Thursday Night Fashion Review, now with 20% less Fashion Review
This week has been crazy in Library Land. The Kindle 2 has dropped and now people have been going buckwild about it. Lots of Libraries are buying them up or at least the ones who still have money. I still don't trust it. I'm usually not a Luddite type person, I enjoy technology and worship at its feet most of the time but I like books. I like the smelly paper, and the books with the weird edges that stick out. Sure they kill trees, but who cares? I hate trees, they're sappy and they think they're better than the bushes. And I'm sure Kindles have that metal in them that you can only get from the Congo, where people are used like slaves to go mine it out. I don't know if that's true, don't sue me Amazon.
Anyway, onto the comics, which I read online, like a hypocrite.
Mallard Filmore 2/23/2009
I don't like Mallard Filmore, partly because he looks like a Daffy Duck Doppelganger (read: ripoff) and mostly because the comic has a conservative slant. Unlike our President I don't pretend to be bi-partisan, I openly dislike conservatives especially those who lounge around in Hawaiian shirts. You are not Hunter S. Thomson my large billed friend, so you do not get to make pithy comments about our crazy culture while wearing a Hawaiian shirt. And might I add the term "Philistine" while a derivative from Biblical reference actually translates as "Palestine" today. The Arabic for Palestine is pronounced like we say "Philistine". Philistines were people who lived in Palestine, therefore Mallard Filmore is a racist. Thank you, good night!
Crock 2/19/2009
You decide what this comic means:
1. The soldiers have been walking in the desert for so long that they're seeing complete bedroom set mirages.
2. The writer has checked out mentally, stopped trying to make jokes funny and is now just reaching for anything that his Gin and Tonic addled brain interprets as humor.
3. Spooning in the desert with your fellow soldiers is just one of the many perks of the Armed Service. But since gheyness isn't allowed in the Military, you can have all the hot gay sex you want and not be gay! God Bless America! I'm going to assume these people are Americans or this joke won't be as funny. Where is my Gin and Tonic...
Shoe 2/23/2009
Wizard of Id 2/24/2009
Speaking of Superfluous body hair, what the hell is that being supposed to be? Why is his entire torso covered with long hair? I don't know if I've discussed this monstrosity before but come on, why is the prisoner wearing a bag made out of hair? The prisons in this country are worse than the ones in Iraq, at least the bags they made them wear weren't made out of their fellow prisoner's body hair. OR maybe the prison is actually a Factory Farm for the people who grow long luxurious hair on their torsos. The hair that those Bird Wigs are made out of...
Garfield 2/26/2009
There is a joke about cunnilingus in here somewhere but I want to leave this week on a classy note. Though I will point out that KFC has a new item called the Snackbox, and now every time you hear a commercial for it you will think of this cartoon and Jon's face.
Good Night y'all!
2 comments:
Stella, after I read your remarks on Crock, I tried to fix it.
I believe the Crock is a play on the oft-uttered (in cartoons and movies, anyway) "this looks like a good place to camp for the night." Ordinarily, they'd say that about a clearing in the woods or a cave or something - the joke is that this is superior to the places one would ordinarily say are good places to camp. That the speaker is saying a cliche about something that's even more obvious than usual.
Not funny at all. Crock is usually the worst written comic in a universe of poorly written comics, but I think this is what the writer was trying to say.
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