"Pre-Emption" Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

This was my first -- and so far, only -- "made for TV" poster, a "throwaway" idea that'd been rattling around in my head for a while, which I drew for the benefit of a crew from Swedish Public Television (STV) who'd come to town to interview me in my studio and to show my posse and I out for an evening's wheatpasting in the wake of my big bust-out in the Washington Post.



This particular piece was done during the run-up to Iraq War v2.0, in which President Chimp was pushing the doctrine of "pre-emptive war", which was basically the foreign-policy version of those scenes in old Three Stooges comedies where Moe bashes Larry upside the head from clear out of nowhere; Larry asks "hey, what'd you do that for?", and Moe says "that's for what you were thinking!"

I've chosen not to post the video of the actual STV segment here, as due to my nervousness about public speaking, my studio interview segment shows me saying "like" and "you know" in every other sentence, totally going against everything I was taught by my tenth-grade English teacher and my college Oral Interpretation teacher with regard to proper public diction and the avoidance of "vocal tics" (which is what "like" and "you know" are) in public speaking. STV actually portrayed me and my work in a very positive light as part of "the other America" in the Bush Era, but I was still terribly embarassed at what a bashful public speaker I am... like, you know...right?

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