Y’know, I have to confess – two weeks ago, when I ribbed the local “Minnesota Netroots Conference” – the last thing I’d have expected was that any of them would actually be reading me. Partly because, I’ll be honest, my readership among local leftyboggers is pretty darn minimal, and partly because I don’t think a lot of them read outside their own little circle.
But a reader forwarded me this photo here, apparently taken from a local leftyblogger’s photostream:
Hm.
On the one hand, I do feel just a little bit younger, fielding “attacks” that I first fielded in second grade – which was the first of the several times in my life I’ve been smarter than all of my critics.
And it is both a more flattering rendition of me than any recent photo, and also nicer than anything my family or friends have called me in twenty years.
But I have to apologize; when I said that the local leftyblog community didn’t have a better cartoonist than Ken Weiner, I see I was, again, mistaken.
We can all learn, I guess.
Cheers, local leftybloggers!
(I’m no handwriting analyst – but in my mind’s eye, that looks like I’d imagine Robin “Rew” Marty’s flip-sheet scrawl looks).
UPDATE: Robin submitted a sample of her flipchart writing (or…did she?) and it didn’t appear to be the same author (or…was it?)
“looks like I’d imagine Robin “Rew” Marty’s flip-sheet scrawl looks”
Somebody’s got a crush!!!
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, THEN THEY DRAW SILLY CARTOONS OF YOU, then you win.”
Mitch Berg acknowledged: “I do feel just a little bit younger, fielding “attacks” that I first fielded in second grade – which was the first of the several times in my life I’ve been smarter than all of my critics.”
Also the last time you had that much hair. Heyooooooooooo!!!
Earlier this month, my wife asked me to look at the caricature drawings from the Petters trial from the Channel 5 news to see the worst trial caricatures ever. They were the worst and I laughed out loud when I saw who the sketch artist was – Ken Avidor.
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1258895.shtml?cat=1
It looks like the work of Charles M. Schulz, who as we all know is (or was) from St. Paul.
“Also the last time you had that much hair. Heyooooooooooo!!!”
😆 Good one, Clown. 😆
Just testing Clown to make sure he’s still alive out there.