Tagged as: robert day

For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…

I’d been at the paper — not the above paper, mind you — for about four months when the markets crashed in 1987 and I had to suddenly learn about stocks and bonds and such. Fortunately, I’d just spent three or four years writing about residential real estate and commercial development, so it was more […]

Retail this week brings back a funny-now-that-its-over memory. Marla was delighted to lose her annoying assistant manager but is now going through the old resumes that people had sent in before corporate forced her to sign him.I was on the end of a “remember when you applied here?” phone call when I was still trying, and […]

Notice to Political Cartoonists: A few of you have not yet posted your “Flint Michigan Jim Crow-era Dual Water Fountain” cartoons. Please draw them immediately. Thanks to all who cooperated and got their versions of the metaphor in on time.  The Quixote Syndrome reminds us that tonight is Robbie Burns Night which, if you are not familiar […]

O Jenny, dinna toss your head, An’ set your beauties a’ abread! You little ken what cursed speed The blastie’s makin! Thae winks an’ finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin’!O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ […]