Comic for Monday, March 21st

Posted: 9:05 am, Monday, March 21st, 2005

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Like a dummy, I forgot my camera to the protest on Saturday, which sucked because there was a really cool paper-mache peace sign with a red-white-and-blue elephant shitting bombs and a housewife pouring blood out of a gas pump on it. Also, Howard Zinn was there. That was a highlight for me. The other highlight of the weekend was that I'm in third place in the office pool, and am one of four people with their Final Four intact. This is completely uncharacteristic of me. So I thought I'd combine my two major interests (non-2.0 division) of the weekend into today's strip. Oh, I also meant to cite sources for those figures, but I didn't get to it - I'll look them up and get 'em to you tomorrow, just so I don't seem like I'm making shit up.

On Friday, my buddy in the HR department - or whatever the hell it is his actual job is these days - got permission to use the telly in the conference room for the Tournament. That's good eating, right there. Saved me the formality of pretending to work. Actually, I was only in there on my lunch break, but, still, seeing some of the Minnesota-Iowa State game was nice. ISU had a helluva press going in the first half. Anyway, because I was in there during lunch, I didn't get a lot of lookin' for the site done. Sorry about that.

I saw that Audioslave is getting a second album together, and wondered where the hell Zack de la Rocha has been since Rage broke up. For God's sake, Zack, we've had two shady elections, 9/11, an unjust war and widespread corporate douchebaggery since the Battle of the Los Angeles. Where are you, man?! Evidently, he released something with DJ Shadow a while back, and is still working on a solo album. Pretty disappointing, Zack. By the way, allmusic lists similar artists as part of their content, and Fred Durst is under similar artists to Zack de la Rocha. Um, no.

Apparently, I've got a wee bit of a political theme going (shocking, I know), because up next is from Friday's McSweeney's - the Howard Zinn-Noam Chomsky commentary track to Return of the King. Their track from Fellowship of the Ring - from here - is much funnier, but I still thought this was worthwhile. I don't think either Noam or Howie are as unreasonable as portrayed here, but then again, I wouldn't.

Let's see, politics, politics, what's ne - oh, right, the random unprovoked shot at screwball Christians. I've linked to Jack Chick before, but Websnark linked to this masterpiece, Kidnapped!, on Friday. I had never seen it before, and it is tremendous. There's so much random shit going on, I don't know what's the craziest. The cop praying for help when he's going to a domestic disturbance call because he doesn't know what he'll see is an early leader - I mean, not to poke fun at domestic abuse because it's a real problem and horrible, but if, as a cop, you doubt you have the stomach to answer a domestic disturbance, shouldn't you be in another line of work? There's the omnipresent (in the world of Jack Chick) person who has never heard of Jesus before and becomes practically an apostle after just being told that Jesus died. There's the fact that that person in this strip is a seven-year old girl, but she still needed the slate wiped clean. But I'd have to say the craziest thing is the kidnapped girl getting advice from God about what to do when she's in the trunk of the car. Oh, then there's the random swipe at Saudis in the third panel, too. Just another masterpiece from Jack Chick.

I signed up with nycbloggers last week - have to look to see what all I should be doing now that I have - in an effort to get a bit more visibility or what-not. Haven't had much of a chance to poke through it yet, but at our stop on the F-train, there is a blog registered as tealounger over at blogspot, which should make 2.0 happy, as that is her favorite coffee house in our neighborhood.

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