In Which I Distract You with Funny Pictures

Oooh, look! Mastheads! Thirty totally un-antisemitic mastheads! Cute children! No uneasy laughter here! Except maybe the ice cream one, which kinda freaks even me out a little.

Anyway, you sent them in and up they went. I compiled all thirty September mastheads onto their own page. And here are last year's. Enjoy, peoples of all backgrounds and beliefs!

Comments

[rachel]

uh oh - you got in trouble, didn't you? :)

i was particularly disturbed by the kid-hamburger masthead... ha!

[Astrogirl426]

The thought that anything you posted could possibly have offended anyone made me go back and read the comments on your last post (at first I thought it was the mastheads, but then realized, who could be offended at that? All those cute babies, some in potentially life-threatening "poses"? Oh....yeh ok never mind).

On a totally unrelated thought (because enough with the angry people), I'm stuck at home today with a sick kid, watching video after video about John Deere. Yes, the tractors. I am now a foremost expert of JD. Ask me anything. Go ahead, ask!

[Lori]

You have some MAD Photoshop skills. Thanks for posting them all. I read you via Google Reader which doesn't show the masthead, and I kept forgetting to click through to your actual blog to check them out.

[Nicole]

My favorite is still the baby sandwich. Love that one.

[Sue]

I just noticed the hover-text on the mastheads. Very funny, and barely offensive to most monotheists.

[Pretty Jane]

I had to do a double-take on the ice cream. And then I got weirded out, so I undid it.

[Catizhere]

I giggled at the ice cream one...."Jimmies"
hee hee. But, then again, I'm weird like that.

[Melissa]

As the mother of the kids in the infamous ice cream cone masthead, I'm honored to have supplied the raw materials for your twisted artistic vision.

[Shawna]

After experiencing your creative vision, I can no longer consider myself a creative writer. From now on, I'm an I-wish-I-were-creative writer. I'm made of FAIL.

[LiteralDan]

I also would pick the baby sandwich one as creepier than the ice cream cone one, though that one is oddly unnerving.

[Brian]

What, Shawna? There are no pity parties on my blog! Don't you know everyone feels that way after they read almost anyone else's blog?

[Taado]

Hmmm . . . I could be mistaken, but I think I'm seeing a lot of the same kids I saw last year. You wouldn't be playing favorites, would you? I think I'll prepare my email today, with photo attachment, and save it in Drafts. Just to be safe, I'll set a reminder in my Outlook Calendar for next August reminding myself to be vigilant. Afterall, my kids deserve to be eaten, sacrificed, and/or ridiculed as much as the next guy's!

Oh, and the one with the sandwich doesn't freak you out? You are twisted, man, get some help! :)

And the photo of the twins eating and holding hands is the cutest thing EVER! Maybe next year I'll get one in of my twins trying to kill each other...

[Jerri Ann]

I like the one in the sandwich...yummy

[Chanel]

Mad photoshop skills, Brian!

My favorites are the kids tied down with ropes and the ice cream one. The ice cream one is just freaky and twisted but just so funny. You did a fabulous job on those mastheads.

[Irma]

Uh, wow. I just scrolled through the comments to your last "anti-Semetic" post.... I am dumbfounded that people actually thought you were SERIOUS. I thought that post was hilarious, poking fun at how the mainstream doesn't understand or appreciate that beautiful religion. Never for one second did it occur to me that you actually "meant it".

Sheesh, people, this is a humour blog. Lighten up.

[Laura]

Hey Brian -

the two kids that have the hover text that reads "I'm too old for this blog" are a repeat of last year. Although last year the girl didn't have braces and this year she does.

That's the only one that I could tell was a repeat from last year. I guess I can't differentiate between small children when sometimes all you can see is part of their face and they're wearing drawn on costumes or sitting on lettuce and tomato waiting to be eaten.

Serious skills Brian. Writing, photoshop and the cartoons you draw. Seriously. Very creative warped mind.

What program do you use for your cartoons anyway?

[Anne Prince]

Those are my wonderfuy kids! I'm sure some of the other one were repeats but since mine are so much older, it's a little obvious they are the same. BTW....the braces are off now (much to her delight)

[Clare]

Yea, I wish I could photoshop like that. Perhaps I could then photoshop myself into all the family functions I have missed by being overseas. Or I could just do things to make me laugh.

[Joy]

I've always found the expression "anti-Semitic" confusing. I mean, if you're "un-anti-semitic," are you "pro-semitic?" Or are you just "semitic?"

[Brian]

Laura, I just use my thrice-out-of-date copy of Photoshop Elements, which anyone with any knowledge of these things would probably smack their heads over, but I compute on a very tight budget. If it didn't come standard on my computer, I probably don't have it.

[Mara]

Love the mastheads. It is ludicrous to me that anyone would find the previous post offensive, and I say that as a bona-fide Jewish gal, myself.

[~annie]

Loved looking at all the mastheads - this year's and last! Also love your sense of humor! I think I need to find new people to hang out with as I am often accused of not HAVING a sense of humor, but you and your blog and your many readers clearly tell me otherwise. Thanks!

[keen]

And as the mother of the twins who are tied down: That might have made the transition to big beds easier. Too late now!

[Musashi]

That last one is the funniest of the bunch. And nicest. WRESTLIN'!

The icecream one creeps me out too.