Happy Passover to my Jewish friends. This Matzah (Matza, Matzo…damn how do you spell it?) Ball Cartoon was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend. His girlfriend is Jewish and he went to her house for Passover seder. He said he really loved the Matzah Ball soup. I asked him if he knew whether or not they cut the balls off the matzah before or after killing it in the wild. He looked at me confused for a minute.
I also made this image. Thoughts on whether I should put it on a t-shirt?
So back in October I spoke about a project called Webcomics: What’s Cooking. In it I told you
…long time Beartoons supporter Byron Wilkins of 1977 the Comic has teamed up with Kurt Sasso of TGT Webcomics for a cause near to my heart – Fighting Hunger. They have collected food related cartoons and recipes from various artists and are in the process of putting them together a cookbook collection. The proceeds of the book will support Food Banks in the United States and Canada.
I am not in the book but I promised those who asked that I would publish my recipe once the book was in print. My Monkey Bread Recipe is the best you will find out there. Some people call it “Pull Apart Cake” but Monkey Bread has a better ring to it.
Anyway, I got my copy this past week and love it. Regulars here including George Ford (Addanac City) and Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan (Callous Comics) are in there with great entries.
But I have to say the two that made me laugh the most was Dave Reddick of Legend of Bill and our own Aidan Casserly of Scapula. Bill is a Barbarian so Dave’s recipe was “Big Barbarian Burgers” First ingredient – “Beef”. Second ingredient “Beef”. Third ingredient – “Beef”. Just like a real Barbarian. And Aidan had Scapula performing community service by teaching us all how to make a pot of coffee.
So order your own copy and support the hungry.
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So after I posted the caricature I did for my 1000th Twitter follower, my good friend George of Addanac City was bitching, moaning, pleading, begging, wondering when I might finally get around to doing a caricature of him. So I was playing around on my ipad and did a little sketch that I sent to him. I told him to be patient and I would finish it soon enough.
Is George patient. NO! Go see how he tortured my work trying to color it himself. Didn’t color in the mustache, half an eyebrow not filled it. But of course he went overtime on the background.
Anyway, I finally finished it (I kept his theme for the background). And now that it is finished, I realized that he and his character Hank have the same eyes.
So it seems there is another story of did he or didn’t he. It seems Lady Gaga was having a private birthday bash and American Idol runner up Adam Lambert showed up with an actually invited guest. Based on a tip, Hollywood loud mouth gossip columnist Perez Hilton states Adam showed up drunk, jumped around like an animal, punched a hole in the ceiling and tried to smash cake in Gaga’s face. All leading up to her requesting security remove him from the premises.
Whether or not she was the one who had security do it or not is under question. However, if I owned a bar and a drunk ass starting destroying the place, I wouldn’t wait for someone else to ask me to kick him out; he would have been gone quick.
Now for those not familiar with Gaga’s stunts and thus the references above, let me help. She showed up to the Grammy’s in an egg, wore a meat suit to the VMAs, had a coke can in her hair for the video Telephone (I thought a phone in her head was funnier). Now as far as the flipper, I haven’t seen that but just wait.
This cartoon was inspired by Sunday’s post regarding the article that said people who have sex or exercise infrequently are more prone to heart attacks. Of course in Sunday’s toon, I poke fun at the guy. But I am an equal opportunity offender so thought it was the ladies turn.
The one thing I constantly tell my wife in the years since we got married is:
Thank you for not giving up!
I mean how many women (and men) nab their significant other and after the “I do’s” just stop trying. Stop taking care of themselves, stop being interested in what the other has to say, and in the case above stop caring whether or not they will scare the crap out of their spouse by how they dress/look.
I worry for the future husband of this Bearmaniac. I mean if she is going for the mud mask look now on public video, heaven help the future Mr. Blunt Delivery.
Click here to see the video on her blog in full color. And while you are there, ask her why she doesn’t use the mud on her forehead or upper lip. She loves those questions.
This editorial cartoon was inspired by recent articles that infrequent sex or exercise can lead to an increased risk of heart attacks. If you aren’t getting enough and decide to engage in those activities, it could induce a heart attack.
Can you imagine the out of shape guys using this as their new pick up line. “C’mon baby, you don’t want me to die do you??”
Reminds me of a guy who would ask every woman in the bar if he could get her number whether or not he had a chance with any of them. When asked why, he said it was law of averages. 1 in 100 would say yes. I think that guy ended up being pretty good at sales.
Up until this past weekend, some conservatives have been upset that the United States hasn’t been more proactive militarily with the issues in Libya. While I abhor the things Ghadafi is doing to his people, why does the responsibility to be the world police always rest on the United States.
Whenever there is military action needed around the world, the United States is always seen as the big bad aggressor in foreign affairs while the UN tends to get bound in ineffective resolutions. The US is blamed for interfering in affairs of other countries and blamed if they don’t . As my dad used to say “You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t”.
So for once, the U.S. has decided to take a back seat to the United Nations, fully supporting the efforts but not taking the lead. I, for one, support that tact. They have commited fully to the military operation of a no fly zone while allowing Britain and France to take the lead on the resolution.
Now I am sure I will get an earful from my Australian friends but let’s contrast this with the Australian foreign minister, Kevin Rudd. Like some American Conservatives, Rudd was blaming the G8 nations for inaction yet after the UN Resolution said that there would be no Australian military assistance (though he did pledge humanitarian aid).
The world doesn’t need any more armchair quarterbacks. (Ok except for me)
For those who have not been following American politics as of late, many Republican state leaders are pushing through legislation to strip collective bargaining rights of state union employees. Of course no Governor has pushed this more than Wisconsin’s Scott Walker who is the subject of today’s editorial cartoon.
And whether you are pro-union or anti-union, you both have reason to not be happy with Governor Walker. Seems his dictator like strategy to push through his legislation not only flies in the face of civil discourse but also sets the stage for Democratic majority state senates to do the same thing when they want to do something beyond what the public is looking for. See here for one union member’s take. And see here for Scott Walkers reasoning for what he did.
Even if you agree that state unions need to reign in their power, all Walker has done is embolden the unions to rally against it. Now, instead of saving state budgets but limited collective bargaining for a couple years and having union workers contribute to healthcare like the private sector does, there will be referendums on ballots everywhere that will turn the tide and ultimately put everyone back where they started.
Wisconsin State Journal, editorial cartoonist Phil Hand says it better than I do:
Gov. Scott Walker is not the dictator that many of the protesters make him out to be, but he’s also not particularly politically savvy. I support most of the policy in his budget repair bill, but because of his inability to negotiate or compromise, I can no longer support the governor.
The public employee unions in this state are too powerful, and this bill contains several measures to pare back the influence that the unions have in the state. Getting workers to contribute more to their pension and health care costs is essential. Making union membership voluntary is fair and just. Making unions re-certify themselves on a regular basis is a reasonable idea. Limiting collective bargaining power for the next two years (as Sen. Dale Schultz wanted to do) would give local governments the flexibility to deal with our current fiscal crisis.
I think the liberals and the unions can accept these terms, but Walker won’t budge on the permanent termination of collective bargaining. I don’t know where that leaves us. We could see massive layoffs, statewide strikes and maybe even violence in our future.
With some minor compromises Walker has the chance to enact some very conservative legislation that would dramatically limit the power of the state unions. But instead Walker has opted for ideological purity over pragmatic policy making.
Gaddafi claims he will go out a martyr. Too bad he has put the people of Libya in the way of someone fulfilling his “destiny”.
Not much needs to be added to this editorial cartoon on Charlie Sheen. Except I do wonder after he caused Two and a Half Men to end production because of his actions, will this also mean he loses his Hanes endorsement deal. I hope those are Hanes he is sporting in the picture above.