Comic posted Monday, Oct. 4, 2004

Posted: 8:58 am, Monday, October 4, 2004

The Goat Fuckers are off today before the playoffs start tomorrow, but whatever, I'm running this strip. In looking at old versions of the strip, and the series where Ron, Jen and Lissa were at the bar for an interminably long time, 2.0 asked why there's never anyone in the background. I hope those are enough fans. Incidentally, just because I'll be using this terminology a lot, the Goat Fuckers are the New York Yankees, their fans are called Human Goiters in my little world. My friend Di, straining her creative ability, likes to pretend that I mean the Red Sox when I say Goat Fuckers.

Me: "Fucking Goat Fuckers, I hate them so bad."

Di: "What? You hate the Red Sox?"

I guess fighting my sixth-grade mentality of calling them Goat Fuckers with third-grade mentality "I'm-rubber-you're-glue" bullshit is probably fair, but, man, does that drive me crazy.

I kid because I love, in case you're reading this, Di.

I love to hate the Goat Fuckers.

Moving on, Notre Dame got krunked by Purdue this past weekend. And I spent about five hours in the car yesterday, coming and going from my uncle's art show. The show was fantastic, but, God, that's a long time to make it about 45 miles round trip. Not too much else to relate about the weekend. Mostly, it was frustratin'.

Lauren works at the ACLU, and her boss won this case on Thursday. Totally forgot to mention it Friday, bad Frog, bad! Anyway, good to see Lauren fighting the USA PATRIOT Act, where I just make colorful squiggles and swear a lot.

After I put up the post on Friday, E and MNP both told me that Joey, in fact, was on Thursday evening. I stand corrected. Also, I spent most of the day discussing the debates with some people, and forgot a few gems. "Post-September 10th mentality." "Forciferousffly." "He forgot Poland!" Also, Bush claimed 10.5 million registered voters in Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch says that that figure indicates massive electoral fraud, and to expect a much lower turnout than that, about five million or so. Anyway, last thing on the debate because it was four days ago now (except for a picture), here's a transcript with 18 things Bush shouldn't've said.

Vice-presidential debate tomorrow night, kiddies, tune in to see Dick Cheney eat a baby. And not in that adorable Fat Bastard way, either. This is going to like Manticore going after Roy.

(In interest of full disclouse, I actually wrote "John Cheney" by accident at first. Of course, I picked Temple to win March Madness back in 2000, for some fucking reason, and they lost in the second round to Seton Hall, so John Cheney's been in my nightmares ever since. I think maybe three of you have any idea what I'm talking about right now.)

(More full disclosure: The Proclaimers' I Will Walk 500 Miles is playing on my iTunes right now. Yikes!)

Kicking around the idea of going daily this week. Not sure what I've decided yet. Guess you'll have to check in tomorrow to find out.

bullfrog