Archive for the ‘America’ Category
Is Garfield Dead?
Came across this ‘Garfield is dead’ flash movie somewhat randomly today.. its a flash movie that is based off a series of ‘garfield’ strips form 1989… they’re rather dark as the feature Garfield being left alone in the house after everyone has moved away, which one would assume resulted in Garfield starving to death…
Interestingly enough,it’s lead to a group of people believing that given that the strips end with Garfield retreating into his imagination that it implies that all the Garfield strips since about 1990 (when Garfield would have starved to death) are now the result of Garfield’s ghost which is trapped in the house and refuses to realise that he’s dead.
Which is a load of bollocks really, but it’s a cool idea. And the strips are wonderfully dark….
While the strips I’m uploading are in colour, the b&w one’s that the flash movie uses are somewhat better so I’d advise people to take a look at that first…
And while we’re on the subject of depressing comic strips - this is actually worse I think and this is another great example of ‘is that actually real and written by the real author’ style comics where Walt Disney has Mickey Mouse trying to kill himself
UpdateThis site has a lot of the information about the strips as well as a really cool animation that is very similar to the actual strip and its story Read the rest of this entry »
Thrill to Hillary and her action movie lifestyle!!
Fucking hell, I love how she assumes everyone is a complete idiot…
George Bush don’t like black people
Man, I hadn’t heard this before but it’s great… A remix of the Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’ …
America Jr.
I had heard about this webcomic before but never actually had a look at it. But today,having nothing better to do with myself and wanting to have a day where I didn’t do college related stuff ofr the first time in well … ages, I had a look through all 300 odd strips. (Well technically,I tried to do college stuff but was really not into it and decided to give myself the day off). Anyway, they’re pretty good, granted the last few strips befroe it went on a break (where it currently is at the moment) were a bit lacking in imagination, and the insistence they have on archiving all the weekend filler strips (even though most of the time its the same strip saturday and sunday and those same strips keep being repeated … ahhh) is a bit annoying. But the whole thing is pretty funny. Anyway, here’s some samples so take a look.
‘The Word’ on Obama’s ‘Race Speech’
Cian’s already talked about this, but Obama does it funnier (sorry Cian) (Also, I apologise for the fact that ‘funnier’ isn’t correct English)
A really good week on the Daily Show…
I really love the assessment of the ’sex scandals’ that they have here:
I love the ‘Elliot Spritzer’ Movie they have in this clip: Read the rest of this entry »
The Most Important Issue in the U.S. Elections? Bullshit!
It’s kind of creepy the way that ‘fake’ news like The Daily Show, the Onion and the Colbert Report are actually more realistic than most of the ‘real’ coverage of this election:
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
‘Pax Romana’ #1 online for free
Jonathan Hickman produced one of the best comic books and general pieces of entertainment I saw last year with his book ‘the Nightly News‘. Thankfully he isn’t resting on his laurels and has got several works in the pipeline. The most recent of which being ‘Pax Romana’. Here is a link to the first issue online. It’s very very good, maintaining the impressive design sense that the ‘Nightly News’ had, while still not seeming too derivative of that work. Granted, the story sounds derivative to those of us who have read too much science-fiction but it’s still done better than a lot of those stories. As a final aside, in an era when many 22 page comics take 5 minutes to read a book like ‘Pax Romana’ is very much value for money in terms of time spent:
PAX ROMANA tells the tale of 5000 men sent on an impossible mission to change the past and save the future. It’s the end of the world: Will they succeed, or will they fail?
Also of great interest is his talking about the first issue in depth here. What he says that I’ll pass on in it is that the internet doesn’t really do his art style justice as the two page spreads are designed to be read as one image rather than two seperate pages. Anyway, I really recommend taking a look and if your that impressed there’s a preview of the second issue here
Myth of the Liberal Nanny State
I’ll really have to stop posting links from Alternet soon but before I get there…
Among the most fanciful is the notion that conservatives are self-reliant actors who embrace a private sector free from government meddling. Supposedly, the right is content to take on the free-market with strength and skill, and let the chips fall where they may, while liberals look to the state to be their protective nanny, there to iron out the wrinkles of a dynamic, entrepreneurial society
A quick example of how the deck is stacked in certain ways:
Now what they could have done — and this would have been a true free trade policy — they could have said, “Look, there are a lot of very smart people in Mexico and China and India. And they can be doctors, lawyers, accountants and economists, and they would drive down costs in those areas enormously.” We’d get our health care for much, much less — we’d save hundreds of billions of dollars per year — our college tuition would fall, because we’d pay college professors much less. We could make the whole thing transparent — set up standards to make sure that we get the same quality of doctors.
Enormous savings for the United States — a great free trade story — but instead of putting downward pressure on the wages of our auto workers, we’d be putting downward pressure on the wages of our highest earners. If we brought our wage structure for doctors just down to European levels, you’d be talking about saving $80 billion per year. That’s a big chunk of our health care bill right there. But no one talks about that, and that’s a classic example of framing the debate about what “free” trade is.
You can read the article here and download the PDF book here