I used to draw the news.

In the mid-90s, in the days before blogging, when I had only a marginal interest in the news, I'd watch TV, draw, and jot down disembodied phrases that amused me. Here's a good example of the sort of thing I did back then:



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I have no idea now what these politicians were talking about, and, apparently, I had the same feeling of distance back then.