That advert with all the old footie lags eating bacon sarnies and looking fat, made me think about the way posterity might view the people running the country. I’m quite fond of this one.
Well, it’s another glorious victory in the war on terror – our apparently main adversary in Iraq has been oblitterated by two 500 pound bombs dropped from an F16 – or two.
Was I the only one who found it depressing, and not a little instructive that at no stage was it possible for anyone on foot to get to the man and therefore air power was the only way to do him in? Three years after the liberation and we are bombing still.
What does that tell us about the state of the countryside and how the US, British and Iraqi forces are having to move around it? Makes you think doesn’t it?
Oh and the first Brit has just been killed in the massive deployment of troops in Southern Afghanistan. I think there will be a lot more of them. if you are interested in the persistence of history, here are a few links aboiut previous British expeditions to this part of the world.
Tellingly, a good few of them have ended in something close to disaster – and I can’t see much reason why this one wil go very differently.
http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/maiwand.htm
There’s a memorial to the many men of the 66th regiment who were killed at Maiwand in Forbury gardens, Reading.
http://gallery.future-i.com/England/parks/pic:maiwand-lion/
Current holders of the title are Osama Bin Laden, President George Bush and our own PM Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Sadly, their reign has been a lot longer than the short month the world cup will last – the effects are likely to be a lot longer lasting too.
The old cultural worries are back to go alongside our more mundane concerns about the lack of a decent centre forward and one-paced right wingers. Oh well, here’s to a happy couple of weeks whingeing …
The Palme d’Or goes to Warwickshire’s finest director and the race drawing several posts below was right on the money. My source, who reliably informed me that Ken was up and in the running, is a midlands man himself, so he obviously knew just what he was talking about!
You can see another drawing of Ken on my site in the caricature section. It harks back to one of his first film triumphs – Kes – you know, that one with the boy and the bird … and Brian Glover pretending to be Bobby Charlton.
The posters all show the lad in a vigorous pose and somehow it suits the director too.
… on the joy of home wireless networking – not that I’ve got around to it yet. Still, it’s the bank holiday at last. Hurray!
Another third of the busy day – an editorial cartoon.
I have to finish this supplement cover today all about the joys of working for a union … nothing like a challenge! Then I can get on with another drawing and the never-ending pile of paperwork that grows every damn time I look at it.
Been trying to sort out my web site, which is a bit of a mess. I really need to go it focused as a proper portfolio site – and then I can do my existential musing here instead. Today, I’ve been working on sorting out my caricature section. I’d be interested to hear people’s thoughts …
www.mattbuck.com
This is another drawing of three directors in the race for the Palme D’or (the prize for the best feature film at Cannes). Here you can see (from right to left) Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach and Sofia Coppola battling it out. The temptation to do Sofia and her horse as interchangeable was hard to resist …
