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Comic for Wednesday, March 30th
Posted: 9:05 am, Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 A few things - Pete's wearing a Bayside Tigers t-shirt, which I am wrestling with myself about ordering. I think I'm winning. The 'bozo' bit in the last panel is an uber-obscure Cheers reference that's not especially funny. Thirdly, sorry for the super NY-centric strip. From where I used to live in Queens, it would take forever to get to Brooklyn. As you can see, there is only one train that goes from Queens to Brooklyn, despite the fact that the two boroughs actually touch. And, apparently, they've stopped shitting themselves and turned the G into a dotted line in Queens, since that's about how reliable its service is. The first time I ever ventured into Brooklyn was a few weeks after I moved into my first apartment, to visit my friend Cheryl. This was on a weekend. I was told to take the G. I waited an hour for the G, before someone told me to take the R to Queens Plaza to take the E to 23rd-Ely, to take the G. Except that the E was rerouted to 21st-Queensbridge. They told me there to get back on the F and just take it to Brooklyn. It took me about three hours to get there, and of course I didn't have a cell phone those days, or a quarter on me for a payphone. I was about two hours late for dinner. The next time I went to Brooklyn, I was with Jan and we were visiting Lauren. It was the first time I ever saw the V-train. It took about two hours to get there, shaving an hour off my previous horrible time, but still not good. From then on, I drove to Brooklyn. In the pre-move in days, I would take the subway to 2.0's place, and it would take about an hour. Not living on the R-line really helps with that, though. Anyway, fun subway stories, whoo. Has anyone seen the Playstation Portable? They're advertising it pretty heavily and I think the launch came off smoother than the PS2 launch did (a gimundo clusterfuck for anyone who doesn't follow this sort of thing). The subway ads read something like Hi-Fi Wi-Fi Sci-Fi, and show a picture of a PSP playing F-Zero or an F-Zero knockoff. The thing is, the graphics in the poster look crappy, because the subway poster is blown up 4x6 feet. For some reason, this didn't click in my mind that the real thing, with a screen of, what, 3x5 inches?, would be crystal clear. So, when I saw a dude playing with his new PSP on the subway the other day, holy geez, was I unprepared for that. He was sitting about ten feet away, viewing the Spider-Man 2 disc that must come with the unit, and it was unreal how clear the resolution was. I couldn't believe it. 2.0 saw one on her way home last night. This exchange followed: "I saw a guy with that PSP thing tonight. Fuckin' A!" I am quite excited to be on a subway where I can easily watch movies along with people, and also watch them play video games. There's a dude on my evening commute who has the original Zelda on his Game Boy Advance, and I don't think he even read the instruction book, because he seems to have no idea what he's doing. It's painful to stare over his shoulder. And now I've gotten off-topic. I was discussing the PSP with Eric the other day, and he brought up the good point that it runs mini-discs or something close to them, and to never trust Sony when it looks like they're trying to introduce new media into the equation. That sounds like good reasoning to me. I'd say that's the reason I'm not getting a PSP, but, really, I just like to read on the subway. I already have an iPod. I don't need anything to detract from my reading time any further. Especially when I have my own idiocy to do that for me - I left my copy of Moby Dick home yesterday. Thankfully, I've got a copy of Harper's in my backpack because I'm supposed to photocopy an article about soldiers going AWOL because the Army is horrid to send to a friend, so I had that to read. Harper's is a pretty good magazine, if anyone's looking for something to subscribe to. 2.0 reads it much more thoroughly than I do. We each have a weekly and a monthly that we read pretty cover to cover - I do Sports Illustrated and National Geographic, she does the New Yorker and Harper's. We share Lucky, Jane and Maxim. Maxim's really gone downhill from when I first read it junior year, by the way. 2.0 says similar things about Jane, but, not having read that until we were dating, I can't really attest to that. This ends this huge, run-on paragraph. Music for America does a 10-year retrospective on Return to the 36 Chambers, which I can't really talk about because me no know rap. But 2.0 likes the Wu, so I'm posting it for her. Doonesbury's Say What? shows us that Rummy has either no self-awareness or a highly evolved sense of irony.
Since the Bush junta doesn't believe in evolution in any way, shape or form - or at least the people it pays lip service to don't - I'm going with choice 'A.' I think Lost is new tonight... Sweet. Hopefully we can make it through the rest of the season without a rerun, and maybe this means the Gilmores will be back with new episodes next Tuesday. This week's Savage Love wisdom-bite:
With that, I will see you tomorrow. bullfrog |
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