Productive Weekend!!
November 05, 2006
I was inspired this weekend, and I drew up this quick Comic. I'm particularly proud of how the caricature in last panel came out.
In other news, I think our housekeeper hates us. Today marks the second time that I've seen her at our landlords' house and she didn't come over here. She's supposed to come every other weekend, but there was a period of time where she didn't come for two months. Now, I don't even keep track of it anymore, and I just find it a lucky day when she stops by.
She does a great job, but I sometimes feel guilty that we leave a week's worth of dishes for her. Now, that may seem like a lot, until you think of the fact that this pile can only consist of things in our small kitchen sink. So when I see her outside, I always dash to the sink so I can do the dishes before she gets here, which, if you think about it, defeats the purpose of a housekeeper.
Now, I've never had one, but I assume people share this same dirty guilt that I do -- the same way you wash your hair before getting a hair cut that includes a shampoo. But if I feel so guilty, why do I even have one? Why don't I rush around and clean the entire house before she comes over, so she can stop in, take a look around, say, "I guess my job here is done," and then my landlords can pay her.
We have hardwood floors, though, and I don't think they'd ever get scrubbed if she didn't come by and make everything smell antiseptic. So anyway, I saw her in my landlords' house, and she could have been bending over to pick something up off the ground, but it sure as hell looked like she was ducking out of sight. Maybe she's annoyed that she can't sweep anything up without my cat attacking the broom and messing up any swept-up piles of dirt. Or maybe she thinks we're dirty pigs and she hates us.
But I don't want to mess with her, because her name is Blanca, and she could easily curl herself into a ball and electrocute us.
Posted by Kitsune at November 5, 2006 08:08 PM | digg this
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I have to say, I was never a big fan or Sascha Baron Cohen, but I just saw Borat and it was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. His whole anti-semitic misogynistic shtick (that doesn't really warrant a comparison to Mel Gibson, what with Cohen actually being Jewish and Gibson just being offensive and drunk)is really only to provoke a reaction, which is the main reason to watch the movie, for the reactions he provokes in people. And if we're not allowed to laugh and mock things that we like and are, then are we not allowed to have roasts? Or like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern AND Hamlet? Hell, I don't even like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but I'm too lazy and tired to find other examples. Weird Al and the groups he parodies? Whatever. It's not like I support hypocrites, but it's not exactly black and white.
Also, I think South Park has support of the media and public now. It's politically incorrect, but I don't think it's being lambasted anymore. And Carlos Mencia probably doesn't get Time magazine coverage because he isn't funny. Where Cohen has great improvisational skills, originality, and comedic timing, Mencia is loud, obnoxious, and rips off Dave Chappelle.
Anyways, I advise go see Borat, then you can just be more offended by your fellow countrymen who are 100% real than some British satirist.
Posted by:
Jamie
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Before you mentioned a comparison to Carlos Mencia and Dave Chappelle, I was going to make the exact comparison and remind everyone that I don't find either of them funny. Just because Sasha is Jewish and Dave is Black doesn't make it right. I think well-executed racist jokes could potentially be humorous, but I hate the recent comedic movement I like to call the Joe Rogan effect which is simply to say the most offensive thing you can think of, the audience gasps because he "went there," and uncomfortable laughter ensues.
As for my countrymen offending me, that's the comparison I made to "Over the Hedge." I think it's the biggest joke on us that America is eating the movie up, when it just points out...whatever it points out. That Americans are stupid monkeys, haha! Ooh, BURN! They were tricked on camera! I remember that...when it was on the TV show "Bloopers." The only person who should really laugh at how dumb America is should be Sasha...all the way to the BANK.
Remember when the "Man Show" went out on the street and got women to sign a petition to end suffrage? Wasn't that HI-LARIOUS?!?!?111 Women are so stupid, aren't they?!? Would I pay to see it in a theater? Yeah, not so much.
For what it's worth, I also don't like roasts, and they make me upset. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but in these arenas, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Posted by:
Kitsune
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I usually clean-up some of my stuff before the maid comes for a couple of reasons.
1. So I know where my stuff is when I need it.
2. So she has more time to clean up the rest of the apartment.
3. So I'm not as embarrassed when she comes...
Ultimately, YES it boils down to guilt.
I sure hope your landlords don't pay her for cleaning when she doesn't clean!
Posted by:
Traci
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This is getting dangerously close to trying to define what "funny" is, but I'd also like to point out that if the qualifications to be a comedian include telling jokes and/or making people laugh, then Joe Rogan really is just a guy on a stage with an unlucky microphone. However, what about Family Guy? I recall a certain someone wanting to romance the show's creator, and half the Family Guy jokes were just cramming as much offense into as short amount of time as possible (angry black weather man? hilarity incarnate!). nowadays the jokes are all offensive rehashes of those same jokes, but still. I'm not saying Family Guy isn't funny, but it was a show that was trying to be offensive, and was quite proud of it.
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Jamie
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I guess I'm unequipped then to continue the argument, since I can't cite examples from the movie I refuse to see (or at least pay for...who wants a date?) I think my main anger comes with making fun of an earnestly trying-to-be-polite person at their own expense.
Here is what I imagine the movie is in its entirety.
Borat: I am from other country.
Reverend: Hello. I love Jesus and judge no one.
Borat: O RLY?! I sex goat!
Reverend: Um...let he without sin cast the first stone?
Audience: HAHAHA! OMG, THAT REVEREND IS SO STUPID! HE'S SO SCARED OF FOREIGNERS, HE'LL BE POLITE NO MATTER WHAT THIS GUY SAYS!!!
Borat: [farts on Reverend]
Reverend: Bless you, my son.
Audience: BAHAHAHA! AMERIKA IS SO STOOPID!!!
Posted by:
Kitsune
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I saw your newest comic and boy...you completely missed the boat on Borat. Comparing what Sacha Baron Cohen does to Mel Gibson proves that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Mel Gibson in a drunken tirade, screams at a Jewish cop and makes all kinds of anti-semitic remarks. Racist...and drunk. And stupid.
Baron Cohen isn't so much making fun of Jews in his movie as he's exposing how awful 85% of the people he runs into are. They're the ones that are showing their true colors by agreeing with him. When he goes into a gun store and asks the shop owner what kind of a gun is good for killing Jews, the guy points to a couple different options without batting an eye. It's scary and interesting and not even remotely the same thing as what your buddy Mel did.
Besides all that, Sacha Baron Cohen is Jewish. I sorta think he's making a parody of people who think the way his Borat character does.
Just saying.
Posted by:
Poopy McPants
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Hahaha! A hate comment!
I haven't gotten one of those in a long time! Delicious.
Posted by:
Kitsune
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I have to say, I was never a big fan or Sascha Baron Cohen, but I just saw Borat and it was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. His whole anti-semitic misogynistic shtick (that doesn't really warrant a comparison to Mel Gibson, what with Cohen actually being Jewish and Gibson just being offensive and drunk)is really only to provoke a reaction, which is the main reason to watch the movie, for the reactions he provokes in people. And if we're not allowed to laugh and mock things that we like and are, then are we not allowed to have roasts? Or like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern AND Hamlet? Hell, I don't even like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but I'm too lazy and tired to find other examples. Weird Al and the groups he parodies? Whatever. It's not like I support hypocrites, but it's not exactly black and white.
Also, I think South Park has support of the media and public now. It's politically incorrect, but I don't think it's being lambasted anymore. And Carlos Mencia probably doesn't get Time magazine coverage because he isn't funny. Where Cohen has great improvisational skills, originality, and comedic timing, Mencia is loud, obnoxious, and rips off Dave Chappelle.
Anyways, I advise go see Borat, then you can just be more offended by your fellow countrymen who are 100% real than some British satirist.
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Before you mentioned a comparison to Carlos Mencia and Dave Chappelle, I was going to make the exact comparison and remind everyone that I don't find either of them funny. Just because Sasha is Jewish and Dave is Black doesn't make it right. I think well-executed racist jokes could potentially be humorous, but I hate the recent comedic movement I like to call the Joe Rogan effect which is simply to say the most offensive thing you can think of, the audience gasps because he "went there," and uncomfortable laughter ensues.
As for my countrymen offending me, that's the comparison I made to "Over the Hedge." I think it's the biggest joke on us that America is eating the movie up, when it just points out...whatever it points out. That Americans are stupid monkeys, haha! Ooh, BURN! They were tricked on camera! I remember that...when it was on the TV show "Bloopers." The only person who should really laugh at how dumb America is should be Sasha...all the way to the BANK.
Remember when the "Man Show" went out on the street and got women to sign a petition to end suffrage? Wasn't that HI-LARIOUS?!?!?111 Women are so stupid, aren't they?!? Would I pay to see it in a theater? Yeah, not so much.
For what it's worth, I also don't like roasts, and they make me upset. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but in these arenas, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
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I usually clean-up some of my stuff before the maid comes for a couple of reasons.
1. So I know where my stuff is when I need it.
2. So she has more time to clean up the rest of the apartment.
3. So I'm not as embarrassed when she comes...
Ultimately, YES it boils down to guilt.
I sure hope your landlords don't pay her for cleaning when she doesn't clean!
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This is getting dangerously close to trying to define what "funny" is, but I'd also like to point out that if the qualifications to be a comedian include telling jokes and/or making people laugh, then Joe Rogan really is just a guy on a stage with an unlucky microphone. However, what about Family Guy? I recall a certain someone wanting to romance the show's creator, and half the Family Guy jokes were just cramming as much offense into as short amount of time as possible (angry black weather man? hilarity incarnate!). nowadays the jokes are all offensive rehashes of those same jokes, but still. I'm not saying Family Guy isn't funny, but it was a show that was trying to be offensive, and was quite proud of it.
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I guess I'm unequipped then to continue the argument, since I can't cite examples from the movie I refuse to see (or at least pay for...who wants a date?) I think my main anger comes with making fun of an earnestly trying-to-be-polite person at their own expense.
Here is what I imagine the movie is in its entirety.
Borat: I am from other country.
Posted by: KitsuneReverend: Hello. I love Jesus and judge no one.
Borat: O RLY?! I sex goat!
Reverend: Um...let he without sin cast the first stone?
Audience: HAHAHA! OMG, THAT REVEREND IS SO STUPID! HE'S SO SCARED OF FOREIGNERS, HE'LL BE POLITE NO MATTER WHAT THIS GUY SAYS!!!
Borat: [farts on Reverend]
Reverend: Bless you, my son.
Audience: BAHAHAHA! AMERIKA IS SO STOOPID!!!
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I saw your newest comic and boy...you completely missed the boat on Borat. Comparing what Sacha Baron Cohen does to Mel Gibson proves that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Mel Gibson in a drunken tirade, screams at a Jewish cop and makes all kinds of anti-semitic remarks. Racist...and drunk. And stupid.
Baron Cohen isn't so much making fun of Jews in his movie as he's exposing how awful 85% of the people he runs into are. They're the ones that are showing their true colors by agreeing with him. When he goes into a gun store and asks the shop owner what kind of a gun is good for killing Jews, the guy points to a couple different options without batting an eye. It's scary and interesting and not even remotely the same thing as what your buddy Mel did.
Besides all that, Sacha Baron Cohen is Jewish. I sorta think he's making a parody of people who think the way his Borat character does.
Just saying.
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Hahaha! A hate comment!
Posted by: KitsuneI haven't gotten one of those in a long time! Delicious.
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