Book TV on C-SPAN
A talk and Q&A session I gave a few weeks ago at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company will be broadcast on Book TV on C-SPAN2 on Monday, November 1 at 7 pm Eastern Standard Time. The subject was why and how the US invasion of Afghanistan was every bit as unjustified and oil-motivated as the attack on Iraq.
P.S. Thanks to several Friends of Rall for emailing me corrected URL information.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Three Years Later
Well, well—Osama's back, and just in time for Halloween! And he's got something new for Americans: an admission of involvement in 9/11, something that until now we've had to take the Administration's (cough) word (hee hee!) about. Perhaps Colin Powell will cough up that white paper he promised back in September 2001 showing the government's evidence that Al Qaeda was involved. (Egyptian Islamic Jihad, of course, recruited the hijackers. But you already knew that. Didn't you?)
Well, well—Osama's back, and just in time for Halloween! And he's got something new for Americans: an admission of involvement in 9/11, something that until now we've had to take the Administration's (cough) word (hee hee!) about. Perhaps Colin Powell will cough up that white paper he promised back in September 2001 showing the government's evidence that Al Qaeda was involved. (Egyptian Islamic Jihad, of course, recruited the hijackers. But you already knew that. Didn't you?)
Thursday, October 28, 2004
A Couple of New Interviews
Two new interviews with yours truly have just been published.
Genius cartoonist Stephanie McMillan ("Minimum Security," ATTITUDE) asked all the right questions for Fort Lauderdale City Link.
There's also an interview for the Comixpedia Community, in which I responded to questions posed by community members.
Two new interviews with yours truly have just been published.
Genius cartoonist Stephanie McMillan ("Minimum Security," ATTITUDE) asked all the right questions for Fort Lauderdale City Link.
There's also an interview for the Comixpedia Community, in which I responded to questions posed by community members.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
West Coast Book Tour
If you live on the West Coast, I look forward to meeting you at one of these upcoming appearances. Changes and additions will be posted here should they occur.
October 15
Time TBA
Friday Harbor/San Juan Islands
Fairgrounds
Will include slide presentation
October 16
12 noon
Elliott Bay Books
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
(206) 624-6600
October 17
Danger Room Comics
201 West 4th Street
Olympia, Washington 98501
2:00 pm: I will be interviewed and take questions and answers from the audience in the banquet room at Plenty (200 4th Avenue West, corner of 4th & Columbia, across the street from Danger Room).
3:30 - 5:00 pm: I will be signing and sketching at Danger Room Comics
NOTE: This appearance may be broadcast nationally via C-SPAN.
October 19
8 pm
NOCTURNAL (sponsored by Reading Frenzy
1800 E. Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97205
Please note address - NOT at Reading Frenzy's store, but at Nocturnal
They, not I, call it the "Ted Rall Book Release Extravaganza"!
Ted Rall, Jefferson Smith, and a special guest from City Hall!
Join Reading Frenzy for an evening of civic engagement and political activism with cartoonist/commentator Ted Rall, author of Wake Up, You're Liberal! (Soft Skull, 2004) and Generalissimo El Busho (NBM, 2004). Ted will be joined by Jefferson Smith of The Oregon Bus Project, and one of our favorite public officials (TBA)! Speakers will be followed by a lively Q&A session, and book signing. A few of our favorite local community organizations as well as some of Portland's finest political cartoonists, such as Kevin Moore and Scott Bateman, will be on hand to display and discuss their work.
October 20
7:30 pm
Modern Times
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, California
October 22-25: Los Angeles-area appearance
October 26: Possible Las Vegas appearance
If you live on the West Coast, I look forward to meeting you at one of these upcoming appearances. Changes and additions will be posted here should they occur.
October 15
Time TBA
Friday Harbor/San Juan Islands
Fairgrounds
Will include slide presentation
October 16
12 noon
Elliott Bay Books
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
(206) 624-6600
October 17
Danger Room Comics
201 West 4th Street
Olympia, Washington 98501
2:00 pm: I will be interviewed and take questions and answers from the audience in the banquet room at Plenty (200 4th Avenue West, corner of 4th & Columbia, across the street from Danger Room).
3:30 - 5:00 pm: I will be signing and sketching at Danger Room Comics
NOTE: This appearance may be broadcast nationally via C-SPAN.
October 19
8 pm
NOCTURNAL (sponsored by Reading Frenzy
1800 E. Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97205
Please note address - NOT at Reading Frenzy's store, but at Nocturnal
They, not I, call it the "Ted Rall Book Release Extravaganza"!
Ted Rall, Jefferson Smith, and a special guest from City Hall!
Join Reading Frenzy for an evening of civic engagement and political activism with cartoonist/commentator Ted Rall, author of Wake Up, You're Liberal! (Soft Skull, 2004) and Generalissimo El Busho (NBM, 2004). Ted will be joined by Jefferson Smith of The Oregon Bus Project, and one of our favorite public officials (TBA)! Speakers will be followed by a lively Q&A session, and book signing. A few of our favorite local community organizations as well as some of Portland's finest political cartoonists, such as Kevin Moore and Scott Bateman, will be on hand to display and discuss their work.
October 20
7:30 pm
Modern Times
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, California
October 22-25: Los Angeles-area appearance
October 26: Possible Las Vegas appearance
Monday, October 4, 2004
New York Times Book Review: EL BUSHO Rocks!
The New York Times Book Review has reviewed GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO: ESSAYS AND CARTOONS ON THE BUSH YEARS. And they like it!
Here's what they wrote in yesterday's issue:
The New York Times Book Review has reviewed GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO: ESSAYS AND CARTOONS ON THE BUSH YEARS. And they like it!
Here's what they wrote in yesterday's issue:
THE BOOK: ''Generalissimo el Busho: Essays & Cartoons on the Bush Years,'' by Ted Rall (Nantier Beall Minoustchine).
WHAT IT'S AIMING FOR: Overthrow of the United States government.
WHAT IT ACHIEVES: Oddly, some valuable historical perspective.
ANALYSIS: Ted Rall, a cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, is more hostile to President Bush than most members of Saddam's inner circle, as this collection of his work from recent years makes scaldingly clear. There's nothing really humorous here; the satire mixed into Rall's screeds is far too bitter for that. In a piece from October 2002, he calls the military mission in Afghanistan ''Operation Enduring Failure.'' In another 2002 piece, he refers to the Bush administration as a ''circus of hypocrites.'' The best part of the volume, though, is its earliest material, centered on the 2000 election. Rall, unlike practically everyone else, allowed the president no honeymoon. He labeled the election stolen early and often. The resolution of the whole mess was far too casual for his taste; there was, he felt, too much at stake. Given all that has happened since, it appears he was right.
NUMBER OF TIMES IT'LL MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD: None. The fume-o-meter, however, for both pro-Bush and anti-Bush readers, will be close to exploding.
BETTER USES OF THE $19.95: None.
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