Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 14, 2022

Jeepers, without his glasses, Mr. Kant looks rather super!

As ever, Immanuel Kant but Kublai Khan!

I say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. These are never going to appeal to kids. Was Ruben Bolling angling at the time for a job in advertising? Like maybe helping with PSA for companies found liable for some disaster.

been reading this since the early 90’s when it was in the local weekly counterculture publication. sometimes political, sometimes inane (like today), but always entertaining

Dear Klaus, Mach schnell to Aldi, and get some Fruit Rings™ instead. Clearly not a knockoff! The way Aldis are popping up, they seem bent on world domination. https://www.aldireviewer.com/millville-fruit-rounds/

Having read the works of Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens and Marcel Proust, I can certainly appreciate the first endorsement. Yeah, I’m one of those hoity-toity elitist intellectuals. Whaddaboudit?

What?! No CORN POPS?!! But… I gotta have my Pops!

Well, Klaus Kinski is going to appeal to a certain type of kid. If Count Chocula can sell cereal, why not Count Orlok?

I approve of this comic because it allows me to revel in my intellectual superiority to all the other disembodied brains floating in this jar.

I just lost my breakfast.

Boxes of Cap’n Crunch now feature a photo of Joseph Hazelwood, of the Exxon Valdez.

As tonight marks the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic I considered using Edward Smith, but in his photos he seems pretty avuncular and child-friendly.

When the iceberg hit, they must have known

That God moves on the water like Casey Jones…

- Gillian Welch, April the 14th, Part 1

Werner Herzog for Lucky Charms, “Lucky Charms are a…complicated preparation.”

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant. Or so I’ve heard.

A. Malone has too much time in his hands….

Well, that was unusual…

kurt vonnegut for wheaties (of course)…

we are healthy to the extent that our ideas are humane

breakfast of champions indeed…

Frootzcarraldo.

John Updike for Trix.

Rabbit at Breakfast

I wonder how much of a percentage of the US population would get all the references?

What’s worse than seeing Klaus Kinski’s face on a box of Froot Loops? Seeing Tommy Wiseau’s face on a box of a store brand knockoff of Wheaties. “I’m not Wheaties, it’s not true! It’s bullshit! I’m not Wheaties! I’m naaaaat! Oh hai, milk!”