Time, Grime, Slime (1977)
On the day this cartoon appeared, I received a personal message from Time Magazine. A colleague at the Jerusalem Post (who also worked for Time) was instructed to "Tell that bastard that if he ever thought he'd get into Time Magazine, he can forget it now!"
Years later I received a call from a Time correspondent who was thinking of doing a full page profile on "Dry Bones." As I trotted out to meet him at a local watering hole in Jerusalem, my then-wife said, as if talking to a child, "Don't mention Time, Grime, Slime."
After a fabulous pre-interview, with the guy from Time scribbling on a yellow legal pad and mumbling "this is great stuff," and me downing "Black Russians" between pontificating (the hip bar where we met served large drinks and teenie sandwiches) he smiled at me and confided that he had a "special" Dry Bones cartoon which he kept "hidden" in his desk drawer at Time's Jerusalem office. Quick as a shot I guessed "Time, Grime, Slime?!"
The silence of his response was deafening. He'd "forgotten" about my "vicious slandering of Time magazine."
Later, when I returned home, and my then-wife asked how it went, I said "I mentioned Time, Grime, Slime."
All she said was "I knew you would."
Black Russians
12 Comments:
Kahlua and Vodka..Oy!
Yay!!
Thanks for posting this one--I feel so validated! (Almost as much as I did when you gave us the printable-for-the-sukkah Scuddot poster.)
My Great Aunt always told me about the Begin -Fagin comment, but it was before my time.
So did they run an article about you anyway???
freedom fighter:
yup.
cba:
you're welcome.
safranit:
nope.
Nice one Bones !
Ma nishtana?
Have they changed in almost 30 years?
Robert Heinlein, the science fiction writer, once wrote that he had been, through his travels, on the scene of a number of events reported in Time.
He wrote that the events he observed did not match the events Time reported on any occaison. Not even close.
But since the name of the magazine is "Time", we can assume that they did get that correct, within reasonable limits.
It's not called News or Reality for nothing!
Thanks for the Bday wish Yaakov. How's Israel these days?
Crime mag once came to my Shiloh door, and said: "We're from Timeink." At least that's how it sounded. They were rude and just wanted me to show a gun to the photographer. I had no interest in appearing on the cover with a baby on my hip and a pistol in my hand.
So I said that I didn't know where it was.
Character is not just a individual in a Cartoon... better yet, because of the rarety of it I would expect your "then wife" wouldn't have married you without it...good work! Guts and good example ...sorely needed today!
Priceless!
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Amazing insight into what seems to be a culture of immaturity.
They printed something racist and you called them on it. Adults would be grateful for being corrected, and would apologize gracefully.
It's alarming that they seem to have created a culture of sullen, petty brats. Journalists have an important job after all.
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