If you missed it yesterday, I posted a brief article and link about combat journalist David Wood yesterday. I think you’ll enjoy it.
I’ll just put out a bit of a disclaimer here. While I’l have some fun with it, and get some laughs, and be a bit irreverent, this story leads to Christmas, and not in such a Santa Claus-ey kind of way. If that’s an issue for you, maybe I’ll catch you in the new year, when we’ll get back on track with the “True Crime” end of the story.
That said, I dug the feedback on these guys being crooks and what have you. This country is rightly pissed off at big business right now, and it may just be the beginning. You even took shots at the doctor, and in a big business way, maybe I can dig that. I’ve always been sort of a trusting soul, however, and I figure I”m no better than those guys. I made the choices that led me where I am in terms of my education, my career, and my family, but some of that is pure luck, or maybe a miracle. Who knows what kind of a crook I’d be if I worked in finance?
And from a comedy level, good guys just aren’t too much fun. I worked for a while to let Jones be a goodie, and I had a pretty limited batch of funnies to unwind. As soon as I let him get drunk and start freeloading off others in July of 2010, it got a lot more interesting, and let to the development of the kind of stuff we’re into today with the strip.
Now see, if you’re gonna use the “mission from God” line, you shoulda made one of the brothers look like John Belushi….
that being said, I’m digging the Christmas story your putting on…
It’s 116 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a carton of cigarettes its night and we’re wearing sunglasses
Robb, I think I can see where this is heading and I like it. Great work.
You would hope that something good will rub off onto Jones. He has a hidden heart in there somewhere.
One might hope, but i think the chances are slim.