MAD About the Bathtub: RGBIB 434

[@Linda-bq7eq]

Yes, yes, yes. I adored MAD MAG. My parents were on the fence about forbidding it - it confused them. I wouldn’t have stopped though so, wisely, they said nothing. My favorite TV Show was Bonanza - I read the take off on it in MAD. Bananaz was its name , did you know that all their girlfriends died in MADD ways? I bet you suspected it. The last one, Hoss’s, was procured through a mail order Bride outfit - she suffocated in the mailbox. I laughed until I couldn’t breathe. I was a kid, I knew what was funny. Otherwise life in the middle remains ok. I’m leaving for the left coast next week for a sojourn by the Pacific. I’ll probably cry when I leave there, maybe I shouldn’t go… I’m 75 as of August. Will I make it there and back again? And I’m reading Joan Didion, finally - my goodness, she’s remarkable. Recommend me a book and I’ll read it in your honor 😊Scotty, keep on. Hey, I noticed that I fell off the subscription list so I resubscribed, one more toward 5K! Health and happiness to you, you do a heap of good stuff & I speak for us all, I hope, when I say that you make our lives better in these dark-ish days of Trump. Thank you.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks for all that, you'll always be bicoastal Linda in the bathtub, bicoastal Linda! Mort Drucker rules and let's hope Trump doesn't! Safe travels! s

[@donaldkelly3983]

Dave Berg and Sergio Aragones were great, but my favorite was Don Martin! He drew these people with big clown shoes and either perplexed or idiotic looks on their faces. His running character, Capt. Klutz, was one of my role models!

[@Scottmbradfield]

I like him too, but my favorite are those snappy answers by Al Jaffee... s

[@bluewordsme2]

awesome....MAD was one of the best comics along with SPY vs SPY, that was the opening of my life in taiwan: my grandmother on a visit brought copies of MAD magazine and i was obsessed especially with Spy vs Spy...and there is Spy Vs. Spy Omnibus....and i know you have but have you read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay?...Michael was the reason i studied at PITT originally even though i'd been accepted to yale and princeton: cause michael dated for a bit (while in college) my best friend in high school's older sister and i met michael when one night when he was a sophmore and i was a junior in high school...he LOVES comics and LOVES old paperbacks....i thing you two would like each other...i'd love if you did a review of Spy vs Spy or another of the Peanuts volumes....anyway, the madmen with the orange skin came apart at the debate...and well, as you know now, the Republicans are just using their horrific racism by attacking the haitian community....the usa is lost...i can see that, even from up here behind the MapleLeaf wall....im convinced Harris will win...a relief...anyway, thanks SB, a great vide......stay safe.....your bathing bbuddy and friend, bob....p.s. did you and your wife have a chance to meet WJ Anderson this summer>....cheers, bb

[@Scottmbradfield]

Hey BBBB, yeah Michael is an old friend, tho I haven't seen or heard from him in ages. We went to grad school together and he was married for a while to one of my best friends...I did some stuff on PEANUTS and may have sent you the link already, I wrote at length about Schulz for NEW REPUBLIC...I only expect one thing from the Dem Party and that's to beat the most corrupt, insane, evil, incompetent group of idiots in history, and they can't seem to do that very well, so we live in hope...more poetry corners soon. s

[@bluewordsme2]

@@Scottmbradfield oh, fabulous...small small world it is, isnt it....his wife has just finished a novel...that's interesting about connection with Lollie Groth,...if i remember, she was also a writer....his wife Ayelet is one smart, strong woman...anyway, y

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Did your bird open a window and fly south for the winter? The neighbours cat? Drown in a boating accident? Cleaning the gun?

[@Scottmbradfield]

All at once. And if you think it's easy cleaning your gun during a boating accident, you've got another think coming. (Dodo is in the bedroom these days when she gets really annoying, which she usually does. She appeared at our 5000th sub bathtacular, tho! And was she annoying!)

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

@@Scottmbradfield Maybe you could do a show about George Alec Effinger and play with the theme of add-ons.

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Did you coin the phrase "non-pixelated water?"

[@Scottmbradfield]

I'm afraid so. s