Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Working Girl

And now it's come to this: Betty Boop has gone to work for Hooters. That's right...Betty Boop, a 75 year old woman, has taken a job with a restaurant chain that forces women to wear tight shorts and tighter tops as they serve overpriced and overspiced chicken wings. I hope Grampy doesn't hear of this.

Poor Betty. We all know how even at the peak of her superstardom, she was horrendously underpaid. Max Fleischer compensated her so poorly she was never able to even afford a profile. Still, she managed to maintain her dignity...if you can call consorting with Koko the Clown "dignified." I guess she had to do this to eat, which is the only reason women go to Hooters. Men certainly don't.

Seriously, there's something highly symbolic — I'm not sure what but there's something — about the fantasy sex symbol of one era intermingling with the fantasy sex symbols of another. And while I've never been in a Hooters, I've walked past them and there always seems to be some lady serving out front who can't quite fit into the outfit they have her wearing. Given how real those women always seem, Betty's gonna feel right at home.

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Wednesday Morning

I think I'm going into one of my "don't read the news for a while" periods. There are a lot of tragedies and potential tragedies out there and at some point yesterday — well, I can tell you when it was; it was ten minutes into Keith Olbermann's report on hurricane devastation — something in me just said, "Enough." I understand how bad it is and have done the microscopic amount that I can do to help. Time to start restoring normality in my own life where I just might be able to make a difference. Eventually, maybe as soon as tonight, there will be something on this weblog besides Blondie links and me mumbling about what I've been mumbling about.

Thanks for putting up with my foul mood. And thanks to all of you who've dropped me notes to say that you've sent cash to Operation U.S.A. Made you feel a little better, didn't it? Yeah, me too.

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Blondie Note

I missed one. The comic strip Buckles has been crossing over for a few days now. Here's the first one, here's the second one and here's today's.

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Blondie Update

Blondie references can be found today in Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Marvin, Curtis and what else? Help me out here, people.

And of course, you should always check out the day's Blondie strip here They've had some pretty clever ones the last few days.

Several folks have written me to ask if the cartoonists are drawing each others' characters or how that works. In some cases, the cartoonists are drawing in the guest stars. In some other cases, it looks like stats have been pasted in.

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