I discovered early on with Wonder Showzen that the best segments are Beat Kids and Clarence. After that, I simply fast-forwarded through everything else in every episode just to see those two parts. (The one exception was the intoxicated bible cartoon). Everything I have read about Wonder Showzen cites Beat Kids and Clarence and little else. I would imagine that it is far easier for them to produce Clarence and Beat Kids than it is to produce custom animation. Perhaps a lean/rich adjustment is in order?

More Clarence and Beat Kids, less stuff to ff through.

My two favorite moment:s

Both are from the segment where Clarence is asking joggers "What are you running from?"

Clarence asks a jogger "What are you running from?" then says, "YOU'RE RUNNING FROM THE TRUTH!"

After doing this several times a limping jogger passes and Clarence asks instead, "What are you hobbling from?"

There's a guy named Cheney

Such a sinner

He smokes that rock and he's getting thinner

Cheney's cool but his mind is gone

One fat rock and it's going on

What's wrong with you people?

Salon allowing the posting of comments against stories isn't an invitation to be cruel and demeaning. You realize that the woman who wrote this story is going to read what you said. Stop for a minute and think about how she might feel afterwards.

Excellent work, Jack. What a strange and wonderful story this is. I spent my early 20s in the Bay Area in the early 90s... This article brought me back to that place and time. Nice.

My "introduction" to the JT LeRoy story a month or two ago was through the outing of Savannah as the JT LeRoy surrogate. Having been guided into the full story through that aspect, I was surprised at how little attention the Savannah part received in this article.

Waldeman's story was also excellent.

Good stuff, Salon. Thanks.

How can such a seemingly nice guy be so unaffected by having been the legal enabler of what normal Americans would call torture?

He has no soul.

It's unfortunate that he has such low self-esteem and lack of confidence in himself.

I enjoyed this, Cary!

...is the funniest I've ever seen here!

I'm glad I stopped by.

Liberal, born and bred in Massachusetts, my enthusiastic vote for Kerry in November, 2004 was really a vote against Bush.

While the WORST things the wingnuts and swift-boaters said about Kerry were disgraceful and untrue, it's difficult to give continued, passionate support for the man. Yes, John Kerry really does suck - hard.

While I "get" why he is talking about running for President again in 2008, I sure hope that he doesn't.

Please, John. Let us lefties find somebody else to suck on our behalf the next time around.

Oh well.

As a loyal constituent of Kennedy in Massachusetts I could never stop loving the old fool. I'll always love his bright red face and his kind words and his generally consistent stance on the side of all things liberal.

Somebody at Salon wrote a piece last week about the Dems and the Alito hearings called "The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight." How wonderfully true.

Conservatives/Republicans/Wingnuts probably do have the market cornered on contemporary evil, but you've got to concede that they are really, really good at sowing it.

Our side, god love 'em, seems to be waiting for something cosmic to happen before they get their acts together.

Neo-conservatism is a probablem that has to be solved. Unfortunately, our current set of Democratic warriors simply isn't equipped to solve it.

I'm sick of Juan Cole and I'm sick of Salon.com for giving him a public forum to espouse his Jew-hating ideas. It's not enough to say that there should be balance here by providing an alternative view-point alongside his. Sometimes some people, no matter how articulate they are or how distinguished their resume is, should be told that their bigotry should be left at home.

Because Juan Cole refuses to simply dismiss Hamas as "savages" he's a "Jew-hater"?

Juan Cole is clearly on the side of seeing the Israel/Palestine conflict through to a peaceful resolution. The Jaw-Hater label is inaccurate and unfair.

Obviously about 40%+ of the country.

When are they going to figure out that it really is safe to go to the mall?

Joe:

You're well known for your brilliant work in this field. Seriously. The Hunting of the President was a masterpiece. You're not afraid of hard work. What's keeping you from hopping on the Acela and heading down to DC and confronting Scotty M. and twisting his arm?

...Ratso Rizzo with a beard.

The controversy today pushed the Oprah Book Club version of his book to #1 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307276902/

Cary's response to this question was clever and insightful. I wondered how the writer's question could be addressed. Cary rarely disappoints and this piece was exceptionally good.

Zazoo is a Belgian company.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Asshole.

Minor fact change:

Annie Jacobsen's misadventure and related coverage happened during the summer of 2004, not 2003 as it says in the article.

I wrote extensively about Jacobsen and the Arabs-who-Queued-in-the-Sky that summer. Here is an overview post with links to a great deal of previous coverage elsewhere:

http://www.liberalavenger.com/2005/09/annie-jacobsen-and-xenophobic-horror.html

Tray-tables can be snapped into strong, sharp pieces.

Of course our wingnut friends are convinced that anti-war liberals on the home front lost the war in Vietnam for us and they will surely assign blame similarly with Iraq.

Salon has been an irreplacable part of my life for well overhalf of its first ten years. I'm looking forward to the next ten.

Thanks for this.