Sunday, January 22, 2006

The early letters of Belacqua Jones are available in book form at www.belacquajones.com.   9:08:44 PM    comment []

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Dear George,   Let me tell you why the public loves you so even though your numbers are down the crapper.  It is because you resonate with an American people raised on Saturday morning cartoon heroes.   The cartoon hero is a plainspoken man of simple virtue.  He readily decimates the forces of evil, always depicted as swarthy of skin and heavy of beard.  He is good; they are evil.  He dispatches them with a cathartic brutality that becomes moral in its execution.  Their death is as sanitary as his worldview for both lack the trauma of reality.    It is this absence of reality that makes you such an effective leader.        You have the role of the cartoon hero down pat, George.  You have the gestures, the body movement, and the halting speech bordering on a mumble.  As you strut you hold your arms away from your body, your fists clenched with the back of your hand facing forward. This is the walk of the man of action who has never seen action.    Cartoon heroes risk nothing.    Deep in their hearts, a nation raised on Saturday morning cartoons loves you. You speak to a nation raised on the Least Objectionable Program.   Your admirer, Belacqua Jones   9:02:22 PM    comment []

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