[The Mississauga Muse]

Aloha from Maui, Urban TO Forumers (but especially Mississaugans)

The June 20, 2007 Mississauga Council minutes just tipped me over the edge and I just can't take it anymore. It's time to turn the Mississauga Council soap opera into a cartoon.

Introducing "Howzit" -a Hawaiian green sea turtle who wins a month-long trip to Mississauga. A new cartoon will appear every Saturday.

MISSISSAUGA -Howzit's Going

Signed,
The (Disgusticated Had it up to Here-icated) Mississauga Muse

My Blog: Mississauga Musings

 

[Observer Walt]

Our own version of Sherman's Lagoon. Good work!

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

MISSISSAUGA-based comic strip "MISSISSAUGA -Howzit's Going" Week 2

Signed,
The Mississauga Muse


Oopsie... almost forgot. And this week's editorial cartoon....

 

[Long Island Mike]

The Mississauga Muse cartoon...

Muse: How did you come up with the turtles used in your comic? All you need is a little clever animation with a good turtle voice to put it to life!
On the other hand,Michigan J. Frog from the old WB Network can do a vaudeville-like rendition "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga" Perhaps his name can be changed to Mississauga J. Frog!! LI MIKE

 

[unimaginative2]

Haha. That's awesome!

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

Hey there, Long Island Mike

You asked:

How did you come up with the turtles used in your comic?

Well before we studied municipal evil empire governances, we researched sea turtles. In fact we still research sea turtles. We're here on Maui diving with them.

Here, let me show you a sea turtle video that we produced just this week. It's called Honu Hula (Honu is Hawaiian for "green sea turtle")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BFffJiO8

We have a webpage called Turtle Trax and it's all about Hawaiian sea turtles.

Now we're directing our attention to Mississauga --and Ontario municipal governance in general. Municipalities. What Ontario Ombudsman refers to as the "zone of immunity". No one's investigating what municipalities actually do and someone's got to do it.

What we've learned so far about Ontario municipal governance is that the only mature, rational response to The Big Lie is to turn it all into a comic strip. After all, write what you know. Also draw what you know. We know sea turtles.

Long Island Mike, you wrote:

All you need is a little clever animation with a good turtle voice to put it to life!

Actually part of our plan is clever animation of Mississauga Muncipal Mayor and Councillors to try and put THEM into life!

You wrote:

On the other hand,Michigan J. Frog from the old WB Network can do a vaudeville-like rendition "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga"

Re: " a vaudeville-like rendition "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga", too late there, Dude.

Hazel McCallion's already done one. Here.

Hazel McCallion "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga" The Best City in Canada!

and here:

Hazel McCallion "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga" Best City in Canada"

and here:

Hazel McCallion "Miss-Miss-Miss-suss-suss-suss-auga-auga-auga" The Best, Jerry, The Best!

Last, LIM you wrote:

Perhaps his name can be changed to Mississauga J. Frog!! LI MIKE

Neat idea but I hope you can see that Mississauga doesn't need a Mississauga J. Frog when we have Hello My Honey Hello My Baby Hello MY MISSISSAUGA Hazel McCallion.

Signed,
The Mississauga Muse

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

Hi there unimaginative2, glad the toons brought you a smile.

We've now archived the Mississauga-based comic strip at. The first and second strips are at:

MISSISSAUGA "Howzit's Going!"

Here's the third --this weekend's:

Howzit's Rued Surprise (yes "Rued")

Signed,
The (Time fo' dive) Mississauga Muse

 

[indense]

Well before we studied municipal evil empire governances, we researched sea turtles. In fact we still research sea turtles. We're here on Maui diving with them.

My life sucks.

 

[Observer Walt]

I look forward to the turtle meeting Hazel, and I even more look forward to the meeting with Carolyn Parrish!

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

OH MAN HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT THIS! WHAT AN EDITORIAL CARTOON!

WHAT GENIUS! Steve Nease. MISSISSAUGA NEWS!

Actually, it reminds me of Mississauga Council 'cepting nine embedded female heads missing.

 

[syn]

lol

Nice work Muse.

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

Thanks to Observer Walt, Long Island Mike, unimaginative2, syn, and yes, indense, for your comments.

If you've been reading the other thread in Politics, "Mississauga Pothole Poet --guilty" you'll know that I haven't been able to come to terms with what happened to Mississauga's 75-year old Pothole Poet and how he was --in the words of a Peel Regional Police interrogation officer-- "shut out by City Hall".

I've chosen to respond with a comic strip because that's how I see Mississauga municipal governance. A bunch of cartoon characters --some, insufferable buffoons-- engaged in a ritualized drama of mutual pretense that extends all the way up to the Mississauga MPP's.

Here is this week's comic. It refers to this article in The Mississauga News.

And so Howzit who just won a trip to Mississauga discovers to his mortification that he too wrote a Pothole Poem...

Special thanks to Mississauga City Council for providing never-ending inspiration for this new cartoon series.


Signed,
The Mississauga Muse

 

[scarberiankhatru]

I like your cartoons

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

This week's MISSISSAUGA --Howzit's Going is called:

George Wonders Weather It's True

 

[ganjavih]

Brilliant!