Comic for Thursday, March 10th

Posted: 9:30 am, Thursday, March 10th, 2005

Sorry I'm late, gang - stayed out watching at the Brooklyn Museum's Basquiat opening and then watching the Big East tourney game last night (bleh!), and then had trouble with the strip. But better late than blah blah blah.

How is this the same week as Monday? It was gorgeous on Monday (and also Sunday, when the line 'don't get many early March days like this' was written) and I was in one of the most tremendous music moods of my life. Today, it's fucking freezing and I couldn't settle on anything to listen to on the way into work. I finally said screw it and listened to Digital Ash in a Digital Urn just because it's got enough weirdness on it to keep me occupied while reading a sci-fi novel of questionable quality. After this, perhaps the new Jonathon Safran Foer, which is already in Coliseum next door despite a publication date of April 1, or Barack's autobiography, or maybe I'll re-read Moby-Dick, which I've been meaning to do for years. Who knows?

First Lost has gone into reruns for inestimable weeks, and now the Gilmore Girls. I guess I have few excuses for not getting strips done on time, except for my running and my attempts at learning the guitar. Perhaps I'll get around to getting a new computer so I can work on this puppy at home more often and get those message boards I keep talking about. Every time I start moving towards that end, I wind up forgetting about it. But I *have* made a few updates to the links, with the comics I mentioned yesterday, and I'm also working on a different archiving system that has descriptions of the strips and blog entries for each day. Handier to find what you're looking for if you're for some reason looking for a comic in the archive, or if you want to hold me accountable for some crazy thing I said one day. I hope to have this part up by next week sometime.

Links? Links!

I think I've run i-Mockery's sexual video game moments in the past, but this list of unintentional porn in video games is more comprehensive. The Vice City link is wrong, but be sure to check out the Michael Jackson's Moonwalker shots and all of the ones from Super Smash Bros. Melee, a game the object of which, it appears, is to violate Princess Toadstool. This causes me no small discomfort, because I named one of the principle characters in my novels Princess Toadstool.

Rolling Stone reports on the death of rock radio. Surprisingly, they report on this without mentioning that rock's target demographic is pretty slick with the file-sharing, and also without mentioning Clear Channel's policy of suckization when it comes to rock on the radio. When your example of a rock band is Three Doors Down, that's a good sign that listeners are going to seek other stations.

Legal E-gle (ow) sent me an article about the Italian law system. It takes an average of 3,041 days to get a civil settlement in Italian courts. Holy geez.

I found this yesterday, the independent food awards were given out by a coupla bloggers, and the New Green Bo wins for best most dangerous food! I've had those things, and they're not kidding - it's really easy to burn the living hell out of your mouth on them. Check out the rest of the awards, too, there's some interesting categories. Evidently, Sco-Dub unknowingly walked by the store that sells the best cheap BLTs in the country. That's a shame.

Licia sent me this - Piled Higher and Deeper, a grad-school comic (my more observant readers will note that it is an acronym for PhD). Being nearly five years removed from any sort of schooling, the comics don't speak directly to me, but there's an archive going back to '97, so I've at least got plenty to read for a while. I'm starting from the very beginning, so everything's a bit crude right now, but it still proceeds nicely. I'll pass final judgement when I make it through the whole archives. This comic discusses how cool it is to be tree. I can't speak to that directly, but I've seen Tree in action. Seems hit or miss to me.

Hey, Tree.

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