Comic for Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Posted: 6:40 am, Wednesday, June 10th

Four days! Because I'm a genius, I had my kids hand in a giant poetry project last week, an even bigger reading project this coming Friday, and gave them a two-essay final yesterday. Evidently, I love grading. I am a moran.

($405 club = unemployment in NY state tops out at $405, after taxes)

I love the back cover of the Daily News today. "Beans!" That would be great if Michael Kay just frustratedly exclaimed "beans!" after everything bad that happened to the Goat Fuckers.

2.0 and I were talking about Bill Watterson last night, which reminded me of this Salinger article they had up on Slate the other day. I've got my juniors speed-reading Catcher in the Rye right now, which means that pretty much only about five kids are on top of it. State exams, sadly, take precedence.

I really doubt that this Battlestar movie about the Cylons' plan will make me want to watch the whole series again. Making me want to watch the whole series again would involve Baltar's-becoming-Jesus never happening, and the last ten minutes of the finale *certainly* never happening. It *does* make me want to watch the Battlestar movie, though.

Has everyone seen this yet? Because it's awesome.

Oh, man, good times.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, June 10 2009, 06:46 am

Correction: I guess unemployment tops at about $430, but it was $405 for a long, long time.

Also, there was about a ten-minute window when the strip forgot to mention that Ron was talking about Ted. It's been fixed.

Juxtaposition nicely played, sir.

Beckett = the Man

Zero

One of my kids was asking me the other day - he asks me baseball stuff all the time in an effort to get me off-topic - if I thought Beckett or Lester was the ace of the staff. I gave it to Lester based on his last few starts, but I think I was just delusional. When Beckett's on, he's on.

I also appreciate that he could not be further, intellectually, from Samuel Beckett, if he tried.

It occurred to me that I never went anywhere on an Literature field trip. I mean, just think, you could go find that damn tree in Brooklyn.

Random fact: I had a student teacher in Bill Watterson's brother's English class in the fall. Didn't know he was Bill Watterson's brother at the time though. Found out through Wikipedia.

Beans, Beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot!

If Michael Kay did say "Beans", his massive head may explode and the resulting explosion would be akin to the Tsar Bomba. Has anyone seen the size of that man's head? It must be something about sports broadcasters. Kenny Albert also has an incredible dome.