Praise Ceiling Cat—no more galleys! The next time I see my book will be May 19 or thereabouts. Kudos to everyone at Penguin/Random House for a terrific editing job. But your only job is to buy the damn thing.
To celebrate, I present, via the Daily Kos, Ruben “Tom-the-Dancing-Bug” Bolling’s great take on the Charlie Hebo situation, using God-Man instead of Muhammad: 
h/t: ks
Congrats and I bought it, I bought it.
Well I rebought it, so there!
I threebought it… 😉
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I wish I was allowed to like this at least ten times! 😀
Just a repeat suggestion to all out there who probably have a library in your area. Most all libraries have a very good adopt a book program and it would be a good idea to fill out the form or however they do it and buy the book for your library.
This is a very useful program around here and helps to get lots of books out there that we would like to see in the libraries.
Waiting impatiently for the book, I bought it months ago. Will pray to Clod-man for faster delivery
Oh, look! A phart of Clod!
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Well I was going to buy it but after that special endorsement.. having second thoughts!! 🙂
[But your only job is to buy the ‘damn’ thing]
Congrats, Jerry. Now you may rest.
But I gotta ask, am I the ONLY person on the planet to notice that the middle of the name “Muhammad” is…HAM!!! And the kicker is that it ends with MAD!!!
My mind is boggled. What’s it all mean?
Also, again on the theme of “only person on the planet” – I’ve looked at all the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and Danish cartoons I could find, and in none of them – NONE – is the pictured character identified as Muhammad – Prophet of Islam, or Muhammad – Prophet, or even Muhammad. All that’s pictured is a scruffy guy with a beard, wearing a piece of cloth on his head, in need of a haircut.
Who decided that these are supposed to be drawings of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, and worth murdering people about? No one knows what Muhammad, Prophet of Islam looked like anyway.
And…if Islam forbids representational art (i.e. looks like something real) why is Persian art filled with pictures of people, fruit, etc.
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“But your only job is to buy the damn thing.”
I already did, well pre-ordered it anyway; it’s the least I can do for all the pleasure I get out of this website.
As Matthew chastised me though regarding his forthcoming tome, it is better to buy from a local book shop if you can! In the UK Amazon are notorious tax-dodgers…
I’m in Australia, I doubt it will make it here any time soon. The prices we pay here are so inflated that I have no qualms about buying from Amazon, I buy from the USA shop.
You gotta love how the “real” God-Man at the end resembles the satirical Clod-Man, scrawny and scramble-eyed, instead of the faithful’s idealized muscular version.
Ruben “Tom-the-Dancing-Bug” Bolling has been one of the few heroes in the Charlie Hebdo mess–he publicly defended the slain cartoonists in the midst of the CH backlash:
http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2015/01/in-non-satirical-defense-of-charlie-hebdo.html
What I found especially valuable about his defense was its dismantling of Joe Sacco’s sanctimonious cartoon about the tragedy. Sacco’s piece was a sophisticated backer of the “Yes, but…” backlash and proved wildly popular among the “they had it coming” crowd. Bolling was almost alone in calling Sacco out on his cant.
I’ll also note that “Clod Man” was not Bolling’s only cartoon about the Hebdo affair. Check out his piece at Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net/2015/01/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-charlie-h.html) and his blog (http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/). The latter features his earlier God-Man comic and his response to the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest.
I consider myself left of center, but the Hebdo affair made me ashamed of many fellow lefties. They sought to dismiss the tragedy by killing the cartoonists all over again, dismissing them as racist bullies “punching down,” despite the fact that France’s Muslim community was hardly a homogenous mob guaranteed to be automatically enraged by CH’s cartoons. I can only imagine how disappointed French leftists and liberals must be at the American response. But they can take comfort in Charlie Hebdo’s survival, a blasphemous triumph over the forces of illiberalism.