Comic posted Monday September 13, 2004

Posted: 8:59 am, Monday, Sept. 13, 2004

Hey, all, and welcome to Five Bucks To Friday. Odds are, you're a friend of mine and I'm basically forcing you to look at this. Thanks for humoring me! The goal here is a M-W-F schedule for the comic, and daily updates to either the front page or the Museum.

Even though the site just went up, there's already a bunch of crap posted, if you care to waste some time. Already in the Museum section, I've posted some of the history of Five Bucks To Friday, complete with self-critique (I'm very good at that). In Recommends, I've gone on at great length about good places I have eaten. If you want to kill a lot of time, there's the Links section. And, also, the obligatory Cast and About sections, which are basically me just talking. So you probably want to avoid them.

Also in the Museum (everyone is probably cringing at the site of my ol' hat) - I probably should've held onto this so that I have update material for non-strip days, but I promised to show some people this stuff - are pictures of signs I saw during the United for Peace and Justice march on August 29th.

The march signs are a good tie-in to today's strip. Why the hell I decided to launch this thing with an anti-Cheney screed is beyond me, but what's done is done, I suppose. The last line is a Star Trek reference, but also a reference to this fine piece of journalism:

Yes, that's right. Just like a Stepford wife.

Humoring the Weekly World News for half a second - can you imagine if the CIA actually did leak that Cheney was a robot? That would be like the Buckner of intelligence gaffes. Although the thought of Cheney's circuits crossing and him rampaging through DC is kind of amusing... When his battery ran out, he'd just kind of slump over, trailing off while saying, 'Go fuck yourseeeeelllllllll.......' to some Senators. Or they could ask him to define love and blow him up real good, just like computers in Star Trek! Hell, you could ask him that now and it would probably blow his brain. Or he'd start talking about money, one or the other.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. If you feel the need to write, be gentle, I'm delicate.

bullfrog