Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Ninety-Four

Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Ninety-Four

Comic for 17 November 2003

17 November 2003

Comic for 18 November 2003

18 November 2003

Comic for 19 November 2003

19 November 2003

Comic for 20 November 2003

20 November 2003

Comic for 21 November 2003

21 November 2003

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

Dispatches from the Crutch of the Submental:

17 November 2003 - Quote of the Week: "They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now." --Randy Newman, "Political Science," a song written 30 years ago that eerily captures the current political climate here in the States

18 November 2003 - In the past two days, I have seen two motion pictures with colons in the titles. The first was Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which its director Joe Dante intended to be the anti-Space Jam and, in that, it succeeds admirably. The second was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the new Peter Weir film, which also happens to contain the most charismatic Russell Crowe performance I have ever seen. Now all I have to do is wait for the Errol Morris documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara to come out and the hat trick will be complete. (I suppose the hat trick could be completed by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but that's the third part of a trilogy; it's almost cheating. And don't me started on Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Seriously.)

19 November 2003 - Two things: Yesterday, DEVO's video collection The Complete Truth About De-Evolution (long out of print on laserdisc) came out on DVD. (Yay.) Also yesterday, film composer Michael Kamen -- who wrote the scores for Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and The Iron Giant, among others -- died. (Gah.) I don't know how to wrap this up.

20 November 2003 - This just in: Two for the seesaw, a buck fifty for the jungle gym.

21 November 2003 - If I may have a moment of your time, I would like to bring a little film to your attention. It's opening this weekend and it's called -- let me check my notes here -- ah, yes. It's called The Cat in the Hat and it's based on an old (probably long out of print) children's book by some doctor. (No, it's not Dr. Spock -- I checked.) As such, it's hopelessly obscure and probably doesn't stand a chance of finding an audience in a marketplace glutted by family films about overgrown elves and talking bears and dogs. If only there were some way for the filmmakers to promote it effectively, maybe even, I don't know, cross-market it with some other product or service (or maybe even a couple). It's a shame. I fear this one's really going to get lost in the shuffle.