The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

This one goes out to my old schoolmate Chris Turner, author of The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada.

…horrible, horrible things.

…after all, he’s Major Spoiler!

It’s 9:17 a.m. as I write this and I’m nearly done with item one already.

(And yes, that’s my hand lettering you’re looking at. I can go into hand-made signs once this “computers” fad blows over.)

For those of you who don’t get the reference, you’ll probably want to see this classic bit from the old Conan the Barbarian:

Click to see the straight male psyche at full size.

Oh, we’ve all been that kid. In fact, I may still be that kid.

Click the photo to see it at full size.

I saw this yesterday in Tampa. Is this:

1. A Floridian koan?
2. Some kind of test?
3. The Tampa version of the Epimenides Paradox?
4. An April Fool’s prank?

The fine folks at No Ford Nation — the people who created the hilarious election posters that I wrote about earlier today — also created The Toronto Mayor Show, a series of cartoons showing some of Mayor Ford’s antics, complete with actual audio from the events. They’ve capitalized on Rob Ford’s cartoonish Peter Griffin-esque nature and used the medium well (there’s a great visual joke in the episode where Rob gets all rasta and speaks Jamaican patois). Watch ’em all, cringe a little, and think twice when you vote: do you still want a cartoon character for a mayor?

Episode 1: “Crack”

Episode 2: “Enough to Eat”

Be warned: this one’s got dirty words…uttered by the Mayor himself!

Episode 3: “Night Out”