Tag: cartoons

  • Don’t you wanna Fanta?

    (Let me just say, in my defense, this story takes place in the entrepreneurial ’80s.) On my 6th birthday I received as a present a set of watercolors. My parents and their friends got to celebrate this auspicious  occasion by breaking out bottles of FANTA. For a 6 year old, FANTA, the magic drink, would…

  • Teacher’s pet

    When I was in grade school I was sure I knew everything. I knew the multiplication table, I knew the map of the city I lived in. I knew all the names of the important Soviet leaders. (They were all important). What else was there? My teacher hated me. Hated. It pissed him off even…

  • Muralists in the making

          One day, while waiting for a very very very very very very very long time to be over, my sister and I decided to paint our little hearts out on the living room wall. And then our parents came home. I don’t know why my parents didn’t recognize two talented Muralists in the making,…