Displaying a broad range of Golden Age Hollywood animation, Manifestoon is a homage to the latent subversiveness of cartoons. Though U.S. cartoons are usually thought of as conveyors of capitalist ideologies of consumerism and individualism, Drew observes: “Somehow as an avid childhood fan of cartoons, these ideas were secondary to a more important lesson—that of the ‘trickster’ nature of many characters as they mocked, outwitted and defeated their more powerful adversaries. In the classic cartoon, brute strength and heavy artillery are no match for wit and humor, and justice always prevails. For me, it was natural to link my own childhood concept of subversion with an established, more articulate version [Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto]. Mickey running over the globe has new meaning in today’s mediascape, in which Disney controls one of the largest concentrations of media ownership in the world”

Here, via Fark, are a few samples from The Funniest‘s thread of the funniest images on the Internet. There are some old standbys like the Jedi Squirrels, which was a top post on WordPress for at least a month, but there are also some fun new ones, such as these which I have heartlessly ripped off to give you a taste of the delights which await you in the original thread here.

This is the pop culture quiz given to hopeful job applicants at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Ah, remember the Eighties? Well it seems so does whoever wrote this quiz: I’m a little surprised it doesn’t have Peter Beard and Maud Adams on it, but maybe there’s a Page Two I haven’t located yet.

See how well you do, and yes, it appears that the last one is a typo. I thought it was that scam artist John Hawkins but no, they really meant Stephen Hawking, with whom we are, of course, intimately familiar, featuring as we do his Christmas album. Oh, and did you hear Romeo is divorcing his wife? No idea if it’s for another nurse or just for physical protection, but if there’s a god in heaven Elaine Hawking will end up with David Gest.

I have ticked off the ones I can identify; how’d you do, and if it’s “not well” can I have your job?

From The Smoking Gun:

Barry Diller
Joel Schumacher
Bridget Hall
Ellen Von Unwerth
Phillip Taaffe
Michael Roberts
Faith Popcorn
Helmut Lang
Karole Armitage
Joe Dolce
Kevin Aucoin
Julian Schnabel
Wayne Maser
Donna Tartt
Hamish Bowles
Francesco Clemente
Harry Evans
Miuccia Prada
Michaelangelo Signorile
Bob Colacello
Polly Melon (sic)
Douglas Coupland
Jack Pierson
Tibor Kalman
Juergen Teller
Rei Kawakubo
Tina Brown
Gabriella Forte
Liz Smith
Billy Norwich
Sophia Coppola
Jason Weinberg
Lillian Hellman
Terri Toye
Steven Klein
Victoria Bartlett
Peter Lynch
Steven Hawkin (sic)  ?