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Metapost: “No comment” of the week!

Q: “Uncle Lumpy, you say you don’t pick the “Comment of the week” because it’s Josh’s prerogative, but isn’t the real reason that you’re just too damn lazy?”
A: “No comment.”

I have sweet metaposty goodness for you nonetheless! Faithful readers who remember last year’s Gail Martin lunacy cascade (with concert t-shirt and fan wiki) will be pleased to hear that faithful reader Scott’s Kalamazoo, MI-based band, New Real People, has recorded the definitive version of Tarzana Nights for the twenty-first century. While my own musical tastes run toward Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, the cover art alone is nine kinds of awesome:

Y’all can sample and download the song here.

And in other news: I run fundraisers for The Comics Curmudgeon twice a year when I sub for Josh — not this time, though. But if you feel moved to buy Josh and Amber a round of Nardini Grappa Riserva to share at the terrace bar of the Hotel Baia Dei Mulini in Trapani as the last warm rays of the Mediterranean sunset catch the highlights in Amber’s hair and the music of the surf mingles with the soft laughter of young love — well, I can’t see anybody objecting, y’know? It’s that “Donate” button over at the left there. Just sayin’.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 08:49 pm and is filed under metaposts.

35 responses to “Metapost: “No comment” of the week!”

  1. Pepperoni Détournées
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm [Reply]

    I’m sure someone else will get first, but right now it says “no comments.” How appropriate!

  2. Pepperoni Détournées
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

    Or, not.

  3. Big Sims
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm [Reply]

    Congrats to ALL the ‘Mudges for making me laugh. The NCOTW float is big enough for all of us!

  4. Uncle Lumpy
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

    I’ll pass out “Participant” ribbons!

  5. Red Greenback
    June 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm [Reply]

    Mary Worth?

  6. Red Greenback
    June 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

    Dang! I didn’t not make NCOTW nor NCOTWRU not again.

  7. Poteet
    June 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

    It’s appropriate that a Kalamazoo-based band would record the definitive modern Gail Martin song, because some years ago, Gil Thorpe got a coaching offer from Kalamazoo College. As a former student at that institution, I was really hoping Gil would decline, and he did. That was the only time I actually cared about what happened in GT — a weird feeling.

  8. Otro Dave
    June 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

    Apologies if this has already been posted by 203 readers before me, but did anyone see this Kate Beaton foob comic? http://www.katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome_files/fbofw.jpg

  9. Spotted HØrse, Jungle Steed
    June 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

    Congratulations to all us NCOTWs! Oops, sorry, Red! And thanks to Uncle Lumpy, for keeping his firm but fair hand on the tiller.

    FOOB: Wow, John’s really rockin’ that Prostate Massage chair. What will Sharper Image think of next?

    Lio: Chock full of win for a solid week, me droogs.

  10. Red Greenback
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

    Hi Lump, you’re doing a heckuva splendid job filling in for the Big Guy. One thing: “You’re can sample and download the song”? No big deal, but I think you may have meant “Y’all can sample and download the song”

  11. doug rogers
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

    Picture of Chester Gould

    http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2008/06/heretofore-unmentioned-16.html

  12. unclelumpy
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm [Reply]

    #10 Red –

    Yikes! Thanks! Fixed!

  13. Alfred E. Neuman
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

    #109 bats :[ (previous thread) Re: FOOB— Sunday’s FOOB was an all-time low for Lynn Johnston. That’s quite an accomplishment given all of the many previous examples of wretchedness that have emanated from her pen. It’s hard to out-gross LJ at her worst, but bats :[, you have succeeded hilariously!
    Congratulations!

  14. Oddball Cargo
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

    I cannot describe how cool it is to live in an era where someone can write REAL songs about a fake singer in a bizarre comic – this totally made my day.

  15. NJR
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

    Man, that is a really good song. Faithful reader Scott’s Kalamazoo, MI-based band, New Real People, is a very talented bunch.

  16. Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^)
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

    #8 Otro – I posted it a few days ago but it should be posted every day, because it’s freaking hilarious.

  17. Wasabi Jane
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

    I was going to complain that Tarzania Nights is obviously a cover since it’s sung by a male… but then I decided that it’s actually better to imagine that the singer *is* Gail Martin.

  18. Red Greenback
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

    “Faithful Reader Scott is the rock & roll Carole…O’conner”

  19. off-model
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

    Fred Waring? I remember those choral specials on WPSU they had in his memory. Dang, that certainly wasn’t a reference I was expecting to see.

  20. Adam G
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 pm [Reply]

    Is it just me, or is today’s Foob unspeakably foul?

  21. Muffaroo
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm [Reply]

    If I can’t win, nobody can!

    I was sure I was going to get it this time for my observation that that cat really hates Mondays and loves lasagna. Oh, well.

  22. Dean Booth of the Affect Ad Patrol
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 am [Reply]

    You get to ride the float! And you get to ride the float! And you get to ride the float! And you get to ride the float! …
    [/oprah]

  23. Poteet
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 am [Reply]

    # 8 Otro Dave — I hadn’t seen it before, so thanks. I especially like the way Kate Beaton has combined the hideous old Anthony with the hideous new Anthony. And Kate has got the essentials of Elly’s face DOWN.

  24. gnome de blog
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 am [Reply]

    Alan Parker’s sittin’ around the office in nothing but his Judge’s robes. Wonder why he needs to see Sam (who said he’d do anything for him) face to, er, face??

  25. LTBF
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 am [Reply]

    Monday’s Foob seems to hint at a week of flashbacks since next Saturday’s strip will also be a re-run.

    So if Lynn is in such a hurry to get the wedding done by August when the strip goes into whatever mode its going into that she can’t have Liz go see her grandfather, why is she wasting time with this crap?

  26. bats :[
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:37 am [Reply]

    26. LTBF: yep, more flashbacks instead of advancing the current storyline, such as it is. I, for one, don’t need to waste LJ’s “30-second insights” on repeated shenanigans — I know in a nanosecond that Michael’s an asshole. Always has been, always will be.

  27. Dingo
    June 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 am [Reply]

    Every time you buy a Gail Martin t-shirt, I get a kitten.

  28. Pastor Z
    June 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 am [Reply]

    Actually, Fred Waring is exactly what I would expect from someone named Uncle Lumpy.

  29. spike
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am [Reply]

    MW: Jeff, how stooo…ooopid are you? [Apologies to those of you who can't abide LJ, but this situation calls for her patented "many 'O'" version of "stupid.] You had a chance to run far away, get your life together, but <b.Nooooo! You had to go and run back to that, that, that…oh, never mind. You’ll get what’s comin’ to ya!

  30. spike
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 am [Reply]

    MW: Jeff, how stooo…ooopid are you? [Apologies to those of you who can't abide LJ, but this situation calls for her patented "many 'O'" version of "stupid.] You had a chance to run far away, get your life together, but Nooooo! You had to go and run back to that, that, that…oh, never mind. You’ll get what’s comin’ to ya!

  31. The Divine O'F
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm [Reply]

    I’m sure Scott’s song is great. On first reading, though, I thought you said it was a KAZOO band, which IMHO would be beyond awesome.

  32. sonorawhispers
    June 24th, 2008 at 2:48 am [Reply]

    Ya’ll…a long time lurker here…thanks for many laughs but especially the bio of Gail Martin….I haven’t laughed so hard since I was…well….younger than I am now. Really, really funny…I almost choked on my pizza!!
    Hello to my fellow Tucson ‘mudges, too.

  33. aldomaniac
    June 25th, 2008 at 10:12 am [Reply]

    I’m another long-time lurker, pulled in by the Gail Martin revival.

    The song really sounds freakishly Carol King-y, and the lyrics are a perfect reflection of the 70’s soft rock tendencies toward flashing one’s overly-earnest sensitivity while tossing in some squeam-inducing canoodling references for good measure. I can totally believe that this was Gail’s big hit back in the day.

    It’s pretty hard to pull off straight-faced full-throttle musical satire of this caliber. Impressive!

  34. Mountain Mama
    June 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

    Hello and welcome to you, sonora!! Hang out with us.

  35. dick bowser's ghost
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm [Reply]

    christ. please kill me. this blog blows goats, this band blows goats. wtf is up with this regional crap humor and regional crap “rock”? so squeemishly nerdy and forced irony.. jesus… let’s all grow up, maybe? please?

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