Jesse Bloggs

The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. … It’s an absurd situation again, only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.

Former CIA official Michael Scheuer on the Glenn Beck Program.  Link via TAPPED.

I am loath to disagree with the reasonable Michael Scheuer, but Osama bin Laden is fortunately not our only hope for a better America.  Osama, like many foreign workers, may be cheaper than our own labor supply, but in the debate between free-markets and protecting American jobs I must respectfully side with Lou Dobbs on this particular issue: Americans can do it better.

Rather than simply waiting for a new terrorist attack, our military should carpet bomb a major American city to help put Republicans back in power.  Of course, the patriotism Osama bin Laden inspired on September 11th only lasted so long, which is why our military should periodically attack its own citizenry, so that the dangers of Democratic rule are constantly in our minds.

While I would prefer that no Real American cities are destroyed, I know that the Democrats will insist on protecting the elitist, coastal cities that make up their base, so to make things fair I propose that every American city be entered into a lottery, similar to the one proposed in Shirley Jackson’s Utopian short story, to determine which city should be sacrificed to remind Americans that freedom isn’t free.

Photo 2009 by me.  Thanks to Hannah for being a good sport.

2009.

“[. . . T]he inevitability of [. . . my own death] has always struck me as distinctly unfair, and somewhat unlikely [. . .].”

Mark Slouka in his essay “Eclogue: On the rich sin of meddling.”  July 2009 Harpers, pages 45-48.  This quote page 48.

Amanuensis –noun.  A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Audrey and I saw Up tonight; it may be my new favorite movie.  Okay, one of many favorites.  Why have just one?  In other visual mediums, it’s easy to confuse physical or surface beauty with inner goodness, but in animation and the cartoon arts, even the ugly can be beautiful.  For an example, just look at the star of Up.

“Love’s the greatest gift of the ugly to the beautiful.”

“The Ugly and the Beautiful” by The (Real) Tuesday Weld, from their album I, Lucifer, inspired by the novel of the same name by Glen Duncan.

Amanuensis –noun.  A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Thanks John Massé’s Dad!  2009.

“My Dad always said, ‘Son, if you can draw beautiful women, you’ll never starve.’  Thanks Dad!”

Illustrator John Massé in the March / April 2009 issue of Layers Magazine, page 32.

Amanuensis –noun.  A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Clave and I haven’t gotten together for a while, but when we do you know we’re trouble!  Below is our latest jam comic (where we started with the last panel and then drew each previous panel to show what happened.  Thanks Matt and Jessica!) and a portrait of me by Clave in the style of Roger Hargreaves.  Enjoy!