Don't know why, but today I woke up thinking about cartoons. I would also bet big money (no whammies) that all of you had the same Saturday ritual I had - wake up at the ass crack of dawn and watch cartoons until Dungeons & Dragons went off the air at 11:30 a.m.
I really wish I remembered my line up, but I know it involved Bugs Bunny, Gummi Bears, Scooby Doo, Captain Caveman, Thundarr the Barbarian and Superfriends to name a few. Then we got cable and Cartoon Express on USA was a god send.
I guess I was thinking about cartoons because I just read this story in The Reader about the fella that draws The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder. The Boondocks is a popular and subversive comic strip that will soon be appearing on Adult Swim. McGruder is one of only a few prominent African-American cartoonists and has been making waves by poking conspicuous fun at Trent Lott, the N.R.A. and the war effort. His comic strip has characters with Afros and dreadlocks drawn in a style borrowing heavily from Japanese manga with accentuated foreheads and eyes. Good stuff, check it out.
Also, please watch a creepy Anime short I found on one of my favorite Holland blogs - "Fallen Art." I think the fella that made this one also had some things to say about the idea of war.
And last, Dr. Bone dropped "Let it Bone" last week and it roks. So, here are a couple of my early favorites, though that is likely to change with each listen. Let's listen to Super Furry Animals "A Touch Sensitive" (Aren't we all?) and TV On The Radio "Satellite."
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[1] Arrrr. Try again:
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ohhh...the littles, followed by muppet babies and then the snorks! but my schedule usually started around 5:30 am with the little prince. he taught me so much about life and love!
not to sound like a grump but I don't find the comic Boondocks funny and a couple of nights ago I was able to catch the show and I thought it was as funny as the comic. Pardon me...for my last sentence was a run-on. what happened to comic strips like "Calvin and Hobbs" and "The Far Side". I don't even crack a smile reading the funnies anymore. Aren't the Funnies supposed to be funny?
I suppose you are right, Stephen. But, I must disagree. McGruder's goal is social commentary, not to make you laugh. But, I do agree that comics aren't funny anymore. Except for Marmaduke. What will that crazy dog get into next?
[4] No, the Funnies are no longer allowed to be funny. Funny Funnies were outlawed on December 6, 2001 by a secret Congressional cabal in a post-9/11 law making spree in order to stem free thinking, make everyone take the government seriously and to appease an angry and vengeful god, who had smote at them and looked ill upon the Sunday Comics section as they blasphemed all that was sacred.
With "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Farside" out of the way already, America put up little resistence and we all sunk one step closer to that gray oblivion called Apathy.
Next year: National dress code - nothing but shades of gray.
Family Circus is the funniest shit in decades. That Jeffy gets into the rascaliest situations.
"NOT ME!"
Fuck
ing
HILARIOUS.
[6] but my mom tells me i look like death in gray!!!
[8] I look like death all the time. Thanks Heroin! That's why I love you like I'm addicted . . . to . . . heroin. Analgesics rock!
Family Circus is riotous, but I still think that Bil Keane is a dick. I can never trust a man who doesn't know how to spell his own first name.
I'm going to run this up the flagpole and just see how it flies. With a few obvious exceptions, the comics never were funny. They run mostly the same strips as they did 25 years ago. Said strips were funny then because we were five years old. I still read the comics for two reasons. First and foremost, Blondie is smoking hot. Second, they provide a nice seven minute diversion from my otherwise depressingly routine day. I swear, some days it's a victory if I can just will myself out of bed in the morning. Fortunately, I only have about 35 more years before I can retire. Just in time for a heart attack. Chew on that for a while Ziggy.
thunderpants,
garfield was hilarious. remember how much he loved lasagna. you just don't see that shit in the paper anymore. it's all fucking sugar coated.
we are not talking anymore thunderpants.
Dude, all I have to say is the cartoon express was the shit. I can't exactly remember the lineup, but some of the good ones I still remember are: transformers, shirt tales, GI Joe, gummi bears, snorks, scooby doo, dennis the menace, go bots, yogi the bear, and the smurfs. They need to bring that back, maybe give it a dedicated channel like cartoon network!
Wow. I thought I would bring up cartoons and it would be a nice little reminiscence. Oh no. Stephan has to get angry and start ostracizing. You can't imagine how difficult he is to live with. I guess that is why I have copious amounts of roofies...
...for the buttsecks, right cam?
[14] No, no. Roofies go into the hot toddies then comes the butt secks.
[15] Don't forget the Donovan crooning in the background!
[12]
Thundercats, anyone?
Growing up in Defiance, you can only imagine how badly I wanted to live in New Thundera. I would have dominated Mumm-ra and his minions.
Snarf, snarf.
The Thundercats logo is something that I am considering for my next tattoo.
Thunderpants! Thunderpants! Thunderpants, HO!