Coo-coo, coo-coo
Hello! It’s me again! Back with another trenchant graphical analysis of today’s top story.
Mmm-hmm. I drew Harry Reid as a drooling moron.
That’s an upgrade for Harry. I think he’s something uglier and nastier.
The Washington Post thinks so to:
“For Reid, this is yet another brazen and tasteless partisan attack. As majority leader, he has managed to sink the public image of the Senate even lower than it would otherwise be. He contributes to bad feelings, gridlock and the sense — nay, the reality — that everything is done for political advantage. Reid is a crass man, the very personification of the gaudy and kitschy Las Vegas Strip.”
Bolding mine, because those words made me shiver with delight.
Also, I drew a bird on his head!
August 6, 2012 — 10:44 pm
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A little something saucy from the seaside
For years and years, the tradition here was to send home a saucy postcard from your seaside holiday. Which is where everybody went for their holidays, always. And the undisputed king of the saucy postcard was a man named Donald McGill (link goes to a Google Images search; click for an amusing hour of postcard browsing).
He was born in 1875 and was a draughtsman in the Navy when he drew a little get well card for a sick nephew in 1904 and kinfolk said, “Jed, move away from there.”
Fat ladies, drunks, vicars, honeymooning couples, wartime propaganda…he poured out tons of the damn things. The ruder they were the better they sold, though he only got pennies for each design.
He is author of the famous joke “Do you like Kipling?” / “I don’t know, you naughty boy, I’ve never kippled!” which sold a record-holding six million copies.
He went on merrily until the Fifties, when the authorities decided to clean up all this disgusting smut and conducted a series of raids on seaside postcard shops. Some of the naughty designs had been on sale for decades without apparently causing riots. They confiscated thousands, mostly McGill’s, and took him to court.
He admitted breaking the Obscene Publications Act, but his defense was, “holy shit! REALLY? NAUGHTY DOUBLE MEANINGS? ZOMG, I had no idea until you pointed it out. Boy, is my face red!” Also, he was pushing eighty. So he pretty much got off, except for the lost revenue.
You still see McGill’s designs on cards and packaging (I saw a box of candy with a McGill wrapper the other day, which resulted in this post). Some say the vacation postcard is making a comeback, but I think the Royal Mail should be so lucky.
So. There. Something fun for the weekend. Have a good one!
August 3, 2012 — 10:41 pm
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Back on the stuff
Yup, Barack is back on the prompter.
Alternate title, “I can’t quit you” (but I didn’t see Brokeback Mountain and I always hesitate to use a movie line in the dark).
Alternate picture idea: does this flag make my president look small?
August 2, 2012 — 10:21 pm
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…over the weekend…
A Punch and Judy show. Still common here at the seaside.
In the local version, Punch beats Judy to death and then the policeman hauls him away and he beats the policeman to death and then the devil appears and Punch beats the devil to death, and then he spreads out through the crowd beating the children to death.
No, wait. I think that last part was just in my fantasy version.
Anyhoo, the sound is like if you jammed a ventriloquist’s whistle up a cat’s ass and beat it to death with an axe handle. Like that.
So! Good wholesome entertainment for kids of all ages.
August 1, 2012 — 10:35 pm
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