Notes from
Mouth #58
March
2000
The cover of the March Mouth shows a completely doofless looking dude grinning a lying grin. The headline says, "I was only trying to HELP."
Cartoon
of a bureaucrat nervously eyeing the approach of a shark fin across his
desktop. The fin is labeled Olmstead.
Help?
You're
drowning in it.
Hard
to believe, but a multi-billion-dollar system has been set up with the
express purpose of helping people like you. At any given moment of any
working day, armies of top-flight experts are hard at work in high-level
meetings to determine exactly what you need and how to get it to you efficiently.
So.
How come you still can't get on the bus?
Contents of this online sample of our Contaminated Help issue:
- My Contaminated Smile is the confession of a recovering professional by Joe Ehman
- The High Cost of What it Takes to Survive by Josie Byzek asks, "What's the difference between being put out to pasture and sent to the glue factory? Well, that depends. Do you happen to need prescription coverage?" Here are excerpts from her report.
- Michael Bailey updates last Mouth's Letter To a Baby Who Was Thrown from a Bridge by Astra Milberg
- plus one of four unforgettable HELP! cartoons by Scott Chambers
- plus a new Mouth classic, Eleanor Helps Herself by Eleanor Bailey
- Here's a newsy Update on the Freedom Clearinghouse effort to de-segregate people with disabilities (see state bureaucrat dreading it at left)
- Then Mouth launched a new wave of phototerrorism,
about Chris
Reeve's Rent-a-Head venture.
To view any of the above, click on their titles.
Mouth
#58 also features articles by Mary Ulrich, Deirdre Hammon, Dave Hingsburger,
Bruce F. Triggs, Larry Biondi, Judi Chamberlin, and another one by Michael
Bailey. Not to mention pages of Scott Chambers' cartoons.
Why
settle for a stingy sample when you can have the whole issue in your hands?
Mouth #58 is 48 pages long, what with all the news, the resources, and
funny bits. Note: the only ad in the whole magazine is an advertisement
for dignity. Nobody paid us to put it in, either.
To get your copy, send $6 to Mouth, PO Box 558, Topeka, Kansas 66601-0558 and specify #58. Or buy it from our online Attitude Catalog.
Scott Chambers, cartoonist and visionary, drew the classics above. He can be reached via email at cal@mouthmag.com. Mouth bought the rights to use these cartoons first, but Scott holds the copyright to it. For reprint permissions, address him directly.