Comic for Friday, March 5, 2010

Posted: 6:22 am, Friday, March 5

I was listening to NPR the other day. Car Talk is fascinating, but fascinating in a background noise sort of way. I don't know/care about cars - I should, but to me, they're just tools - but Click and Clack are just so enthusiastic about what they do that it's hard not to get into car maintenance for a few hours. And I like the cheeseball vaudeville quality of their show, with the Dewey, Cheatum & Howe line at the end of every episode. I don't know if Ron would listen to Car Talk, but I'm pretty sure Pete would.

2.0 doesn't care about Notre Dame football, but loves archival research. Will she click on a link of a guy obsessed with the location of pre-Stadium Cartier Field, and his tale of triumph and discovery?

Kate Beaton had her fun with the super-weird closing ceremonies of the Olympics. I still haven't figured those things out.

The final Scott Pigrim book is coming out in a couple of months, so you can expect me to ramble about it a lot, even though I don't know if *anyone* else on this site reads the comics (2.0 excluded). Sweet-ass Ramona Flowers statue.

Givin' the kids a quiz today. Plus: low-impact day. Minus: have to grade a lot over the weekend. Meh.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Friday, March 5 2010, 06:41 am

You had me at archival.

I wonder where Ron's going to insert the key in panel two... Definitely did not include a keyhole in that doorknob.

Because I'm stuck printing posters for our "Humanities Fair" - don't ask, it's as awful as it sounds - I'm going to be able to check in at random times more often for the next 12 days or so. I found this time-waster at NDNation.

http://www.ndnation.com/boards/showpost.php?b=football;pid=60710;d=this

Basically, click 'random page' at Wikipedia, and try to get to the page for Joe Montana in as few clicks as possible, without using an ND-related page. I went from Olympic Centre to Chicago to Big Ten Conference to Michigan to ... shit, I cheated. Let me try again.

OK, Catie TVe (a Venezuelan TV network), to Television network, to CBS, to NFL on CBS, to NFL Today, to NFL, to San Francisco 49ers, to Joe Montana. 6. Bleh.

Better. Nicolás Antonio de Arredondo to Spain to California to 49ers, to Joe.

Holy God, is this boring. Note to self: Bring grading when you do this again 5th period.

I've gone through all the blogs I can that aren't blocked by the DOE's draconian web filter, and now I'm onto comic book artists. Just found that Top Shelf pubs has sold a 33% stake to a film company, and the incredibly fucking awesome Too Kool To Be Forgotten may be developed into a film. Can't recommend it highly enough. Also, Robinson's second graphic novel, Tricked, has a killer new cover.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118013762.html?categoryId=18&cs=1

http://www.comicbookalex.com/Tricked.html

I much preferred Box Office Poison, but Tricked was what first got me into the man's work.

In an act of serendipity, my car's broke down on the side of the road, and I think the engine's dead. Maybe savable, maybe not.

Anyway, I get to use my emergency fund way too early! *Sob*

I don't know if "serendipity" is the word I'd use for that.

I was excited about this list of books to pass onto kids, all the way until the second entry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8548953.stm

"Harry Potter tops poll of books to pass on" -- I read that to mean, books to skip.

Just watched the Hurt Locker. Anybody who votes for Avatar over that is certifiably bonkers.