RIP, David Halberstam, Part deux

[Fenian_Bastard]

I forgot about these at the time he died.
http://doonesbury.com/strip/halberstam.html

 

[zeke12]

Thanks for posting that.

Doonesbury at its best -- witty, incisive, complimentary and deprecatory all at the same time.

Good stuff.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

"Utterly without cream and sugar," still cracks me up.

 

[zeke12]

I remembered, and am still fond of, "The man misses nothing. Hello?"

"His voice crackled over the line; gruff, assured."

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

I forgot about these at the time he died.
http://doonesbury.com/strip/halberstam.html

Wow.

 

[jgmacg]

I'd forgotten them as well until I found them this morning.

That Trudeau has been so good for so long - as satirist, humorist, journalist, dramatist, gadfly, muckraker, artist, cultural conscience and comic ghost in the American machine - isn't noted often enough. A really remarkable talent and irreplaceable.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I never saw those before, but I was 10 or 11. It made me laugh out loud. You know you are a giant of a man, a monument to your age, a producer of an oeuvre the likes of which the world will never again know, nothing short of a genius... when you get done up like that in Doonesbury.

 

[21]

After Fenian first mentioned the Redfern cartoons, I went digging through the thousands of boxes on the basement looking for my Doonesbury books...realizing now I probably had no freakin clue what they were about back then.

I get it now. Awesome.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I never saw those before, but I was 10 or 11. It made me laugh out loud. You know you are a giant of a man, a monument to your age, a producer of an oeuvre the likes of which the world will never again know, nothing short of a genius... when you get done up like that in Doonesbury.

Very nice, Ragu. Extremely nice. Extraordinarily nice on a scale of niceness virtually unsurpassed in a century where niceness was in short supply...he thought.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

All I can tell y'all is that I met Mr. Halberstam once, at The Grove, doing a college football weekend in Oxpatch with my dad visiting from out of town.

He was gracious, kind, funny, witty.

And dude had a handshake that let you know he could kick some ass if the situation dictated as such.

One of the best. Ever. We lost a giant there, boys and girls.

RIP, Mr. Halberstam. And God bless your extended family and friends.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

JM--
That was my impression of him the few times I met him.
He was a BIG guy, utterly big, toally without small.
(You can't stop once you've started.)

 

[Moderator1]

"Utterly without cream and sugar," still cracks me up.

I'm having my coffee "utterly without cream and suger" this morning.
I have it that way every day but today it is in honor of Mr. Halberstam.

That'll be my new line when I order coffee out, replacing the old "I like my coffee like I like my women."

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

"Utterly without cream and sugar," still cracks me up.

I'm having my coffee "utterly without cream and suger" this morning.
I have it that way every day but today it is in honor of Mr. Halberstam.

That'll be my new line when I order coffee out, replacing the old "I like my coffee like I like my women."

And Moddy seizes the wheel!
Uh-oh, that's a ditch right there....

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

JM--
That was my impression of him the few times I met him.
He was a BIG guy, utterly big, toally without small.
(You can't stop once you've started.)

It FEELS like he should have been a Brit.