Cartoon One Three Oh Eight
Diagnosis
A Doctor looks at an X-Ray with a depressed patient. The Doctor says: “At this point, it’s going to be easier to leave the cancer and remove you.”
Not only is this an extremely dark joke, I also feel like I might have written it before. Maybe it’s just been bashing around my head. Anyway, I apologize.
Somebody posted this old comic on comicbookplus about all the cool things to see in DC:
It’s obviously in the news now because of the Reflecting Pool fiasco and (more importantly) the insanely lackluster 250th anniversary celebrations going on. It’s too bad. I remember, barely, the Bicentennial, and it was amazing. I was 4, of course, but it says something about what a big deal it was that Main Street parades with dudes in cocked hats playing fifes are basically my earliest childhood memories.
Whatever mistakes were made in the production of this event (and there were clearly A LOT), it also feels like the country is currently too divided to celebrate what unites us, and that makes me sad.
More practically: As a producer… yes, I am insulted by the incompetence of trying to celebrate the 250th birthday of the most revolutionary government in the history of mankind with one half of Milli Vanilli. And I can speak with some experience. I produced a rally on the National Mall with two hundred thousand people in attendance, and Cat Stevens and Ozzy Osbourne and The O’Jays played a medley of “Peace Train/ Crazy Train/ Love Train” (my idea) and it was AWESOME. You can do big things on the National Mall if you put your mind to it. It’s one of the greatest stages in the world.
I apologize for waxing on like this. I am an old-fashioned chauvinistic American patriot, which I hope doesn’t offend my foreign readers; I assume they feel the same way about their own countries (especially during the World Cup). I am more than disappointed by the party we’re throwing to celebrate our big birthday. This is dumb.
Happier jokes tomorrow!
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I was 15 during the Bicentennial, but I don't remember much about it. Mom sewed Colonial costumes for me and my siblings and we rode on a float that Dad pulled through the town parade using his old Model A truck. I still feel nostalgic whenever a Bicentennial quarter turns up in my change.
I remember reading that the reflecting pool has had algae problems since day one - the water in today's comic certainly looks green!
I tracked down a YouTube video of the train song mash-up (https://youtu.be/1a_hL98LVR8?si=EBOJwc1bStSwJF-V) - it sounds like it was a good time!