Lizz Winstead, stand-up comedian, satirist, creator of "The Daily Show," and friend to dogs and Drinking Liberally alike is burning a path through Portland this weekend (times and ticket prices at the links):
Friday 6/3: Appearing on Live Wire Radio.
Saturday 6/4: Returning to the Alberta Rose Theater for another one-woman show: "My State of the Union: 2011." (Her email this morning: "It's almost an entirely new show also because it a new and even more f***ed up world! Yay!" Can't beat that.)
(It's not confirmed yet this time around, but after her last PDX performance, DL'ers who attended the show got to chat with Lizz over a beer, after the show. Something to keep in mind!)
Sunday 6/5: Leading her workshop for satirical writers -- learn about writing on deadline and see your work performed! -- From The Page To The Stage In 8 Hours.
Do. Not. Miss.
Memorial Day repost: Ribbons
Monday, May 30, 2011
(Original post: 5/31/10)
After last winter's visit with the family back at the farm (what I sometimes like to call "Walton's Mountain without the mountain"), I came home with four of my dad's WWII Army service ribbons. (No idea where the medals are, though they may have been donated with the rest of his dress uniform to the Indiana War Memorial museum).
The first three ribbons connect with well-known family history regarding his service years:
After last winter's visit with the family back at the farm (what I sometimes like to call "Walton's Mountain without the mountain"), I came home with four of my dad's WWII Army service ribbons. (No idea where the medals are, though they may have been donated with the rest of his dress uniform to the Indiana War Memorial museum).
The first three ribbons connect with well-known family history regarding his service years:
Regarding the fourth, we only have the Army's word:
Sunday morning toons: Buy the mattress, and p3 will throw in the box springs, free!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Some week: The world didn’t come to an end, but Oprah's show did. Newt jumped in while Joplin dug out. The former California governor got busted, but California convicts got sprung. Everyone hates the GOP budget plan (including the GOP), but . . . well, no, that's pretty much it: Everyone hates the GOP budget plan.
And as Joel ("The Soup" and "Community") McHale tweeted yesterday:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Bob Englehart, Dave Fitzsimmons, Jimmy Margulies, Jerry Holbert, Henry Payne, Rob Rogers, Mike Smith, Scott Stantis, Paul Berge, Joel Pent, Tom Toles, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Pat Bagley.
p3 Legion of Honor, with clusters Mike Keefe.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Jeff Danziger.
Memorial Day: Commemorating the good and the bad of that most peculiarly American of holidays: Nate Beeler, John Cole, Dave Fitzsimmons, Joe Heller, John Deering, Bob Gorrell, Michael Ramirez, and Mark Streeter.
p3 World Toon Review: Ingrid Rice (Canada), Sergei Elkin (Russia), Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), and Cam Cardow (Canada).
Ann Telnaes presents unofficial photos from Obama's trip.
Mark Fiore says California's prison system just needs a little time.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation notes that Sarah Palin, queen of Twitter, has had some trouble with with unauthorized tweets.
Tom Tomorrow spoilsa perfectly good metaphor.
The K Chronicles reminds us of the biggest gift of all: perspective.
Tom the Dancing Bug has a challenge for you: What do Hercules, Pocahontas, Pinnochio, Snow White, and the Little Mermaid have in common? (If the significance eludes you, follow the link above the comic!)
At Comic Riffs, Michael Kavna interviews "Cul de Sac" cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Schol on the "unexpected impact" of being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
Red Meat succumbs to the relentless pressure of the three-panel format.
The Comic Curmudgeon tallies up the most powerful entities in the universe. Humans come in fourth, at best.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman previews the latest entry in the "Left Behind" series.
"Oh, boy! A pie-ana!" Although director Frank Capra, who made training films for the War Department during WWII, actually created the character of the hapless Private Snafu, used in a number of animated military training films, it was Warner Bros. who took over the series. The Snafu toons were designed to provide an entertaining and usually-risqué treatment of such otherwise important-but-humdrum topics as malaria and camouflage. (p3 featured "Spies" last year.) "Booby Traps" (1944) was directed by Bob Clampett. Even if you're not a toonophile, you're sure to recognize Snafu's voice without any help from me. One other detail: this is, I think, the first appearance of the "Endearing Young Charms"/exploding piano gag.
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p3 Bonus Toon: Jesse Springer offers a pop-quiz about something the Oregon legislature is going to take its second crack at in two years. Cross your fingers.
Match toon-captioning wits with the pros, and the amateurs, at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
And as Joel ("The Soup" and "Community") McHale tweeted yesterday:
Yes, businesses of America, our brave men and women of the armed forces who have fallen in battle want to be remembered with a 3 Day Only Sale.
Honoring those Americans who died to make the world safe for good discounts on home appliances and furnishings, today's selections have been selected from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Bob Englehart, Dave Fitzsimmons, Jimmy Margulies, Jerry Holbert, Henry Payne, Rob Rogers, Mike Smith, Scott Stantis, Paul Berge, Joel Pent, Tom Toles, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Pat Bagley.
p3 Legion of Honor, with clusters Mike Keefe.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Jeff Danziger.
Memorial Day: Commemorating the good and the bad of that most peculiarly American of holidays: Nate Beeler, John Cole, Dave Fitzsimmons, Joe Heller, John Deering, Bob Gorrell, Michael Ramirez, and Mark Streeter.
p3 World Toon Review: Ingrid Rice (Canada), Sergei Elkin (Russia), Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), and Cam Cardow (Canada).
Ann Telnaes presents unofficial photos from Obama's trip.
Mark Fiore says California's prison system just needs a little time.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation notes that Sarah Palin, queen of Twitter, has had some trouble with with unauthorized tweets.
Tom Tomorrow spoilsa perfectly good metaphor.
The K Chronicles reminds us of the biggest gift of all: perspective.
Tom the Dancing Bug has a challenge for you: What do Hercules, Pocahontas, Pinnochio, Snow White, and the Little Mermaid have in common? (If the significance eludes you, follow the link above the comic!)
At Comic Riffs, Michael Kavna interviews "Cul de Sac" cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Schol on the "unexpected impact" of being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
Red Meat succumbs to the relentless pressure of the three-panel format.
The Comic Curmudgeon tallies up the most powerful entities in the universe. Humans come in fourth, at best.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman previews the latest entry in the "Left Behind" series.
"Oh, boy! A pie-ana!" Although director Frank Capra, who made training films for the War Department during WWII, actually created the character of the hapless Private Snafu, used in a number of animated military training films, it was Warner Bros. who took over the series. The Snafu toons were designed to provide an entertaining and usually-risqué treatment of such otherwise important-but-humdrum topics as malaria and camouflage. (p3 featured "Spies" last year.) "Booby Traps" (1944) was directed by Bob Clampett. Even if you're not a toonophile, you're sure to recognize Snafu's voice without any help from me. One other detail: this is, I think, the first appearance of the "Endearing Young Charms"/exploding piano gag.
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: Jesse Springer offers a pop-quiz about something the Oregon legislature is going to take its second crack at in two years. Cross your fingers.
Match toon-captioning wits with the pros, and the amateurs, at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Saturday morning tunes: Looking into their eyes, I see them running too
Saturday, May 28, 2011
This is such a great blend of road anthem and aging-rocker lament.
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In this video, the backup singers are so quintessentially Seventies.
Fitting the punishment to the crime
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Long-time p3 correspondent Doctor Beyond recently sent me a link to this story:
Dr. B added this comment:
Indeed: Five years for 27,900 deaths works out to about one day in prison for every 15 deaths he helped bring about -- and that's assuming the 91-year-old Demjanjuk survives five more years.
I remember when the contested deportation for trial from the US to Israel made it a newsworthy story here (the "Ivan the Terrible" nickname helped attract media notice).
My sense is that Germany's efforts to distance itself from the Nazi years, while sincerely meant, are nevertheless doomed to produce absurdities like this.
For another example: German law makes it a crime to deny that the Holocaust took place. No person with a functioning moral compass can fail to sympathize, but that law really is the reductio ad absurdum of speech-control laws. Can you imagine how empty the streets in America would be if we could arrest people for saying something that everyone knows is factually and historically incorrect? (Let alone what it would be like if we could arrest people for saying something that everyone merely "knows" is factually and historically incorrect?) Even if it was something of astonishing malice or cruelty?
So yes, I sympathize with Germans' feelings about their 20th century history, and I'm also glad it continues to bother them so much; and I certainly have no sympathy for Demjanjuk, who by everything I've read is still an ugly piece of work even if he'd been innocent of all those deaths. But this does make German law look a little foolish.
What Demjanjuk did was horrible. The fact that he's still alive and apparently unrepentant (or was, in articles I read at the time of his extradition) makes it all feel even worse, of course. The usual justifications for the death penalty hardly work here (to deter other Nazi death camp workers in the future?). But the fact is that we probably can't create laws that will deal appropriately with someone who would participate in the killing of 27,900 human beings.
Or, for that matter, someone who would orchestrate the killing of 2977 human beings -- which brings us to the assassination of Osama bin Ladin. I'm not a fan of presidential power to order killings, and I'm in favor of putting captured terrorists on trial on US soil, But I suppose you can reach a point where there really are some crimes that you just can't design a punishment to fit.
German court finds former Nazi guard guilty of 27,900 deaths
Munich, May 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Munich Thursday found 91-year-old Ukraine-born Ivan Demjanjuk guilty of helping to kill at least 27,900 Jews at a Nazi extermination camp in 1943.
Demjanjuk was drafted into the Soviet army in 1940 and was serving in eastern Crimea in 1942 when he was captured by the Germans. He was then inducted as a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp in occupied Poland.
Prosecutors said Demjanjuk was involved in the murders of at least 27,900 Jews at the camp between March and September 1943.
Demjanjuk was deported from the US to Israel in 1986 to face allegations that he had served as a camp guard nicknamed ‘Ivan the Terrible’ at the Treblinka death camp. However, this accusation could not be proven.
The Munich trial began in November 2009. Demjanjuk attended the 18-month court proceedings in a wheelchair and sometimes lying down, with his family trying to argue that he was too infirm to stand trial.
The court Thursday sentenced him to five years in prison.
Dr. B added this comment:
"I would love to know the thinking behind this sentencing. On one hand, it seems way too lenient, and on the other it seems completely futile."
Indeed: Five years for 27,900 deaths works out to about one day in prison for every 15 deaths he helped bring about -- and that's assuming the 91-year-old Demjanjuk survives five more years.
I remember when the contested deportation for trial from the US to Israel made it a newsworthy story here (the "Ivan the Terrible" nickname helped attract media notice).
My sense is that Germany's efforts to distance itself from the Nazi years, while sincerely meant, are nevertheless doomed to produce absurdities like this.
For another example: German law makes it a crime to deny that the Holocaust took place. No person with a functioning moral compass can fail to sympathize, but that law really is the reductio ad absurdum of speech-control laws. Can you imagine how empty the streets in America would be if we could arrest people for saying something that everyone knows is factually and historically incorrect? (Let alone what it would be like if we could arrest people for saying something that everyone merely "knows" is factually and historically incorrect?) Even if it was something of astonishing malice or cruelty?
So yes, I sympathize with Germans' feelings about their 20th century history, and I'm also glad it continues to bother them so much; and I certainly have no sympathy for Demjanjuk, who by everything I've read is still an ugly piece of work even if he'd been innocent of all those deaths. But this does make German law look a little foolish.
What Demjanjuk did was horrible. The fact that he's still alive and apparently unrepentant (or was, in articles I read at the time of his extradition) makes it all feel even worse, of course. The usual justifications for the death penalty hardly work here (to deter other Nazi death camp workers in the future?). But the fact is that we probably can't create laws that will deal appropriately with someone who would participate in the killing of 27,900 human beings.
Or, for that matter, someone who would orchestrate the killing of 2977 human beings -- which brings us to the assassination of Osama bin Ladin. I'm not a fan of presidential power to order killings, and I'm in favor of putting captured terrorists on trial on US soil, But I suppose you can reach a point where there really are some crimes that you just can't design a punishment to fit.
Sunday morning toons: If you're reading this, it didn't happen
This was a week of embarrassing moments: The Rapture didn't come, but apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger . . . well, you know. And Newt Gingrich didn't know when to stop.
Today's selections, buried under an Aztec pyramid near Machu Picchu, were carefully hand-selected from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Glenn McCoy, Tony Auth, Bruce Plante, Chuck Asay, Clay Jones, Chad Lowe, David Fitzsimmons, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Legion of Merit: Stuart Carlson.
p3 Best in Show: Pat Bagley.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium (tie): Mike Luckovich and David Fitzsimmons.
p3 "So Good We Don't Have an Award Name" Award: R. J. Matson.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Alex Falco (Cuba), Cam Cardow (Canada), and Bill Leak (Australia).
Ann Telnaes catches the latest chapter in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
Mark Fiore has a new anthem for you un-American Americans (75% of you, in fact) who think the oil industry's profits should be taxed.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation imagines the fall-out for Der Ah-Nolt.
Tom Tomorrow presents a bedtime story for our age.
Keith Knight has figured out Newt's secret plan.
Tom the Dancing Bug brings you Super Fun-Pack Comix! (Don't miss "After the rapture!")
Via Comic Riffs: Is the Stan Lee animation project "The Governator" going to die a quiet but fitting death now that its star has 'fessed up to bopping the household help? Sadly, no.
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl is working on his base tan.
The Comic Curmudgeon presents: Dennis Mitchell, Food Rebel.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman looks at der Ah-Nolt's next sequel.
Guest animation If you don't like a particular sight-gag in "TV of Tomorrow," directed by Tex Avery at MGM in 1953, just wait about five seconds. Most of the references in this cartoon are unrecognizable today.
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p3 Bonus Toon: After last week's bond measure votes around the state, Jesse Springer wonders when the talked-about Oregon recovery will make it to the schools?
Test your toon-captioning chops at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Today's selections, buried under an Aztec pyramid near Machu Picchu, were carefully hand-selected from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Glenn McCoy, Tony Auth, Bruce Plante, Chuck Asay, Clay Jones, Chad Lowe, David Fitzsimmons, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Legion of Merit: Stuart Carlson.
p3 Best in Show: Pat Bagley.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium (tie): Mike Luckovich and David Fitzsimmons.
p3 "So Good We Don't Have an Award Name" Award: R. J. Matson.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Alex Falco (Cuba), Cam Cardow (Canada), and Bill Leak (Australia).
Ann Telnaes catches the latest chapter in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
Mark Fiore has a new anthem for you un-American Americans (75% of you, in fact) who think the oil industry's profits should be taxed.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation imagines the fall-out for Der Ah-Nolt.
Tom Tomorrow presents a bedtime story for our age.
Keith Knight has figured out Newt's secret plan.
Tom the Dancing Bug brings you Super Fun-Pack Comix! (Don't miss "After the rapture!")
Via Comic Riffs: Is the Stan Lee animation project "The Governator" going to die a quiet but fitting death now that its star has 'fessed up to bopping the household help? Sadly, no.
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl is working on his base tan.
The Comic Curmudgeon presents: Dennis Mitchell, Food Rebel.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman looks at der Ah-Nolt's next sequel.
Guest animation If you don't like a particular sight-gag in "TV of Tomorrow," directed by Tex Avery at MGM in 1953, just wait about five seconds. Most of the references in this cartoon are unrecognizable today.
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: After last week's bond measure votes around the state, Jesse Springer wonders when the talked-about Oregon recovery will make it to the schools?
Test your toon-captioning chops at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Er, how are we for time?
Saturday, May 21, 2011
"What's this?" whispered Max, wild-eyed. "What's happening?"
At the back of the Restaurant, the stony-faced party from The Church of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon leaped ecstatically to their feet, chanting and crying.
Max blinked in amazement. He threw up his hands to the audience.
"A big hand please, ladies and gentlemen," he hollered, "for the Great Prophet Zarquon! He has come! Zarquon has come again!"
Thunderous applause broke out as Max strode across the stage and handed his microphone to the Prophet.
Zarquon coughed. He peered round at the assembled gathering. The stars in his eyes blinked uneasily. He handled the microphone with confusion.
"Er ..." he said, "hello. Er, look, I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I've had the most ghastly time, all sorts of things cropping up at the last moment."
He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush. He cleared his throat.
"Er, how are we for time?" he said, "have I just got a min-"
And so the Universe ended.
The Restaurant at the
End of the Universe
by Douglas Adams
Saturday morning tunes: I predict a blockbuster online spike for R.E.M this weekend
I mean, if there's some kind of unbelievably remote possibility that those zany doomsday prophets might be right, why spend the last hours of existence blogging? Am I right?*
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*(Assuming that they’re completely wrong, though, I've got another post coming up at 3:04pm PT this afternoon. Take appropriate measures.)
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*(Assuming that they’re completely wrong, though, I've got another post coming up at 3:04pm PT this afternoon. Take appropriate measures.)
The unforgiving minute: Good news, help's on the way!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
This just in: Ben Stein (Nixon White House staffer, conservative troll, game-show host, bit-part film actor, and paid spokesperson for ethically-dubious credit-rating services) reminds us that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (French economist, International Monetary Fund chief, currently in custody for alleged sexual assault on a NYC hotel maid) is innocent until proven guilty. Here's a key part of Stein's defense:
In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and convicted of violent sexual crimes? Is it likely that just by chance this hotel maid found the only one in this category?
One might as well ask, Can anyone tell me of any US presidents who've resigned in disgrace rather than face impeachment for obstruction of justice?
Mr. Stein, there's a first time for everything.
Poor Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Anyone know how to say "With friends like these, I don't need enemies" in French?*
*According to Google Translate, it's Avec des amis comme ceux-ci, je n'ai pas besoin d'ennemis.
Minute's up. (Votre minute est terminée.)
Sunday morning toons: Know who else wants credit for getting bin Laden? China..
Sunday, May 15, 2011
An interesting week:
Two weeks ago, Donald "The Short Fingered Vulgarian" Trump was the man no one took seriously, but Republicans seemed to want as their 2012 candidate. Now he's out. Meanwhile, Newt "Family Values" Gingrich, the man everyone seems to take seriously, but no Republicans seem to want as their 2012 candidate, is in.
Members of the Bush administration popped up everywhere like a tribe of startled prairie dogs this week to take credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, since -- although they fumbled several opportunities to press the search for Osama bin Laden themselves -- they nevertheless used the threat represented by OBL's still being at large to beat their political opponents like a rented mule for 8 years, which is just as good.
In related news, China also claimed credit for the killing of OBL since they invented gunpowder in the 9th century.
The president and his national security team watched on a real-time video hook-up as today's selections were chosen from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Mike Lester, John Darkow, Jerry Holbert, Joe Heller, Matt Davies, Nate Beeler, Marshall Ramsey, Ben Sargent, Walt Handlesman, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best in Show: Adam Zyglis.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium: John "I keed! I keed!" Cole.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon Convergence: Ed Stein and Nate Beeler.
p3 World Toon Review: KAL (England), Paresh (India), Jeremy Nell (South Africa), Ingrid Rice (Canada), Jiho (France), and Cam Cardow (Canada).
Ann Telnaes brings back one of my favorite AT caricatures in Cheney talks torture.
Mark Fiore lets Knuckles explain why the leftovers of the Bush administration -- most of whom dare not set foot outside the US -- are saying "You're Welcome" this week.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation tells the story of one unlikely hero in the tracking down of Osama bin Laden.
Doonesbury's Ray Hightower explains the difference between a personality trait and a quirk. Which in turn helps explain why Lance Mannion is worried about Ray
Missing your regular fix of dream saucers and dinosaurs? Progressive Boink compiled their list of the 25 great Calvin & Hobbes strips.
It wasn't that long ago that p3 was reporting on the forthcoming Wonder Woman TV series. But now it looks like the Amazonian princess is going to be loading up her invisible airplane with her magic lasso, tiara, and bulletproof bracelets, and heading back Themyscira. Done in by the "with friends like these" feminism of producer David E. Kelley? Maybe. Maybe not.
Tom Tomorrow explains the true story of tracking down Osama bin Laden. (Bonus: From 1995, Newt Gingrich explains zee art of loaf!
At The K Chronicles: After the wildly successful iPod, iPhone, and iPad -- what's next?
Tom the Dancing Bug tracks down to his lair the man who's responsible for all of America's problems.
At Comic Riffs, Michael Cavna celebrates the life and work of Bill Gallo, dean of sports cartoonists, who died recently at 88, after seven decades in the business.
Red Meat's Milkman Dan explores the foundations of modern religion.
The Comic Curmudgeon explores the next military frontier after the end of DADT. Not pretty. Not pretty at all.
Will there be 72 of them? Portland homeboy Jack Ohman imagines the afterlife awaiting one recluse in Pakistan.
More music to build by: Last week we watched construction workers build a skyscrape to Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2, in the 1941 Chuck Jones/Warner Bros. "Rhapsody in Rivets." This week, it's Popeye (sans spinach) and his nephews building a skyscraper to Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture. "Tots of Fun," directed in 1952 by Seymour Kneitel (with musical direction by Winston Sharples and all voices by Frank Mercer) uses a surprising number of the same sight gags 11 years later. Maybe they figured no one would notice after all that time.
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: Jesse Springer notes the irony of South Carolina-based poly bag manufacturer Hilex Poly (lobbying hard to kill the Oregon bag ban bill) instructing us on what is and isn't "the Oregon way."
Test your toon-captioning prowess at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Two weeks ago, Donald "The Short Fingered Vulgarian" Trump was the man no one took seriously, but Republicans seemed to want as their 2012 candidate. Now he's out. Meanwhile, Newt "Family Values" Gingrich, the man everyone seems to take seriously, but no Republicans seem to want as their 2012 candidate, is in.
Members of the Bush administration popped up everywhere like a tribe of startled prairie dogs this week to take credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, since -- although they fumbled several opportunities to press the search for Osama bin Laden themselves -- they nevertheless used the threat represented by OBL's still being at large to beat their political opponents like a rented mule for 8 years, which is just as good.
In related news, China also claimed credit for the killing of OBL since they invented gunpowder in the 9th century.
The president and his national security team watched on a real-time video hook-up as today's selections were chosen from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Mike Lester, John Darkow, Jerry Holbert, Joe Heller, Matt Davies, Nate Beeler, Marshall Ramsey, Ben Sargent, Walt Handlesman, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best in Show: Adam Zyglis.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium: John "I keed! I keed!" Cole.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon Convergence: Ed Stein and Nate Beeler.
p3 World Toon Review: KAL (England), Paresh (India), Jeremy Nell (South Africa), Ingrid Rice (Canada), Jiho (France), and Cam Cardow (Canada).
Ann Telnaes brings back one of my favorite AT caricatures in Cheney talks torture.
Mark Fiore lets Knuckles explain why the leftovers of the Bush administration -- most of whom dare not set foot outside the US -- are saying "You're Welcome" this week.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation tells the story of one unlikely hero in the tracking down of Osama bin Laden.
Doonesbury's Ray Hightower explains the difference between a personality trait and a quirk. Which in turn helps explain why Lance Mannion is worried about Ray
Missing your regular fix of dream saucers and dinosaurs? Progressive Boink compiled their list of the 25 great Calvin & Hobbes strips.
It wasn't that long ago that p3 was reporting on the forthcoming Wonder Woman TV series. But now it looks like the Amazonian princess is going to be loading up her invisible airplane with her magic lasso, tiara, and bulletproof bracelets, and heading back Themyscira. Done in by the "with friends like these" feminism of producer David E. Kelley? Maybe. Maybe not.
Tom Tomorrow explains the true story of tracking down Osama bin Laden. (Bonus: From 1995, Newt Gingrich explains zee art of loaf!
At The K Chronicles: After the wildly successful iPod, iPhone, and iPad -- what's next?
Tom the Dancing Bug tracks down to his lair the man who's responsible for all of America's problems.
At Comic Riffs, Michael Cavna celebrates the life and work of Bill Gallo, dean of sports cartoonists, who died recently at 88, after seven decades in the business.
Red Meat's Milkman Dan explores the foundations of modern religion.
The Comic Curmudgeon explores the next military frontier after the end of DADT. Not pretty. Not pretty at all.
Will there be 72 of them? Portland homeboy Jack Ohman imagines the afterlife awaiting one recluse in Pakistan.
More music to build by: Last week we watched construction workers build a skyscrape to Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2, in the 1941 Chuck Jones/Warner Bros. "Rhapsody in Rivets." This week, it's Popeye (sans spinach) and his nephews building a skyscraper to Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture. "Tots of Fun," directed in 1952 by Seymour Kneitel (with musical direction by Winston Sharples and all voices by Frank Mercer) uses a surprising number of the same sight gags 11 years later. Maybe they figured no one would notice after all that time.
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: Jesse Springer notes the irony of South Carolina-based poly bag manufacturer Hilex Poly (lobbying hard to kill the Oregon bag ban bill) instructing us on what is and isn't "the Oregon way."
Test your toon-captioning prowess at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Saturday morning tunes: This is the new stuff!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Jeez. Has it really been 25 years?
Here's the 1986 video that helped keep Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" on the charts for a good long while. In fact, MTV has named it the #1 animated video of all time (and ranked it #4 on its list of the 100 greatest music videos.) Some of the stop-motion animation was contributed by Aardman Animations, whence came the 2006 Oscar-winning "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (and those vaguely creepy talking cars in the Chevron commercials).
But the video's only great because the song's already great. I defy you to get this one out of your head for the rest of the morning. But then, why would you even try? Kick the habit. Shed your skin.
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Here's the 1986 video that helped keep Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" on the charts for a good long while. In fact, MTV has named it the #1 animated video of all time (and ranked it #4 on its list of the 100 greatest music videos.) Some of the stop-motion animation was contributed by Aardman Animations, whence came the 2006 Oscar-winning "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (and those vaguely creepy talking cars in the Chevron commercials).
But the video's only great because the song's already great. I defy you to get this one out of your head for the rest of the morning. But then, why would you even try? Kick the habit. Shed your skin.
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Quote of the day: Lackluster
Friday, May 13, 2011
Lance Mannion once lived in Fort Wayne, so he's allowed:Of all the lackluster states in the Union, Indiana has to be in the running for the most lacking in any sort of luster. It’s not even really a farm state. It’s a state of insurance agents who sell policies to farmers.
Heh.
Check out LM's argument for why the luckiest break the GOP could hope for is if the 2012 nomination at least appeared to be about a face-off between Mitt Romney and Mitch Daniels.
Prior planning prevents poor performance
Apparently, by not posting anything yesterday, I avoided having it all wiped out in some kind of Google/Blogger meltdown that left a lot of blogs explaining this morning why there was a big Thursday-shaped hole in their front page.
(Although, somewhat disturbingly, Blogger refused to publish this post the first time I tried. Hm.)
(Although, somewhat disturbingly, Blogger refused to publish this post the first time I tried. Hm.)
The unforgiving minute: Freedom means someone else always pays the price
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
It's like there's no longer any attempt to avoid self-contradiction, even within the same day's news cycle. Words like "policy" and "plan" simply don't apply anymore.First, Atrios observes, with an understandable sense of bemusement:
Occasionally the conservative worldview clashes with itself in ways I can't resolve. Texas conservatives, who don't trust public school teachers to educate their kids, want to empower them to hit their kids.Doesn't seem like you can really be for both at the same time, does it?
And here's another pair of items, both from today (emphasis added):
First this:
House progressives are trying to draw attention to language Republicans have included in an annual must-pass defense bill, which they say will dramatically expand Presidential power in the war on terrorism.[…]
With Osama bin Laden dead, [House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA)] et al want to update the AUMF, so that it doesn't phase itself out as the connection between existing terrorist groups and the September 11 attacks themselves becomes more and more tenuous over time. That's exactly what some Democrats hope to avoid.
The new language eschews references to September 11, and instead centers the authorization on "armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban and associated forces," though "associated forces" is not defined. It replaces the authority to target "organizations" and "persons" domestically with the power to target "all entities that continue to pose a threat to the United States and its citizens, both domestically and abroad."
Democrats and advocates highlight these seemingly subtle changes and argue that they will allow the President to initiate military action even more broadly, and without the consent of Congress -- effectively perpetuating the war indefinitely.
And then this:
Republicans say they've found the problem in America -- and that problem is the basic framework of the Union as we know it today.So which is it? Either the government's already too powerful, too unchecked, too big (and, of course, Obama's too . . . everything), or else there should be no practical limits on arguably the most important Executive Branch power (and certainly one with direct implications for the economy and the extent of federal powers).
A group of Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow a vote by two-thirds of the states' legislatures to override any federal law they did not agree with.
The proposed constitutional amendment, a tea party favorite, is being touted by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) in the Senate and co-sponsored by Sens. John Barasso (R-WY) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). In the House, Reps. Rob Bishop (R-UT), Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Paul Broun (R-GA) are leading the charge.
The goal, according to proponents, is to stop the tyranny of Washington over the economy and circumscribe other federal powers.
I think the only thread holding this legislative rag-bag together is the urgent adolescent desire to have it both ways: To want all the control for oneself, while reserving the right to push the hard decisions onto someone else.
Minute's up. Actually, that was more than a minute. No charge for the extra.
Sunday morning toons: Birtherism -- That's so eight days ago
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Okay, everyone who thinks that the top political toons for this week will be about Donald "The Short-Fingered Vulgarian" Trump's latest race-baiting bloviation, or about the wholly lackluster GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, please take one step forward.
Not so fast, Mr. bin Laden!
Today's selections have been lovingly hand-selected from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Gary McCoy, Steve Benson, Tony Auth, Stuart Carlson, Rob Rogers, Pat Bagley, Mike Keefe, David Fitzsimmons, Signe Wilkinson, Tom Toles, R. J. Matson, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Gold Star and Seat at the Head of the Class: Clay Jones.
p3 Legion of Merit (with Comb-Over): Drew Sheneman.
p3 Recognition of the Right Stuff: Jeff Parker.
p3 Certificate of Massive Harmonic Toon Convergence: Almost everybody.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Paresh (Dubai), Christo Komarnitski (Bulgaria), and Tayo Fatunia (West Africa).
Ann Telnaes asks a not-reasonable question: Where do bin Ladens come from?.
Mark Fiore introduces a new term to the lexicon of anti-terrorism: uptrodden.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation raises a perfectly good point: If America can not put a man on the moon, why can't we not kill Osama bin Laden? I mean, really. Think about it.
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Managing to offend nearly everyone: Have you seen I Think I Was an Alcoholic, the 1993 animation based on the book by the same name by the pitilessly funny Portland cartoonist John Callahan?
It's not like it was his Fortress of Solitude, but this is a sad story.
Comics Should Be Good brings this somewhat-belated April Fools Day offering by Mad Magazine legend Sergio Aragonés.
Want to know where Marvel superheroes live? There's an app for that.
Tom Tomorrow take a stroll down memory lane: From 2001, wouldn't it be great if America was as good as this? And from 2003, casting the ultimate "buddy movie."
The K Chronicles has an unusual angle on the Commander in Chief. Not precisely on the Topic of the Week, but all the more interesting and unexpected as a result.
Comic Riffs presents 13 eye-catching toon images from the only topic this week.
At Red Meat, Bug-eyed Earl suffers for his art.
The Comic Curmudgeon marks the arrival of a weekly Beetle Bailey tradition.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman reflects on cosmic justice.
Where would classic animation be without Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2? I had completely forgotten about "Rhapsody in Rivets," a 1941 Oscar-nominated toon by Fritz Freleng. It probably never got much TV replay since it doesn't involve any of the recurring Warner Bros characters. Several of the gags -- including dodging the cloud and slamming the door -- also appeared in a Popeye cartoon in which he builds a skyscraper with his nephews, although I'm not sure which one came first. I'll have to do some research on that. (Meanwhile, for more golden-age toons featuring Hungarian Rhapsody #2, go here.)
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: Talk about making a bad situation worse: What's the only thing worse than not reforming Oregon's ridiculous "kicker" law? Jesse Springer knows.
Test your toon-captioning skills at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Not so fast, Mr. bin Laden!
Today's selections have been lovingly hand-selected from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Gary McCoy, Steve Benson, Tony Auth, Stuart Carlson, Rob Rogers, Pat Bagley, Mike Keefe, David Fitzsimmons, Signe Wilkinson, Tom Toles, R. J. Matson, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Gold Star and Seat at the Head of the Class: Clay Jones.
p3 Legion of Merit (with Comb-Over): Drew Sheneman.
p3 Recognition of the Right Stuff: Jeff Parker.
p3 Certificate of Massive Harmonic Toon Convergence: Almost everybody.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Paresh (Dubai), Christo Komarnitski (Bulgaria), and Tayo Fatunia (West Africa).
Ann Telnaes asks a not-reasonable question: Where do bin Ladens come from?.
Mark Fiore introduces a new term to the lexicon of anti-terrorism: uptrodden.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation raises a perfectly good point: If America can not put a man on the moon, why can't we not kill Osama bin Laden? I mean, really. Think about it.
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.This could go a long way to explaining why this week's Tom the Dancing Bug story has alternate endings. Or, you know, not.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Managing to offend nearly everyone: Have you seen I Think I Was an Alcoholic, the 1993 animation based on the book by the same name by the pitilessly funny Portland cartoonist John Callahan?
It's not like it was his Fortress of Solitude, but this is a sad story.
Comics Should Be Good brings this somewhat-belated April Fools Day offering by Mad Magazine legend Sergio Aragonés.
Want to know where Marvel superheroes live? There's an app for that.
Tom Tomorrow take a stroll down memory lane: From 2001, wouldn't it be great if America was as good as this? And from 2003, casting the ultimate "buddy movie."
The K Chronicles has an unusual angle on the Commander in Chief. Not precisely on the Topic of the Week, but all the more interesting and unexpected as a result.
Comic Riffs presents 13 eye-catching toon images from the only topic this week.
At Red Meat, Bug-eyed Earl suffers for his art.
The Comic Curmudgeon marks the arrival of a weekly Beetle Bailey tradition.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman reflects on cosmic justice.
Where would classic animation be without Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2? I had completely forgotten about "Rhapsody in Rivets," a 1941 Oscar-nominated toon by Fritz Freleng. It probably never got much TV replay since it doesn't involve any of the recurring Warner Bros characters. Several of the gags -- including dodging the cloud and slamming the door -- also appeared in a Popeye cartoon in which he builds a skyscraper with his nephews, although I'm not sure which one came first. I'll have to do some research on that. (Meanwhile, for more golden-age toons featuring Hungarian Rhapsody #2, go here.)
(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: Talk about making a bad situation worse: What's the only thing worse than not reforming Oregon's ridiculous "kicker" law? Jesse Springer knows.
Test your toon-captioning skills at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
Saturday morning toons: That shocking time of year when tons of little wicked thoughts merrily appear!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Yes, yes, I know. It's raining today. Probably tomorrow as well. But the sap should be running soon enough.
Heh. Sap.
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Heh. Sap.
If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post to see the video.
Jazz musician Charlie Gabriel returns to Portland -- under considerably different circumstances
Sunday, May 1, 2011
He's a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and he's played with everyone from Lionel Hampton and Charles Mingus to Fats Domino and Aretha Franklin. And jazz saxophonist Charlie Gabriel will be in Portland this week -- a return after something like 45 years -- to the same room in the same building.
Except that back then the place was a strip club, and now it's part of the McMenamins chain. Talk about putting the communication breakdown in your Communication Breakdown Burger.
Here's the background story of the Crystal Hotel:
And here's the story as Charlie remembers it himself:
McMenamins has a five-part interview with Charlie Gabriel on YouTube.
This is a show that's not to be missed.
(Image via.)
Except that back then the place was a strip club, and now it's part of the McMenamins chain. Talk about putting the communication breakdown in your Communication Breakdown Burger.
Here's the background story of the Crystal Hotel:
It has housed lot of things, but from 1961 to 1966, when it was the notorious Desert Room, clarinetist/saxophonist/vocalist Charlie Gabriel led the band, playing for strippers, dancers and generally entertaining the cream of the Portland criminal underworld.
Before we get to Gabriel himself, let’s set the scene. Portland crime historian Phil Stanford, former Oregonian and Tribune columnist, in his book Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Rose City says:
It was one of those places where everybody hung out, the vice squad, safecrackers, junior D.A.’s…the pimps and prostitutes would always stop there at the end of the night.
The hot spot in town…was the Desert Room at SW 12th and Stark. The Desert Room was owned by Nate Zusman, a banty rooster of a guy who called himself “The Mark of Stark,” in recognition of the fact that he was a soft touch for anyone in need of a few bucks. Fat chance, a long time bartender…said that he had to be on guard at all times to keep Zusman from stealing his tips.
Zusman was a thief, a fence and a pimp, and by all accounts he ran one of the most fascinating night clubs Portland has ever seen. On any night of the week you could expect to find a good portion of the Portland underworld hanging out at the Desert Room. The pimps and madams made the scene almost every night and there was always a contingent of safecrackers, who in those days were considered the princes of the racket.
That being the case, it only made sense that the intelligence and vice squads camped out there too, drinking for free, of course, because how else are you going to find out what the other side is up to unless you get to know them. Not surprisingly, most of the city’s politicians and any prosecutor from the D.A.’s office worth his salt could also be found there as well, drinking with the boys and taking in the floor show which usually featured out-of-town musical acts and some of the finest strippers in town.
Sanford later wrote in the Portland Tribune:
When its proprietor, Nate Zusman, was busted for what the authorities described as aiding and abetting prostitution, the name changed, although not much else did, to the Red Garter.
In 1982, after lying vacant for a year or two, it opened again as a gay nightclub – Flossie’s.
Then in 1988 it became the Silverado – which one real estate tycoon described to me as sort of like a sports bar, but with huge video projections of naked men on the walls.
[…] The first floor restaurant at the Crystal Hotel is named the Zeus Cafe, it’s not about the Greek god, it’s a pun on Nate.
In 1961, Zusman brought (some accounts say stole) Charlie Gabriel from a band in Detroit where Gabriel had moved at 14 from New Orleans. He was a fourth generation New Orleans musician.
At 16, he was asked to join Lionel Hampton’s band. He’ll be 79 this year and he has never stopped playing music. He was recently in town as a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band as part of the Soul’d Out Music Festival. […]
As part of the Crystal Hotel’s opening extravaganza, he’ll be playing with the Mel Brown trio 4-7pm at Ringler’s Pub all three days, free, all ages. Tickets available at cascadetickets.com, McMenamins outlets (Crystal Ballroom, Bagdad Theater, Edgefield, East 19th Street Café in Eugene) and order by phone at (855) CAS-TIXX.
After that, Charlie took a job playing the Desert Room -- a strip club -- in Portland, Oregon.
"I first went up there with Dave Hamilton, under the leadership of Dottie Haynes," Charlie said. "There was a master of ceremonies and four girls on the show. The band would play a number and then Dottie would do about three songs. Then we'd have a girl dance and strip on a sexy song like 'Temptation.' Then Dottie might sing another song. Another lady would come out and sing an up-tempo number like 'All of Me.' Then we would bust into some kind of bolero rhythm and she starts stripping. Dottie might come back and sing again or maybe we'd have a comedian. Then the next girl would strip.
"After Dottie and Dave's contract was terminated, the owner hired me as bandleader for 26 weeks with a 26-week option. The money was good. Everyone who worked in the band could draw unemployment compensation."
His wife Mary rented their house in Detroit and went out to Oregon. Charlie put her on the payroll keeping the books. The gig lasted four years with four shows a night six days a week. The owner had three clubs in different cities and would rotate the girls through the clubs every 12 weeks.
What I tried to do," Charlie said. "If they were dancers and singers I would try to get each girl to do a different kind of song. I'd have a jazz singer doing 'How High the Moon' or 'Mack the Knife.' I might tell another one, now you sing ballads good. You will sing a ballad and we'll bring you on with something up-tempo. To the jazz singer I'd say, We'll bring you on with something sexy.
"Some shows later on we did this John the Baptist thing with the Dance of the Seven Veils. Each veil was shown in a different color fluorescent light. . . . This place you bought your woman and your food and paid for it at the cash register."
Larry Gabriel, Daddy Played
Old-Time New Orleans Bass
McMenamins has a five-part interview with Charlie Gabriel on YouTube.
This is a show that's not to be missed.
(Image via.)
Sunday morning toons: The Gambling Bug'll getcha, if you don't watch out!
The highlight this week was, of course, a ridiculously lavish pseudo-event in which bought-and-paid-for press corps members dress in their finest and go to embarrassing lengths to rub elbows with a pointlessly over-hyped group of inbred celebrities.
The wedding of William and Kate?
Nope. The annual Washington Correspondence Association dinner. Here at p3 we've had our harmless moments of fun with the whole thing, the bottom line is that it's no longer just an anachronism. It's a disgrace.
Also: What famous American's status as American is up for grabs this week? Nope, not the Prez. Read below to find out.
Today's selections were certified by the Hawaii Board of Health, from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Pat Oliphant, Walt Handlesman, Clay Bennett, John Cole, Nick Anderson, Mike Lester, Pat Bagley, David Fitzsimmons, Eric Allie, Steve Breen, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Joel Pett.
p3 Legion of Merit: Jimmy Marguilies.
p3 Croix de Merde: Adam Zyglis.
p3 World Toon Review: Tom Troun (Netherlands), Cam Cardow (Canada), Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Ingrid Rice (Canada), and Michael Kountouris (Greece).
Birtherism without end, amen: This cartoon by Mike Keefe is probably onto something, sad to say. It reminded me of an incident quite a few years ago, on a coast-to-coast flight, when the attendants were keeping bored and restless passengers entertained by giving away bottles of wine to people who could answer trivia questions. (Did I say "quite a few years ago?" I meant to say "in another universe.") When they posed the question "What currency do they use in Hawaii?" the silence in coach class was, I'm sorry to say, protracted.
Ann Telnaes captures those four little words that sum up the royal family's dubious relationship with the media (upon which they depend).
Mark Fiore welcomes you to The United States of Reality TV.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation brings you Prince Harry's secret wedding video for William and Kate. That rascal.
Which voice actor has created most "Simpsons" characters? (P.S. Phil Hartman, we hardly knew ye.)
And guess who finally won the New Yorker's cartoon captioning contest? (To compete in this week's contest, scroll link at the bottom of today's p3 post.)
Interesting move at a moment when a third of all GOP don't think Obama's an American: Guess what strange visitor from another planet is renouncing his American citizenship? (Hint: Now it's back to just "truth" and "justice.") My guess is that the clock's ticking until the moment that this plot arc gets forgotten, ret-conned out of history, or is revealed to be an "imaginary story." And Lance Mannion brought up an interesting question on Facebook, though, to which I haven't seen a good answer yet: Clark Kent is an American citizen, and could therefore renounce his citizenship if he wanted to; but Superman doesn't have a birth certificate, passport, tax ID number, etc. What does he have to renounce? Anyone know?
Tom Tomorrow presents another in an occasional series of unsubtle visual metaphors.
The K Chronicles tells of his first experience with the gay gene.
Tom the Dancing Bug asks a perfectly reasonable question about people who carry a sliver of DNA from medieval sociopaths.
At Red Meat, Johnny Lemonhead has a close call.
You might think that the question "Has anyone ever wanted to see a real bedroom love scene in Momma?" is one nobody would ever have occasion to ask. But as The Comic Curmudgeon shows, it isn't. Sadly, it is not. And he doesn't even get into the fact that she's looking in the window.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman debunks the rumor that bankers don't have a sense of humor.
The Gambling Bug'll get you, if you don't watch out! As promised, here's the highly anticipated sequel to the charmingly cruel 1950 Michael McKimson toon "It's Hummer Time." The 1951 sequel, "Early to Bet," features the same unnamed dog and cat, and the same running gag about mayhem that's become so ritualized that each variation has its own name. (Penalty #14 is "Gesundheit!" You'll see.) But this time the MacGuffin isn't a humming bird, it's a little fellow making his only Warner Bros. appearance: The Gambling Bug.
(If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: It may be a "responsible" state budget, says Jesse Springer, but it's not good enough.
Join Roger Ebert in the pantheon of cartoon-captioning gods (see above) at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
The wedding of William and Kate?
Nope. The annual Washington Correspondence Association dinner. Here at p3 we've had our harmless moments of fun with the whole thing, the bottom line is that it's no longer just an anachronism. It's a disgrace.
Also: What famous American's status as American is up for grabs this week? Nope, not the Prez. Read below to find out.
Today's selections were certified by the Hawaii Board of Health, from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle:
p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Pat Oliphant, Walt Handlesman, Clay Bennett, John Cole, Nick Anderson, Mike Lester, Pat Bagley, David Fitzsimmons, Eric Allie, Steve Breen, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Joel Pett.
p3 Legion of Merit: Jimmy Marguilies.
p3 Croix de Merde: Adam Zyglis.
p3 World Toon Review: Tom Troun (Netherlands), Cam Cardow (Canada), Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland), Ingrid Rice (Canada), and Michael Kountouris (Greece).
Birtherism without end, amen: This cartoon by Mike Keefe is probably onto something, sad to say. It reminded me of an incident quite a few years ago, on a coast-to-coast flight, when the attendants were keeping bored and restless passengers entertained by giving away bottles of wine to people who could answer trivia questions. (Did I say "quite a few years ago?" I meant to say "in another universe.") When they posed the question "What currency do they use in Hawaii?" the silence in coach class was, I'm sorry to say, protracted.
Ann Telnaes captures those four little words that sum up the royal family's dubious relationship with the media (upon which they depend).
Mark Fiore welcomes you to The United States of Reality TV.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation brings you Prince Harry's secret wedding video for William and Kate. That rascal.
Which voice actor has created most "Simpsons" characters? (P.S. Phil Hartman, we hardly knew ye.)
And guess who finally won the New Yorker's cartoon captioning contest? (To compete in this week's contest, scroll link at the bottom of today's p3 post.)
Interesting move at a moment when a third of all GOP don't think Obama's an American: Guess what strange visitor from another planet is renouncing his American citizenship? (Hint: Now it's back to just "truth" and "justice.") My guess is that the clock's ticking until the moment that this plot arc gets forgotten, ret-conned out of history, or is revealed to be an "imaginary story." And Lance Mannion brought up an interesting question on Facebook, though, to which I haven't seen a good answer yet: Clark Kent is an American citizen, and could therefore renounce his citizenship if he wanted to; but Superman doesn't have a birth certificate, passport, tax ID number, etc. What does he have to renounce? Anyone know?
Tom Tomorrow presents another in an occasional series of unsubtle visual metaphors.
The K Chronicles tells of his first experience with the gay gene.
Tom the Dancing Bug asks a perfectly reasonable question about people who carry a sliver of DNA from medieval sociopaths.
At Red Meat, Johnny Lemonhead has a close call.
You might think that the question "Has anyone ever wanted to see a real bedroom love scene in Momma?" is one nobody would ever have occasion to ask. But as The Comic Curmudgeon shows, it isn't. Sadly, it is not. And he doesn't even get into the fact that she's looking in the window.
Portland homeboy Jack Ohman debunks the rumor that bankers don't have a sense of humor.
The Gambling Bug'll get you, if you don't watch out! As promised, here's the highly anticipated sequel to the charmingly cruel 1950 Michael McKimson toon "It's Hummer Time." The 1951 sequel, "Early to Bet," features the same unnamed dog and cat, and the same running gag about mayhem that's become so ritualized that each variation has its own name. (Penalty #14 is "Gesundheit!" You'll see.) But this time the MacGuffin isn't a humming bird, it's a little fellow making his only Warner Bros. appearance: The Gambling Bug.
(If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post to see the video.)
p3 Bonus Toon: It may be a "responsible" state budget, says Jesse Springer, but it's not good enough.
Join Roger Ebert in the pantheon of cartoon-captioning gods (see above) at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon contest. (Rules here.)
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