Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Fourteen, Which Donovan is Just Mad About

Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Fourteen

Comic for 6 May 2002

6 May 2002

Comic for 7 May 2002

7 May 2002

Comic for 8 May 2002

8 May 2002

Comic for 9 May 2002

9 May 2002

Comic for 10 May 2002

10 May 2002

The Beginning The Immediate Past The Past The Immediate Future The Present

Dispatches from the deoxyribonucleic acid:

6 May 2002 - Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo in Mexico. Today is Children's Day in Japan. Tomorrow is nothing. Deal with it.

7 May 2002 - I would like to apologize for my remark yesterday when I stated that today was nothing. Today is, in fact, the 75^th birthday of Merchant-Ivory's resident screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Happy birthday, Ruth. I really had no idea.
It is also Academy Award-winning film composer/Art of Noise member Anne Dudley's 46^th birthday, and would have been British actor Valentine Dyall's 94^th. Also born today were low-budget film producer Val Lewton, who would have been 98, and Hollywood legend Gary Cooper, who would have been 101.
And it is Harold Ramis and Erica Mann's 13^th wedding anniversary. Congratulations, Harold and Erica. I didn't mean to denigrate your big day.
It also happens to be the 52^nd birthday of Randall 'Tex' Cobb, who played Leonard Smalls, Tracker from Hell, in Raising Arizona. I wouldn't want to get that guy pissed at me, let me tell you.
I think I could handle low-budget movie producer Albert Band (78) and actor Darren "The Old Man in A Christmas Story" McGavin (80), though. Come on, guys, bring it on. I dare you. I'll even let you have writer/director Amy Heckerling (48) on your side. Hey, she's just a girl.

8 May 2002 - I would like to apologize for my remark yesterday when I stated that Amy Heckerling was "just a girl." After receiving a mountain of angry e-mails -- most of them from Heckerling's husband Neil Israel (a writer/director in his own right, whose cinematic progeny include the first two Police Academy movies, Bachelor Party, Moving Violations, his wife's Look Who's Talking Too, Surf Ninjas and not one, but two installments of the direct-to-video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley) -- I would like to state here and now that Amy Heckerling is, in fact, a woman. Thank you.

9 May 2002 - I realize that this is becoming something of a running gag, but I would like to apologize for yesterday's dispatch, in particular the part where I identified Neil Israel as Amy Heckerling's husband. They are, in fact, divorced, and I am apparently responsible for the opening of some old wounds. Wow. Really didn't mean to do that. I'd better stop before I write something that I have to apologize for tomorrow.

10 May 2002 - I realize this is unusual, but I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to myself. You see, for some reason I was in the mood to watch Woody Allen's Interiors last night and I actually did so. Crazy. I immediately made it up to myself by watching Michael O'Donoghue's scene in Manhattan right afterwards, though, so don't feel like you have to write me tons of e-mail trying to convince me not to kill myself. I'm out of danger...for now. But who knows? Someday I might actually feel compelled to watch September again. Erg.