Comic for Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Posted: 7:35 am, Wednesday, February 18th

So now we know what Ron's thinking - kinda.

Here we are, halfway through my break, and I'm still coughing like a lifelong smoker. Best break ever? I helped one of my fellow teachers build a wall for a nursery all day yesterday, and he paid me back in beer, which I think was not helpful to my condition. By the way, that wall looked better than any wall featuring me as a major architect in the process should. I am not, how do you say?, handy.

Random thought theater today, I was reading a Slate article on Gatorade ads, and thought of the all-time best Gatorade ad.

Seventeen years ago, that ad came out! Goodness.

Anyway, from there, my circuitous brain took me to an old Nike ad featuring John Lennon's Instant Karma, which I, as a pop-culture incompetent fourteen-year old (it cannot be stressed enough, my parents raised me in a box in the woods), thought was a song written originally for the ad.

I was surprised to see in the notes that that ad was directed by David Fincher, who has brought us Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, and Benjamin Button (which I say only for its current cache - I haven't seen it and actually have anti-interest in it). Fincher's IMDB page is totally random, and I see he's still directing Nike spots from time to time. Here is a much more mordern one featuring LT and Troy Polamalu, who, while an excellent player, is a no-good Goddamn dirty Trojan, and it should surprise no one that he flaunts the law by driving with an iPod in his ears. He probably learned that one from Pete Carroll, the douche.

There would be more, but it's already 8:20. Let's get this puppy up!

bullfrog

CK -- Wednesday, February 18 2009, 09:41 am

Hooray for happiness! (Though I'm guessing that will last Ron precisely as long as it takes him to walk to Lissa's room. . . .)

i don't think that i have EVER defended a former trojan, but troy is just absolutely off limits. obviously i'm biased, but he is the most giving player in pittsburgh for a while, and he does so much charity work, especially with kids in need, and he keeps it all low-key.

and he's a passenger on a bus, not driving with an iPod. i'm just sayin'.

Are the natives allowed to demand that we return to five updates a week until this story line is resolved / erupts in Ron's face?

Shoot, so he is. Well, he still is a no-good Trojan.

I was going to try for 5-a-week this week, Wood, but the illness has short-circuited that effort.

Just in case El Frogo ever goes in this direction, I want to be the first to predict wedding bells being rung within the 4 panels of Fivebucks. Also, twins. I'm not saying next week or anything, but many moons from now.

That plot direction, of course, would totally turn everything on its head... But life happens. The group can't be a swingin' group of cats forever and ever. Eventually somebody has to get a dog and start taking trips to home depot and walmart. That should make for AWESOME comic storylines.

I second the vote for twins! But I'm not sure how much comedy would occur for the first three months or so-- just lots of wandering around in a half-dazed state from an almost complete and utter lack of real sleep. But things do start looking up-and getting funnier-around month 3.

Poor Bullfrog, we are clamoring for more comics and he's sick.

CK: I think Pete said Lissa is not there now. So, Friday: Ron goes out to try to find Lissa without using a cell phone, and two panels later Lissa comes back and asks Pete whether Ron's around. By the end of February, Pete has finished highlighting important passages in HBP and gone out, and Ron and Lissa come in together and ask each other whether Pete's around.

I'm with drolett: no more Polamalu criticisms.

Dammit.

I love that Nike ad with Polamalu. Don't know why, but I got a kick out of it every time it came on.