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LUCKY DUCKY

Isn't it great that taxpayers fund these new baseball stadiums, which are designed to ensure that there is no affordable seating?

Reality bites

This whole Jon and Kate thing may be hilarious to you, but this is my kids' favorite show.  It's basically a children's show that suddenly became a divorce drama.  How would you have liked it if Mike and Carol suddenly started splitting up in the middle of a Brady Bunch season?

Reality may be cheaper than fiction, but it's a whole lot messier.  It doesn't know what genre it's operating in.

The Lester Code

August Pollack's done some research, and found this pretty funny pattern in the editorial cartoons of Mike Lester.

August writes:

Okay, actually, I just figured it out.  It turns out Lester's cartoons are actually part of a very clever and tricky code sequence which I have BRILLIANTLY cracked:

Person 1: Arbitrary current issue to which I express dismay!

Person 2: ABORTION SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/70276/
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/70893/
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/69562/
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65340/

This week's comic

In this week's thrilling installment, Doug discovers THE ONLY WHOLLY MORAL FOOD.

Is this OUR David Cross?

David Cross in The NY Post's gossip page, for making out at a bar with his twenty-something girlfriend?  Gawker.com referencing this by calling him a name that this family blog can only translate as "often amorous"?

"Depression Funnies" in Harper's

The current issue of Harper's Magazine (June 2009) contains a comic I did for them called "Depression Funnies."  Help make this the biggest selling issue of a magazine since Charles Darwin and Ashton appeared on the cover of O:  The Oprah Magazine.  Get out to the newsstand and pick it up!

The Wrath of Caan

A bonus panel, with thanks to Nate and Johnny G...

 

This week in Super-Fun-Pak Comix...

Star Trek Babies.

 

Yet another Ghost of James Caan sighting...

This one, in an upcoming Super-Fun-Pak Comix:

300 Facebook Fans!

We're 60% of the way to our goal of 500 fans, folks!  We've come so far, we can't let up now!  Mr. Bolling appreciates... I mean, I  appreciate your support, and together we will beat that bearded buffoon Charles Darwin (who, by the way, is old!  And not just Michael Douglas old.  Charles Dickens old!).

As I look out my window and see the streets of San Jose... I mean, New York!  I see the streets of New York, and I'm thankful for the opportunity blogging and facebooking has given me to connect with my readers.  It has been a... como se dice?... a blessing!  Yes, Sr. Bolling is very glad... I mean, I'm very...

Ay caramba.  Sr. Bolling, I am so sorry.  Our jig is, how you say, up.  Please do not fire me.  I spent many hours learning how to write, in English, in the manner you instruct:  what you call "breezy," "self-referential," "ironic."  It is very hard because it seems muy estupido to me.  (Charles Darwin?  Michael Douglas?  I write it, but I do not understand.)  But this job -- maintaining the online marketing and the blogging and the facebooking by writing as though I am you -- has been very good for my family, and my relatives throughout Costa Rica.

But surely you are happy with my progress.  300 Facebook fans must bring you much prestige in the U.S.  You are perhaps getting a key to the city, or a parade in your honor.  So, if I continue this success, and get you to this goal of 500 fans, very soon, maybe you will forgive this lapse, and allow me to continue writing for/as you?

Lo siento,
Pablo.  I mean, Ruben Bolling.