Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Forty Acres and a Mullet

Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Forty

Comic for 4 November 2002

4 November 2002

Comic for 5 November 2002

5 November 2002

Comic for 6 November 2002

6 November 2002

Comic for 7 November 2002

7 November 2002

Comic for 8 November 2002

8 November 2002

The Beginning    The Immediate Past    The Past    The Immediate Future    The End

Dispatches from the man in the dark sedan:

4 November 2002 - Quotes of the Week: "It's not enough to tickle the ribs. Now you must drive an ice pick into the brain pan. Did I say 'an ice pick'? I meant nine hundred ice picks, of course." --Michael O'Donoghue's manifesto

5 November 2002 - "Anything but Nixon, man. A blender. Anything." --Michael O'Donoghue, as the Voice of the People in "Profiles in Chrome" on The National Lampoon Radio Dinner, 1972
*Ahem* ... VOTE.

6 November 2002 - "Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like... to feed your fingertips... to the wolverines." -- Michael O'Donoghue, in the first sketch ever broadcast on Saturday Night Live, October 11, 1975

7 November 2002 - "All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, 'wrap it up.' Observe how easily I resolve this problem:
      Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
                               -the end-"
--"How to Write Good" by Michael O'Donoghue, in National Lampoon, March 1971

8 November 2002 - CAMERAMAN: Does it hurt?
MR. MIKE: Only when I laugh.
--Mr. Mike's final words, after having been impaled with a spear in the closing moments of Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, 1979
Michael O'Donoghue died of a brain hemorrhage eight years ago today. This week I have given you a small sampling of his comic genius. The rest I leave up to you.

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