I got a nice new letter opener today (I broke the last one on a surprisingly strong envelope), and the only letter that’s come this afternoon came open by itself in the mail. That this was a genuine disappointment — and that I’m actually blogging about it — should give you a sense of the sort of day I’m having.
Month: June 2003
I find it amusing (and, perhaps, more than a little disturbing) that people visit my little website in search of such different things as “christian elements of beowulf”, “naked pirates porn”, and “the girl who’s head was chop off in yosemite park”. Sadly (or luckily), I can offer them only two of these things, and my Beowulf paper is based on a flawed reading of scripture, while my pirate sketch offers precious little pornography and almost nothing for those all hot and bothered by the thought of a well-carved peg leg. As for the Yosemite girl…well, that’s the trouble with not putting quotes around your search request or using a search engine that doesn’t recognize them. There’s nothing else about her on my website, and, frankly, I could have done without reading up on four grisly murders first thing Monday morning.
What about this? Funny? (I’m pretty much working in a vacuum here, so comments are very much appreciated.)
Opinions appreciated: is this funny?
I’ve mentioned Oddball Comics here before, but this week’s are particularly bizarre, with their spotlight on various issues of The Adventures Of Jerry Lewis. Particularly amusing, I think is the idea of Jerry Lewis as the Flash and this ad for a “giant life size moon monster” from issue 123. There’s also a brief mention of Lewis’ “controversial The Day the Clown Cried, a notoriously Oddball movie about a Jewish clown who leads children into the gas chamber of a Nazi concentration camp.” Is it any wonder they love the man in France?
