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May 15, 2007
When You Give Someone With Nothing To Say A Forum - You Get Prickly City
Maybe this is why Republicans hate the YouTube so much.
Old Man Stantis is at it again. After bitching about baseball players yet again, today he goes after that gol'dang new fangled technology on the internets called YouTube. Of course it's just as original and insightful as yesterday's two-year-old critique of steroid abuse in baseball.
Once again Stantis comes up with a good idea - Winslow has filmed himself and put it on the net. So what hysterical thing did Winslow do? Since we don't actually see what's on the monitor, apparently it's just Winslow sitting there saying "Uhhhhhhh" for several minutes.
Yup, that's it.
Wow Stantis, you came up with that all by yourself?
I'll be the first to admit that there's a lot of stupid crap on YouTube, but couldn't Stantis have spent more than two seconds on this and come up with something that's actually FUNNY for Winslow to do? Would that be too much to ask? Couldn't he have taped Carmen doing something embarrassing, like catch her sitting on the crapper reading The Nation? Or maybe shot himself jumping off a roof into a vat of jello? Something??
Of course Republicans HATE YouTube. They say it has a liberal bias, I guess because people are taking video of politicians saying and doing stupid things and actually making it available for the whole world to see, and usually it's Republicans that are making fools of themselves. Thanks to YouTube everyone can watch as Rudy Giuliani dresses up like a woman AGAIN and George Allen calls someone a racial slur whenever they want instead of relying on the "liberal" media to point these things out. The conservatives are so convinced that the YouTube, much like reality, has a liberal bias that they've even started their own internet video service called QubeTV. I'm sure that'll be a huge hit with the kids. "Hey dudes - check out my video tribute to Ann Coulter! She's the dinkiest!"
Damn this futuristic technology! How dare we empower the average citizen by giving them the chance to actually effect politics! Before you know it bloggers will be reporting on stories that the mainstream media have ignored and making them huge issues that rattle the very foundations of the corrupt Republican party.
You know, kinda like that whole "firing US Attorneys for political reasons" thing. We can thank the bloggers and the internets for that.
No wonder Stantis hates YouTube and technology in general. He doesn't get to control the message. It's the same reason he's bitching in that editorial mentioned in yesterday's comments section. Instead of making his comic strip better, he's just going to bitch and moan that someone is using an improved platform to get their message across. Just more whiiiiiining from another neo-con who is still stuck in the 1950s. Do you think Stantis catches the irony of him complaining about the newspaper industry being out of touch a few months ago and then writing that column and now bitching about YouTube?
Thank god Prickly City isn't available on the internet. Next thing you know, Stantis would have his own podcast and try to sell toys and books via the damned internets. But nooo, Stantis would never allow any of those things to happen, right? Right?
Comments
Furnace thouroughly covered the "content" of today's strip, so I'll just pose a question about the "artwork."
Why does Carmen have no face in the first 3 panels? Are those scribbles near Winslow's ear supposed to be her face?
Posted by: John at May 15, 2007 12:24 PM
The plot thickens...
If you read my comment yesterday, then you are aware that Stantis wrote an editorial for the Birmingham News lashing out at those who award the Pulitzer Prize for Exditorial Cartooning, claiming that they shouldn't take the nominees' editorial animations, which they post online, into account. I posted a link, then, to the editorial. Well, that wasn't the whole thing. It's here:
http://blog.al.com/stantis/2007/05/a_zany_development.html
So apparently what originally made Scott mad was how this year's Pulitzer winner, the distinguished Walt Handelsman, was cited as having won due to his cartoons and his "zany animations." And that one word -- "zany" -- got under Stantis's skin. He wants the editorial cartoonists' work to be regarded as savage, and uncomfortably frank. Not zany.
And right he is. But this raises an interesting point for me... Why, then, does he have a blatantly political comic strip which he makes into a multi-panel editorial cartoon instead of something actually funny? In this editorial he is careful to say that comic strips are supposed to be zany, but editorial cartoons are supposed to be serious.
Uh, Stantis, I think in that case "Prickly City" is a bit confused. A lot, really.
And before I post this, I ust wanted to say that today's strip is horrid. Thank you. Good night and God bless. Drive home safely. Etc., etc.
Posted by: Prickly City News Flash! at May 15, 2007 03:18 PM
In two weeks - a non-zany tribute to Jerry Falwell! You heard it here first . . .
Posted by: Annie at May 15, 2007 04:32 PM
