THIS MODERN WORLD

Awhile back at a tag sale, I picked up a strange artifact of a bygone era — a collection of Woody Allen newspaper comic strips from 1978. Who knew that Woody Allen had a newspaper comic? I’m somewhat baffled as to where it might have run (as you probably will be after you see a couple samples), but according to the afterword, the strip was “syndicated in newspapers throughout the United States,” as well as in sixty foreign countries. The nineteen-seventies, go figure.

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Well, this made my day:

… adding, there are still some signed copies in stock at the store.

Oops:

Ann Romney’s remarks came during an interview with Baltimore radio station WBAL, during which the host asked her, “And one of the things, Ann Romney, that folks talk about with your husband, Mitt Romney, and I’ve seen him in casual conversation-He comes off very smooth and okay. But sometimes he comes off stiff. Do you have to fight back some criticism, like ‘My husband isn’t stiff, OK?’”
Laughing, Ann Romney responded, “Well, you know, I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out because he is not!”

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Also: newest cartoon here.

The Santa Barbara Independent dropped TMW for the usual budget reasons not too long ago. I never even got around to mentioning it here, but reader response in the area was apparently both immediate and vocal, and I’m happy to say the cartoon returns to the paper after a mere two week hiatus. Many thanks to the editors there, and of course overwhleming thanks to the readers who spoke up and made a difference. Don’t let anyone tell you that sort of thing doesn’t matter. Just because something doesn’t work every time, doesn’t mean it never works.

Closer to home (for me), the Advocate papers could still use some nudging.