Introducing Two of Them: a weekly blogtoon

IFSF is pleased to introduce Two of Them, a weekly blog cartoon featuring Her () and Him <>.

Her () is a sensible, no nonsense, middle to late-middle age woman, a quiet feminist potter who doesn't dye her hair and is only just now beginning to show some gray; Him <> is a writer and sportsfan, has been gray for years and is quickly becoming pure white. Both resist demographic categorization: he thinks of Her as a realist but on the positive side, and she thinks of Him as an romantic insomniac. 

<> I'm old enough to remember when Ibuprofen was considered a hard drug, not hard like heroin but a strong curative.

() Now this country's addicted to opioids...I read in The New York Times this morning that drugmakers spent almost $200 million lobbying the federal government last year, more than the oil, insurance, or communications industries...

<> I read a book last summer about Hitler's drug addiction, and how the Nazi's used methamphetamines on the general population to get their war machine cranking at full speed. This country seems to be doing the opposite, instead it seems to be encouraging a stupor in its population. How else could someone vote for a guy like Trump or Sheriff Joe Arpaio? 

() Hmm...it occurs to me that only now are we truly living in the age of Kafka, where nothing is as it appears to be, nothing quite adds up.

<> Ah, yes, that's very good! It's occured to me very recently that I'm overdosing on the news, on information I don't really need, news that's non-essential and is itself a kind of drug.

() Remember that time not all that long ago when we decided that every morning we'd read a book instead of reading the morning paper? The deal was that it had to be a great book, or at least a very good one. Maybe we should go back to that time in our lives...I know I learned as much, if not more, about the world by reading a great book than I do the morning paper. But on the other hand, thank god for The New York Times!

Two of Them, a co-written blogtoon, will appear every Monday on the ifsfpublishing website.