CSotD: Local Man writes short, late blog
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If you thought 2016 was unpleasant for you, be glad you're not a parishioner of First Baptist Church, because they've just gone from a church that serves the homeless to a homeless church.
This was the view from my front yard at about 1:30 last night, and as I write this, I'm parked outside the library which isn't open yet but has 24-hour WiFi.
Our street is without power and likely to remain that way for awhile, at least until they pull down the parts of the church that could fall across a wire.
The good news — because there is always good news — is that, when I walked out to the end of the driveway at 5 am to see if I could get out yet, I was captured by a Boston TV station news crew and asked to do a brief on-the-scene interview.
I'd be a little surprised if my comments made the final cut, but the chance to be Local Man was thrilling, indeed.
Though some electricity would be even more thrilling.
And speaking of end-of-year losses
Having done my best to turn everyone on to the excellent work of the King Features Archivist, I now get to inform you that he has posted his last blog entry.
No explanation, but I would assume he'd still be blogging if he were still working there, and what a wealth of knowledge goes out the door with him.
Sigh. I wish I thought there would be some magic change in our collective karma when the ball drops for the New Year, but that's like cleaning your plate at a really bad restaurant because you're expecting that dessert will certainly have to be delicious.
On, and, by the way, 2016 is going to be one second longer.
Because they know we just can't get enough.
Meanwhile, back on the funny pages
Pros & Cons gets a rueful laugh because it's a reversal of the usual setup where his clients are more foolish than he is (admittedly no small challenge), and yet there's too much truth in the premise.
I've mentioned before the innocent defendants who accept a plea bargain because they're being threatened with an even greater conviction, defending them from which their public defender is not going to put much effort into.
But in all fairness, I also had a friend who went into court over an ex-boyfriend who was stalking her — including "If I can't have you, nobody will" notes on her car and so forth — and sat down with the assistant DA only to have him open the file and say, "So, let's see what we have here."
Which explained why none of her witnesses had been contacted prior to the trial and also explained why her ex walked out of court a free man.
A little competitive instinct can be a good thing, and this comic is funny because it's not at all funny.
Another separate, but equally important, group, the police
Dick Tracy is featuring another vintage cameo at the moment, and the middle panel today earns a second rueful laugh, this one more based on art than life.
I just watched "Shampoo" to see Carrie Fisher's first role and it's one of Warren Beatty's good films, like "Heaven Can Wait," but, boy, does that guy blow hot and cold and not much in between. "Dick Tracy" was perhaps not his finest cinematic effort, and the best that can be said about it is that it gave Staton and Curtis a good gag today.
Though I shouldn't judge the film, after all, since I've never been able to sit through it.
I'm sure parts of it were excellent.
Front Page News
Lee Judge offers this front page, to which I can only respond with this front page, to remind him of how hard it is to be more ridiculous than the truth.
Okay, I may have tweaked that headline a little.
An equally elevating quarrel
On a related note, over at Existential Comics, Marx and Bakunin argue over the failure of the Paris Commune.
Yes, it does feel like old times!
Go read the rest. I'm gonna go back to bed, right after …
Your moment of zen
Maybe a better way to look at it all.
Especially in current context.
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