When Tuesday its so slow? Tdrew has to follow this up WithMoon on the radio. Standing over hijabs laughing Hiding behind a castle wall. Slippin and sliding All along the wrestling mat with you My Habibty You my wrestling girl.
PROGRAM ALERT!!! I will be in Arizona next week playing golf, so need someone to analyze this dreck in my stead, both Monday and Friday. Thanks again for your help. We now resume regular programming.
Lets see – yesterday we had a convo at the outdoor cafeteria in February about Rodney (yes it was Rodney) smacking the coach that was not gonna let Tobias play, (Stapleton) because he used to be a girl. Too bad we couldnt see what happened in real time, instead we get a black and white flashback. Hope Stapleton and Gonads went to the same doctor for repairs. Not that I care or anything, but we’ve now had 2 coaches getting beat up by players, in less then a month. Next thing you know, the coaches will be wearing suits of armor to the games.
Anyhoo– today its back to Gils house, where he’s serving dinner to the kids before Mimi comes to pick them up for the weekend. Why does Gil have to comment on their eating? Isnt he eating himself and not worrying about their culinary habits? I dont hold a spatula while Im sitting at the table. And why cant the kids sit on opposite ends of the table and not smack dab next to each other? Only 3 of em, spread out a bit you dopes.
And cant Gil feed em before the doorbell rings so they dont have to wolf down their food? And what if it isnt Mimi? Hey, the IRS might be making an early house call, as it IS tax season. How many dependents do you have, Mister Thorp?
Last post of 2023 and its finishing like a car thats backfiring . Lots of bad smells. We have a house party in P1 with some people heading to a house party; hope theyre looking both ways before crossing the street. The house is dissappointed that Tobias isnt coming.
He’s talking on a phone that has some funny characters on it. Pretty weird if you ask me. But he’s spending the new year with Gil. Jami is at the house, and she recently broke up with Pedro. So she’s scouting some fresh meat. Thats about it.
We need to tie up some knots next year but for now its time to party and raise a toast to the blog, the strip, and everyone who helps make it happen.
Guess no one told the kids that Mimi and Gil are separated. Nice of Gil to do the honors. He even drinks coffee with dinner. Good way to stay awake at night. The silverware is still on top of the napkin. Usually after commencing the meal its moved onto the plate. And Gil is way too permissive allowing Peanut to use her phone at the table. That should be a no-no regardless. You may accidentally put your phone in your mouth instead of the bread.
So Mimi has a NEW place? As opposed to just a ‘new’ place? Cant wait to see the digs. How can you top Kaz’s castle? Maybe its overlooking the 15th fairway.
Well this might explain why Marty was calling both the Milford game and the Valley Tech game this past week. With VT’s switch to the same uniform colors as Milford, a less than sober Marty might have thought he was stumbling back into the Mudlark crate when instead he stumbled into the Tech one. Someone in the booth reminded him that it was a different game and he just picked up and ran with it like no one was the wiser.
Different night? Could be. Coach Kim told Marty his PIO(! Big budget increase there, Kim?) would send him a press release in the morning. Different stadium? That too. VT canonically has its own field. Bilocation? Marty’s never been a candidate for sainthood. Chalk this up as another byproduct of Barajas moving the VT campus to Milford, a move that’s yet to be adequately explained.
Now to connect the dots and figure out why Pedro Martinez called Marty a lying drunk. Some exposition is surely in order but first, time to find out whether Marty has fallen off the wagon, thought about falling off the wagon, or behaved in a way that someone thought he’d fallen off the wagon. How widespread in the Valley is the knowledge that Marty’s been on the wagon? More dots to connect.
The reference, which I’ve admittedly recycled, is from the golden age of The Simpsons.
Second time in a week Whigham has run with a duplicate P2 and P3, but this time only the word balloons change (as opposed to the torque wrench and hoagie*). A bit more meaningful than the exchange of tools
Honestly though, Gil possesses Rex Morgan levels of cluelessness when it comes to sexual vibes. Bethany the barkeep has been dropping them on the regular since the beginning of the Barajas Era. Despite our references to the Mile High Club, I’m not entirely sure that Gil’s flight instructor Hillary has the hots for him. Hil’s on a first-name basis with the entire Thorp clan. But the whole acceleration of Ericka’s** macking moves on Mimi have slipped right past him like a backdoor slider (and yes, that’s a double entendre).
Gil has no clue about what went on in Scottsdale.*** He missed the women in prison innuendo while he was off, uh, coaching in prison. Maybe he can be forgiven for that. He might’ve missed the brazen display of grab-ass on the green yesterday had Cami not brought it to his attention. But for him to jump directly to the “in love” conclusion says more about how his mind works than the actual dynamics at play here.
As for Mimi, she can paraphrase Albert Collins and just reply, “I ain’t in love. I’m just lovin’.”
*The Torque Wrench and Hoagie sounds like a good name for an English pub.
**I had a darn near perfect song parody in the works but then I realized that its basis is a WWII-era marching song, and not one for the good guys. We drop Hogan’s Heroes references in TWIM periodically (and yhs has been known to drop the occasional phrase auf deutsch) but I’m not sure we’re ready for actual Wehrmacht marches. You can listen to it in the hyperlink immediately previous and let me know your thoughts. Last thing I’d ever want to do is get this blog associated with some very fine people, IYKWIMAITYD.
***For that matter, neither do we. There’s an enormous gap between Ericka playing footsie in Arizona and her pretty much inserting herself into the Thorps’ everyday life. Barajas has got some ‘splainin’ to do.
meta: I didn’t check in from vaca this summer like I did the last, but last summer’s vaca memories have hit me hard this week. My last Hawaii post came from Maui and the climb up Haleakalā and for the Maui leg of the trip, I had rented a bungalow in Old Town Lahaina. Fast forward a year and a lot of what was in my photos is on fire and the bungalow, along with almost all of Old Town Lahaina, is in ashes.
I grew up in an area where tourism made up a large part of the local economy and where natural disasters occur often enough that there’s been significant rebuilding every decade or two. Never in my lifetime has that area been completely burned down to the ground, however. My heart goes out to Lahaina and West Maui, and I’m trying to figure out how best to contribute to the efforts.
Hey Rob, it’s early Saturday afternoon and I’ve got some chores to do, so if you don’t mind I’m gonna knock out a twofer in the interest of advancing the plot. Thanks for understanding.
July 28, 2023
Glad I didn’t have to comment on Thursday’s strip, ’cause I’m not going to do a deep dive on how restitution works. Suffice it to say that in most cases, the defendant is ordered to pay the money value of the benefit received to the person who conferred the benefit on them. Here, Rod and Tobe would be paying back all those kids for the price of the vapes they sold them. Would they have to pay back any of their customers who were not minors? How about the Milford High Athletic Department? It was the beneficiary of unjust enrichment, and liability for an unjust enrichment arises irrespective of wrongdoing on the part of the recipient. Cough it up, Gil.
Nothing else remarkable about Friday’s strip except the fact that it’s taking place during an intrasquad game inside a juvenile detention center that’s being televised outside the walls of the place. Not even the notion of a quarterback catching his own pass, since it’s happened on multiple occasions – with the help of others, of course.
July 29, 2023
This is the action we’ve been waiting for!
P1: I’ve had many different kinds of wine in my lifetime but never s’more wine. Those cacao beans, graham crackers and marshmallows have to be harvested at the perfect peak of ripeness, I betcha. Sounds like something they’d offer alongside wine slushies at those vineyards in non-traditional wine-growing regions. Speaking of non-traditional…
P2: “…We’re not married, so we’re not violating any polygamy laws!” Look at Emily’s hand, wristwatch and face here. Don’t like look like they were originally drawn as Gil’s?
P3: “We don’t have to imagine. I’ve got copies of Caged Heat and Chained Heat on DVD. Why don’t we turn off this football foolishness and watch some real action?” (WARNING: 2ND TRAILER NSFW)
So 11 days after Rodney Barnes is injured in the basketball game, they’re JUST NOW GOING TO SEE HIM. And boy what a turnout- Gil and Toby. You’d figure the whole team would come at once, instead of 1 coach and 1 player. Oh, perhaps the others came by one by one, whatever. Usually in a hospital there is a limit as to number of guests in a room at one time.
But Ive never seen someone bring a 6-pack of root beer (or anything else) into the damn room! Maybe a bag of something, gifts of course, balloons, flowers, …but not something that may be prohibited in the patients diet. How does Toby know Rod can have a soft drink in the state he’s in? Let alone 6?? And how the hell is he gonna open the stuff without a bottle opener? And its glass for chrissake. I dont go to hospitals a ton, but I DO seriously doubt that glass is not strictly prohibited. Even in a tank town like Milford.
And why is Rodney in the Milford hospital anyway? Didnt he get injured in Jefferson City? Thats where they played. How far is Jefferson from Milford? God damn it, this kid had a medical emergency and they drove him all the way back to Milford anyway? First hospital on the way is where he should be/ Again Barajas gets a big fat F for continuity. He surely forgot where the game this all started was played. But I didnt. And when you take 12 days to decide the game, hey, no wonder memories can fade. And all that extra mileage by the EMTs couldve cost ol Rod the vital medical care he may have needed.
And that root beer wouldnt taste too good at a funeral.
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