Big Fat Blog http://blog.bigfatwhale.com The blog of "Big Fat Whale" cartoonist Brian McFadden Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:10:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Have a Highbrow Halftime http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigfatblog/~3/DIvTpDBz244/ http://blog.bigfatwhale.com/2012/02/05/how-to-have-a-highbrow-halftime/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:10:39 +0000 Brian McFadden http://blog.bigfatwhale.com/?p=3969

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Here are a few ways to make the Super Bowl fun if it’s not usually your kind of thing, fancy-pants. Go Pats!

 


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Some fake video games. If I knew anything about modern programming, I think most of these could work as browser-based games or apps. And if you have a tin ear like me, this book could come in handy.

I have a Super Bowl comic in the works for The Strip, so be sure to check in over the weekend.


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Hey, here’s a cartoon I did for the Phoenix. Look at it, if you don’t mind my aggressively-local sense of humor.

I’m an expert at this subject, but I will only share the location of my favorite townie bars with trusted individuals. All dives in my neighborhood are under constant threat of turning into hipster bars, so their locations have to be protected.


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I hope it’s obvious that I’m as in-favor of NASA as a person can be. But Newt’s Moon-base talk was nothing but pandering to to the few space coast manufacturers, engineers, and Cape Kennedy motel managers in Florida who continue to vote Republican despite the avalanche of evidence showing that the GOP hates science and every part of government that doesn’t report to the Pentagon.

No one should get to advocate for moon-bases AND increasing the suffering of the working and middle classes. Space exploration should be a luxury for nations only after they have taken care of their poor. So what I’m saying is leave space to the Scandinavians.

Until we get our shit together, us space-nerds will have to make do with watching Orion splashdown in a giant bathtub and living vicariously through all the cool probe/robot shit that’s happening in the solar system, right now!


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Some  jokes about food, drink, and doo-doo water. A tenuous link to the news can be made with this one because of the Oklahoma state senator who wants to ban human fetuses in food, which kinda-sorta applies to my stem-cell Taco Bell gag, but I drew this before that happened. I just wanted to make a juvenile damaged sphincter joke, but some jagoff made it timely.

But yeah, don’t eat fetuses.


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