far side moment
when i was younger and in school i used to love reading cartoon books and comics. i especially loved MAD magazine and the “far side.” to this day so many of those jokes and images are embedded in my mind and they come popping up all the time in daily life. i never say anything to people around me because…well they would lock me up if they knew how screwed up i am. and its hard to describe a picture joke too. its funny to think of all the stuff we hold in to hide ourselves from the all powerful and intimidating “THEM.” The other day on the plane I was reading mad magazine and laughing out loud until i embarrassed myself. i decided to read a serious magazine instead. i read my national geographic issue about animal intelligence and I was again laughing as I read about these chimps that fashion crude tools to dig bugs out of trees. suddenly I had this image of an old cartoon and i was cracking up again. I gained composure and then the same image hit me today. i was laughing in my car today as i was noticing the roadkill and the birds picking at it. don’t get me wrong, i’m an animal lover and all that but again those “far side” images from cartoonist gary larson are embedded deep. somewhere between all the dylan lyrics, freshman biology, and sega cheat codes there is a comic for every occasion. below is what came out of left field, probably from about 10 years ago, and made me crack up on the plane and then again today.
“secret tools of the common crow”
