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A tweet, not a political cartoon, but close enough -
Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
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Okay, that's weird.
What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.
What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.
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Yeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.
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p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:27 pmYeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.
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Good one! I like the horror element.
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cause I looked it up:
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, and the second book in his Green Town Trilogy. It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern home, Green Town, Illinois, on October 24. In dealing with the creepy figures of this carnival, the boys learn how to combat fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark", who seemingly wields the power to grant the townspeople's secret desires. In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who, like the carnival, lives off the life force of those it enslaves. Mr. Dark's presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, the janitor of the town library, who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something ... es_(novel)
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Thank you. Definitely SWTWC (even without tattoos), a favorite in my youth. PS Bradbury rocks.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:38 pmhttps://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.
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It as also a 1983 movie. I saw it once and that was enough.p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:55 pmThank you. Definitely SWTWC (even without tattoos), a favorite in my youth. PS Bradbury rocks.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:38 pmhttps://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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I saw it as Trump having seized and kidnapped the R party (the elephant).
The bitterest truth is more wholesome than the sweetest lie.
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Or delivering the elephant to the White House to stomp around and destroy things, while leaving huge mountains of shit in their wake. Like they did before.roadscholar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:03 pm I saw it as Trump having seized and kidnapped the R party (the elephant).
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I saw it as a funeral carriage
like he killed the repubic party
like he killed the repubic party
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All the above
The art is working
The art is working
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Note the cruelty implied by the whip..
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"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem Washington to be reborn?"
Slouches towards Bethlehem Washington to be reborn?"
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Yeah, big Bradbury fan here, but I started SWTWC at least 5 times and just couldn't get past 20 or 30 pages. Don't know why.
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