick.

bullfrog

tree -- Monday, February 16 2009, 11:08 am

Is it restaurant week?

Which Jean George restaurant are you going to?

I can't believe we made our mothers stitch those tags in all our clothes.

I don't think it *is* restaurant week right now... I think it is "oh, fuck, the economy" year in NYC. You can hit some good restaurants for not much.

So, we deal with Jen first. I had a crazy idea for today, and I knew you'd go somewhere different, and I wanted to see yours first. Panel 1: This is pretty busy, but Ron gets his head in the door, Pete makes a random remark, Lissa comes out of her room growling at Ron, and Jen's standing behind her confused still holding the boxers. Panel 2: Ron's still half in the door, looks panicked, gloms onto the most inexplicable part of the whole scene and asks Jen why she's holding his boxers. Panel 3: Jen runs screaming into the other room, Lissa growls again, Pete makes another random remark. Panel 4: Lissa tells Ron we're taking a walk NOW. Setup for next time. That's Komedy. Of course in my version by the time the two of them get back Jen has killed herself, and her ghost will haunt Ron and Lissa for the rest of their days. But could be that's a little darker than we want to go. Better to take care of Jen first.

In the first panel from Friday.... is Lissa the sort who would normally make her bed every morning? Is that why she doesn't want Jen changing how it looks now? That would be sweet. I love the expression on Lissa's face in the last panel.

So you haven't been in the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. It is definitely one of the great places in Brooklyn. The big reveal in 1980 is probably when we were down there, at the Atlantic Antic festival. Bob Diamond is a fine talker and showman, and we enjoyed listening to him as much as looking at the tunnel itself. It has a dirt floor, and he keeps everybody walking on one side, and on the other side we could still see the impressions of the wooden crossties that were lifted in 1860! And the stone base and the layered brick arch were sure built for the ages, still near perfect, with no maintenance. A must see. Now that locomotive... well... there IS an ancient locomotive (ancient in 1860!) that went missing from the roster, while every other one is documented as sold for secondhand use or scrap iron, but, honestly... errr. But hey if somebody wants to pay to dig out the dirt fill, I'll watch. What the hell, you know?

Actually, they extended Restaurant Week for all of the month of February: http://nycgo.com/restaurantweek.

I still want to know where Ron is and what he's thinking. Answers, please, or the natives riot.

Ron appears Wednesday, never fear.

I like it, Joe B., it's just that there's too much going on in everyone's head right now for more than two characters on screen at once.

And I had never even heard of this tunnel 'til this article, which is weird, given my penchant for Forgotten NY and similar site.

My favorite thing about this picture is that I'd bet anything Dustin told the joke.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/16/ortiz.steroids.ap/index.html

I'm thinking Lissa pulls an A-Rod here and admits to doing Ron, but in a "I'm sorry, but I'm not that sorry" kind of way.

Also, while we're on athletes doing stupid things, I have to admit I didn't think that the child seat law was looked upon that seriously until more people made a bigger deal about that Suns basketball guy not having his three-year-old in a child seat over that he was caught going 90 in a 35 mph zone.

I'd like to see Ortiz's test results from 2003 since that just happened to be the beginning of his jump from mediocre to incredible...

I'd like to see your mother's test result from 2003, DFFD.

You're really going to bring a Reverend into this huh?

Straight to hell is where you're headed! haha