Comic posted Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004

Posted: xxxx am, Wednesday, October 20, 2004

McSweeney's has a few cool things going on. First, they're sharing new Halloween stories every day 'til Halloween. Second, they give the swing-state voters some love. As if it's not enough that you swingers get to actually meaningfully affect the presidential race (vote, anyway, motherfuckers), but if you're a first-time voter, you can get a call from one of your favorite McSweeney's authors. Eggers and Chabon are on the list. No Hornby, probably because he's British and that would count as a foreign power interfering with our elections (as opposed to the domestic ones that will be fucking with it, anyway). I would try and confuse Eggers into calling 2.0, except that she was actually confronted with the man back in March, and froze like a deer in headlights. It was amazing to watch. I don't think I've ever seen her dumbstruck before, but she had nothing to say to her favorite author, whom we had discussed lengthily the night we first kind of got together. Good times, good times.

Why are pitchers so stupid? Taking a page from the biography of Kevin Brown, Julian Tavarez broke his hand the other night "trying to trash the bench". I don't know the lamest part of this story.

Reverend Rick and Zonker had a conversation on Sunday that 2.0 and I have quite often. To no one's surprise, I play the role of Zonker, right up 'til the last panel.

I evidently didn't post the link to the Texas Iconoclast's endorsement of Kerry from last week, but here's a follow-up to it. Amazingly, a Texas paper endorsing Kerry has now been threatened with commerical and physical retribution. I am shocked - shocked! - that this could happen in a free-thinking society such as Texas. I don't know the average editorial content of the paper, but, um, it's called the Iconoclast. Shouldn't people expect stuff like this?

Speaking of Kerry endorsements, he got High Times' nod of approval.

That Jon Stewart thing is really getting legs. Can we just vote for him in a few weeks?

Granted this is from a paper in which pie graphs outnumber by-lines 3 to 1, but it's heartening all the same. The good guys are registering more new voters than the Republicans, except in fucking Florida, which is the Isengard to Texas's Mordor. Speaking of the end of the Third Age of Man, read the last sentence of this article. God.

2.0 and I had a bottle of this wine last week - it was pretty tasty, but the graphic on the label is the kicker. Looks better in real life than on this website.

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