1988_03 The Daily Collegian March 1988

              Page 2  Friday, March 4,1988
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Stupid political pet trick #6: Maggie, the
Queen's Irish Setter, learning to sit—right
on the Irish. Sit, Maggie, sit Good dog.
CALENDAR
Thr Filing Period for
Associated Student
Offices is today - Thursday.
Petitions are available in Joyal
224/The deadline is 5 p.m.
Friday.
Entries for Intramural softball
are available Feb. 24 - March 16
in North Gym 109.
the Alliance tor Gay
Educa- tton support group
wi meet every Monday at 4 p.m.
in Agriculture 224.
The Rodeo Cub win meet
the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of
this semester in Ag 242. New
members are welcome at any
tfcne.
The Badminton Club wil
meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Everyone is welcome lo join
The GLSA wtt meet every
Thursday at 11 a.m. in Art/Home
Economics 213 and every
Monday at noon in San Ramon 1
#21.
Racquetbal
Touma- merit entries are being
accepted today - March 9.
Entries are available hi North
Gym 109.
Th* International
Business     AteocWton    wil
meet every Mon-day at 4 p.m. in
Colege Union 312.
COSA wtt have a ping pong
tournament open to an today -
March 11, in Norni Gym 109.
M-honMnfcal wtt meet ri
Colege Union 306 al 4 pm
today. AH are welcome
Adventures In Babysitting wiil show in the Satellite
Union today at 7 p.m. and 9:15
p.m. Admission is $1.50 for
students and $2.50 general.
The International Club
will meet today at 4 p.m. in
College Union 312-313.
The International Club
will meet today at 4 p.m. in CU
312-313. AH are welcome. They
are also sponsoring a mini dance
In the Free Speech Area at 5:30
p.m.
A Chinese'Movie wiil show
in Ag 109 at 2 p.m. Alt are
welcome.
The Fresno State
Cricket Club wtt meet at the
Fresno State Ponding Basin at
11 a.m. Saturday, March 5. Al
members welcome.
The Dole Citrus Vlsatla
Cycling Classic wil be held
Saturday and Sunday in Visaiia.
The ASME human powered
vehicle team will participate.
The     GLSA     wtt     meet
Saturday at 11 a.m .inCU3lO.
The       Committee *    for
Chicano Commencement
Celebration wtt meet in the
traitor northeast of Joyal at 3
pm. Monday.
Common Sense Defense
Week wtt be held March 7 -11.
The Canterbury
Christian Fellowship will
have a celebration In honor of
the Early Martyrs of Armenia
Wednesday at 12:10 p.m in CU
311A
Cartoons don't
prepare kiddies
For the past month or so, I've been getting in some healthy doses of cartoon
watching and I've come to the conclusion
that cartoons are getting more realistic
than ever.
The whole trouble is lhat they're not
quite realistic enough. They don't prepare
our kiddies for real life.
Luckily, though, the situation is not
hopeless. A few changes here and there
and we could have the potential for great
material. Right now, we'll review three
cartoons: GJ. Joe, Jem, and Thundercats.
GJ. Joe is a show about a heavily-
trained "special mission force" that fights
with COBRA, a ruthless terrorist organization out to control the world.
The men and women of G.I. Joe all
have their special talents. One guy excels
at winter warfare, another is a jungle combat specialist, you get the idea.
COBRA is full of fortune-seeking villains who all have the accents of Nazi war
criminals. When those guys speak, you
think of Heinrich Himmler and Joseph
Goebbels.
The plot to every show is basically the
same. GJ. Joe fights COBRA, GX Joe
gets its ass kicked. GJ. Joe makes a great
comeback and kicks COBRA'S ass.
Wartime scenes in this show are very
realistic. COBRA, which is very skillful
at guerilla fighting, enjoys using explosive booby traps, which blow the
enemy's fingers off; and pointed punji
sticks which suck painful holes in G.I.
Joe's feet
G.I. Joe responds with heavy-duty firepower. They see the sniper in the rice paddy, call in the artillery; and blow the culprit into a thousand pieces. Sometimes
COBRA uses vicious torture techniques
on their prisoner.
In one episode, they force G.L Joe hero
Duke to watch the movie classic Reform
School Girls five consecutive times *ith
his head caught in a bear trap.
The cartoon show Jem tells the story
of an all-girl rock band called Jem and the
Holograms. The first thing you notice
about Jem and the Holograms is that iheir
hair is of very funny color.
The keyboardist has orange hair, the
bassist has purple hair, the guitarist has
blue hair and the lead singer has pink
hair.
And the Holograms aren't the only
ones with funny hair. Name a color in the
color spectrum and a character on the
show has it in his or her hair.
You see, the creators of the show are
trying to realistically recreate the Los
BLOOM COUNTY
Angeles "new wave" club scene. When
you see the Holograms, you see the Go-
Go's circa 1979.
Actually, the music of the Holograms
(all written by Kimber Benton, the keyboardist and younger sister of the title
character) is raw, violent and aggressive
— somewhat reminiscent of late 70s
London punk.
The Holograms have rivals, though.
There's a group of slully, whiny bitches
called the Misfits, who wear revealing
clothes seemingly designed to turn on the
most clean-cut 12-year-old.
The Misfits' music is much different
from thai of the Holograms—it kind of
sounds like the Ramones to the
Holograms' Sex Pistols.
Pizazz, the appropriately-named lead
singer of the Misfits, is an ultimate
sleaze. After shooting heroin every other
hour, she goes around trying to pick up
on anybody who has green hair like she
does.
And then there's Kimber, the homy
orange-haired keyboardist for the Holograms, ^ihe Wendy O. Williams of animation who tries to seduce nine of every 10
persons she meets.
The tide character, Jem, socks to one
guy — a blue-haired guy named Rio. But
she only does so because Rio supplies her
with crack.
Drug use, though, is just one Jem's
flaws. She eats too much and can't even
write her own songs. Then again, Elvis
ate too much and couldn't even write his
own songs.
Thundercats is a nice, little show about
a family of cat people from another
planet. They used to be human, but radiation fallout from a nuclear war transformed them into cats.
The Thundercats, consisting of the characters Lion-O, Tigra, Panthro, Cheetara
and two little bralty kids whose names
escape me, literally fight for survival.
Since they feast on human flesh, they
land their spaceship on every planet they
find; and search for food. In one episode.
they landed in New York and tried unsuccessfully lo eat the Statue of Liberty.
The Thundercats are opposed by a horde
of radiation-scarred reptiles, who feast on
cat meat One lime, the reptiles tried to
eat Lion-O, but Lion-O's magic
sword—striking for the good of all
canoondom—slices the bad guys into a
combination of wallets, purses and
gourmet froglegs.
Imagine what it would be like. The grotesque sex and violence of the real world
hitting the eyes and ears of our youth.
Not being able to stand all that they
would be forced to watch Mister Rogers.
Jon Matsune's column appears every
Friday in The Daily Collegian.
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