Act Local

Back during the November daily post-a-thon I came up with an idea to write an entry that was a combination thank-you note/love letter to all the things and people out there that got me through the Bush years. Like all the writers and comics at The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert, The Onion of course, Michael Moore (in small doses), and Paul Krugman (who, I might add, deserves some kind of medal, I mean other than the fricking Nobel he just won, for his unstinting and relentless criticism of the administration while other journalists cowered or embedded. The Presidential Medal of Freedom would do nicely). These are just a few off the top of my head but one that stands above all others for me: Get Your War On. David Rees was somehow able to distill the rage and insanity of those years into tidy three- or four-panel clip art strips of master satire. Master satire that also made you laugh hard enough to injure something. I credit him with saving my sanity during the darkest hours of the Bush administration. Sitting there in my own Midtown cubicle, constantly refreshing the gywo page, hoping for another release of the crazy pent-up tension that colonized every cell in my body post-9/11. Anyway, the reason I finally did just go ahead and write this post is because, whaddya know, David Rees recently moved to my town. My tiny little town. And he's giving a reading at a local gallery this weekend. I am going to go and try to keep cool and not get all fan girl on him because next thing you know we'll probably end up at the same city council meeting trying to expand curbside recycling or something. Oh, and the original reason I wanted to write the post was pretty much just to point to the GYWO videos that he's doing now. This one? Oh dear God. Remember what I said about injuring something? You've been warned.

Comments

[shes a rebel]

Thank you! I just spent my morning over there watching all of the GYWO clips. Great, great stuff. I only wish I'd known about it during the past year when I was feeling all anxious and depressed about politics.

[zach]

see you there! it'll be the first reading I've been to in I'm embarrassed to say how long.