Another Post cartoon. Barack Obama is making peaceful overtures to Syria's Basher Assad. Yeah, that's smart...



TODAY'S BOOK: "Down Town", by Viido Polikarpus and Tappan King ((c) 1987)

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Every day, millions of women use thousands of beauty products to get the "natural look" that millions of other women achieve by just being natural.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Gentleman's Agreement", by Laura Z. Hobson ((c) 1946)

Labels: random

"'If I'm not back in an hour, it means I've made another huge mistake!'
TitansGo.net has finally released the gallery of the entries for their latest contest, including yours truly's 'Touring in Tokyo' pic. Wish me luck and check out the other competitors!
My bologna has a first name.
Fawned over! Fawned over! So they all fawned over and one fell out...
Seeing stars? No, seeing Cars. And it'd be best for you if you don't let the lieutenant catch you.
The weasels are back and they're marching on the village. But when the lights are out, the polka will play!
Wakka wakka wakka. Wakka wakka wakka. Wakka wakka! Wakka wak. Wak wak, wakka wakka. Wakka!
I got 5 hits on this site from Chinese (!) locations last Monday. Naturally, I'm being random by calling your attention to this only now. Or am I getting a bit predictable in my randomness?... Nah, the RAG (Random Access Generator (pat. pend.)) is still going strong. Toodle-oo!

TODAY'S BOOK: 'The Brigade', by Howard Blum ((c) 2001)

TODAY'S MOVIE: 'March of the Penguins', from Bonne Pioche/National Geographic (2005)

WWWW2?: Bjorn Borg.

TODAY'S WEBSITE: www.thisistrue.com Over a decade old, Randy Cassingham's syndicated column 'This is True' has long been delighting readers with its recaps of the recently absurd. Now, you can use this site to subscribe to the weekly e-mail (which also features extraordinary headlines, an Important Recently Dead Guy, and its own version of 'TODAY'S WEBSITE'), submit your own erratic errata, and much more."
--39th post, 3/4/07

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Well, it took a week, but the Post ran another of my cartoons.



When Mahmoud Abbas releases Hamas-affiliated prisoners from PA jails to spite Israel and the US, he's running a bit of a risk...


TODAY'S BOOK: "No Promises in the Wind", by Irene Hunt ((c) 1970)

Labels: cartoon

How 'bout that! I get consecutive cartoons featured in the Post's print and online editions!
The ball's been in the Palestinian court many times... and Israel keeps serving 'em up.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Hoot", by Carl Hiaasen ((c) 2002)

Labels: cartoon

Well, it took a while, but I got another cartoon printed in The Jerusalem Post--and for the first time, it also appeared on their website! (No link as there is no archiving.)
It doesn't matter who "won" the Iranian elections; there's only one real winner... the puppeteer.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Anything Can Happen", by George and Helen Papashvily ((c) 1944)

Labels: cartoon

I had a lot of fun with this one. One day I thought to myself: "Hmm, what would the Furious Five from Kung Fu Panda look like if they were human?" The anthropomorphized answer stands before you. (l-r: Monkey, Crane, Viper, Mantis, Tigress)

TODAY'S BOOK: "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson", by Bette Bao Lord ((c) 1984)

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Moving up from Quest to ShiurTimes was a quantum leap in quality. Now square that quantum. You now have a pretty good idea of the magnitude of my newest gig: contributing political cartoonist for The Jerusalem Post, Israel's premier English-language newpaper!!!
Ohmgee ohmgee ohmgee!
The pay's still terrible (i.e. zilch), the coverage is awesome, and Roger Waters gets his chops busted. All is to the good.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Aunt Dimity and the Duke", by Nancy Atherton ((c) 1994)

Labels: biographical, cartoon

These were logos I had to design for Illustrator homework. The top row are miniature black-and-white generic computer logos. The colorful one is an independent reworking of Adobe's Illustrator program logo.


TODAY'S BOOK: "The Lonely Mound", by William Campbell Gault ((c) 1967)

Labels: graphics

Here's a question that I know has been bugging you all lately: who put up the best career numbers in a Mets uniform with #32 on the back?


Only four position players have worn #32 for the Mets, accumulating 233 games played with that hallowed number on their backs. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Bill Pecota!

Bill logged 117 games all around the 1992 Mets infield and, by default, became career 32 leader in almost every offensive category, from hits and runs batted in to walks and strikeouts. He never tripled (but then again, no Met 32 ever has), and was bested in certain stasts only by Mark Carreon, who played 84 games under the Three And Two before switching to 45 for two seasons.

Carreon had 7 home runs to Pecota's 2 and was caught stealing 4 times (Pecota thrice). As for percentage, fuhgeddaboudit: Mark was .318-.382-.506 as opposed to B.P.'s lackluster AVG, OBP and SLG of .227-.293-.297.

Interestingly enough, Kevin Mitchell only appeared as a 32 for 7 games, 18 less than Eli Marrero, yet still managed to worm his way onto the leaderboards: he's tied with Pecota for second-most home runs, and with both Pecota and Carreon for most times hit by pitch (1).

Now for the pitchers, of whom there are a lot more of. One man stands above the pack, however; please meet Jon Matlack!

Jon played 7 seasons and change as a 32, outpacing all the competition (Tom Hausman pitched in 125 games, 78 short of Matlack's mark) and leading in every category save two: saves, which goes to Hausman (3), and ERA, with his 3.03 knocked off by Carlos Diaz's 1.97--set in 1,361 less innings!

And Now You Know.

TODAY'S BOOK: "The Chimpanzee Kid", by Ron Roy ((c) 1985)

Labels: 32, baseball