PC & Pixel not only picks up on a couple of pet peeves of mine — crappy, unnecessary Hollywood remakes and phony “archival” film — but reawakens some paranoia, in turn reminding me of the old graffito, “Even paranoids have some enemies.”Or, put another way, it reminds me of something I wrote nearly 20 years […]
Yesterday, I was able to create a balance between fair use and coherence, but today that won’t work.Using part of Molly Brooks’ examination of sports, theater, fiction, reality and suchlike doesn’t begin to explain it, but using the whole thing stretches the definition of “fair use” beyond my comfort zone.This is Page Two of Seven […]
Boy, a rough day for granolas on the funny pages! Several cartoonists decided this was the day to take a shot:Let’s start in the snacks aisle with Glenn McCoy and the Duplex: Back when my new wife and I were ovo-lacto veggies, the idea of “organic Twinkies” would have been absurd. The only health food […]
I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]
It’s not uncommon for a comic strip to reveal its lead time by riffing on a specific event.But the only conclusion to be drawn from today’s comics page is that somebody left a huge tank of silly uncorked a few weeks ago and cartoonists inhaled the fumes in large numbers. Most of these don’t inspire […]
Reality Check, with a reminder of those left behind. Sigh. Poor Jeeves indeed.I never asked Jeeves much of anything because poorly constructed inquiries tend to send you off into the hinterlands, and it seemed to me that purposely making inquiries in “plain language” was an invitation to start in those hinterlands and then spiral your way […]
Dave Whamond’s “Reality Check” cracked me up today, and the bit of dialogue at the bottom is more of an enhancement than is usual for marginalia.And, once you know who they are, it gets funnier: A roomful of workaholics with their Smartphones out is as funny as an AA meeting with everyone clutching a glass […]