Heston Addendum

A few people have left comments here and written to me personally about my comment about Heston being racist. Okay, you caught me – I don't really know if Charlie was racist. True, he did march with MLK back in the day, but I despised his right wing politics of recent decades and thought his comments in "Bowling For Columbine" seemed fairly racist. Perhaps he was just an elitist and distrusted anyone "beneath" him, no matter their race.

Someone pointed out that Michael Moore is known for stretching the truth and I'm sure that's true. But no matter how you edit it, Heston's own words in that film are pretty damning, and he made some very callous remarks immediately after the Columbine tragedy. He was obviously much more concerned with protecting his gun ownership than the plight of the victims and their families.

Others have said they enjoyed his films. I did, too. He was one of the great over-actors of his day and I always found him entertaining to watch. In recent years, when he got all riled up at NRA rallies, raised a rifle over his head and said in his best Moses voice, "From my cold, dead, fingers!" he seemed very much as though he believed he was currently living on the planet of the apes.

And, in fact, he was.

PHD #1000

Piled Higher & Deeper, Jorge Cham's fantastically fun Webcomic strip about life in grad school, has reached its milestone 1000th strip, featuring a milestone (of sorts) for long-running character Mike Slackenerny.

Congratulations to Jorge, and here's hoping for at least 1000 more!

New Library Comics: Week of March 31, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Allison, John. Heavy metal hearts and flowers : a Scary go round story / Cresbard, SD : Keenspot, 2004.

"Antico-mix" : Antike in Comics : Skulpturhalle Basel, 31. März - 26. September 1999 / Basel : Skulpturhalle, 1999.

Avery, Fiona. Araña vol. 1 : the heart of the spider / New York : Marvel Comics, 2005-

Benjamin, Paul, 1970- Pantheon High vol. 1 : demigods & debutantes / Hamburg ; Los Angeles, CA : Tokyopop, c2006-

Fukui, Harutoshi, 1968- Samurai commando : mission 1549 vol. 1 / La Jolla, Calif. : CMX, 2007-

Hayashi, Fumino. Neon genesis evangelion : Angelic days vol. 5. / Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2006-

Izumi, Kaneyoshi. Doubt!! vols. 1-6 / San Francisco, Calif. : Viz, LLC, 2005-

Kishi, Daimuro. Time Guardian vol. 1 / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics, c2007-

Mazzotta, Antony. Bombaby the screen goddess / San Jose, CA : SLG Pub., 2004.

Mikimoto, Haruhiko, 1952- Marionette generation vols. 1-2 / San Francisco, Calif. : Viz Communications, 2001-

Prime cuts no. 4. / Agoura, CA : Fantagraphics Books, 1987-

Shanower, Eric. Age of bronze vol. 3A : betrayal, part one / Orange, CA : Image, c2001-

Sorachi, Hideaki. Gin Tama vol. 1 / San Francisco : VIZ Media, [2007]-

Yoshiki, Hidaka. The first president of Japan = Nihonkoku shodai daitōryō, Sakuragi Ken'ichirō vols. 1-4 / Torrance, CA : Gutsoon! Entertainment, 2003-


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DingDong, the Witch, is Dead

Just heard that actor, racist, and violence advocate Charlton Heston died last night. If you're wondering about my dark opinion of Charlie, see his interview in the film "Bowling for Columbine."

Here is a cartoon I did about him a few years ago. I got waves of hate mail from rabid NRA members, who worshiped him as a messiah. If his body disappears from his tomb in three days and he returns to save the country from pacifism, I will stand corrected.

Four to Read for Sunday, April 6

* Life in Comics: Finding Comics in the “Real” World (via Heidi)

* Flipped!: David Welsh on Kaoru Mori's Emma

* David Lafuente Blog (via Johnny Bacardi)

* Anime News Network: Library War Promo Movie, Commercial Posted Online (via TangognaT)

Bizarro Trading Cards AT LAST!

That's right, you read that correctly! No longer do you have to waste money on trading cards with pictures of people and events that you don't really care about. Now you can get trading cards with cartoons on them! Funny cartoons that were not created while on steroids!

Imagine finding just the right cartoon to lampoon your boss and leaving it anonymously on his/her door at lunchtime. Imagine the thrill you will experience when someone calls and thanks you for sending them a delightful little full-color comic in the mail! Imagine sharing them with your kids and teaching them to be sarcastic and cynical, just like DAN PIRARO! Is this much fun legal? Only one way to find out!

Go to http://bizarrotradingcards.com/ and pre-order yours now. Save the first few packages UNOPENED for thirty years and sell them for TWICE the cover price! No need to thank me, it's the least I can do!


All Bizarro trading cards come with my personal guarantee: If you're not satisfied beyond your wildest expectations, you can just give them away!

P.S.Don't you just LOVE exclamation points?!!!

Me and Bill Maher

As you can see from the picture, Bill Maher and I are close. Really close. Less than two feet away. If you're jealous, I don't blame you. Being BFF with Bill is a dream come true for so many Americans and I just feel so darned fortunate to be the one he chose. Can life get any better?

Maybe, but it could also get a lot worse. Like if Bill Maher saw this post and demanded I remove it because I lied about being his BFF. That would be worse.

So I'll come clean. My Crazy Half-Nekked Wife and I were at the annual Humane Society's Genesis Awards last weekend in Beverly Hills and sat next to Maher at our banquet table. It was just as exciting as you might imagine, but without the excitement.

We're big fans of his, but in a situation like this, in order to be cool you have to act like you're not. Even saying "big fan, Bill" seems kind of cheesy. Like something a Rush Limbaugh listener from Topeka would do if he met that pumpkin-headed, lying blowhard just before he raised his shirt up and asked him to sign his beer gut. So you try to make casual conversation and pretend to be interested in other people at the table, too. Our table was actually pretty cool, (thanks to Karen Dawn, author of the soon-to-be-published "Thanking the Monkey") so it was easy to do, but I didn't find a way to gracefully tell him I think his show is genius. And I didn't find a casual way to explain that I think his imput is essential to political awareness in America. And I wasn't able to mention that I'd let him spend the weekend with my Crazy Half-Nekked Wife if he'd invite me to be a guest on his show. And what a terrific guest I'd make, don't you agree?

I'm far above asking my friends and readers to write in to Real Time With Bill Maher (http://www.hbo.com/corpinfo/faq.shtml)and ask them to consider me as a guest, but if they did, boy, that would be a special thing that I would remember for as long as I could.

Lots of cool celebs are animal rights folks and many were in attendance that night, as they are every year. Among those I've met at Genesis Awards shows are Alicia Silverstone, Daryl Hannah, James Cromwell, Persia White("Girlfriends"), Debra Skelton (Debra Wilson of "Mad TV"), Loretta Swit, Alec Baldwin, Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Elayne Boosler, Tippi Hedren, Rue McClanahan, Mary Tyler Moore, Ally Sheedy, Heather Mills, Linda Blair, Emil Deschanel ("Bones"), Steve Valentine ("Crossing Jordan"), Rory Freedman (author of "Skinny Bitch," good friend of mine and CHNWife, and total babe!), Kyle MacLachlan, Ben Stein, Nellie McKay, Carol Leifer, Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes") and some others I can't remember right now. It's a great party every year! Here's more info if you care: http://www.hsus.org/about_us/offices_and_affiliates/hsus_hollywood_office/the_genesis_awards/22nd-genesis-awards/


King of the after-party dancefloor busts a move with Rory Freedman. (I told you she's a babe!)

Where was Crazy Half-Nekked Wife while I was booty shaking with Rory? Dirty dancing with Bob Zmuda, of Andy Kaufman fame. Not all vegans are buzzkills, my peeps.