Madam & Christmas Eve

 

What Really Happened To Gaddafi

I can’t show you the cartoon I’m talking about because Stephen Francis & Rico have finally cottoned on to me and won’t allow their strips to be lifted any more (this one came from another blog); but if you click on this link today and this link for the next seven days, you will discover what really happened to Gaddafi.  Any later and you won’t see it again for the next five years (much like the Colonel himself).

Make the effort; it’s worth it.

Related articles

• Contrasting Messages From Gaddafi’s Sons (news.sky.com)
• ALGERIA:Gaddafi’s daughter is in Algerian hospital (laaska.wordpress.com)
• Report: Gaddafi family in Algeria (americablog.com)
• Libya: Rebels use Gaddafi informants to track deposed Libyan leader (telegraph.co.uk)
• Libya Q&A: What Next After Colonel Gaddafi? (news.sky.com)

I Love This

It combines two of my favourite things – satire and The Terminator movies.  Throw in some chocolate and I think I could expire of happiness.

Click on the link to see more Madam & Eve – the best cartoon strip ever.

I Know Where They’re Coming From…Sigh

Madam & Eve: An Antidote To Sentiment

http://www.madamandeve.co.za/

I thought I would plug an old favourite.  The above cartoon is South African.  I have been a fan since it came out in 1992, poking fun at Apartheid and all kinds of South Africans, as well as world events.  My favourite cartoon is the one where Mother Anderson is stockpiling beans, water and candles before the first democratic election in 1994, so they can live in the cellar for three months in the event of civil war breaking out.  Eve, considering the beans, says, ‘If ever there was an argument for peace, this is it.’

 

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I have been buying the collections since the first one cost R30 in CNA.  They weren’t famous then and a good copy sells for about R300 now.  I wouldn’t part with mine; it’s a narrative of South Africa’s recent history.  And hilarious. 

 

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There’s a link to the right if you fancy a look.

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Hope: I’m In Favour Of It

WordPress postaday2011 asks today: What gives you hope? And what, if anything, makes you question hope? And what makes you question your questions of hope?

I hope to one day get the hang of this stupid blog because the text absolutely refuses to change to black today.

I hope you’ll forgive the brevity of this post.

I hope you don’t mind that I didn’t go for the obvious again.

I hope you know what the obvious is, or my work here has been all for nought.

I hope you will check out the misery and self-pity that is today’s sapoems post.

But most of all, I hope for better WordPress prompts.

If Christ Had Been Born Today…

Thanks to earlybird for the link.

And while we’re on the subject:

On T’Ender Books

I love the latest Madam & Eve cartoon:

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There’s not much happening here in TillyBudLand.  The weather is turning colder and Tilly Bud is getting older.  That’s it, really.  Desperate for something to write about, I turned to Plinky Prompts again.  It asked me ‘What book would you read over and over again?’  I would have to say, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card.  It started life as a short story that became a novel and then a series of books, the Ender Saga and the Bean Saga (Bean is a minor character in the first book).  I prefer the Bean Saga because they are more like Ender’s Game; the Ender Saga is dreadful, apart from the first book.

Ender’s Game is the story of a child trained to save the world; but also the story of a child who has to survive the world.  When my boys came up against bullies, I gave it to them to read.  I must confess, however, that putting your enemy’s nose through his skull is not a path I hope they take: it is the philosophical angle I hope they will consider.

Above all, though, it is the story of negotiating childhood.  In space.

What’s your favourite book?

 

 

 

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I had to share this even though you can’t quite see it all.  Click on it to see the whole picture.

The real post will be with you this afternoon.