futurama's awesome. been watching the seasons i bought this week for $20.00 each and laughing it up. i think though i'll just buy the last season come my birthday.

the scenes stuck in my head are the robo rooter commercial(they did a play on the theme song's lyrics, which cracked me up) and conan o'brian's guest appearance as a comedian(uh oh! somebody forgot to feed max!)

oh yea, and fry going(after realizing he couldn't make out with a mermaid) "why couldn't she be the other type of the mermaid, with the fish part on the head and the woman part on the body?"

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huh wanted to say something else, but forgot; it'll come later.

(go usa bball!)

sweeeeeeeeeet...

always wanted to own some futurama seasons.

rat in "pearls before swine" is way too cool. cool, as in, he's brutally honest in what he's thinking, and communicates it perfectly in speech.

on some days, in some of my few afternoon hours which i don't job search, and i feel i don't want to make the 15 min drive into mountain view, i go to the barnes and noble at westgate and read their "pearls before swine" comic books.

panel 1:
(rat in an office, interviewing for a job, talking to employer)
employer: what is one of your goals here?
rat: i want to come in as little as possible
panel 2:
employer: is that your final goal?
rat: no, my future goal is to not come in at all
panel 3:
(rat talking to goat)
rat: i didn't get the job
(and i love the subnotes where pastis adds "i think it would be really funny if interviewers told employers what they actually felt.")

then there's another one i remember, and really like:

(rat at bar, talking to pig)
rat: i think in order to understand people more, i'm going to try to see things from the other's point of view. i think i'll start with that guy over there
rat(makes dorky looking face): oooh, to be that rat over there, and not my stupid dumb @$$ sitting over here
rat(back to acting like himself): that wasn't so hard

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which of course, begs a tough question: honest disrespect, or insincere love? is either of the two vindicated? which one is more valuable? (i would believe that honest disrespect is more valuable, since it really is what you feel; in insincere love you never deceive God, rendering your fake love/flattering/etc to whomever you give it to false; now whether the damage done by your disrespect is offset by your brutal honesty is something yet to think about)

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penny arcade strip

shows how complex current gen video games are; not that that's a bad thing.