The latest media obsession to distract the nation's easily diverted collective attention from such frivolous issues as the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and revolution in the Middle East has been provided over the past couple of weeks by my "evil twin," Charlie Sheen. I have been referring to him that way since I discovered that he and I happen to have been born on the same day, September 3, 1965. Recently, though, he has certainly been going out of his way to live up to the "evil" part, granting interviews to several news and entertainment programs and providing them with a seemingly endless supply of bizarre, but eminently quotable, statements. Okay, maybe he's not exactly "evil." Honestly, "pathetic" is probably a better word. "Insane" certainly fits.
Sheen's recent rantings actually provide a unique challenge for the nation's comedians and satirists. How can they make Charlie's lunatic ramblings any funnier than they already are? Well, two bloggers known as Jon L. and Chris D. have managed to do just that on their blog The Sheen Family Circus by combining Sheen's mad mouthings with another pretty easy target for mockery, long running comic panel The Family Circus. They take old Circus panels and replace the original warm and fuzzy, family friendly and, frankly, not very funny captions with a quote from Sheen that perfectly suits the image. In doing so, they have crafted an original and hilarious web-comic.
It's definitely worth reading and I hope they keep it up for awhile. They've certainly got enough raw material, both in the form of Sheen's blathering and more than fifty years of Family Circus panels, for quite a lengthy run.
It's definitely worth reading and I hope they keep it up for awhile. They've certainly got enough raw material, both in the form of Sheen's blathering and more than fifty years of Family Circus panels, for quite a lengthy run.
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