Did Warner-Bros. direct this entire past year & a half?

[Sugar Smack]

I feel like I'm watching Wile E. Coyote pumping his legs in midair, with the break off of a cliff 2 feet behind behind him & nothing underneath. It's as if we've entered such a lawless realm in the knowable world, gravity's next under attack. That's Warner Brothers Physics; the slippery coyote hasn't outwitted dinner, he's "gonna die again" but he's figured out how to PAUSE IN MIDAIR long enough to pull out a teeny umbrella & open it. Or accept his fate w/a sign: "that's all, folks". Another buffoony character makes it Rabbit/Duck season suddenly. There's been a time warp.



I'm seeing all of this through a cartoonist's point of view. The whole "How are they getting away with it?" aspect of this past year is so baffling. How is is possible the Republicans can be so BLATANTLY stupid/evil/successful at the issuance of every outrageous move?? How on earth can that dumb stump sign his name on something awful, and MAKE IT SO? How can their famous Republican Denial be allowed to work on us the way it does? You can't really even drag ACME into this, unless you want a fairly accurate description of trump's wasteful-as-shit "defense" spending.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Fellini, more likely, or Del Toro.

[Sugar Smack]

3. That's much more accurate than my version of things.

I wonder how one explains all this to a child! Especially one who's started on cartoon- watching, suddenly hearing their parents talk about the "bottom falling out" or "crashes". My own child is a calico, so I haven't bothered trying to explain it to her. She has her own physics.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Cat physics is different.

Not only do they land on their feet, they can slip in and out of alternate universes.

[Sugar Smack]

5. Oh, the portal! Sophie's found it, and she's able to reintegrate

casually, in a perfectly ordinary spot, right as I'm about to call for help.

[tblue37]

8. "Spacetime for Springers," a sf story about that very point. nt

[msongs]

2. trump's not going anywhere. his base loves him as a breath of fresh air and a real person in an age

of phonies. never mind that he is a wealthy man who got that way by taking money from...his base.
using dubious methods. and is immoral in just about every way

[Sugar Smack]

6. And it's terrifying, and it's "unreal".

trump's immediate periphery is that horrible "gray eminence" behind a simple rube.

[Aristus]

7. I feel less like we're living in a Warner Brothers cartoon, and more like we're in

a graphic novel by Frank Miller. The angst, the fear, the cynicism, rage, despair, absurb behavior by public figures, the whole ball of wax.

It's a bad dream, and I wish I could wake up...

[Sugar Smack]

9. I used to read a lot of apocalyptic fiction- Stephen King's "Running Man"

is my favorite short story. It's a little unrealistic for me to enjoy the story today, because my point of view has changed so damn MUCH from what it was 10 years ago.

The only thing we really have any control over is our own authentic language and our efforts to stay original.

[Aristus]

10. I used to like that story.

But since 9/11 and the rise of reality TV, I'm not sure I want to read it again. It's too unsettlingly close to what we have right now.