I can counter-quote Mr. Boffo: You coulda had class. You coulda been a political commentator. You coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what you are, let’s face it.Being a grown up ruins everything.Juxtaposition of the Day(The Argyle Sweater – AMS)(Too Much Coffee Man – AMS)F’rinstance, I’ll admit to suffering from Holden Caulfield […]
I’m pretty much aligned with the grandfather in Barney & Clyde (WPWG) these days.It’s getting good in that we’ve nearly passed the “Oh, god, what’s he done this time?” factor, though CPAC provided a warning that we shouldn’t turn our backs entirely.But I don’t feel I have to tend the news constantly anymore. I watched […]
John Deering gets the Fortuitous Timing of the Month Award for dropping this Strange Brew from a distance of several weeks and having it land just as Rush Limbaugh was holding up the Donner Party as a model for how we all have to deal with Covid-19.To which I would add that, when you’re getting […]
Stuart Carlson prompts the question, “Is anybody still watching this crap?”If they hadn’t given Trump so much free airtime for his nonsensical statements and outrageous stunts in 2016, he’d have lost the election (and maybe never been nominated).Now they’re giving him an hour or two of free campaigning every night. Somebody call the FEC.When the […]
This Phil Hands piece is a good opener on a day when a power failure has delayed the process. It had nothing to do with weather but the lack of power is lack of heat in the house, which puts me in the mood.The police in Hands’ home base of Madison are, I suppose, right […]
Sunday’s Barney & Clyde reminded me that one of the pleasures of going to Manitou Springs back when I lived out West was a stunt painter who was camped out on a corner.Manitou Springs was a fun place, even if you didn’t want to climb Pikes Peak, which starts there, or take in the waters, […]
Before we get into politics, let’s get into Sherman’s Lagoon, because this new story arc looks like fun, and, besides, separation of popular TV from national politics is pretty unclear anyway.I’ll confess that much of what I know about current TV shows is also pretty unclear, because it’s based on the promos they run during […]
Let’s dismiss the politics first, so we can talk about the Sunday Funnies instead.Rob Rogers charges that a lot of “It’s over, let’s move on” messages are coming from the Russian troll factories, and you’d have to be pretty foolish to disagree. We know they’re already working on the 2020 elections.But there are plenty of […]
A very basic premise of humor is that it must contain truth. Even a premise as shopworn as the desert island, the psychiatrist’s couch, or, as in this Speed Bump, the mountain-climbing wisdom seeker, can be funny if there is a twist that makes you say, “Yes.”First you see the absurd setup, then you read […]
Interesting find. Jack Kirby appeared briefly as a police sketch artist on the 1970’s Incredible Hulk series.