tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8036114983011847998..comments2024-03-28T16:48:18.088+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond joins the dog botherer in a most excellent taxpayer funded junket ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90766402814735270902016-03-15T07:37:08.909+11:002016-03-15T07:37:08.909+11:00thanks for those links DW, Steadman is an old pond...thanks for those links DW, Steadman is an old pond favourite. The pond has a lot of time for the Searle/Steadman/Scarfe tradition, which did something to redeem the British ... (as did Ealing, but that's another story). dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29739179486319775312016-03-14T23:24:42.867+11:002016-03-14T23:24:42.867+11:00Good lawd Kenny is a lightweight. In all the time...Good lawd Kenny is a lightweight. In all the times of read his schlock (via Aunty Dot naturally) and listened to his shockingly stilted homilies on Foxtel I am yet to hear anything that remotely qualifies as incisive analysis. The only 'journalist' under greater threat of being replaced by a software bot is Ms Markson who looks & sounds like a caricature of a vacuas school girl. The pair of them succinctly explain why the nation's only broadsheet remains commercially unviable.AntiBolterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10351938784232328851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4352314953896592212016-03-14T20:20:17.017+11:002016-03-14T20:20:17.017+11:00Hi Dorothy,
The juxtaposition of George Orwell an...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />The juxtaposition of George Orwell and a "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" inspired Rowe cartoon put me in mind of the excellent Ralph Steadman.<br /><br />Steadman was the English illustrator foisted on Hunter S Thompson when he was covering the Kentucky Derby;<br /><br />http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf<br /><br />The two later collaborated on many of Thompson's books.<br /><br />Steadman published an illustrated version of "Animal Farm" back in 1995 and I'm rather pleased to have a copy signed by the artist. <br /><br />Knowing your fondness for a cartoon, I thought you might enjoy this;<br /><br />http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/04/30/ralph-steadmans-rare-illustrations-george-orwells-animal-farm/<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com