Today’s ‘Hey, Ghost’ skews autobiographical. Only 14 strips left to go. Maybe ever.
No one has a more pervasive and familiar brand than Garfield—he loves lasagna, hates Monday, and kicks Odie. He has infinite resources at his disposal to push this message and plaster his face onto everything in sight. But—this is part of the problem. The usually-sassy Garfield also pops up in posters and merchandise alongside slogans speaking out against littering and bullying, and in support of causes like studying and being a good friend—hardly in step with the Garfield brand.
When you flip open your daily funny pages tomorrow—which Garfield will you be reading?
I’ve seen this floating around and it infuriates me, but not for the most obvious reason.
From Snopes.com: The quote reproduced above is not something actually uttered by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum; it’s an excerpt from a fictitious article published on 15 February 2012 by the satirical web site Free Wood Post, whose slogan is “News That’s Almost Reliable.” The article spoofed some of the former Pennsylvania senator’s recent comments about women serving in the military and in the work force.
5 actual things Rick Santorum has said:
• “That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.”
• “If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after other than the United States.”
• “Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s OK; contraception is OK. It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
• “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
• “People have referred to me as the Richie Cunningham candidate…But you know what? Contrasting that with what’s going on out there in the popular culture, a little bit of Richie Cunningham wouldn’t be a bad thing for our society right now.”
When you go online to vent about politics, it doesn’t help either side to perpetuate myths. Especially when photographic evidence can be so much more satisfying:
Remember, a vote against Rick Santorum is a vote for a sequel to this photo.
Whenever eBay or Amazon sellers send me follow-up e-mails asking for me to leave them a positive rating, I feel like a diabolical aristocrat throwing a crust of bread to a peasant who stole me a valuable map.
Amazing.
The Groupon Guide to: Forgotten Video Games
As more and more video games are rebooted, sequeled, and adapted into hit procedural dramas and breakfast pastries, some 8-bit classics have fallen by the wayside. What are some classic video games you forgot to remember?
• Battle Brothers (ActivoVision, 1989): In this high-octane punch ‘em up, two rad brothers (Clint and Vortex) must survive a concrete gauntlet in order to rescue the president’s stolen bike. Forgotten Fact: In Battle Brothers, both players could accidentally cause damage to each other, resulting in exciting real-life fistfights between real-life brothers.
• Swords & Squares (Dønderhuff ElectroPublishing, 1981): This brain-enhancing game of medieval strategy pits dueling royal courts against each other, and bestows players with a dot-matrix certificate at the end that assigns performance-based ranks, ranging from Knight of the Round to Horsepox Survivor. Forgotten Fact: Game is essentially chess.
• Olympics® ‘87! (Pixellius, 1986): You play as Torcho®, the Olympic Torch®, as he is passed hand-to-hand between different athletes on his globetrotting journey. Don’t tip over and set their sweat-slicked hair ablaze! Forgotten Fact: Not affiliated with the Olympics in any way, Olympics® ‘87 holds the record for video game most frequently mentioned in court transcripts.
