Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 01, 2011

I’m surprised that Jeff can pronounce paradigm.

A pair o’ dime is $0.20.

This is going to be the most bonkers interview Slackmeyer’s done since Joe Biden …

I think Jeff is getting the better of smirking Mark. He’s certainly a better interview subject than Mark’s old stand-by Jimmy Thudpucker.Mark is in Rick’s corner – the tired old generation on Waldenites who can’t cope with the brilliant imaginations of their successors,

Final panel:Sorkh Razil says “Like me the ‘G’ is silent”Thoughts?Mike31

This is such a set up! Of course Jeff has to interview well so he can sell thousand of books, since Trudeau’s goal is also to sell many copies of “Red Rascal’s War” in real life. It would be too self-deprecating to let the fictional book tour fail.

I knew it! I KNEW it! Trudeau is USING jeff / Red / Sorkh as a foil in order to make his political points about the Middle Eastern wars we’re into. That’s what this whole shtick is about. Points: • By having Jeff say that “it’s not always clear what is real”, GBT is referring to “the fog of war”, to our troops’ confusion about what “completing the mission” really means. • Same with “embracing the unknown” — the troops refer to “embracing the suck”, hardly a term complementary to what King George was promising them if they enlisted. • Sorkh is “at peace with representing an idea, a paradigm if you will”. That could refer to the idea of “American exceptionalism” — meaning it’s not what we DO per se (bombing out poor defenseless villages, e.g.) that’s important, but what we ARE, i.e., the biggest, meanest, toughest SOBs in the world and if you don’t like it we’ll unleash a military on you that’s bigger than all the rest of the world’s militaries combined. Stay “tooned” (as someone else has said). Cause you’re only gonna get more of it. Trudeau has lots and lots to say.

WINDOWS is a mystery wrapped in an enigma turned into a paradigm.

And it still makes no sense…

Like the accounts of what really happened when Seal Team 6 raided bin Laden’s compound. Different principals are accusing each other of telling fiction, or at least embellishing.

Where’s the G is Sorkh Razil, the Red Rascal, or for that matter Jeff Redfern?

And I thought you were talking about Dylan’s comment.

That’s all Jeff is: imagination. He’s a legend in his own mind. A worthless excuse for a human being. And you say he represents the new generation, davidblack?

GT’s writing is so wonderful. the G is silent, like RR who’s talking up a storm.

Let’s face it… Mark’s gen doesn’t even begin to understand Jeff’s gen.

Like any other schizophrenic, Jeff’s imagination has become his reality. The good thing about it, there’s medication for it. In his mind, he really is Sorkh Razil.

It’s kind of like some of the Republican Candidates for President. They really believe the boloney they’re selling us.

I was grasping for straws at the “G is silent” conundrum. Thought maybe it was because Jeff isn’t the type who would say “gee!” #lame But babka suggested (I think) that the “G” is for “Gary,” as in Trudeau. Makes as much sense as anything else.

Or to paraphrase another cartoon I once read, and I can’t remember which one, “What you hear is the sound of a paradigm shifting without a clutch.”

So far, so good. This might get to be trouble a little later, though. Unless…like the ‘G’…!

“Hey Garry! Bring Becca back!!” You may get your wish. Becca may storm the place to make sure the interview goes better.

Jeff may be schizophrenic, or at least drifting into temporary schizophrenia at times.(“Schizophrenia” means “split off from reality”. It doesn’t mean “split personality”.) But he’s definitely not stupid. These enigmatic sayings of his have meaning. Trudeau is investing a comic caricature’s comments with meaning. So Jeff’s intelligence is really Trudeau’s intelligence — if my theory (that the comic-strip Jeff is really a stand-in for Trudeau himself at an earlier time in his life) pans out. The question then arises: If so, then why would Trudeau spend so much time constructing this fascinating fictional character? My theory is this: to use Jeff as a mouthpiece for messages that he, himself, Trudeau, wants to get across. Some of these messages, I think, may express his anti-war and anti-colonialist opinions.

And a “paradox” is two MDs working on your gall bladder.

And “paraphrase” is two dozen posters vying to interpret Jeff, GBT, Red Rascal, Sorkh Razil. Rick and one another. Lively!

Say what you want, love him or hate him, Jeff’s imagination sho has influenced the imagination of his readers. I guess that’s what makes him human.

Where is Friday’s strip?

GoComics seem to have become GoneComics today…

It’s there on slate.com. Roland Hedley is having a go at Redfern. They deserve each other.

Attn: fellow fuzzy bears:
 
Go to: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip 
to read the next strip: an interview on Faux News between Roland Hedley and Sorkh Razil.
 
Hope this one switches soon. Luck.

The gocomics.com/doonesbury site has an interesting quote: ""I am going to be the nominee."" —Newt Gingrich

Hey fellow fuzzy bears: While you’re waiting, go to: http://news.google.com/ In the lower right-hand corner of your screen is a stack of video icons. Click on the one headlined: Spy Files: WikiLeaks exposes dark secrets of surveillance and watch the video. It’ll knock your socks off. Guaranteed. —dtπ

My comment on the Doonesbury strip with the interview between Faux Fox interviewer Roland Hedley and the Random House author of THE RED RASCAL: Jeff Redfern finally speaks truth to power. Free at last? Weeell, hard to say. Let Trudeau be Trudeau. Or in the fave clause of the once-and-current governor Jerry Brown, “It will emerge”; “it” being Trudeau’s real and true intentions for his caricature Jeff. Next comment, s’il vous plaît.

Dear Doonesbury addicts: Please go “there” to read comic, then return here to post. It’s awkward, I know. But it’s the only way to keep doing what you enjoy doing: namely to read the day’s strip and then to comment on it, as in my comment supra.

No takers? Ah spit! Gimme some Gator Aid. I feel a “Vaso Vagal Syncope” attack coming on. (It’s not a heart attack or myocardial infarction. It’s kinda like the opposite of that: fainting do to too little oxygen to the brain, the result of a too-slow heart rate. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it: “A vasovagal episode or vasovagal response or vasovagal attack1 (also called neurocardiogenic syncope) is a malaise mediated by the vagus nerve. When it leads to syncope or “fainting”, it is called a vasovagal syncope, which is the most common type of fainting.2 “There are a number of different syncope syndromes which all fall under the umbrella of vasovagal syncope. The common element among these conditions is the central mechanism leading to loss of consciousness. The differences among them are in the factors that trigger this mechanism.”

 C’MON DUDES & DUDETTES, POST AWAY!

DUDES & DUDETTES?

They sound evil, professional translation needed!