when your first coherent thought of the day, as you're turning off the alarm clock, is "Oh, god. It's only Tuesday."

That's Why People Fall In Love by Thomas Dolby
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for Lady Gaga to record a version of Radio Ga Ga
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Clear Converse All Stars

Once I've finally learned how to knit socks I think I'll need to track down a pair of these in my size. :) I mean, it would be a shame to do all that work and not have anybody able to see them, right?

Apparently my iPod is in a hedonistic mood today. It's played half the soundtrack from Hair, quite a few of the Beatles more psychedelic tracks, and most recently Alan Jackson's song "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere."

I think it's a sign.

I suspect that the book they're talking about in this strip would appeal to several medium sized boys that I know.


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Inevitable Betrayal Babydoll

The Shirt is cute, but I'm more amused that Outblush seems to have completely missed the "Firefly" reference.

On the other hand, Thinkgeek (where it originally came from), makes a big deal of the reference.

...that it's even her rubbed off on her cat!

Skaldic verse "written" by the presumptuous cat.

About a member of the band New Highway (I didn't catch his name):

"He's from so far back in the sticks that even the Episcopalians handle snakes."

Side note: I am slightly boggled that I managed to spell Episcopalian right on my first try.

Sometimes R&B lyrics can be beautiful, sexy, and subtle. Other times, not so much.

As the finest example of "hit you over the head" I've ever heard, I give you Smokey Robinson's "Let Me Be The Clock". Hear a sample of the song.

The key lyric:
Let me be the pendulum that strikes your chime
For the first time