Comic for Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Posted: 6:30 am, Wednesday, February 3

Fun little movie trilogy scale, here.

Oh, man, Bill Watterson gave an interview! (And an interview on the interview. It took place before Salinger died, which is nice for me to know, for some reason.)

I hope that Italy can fend off McDonald's. It would be nice for a country to defeat a corporation.

So, Lost, huh? Can't say as I was entirely following everything that went on last night. Partially because I'm a little under the weather. I *feel* fine, but I can't talk. Again. Second time this has happened this year. This is kind of hugely problematic, given my job. I'm kind of scrambling to figure out WTF to do today.

bullfrog

MJL -- Wednesday, February 3 2010, 07:51 am

Mime. A lesson plan on mime. Surely you have one of these in your back pocket, no?

I vote for interpretive dance.

... to Bolero? I think yes.

(Frog must be so grateful for helpful friends like us.)

I just saw spam for a natural (?) product they think I will want called: POTEN CX. Pete must be doing consulting. The X is a nice touch. "see ex"... ooh.

Say "Honda Civic CX" and what do you think of? Healthy representatives of your favorite gender seeing your car and wanting you bad, right? What, no? All right, that's enough coffee, Joe.

"Lost": You didn't follow everything. My goodness. Could they make it any clearer?

It would have been helpful for them to remind me of the guy who hated Jacob's name.

I also was convinced briefly that they had traveled to the wa-a-a-ay past when they got to the temple. That thing's just been sitting there for five seasons and no one's ever seen it? Huh.

Have we ever had parallel and concurrent timelines in a primetime network drama before?

Oh, and so far, my school's decided to implement insane uniform restrictions today, so most of every class has been me telling kids to go get locks and take their jackets off.

Okay, I have no idea what you mean by "go get locks", Bullfrog? Are they supposed to be locking their coats or something?

Oh, obviously, no one will leave things in a locker without a lock. And they'd rather just keep their shit with them than lock it up, so nobody buys a lock. So the school buys a ridiculous amount of combination locks to give to the kids. This is obviously a thing their English teacher should take care of.

Joe B: I was thinking of it like POTEN-C X. Though your version works too.

Sad to say last McDonald's experience was in Italy. Living in Venice and eating the same delicious Italian food day in and day out was really getting on my nerves. I broke down for a Happy Meal, which I consumed at breakfast.

Yeah, that was graduate school. Yikes.

Anywhoo--I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is. Their menu was totally altered when I was there. They served tomato and Mozzarella salads and wine.

To add to chatter a few weeks ago regarding brew vs. liquor trends on college campuses, I submit that this stuff probably should not be imported:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/world/europe/04scotland.html

Of course, energy drink plus booze here in the states has started to go beyond the Jager+RedBull recipe.

(All of this, I should disclaim, is being posted by the least-hip guy in the room.)

Holy crap, that stuff sounds like *exactly* what the Scots need. WOW.