Comic for Friday, October 10, 2008

Posted: 6:40 am, Friday, October 10th

I start teaching my juniors the Crucible next week, so I reread it this week just so that I know what's going on in it. Hot damn, I hadn't read that play since collitch, and I kind of forgot how awesome it is. I mean, there's the allegory part, but even the witchcraft part is bad-ass. And the allegory - damn, it may be even more fitting now with Shitwit and Gitmo than it was with McCarthyism.

Speaking of teaching and plays, I saw my first-ever opera yesterday. Well, half of one, anyway. OK, maybe I was awake for what amounted to a quarter of the entire opera. Dr. Atomic, the opera about Oppenheimer and the A-bomb. I really, really wanted to like it. I did not. At all.

Fuck me, the McCain-Palin crowd is ugly. Props to this guy, who shot the footage, but I couldn't get the video to load on his site and wanted to make sure you all got to see it. Hopefully they're the outliers. (Of course, I know they're not, and I guess I'm putting that up partly as a bit of a cold shower to keep me from talking in the dugout about the election.)

On politics, check out this amazing Fark thread, posing the simple question "Obama = ?, Biden = ?, McCain = ?, Palin = ?". I haven't been to Fark in forever - I don't know why - but this may just get me back. Props to RAW for sending it to me.

Man, I am loving all of the Ty-related articles coming out of Seattle these days. I hope Washington keeps him one more year, just to really drive home the point that he can't coach/recruit/care.

I think I had something else to say, but as with so many other things these days, I just can't remember it.

Go Sox! Beat Rays!

Go Irish! Beat Heels!

bullfrog

2.0 -- Friday, October 10 2008, 08:16 am

Would Jen really do that?

Is Telly a reliable witness?

I am hoping from the length and direction of the top part of Ron's eyes that he is going to smack Telly down.

Happy (early) 1 yr Anniversary, Bullfrog and 2.0!

Oh, shit! Thanks for reminding me!

I believe it's actually on Sunday, if that helps you out ;-)

That means any slackers out there have just 2 more days to meet the "give the wedding present within one year" rule.

I, for one, have covered this one, but am still struggling with the Grafers.

I hope ND has some guys with speed in the secondary. Tate will burn you. The guy is incredible

Rejected Star Wars promotional items:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/03/more_rejected_star_wars_promot.php

While clearly this is a series that doesn't need any more promo than it gets, the Jabba the Hutt beanbag chair is pretty awesome.

I hate Star Wars, but that beanbag chair is sweet.

By the way last I heard, Notre Dame is an 8½ point favorite over North Carolina.

My nephews, while only being 2 and a half and 4 and a half, are completely and totally addicted to Star Wars (both old and new ones). They own, like, 9 light sabers between the two of them. All they want to do is play lightsabers with Aunt Katie. This gets old after awhile. (Please let Baby #3, due in a month, be a girl.) The youngest one now divides everyone he encounters in life into 'good guy' and 'bad guy'. Like, they'll be watching two people play tennis at the park and he'll point to one and say "Bad guy?" And my sister will be like, "No, he's not a bad guy." So my nephew will be like, "Oh, Good Guy". For Halloween, the older one is going as Darth Vader and the younger as Anakin, so... I guess they're going as the same person.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728326 Isn't this up in Bullfrog country?

and lay the 8.5 on UNC. easy money.

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