2008 Presidential Candidates and the 2008 Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture They Most Closely Resemble

Comics Recommendation: Ryan Pequin is doing an interesting project where he does a diary comic for every hour that he's awake during the month of January. The comics capture the mundaneness of day-to-day existence, while still being funny and occasionally poignant in a very low-key way. It's reminiscent of Jeffery Brown, except he doesn't try to impress you with how hip and sensitive he is. I think it fulfills Chris Ware's criteria for art: "a clear, honest communication of what it feels like to be alive to people who haven't been born yet." LINK

hey guy.... notice anything diffrent about me

uhhh

ya thats rite.....i grew a strike solidarity beard

surely this will stem the tide of the writers strike

or whatev

i dont think thats how this works

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dog i thought you was dead

yeah well obviously i aint now am i

you better have a good explanation for this

well uh

the writers forgot to write one before they went on strike

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HEART OF GOLD

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED:

GIBSON: But Governor [Mitt] Romney's system has mandates in Massachusetts, although you backed away from mandates on a national basis. ROMNEY: No, no, I like mandates. The mandates work. [FRED] THOMPSON: I beg your pardon? I didn't know you were going to admit that. You like mandates. ROMNEY: Let me -- let me -- oh, absolutely. Let me tell you what kind of mandates I like, Fred, which is this. If it weren't... THOMPSON: The ones you come up with. (LAUGHTER)

At that point, Mitt Romney busted out the "yo mama" jokes.

Conan O'Brien's first show back consisted of him wasting time by spinning his wedding ring, singing Sabotage in the voice of Edith Bunker, and then spinning his ring a second time while Bob Saget watches. The highlight of his second show was him going into the catwalk. That guy can do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned.

WHO WILL WIN IOWA?

I'm betting China, but not for a hundred years.