Comic for Monday, June 29, 2009

Posted: 12:20 am, Monday, June 29th

This is when Pete went on disability, by the way. Wow, three years ago. Time flies.

What an absolutely bizarre rumination on Monticello on the Times website. I love the Times' site. They very often do stuff like this that has absolutely no way to fit into an actual broadsheet. I mean, this thing would take the entire Arts section. Scroll on through it.

Also excellent from the pages of the Times, a piece on a radical born-again Catholic here in the great borough. I wish I could put my thoughts together as well as she has whenever someone asks how I can be Catholic, with all the problems the Church has. All I can ever come up with is that faith is something you can't really define. It's why it's faith.

I don't know.

Much like the author of this piece, I have seldom hated a trailer to a film as much as the one for Ashton Kutcher's upcoming 'Spread.' I wish I could embed it - for some reason - but it's not working. You have to see that thing. It's fucking horrifying.

Thank you, Michael Bay, for making me dread September, when I'm going to have to hear my kids telling me that Transformers 2 was the greatest movie ever made.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Monday, June 29 2009, 12:34 am

I really like the design on the right from this old Streetscapes column.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/realestate/26scapes.html

Another good Times article - made the mistake of starting a This American Life segment without knowing it was a two-act show - about presidential memoirs, because Cheneytron 3000 is going to be writing a memoir. $2 million? C'mon, there's no way that thing's going to be interesting enough to be worth $2 million.

Grant seems to win hands-down for best presidential memoir. Have any of you highly edumacated, beautiful people read that? Mark Twain edited it, apparently.

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/historians-advice-for-dick-cheney/

As a longtime reader of Go Fug Yourself, I can tell you that's positively demure and normal-looking for Phoebe Price. Check out her archive, if your eyes can take it: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/cat_521/

Sox and Cards, on the cutting edge of televising baseball.

http://www.slate.com/id/2221384/

I could have sworn Ron wanted to take a different cast member with him. Maybe I'm confused with this known-her-a-long-time loved-her-a-short-time thing. All I know is that once I found the right one I didn't waste any time.

I have a great idea for Pete. Bullfrog, you always take the story in a different direction than I would, so I'm not worried about saying this. Ron and Lis go off to the one-bedroom, leaving Pete and Jen with the two. But Pete needs a job to make it work. Pete's function is to be annoying, right? So using what learned in Columbia Law, and maybe a recommendation or two from a confused prominent professor, he bullshits his way into an interview as a legal assistant, and talks enough law with the partner doing the hiring to get the job. He now pulls the highest salary of the four cast members and reminds them of it from time to time. He starts going out with cute young lawyers. I came up with this in an hour. If I could only draw and invent characters I could do my own comic.

Nah, Ron's moving out so that he and Lissa have room to grow.

Pete will no doubt accrue more money than any of the others during their lifetimes, but I haven't figured out how yet. Your suggestion is actually quite in-line with his character.

I am happy to report that I am have worn pants for only five hours today. Would've been two, but I had to move the car and was too lazy to go back to pantslessness.

Hell yes, summer.

This is sweet:

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/index.html

Douchebag, I linked to that like a week and a half ago.