8/27/12
All right, new plot! Running back Chip Visci’s giant mom is baking tiny cookies in her tiny oven! Yes! Check out that dowager’s hump! Check out that wonderful cauliflower arrangement on the counter next to the oven. Oooo! Look at how she lays down the law with a mighty “SWAT!” of her oddly flat spatula. This is what Gil Thorp is all about, isn’t it?
8/28/12
“I’m Anita from next door. Welcome to Beech Street! Please accept these cookies and don’t stare at the strangeness that is my neck!” Where could this be going? Is Chip Visci going to horribly burn himself trying to learn to make cookies while his Mom is abducted by the “new neighbor” and chained up in the basement, forced to bake cookies for some cult?
Put your speculations on hold for a moment everybody, we ain’t done down at Milford Country Club! That’s right, Gil still hasn’t secured any low or no-pay assistance from Steve Boone.
Next up: “Steve, why don’t you drop by the airfield and wax my Beechcraft?”
Ned: “All right, new plot!” Semperfi: “All right, new plop!”
Comment by semperfi4evr — August 28, 2012 @ 6:59 am
That “DRIVING RANGE” sign looks suspiciously like the back side of a desktop computer cicra 1992.
Comment by teenchy — August 28, 2012 @ 7:59 am
*circa 1992
Comment by teenchy — August 28, 2012 @ 8:00 am
Nothing says loving more than a serious “Swat!” from a militant spatula-wielding Mrs. Vicious. Welcome to Beech Street, indeed.
What’s with the neighbor’s protractor entryway? is that the latest in architectural design or are they playing some obtuse angle?
Seriously, Gil calls what he does “work”?
Comment by Dood — August 28, 2012 @ 9:54 am
What is with new neighbor’s right hand (p2)? Is she wearing a mitt? Holding a kid’s hand? Or just representing poor hand-drawing ability?
Here comes the SBone job offer! SBone must know Steve-O the janitor: they would have been on the team around the same time. I see lots of free coaching this year!
Comment by milfordian — August 28, 2012 @ 10:36 am
Low or no-pay assistance from Steve Boone? That’s too obvious, even for Rubin… right? Right?
Comment by billytheskink — August 28, 2012 @ 12:57 pm
I hope Chip does learn to bake. Then we can call him Chocolate Chip! HRONK!
At least Mrs. Visci didn’t give the new neighbors some Nut Boys. They’re shitty! FOOZLE! PLOOK! SWAT!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — August 28, 2012 @ 9:06 pm
4 Dood — There’s nothing wrong or particularly uncommon about the “protractor” doorstep. What’s stupid is the double doors, a serious weak spot in home security.
Comment by Dale — August 29, 2012 @ 2:16 am
All will be forgiven if Steve Boone takes over the youth program at the country club for the summers so Gil never has to work there again. I know it doesn’t make any narrative sense, seeing as how Steve can’t play golf hiimself and probably can’t teach anyone, but narrative consistency didn’t stop Elmer Vargas from becoming a non-bilingual translator. Again, Rubin: All will be forgiven.
Comment by Drew Funk — August 29, 2012 @ 6:26 am
Peanut allergy storyline, for the win.
Comment by Benjamin — August 29, 2012 @ 6:57 am
maybe gil will hire steve to lead the wave at all home games and be captain of the high five team the mudlarks new sport team
Comment by mr12ozcan — August 29, 2012 @ 5:08 pm