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March 19, 2006
Face/On
What do you get when you combine a story from over a month ago and a movie that came out last year? Today's Prickly City.
With that said, any ideas what this upcoming week will be about? The biggest story I can remember was the Oscar telecast, which could mean "Crash" and "Brokeback Mountain" jokes, as if we haven't heard enough of those already. The Republicans voted against any more NSA investigations, which is what led to Senator Feingold's censure resolution (note to all of those Democrats like Harry Reid that are waiting for more investigations before supporting the censure: THEY AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. You should know better than that - you're the freakin' minority leader for pete's sake). The Republicans picked up the tempo on the banging of the war drums with Iran, which I'm sure has nothing to do with their efforts to open their own oil bourse. What's sick is that they really think they can pull off invading yet another country in the Middle East that isn't an immediate threat - the only difference this time is the Iranian leadership admit they want WMDs (although they're 5 - 10 years away from getting close). Then again I guess I have a pre-9/11 mentality, as Dick Cheney is saying right now on "Face the Nation." Boy, this guy loves to talk about 9/11 when he's talking about Iran and Iraq, even though they have nothing to do with each other.
CJo is in transit this week, so Sacki and I are going to try and keep up with whatever Stantis does. I really hope Stantis introduces a new, full-time character. I understand that people are complex, and there are times when Stantis is conflicted about his conservative Republican beliefs. But he's drawing a comic strip (or at least trying to), and for his jokes to make sense he needs to keep Carmen and Winslow on track so we know what the heck he's trying to make a funny about. But don't bring back Dio - that guy was a black hole of unfunny. Or Kevin the Bunny - he was even less funny if that's possible.
On second thought, maybe he should stick with screwing up only two characters.
