Sunday, June 18, 2006
Would You Like That With A Twist?
What does my partner Dave like to laugh at? His humor is strange, sometimes stranger than mine I think.
He has carried around this little cartoon for quite a while now. It is illustrative of Dave's humor.
The cartoon is from an old Hustler Magazine. Of all things. And it has nothing to do with sex. Of all things, considering the source is my man Dave.
It shows a crowd gathered to watch a man being burned at the stake. Medieval times. It's all very matter of fact. Before the poor victim succumbs, a man in the crowd points to his potato, now baked in the embers, and says to the burnee, "Hey would you mind kicking out that potato for me?"
My sample is (probably) even worse. It shows a redone version of that classic news photo from the Viet Nam War, of the naked little girl fleeing down the road, her clothes burned off from the napalm. Only now the cartoon highlights what the Walt Disney people were trying to do circa 1990, as reported in the New York Times. If you are ready to believe this, Disney wanted to create a theme park on the east coast, consisting of nine playlands, with themes ranging from the impact of slavery on America right up to the wrenching era of the Viet Nam War. God, what goes on in the minds of these people anyway?
The cartoon is brilliantly reworked from the news photo, so that the naked fleeing girl and other villagers are now joined by Goofy, happily running along the road too.
Holy Christ, I said when I saw the cartoon. This is one of the most damning cartoons I have ever seen in my life. Although the Iraq War recently reminds me of another cartoon, maybe by the same guy, who knows.
This recent cartoon apparently aroused the wrath of the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld in particular, as it shows an amputee lying in a hospital bed, being visited by The Man From The Pentagon. He says to the soldier, "Now you're battle hardened."
People yelled and screamed about this, but in our book it's a brilliant cartoon. Can anything say more resolutely how stupid the war in Iraq has become? This cartoon nails it. Sorry to say.
Humor for Dave and I most certainly revolves around pain. That's just the way it is.
That's a twist of the knife you're getting, by the way. Did you think it was really a lemon?
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He has carried around this little cartoon for quite a while now. It is illustrative of Dave's humor.
The cartoon is from an old Hustler Magazine. Of all things. And it has nothing to do with sex. Of all things, considering the source is my man Dave.
It shows a crowd gathered to watch a man being burned at the stake. Medieval times. It's all very matter of fact. Before the poor victim succumbs, a man in the crowd points to his potato, now baked in the embers, and says to the burnee, "Hey would you mind kicking out that potato for me?"
My sample is (probably) even worse. It shows a redone version of that classic news photo from the Viet Nam War, of the naked little girl fleeing down the road, her clothes burned off from the napalm. Only now the cartoon highlights what the Walt Disney people were trying to do circa 1990, as reported in the New York Times. If you are ready to believe this, Disney wanted to create a theme park on the east coast, consisting of nine playlands, with themes ranging from the impact of slavery on America right up to the wrenching era of the Viet Nam War. God, what goes on in the minds of these people anyway?
The cartoon is brilliantly reworked from the news photo, so that the naked fleeing girl and other villagers are now joined by Goofy, happily running along the road too.
Holy Christ, I said when I saw the cartoon. This is one of the most damning cartoons I have ever seen in my life. Although the Iraq War recently reminds me of another cartoon, maybe by the same guy, who knows.
This recent cartoon apparently aroused the wrath of the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld in particular, as it shows an amputee lying in a hospital bed, being visited by The Man From The Pentagon. He says to the soldier, "Now you're battle hardened."
People yelled and screamed about this, but in our book it's a brilliant cartoon. Can anything say more resolutely how stupid the war in Iraq has become? This cartoon nails it. Sorry to say.
Humor for Dave and I most certainly revolves around pain. That's just the way it is.
That's a twist of the knife you're getting, by the way. Did you think it was really a lemon?
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From LEGIBLE - although I've forgotten my password - Of course humor and pain and anger are all connected, and the best sex absorbs all three. The problem with the left in this country is that it's afraid of anger, which is why the Repubicans continue to win, so your friend's rejection of anger is bad for all of us.
# posted by 
: 11:45 PM
: 11:45 PM
Actually Dave has plenty of anger and he's more political than me. He'll go to pro-abortion rallies, whereas I never did. But he and I are both very upset about the left in this country, who in our minds are totally lacking in humor, anger and sense. But who else can we vote for?
Me, I want Roger Federer for President. We've had actors, why not tennis players.
Me, I want Roger Federer for President. We've had actors, why not tennis players.
Anyone with a style developed over time would be better than W.
About the left's lack of humor: isn't that the same thing as fear of anger? We like you because you're a vanguard writer of something in the culture that's changing. I'm stoned and out of the country and I just finished something very cool, and I love your blog and someday we'll be friends. Legible, again.
About the left's lack of humor: isn't that the same thing as fear of anger? We like you because you're a vanguard writer of something in the culture that's changing. I'm stoned and out of the country and I just finished something very cool, and I love your blog and someday we'll be friends. Legible, again.
# posted by : 2:43 AM
: 2:43 AM
Well, I dunno about being in the vanguard as you put it, I try to avoid the front lines whenever possible, but thanks for the compliment, I think. Yes, strikes me too that those who lack humor are also those who fear anger, they are both rather strong emotions so that is not surprising I guess. Enjoy the stone-age in whatever neck of the woods you are in, Dave and I are thinking we should check out Dubai. That should nearly be surreal enough for us,
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