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Quote of the Day
"We are fighting with our lives and the world is just watching. They see how the government is
trying to silence us, how they are beating us -- but they don't come to our help. It's OK. We will succeed,
even if we have to fight alone."
-- "Ali," a student at Tehran University |
 06/30/09
After these messages, we'll be right back |
Sorry for missing the Monday update, kids, but I just got back from my brother's wedding in Ohio
(congrats to him and the bride, of course) and while it was a good time, there were some hiccups. Delayed baggage.
Networks not working. Oh, and a whole mess
of celebrities died.
Anyway, now that I'm back in the ATX and back in the saddle so to speak, updates will resume immediately, with
comics to be posted this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
What I'm Reading: Secret War by: Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto
What I'm Watching: Code Geass: Leloch of the Rebellion
What I'm Listening to: "Rusty Cage" (Soundgarden) |
06/18/09
Where is my vote? |
Quick bit of house-cleaning before I get political, topical, and ... something else
ending in -cal, I guess: I am emphatically NOT behind on the strip (although I must admit to not being terribly
ahead either); the recent irregular posting schedule is directly correlated to the Internet access at the house
going ape-shit over the weekend. I finally lost my temper with our whore-damned network tonight and am in fact
typing this post at Mozart's, sitting outside in the Central Texas heat, sipping on a mango peach
black tea (now with 20% more pretentiousness!), desperate as I was for some actual fucking bandwidth. So, to
reiterate: I'm not a douche bag. AT&T is. I'm hoping the network will be unfucked ere the weekend ends, but
it must be said that these people are cretins, so we'll see how that goes.
On the other hand, I guess there's a real possibility that the Guardian Council's just trying to shut me down.
In which case, AT&T needs to understand that no apology will be forthcoming, due to all the other myriad other
ways in which they suck. Anyways ...
As your web connection has probably been working over the last 100 hours or so, it's probably not worthwhile
to recap the events that are still unfolding
in Iran, well covered as they have been, despite the Ayatollah's
best attempts otherwise, so I'll get right to the analysis. If one accepts that the Iranian vote was rigged,
or at the very least tampered with, the question of the day (and coming days) becomes this:
What do we do now?
And I don't think there's an easy answer to that. Certainly, there's a definite sense that important shit is
GOING DOWN in the lands of my forefathers, but I'm not ready to proclaim this IR2: Judgement Day just yet,
nor would I recommend digging out your Guy Fawkes mask or dusting off the old guillotine. For starters, while
it's clear that Ahmadinejad probably lost the election handily, there's definitely a sizable demographic
still behind this whole Islamic Republic oxymoron that shouldn't be discounted. I strongly believe
in the notion of a separation of church and state (as far as I'm concerned, this whole Supreme Leader nonsense
went out with the pharaohs), but living in the Bible Belt of these United States as I do, I can tell you that
there are plenty of people who disagree with that sentiment (just so long as it's their church running the state,
anyway). As such, I don't see any reason why there can't be a place for a spiritual Prince in a hypothetical
"new Iran" ... but I don't see that place being at the top any longer. As the on-going demonstrations attest,
the majority of the world's first great cosmopolitan culture looks ready to get back to their roots, and if
the Guardian Council is smart, they'll figure that out and go with the flow. Iran is not China, and I suspect
that a Tiananmen style crackdown is just about
the worst play they could make here.
There is, however, a distinct possibility that these are not smart people we're dealing with here.
This certainly could get uglier than it already has. One can only hope it does not.
Again, though: what do we do now? And by we, this time I mean the rest of the world.
Number one, I believe it's important that we continue to watch, listen, and above all, care about what's
happening in Iran right now. As citizens of the US ought to know better than anyone, foreign support can be
critical in times of domestic revolution. For my part, I'm taking a cue from
the Iranian World Cup team;
until come what may plays itself out, I will be featuring the color green (the color adopted by Moussavi's
reformist supporters) in forthcoming comic strips.
I am, in other words, going to party like it's 1979. I invite you to do the same.
What I'm Reading: Casanova: Luxuria by: Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba
What I'm Watching: Code Geass: Leloch of the Rebellion
What I'm Listening to: "Chop Suey" (System of a Down) |
06/11/09
I guess this officially makes it Underwear Week |
And now, Alessandra Ambrosio:
What I'm Reading: Casanova: Luxuria by: Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba
What I'm Watching: The Venture Bros. Season 3
What I'm Listening to: "Capital G" (Nine Inch Nails) |
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