Monday Morning Commute: Hide Grandpa’s Medicine

August 6th, 2012 by Rendar Frankenstein

Want to know how to have a whole mess of fun?

Hide your grandpa’s medicine. Steal it from wherever he keeps it, and then put it somewhere else. Ideally, you’re goin’ to want to go at least two rooms over. After all, geriatric hips are rustier than robot dongs. And remember, you’re aimin’ to maximize your entertainment.

For example, if Grampy’s bottle of pills rests on the bathroom sink, filch that motherfucker and bring it to your kitchen. Once there, turn the bottle upside down and open it up over your dog’s dish. There’s no joy quite like that of besprinkling Alpo with Valtrex. Then, while you’re waiting for your parent’s parent to discover just how badly he’s been goofed, stand guard so as to make sure that Fido doesn’t start snackin’ away.

After all, the dog didn’t do anything.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning Commute! I’m going to show you some of the ways I’ll be keeping myself entertained during the hellish stretch known as the workweek. Then, you hit up the comments section and describe the weapons you’ll be wielding against the 40-Houred Beast of Burden. Yes, this is essentially electronic show-and-tell.

And no, you may not be excused to go to the nurse. Everyone must participate.

C’mon, let’s do this!

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Digestin’/Lucky Animals (DTP)

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Worshippin’/Jeff Lemire


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Impressed By/Scent of a Woman

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So that’s my week – rockin’, reppin’ creators, and bein’ impressed by performances in old movies.

What’s your week look like?

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    A) We need to take a run at Jeff Lemire for an interview. I’d ask how Underwater Welder, but even without deigning as to provide text, I assume you like it. The dude is quality.

    B) God bless DTP.

    PLAYING:
    Playing Dead Space. Also redownloaded WoW. Jedre Jones flipped me a rez scroll. The itch calls.

    LISTENING:
    That Aesop Rock show was pretty quality. Also this new Hevy Devy track you dropped.

    READING:
    IDK, man. Probably taking a run at God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400152285 Kevin Grieco

    for some reason i think god bless you mr rosewater is one of the most complete-feeling stories he wrote. its just a clever, insane little parable.

    edit- i guess i meant, “an especially clever insane little parable among a host of clever insane little parables”

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    I’ve read like 10 of homeboy hero’s books, yet never this.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    That DTP track is so different than anything I was expectin’. Diggin’ on it, though, and diggin’ the reference to SYL’s Monument.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Dude, seriously. Way different than anticipated.

  • MORS

    I would love to read a Jeff Lemire interview. I just re-read Essex county and this guy is just tops. Need to catch up on sweet tooth

  • MORS

    Reading:
    Hawkeye. Fraction and Aja have struck gold again. Aja could draw howard the duck and i’d pick it up. Also, Scalped. so excited to pick up Vol. 9. i blew past it in no time and re read 8 and 9 back to back again. I’m so tempted to pick up the last 5 single issues. This book is the book that made me a Jason Aaron fan.

    Watching:
    Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. Docs like this make me love being a geek.

    Listening:
    Kitty Pryde http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-FBc2njfKI

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Oh god, Kitty Pryde. Burn it with fire. Moderately entitled white girl with no groove riding her marketability and ruining a dope character’s name.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    But if she makes you happy, goddammit Mors, I ain’t taking that from you.

  • MORS

    tell you the truth, i never heard anything about her until last week. i heard the name kitty pryde and the track off stereogum was pretty decent. now i see all this justin beiber tumblr stuff. i’ll judge when an album comes out.

  • MORS

    hahaha respect

  • Codyssey

    Watching: The Hunter starring Willem Defoe. Just pressed play!

    Hearing: Frank Ocean, Givers and Toro y Moi

    Reading: working on Cats Cradle. Loving it. Also chomick as always. Particularly liking where Manhatten Projects is going.

    Playing: Max Payne 3. Goddamn gorgeous and glorious gunnery. Just got to he part after the favela.

  • Codyssey

    Has anyone played MP3 multiplayer yet? I am quite intrigued but don’t have Gold currently (fuck 60 bucks a year)

  • http://www.fiveanddimecomics.com/ The Dude

    I haven’t played MP3 at all, but Amazon.com typically sells a year of XBL for @$45 … right now its $49 and Buy.com is selling it for @$47

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    I wanted to hate the first song I heard from her (Okay Cupid)…but I actually thought it wasn’t bad.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    VOM.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Cody, I ain’t played it. I bought it for the single-player, and that shit more than delivered on my money’s worth. However if you end up on XBL and you’re looking for a shooting partner (or someone to laugh at for my online skillz) both my body and soul are ready.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    A) Lemire is the goods. Can’t wait to finally sit and read Welder
    B) Louie is awesome again this season. I love having a dopey grin on my face after every episode (even the mediocre ones)
    C) Olympic fever. My inner patriot is unleashed.
    D) Summoner Wars – Awesome Ipad game.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Hey. Hey! I don’t say boo about the awful, awful musical tastes of The Caffeinated One. :)

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Yeah well you consider that typically mutually extended! There’s something about her (aside from her awful music, ruining a great X-Man’s name) that grates on me. Most of what I’ve read on her (actually on the other site I write for, Mishkanyc.com/bloglin) trumps her as something other than the vapid idiot she is. I know this is done for almost all pop stars so what I’m trying to say is…..

    I have mental problems?

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    B) I haven’t seen this week’s Louie, but I feel the same way every friggin’ time.

    C) You got a fave sport? I’ve watched more of this Olympics than most of the past, though that could be because it is always on at the gym.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Nah, man. I can dig it. Like I said, I wanted to hate her, and the vibe she’s putting out. Truth be told, I’ve only heard two songs from her. But the beat for Okay Cupid is sick.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Soccer is my favorite, but I’ve watched a little bit of everything. I like watching things you never get to see, like archery, fencing, judo…
    Unfortunately with soccer, the US men’s team didn’t qualify, but the women’s team usually keep things interesting.
    And I’m like you, I haven’t watched this much Olympics in yeeears.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Run at Mr. Rosewater, dude. So good.

  • http://www.omega-level.net/ Eduardo Pluto

    Watching: halfway through season 4 of Breaking Bad. Much enjoyment is being had.

    Reading: Trying to read all the comics that I never got around to (which, I must confess, is an overwhelming amount since I am pretty new to the whole scene), mainly out of laziness and stupidity. So, been reading Saga, which is legit as hell. Read Our Love Is Real. Wonderfully insane. And I’m about to read Planetary. Also I’m currently on a big Jonathan Swift kick.lately. Dude is mind-bogglingly smart and funny. Satire at its best.

  • seth

    to all you kung fu fans, starting this week, every thursday night the brattle movie theatre in harvard sq is showing 2 kung fu movies. They will be playing stuff like enter the dragon, inron money, once upon a time in china, some shaw bros movies, one of jackie chans early movies. I,ll finally be going to see the dark knight rises and hope to see the new jason borne movie.

  • MORS

    love toro y moi. can’t wait for new album

  • MORS

    This last Louie episode was awesome. I loved the first half. I know a few people that will share that fate.

  • Codyssey

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo_rGl2QkEA

    A new jam to get funky to

  • Codyssey

    For sure. I love third person shooters… I’m planning on re-upping soon. My gamer tag is Codyss3y

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Caffeination, right hurr.

  • http://twitter.com/DavTheJew Vincent Vega

    This week…..

    Lamenting the loss of Demenoid

    Trying to get this game shipped back to Gamefly so I can get Sleeping Dogs when it releases (of course one of my dogs ate the return envelope >:(

    I def need to look into some new music.

    Just finished the Robot 13 graphic novel, pretty cool story. It’s a monster hunting robot found by a fishing boat who’s on a quest to figure out who he is and where he came from. Art is reminiscent of Mignola.

    Contemplating pledging towards the Ouya on kickstarter, I feel I should wait till it releases to see if it’s all hype or delivers on it’s promises.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Demonoid? What’s that. No idea.

    Achem.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Just started reading it today. Holy fuck its cutting, and as most great literature, eerily relevant/prescient.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Righteous. I’m Caffeination up on the XBLeezy.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Yeah, part 1 goes down as one of my favorite Louie “scenes”. Also, JB Smoove should be in EVERYTHING.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    My 6th grade teacher gave us A Modest Proposal to read in class. Most of the kids hated it. I fucking loved it. Those kids now appear on “Literally Unbelievable.”
    Let us know what you think about Planetary. I think it’s the bee’s knees.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    Man I am seriously into Kung Fu flicks, like on a Tarantino level. Gordon Liu is my hero. Shaw Bros were cool, but the best Kung Fu ever was done by Simon Yuen, or Yuen Si Tien. He is THE BEST EVER, ALL TIME NO QUESTION.

    He was responsible for the discovery, and rise to greatness of Jackie Chan (before he went all Hollywood). My favorites off the top of my head, are ‘Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow’, ‘Drunken Master’, ‘Dance with the Drunken Mantis’.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oeE9cdxBY

    Oh I forgot ‘Master with Cracked Fingers’. That was his early days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wSXwoRJE8

    Gordon Liu is my second favorite, and his role was IMMORTALIZED in “Master Killer”. That is one of the best ever too. Shaw Bros did that one. Good copies are still hard to find though. Here’s the whole flick.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    Don’t get me started on Kung Fu. I could teach a graduate level course on it.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    Just read Walking Dead all the way up to #100 late last night. Now that I’m all caught up, I feel like my brains have been bashed in by a baseball bat covered in barb wire. Shit is raw-dog, dawg.

    At this point, I feel qualified to be making critiques of the show. The comic isn’t perfect. By the time I got pretty far along in the series, I could begin to see the telegraphed formula for action. Sometimes I felt like they were taking a lot of time filling up the pages with too much interpersonal communication. But I still couldn’t put them down. Between this and ‘World War Z’, my infatuation with a zombie apocalypse has become full on LOVE AFFAIR.

    I have also even been quietly firing up Left 4 Dead 2 lately for some interactive zombie brain spatter. I am officially obsessed with the undead. I wonder if there is a rehab for that.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    Also, dude at my local comic shop loved Omni. He is showing it to his boss. If he likes it, they are going to carry it.

    Now all we have to do is repeat the process for every comic store in the country/world and Rendar will be able to buy a yacht, so we can all sail around the world chasing adventure.

  • http://www.omega-level.net/ Eduardo Pluto

    Ya, A Modest Proposal is probably the best short work of satire ever–and that’s kind of an understatement. That’s how damn good it is. As twisted as it is, it’s a completely delightful read every time I pick it up. Glad to hear you are a fan.

    And I will give a more comprehensive update on the Planetary situation when I am further in, but so far (I’m three in), I am really enjoying it. And even though it’s an extreme and fantastical example, Planetary highlights what’s so awesome and mysterious about archaeology. And that’s something I can definitely get behind.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    I haven’t been on in aaaages! Need to get back on sometime soon.

  • http://twitter.com/DavTheJew Vincent Vega

    lol yea I think i read about it somewhere……

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    I’m adding both you fools. THEgordonliu

  • seth

    the brattle will be showing snake in the eagles shadow.

  • MORS

    that was an awesome clip too. The drawn out adult learning center comment killed me. Do you listen to WTF with Marc Maron? he interviewed JB Smoove and it was as great as expected.

  • MORS

    I absolutely agree with your assessment of the Walking Dead comic. It has become formulaic but I still can’t put it down. I have become emotionally invested in some characters and one of my favorites met their fate in #100.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    Oh snap!