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Comic for Wednesday, March 16th
Posted: 9:02 am, Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 The subway is a fascinating place, especially the F-line that goes through a lot of different neighborhoods. From what I understand, it begins out by a sort of newer Chinatown, goes through a few blue-collar neighborhoods, picks me up in the vague Park Slope/hipstery area, goes through Carroll Gardens, past Jay Street to what I think are less glamorous neighborhoods, skirts a bit of Chinatown, and up through midtown. You get a lot of demographics on that route. Which means that you also get some interesting style choices. A lot of hipster stuff gets on the stop after me, and a lot of urban stuff gets on at Jay. Then you get the utterly inexplicable stuff, like the dude yesterday who had a New Orleans Saints Starter jacket. Or the guy on Monday who had this masterpiece on. Seriously, a black leather jacket with a white leather skeleton on it. I couldn't believe that jacket. It was amazing. I wanted to work it into a strip, but there's no way. It was so incredible I figured people would think I'd just been drinking and drawing again, and that it wasn't real. Thank God I have a blog to give it its due. I'm not familiar with the poverty poster they're talking about, but several of these photoshopped variations are pretty funny. I've made no secret of my love for zombies. Somebody is up and making a zombie game for the Xbox where you play the zombie. Which sounds awesome. Sadly, I do not have an Xbox, and the PS2 has more or less won my brand loyalty into the next generation. Hopefully they will port the game over eventually. I don't recognize the developer, so I can't say if it's an Xbox-exclusive company or not. The cube is back in Astor Place! Kind of. A few weeks ago, a lot of web comics started this competition called the Daily Grind, in which everyone throws in $20 and has to produce a M-F comic without fail. If they miss a day, for any reason, they're out their $20, and the winner takes all. I actually thought about joining, because I'm pretty reliable on updates and figured I could always have someone mind the site when I was on vacation or whatever, and that it would be some exposure for the site. But then Gram died, and I missed four of the first five days of the competition. So I'm glad I kept that $20 in my pocket. Anyway, here's the main site for the Daily Grind competition, in case you are sitting there at work today and say, 'I wish I had something to look at.' I haven't checked out all those sites yet, but something has to be worth looking at, no? This was in CNNSI's 10 Spot yesterday. Since it has to do with Rochester, I'm posting it:
It's a little bit of Boise State right in western New York. This New York Times article about little annoyances also mentions Rochester, but I'm posting this one more because this article is fantastic. For those too lazy to click, or to fill out the free membership to the Times Online or whatever, one of the key things in the article is that if you send back all the subscription cards that fall out of magazines, they magazine has to pay the postage. A nice little revenge for the annoyance of those effing things falling everywhere is to send them back blank. They pay the postage, and do not get a new subscriber. The article's really quite delightful, and it gets the highest possible recommendation. Finally, are you like me? Do you have the March Madness? If not, do you at least like clicking pretty little Flash animations? Then why not join in the brackety goodness? My collitch friends and I have a bracket on ESPN's site. Go here, find the group named Mrs. Bitter, and the password is irish. No money changes hands, because we've tried that and the winner inevitably gets stiffed, and everyone who joins is practically guaranteed to finish ahead of me, because no one in the universe is worse at filling out a bracket than I am. Licia, you were flapping your yap about Duke - you'd better friggin' join, and I believe the two of us should have a private wager, perhaps involving the wearing of a funny hat or some other goofy thing. bullfrog |
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