I guess yesterday’s navel on Jeremy got me discombobulated.
From the Rockford Register Star Editor’s Note
“I just pulled my favorite comic strip, Zits. And, it’ll stay pulled
until creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman put some clothes back on
Jeremy’s parents. …
Unfortunately, the Friday strip was printed in GO before I saw the
Thursday one.
Don’t look if comic strip nudity offends you. And on
Saturday, it’s gone and the comi cs pages are safe again from
middle-aged, saggy cherubs.”
Next post:
“Sometimes I just love a tempest in a teapot. Takes my mind off the serious issues I deal with everyday. Occasionally it’s fun to get all pseudo-excited about not much. So, when Jeremy’s parents took their clothes off in the Zits strip, well, I pulled it, sent nasty-grams to the syndicate and cartoonists.
Zits is back on Sunday.
OK, yes, I was sorta serious. Some of our readers were just nuts over naked cartoon characters and didn’t “get it” that the strip was riffing off the fat cherubs of “Love Is…” fame. But, really, as I told the syndicate rep, I just don’t have time for dumb stuff. Put the clothes back on.”
From King Features response: “To my knowledge, out of the 1,600+ newspapers that ZITS appears in, your readers are the only ones who have had such a problem with the depiction.”
She still thinks it is Jeremy’s parents. lmao
On the other hand I have to live here. cmao …
How oddly appropriate that Mr. Dylan played here recenly:
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
Copyright ©1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
Sorry it took so long to approve the comment Jim. I had to check for gratuitous use of the word navel or other bits of obscenity.
Can’t be too careful, tho… I’m a known Libertarian… and obviously, posting that was a slight for the Baby Boomer’s that must have forgotten Dylan’s timeless message:
“And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’”
Yep, that’s it; rapidly aging Boomers…
And let’s not forget Dylan’s latest words:
Here comes Santa Claus
Here comes Santa Claus
Right down Santa Claus way …
No, I’m just kidding. you can’t take away some of the great songs he penned although he does seem to be trying