8/22/2023 0 Comments Sick sad world tattoo![]() ![]() I mean, Dawg and Trixie are also absent, and THEY have well-established bits and schticks! Hi & Lois : rules of three (thus a fourth “anyone I’d like?” comment would be too much and distracting), or the realisation that Ditto can’t be the one who asks about “cute girls” because he hates them, and him asking about “cute boys” could easily be misconstrued. *I thought that was Kaz at first, because it looks just like him, but he’s wearing a badge and a “Milford Juvenile Center” polo shirt, so it must be a lookalike, like how the reality show producer was just Gil with a ponytail. Gil Thorp : Man, for a second there, I thought that was the prison guard*’s middle finger that was extended, that he was flipping them off while locking them up…. About this Postįamily Circus : all that body horror about “what if ALL our organs worked the way teeth do, with them falling out and being replaced with permanent, mature versions as we age out of childhood?”, no comment on how the Internet has kinda ruined the “if you bothered to read this miniscule text, you have wasted your time” joke by being a format where the text can easily be a size that makes it perfectly legible. The truly depressing thing here is that after nearly 70 years in publication, this strip hasn’t come up with enough of a personality for Ditto to give him a plausible joke. This is a lot of body horror to just tell us that Jeffy’s an idiot, in other words, especially considering that most of us already knew that he was an idiot. But you have to admit that it does present us with a truly horrifying image of a world where children just a little older than Jeffy reach an age at which they lose their “child’s eyes” - maybe they cloud over and harden first, or maybe they just suddenly and painfully pop off the optic nerves, with the new, literate “adult” eyes emerging from bloody sockets over the next few excruciating weeks. Now, obviously the joke here is that Jeffy is an idiot. Anyway, I bring this up because I thought that was a pretty bad euphemism, but “ Milford juvenile sports program manager” as a job title for a prison guard is frankly a lot worse. Some years back, the state of Maryland renamed the government agency in charge of courts, detention facilities, and parole supervision for kids under 18 from the “Department of Juvenile Justice” to the “Department of Juvenile Services,” and I can understand trying to get rid of a label that has punitive implications and maybe try to imply that you’re leaning towards rehabilitation, but (a) you can never win a race on the euphemism treadmill and (b) “Department of Juvenile Services” might falsely lead you to believe that the department was delivering services to young people that weren’t ultimately crime-and-punishment related. "BLEWS" by Sick Sad World is self-released on cassette tape for our 2016 summer tour with La Luz.Also, I am reasonably sure you could top that one Tuesday, 206 Caged lukewarmth Post Content I hope you like itĪ short and sweet collection of tunes by Sick Sad World, "Blews" aims to take you one step deeper into the cartoon, leave you one second longer in the afterimage, one drip closer to the bottom of the dream drain. There are many like it but this one is mineĪlright so I wrote this song, here it goes. ![]() Now it's no time to dwell on our pain and sorrow We've got everything that we need right here If you're still up we can hang out all nightĬome sit closer to me and we'll lean a little over I'd be cold and alone and it wouldn't be rightĬan I stay and sleep on your couch tonight? I think it's gonna hurt but I'm pretty sure ![]() I know that I can take it somewhere I don't wanna go You don't know till it's over if you get off trackĪnd if you wanna make it down below the black They'll tell you that you never should have opened that doorĪnd maybe on the other side there are no sides Now how many times can you say you're gonna do itīefore something inside you won't take it no more We found a hole in the wall and we're going through itĪnd you can come too if you got the nerveīut we're only gonna get just what we deserve We got it in our hands and we'll throw it awayīecause this is the time we've been dreaming of We got everything we need and we're picking up speedĪnd we're gonna rid the world of fear and liesĪnd The Future moves closer with every day Well we're getting something started and we're totally ready ![]()
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