The cartoonist is Tom Toles of the Washington Post.
It's pretty brutal and to the point, including with his little P.S. in the lower right corner –
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April is National Poetry Month. In honor of the occasion, I sent our staff researcher to look through the family archives to find some works from earlier eras that might add some perspective for today. As it happens, it seems we have another writer on the family tree from centuries back, and she came across a short work from Eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages that was written at the time of the Plague when trolls, faerie queens,wizards, witches and ogres were part of the culture, as people desperately looked to the spirit world for answers and tales to believe in. The work by a great-great-many greats cousin, poet Nicholas Bissendorf seems to be appropriate.
I've since found other of his poetry in my personal records that have gathered dust over the centuries and were filed under the heading of "Folderol." It seems that great-many greats cousin Nicholas tended to offend many people with his poetry. Not for what he wrote, but because he kept going up to strangers asking if he could read his latest work to them, and did so, even when they said, "No," which was the usual response. "A Plague on Some of Your Houses" Nicholas Bissenderf, 1351 A demon named Drumpf made a visit, Some scared villagers cried, “Should we kiss it???” It was evil as coal Which would mean sell their soul. But they did and so all were complicit. They soon formed a cult of the brashest. The first to join up were the rashest. They built Drumpf a throne. Wouldn't think on their own. When the Plague came, by then they were fascist. The demon was quite the worst beast. What was good for the land, it liked least. It brought a big box in Of tankards of toxin. The cult soon was clean and deceased. As cures go, it was a bit drastic. Town outrage was quick and fantastic: "They were thick in the head -- But they shouldn't be dead!!" Drumpf answered, "I was being sarcastic."
A few weeks back, I came across home video of someone I think does the best Trump impersonation I've heard, a comedian named J-L Cauvin. I posted his wonderful "Trump Explanation" here of why he wanted to open the country for business on Easter. It's not just that he has the voice down so eerily, and is often very funny in what he says – but he has the mannerism of Trump's quick shifts of direction spot on. Just great. Today, "Trump" explains what he actually said about ingesting disinfectants. It wasn't "disinfectant" at all...
I thought this might be of interest. (Note: That was understatement.) It’s for tonight, this Sunday. It looks to be incredibly special. Here's the headline I received in an email --
Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald are set to join an all-star line-up in a special virtual concert to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. Take Me To The World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, hosted by Raúl Esparza, will take place this Sunday, April 26, the 50th anniversary of the opening night of Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical Company. The concert kicks off at 8 pm ET, and will be available for free at www.Broadway.com and the Broadway.com YouTube channel. In addition to Streep, Peters, LuPone and McDonald, artists performing songs from the Sondheim catalog will include Mandy Patinkin, Christine Baranski, Donna Murphy, Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Tveit, Maria Friedman, Iain Armitage, Katrina Lenk, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Schwartz, Elizabeth Stanley, Chip Zien, Alexander Gemignani and, from the cast of Pacific Overtures at Classic Stage Company, Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh and Thom Sesma. You can find a little bit more information here. We have a new song parody from Randy Rainbow, and I think you can guess what the subject is. The production is nice, but mainly I think it's some of his funniest lyrics in a while. His performance is a bit lowkey for the cheery music, but my sense is that he had two options how to perform the song -- 1) Really cheery and let that contradiction contrast the point of the words, or 2) Dour, so that his expression said, “Folks, this is really horrifying” and contrasted with the oh-so-happy music. He clearly went with the latter – because this story is REALLY SICK. Indeed, he even flashed a huge disclaimer, something he’s never done. By the way, lots of good lines to choose from, but my favorite may be been the second rhyme -- or what could be considered the first, after the couplet introduction. I'll just say that, as befits the original song, it has to do with medicine. |
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