Our favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, joins forces with Jon Acuff to give us all some too sorely needed advice:
Who’s Jon Acuff, you asked? He’s the writer of the new book, Finish, for which this cartoon is a poster. Find out more about Jon HERE
You may be wondering just what the heck is going on here with my face.
Alt. Explanation 1: You should see the other guy. Be-YOO-Ti-Full! Not a mark on him! It was a privilege to see him work!
Alt. Explanation 2: I leaped out of the second floor of the burning house, the kitten cradled in my arms and I landed on my face.
We’re writers for television and film. So let’s start off with a completely inappropriate cosmological metaphor:
If I Love Lucy was the “primordial big bang” of television comedies—spontaneously birthing into existence all we know and love about television’s situation comedy format, and causing the formation of galaxies such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in The Family, Cheers, and every other interstellar mass of wonder that comprise television’s brights and best sitcoms—
If we can use that clunky metaphor, with your permission…
—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—
Monday September 21, 2017, Fox premiered Season Four of Gotham. This premier episode opens six months after the tragic release of the tech virus that ravaged Gotham in Season Three.
NOTE FROM LB
Once again, I feel that I must remind you. Every word in these poems is true, one way or another, and these poems all are part of a search – not necessarily successful, I admit – for a larger truth. The event described in this one shook me to the core when it happened. Now it just seems like, “Oh. Yeah. Right.” Oh those crazy, zany aspirations!
“We all aspire to be assholes,”