What's Left of Maplewood (MN)

We can't draw, so we are left with verbal cartoons about Maplewood city politics.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Left with Lingering, and Unsettling, Questions

When I read this article about a mix-up in a movie theater, it somehow called to mind the first time I attended a Maplewood City Council meeting.

3 Comments:

  • At 10:52 PM, Blogger LookingNorth said…

    Fronstbrand...

    So many things to say about this one...

    This is what I felt like after voting. The voting booth was me walking up and buying a ticket to The Last Mimzy. The council meetings are the Hills Have Eyes 2. The only difference is that the theater pulled the bad stuff after a short time. Our "theater managers" keep subjecting us to the same horrors over and over...

     
  • At 11:33 PM, Blogger Frostbrand said…

    When I thought of the parallels to Maplewood, I just about fell out of my chair laughing.

    The council majority all but promised to "discover a mysterious box of toys and become endowed with superhuman powers to help preserve humanity's future." What we've actually witnessed being born over the past year, on the other hand...

     
  • At 4:07 PM, Blogger drawnLeftward said…

    After the CityPages cover "... starts with a chained woman giving birth to a mutant." is just too much.

     

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