I was scanning the weekend crossword for my mother-in-law yesterday when I accidentally saw the weekend “Family Circus” cartoon.
I didn’t want to look – the “funnies” haven’t been good since “Bloom County” left.
But it was on the opposite page from what I had to scan, so there it was. It was sure nice to see nothing had changed. Now, I didn’t find this strip entertaining when I was a kid, and especially once I learned about all the moralistic subtext the Keane’s jam into their strip. That’s what makes “Dysfunctional Family Circus” so much fun.
[Fun fact: According to Mental Floss, “Dysfunctional Family Circus” began online in 1995. Readers could submit their own (often morbid) captions to substitute Keane’s own. After 500 submissions, webmaster Greg Galcik got a cease-and-desist letter from King Features Syndicate, which co-owns and distributes the strip, and discontinued the parody in 1999.]
But something about this strip irked me. I think it was the last panel. Billy’s “journey” was nothing more than a drunken stumble, and every place he stopped along the way offered him nothing. He took his father’s advice, and it will lead to nothing more than empty stops along the way to death. From that perspective, it doesn’t take much to read into Billy’s actual future.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Atlanta Braves at New York Mets – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN3
- San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers – 10:00PM | ESPN / TSN3
- MLS is Back Tournament:
- Toronto FC vs. NYCFC – 8:30PM | FS1 / TSN
- Sporting KC vs. Vancouver – 11:00PM | FS1 / TSN
Don’t forget – we get hockey back this week. And NFL training camps open on Tuesday.
As a Bears fan, Mike Ditka can die of gonorrhoea and rot in hell
As long as it was very painful and lingering I am good with that.
I’m not convinced he hasn’t already. He looks like the Cryptkeeper, only not as healthy.
Happy Birthday To Dame Helen Mirren
(Born 26th July 1945)
Today is Mick Jagger’ 77th birthday.
Also R.I.P. Peter Green.
https://youtu.be/k5hWWe-ts2s
Yeah, not sure why I added that to this…… oh well, as you say.
Me attempting to work; artist conception.
Watched “The Act of Killing” and”The Look of Silence” back-to-back today because the world has been too cheery lately.
You know how to lighten the mood!
whoa
someone better paint a copy of this…
I’m sure McNaghten’s already on it.
That was very impressive, but I bet those feds would have split even quicker if the Wall of Moms had all shown up bare-ass.
I don’t know; their will to ignore the constitution is very strong. That plus the prevalence of MILF porn.
This might have been the first time Fast Money in Celebrity Family Feud they didn’t win. My Lord, was that team awful.
Never change Australia.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8553051/Queensland-mums-ex-boyfriend-gave-phone-number-Star-Wars-Chewbacca-prank.html
In the US he would have just shot her and her coworkers.
Oh, that’s a good idea.
This made my evening.
wat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0_f5fkrCTA
Love me the doco series Deadliest drives. The priest is mad at the shaman because he makes things up and is fictional……
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G68ziTDKGn8
I was curious if this would happen.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/02/texas-border-wall-private/
Got to rally with natural disasters.
Heh heh, hurricane funny.
/takes out rosary beads
//burns anal beads
..uh, Don? You supposed to remove the anal beads before you ignite them.
This is a judgment-free zone,K?
Understood. Comment withdrawn.
You did it opposite of what it needs to be!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/entertainment/spencer-grammer-injured-altercation-new-york-trnd/index.html
Okay, 2020. You’ve gone too far now. Now Rick’s gonna portal here to kick your ass, you sorry excuse for a year.
Oh shit!
Well, now you know what she looks like.
The fact that newspaper comics were (and are?) owned and run by entities calling themselves “syndicates” is probably the funniest thing about any given comic.
Can’t really see it, but in order to do that, she must have forearms like fuckin’ Popeye.
Being pedantic always fucking works well with B movies.
Its possible. They say Linda Hamilton put on enough muscle to pump a shotgun one-handed in T2.
I’m sure most of us wanted arms like she had in T2
Most of us wanted to be her like she was in T2 (minus PTSD).
I just wanted to get my head down there and see how much she worked on the thighs at the time.
Tombstone says “Worth it”.
She is a very small woman and my skull is very thick, so I could still breath. My chances of survival would have been good, just a hospital stay.
I thought the same thing.
—VLTR, soon to be on a ventilator in South Texas.
You stay safe in that fucking asshole state!
Tell me about it. I have fucking bingo wings! It’s not a good look.
I loved this silly goober when I was a kidling
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/eddie-shack-dies-fomer-toronto-maple-leafs-1.5663614
He had his own tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8_Ybbrn5A
wait baseball is back? ok cool
gooo padres
Did you read Bloom County when it returned?
It didn’t run up here.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/politics/reagan-foundation-trump-republican-national-committee-fundraising/index.html
BWHAHAHAHAHA!
If the executor of Reagan’s estate files a trademark claim for “Make America Great Again”, I may have to change my shorts.
Weird. Trump is Reagan’s perfect political heir
Ronald Reagan was an evil, racist, dementia-adled piece of fuck whose administration was the most corrupt in history until George W. Bush came along, and who harmed millions of people and destroyed entire nations. The only good thing he ever did was die.
So to an extent, calling Trump his rightful heir is misleading. Trump is nothing compared to Reagan. But politically both of them are the same in how they control their base, affect politics, and lift the veil off the bullshit status quo that both parties perpetuate
So 2nd worst president or tied for worst with Trump and maybe Buchanan?
Trump isn’t even in the top ten.
The feds in Portland are just continuing something that began under Clinton.
No, he’s worse than Buchanan. Chaotic kleptocracy is a bit different, though. Overstepping executive authority with force started with Washington.
I don’t know what’s more sad: You saying the person that sat back and did nothing for four years while the Union fell into disarray and open Civil War isn’t the worst President, or the fact that I kinda agree with you.
NOTE: I didn’t say “hide in the closet” like I used to say. You guys are making me better, you sons of bitches.
Pretty sure Buchanan did not have the means/ support to do that much, nor did anybody at the time have the solutions within the context of the various sides involved. He was smarter and way more qualified, but he was essentially pro-slavery and he and many others thought the Dred Scott ruling would settle the issue instead of making it worse.
I can see how people could see that, except for two differences:
1. Reagan used his acting skills to portray a public persona that fit his needs (loveable, wise grandpa) and was able to disarm his detractors when faced with criticism. Trump refuses to change who he (elitist, selfish orangutan) is and responds to any criticism like he’s completely offended with their very existence.
2. Reagan didn’t consider Democrats or the media an enemy of America, only as a political opponent that needed to be overcome or a tool that could be used to suit his needs.
That’s because he was politically connected and gregarious enough to have the owners of the Times and the Post on his side, which is why they actively covered up Iran-Contra for him. Not to mention that he was the golden boy for GE, which owned NBC at the time. He didn’t need to treat the media as the enemy because the media protected him for what he stood for. He was a propaganda agent since WW2. OF COURSE the media loved him, he was one of them.
But he did treat plenty of people, like basically every black and brown person in this country, and Democrats as the enemy. And to think otherwise is fucking naive.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQkhw6MDlI
Seth Bullock is 100% correct.
Mona – Designated driver
Frida – will dance atop the bar
Aphrodite – Way hot for this bar
Shelley Duval – herself
Shelly Duval is now imaginary too.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Girl-with-a-Pearl-Earring-by-Vermeer
A modern Vermeer would paint “Girl using Snapchat filter for Facebook selfie”
Evidently she lives up US 281 in Blanco TX about 20 miles north of me, and has serious mental health issues these days. Fucking shame. And fuck Dr. Phil with a barbed-wire encrusted baseball bat.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-heartbreaking-details-of-shelley-duvalls-life-after-the-shining.html/
Yeah, we’ve been through this….. but saying that about “Dr.” Phil can’t be said often enough….. so
And fuck Dr. Phil with barbed-wire encrusted baseball bat.
Yeah, it seemed a little deja vu-ish when I posted it. Still, some things bear repeating.
so
And fuck Dr. Phil with barbed-wire encrusted baseball bat.
Solid takedown. Loved Dysfunctional FC.
Is it archived somewhere? I hated Family Circus more than Marmaduke, BC, and Nancy combined.
In Moose’s hard drive.
Rule 34.
Google Images is my shepherd, I shall not want
Biden: just a few more inches…
Which way?
She’s too old for him
Still haven’t made up my minds.
-Biden