Comic for Friday, February 27, 2009

Posted: 6:35 am, Friday, February 27th

Alright, I promise satisfaction on this one by next Friday. Three strips to a conclusion of sorts. Hold me to it.

Before I get any further - happy holy crap to MJL's wee bairn who is not so vee anymore, Ben. I cannot believe it has been five freakin' years since I received a call in the middle of a Friday-night booze session in Finnerty's telling me that Fair JJ had delivered unto this world a boy. Hats off to the parents, because when I think of me five years ago, the odds of me keeping a kid alive were not strong. And they seem to have done it.

Check out this bonkers-ass fish with a see-through head. 2.0 tipped me off to this while wishing she could see through her foot last night.

Pour one out for the Rocky Mountain News, probably the biggest casualty to date of the fourth estate. Who's next? One of the Seattle papers, maybe?

I'm still new to the union and am only awakening to anything pertaining to the DOE, but I think if this happened, it wouldn't be a bad thing. For the kids.

Trying to see TeaVee's play, take 2, tonight. Last time, I was felled by that pesky cough. Tomorrow night, partypartyparty. Somewhere in between, I have to write a paper about Jack and the Beanstalk. I'm not kidding.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Friday, February 27 2009, 08:03 am

Sorry to interject with baseball, but holy crap, Boras rejected a one-year $25 mil contract for Manny from the Dodgers with a $20 mil club option for 2010. I don't see many more years coming on the table for Manny, unless the money is much less. I mean, it's not like he's a goldbricking nutter or anything.

He turned down that deal? Take away the way he conned the Braves with Lowe and Boras is having a very questionable winter. I can't believe the Dodgers offered him a second year with what he pulled in Boston. I would not shed a tear if the Dodgers tell him to go pound salt and he can't find another good deal.

Zero

Frog: Thanks for the shout out for big Ben (Parliament). Your maintenance of the birthday list is uncanny. I have a hard enough time with direct family members, let alone my friends' children.

Five years into this adventure, I'd still be willing to put even money down that the lad will end up being a reasonably adjusted member of society. That's no small miracle, eh?

Happy Friday, gang. May you have all the spiderman cake and juice boxes you can handle.

No worries. I have no idea when or even if Noah has his birthday, though.

Things I hadn't planned on seeing today - an impassioned defense of Barenaked Ladies in the AV Club forums. Some guy, FredHuggins, not very far down the scroll.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/barenaked-ladies-lose-a-dude,24385/

By the way, the pipe that the Notre Dame Leprechaun has in his mouth is known as a "Dudeen." I learned that while watching the number one ranked men's college hockey team.

I don't typically reply, but I wanted to say that my coworker and I would read the Rocky Mountain News every day at lunch. This blows.