Comic for Friday, Jan 28, 2005

Posted: 9:10 am, Friday, January 28th, 2005

Was anybody going to tell me that the copyright date at the bottom still read 2004? Sheesh. Not sure exactly who would want to infringe this masterpiece in motion, but, still.

It's Friday. Thank God.

Wilco is offering a few bonus tracks if you own A Ghost is Born - apparently, you need the CD in the drive to be able to get the songs from their website. It doesn't say here when, but Rolling Stone reports it as being March 7th. I'll try and keep that in mind and remind anyone out there who may own A Ghost is Born. It's a damned good CD, and I'm excited to see that Late Greats is one of the live tracks. There's also a link from Wilco's site there to a Jim Derogatis review of their New Year's Eve show at MSG with the Flaming Lips and Sleater-Kinney. He says S-K's sound was underwhelming in the Garden, which I can believe. They put on an awesome show, though, and are highly, highly recommended if they come to your town (with an album coming in May, they're guaranteed to hit the road soon). Anyway, Derogatis is the rock reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times, and put out a book about a year ago called Milk It!, which is a collection of his writings on 90s rock. It's a pretty decent book - puts you in the mood for 90s rock more than it impresses you with the dude's writing at all - with a nice cover graphic. And, from the customer reviews, it seems like that's the prevailing opinion. Meh. If you wanna read, lemme know and I'll mail it to you or something, I guess.

It's Spacegirl's birthday today! This concludes the streak of birthdays to keep in mind.

Not a lot going on today. I was checking out the nominations for the 2005 Bloggies - honestly, Bloggies? - and, wow, they have some for food. I didn't know there were food blogs out there! And, wow, a webcomic about the Sox. I don't even know if I should go on, now.

Want a downer for a Friday morning? Here's a list of all the executed inmates from Texas since 1982. More depressing is their last statements. This guy makes a nice one about the futility of the death penalty. This guy is not happy with those who put him on death row. By the way, I find it interesting that Texas keeps track of the race of the victims in these crimes.

And, since that's a horrid thing to end a Friday post on, here's a link to somebody linking to the best of LiveJournal's Rabbit Hole Day. I guess yesterday, in addition to being E's birthday, was the birthday of Lewis Carrol. So everyone on LiveJournal pretended (I guess) to be crazy or on opium or whatever for a day. I'm glad they went that way instead of all pretending to be pedophiles. I don't know if these are any good, but if a thousand chimps can theoretically eventually get the first act of Hamlet down, then probably somebody on LiveJournal can put together a decent everything-you-know-is-wrong post. And it's an endless amount of crap to read, if you just start hitting all the LiveJournals, so, happy Friday.

Oh, Jen and Lissa are the stars of the show next week, in case anyone's interested. I know I've been ignoring them lately, but I do feel as if the strips have been pretty strong lately.

Found an even better thing to end a Friday post with. This was in Sports Illustrated this week - this site sells private islands. I feel like getting a paypal donation button to start raising money for an island. Then we'll secede and call it the Independent Republic of Five Bucks to Friday. We'll do this radical thing of having a Bill of Rights and actually standing by it, and it will be magnificent.

bullfrog