My neighborhood polling location is McCallum High School, which is only a couple blocks from our place, so after work I grabbed a New Yorker and my sketchbook and headed over to face the lines.
There’s something really great about being able to see a bunch of the folks from your neighborhood in the same high school cafeteria. Here are some sketches I did while standing in line:
[Hillary Clinton] must be the first presidential candidate in history to devote so much energy to preaching against optimism, against inspiring language and — talk about bizarre — against democracy itself.
— Frank Rich, “The Audacity of Hopelessness“
I saw there was no reason to think that [comics] were intrinsically a limited form… ‘Cause you could choose ANY word that was in the dictionary… You got the same choice of words as SHAKESPEARE… and you got a huge variety of art styles that you could use. Comix are WORDS and PICTURES… WORDS AND PICTURES… you can do ANYTHING with WORDS and PICTURES…— Harvey Pekar
I asked my mother, what should I teach my kids? She said don’t teach them anything, just give them lots of supplies.— Tony Millionaire
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.— Judge Judy
This book blew my mind. I read it based on the recommendations of both George Saunders and Bill Clinton. Saunders’ recommendation pretty much sums it up:
“It deals with the way our brains process political information, and particularly with the need for people on the left to become more honest and direct in the way they talk about things – to stop trying to appease the growing right-wing movement and really say, flat-out, what they believe and why they believe it, directly and fiercely. Westen includes an incredible “here’s-what-he-should-have-said” speech that Al Gore should have made when Bush questioned his character during one of the debates. Really a mind-expanding book…”
