Comic posted Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2004

Posted: 9:05 am, Wednesday, October 6, 2004

In case you've missed it, I'm going daily this week. There was a strip yesterday.

The first six panels of this strip are almost exactly what happened the first time Tree and I went to New Green Bo. We with were Jan, Lauren and Carrie and had to sit with other people at the table, which made Tree slightly uncomfortable. Also, the food we received in no way resembled the order we placed. Although we did receive about eight times as much food as we could've possibly needed. The New Green Bo is highly recommened to you NYCers needing a place to dine in Chinatown. In fact, it's in the recommends section. Oh, t-shirt watch: Pete is sporting a generic Notre Dame zip-up hoodie, and Ron is wearing the BUllSHit t-shirt that Crownover gave me for my birthday. White ink on American Apparel cotton.

iTunes brought up Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place just now, which sparked off a massive bout of nostalgia in me. I was still living at home in 2000 when Kid A came out, and, having nothing at all to do, I went down to the record shop to pick it up while the Braves and Cards opened the playoffs season, so I could listen to something on the radio. It was the Rick Ankiel game, where poor Ankiel fell completely apart and kept throwing balls to the backstop. What with it being the beginning of playoff baseball yet again, this inspired me to listen to Kid A all the way through for the first time in quite a while. What a wonderful, strange album that one is. I think I prefer The Bends-era Radiohead, but Kid A is a great album.

On to baseball! I see entirely too much stuff picking the Red Sox to win. I hate this. Jayson Stark, who is sane, picks them to win. Bill Simmons, who is not, picks them to at least beat the Angels. This guy, who is likely not sane, picks them to win the whole schmear. Sports Illustrated's site picks them against the Angels. God, people, stop! Just ignore the Red Sox! Ignore them, they're no good. Bad team. Bad chemistry. Seriously. Please.

On the other end of the baseball spectrum, here is a very long, very excellent article on the Curse of the Bambino. About everything written here is completely new to me, and I hope that jackass McCarver mentions it during Fox broadcasts during the playoffs. Evidently, the Curse of the Bambino can be traced in part to the fact that Henry Ford was an anti-Semitic asshole. Who knew?

Watched some of the vice presidential debate last night - not much going on there. Cheney talked down to Edwards, Edwards drawled, I got bored and switched over to the baseball game.

In other news, Deer Hunter 2005 has five new species of deer! What?

Do you know your collitch mascots? Most of these are pretty obscure. E and I both got eights on this. Embarrassingly, I biffed on John Jay's mascot - I've been to John Jay. Geez.

Entertainment news: My favorite toy-line of all-time, He-Man, is getting another live movie. The first one ruled, I don't understand the need to do another. And I swear this is not related, but good news! The upcoming Alexander the Great movie is not "too gay." (That link may be dated by the time this goes up, sorry - if it is, this one is almost as good.)

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