Cidu Bill on Oct 22nd 2009
Last week, when a Newsweek interviewer asked him whether parents might be concerned that the film Where the Wild Things Are might be too scary for younger children, Maurice Sendak replied, “I would tell them to go to hell.”
Excuse me?? Parents seeking to take responsibility for what their young children see should go to hell???
I could understand saying parents can be overprotective, that a little Wicked Witch of the West never scarred any child for life, there are valid opinions capable of being expressed in a civil manner… but “I would tell them to go to hell“???
I’m really starting to think, you should pardon the language, that there’s a virulent strain of Asshole Virus going around. Obviously Kanye West was Patient Zero, and it’s already spread to comic strip artists and children’s book writers.
Brooke McEldowney and the Imbecile Factor
Filed in Asshole Virus, Bill Bickel, Brooke McEldowney, Kanye West, Maurice Sendak, Newsweek, Where the Wild Things Are | 35 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Oct 22nd 2009
Okay, so in yesterday’s 9 Chickweed Lane, McEldowney appeared to call readers who criticized him imbeciles. Today in his blog, he says he wasn’t really calling anybody an imbecile, that was only a joke. And we should have known this, rather than taking the joke at face value (there was a joke there?), because we should have known he wouldn’t indulge in gratuitous name-calling and anybody who didn’t realize this is an idiot.
Well, he’s right about one thing: I’m not smart enough to follow his reasoning without getting a headache.
Filed in 9 Chickweed Lane, Bill Bickel, Brooke McEldowney, comic strips, comics, humor | 30 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Oct 22nd 2009
Two related observations: I hope this comic is a rerun, otherwise that milk is
way outdated.
And speaking of reruns, I’m not sure many people outside of the New York area would get it, but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this was “First you address the ball…”
Filed in Bill Bickel, Brevity, CIDU, Guy & Rodd, comic strips, comics, humor | 28 responses so far
