Where’d you get that idea?
I got the idea not to vote for Bloomberg today from his cavalier disregard for the laws of the city he governs, by which I mean that he is of the new breed of plutocrats who change the rules when it suits them. I’m still pissed at the city council for caving in to his decision to upend the city’s term limits law. I also got the idea from the smug nannyism that has come to characterize his tenure, which will probably extend to more than a decade of my life once the votes are counted. If the term limits laws had not been in place he most certainly would not have been elected in the first place. No doubt Giuliani would have taken a third term as mayor.
At first, I didn’t quite know where I got the idea for last night’s drawing, knowing only that time was wasting and that it had been too long since I’d done one. Sometimes there’s something very specific I want to make one about, other times like last night, I let my mind drift until it comes on an idea. What’s interesting is that although the idea just seemed to pop into my head last night, in the middle of this morning I figured out what it must have been based on:
This poster fascinated me when the movie came out in 1975 and I think that it remained lodged somewhere in my brain for all the intervening years ultimately getting mashed up with something like this Philip Guston:
