With perfect pitch and seemingly effortless hand-eye coordination, Chris Muir catches the spirit of the times and the timeless -- Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it -- in his daily must-read DbD.
"You have not seen me before 9 am -- a scary thing!" emails Chris Muir, whose insightful and incisive Day by Day [DbD] cartoon -- is now available on a phone near you:
SmashPhone, a mobile phone comic strip network, today announced it’s bringing . . . Chris Muir’s Day by Day comic strips to mobile phones everywhere. Viewers can access the SmashPhone Comic Strip Network through Verizon, Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and many other carriers.
“Our technology enables us to reach a mass market of billions of mobile phones,” notes SmashPhone founder Robin Rowe.
"All the market growth is on phones, especially with kids and comic strips," adds Chris, commenting on the sheer Darwinianness of it all, and in Chris's case, it's definitely survival of the fittest:
It’s adapt or die!
Speaking of adapting to Darwinian/market forces, did you happen to catch John McCain's appearance on the Glenn and Helen Show the other day? We tried listening, but when we're multitasking -- surfing and reading online, watching/listening to cable news, composing our own blogposts, playing with the cats, staring off into space, etc. -- paying attention to audio without visual is kind of iffy. It may be a generational thing. Or maybe not. At any rate, you can listen to it here or catch highlights in print here:
Meanwhile the best trafficked blog on the right, Instapundit hosts a civil discussion with McCain on a wide range of topics. While the two have their differences (campaign finance reform being the biggest), Instapundit chooses to disagree on that subject and instead highlight their agreements (limiting GOP spending).
We did catch something of the flavor of the podcast interview, though. It was fun and funny, reminiscent of those freewheeling Imus-in-the-Morning interviews on MSNBC. With Imus, as with Glenn and Helen, McCain dropped his toe-curling, smarmy "earnestness" routine in favor of telling it like it is, with self-deprecating humor, his strong suit:
Glenn is such a powerful and influential American I thought this would shore up any ambitions I might have for the presidency.
McCain gets it.
Update: Chris Muir emails to say it's "survival of the fattest," and we reply:
The worldwide obesity "epidemic" proves it.
Like a bowl full of jelly.
Thank you for calling attention to the excellent picture of Mc Cain shown by the Glenn & Helen show.
Posted by: goomp | July 14, 2006 at 09:19 AM
Mr. Muir is very talented...
And Women are a wonderful mystery...
Posted by: hNAV - 'We are the President' | July 14, 2006 at 01:51 PM
Nice cartoon!
Posted by: Dr. Jeff | July 15, 2006 at 06:13 AM
I love Day by Day. I still want to put it on my sidebar. Being lazy I haven't done it yet, but maybe this weekend since I'm futzing with the computer anyway. My problem is I don't think I'd be able to see it on a phone - it's the old eyes thing I've got going here. *grin*
I still have to listen to the podcast - I will try to get to that over the weekend too. I miss one day and I'm so far behind I can barely keep up.
Posted by: Teresa | July 15, 2006 at 02:38 PM