Quote of the Day

"Why are we putting a clown nose on the turtle?" - Kirsten, just now.

Context would ruin the moment.

I DID IT!!!

Clocked in: 0555
Clocked out: 1445
(half hour lunch)

I WORKED AN EIGHT HOUR DAY!!! (for sufficiently large values of eight.)

Having copious spare time, and escaping the warehouse while Highway 87 was still passable allowed me to get down to AAA so I could add Darby to our insurance, make it over to Safeway to grab various food things (the makings for tacos, work Cokes, Gatorade Rain for Kiri, deviled ham..) and still make it home at a time equal to my leave point from work a week or two ago.

Now I'm planning on a very early evening, as I haven't slept well for the last couple of nights. The Giants will just have to win without me watching.

Why I don't read comics anymore.

Well, there are many reasons, but here's a big one. Taken from the group scans_daily, it shows an actual, published panel from Mighty Avengers #11.

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5339287.html

Yes, that is how this Bendis character wrote dialog for Dr. Doom. Snoop Dogg meets a malfunctioning spell-checker. "Fat piece of furniture"? WTF, over?

Over in his amazingly cool blog, John Byrne, comics God, replies by doing the exact same scene in his own hand and style.

Which do you think better captures the masterful menace and power of Dr. Victor von Doom?

... I got nothing.

Inflatable pig lost after Roger Waters' Coachella set

INDIO, Calif. (AP) -- Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, features the word "Obama" and it has lost its way in the California desert.

Organizers for the Coachella music festival announced that the gigantic blowup swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday, was still out there — and they want it back.

The festival is offering a $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life for the safe return of the pig, according to spokeswoman Marcee Rondan.

As tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, the pig was led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of Pink Floyd's "Pigs" from the 1977 album "Animals." Then it just floated away.

"It wasn't really supposed to happen that way. I don't have the details," Rondan told The Associated Press.

As for safety concerns, Rondan speculated, "Because it's inflatable, as it loses air it becomes less and less dangerous."

She did not know how much it weighed.

As of Tuesday, Rondan said, the festival had not been able to contact Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder and songwriting mastermind behind albums such as "Animals" and "The Dark Side of the Moon."

The pig displays the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two bloody cleavers. The other side reads "Fear builds walls" and the underside reads "Obama" with a checked ballot box for U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Waters, who told the crowd "that's my pig" as it drifted off into the night, closed out the three-day festival.

No comment is possible. We have a flying pig on the loose in SoCal.. the Giants are going to win the Series!

Yeah, time for bed.

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