A typecast cartoonist remembers his old friend Ebenezer Scrooge
Christmas Eve is here. Tonight visions of sugar plums, Pastorelas and Christmas tamales will dance in the heads of los niños across the Old Pueblo and I will remember my old friend Ebenezer Scrooge.My acquaintance with Ebenezer began decades ago when The Diaper Bank asked me to write a parody of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”— with a Tucson twist. ’Twas a hit at the Fox.
People are also reading… And I love Dicken’s Christmas classic. It’s my favorite political tract, an enduring fable that argues the virtue of all of us adopting a more charitable role in advancing social and economic justice. I’m surprised it’s not banned for arguing compassion towards the less fortunate, with its strong, anti-miser, soft-on-crime, pro-health care message derided as a humbug, saddling poor entrepreneur Scrooge with feeling bad about those in need and want.
When your Scrooge is visited by a number of spirits, they will try to steal your scene with their overacting. There’s “Jacob Marley”, moaning and rattling his chains like he’s auditioning for “Poltergeist 3”. There’s “Christmas Past,” always a miscast vixen and “Christmas Present,” the goblet swilling windbag who thinks he’s playing “Falstaff” and the worst scene stealer of all, “Christmas Future,” the producer’s kid in a black sheet. Ignore those amateurs.
“Is that ostrich from Rooster Cogburn’s Ostrich Ranch still hanging up in the butcher shop down on the corner?”Follow my tips and you will be the best possible Scrooge you can be. Especially when he wakes up a changed old buzzard. Don’t eat the day of your performance because you will chew up the scenery!
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