Paul Musgrave, writing for The Hoosier Review, says that I can’t draw.
How Paul Musgrave, writing for The Hoosier Review, presumes to know this is anybody’s guess — given that Paul Musgrave doesn’t know me from Adam. Fact is, I can draw quite well. Quite well. And I’ve never, to my knowledge, said otherwise — either to Paul Musgrave, The Hoosier Review, or anyone affiliated in any way with either.
Of course, Paul Musgrave has Lenin’s picture tiled as the background image on his personal site (though he reserves the right to change backdrops as suits his mood) — so perhaps Paul Musgrave feels that facts are unimportant, that what is important is making his point (such as it is), and the facts be damned. Or perhaps Paul Musgrave is simply a brave young contrarian, ready to do battle with the world, starting with me.
In either event, who cares? Fuck Paul Musgrave. I just wanted to point out that Paul Musgrave doesn’t know me at all, and so has no idea whether or not I can draw. Which as I’ve said, I can. Quite well, thank you.
Paul Musgrave, by the way, is a history major.
I’ll leave the irony of that hanging here for you to enjoy at your own convenience.
Wait a minute – I’m a history major, and can draw.
Whatever that means. But as soon as I hit “post” I’m going over to the secret history major website and check the database for information on your drawing skill. Because if you think I’m going to just take your word over that of Paul Musgrave, writing for the Hoosier Review, you’ve got another think coming.
By the way, don’t you think it odd that Judas Priest titled that one song “You’ve Got Another THING Coming?” What’s up with that? A mistake, or were they making some subtle point?
I’m just kind of enjoying the fact that ol’ Perceptive Paul didn’t manage to notice that they’re the same damn drawings.
Dude, link to Paul’s personal web site is broken. It should be paulmusgrave.net (instead of dot-com).
Thanks, CS.
Maybe I’m missing some subtle, nuanced history-major humor here, but Perkins’ original cartoon seems to be composed of clip art. That’s fine, but what <i>is</i> with the “can’’t draw” thing? Because JG didn’t surf for different clip art? ‘Splain.
Yes, Lenin is the background picture this week. He joins such luminaries as Che Guevara, Bill Clinton—and Dwight Eisenhower, Jasper Johns’ flag, Richard Lugar, and Richard Nixon (oh, and Teddy Roosevelt). Not to mention such apolitical figures as Ikari Gendo, Misato Katsuragi, and the U.S.S. Enterprise. The background in rotation for the week coming up is a picture of the World Trade Center with the Empire State Building in the foreground. Pictures, in other words, are not necessarily chosen for their ideological content, but mainly to answer a simple question: Do they look good in a two-color gif? Many pictures I’ve wanted to use haven’t, so they’re not up there.
And, btw, TMW is using more and more “original” art—there’s not many 1950s advertisements (Perkins’ original sources) with photos of George Bush, Dick Cheney, or Bill Clinton. So I happen to know that Dan Perkins can draw. Empirically, of course, I don’t know that you can. I do know that you can use Photoshop and profanity, however.
I’m also a helluva bowler, and a crack shot with a pistol—though when I miss a spare or don’t group my body shots, I tend to toss out the expletives…
The Photoshop proficiency—well, that’s just a bonus.
I’ll… I’ll bet you can’t ride a horse either! Or rub the top of your head and pat your belly at the same time! Or sing or paint a house! Because… I can tell everything about a person by their website, even their secret, secret stuff they only whisper to their pillow at night. That’s ‘cos I’m a <i>Humanities</i> major, and we all have psychic powers. And I have lots of clip art, so watch out! I’ve got Worperfect <i>and</i> Microsoft Word! Take that, mere mortal History major guy!
Whatta loon.
Whoa, Andrea… were you involved in that decaf controversy over at Jane Galt the other day?
Not that I’m implying anything at all.
But still, be careful what you say. Some people have odd ideas about humanities majors and they might think you’re only joking. We both know better, of course. But we don’t want those other types to figure out the relationship between a humanities degree, psychic powers, and caffeine, do we?
See you at the secret humanities club house tonight? Fukuyama’s bringing the brownies, and I may need help keeping him away from Derrida. You know how it is, first they start yelling at each other and by the end of the evening they’re in complete agreement. Oh, and Bernie Lewis said he’s really going to clean Eddy Said’s clock this time.
Didn’t you used to have Hoosier Review on your blogroll? What happened to that?
I don’t think so, Josh. I have campus nonsense on the blogroll, though. Thought it was pretty much the same thing.
Well not at all, actually. Campusnonsense is a conservative blog. HR draws from different ideologies and isn’t solely political. But of course, that is your discretion. I was mistaken.
Oh. Well, I recognized your name from that one. Added a link for you. Over under “So Freshly Added blah blah blah.”
Cafeinnnnnnnnnnne…