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CHRIS MUIR’S Day By Day really deserves to be syndicated.
I could not agree more, and if you click here, you will be taken to a
How, you might ask, is this shameless self-promotion? Because I believe that if I was not the first, I was pretty damn close to the first blog in the blogosphere to promote Day By Day. He emailed me, I immediately recognized his genius, and it has been a daily read ever since.
While I am promoting things, let me remind everyonethat the best blog in the world is now back after a lengthy hiatus. If you have not been there before, go read Protein Wisdom. If you really want a belly laugh, click here to read the greatest fisking ever done– and I think it was done before ‘fisking’ was even a term. To this day, I still think “Let’s Rall!” is the greatest post ever written in the blogosphere, and when Protein Wisdom disappeared, I was so upset that one night, after a few cocktails and 3-4 months without Jeff and company, I actually used Yahoo’s people search and called every Jeff Goldstein in Colorado. I never found, the right one, btw..
Chris Muir
Balloon-Juice WAS the very first to show the toon(and mention it). Shortly after, DailyPundit started carrying it.
Thanks, John!
Jeff G
Heh. I’m listed under my wife’s name nowadays. Got tired of Ted Rall calling and hanging up.
The sniveling prick.
Norbizness
I will personally throw my estimable weight behind this effort if I can be assured that it will replace Mallard Fillmore in my paper of record.
burnplant
Wow, that is a good find, and buffoon-juice was there first.
Alternate converstation bubbles for the hilarious Kerry-Gulf War-Vietnam cartoon:
Panel 1
“I actually was aware of the Al-Qaeda threat before they struck, it was a top priority from day 1 of my administration”
Panel 2
“I see that President Bush is telling the librul media that he had the Al-Qaeda threat covered”
“Yeah, except when it came to stopping it!”
Panel 3
“Stop it? You mean we expect this President to actually do anything?”
“Ha ha, that’s funny!”
Look at me, I’m a cartoonist!
Chris Muir
incisive, short, to-the-point…well done, burnplant! You must be tired after 6 hours of cogitation to write that in; kick back & have a beer!
Rick
Burnplant,
If Ted Rall can ever learn to draw, you might provide good, trenchant story lines for him.
Cordially…
Proud2BSimpletons
Chris Muir and John Cole are just soooo proud of being simpletons. Emulating dear leader no doubt. Can’t understand bills have amendments?
“Kerry’s staff said he was trying to indicate his support for an amendment funding the appropriation from increased taxes on the wealthiest Americans. When that amendment failed, he voted against the bill.”
Was that so terribly difficult for your pretty heads?
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/clips/news_2004_0322.html
Jeff G
“Look at me, I’m a cartoonist!”
ist…?
Jeff G
“pretty heads,” eh?
Guess we know what you’ll be spending your weekend puffin’ on.
Oh, and let me get this straight: Kerry’s FOR the troops unless he doesn’t get his way on a tax increase. In which case, fuck ’em. That about right?
Tool.
burnplant
Jeff G,
Ha ha, that’s right you scored on ‘im. Wow, that’s devastating. Way to bring out the “Kerry tax increase or soldiers die” platform…finally a genius at buffoon-juice!!!
burnplant
Sorry Rick,
I’d just skimmed at first and didn’t notice your excellent application of the word “trenchant”. Way to go, time to chalk up another win for yourself and flip that calender…next word, “oblivious”…use it in a sentence.
Jeff G
Oh, come now, burnplant. You’re gonna have to do better than that. I mean, “Wow, that’s devastating”…? And,”Way to bring out the blah blah blah”…? ‘slike being teased by a 15-year old girl who’s just discovered how emphasizing certain words can generate rudimentary sarcasm.
Please tell me you have more in the bag than that. Because I’m already bored, and I haven’t even started slapping you around yet.
Watcher
While we are shamelessly promoting things… here are the results of the Watcher’s Council vote for this week, and bloggers looking to increase their chances of getting nominated should read this.
John Y.
There’s a reason that Day by Day isn’t syndicated anywhere… a very simple one.
It’s not ever funny.
Justin O.
correct correct….not very funny…….and it needs to be a little more complicated in a way while maintaining simplicity with a more creative character development which is lacking as I’ve seen……..
I said earlier……
Cheap Ass Doonesbury
Kimmitt
Yeah, I’ve had it recommended to me a couple of times. It’s a right-wing Doonesbury variant, but it just isn’t at all funny to me. It feels a lot like Mallard Fillmore; you’re supposed to laugh because “liberals” are so stupid, not because of clever comedic timing or good characterization.
Slartibartfast
Not laugh-out-loud funny, but amusing. To me, at least. Doonesbury hasn’t even risen to the level of interesting in over a decade, by comparison.
John Cole
Actually- I think the cartoon I linked to was laugh outloud funny.
Full discluosure- I have all the old Doonesbury books- and they are damned funny. Miserable since at least the 80’s though.
More full disclosure- The greatest cartoon strip in the world is still Bloom County.
Jeff G
Berke Breathed is one of my heroes. Of course, another is Tanner Boyle, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
John Cole
Jeff- Did you ever read Richard Brautigan?
Justin O.
John, you know the only reason why I rag on anything of yours is cuz I love you
Jeff G
John. I wrote a novella for my master’s thesis called Brautigan, Revisited — about Brautigan’s ghost dating this college chick, despite all the inconveniences of the whole alive / dead thing.
I’ve also taught both Trout Fishing In America and In Watermelon Sugar, along with some of RB’s poetry.
Tell you what: I’ll post a couple of Brautigan links from my archives over on my site. Just for your having heard of him.
John Cole
Brautigan is a genius- I think I have read every book he has ever written.
Willard and His Bowling Trophies might be one of my favorites.
I forget, though- was it the Hawkline Monster that had the Obsessive Comulsive counter who even counted the number of times he vomited in the boat?
Been so many years. I need to read them all again.