{"id":8342,"date":"2010-02-03T07:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:08:05","slug":"around-the-mob-faithmouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Faithmouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about Dan Lacey’s blog\/cartoon\/orthodox-Catholic-outsider-art-fest\/huh-wha, Faithmouse<\/em>, ever since I started writing this series.<\/p>\n

Laceys’ a local cartoonist and artist who’d been getting some international play (he’s being published in a UK magazine, now; he’s gotten his stuff in the NYTimes).\u00a0 A few years back, when the City Pages <\/em>still openly recognized conservative blogs, Faithmouse <\/em>won the rag’s “Best Conservative Blog” contest…<\/p>\n

…which set a lot of conservative bloggers to wondering.\u00a0 Lacey is <\/em>orthodox Catholic and very very pro-life; he also admits to “wandering toward the center” in one long discussion forum thread, which to the City Pages <\/em>is probably all the same.\u00a0 It’d be a stretch to call him a “conservative blogger”.<\/p>\n

What his stuff – the Faithmouse <\/em>cartoon and his other art – is, is edgy, thought-provoking, genre-bending, maddeningly elliptical, uncompromising, sometimes inscrutable, sometimes looking like the downstream side of a fever dream or paint-huffing acid-dropping Hunter S. Thompson bender rendered in ink or acrylic, the kind of thing that’s prompted some of his critics to hop up and down like poo-flinging monkeys and call him a “pornographer”.<\/p>\n

He’s also by a long stretch the best cartoonist within a day’s drive of the Twin Cities’ blogosphere.<\/p>\n

I particularly liked this piece; God and Michael Jackson:<\/p>\n

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It’s not all safe for work.\u00a0 But then not all art should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about Dan Lacey’s blog\/cartoon\/orthodox-Catholic-outsider-art-fest\/huh-wha, Faithmouse, ever since I started writing this series. Laceys’ a local cartoonist and artist who’d been getting some international play (he’s being published in a UK magazine, now; he’s gotten his stuff in the NYTimes).\u00a0 A few years back, when the City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}