http://www.susiecagle.com/blog BRIEF MOMENTS OF BLINDING BRILLIANCE, WITH LONG STRETCHES IN BETWEEN. Fri, 16 May 2008 04:11:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My dad on IM: you wouldn't do well, there isn't much respect for vegans here I learned that China has a national pork reserve in deep frozen caves, like our national oil reserve they keep adding to it, doomsday pork they love their pork the students all rush up and ask me to draw pigs ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/16/more-postcards-from-china/ Apparently the FBI is currently looking for paid informants to infiltrate that hot bed of political action... the vegan potluck! This actually sounds like a dream job, except for the whole "only getting paid upon someone's arrest" thing. (But I'm wondering how the freaking feds are finding these potlucks when ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/15/you-could-be-the-next-anna/ My father is on a U.S. State Department-arranged speaking/democracy propaganda tour of universities in China right now. This is what the Q&A was like: Do your cartoons hurt your personal relationships with the politicians you draw? No, I don't have personal relationships with the people I draw. Do you worry that your ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/14/postcards-from-china/ On his process: "Sometimes I just sit on the couch, and if I look out the window and see a fat guy with bloody knuckles and curlers in his hair spitting, I start to think, 'Wow, what does that guy do for a living? What do his kids look like?' ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/14/harmony-korine/ You've gotta appreciate the service journalism from the New York Times. I mean, I don't know about you, but I certainly don't want a president who has neither lips nor skin pigment, and who is being referred to as "lonely" (and appears to be on the verge of man-tears..?). If only ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-race-race/ If you know me, you probably know I now have consistent access to cable television programming for the first time in about six years and that this means I've been introduced to the Food Network in all of its bloody glory. As Amy Sedaris says, "when you're alone and high ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/07/food-for-thinking/ Nick: You'd protest capitalism -- if you weren't working. Susie: I'd bite that hand that feeds me til it bled, if I weren't so damn hungry. http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/05/01/mayday-gchat/ I'm blogging daily for those crazy kids at CollegeOTR. Fair warning: tomorrow I'm writing about Brooke Hogan. Sorry, guys, but I want the page views!! http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/04/29/new-gig/ I archived the radio documentaries I worked on at Columbia in this handy hip muxtape format in hopes of landing a job at KQED. Please only leave very positive comments about my comedic timing and ability to write short declarative sentences on the off chance that they see this blog ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/04/14/a-face-for-radio/ You'd think that with all this common ground in fashion, they'd be able to agree on something else--but apparently not. So! On to the important stuff. Like, who wore it better? I think Medvedev has the most powerful sleeve length, and Putin might need to take his jacket to the tailor--or ... http://www.susiecagle.com/blog/2008/04/06/who-wore-it-better-missile-crisis-ed/