Comments for The Name Of This Cartoon Is Brunswick

Comment on Lawrence of Arabia by brunswick

brunswick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:17 +0000

Oh David, I love it when you’re disingenuous.

Comment on Lawrence of Arabia by thomsedavi

thomsedavi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:41:02 +0000

Man, Alan Bennett’s got some wicked old-skool comedy routine going on there. Retro!

Comment on Technical problems by Sando

Sando — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:31:07 +0000

I think it would be a good idea to move your main site off of CG eventually, but I think it would be best to keep updating jitteratti there as a back up.

Comment on Lawrence of Arabia by fibby

fibby — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:18:36 +0000

Now you must see What's New Pussycat?, to appreciate O'Toole still inhabiting the character of Lawrence in a completely unsuitable movie.

Comment on Six of the Best by Murray Ball by Rhinocrates

Rhinocrates — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:21:06 +0000

Well, that era in academia is over (sometimes called the Voyage of the Jargonauts). Now its fiscal correctness, which is having an even worse effect on teaching and research. The accountant running the School of Architecture and Resign is particularly dimwitted, even for his benighted breed, and is managing to waste more money than he’s supposed to save through his idiocy. A small potted fern would do a better job.

Comment on Six of the Best by Murray Ball by brunswick

brunswick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:12:47 +0000

Much of The Sisterhood was misguided. It was insane to publish something like that at the height of academic political correctness, but at the same time it made some interesting points which were never examined in the subsequent criticism.

Comment on Six of the Best by Murray Ball by Rhinocrates

Rhinocrates — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:59:39 +0000

Once, while browsing in the Auckland University bookshop, I saw Murray Ball being interviewed with a feminist academic whose name escapes me. Alas, while I may not entirely sympathise with her (all ideologues should be regarded with suspicion) he came across, in person and without editing, as an frightened, defensive man when dealing with a woman who was not as he thought women should be. He floundered about, resorting to some rather desperate retorts, and in the end I thought that he was rather sad and disconnected. The misogyny of his cartoons was all the more striking to me afterwards. Tom Scott too disappointed me when he said in an interview that he could never read anything written by a woman.

Well, I’m not a woman, but I thought that the whole point of writing was that one should learn about the thoughts of someone who was not oneself.

Sorry, but I don’t like Murray Ball. He has nothing to say to me because he has nothing to say that I don’t know.

Comment on Halloween party by brunswick

brunswick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:00 +0000

Well, bugger. I apologise for Comic Genesis’s extreme suckage. I can only FTP stuff, and it takes a while to tick over. I’ll change hosts as soon as I have the time and energy.

Comment on Halloween party by thomsedavi

thomsedavi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:13:30 +0000

I haven’t been able to see them for a long time. Usually I try to look on Wednesday morning, and assume the blank page is there to tell me I should go out and actually physically pick up Capital Times like I’m supposed to.

Comment on Halloween party by fibby

fibby — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:17:25 +0000

That seems to have caused this week’s comic to disappear entirely.

Anyway. Just thought you should know, in case a fix magically presents itself sometime.