Comic for Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Posted: 6:40 am, Wenesday, June 17th

I think I've mentioned - my brain is so shot these days, who can tell? - that I've been taking a Shakespeare course these past few weeks. I'm officially at the halfway mark - ten classes in five weeks goes quickly - and I've been reading like an insane person lately. While proctering exams yesterday, I read the first three and a half acts of King Lear, and I'm going to wrap up today and move onto critical theory on Lear. I've giving a talk on the first black man to ever portray Othello tonight, and if it's any good, I'll upload it on the site as a podcast.

There is a certain nonsensical poetry that Andrew WK has a new show coming out on the Cartoon Network. Having been to three of his shows back in the day, the man is totally a cartoon. On the other hand, "CN Real"? C'mon. That's the first step to the shit that MTV has turned to, and how we wind up getting "original programming" on Nick at Nite's TV Land. Nick at Nite is totally for Mr. Ed reruns, and that's all. Car 54, Where Are You, you can show that on Nick at Nite, too. But that's all. We live in a society!

I have no deep thoughts or ponderances after this, the first year of my teaching career. Not right now. 2.0 made me a cake, that's all I've got right now. I can't wait 'til next Friday, when I can stop getting up so early in the morning and sleep for about a week.

The Silo is totally better than this. For one, I don't think you can consider 87 a beltway. It cuts right through the Bronx, and, along with the river, it bisects the Bronx and Manhattan's urban area, and a beltway is by definition a highway that skirts an urban area. 87 also extends all the way up to Montreal, going through some extremely rural areas on the way. For two, the Silo is just so much funnier.

I'm totally not going to put my talk on the internet, by the way.

Good luck to my kids who take the ELA Regents today, and who hopefully have no idea whatsoever that this website exists.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Wednesday, June 17 2009, 06:40 am

By the way, hockey.

Actually, I-87 doesn't go all the way to Montreal. It ends on the Canadian border and A-15 takes you up to Montreal, but I guess your general point is still true... Another interesting fact about I-87, it is one of the few primary Interstate Highways that doesn't go through multiple states. So... is I-87 really an interstate?????

Nice rip on Jersey.

See, I blame the emergence of reality programming on Cartoon Network on the Discovery Kids' Endurance show. Which reminds me, is CN Real the show where pre-teens answer trivia questions while riding a roller coaster? Bullfrog, could your students answer literature questions while plummeting down a 60 foot drop on one of Six-Flags' (well, maybe Five-Flags since Six-Flags filed for Chapter 11) many roller coasters?

Coach: I-87 is no less (or more) of an Interstate than the three-digit interstates that run rings around a city or by-pass a region that the regular interstate cuts through.

You know about the Potters show on Saturday, right, Bullfrog? They're touring less and less now, so each one might be the last time. . . . 5 p.m. at the Bell House in Park Slope.

Shoot, I didn't, and I'm out of town this weekend for papa's day. That's like five invites I've turned down for the weekend, too.

Miyaa, as I said there are almost no primary interstates and therefore two digits that are only located in one state. The 3 digit auxiliary interstates are also meant to service the primary interstate and therefore not a true interstate highway.

Ooops...I am suffering from motion sickness on this train.

I meant to say the two digit interstates atypically are located within just one state.

Haha. There's lots of nerdy dialogue on this site but this interstate debate might take the cake.

Please please....can someone post some porn or snuff films or a book review or something......

Hey! Some of us live in Jersey! I will give you a pass this once because you live in Brooklyn and I was born there.

Coming in on 78, they could have stopped in Union at The World's Tallest Water Sphere http://www.worldstallestwatersphere.com/. But no. Their senseless anti-Jersey prejudice blinded them. Isn't it a pity?

There are Interstate highways in Alaska and Hawaii, although they do have their own marking systems (beginning A-1 and H-1). I think we should forgive 87 for not being in at least two states.

Fucking dorks!

All but five state capitals are directly served by the Interstate System. Those that aren’t are Juneau, Alaska; Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and, Pierre, South Dakota.

Are you just Googling random interstate facts? That's awesome.

Why yes, that's how I found this:

http://www.modot.org/interstate/InterstateFunFacts.htm

While in college, I was considering writing a paper trying to quantify the positive economic impact from the US Interstate system. In the end, I decided to take a nap.