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April 11, 2007
As We Go Up, We Go Down
When the going gets tough and the tough get going, we can count on Scott Stantis to repeat, rehash, regurgitate, and resuck. Or, at the very least, turn Carmen upside-down.
Back in the heyday of Prickly City, when Michael Moore's weight jokes were fresh and Howard Dean's scream had only been referenced eight times, Stantis tried the ole upside-down/un-moored/topsy-turvy bit:
(October 12, 2005)
Theme: The GOP Paradigm is Broken. Result: Carmen's feet are where her head should be.
This time around, as the "Right" is "adrift," the whole word has again gone topsy-turvy. This time: ne pas de gravity. Hilarity ensues.
Don't get me wrong, this repeated idea resonates today just as it did in '05. And from the perspective of watching this train wreck of a strip every day, each car getting demolished one-by-one in super-slo-mo, with the years flying by and the refuse piling up, it's more amusing than, say, Winslow unable to surf in the desert every April:
