Patterns of my mind

[stilltrucking]

First deny
Then attack
Then change the subject

18 soldiers killed in the last thirty six hours
God only knows how many Iraqi dead

Time to move on
Change the subject
Lets send Condi to the middle east again

[jimboloco]

where is al capp
when we
need him?
TITLE: Mother's Tears ARTIST: Al Capp WORK DATE: 1974 Silkscreen

[stilltrucking]

The tracks of Barbara's tears
For her son the war hero
Top gun fighter pilot swaggering across the deck of the Abe Lincoln.

We need another war hero to run for presidunce. I nominate Jubilation T. Cornpone.

Jubilation T. Cornpone:A town as forlorn as Dogpatch is bound to be hard up for heroes. Thus it comes as no surprise that its most famous son, memorialized by a statue, is civil war General Jubilation T. Cornpone, best known for "Cornpone's Retreat," "Cornpone's Disaster" and "Cornpone's Rout." But what he is really best known for is inspiring the most rousing and memorable song in the popular "Li'l Abner musical. The first verse:
"When we fought the Yankees and annihilation was near, who was there to lead the charge that took us safe to the rear? Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone, old toot-your-own-horn pone. Jubilation T. Cornpone, a man who knew no fear."

http://www.lil-abner.com/other.html

Who was known to all his men as good ol' "Paper Mache?"

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs ... ical.shtml

[Zlatko Waterman]

Alfred Caplin ( Al Capp), the cartoonist who used, among other things, his Jewish background and mastery of Yiddish slurs brilliantly, would never have been represented in the forties and fifties as a "handicapped cartoonist", but that's what he was by some definitions. Capp remains one of the cartoon greats and his social satire was second to none. Walt Kelly

http://www.bpib.com/kelly.htm

himself a brilliant satirist in comic strips, was a fan of Capp's.

John Callahan, in contrast, uses his quadriplegia

http://www.medfriendly.com/quadriplegia.html

indirectly to create hundreds of quirky and brilliant satirical cartoons. His autobiography, DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT is both hilarious and inspiring.

His war on political correctness regarding the handicapped is carried on from the unassailable position of a man in a wheelchair who draws crudely and brilliantly with a pen he can barely grip.

Callahan's sense of humor has been called twisted, depraved and politically incorrect, but he makes people laugh-- people like some of the greatest and most successful cartoonists of our time-- Gary Larson

http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/12/21/larson/


and Matt Groening

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/30/groening/

and actor Robin Williams

among them.


(link to Callahan)

http://www.callahanonline.com/calsto.html

I agree, ST, Al Capp was a genius.

--Z

[stilltrucking]

al capp a bitter old man
refered to Joan Baez as Phoney Joaney during the Vietnam war.

ANd nietzsche asked:

Could the artist be the manure from which his art grows? (paraphrase from memory)

them fucking jews are every where ain't they.

[stilltrucking]

knee jerk reaction on first reading
of your post
I could delete it but I think not.
Just Jew boy paranoia
Nothing personal
Hitler is dead
so I got nothing to worry about.

There was a lot of WW 2 vets like Capp

I heard a sound byte about VFW and American Legion and how they treated the Vietnam vets as a bunch of cry babies.

Now those Vietnam vets are the old farts and they vowel to make their chapters friendly to the Iraqi vets.

[Zlatko Waterman]

Capp is often shown as a curmudgeon by lefties.

Like John Steinbeck, he was a supporter of the Vietnam War.

( paste)

By the 1960s, however, Capp’s political views swung from liberal to conservative, and this was reflected in his comic strip. No longer were big business and incompetent government officials his target, but instead he began spoofing longhaired hippies and counterculture icons such as Joan Baez. Capp himself was a favorite speaker on college campuses, but his outspoken political views and public support for the Vietnam War brought protests and demonstrators, including the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The era of hillbilly social commentary seemed passé in the face of a nation that was splitting down the middle, and Capp’s strip finally ceased publication in 1977. Yet, 30 years later, Dogpatch phrases and characters still appear in the lexicon of American culture.

( end paste-- from:)http://www.goodspeed.org/shows/abner.htm




So was Vladimir Nabokov.

One can be wrong and still be a brilliant satirist, or novelist.

Here's a link to an unadmiring biography of the "real" John Steinbeck:

http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stor ... 984aj.html

and a personal bit of research in Steinbeck Country turns up some ambivalence:

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/08/18/Persp ... eck_.shtml

Becoming a cheerleader for Lyndon Johnson's war hurt Steinbeck's reputation as a fearless supporter of the downtrodden. And the obfuscation and ultimately, horror and humiliation of Vietnam branded supporters as overly zealous patriots and paranoids.

--Z

[stilltrucking]

Thanks Norman
I can use every push I can get towards the edge
As you can see from my little picture of Joe


.

Nothing to do with nothing
And yes Dos Passos did write those speaches for Richard Nixon.

I was thinking about Condi in Palestine
It was good to see her smiling face
It took my mind right off the subject of Iraq.'


I was already walking and talking and reading the comic strips when you were born litttle brother,

Thanks for the info on all those old guys.

Are you perezso? I miss that guy a lot. For some reason you remind me of him.

Please pardon me, I been reading way too much Derrida, always deconstructing these days.
.

[Zlatko Waterman]

I'm as close to perezoso as you are to Condaleeza Rice.

Perezoso lives out in the desert, east from me.

--Z

[stilltrucking]

Damn you blew my cover


You know how crazy I am. I think there is some connection between her trip to the middle east and a very grim day in Iraq. Just a coincidence I am sure. It fascinates me how Iraq comes and goes from the news.



I wonder how Doreen managed to stop perezoso from posting here. I wish she would do the same for me.

Compulsive scribbler that I am.

[jimboloco]

fortunately I was bitter in my youth.

am now merely semi-sweet booger, or working on it.



Jesus dude are you looking for sympathy or what?
It's not that funny, altho I find it a bit so.
Perezozo was MEAN do you understand. That is why he got the boot.

[jimboloco]

soo Al Capp was pro-Vietnam? (war)

mercy Steinbeck too

well of course there was the communist scare and they would've been censured in the commie block.
Who would've knowed that the Vietnamese relolutionaries were a far cry from Kim Ill Sick Heil
or the Gang of Four
or Pol Pot
?
Lucky for us they were multi-dimensional, along with the Pathet Lao,
but how were we to know? Oh of course Uncle Ho wrote to both Presiduncez Wilson and Truman
aksingk for help in independence
but hey
they wanted the status quo so
helped the Frenchies imperialists both times
and now when the frenchies try to enlighten us
we demean and ignore them and say thhey opposed our policies in Iraq and now Iran because the Frenchies and Germans have had monied interests there, but hey nada about their experiences with imperial militarism floundered on the sands of North africa, mercy


of course, we love the Saudis and sleep with the Pakistanis
and borrow money from the Red Chinese
oh yeah.
Where is Daddy Warbucks when we need him?
http://www.liss.olm.net/loahp/resources ... rbucks.jpg