By Michael J. Smith on Monday April 12, 2010 06:26 PM
Feelin' my age.
Comments (5)
finest graphic here in three years
Posted by op | April 13, 2010 5:04 PM
Posted on April 13, 2010 17:04
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Posted by I don't get it | April 13, 2010 8:42 PM
Posted on April 13, 2010 20:42
If you have to explain a joke, clearly it wasn't much of a joke. But I love to evangelize the brilliant sure-footed work of R Crumb, who drew the panel above some forty-odd years ago.
My previous post kinda depressed me. A World Leader made a Mighty Speech -- to a bunch of other World Leaders -- and I hadda say something about it. Mighty Speeches made by World Leaders set me my daily task. Sometimes I wish I had a different, more elevated, less sordid, daily task. That's all.
Posted by MJS | April 13, 2010 10:13 PM
Posted on April 13, 2010 22:13
This I get.
I guess mjs id's with the gal in the chair!?
But the relationship between the thought bubbles defeats me. Perhaps an embassy should be dispatched to Crumb.
Posted by hopeless dummy | April 13, 2010 11:26 PM
Posted on April 13, 2010 23:26
No, the problem is that I *don't* identify with the lady in the drawing. I don't find the mighty speeches "intristing" -- I find them deeply boring, and only wish that everybody else felt the same way. I'm in the intristing position, I guess, of being an evangelist for boredom.
How you read an image often says more about you than about the image, but the story I take away from this image is that the lady in the armchair is only intristed in the mighty speeches because she is smitten with the scowling newsreader.
I recently found myself in a position where I couldn't escape watching a lot of CNN for a period of some months. It was horrible, of course, but what was intristing was that a stance of chronic pissed-offedness seems to be de rigueur for newschatterers these days. Quite different from the above-it-all orotundity of the Cronkite/Rather generation. I daresay people enjoy it -- like the lady in the picture -- but why?
Posted by MJS | April 14, 2010 4:18 PM
Posted on April 14, 2010 16:18