reality is a harsh mistress
Friday, September 26th, 2008the only silver lining i can see if the black cloud of McCain’s campaign is that we get to see more funny Palin impressions by Tina Fey.
also, I try to not wax political on fartparty.org, or the internet in general, but sometimes I can’t help it when shit is going 10 kinds of crazy
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September 26th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Don’t sell yourself short — you’re hella cute!
September 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I second that.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Re: Panel 6.
I’d do you.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I swear Palin is Tina Fey in makeup. Bad makeup. You know, how someone would put on a mustache, but that’s it… so you can clearly see who they are still… so they’re like, “HAHAH fooled you! I was wearing a disguise!” And you’re like, “uhh… dood.. you were just wearing a fake mustache… I knew it was you.” That type of bad makeup.
Oh and, as far as politics and the economy (re: your previous page on not understanding why our economy sucks), you might find this both funny and helpful!
http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime/
September 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Being able to laugh at yourself is the definition of “sense of humor.” You’ve got it in spades.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Then there’s pointing out syntax errors on other people’s sites (panel one, extra ‘with’) only to read back over your own blog and discover that you regularly confuse readers by omitting the words ‘not’ and ‘don’t’.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
http://www.third-option.com/WoW/2008/09/sarah-palin-bikini-porn.html
That will help your search links
September 26th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
This is exactly like my life except i’m lucky enough to love somewhere nice
September 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hmm… You have Talent, Sense of Humor, Intelligence, and you live in the greatest city in the world.
Seems like a win on all counts. I realize it doesn’t always feel that way to you, but to this observer you are doing fine.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Politics in comics is a bad idea, unless of course you don’t mind alienating certain fans and readers, or people who support what you do or send you money.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Very funny.
Panel 1: schadenfreude
September 26th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I’m with you on the last panel… I’m pretty dum with politics. Just take my money and leave me alone is my way of life here.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Palin is pure lolz. She belongs in comic strips.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
“Politics in comics is a bad idea, unless of course you don’t mind alienating certain fans and readers, or people who support what you do or send you money.”
Um…excuse me? That’s a joke right?
September 26th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
more politics in comics!!
(mccain drawings infinitely more palatable than his actual skeletor face)
September 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
re: panel 6
this is why i try not to walk down bedford
September 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Cool are you going to do some material on the Palestine and Tibet next? Those fuckers should try to get along..
September 26th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
“Politics in comics is a bad idea, unless of course you don’t mind alienating certain fans and readers, or people who support what you do or send you money”
my mind…boggled. If you’re a McCain supporter, I don’t want your filthy money anyways.
“This is exactly like my life except i’m lucky enough to love somewhere nice”
oh, well, um, thanks for that. You win by two tiddlywinks.
“Re: Panel 6. I’d do you.”
oh boy! having some creepy anonymous internet nerd telling me he’d do me has got to be the highlight of my life. I’m so glad I saved myself for “Mean Mr. Mustard”
September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
John McCain is a relative, so I get kinda prickly about it.
But again, it’s not really a politics issue. I guess it’s a family/human being issue.
But I like your comics a lot, so I won’t be dissuaded even though you want no part of my demographic to read your comics.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I’ve met you a couple times (both at past APEs) and thought you were really hot. I’d ask you out but you don’t live over here anymore.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
What in the hell does being someone’s relative have to do with being in their demographic? I have family who, were they to run for office, I’d vote against them, and they know goddamn well I would.
But anyway, if you fantasize of a world with Fart Party strips where Julia gets arrested for possessing a blue vibrator and illegal condoms, and has to do all her doodle strips on squares of toilet paper tossed out the window bars, while outside the economy collapses and the bad decisions of leaders send thousands of American youths to their deaths, then please do vote for incompetents and liars because one of them happens to be related to you.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:19 am
I wasn’t talking about voting or politics. I was talking about being kinda personally offended when someone talks shit about someone you care about. And I like your comics too, Bernier. In fact, I have your sinking ship as my wallpaper on my laptop. Just don’t sell people short. Don’t think that there’s other people whose nerves can’t be touched. I will fight for you guys till the end. And I will do it anonymously from now on, I guess.
I’m no enemy. I’m not sure what I said wrong. Like I was trying to say before, the politics have distracted from the comics. This has become a political discussion. It’s not about Julia’s funny shit anymore.
I could have been shot in the hip and honorably discharged. I’m not gonna blame George Bush. I’m gonna blame all the people who drive cars that drink oil and don’t have Bikey.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:58 am
As an Alaskan, I can tell you that yes, she is that bad.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:19 am
First off, let me say I’m impressed that even though you’re upset, you put yourself on leash and actually explained why instead of countering my usual pissyness with pissyness in kind.
It sucks that someone you care about has people say mean things about him. I submit to you, however, that as someone who is running for president, and who can change my life, and Julia’s life, and everyone’s life to an extent, and who has in fact said and done some d-bag stuff, he’s as responsible for you being upset as his critics. He’s putting himself out there, angling for a position to change our lives, and it’s just gonna happen that we’re not all gonna be too happy about that. Your being hurt by it isn’t invalid, but you need to grow some thicker skin if you’re gonna be related to a politician.
And I think you’re drawing an artificial line between “politics” and personal life here. If the McCain campaign has made anything clear, it’s that the deepest parts of our personal lives fall under what you call “politics.” And since you relative is asking to be put in a position to mess with Julia and everyone else’s personal lives, and her comic is about her personal life, it seems like it might very well make it into her comic now, doesn’t it?
As for Bush and people who drive stupid cars: Yeah, people who drive hummers suck. But they didn’t lie to the nation to get us into a war, and then botch the execution spectacularly. I feel free to criticize BOTH, and damn what their families might think. And if that’s not enough to make you blame someone, what on earth would be?
September 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I guess you’re right about the artificial line because I never said I was voting for the guy. I just said I was kinda offended at the attack on him as a person.
I’m a young-ish dude. I went to college. I have been through the same brainwashing rituals as the rest of today’s youth. I feel the same passion young folks do. I also can’t blame Julia for how she leans in politics. She grew up in the fucking San Fransisco area for Jimminy Cricket’s sake. I’m glad someone can take a stand and not drift around the middle like a pussy as I do.
I’ve decided that the criteria for my vote will be this: If both candidates were 17 years old, which one of them would I rather have date my nonexistent daughter?
September 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am
OOh, that’s a tough one. On the one hand, Obama looks like he’d be pretty useless in a fight, and John looks pretty strapping in his early years. Plus Barack was into coke, booze, and pot in high school, which wouldn’t excite me as a parent. But then again, John totally cheated on his crippled first wife, which as a father wouldn’t thrill me either.
How about Gravel? I’d sure as shit rather have him at my family table than either of those dweebs any day.
September 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Its worth mentioning that the very first comics ever in existence were political cartoons in the 19th century. Hell, if you want to go as far back and say that Trajans column and the Bayeaux Tapestry are examples of comic art then they are also political comics. Political comics in the early 20th century helped the mostly illiterate lower classes understand what was going on in Washington/Parliament. More recently, the underground comix movement of the 70’s and 80’s dealt with politics a lot and then with the rise of graphic novels there have been tons of comics dealing with political subject matter (maus, persepolis, almost EVERYTHING Joe Sacco has ever done) and if you just open your newspaper there have been plenty of “funnies” either specifically devoted to politics (Doonsbury, the Boondocks) or delving into them from time to time (Calvin and Hobbes, although Watterson more often waxed philosophical than political but it was definitely there.)
So yeah, I could see how you might think that politics in comics is a bad idea. Full disclosure: yeah, I talk politics in comics so I’m biased but also anyone who starts telling a friend of mine to censor herself should think about things a little more before posting. I dont care who your relatives are, this is Amurka and we believe in freedom of speech here.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
once, I accidentally ate too many pot brownies and I got lost in the mall and I couldn’t find my way out and I kept walking in circles and freaking out. It was a lot like reading this thread of comments.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Fey isn’t the only one who is coming out looking like Palin!
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/is_cindy_michaels_intentionally_trying_to_emulate_sarah_palin__12123
*waits for more to come*
September 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
“my mind…boggled. If you’re a McCain supporter, I don’t want your filthy money anyways.”
LOL! My day…made.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
OMG I *so* identify with this strip!
September 27th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
well, you should know that i think you’re pretty hot as well.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I have some quesitons about this strip.
So…um, those girls in panel 6…um…so are you like….are they…are you friends with them?
So do you…like, maybe we could…we could maybe all hang out sometime?
September 28th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Julia, our mutual frustrations are with you. These things aside, douchebaggery abounds in your fan commentary. Yes, joe Sacco is way sweet and I loved Safe Area Gorazde, but with rirk of offendind other politically concious people who read your webcomic, I read your comic to laugh at all the bullshit that dismays me rather than being engrossed in the reality of it completely bumming me out. I think you and shelbs need to tag team your next visit home. Soley because I can’t afford the visit out to you two…and I’m lazy.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:12 am
blast my typos!
September 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am
(quoting “Wedding Singer”)
“What you need is a prostitute!”
September 28th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Two things to point out - money is money. Please tell me you aren’t going to pick up a $20 on the street if you know a Republican dropped it.
Second, there’s a huge chunk of us conservatives who would have picked anyone but McCain to run, but apparently the Republican party lets “independents” (or closet liberals) vote in their primaries, so we all get screwed over.
I’m also glad I don’t judge people (or their work) based on their political leanings. Shoot… if I stopped reading all the comics, watching movies, or taking money from people to the left of me, life would be pretty boring.
September 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
As for myself, I wouldn’t take a republican’s money if he dropped it, cause that would be stealing, but I’ll be happy to take a republican’s money for goods and services, since I’ll be using that money for things they don’t approve of anyway.
Also, I’m one of those stealth liberals you referred to, who registers republican to vote in your primaries, except that out of your guys I’d have preferred Ron Paul. My democratic picks? Gravel or Richardson. We can’t always get what we want, can we?
September 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
your sense of humor always reminds me of this blog:
http://theapplejuicepact.tumblr.com/
September 29th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I read ALLLLLL of these comments…
Why?
September 29th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
who cares? Politicians are crocked no matter who are what their party is.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
EVERYONE should care. It’s people like you (if you live in swing states) that can fuck up elections, hence Bush’s second term and possibly winning it for McCain too.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:09 am
I live in Alaska.
I am deeply, truly sorry for the pox of Palin that was set upon the world. I wish we could take it back and pretend that it never happened.
December 13th, 2009 at 1:45 am
In the first box it doesn’t read right to me, ” Oh Snap! He still lives with in our home town with his parents?
He still lives WITH in our home town with his parents…
I thought I should point that out. O_o