Comic for Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Posted: 6:40 am, Wednesday, June 3rd

Summer is a fucking eight class days away, and my head is about to asplode! (I'm actually writing this little bit Monday night, and I feel like I'm cheating by saying 'eight' instead of 'nine.) This whole feeling - I wish I could express it coherently. It's like waiting for Christmas when you're five, but with an immense feeling of accomplishment and relief accompanying it. It's really euphoric, and at the same time, I'm already looking forward to next because I am going to make fuckers *cry* with the amount of homework I'll be assigning. I am going to crush them like bugs next year. Grading be damned! Mister is on the rampage! Anyway, I'm going to try and put this feeling into more coherent words later on. Right now, it's summer, and summer, ideally, means free shit! Here is the Bryant Park film schedule, some of the River to River Fest schedule (their website is egregious to navigate), part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! schedule (the part I've highlit is a postclassical string quartet teaming with an art-rock band going by 'Gutbucket' to make a new score to a Mexican sci-fi flick - I am there), a shockingly complete Google calendar of free shit in the city all summer long, and to kick things off, it's free root beer float night at Sonic tonight. Sonic advertises rather heavily in the NYC area, but the closest location appears to be about sixty miles away. Hey, far be it from me to tell Sonic how to spend their money. (Far be it *for* me? I had to return Mother Tongue before that idiom was discussed.) If you can afford to travel all over the country this summer, the Times has some stuff for you to think about.

I greatly enjoyed Indiana Jones Lego, and will probably greatly enjoy this, as well.

I'm going to unlock and play as McGonagall. There was a theory that she was a Death Eater right before Deathly Hallows came out, and I was ready to be really bummed out if it was true. There is more shit going on at this E3 video game show right now than I could possibly blog about, so this is it for me and E3.

I found an article on killer grizzly bears from a 1969 issue of Sports Illustrated. 

Great article that Stack found (I'm slowly, slowly edging my way away from his now-three-or-four-years-defunct Stacked identity) about Grape Nuts.

The Times continues (obviously) to focus on GM and cars. Here's a slideshow of GM cars the readers have owned over the years. (The first car I drove with great regularly was my dad's Buick Reliant, an old K-car that went by the moniker the "Suicide Mobile". It had a coat hanger for an antenna, and had withstood a side impact at some point before we owned it. The previous owner had drilled into it to pull the dent out, and then filled the holes - about fifteen of them - with black putty of some sort, resulting in what appeared to be bullet holes in the side of the car. Its transmission went on me out back of Altamont when I was 17.) Non-GM, here is a slideshow of the Nissan Cube, which, I would have to imagine, marks the first time the New York Times has ever made reference to 1989's skate movie, Gleaming the Cube.

I started a Shakespeare grad course last night, and it's going to be a kidney stone. Fuck me, dude has like 20 required articles and didn't bother to have a grad assistant put a copy packet together. Nor did he bother to order the necessary books for the course. So the message I'm getting is, "My time is much more important than yours." Better yet, the class is full of wankers. Great!

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, June 3 2009, 06:19 am

Geez, why is that so big?

Well, it says width="1280" height="750" A thing like this is just too colossal to be contained in a computer screen. That must be it.

welcome to the delirious, wonderful freedom of june. no matter how long you teach, it will always feel this good. but be warned: every august, no matter how hard you worked through the summer, you will be shocked by how much you didn't accomplish, and NO ONE wants to hear it. the saving grace: football season starts. that's nice.

Frog, that's typical of any graduate class. Most of my graduate classes I took didn't even have any books, but relied on the professor's brain.

No, actually, it's going to be mostly us talking. He said he's going to be doing very little in the class. At least he'll be getting paid!

Hey, this article about Noah and Erin is on the front page for Yahoo! right now: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/06/03/2009-06-03_so_in_love_they_could_float_away_bklyn_couple_to_wed_in_zero_gravity.html

Oh my God. Those're the Ninjaconsultants, alright!

Mr. Bullfrog - Isn't Thursday Brooklyn/Queens Day? Do teachers even have to show up at school? You might be able to adjust your countdown for one more day.

It is Brooklyn/Queens day, aye, but I had been counting it as a not-day of teaching. I have Friday, all of next week, and Monday. So I'm at seven right now.

Did the team win? I'm guessing no.

I didn't play - but apparently the team played in the rain and lost. Craig broke his wrist on the last out of the game too. Details are a little fuzzy right now but I know he's out and in a cast. I'm waiting for Coach to get in to hear the story.

Pour or karate chop a 40 (or your favorite Asian liquor) for David Carradine, best known for his '60s television series, Kung Fu and more recently for the two-part movie, Kill Bill.
Sad that he didn't die while fighting against ninjas or Chuck Norris.

Oh, wow, David Carradine? That sucks.