Metapost: Radio daze
In what’s becoming a somewhat disturbing trend, I’ve once again been offered a chance to pontificate on the radio, this time on XM sattelite radio, and this time related to my political-cartoon-mocking gig over at Wonkette. At 4:45 p.m. eastern or thereabouts, I will be on the show “1600″, which is on channel 130 (aka “POTUS ‘08″), talking about the Foreigns and their political cartoons, or something. (If you don’t have XM, you can go here and sign up for a free trial.) POTUS ‘08 is dedicated to covering the nightmare that is the presidential race 24 hours a day, so you can see why it’s only July and they’ve already reached the dire state of having someone talk about drawings on the radio.
Anon
July 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I need someone to listen to the radio so I won’t have to.
gnome de blog
July 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Is that 4.45 Eastern, which would be 1.45 Pacific, when I’ll be in a meetng?
PeteMoss
July 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Josh, do you know the Slim Slack-girl displayed on Wonkett? I’d really like to meet her.
Josh
July 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
#2 gnome — yeah, sorry ’bout that. Updated the post to be more specific.
Josh
Uncle Lumpy
July 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Freakin’ foreigns — are they actually still out there? I thought somebody was supposed to take care of that.
Dean Booth
July 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Josh, Per your encouragement in yesterthread to turn innocent family comics into bongs: Archie bong. I had to use both Photoshop and duct tape.
Your political cartoon commentary on Wonkette is really great stuff! Is there a way to view a linked list of them in order? I keep finding myself on non-Cartoon Violence pages.
PeteMoss
July 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Excellent. Radio seems like the perfect format on which to discuss cartoons. I can’t wait to hear you describe the pictures. No fair using hand gestures.
Anon
July 14th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It will be like the great newspaper strike in NYC and the mayor wound up on radio “reading” the funnies to everyone.
D. E. I.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Well, I don’t know . . . my foot IS shaped like a boot . . .
Uncle Lumpy
July 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Fiorello LaGuardia read the comics so we could, too.
Josh reads the comics so we don’t have to.
I call it progress!
Anon
July 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
No COTW but we get to listen to the Pope.
I guess there are tradeoffs.
PeteMoss
July 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I wish you could bring a whacky sound effects guy with you – you know, a
folly…foily…phollie…er, sound effects making person. Really bring the cartoon violence to life on the radio!Ranger
July 14th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Dang missed it.
Pres...i...dent...B....ush
July 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Josh, have you ever been on the Diane Rehm show? She has spasmodic dysphonia and the sound of her strangled voice is almost as annoying as her pretentious personality. Thnk Shannon talking while choking on food.
Talk….about…comics…
yellojkt
July 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
If anybody has a face for radio, it’s you, Josh. Good luck and do us proud.
bats :[
July 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Did I miss you, Josh? Right now I’m getting McCain blather.
(And, yeah, if if were Obama speaking, I’d call it Obama blather.)
Josh
July 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Yeah, I’m done, bats. They called at 4:45 on the dot!
chulktastic
July 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I caught this post just in time, so I got to listen to the interview (A full 13 minutes!). I’ll say that was the first (and probably only) time I’ve ever listened to that POTUS channel.
Topics discussed included:
- New Yorker cover
- Western European political cartoons
- The presidential candidates that are easiest to caricature
- Dutch fetishes!
- Josh’s favorite political cartoonists
They didn’t seem to give you any time to wrap up the interview, but I’ll say, nice job Josh. Next thing you know, they’ll be giving you your own radio show.
bats :[
July 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Dangnabbit, I’m listening to political ga-ga, for no good reason!
Maybe if there’s a recording of the interview, perhaps it could be posted on You Tube with a changing artsy-fartsy collage of Josh’s favorite comics…
PeteMoss
July 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Margo!Boxcar!Saturn! if the boss didn’t decide to drop into my office just right before Josh was going on the air, and I had to mute the ‘puter. I’m sure Josh was able to elevate the political debate by discussing the candidates’ funniest facial features.
Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^)
July 14th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I’m considering writing a letter to my local newspaper asking them to drop FBOFW from the comics page once it goes to full reruns. It’s not like I have a personal vendetta against the comic, but with so many artists struggling and working their asses off every day to have a shot at getting in the paper, why should Lynn be payed every day for doing nothing? It’s recycled content. If she wants to continue to rake in all this cash and be in the newspaper, she should have to work for it. A lot of the other artists there have to have a day job just to afford to survive from day to day. Heck, say what you want about Mary Worth or Hi and Lois, but at least we get new content every day from their artists. At least they try. Lynn is trying to retire so she can just go on vacation and collect a paycheck she hasn’t earned.
Moss_Moses
July 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
21. Lindsey, I think they should put the putrid Foob out of its misery now, before the wedding. Also, what about “Classic Peanuts”? That strip is beyond stale, it’s beyond the grave.
rhymes with puck
July 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
RMMD: I really can’t believe that Andy would think that Rex is stalking Max Mallory. Andy if forgetting the obvious fact that Max is NOT a 15 year old boy.
Spider-Man: Somehow they have managed to show Peter and Mary Jane in bed practically on top of each other without conveying the slightest hint of intimacy. Peter must be taking lessons from Mark Trail, Rex Morgan and Sam Driver.
FC: And now I’ve got my lunch sitting in the palm of my hand.
JP: Steve’s handicap is 4!?!? And here I thought his handicap was…nah, too easy.
MT: You know, a moose once bit my sister.
MW: Oh, man, Jeff is going to eat some seafood tonight, if you know what I mean. Of course, this is Mary Worth, so I mean a lumpy pile of tuna casserole.
DT: Wait, Dick, really? We shouldn’t tell the spy in the police force that we are on to her and that we are speeding over to the back to arrest her accomplices? I mean, no shit, Shirl Locke!
Archie: HAH! It’s funny because Jughead likes weiners!
Momma: I am very confused by what Momma is doing with whatever it is she is cooking. In the first panel it looks like she’s putting it in the oven. But then in the second panel it’s further out, so she’s taking it out. Then in the third panel it’s all the way in the oven, but in the fourth panel she’s taking the goddamn thing back out again! Did she finish cooking it during the 10 seconds it took for Francis to walk out the door? Is she cooking salmonella casserole? Was she only making believe that she was cooking to hide the fact that she is so poor she has to eat Alpo?
Do you know what else confused me about today’s Momma? How the hell is she going to put it on top of the stove when she is done?
rhymes with puck
July 14th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Damn it I hate is when I forget to hit ‘preview’…
RMMD: I really can’t believe that Andy would think that Rex is stalking Max Mallory. Andy IS forgetting the obvious fact that Max is NOT a 15 year old boy.
DT: Wait, Dick, really? We shouldn’t tell the spy in the police force that we are on to her and that we are speeding over to the BANK to arrest her accomplices? I mean, no shit, Shirl Locke!
Uncle Lumpy
July 14th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
#23 rhymes –
Wasn’t that a møøse?
Old School Allie Cat
July 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
#6 – Dean Booth… I laughed out loud for the first time today at your Archie bong.
Kudos.
rhymes with puck
July 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
25, Lumpy -
Yes, yes, of course…it was a møøse that bit my sister. No, really, it did!
I would have said that before except I’m not HTML-savvy enough to know how to make the “ø” symbol. I do, however, know how to cut and paste, which makes me as savvy as the average 4 year old.
PeteMoss
July 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Pluggers tend to overdose on their heartworm meds?
bats :[
July 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
RMMD: gosh, I just love Andy’s long-suffering stance in Panel 1 — you can just hear the poor guy sighing, having to deal with Rex Morgan, Junior Detective!
I really ought to give Rex more credit — he is a doctor, after all.
Nah.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/2669639224/sizes/o/
Uncle Lumpy
July 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
#27 rhymes –
Behold!
kippetje2000
July 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I’m sorry, did someone mention Dutch festishists?
Uncle Lumpy
July 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
#31 kippetje2000:
In re: this drawing. The resulting outrage has the world threatening to “drop Trouw.”
Wilbur of the North
July 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
#23- I was a Moose for a couple years. I never bit anyone. Mostly we just went to “meetings” and drank cheap beer.
Angevon
July 14th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
#28
If it’s any indication, my dog -loves- the heartworm pills. Apparently they’re flavored. Mmm, beefy.
MT: Just love how “OH NO” is actually written out in bubble letters, not typed. No wonder the strip isn’t hand-written; that looked like it was hard to do.
Poteet
July 15th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Congrats, Josh! And “nightmare that is the presidential race” is right. I’ll try not to complain again, but those of you who don’t live in swing states are apparently not going to suffer nearly as much as those of us who do. And I’ve barely recovered from the nightmare avalanche of ads that preceded the Iowa caucuses.