Results tagged “donasmussen”

-- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? Ugh.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch]

SO EXCITED!!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!! SFist got in Bad Reporter today!!!!!

Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc.

You know we love love love love love Don Asmussen's Bad Reporter -- last week's "Crazed Republicans believe 72 virginal male pages await them in Heaven" made us spit up a little coffee on the Sudoku puzzle in the morning.

As our former co-editor Eve moves on in at the Chronicle as their Blogging and Interactive editor today, we do a little imagining about how her first day might be going!

Creativity Explored is an organization that fosters the artistic talents of developmentally-disabled adults, not only to provide independence and self-sufficiency to the artists but also to give the general public access to their work. They've been around for over 20 years.

As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And you know who we love the most? No, not Jon Carroll. No, not Ken Garcia. We love Bad Reporter!!! God, we love Bad Reporter! Marry us, Don Asmussen!! Who else can monitor the state of San Francisco hair gel politics so trenchantly? Who else could draw Dick Cheney's pottymouth with such an adorable snarl of the lip? Maria Shriver's cheekbones! Gavin and Kimberly on the rug!! FROM WHAT SICK WELLSPRING DO YOUR GENIUS IDEAS ORIGINATE????? We can only stare, awed and envious, at the heights of brilliance to which Mr. Asmussen reaches on his always-changing publication schedule, and then, silently, move down the back page of Datebook to read the new Dear Abby's advice. ("Have you considered seeing a therapist?" It's always "have you considered seeing a therapist.")

You know how there's some comic strips you love (Boondocks, For Better Or For Worse), some comics you hate (we've never liked Rex Morgan, M.D.), and some comics you hate but accidentally get sucked into reading (the shining example of this is Luann)? Well, the Chron announced today they're cancelling one of the strips in that last category for us, Clear Blue Water by Karen Montague-Reyes. We personally never really warmed up to Montague-Reyes's drawing style, or the weird plotlines involving what looked like a gay superhero African-American Republican (that can't be right, can it?), but our eye did inexorably get drawn to the strip every single day (and we do kind of wonder what's going to happen to little autistic Seth). We're also a little sad that one of the rare strips drawn by a woman, and one of the rare strips drawn by a person of color about a multiracial family, is getting the axe.