Paper Machete

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[Mr Insanity]

I didn’t want to watch Saddam Hussein die.

Which is not to say I don’t think he deserved to die; I just didn’t really want to see it replayed over and over on my television.

If this makes me a hypocrite and a coward, I’m okay with that. I plead guilty.

Hell, Bush slept through it.

This blog doesn’t really deal with topical matters, history, cultural issues, personal problems, et cetera. It’s a comic strip of sorts; a cartoon generally wrapped around tragically flawed people behaving badly, superimposed upon events in normal everyday life. And rather than endorse such behavior, I would like to think it handles the Karmic payback in a rather elegant --and occasionally funny-- manner.

The overall dynamics aren’t really that different than your garden-variety sitcom: Ethan, the fatherly figure. Cobe --the guy that everyone vehemently hates despite the fact that he makes everything “tick”-- is a mom of sorts. LOBO represents the 5-year old “id” that lies in every man, and I guess that leaves me, the cruel older stepsister that is always trying to make the pest stick a fork in the light socket.

Everything is fairly formulaic as such. Aside from this poorly-lit, flimsy paper mache diorama –and horse fucking, or advice on how to safely apply Rain-X to your webcam-- there isn’t anything really unique about it at all; people have been writing like this for thousands of years. All the relationships run in triangles. Character “a” has a relationship with character “b”, but character “c”….

Despite this deceptive simplicity, on occasion you get the easy part; sometimes I hit the “Publish” button to send out a post about a twisted galactic odyssey of hedonistic horseshit so someone can maybe get a laugh or two, only to face a real world which is infinitely more complex, non-sensical, and sadistically ruthless.

Maybe, in some weird way, it does have a certain dignity.

It’s safer in here.

We have a sense of humor.

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Anonymous said…
I have enjoyed reading your blog over the months, the wit,humor and over all charm of these charcters and plot lines makes this one of the funniest blogs out there...

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