Monster: for Newscoma

 

Breakfast standoff

Every morning we have a guest for breakfast, the mockingbird. He sits on the porch banister daringly close waiting for his opportunity.

 

I love the bloody minded

This guy takes the prize. It reminds me of paying for gas once with 3 rolls of pennies after I had pumped the gas. The clerk told me I couldn’t pay with that and I told her “tough, I just bought $1.50 in gas”

 

Ron Paul

Just kidding, this post has nothing to do with Ron Paul. I’m just messing with you. Monkeys always look!

 

Danish Cartoons: touchy fundamentalists

I found this through Comics Reporter and thought it sounded familiar. Does it ring a bell to you?

 

Hillary Clinton stars in “The Red Badge of Courage”

I was going to go with Rambo, but it seemed too obvious.

 

Conan the buddhist: Cheesey Poof the heathen

You’ve all seen the cute little picture of the dog that prays with his buddhist monk master. How cute and yet it underlines the main difference between dogs and cats. Cats are only convinced by food and even then rarely.

 

You say Hillary or Obama or McCain or whateva

Is it November yet? Because I’ve had it with this primary season. The longer the Democrats wait to nominate the more I dislike the both of them. bah. Pick a winner!

 

Nigerian cartoonist Obe Ess attacked in his home

This kind of thing happens alot in Africa. According to allAfrica.com,

The intruders initially seized members of the cartoonist’s family, using them as hostages while they uttered threats against him. Then one of the intruders hit Obe Ess hard on the head with the butt of his revolver and was about to beat him when neighbours intervened and the intruders fled. One of them was shot as they fled.

Ess is a cartoonist for The Guardian an independent newspaper. See the Comics Reporter for examples of his work or go straight to here.

 

New York Auto Show 2008

I love cars. I love to look at them. I like to drive them and ride in them. I really like to look at them, especially new designs.

This BMW concept of the new CS really hit the drool button. Yes I know, fine wine tastes and a beer budget.

Other notables:

The Suzuki Kizashi concept that made you look twice at the manufacturer name, Suzuki? Wow.

I like the double back doors on the John Cooper Works Clubman concept. The black stripes are very fetching.

I don’t even know what to say about the new Scion Hako Coupe except ew. Not a very attractive design, couldn’t be very aerodynamic with that square windshield. I know the look they’re going for, but I don’t think it got there.

The Dodge Challenger is very retro with chrome gas cap and all. Very nice, but obviously a rehash.

There were some interesting takes on the electric car this year, the Mitsubishi, i-MiEV sport being my favorite. I like the fact that they incorporated a little more snaz with the mustang like feature down the side and they didn’t box the back of the vehicle off as you see on so many electric or hybrid vehicles.

I was “meh” about the Acura, the Hyundai, Kia, & Saab (I never could dig the design & I’m not sure you should market clothing while you’re trying to pitch the car, seems desperate)

The new New York Taxi concept from Ford may be ugly, but it has very convenient features: sliding doors, back doors that open, and a card swipe for the passenger’s use. Ugly, but pretty cool.

This, this could only have come from Pontiac. I was looking at the “new” Solstice and came across this “Sport Truck”. It must be a terrible sinking feeling when 50 Cent becomes your pitchman. I never understood this car/pickup design idea. It’s not very good looking and it just seems that it would lack in both areas. Of course, I guess, if you’re just looking for a place to put the speakers then I say go for it.