Beyond Obits!
I'm going to have to ban Streeter cartoons from this blog so others have a fair chance to compete for turds, but--and I could just be seeing things--this appears to be a cartoon noting that a guy who died decades ago would have turned 100 today. Let me know if I'm missing something because this seems incredible even for Streeter.
Why stop at the celebrity obit when you can keep marking their cloud-tastic birthday ever year? Here's to 101, Johnny!
Why stop at the celebrity obit when you can keep marking their cloud-tastic birthday ever year? Here's to 101, Johnny!
MStreeter Savannah Morning News Nov 18, 2009 |
posted by Matt Bors at
1:02 PM
13 Comments:
I imagine it's supposed to be about the big to-do going on in Savannah to commemorate his 100th bday. They're putting in a big statue, dedicating some shit, having a celebration. It's not an every-year thing, it's a "Savannah doesn't have much going on at the moment and wants your tourist dollars" thing. You should have seen the TV segment they did with a Johnny Mercer MUPPET. That shit was golden.
That being said, this is not a cartoon and if that's what this artist was going for, it is quite the turd. Probably more of an editorial illustration.
Ah, so there is some explanation for this. Thanks.
Still, you are right that it is more of an illustration. There's no opinion here.
If you read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (and I highly recommend you do, if you haven't already), you'll find that Johnny Mercer is really all Savannah has to cherish beyond the claim that Sherman refused to burn down their beautiful city. Streeter's audience is purely local, IOW. If it were up to me, I'd draw Mercer as a cow the city council has milked to death.
Yeah, Johnny Mercer only wrote some of the best songs in American music history. I'll bet songs like "Autumn Leaves" and "Days of Wine and Roses" are lame (and slightly faggy) songs for old people as far as Bors' generation is concerned. Mercer's just "some dead guy" to Bors.
Do some f'ing homework Bors. Maybe your generation, which produced such unbelievable fucking musical geniuses as Kanye West, Oasis, and Weezer, could learn something about music instead of image.
Whatever you think about music really doesn't have anything to do with the lameness of this cartoon. Someone he/you like was born 100 years ago. That's nice. It's not an editorial cartoon.
If I could draw, I'd have just gotten a well-paying idea: a series of obits for nostalgic, dead inside Boomer types called The Dead Ol' Days™. The best part? I do a year of them and rerun them in perpetuity?
PS Johnny Mercer's songs BLEW.
Like I said, Do some f'ing homework Bors. Your lame response pretty much goes with your picture on the upper right. Blase, cool, detached West Coast liberal who's just too hip to be bothered by looking up (and quite possibly learning something about) 100 year-old losers.
Aaron Manton,
You blow, not Mercer. So do the so-called "songwriters" of your lame generation. The facts are in pal: Johnny Mercer's songs are still performed every day all over the world. Yet here we are not even 20 years after the Nirvana hype and who gives a shit about their music? Not even God.
I know you have a child's mentality, which is a sad thing for an adult. You've got some work to do. Get to it.
And while you're at it, YOU KIDS STAY OFF MAH LAWN!!!
Bill Hicks does NOT like current trends in music. This we know.
Bill:
I'm aware you love the cool melodies of a bygone era; I get that. Did your parents ever tell you Johnny Mercer was some forgettable musical act and that real music was Robert Johnson? I'm sure they did - was it fair? Not really. Personally, I am not the sort of ignoramous who cannot look outside my generation for music. Not caring for the music of one particular person does not mean one is 'ignorant' of an entire era.
Trolling 101:
1) Don't ever address the central issue.
2) Call people names and insult them even after they continue to address you sensibly.
3) Make wild speculations about people's ideology, sexuality, taste in music, manhood based off of their 8 word profile.
4) Tap into the meme that your enemies are elite, yet know nothing.
5) Use a handle from a dead comedian who would spin in his grave knowing that he's represented on the internet by reactionary douchebags.
Matt --
Not sure if this qualifies as label abuse or if it stops at total douchebaggery:
http://www.gocomics.com/chuckasay/2009/11/20/
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