Bachelor Eve

Your Sis spent all of her awake time after work preparing for her work trip. One of the things we came up with for her classroom was a assigned paper where students write about historic events mentioned in their favorite songs. It's a gimme grade. Using block quotes on the lyrics stretches out the paper length and they can write about something they like. Instead, they've leaped beyond our convenience and decided to mail it in by writing about the Star-Spangled Banner and folk songs from the 1800s. We were thinking REM or Rage Against the Machine or Alan Jackson or Outkast or "American Pie." We even cited such examples. But they've taken the least fun route, and now we'll all have to slog through shanties and hymns. They're morons.

She left this morning and returns late Wednesday. She's also away this weekend. So I could spend my private time on the comic, but with my far-off deadline, It think I'll do very little productive work and slob it out. I even have a poker game scheduled on Saturday with Big Mama from the play.

Remember how the Valentine's ring was supposed to be in yesterday? Apparently the store didn't. Monkeyfuckers.

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In the News
Cheney's trip abroad is not going well. Air Force 2 left Australia with some mechanical concern, and he survived what's being called a suicide-bomber attempt on his life. His trip's schedule include a surprise visit to Pakistan, and rumor has it that he's staying out of the country because the Libby trial jury is probably going to find against his former chief of staff. The jury lost a member yesterday after some alleged media exposure to the case, and it may have have been a former writer for the Washington Post.

Days of Wine and Moses

The school varsity basketball coach has a vineyard in his backyard (which I guess should be pronounced backyerd) and recently opened up a wine and beer store in Hendersonville. Nice guy. Great wife. A fun couple. Your Sis and I picked up Sean, the school art teacher, and went to this week's beer tasting at the shop. We've ordered from them before, and last night we walked away with a mixed six-pack and some wine. Sean is a little behind us in getting into wine, and the coach helped us out with suggestions. One was a Spanish wine made to go with sushi. We of course bought that and bragged on you about the It's A Wonderful Sushi night. The three of us then buzzed over to Outback for a leisurely dinner topped off by a hearty conversation on religion. We talked about our experience with her church over the marriage, and why that nudged us out the door, and we all shared idea on how it's other people, not God, that hinder organized religion.

Of course, much school stuff was talked about too. Sean is considering having me talk to some students who want to pursue cartooning and comics. Another teacher told Your Sister that she used to collect my covers when I worked for the Greenville paper, and that could lead to another conversation with students. I told Your Sister to direct her to my website for examples of art.

Moving Picture of the Day
Jerry Seinfeld's CGI bee comedy looks decent, unlike the ones with penguins or rats or cows. Then again, the trailer could be funnier than the film. Watch closely to see Eddie Izzard.