Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]
Back from a quick road trip, and the fact that I wrote yesterday’s post in advance means I couldn’t feature this Edison Lee Sunday piece.I particularly like the last panel, which is excellent but not in a hopeful way. “Excellent” in depicting what we’re gonna do about it, which is to accept what we’re given.Maybe […]
I haven’t quite sorted out the whole Comcast monopoly issue, but I like Jack Ohman’s take if only because it’s more specific than the several cartoons that play on cables in order to show Comcast as a snake or dragon or octopus or whatever is long and grabby and toxic.Ohman’s cartoon at least makes the […]
Matt Davies on the launch of Al Jazeera America.And he’s right, of course, in that the network is facing an almost impossible set of challenges: Getting past the Islamophobia of the past several decades, and getting past the expectations that a “good” news network is one that reinforces your prejudices, whichever end of the spectrum […]
My summer movie must-see list is filling up. I’m adding this one. Out July 3rd.
Gil and Thatababy feature a depressing coincidental theme today: Strips riffing on the conspiracy to turn our children into morons.Your kids should not be watching the brain-damaging swill that now forms a substantial portion of programming.Not just badly written, badly acted cliche comedies. They probably shouldn’t imbibe too much of those, either. But I’m talking […]
Coming Soon has posted what looks like a mobile phone pic of a Despicable Me 2 poster. It’s not very revealing but confirms a 2013 release of the sequel.