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I’ve never been able to draw to save my life. I can’t complain too much, I’ve got other talents, but yesterday I had a great idea for a cartoon, à la The Far Side. Perhaps someone else can do something with this.
Scene: Two Native Americans, a man and a woman, stand in front of their teepee. The man holds a blanket over a fire, making smoke signals. The woman has her arms crossed and looks unimpressed.
Man: I’m sorry honey, I have to take this…
Any idea-starved cartoonists out there?
Here’s an expression that needs to die: “It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread!” I can think of a million inventions that are better than sliced bread. Say, for example, toilet paper. Whatever people were doing before toilet paper was invented, I can pretty much guarantee it was worse than slicing bread.
If you haven’t checked out the new Neko Case album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, I highly recommend you do so. This is her fourth solo studio album, though you may also know her from her work with The New Pornographers. I picked this up on the recommendation of an email from Amazon.ca, despite not having heard any of her previous albums. This album has an alluring combination of lush instrumentation, cryptic yet emotive lyrics, and finely crafted songs. And Case’s amazing voice soars over it all like… uh, something that soars. Whatever, I can’t write reviews. Just buy the damn album, it’s really good. Here’s an MP3.