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August 02, 2005
Land Shark
Today's Strip
Here's what I read in today's Prickly City:
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Seriously - it's a nothing topic this week. Scoots wants to follow through on the media and shark bites. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Carmen professes her love for Greta Van Frankenstein, saying she's one of her "heroes." Letting us know that Carmen's requirements for a hero are 1) be on Fox News and 2) be a talentless hack. What exactly is heroic about being on Court TV and then getting plastic surgery that makes you look like you're always surprised and confused?
Greta then interviews the little girl about the shark bite, there's talk of mourning, and again blah blah blah. It doesn't really matter to me because all of this is TAKING PLACE IN THE DESERT. But nobody seems to want to ask how the heck a coyote was bitten by a shark on a sand dune.
Aw man - did Stantis go and do it again by accident? Did he secretly slip in a slam on the neo-cons and without knowing it?
Greta actually represents Judith Miller, desperate to break the "big story." She goes to the desert, wanting proof that the story she wants to write is true. The shark bite is weapons of mass destruction. Even though there's zero proof other than a little girl with pig tails (the scientist in the blue hat), she goes ahead with her story causing a sensation in the country. And all based on lies.
Of course that's not what Stantis meant. But it's fun to dream.
Comments
I thought yesterday's was an decent joke-of-the-day kind of thing. But this is going to be a full week? I'll pretend Stantis is using your subtext. It validates my views, and that makes me happy. A little weird... I grew up in a small desert town in AZ and had this same accident when I was a kid. Fell off rocks onto a barrel cactus. Very bloody.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 2, 2005 11:02 AM
Whoops, that's me above.
Posted by: JB at August 2, 2005 11:05 AM
I grew up in the circus and let me tell you - a barrel cactus has nothing on a barrel of monkeys.
Posted by: Sacki at August 2, 2005 11:13 AM
