Dope Island: The Fiend presents DW Griffith's message to the graduating Class of 2015

 A video by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Isn't it a pity that Brian Williams loses his livelihood for telling one tall tale...while celebrities who lie to graduating college seniors about the bright futures ahead for them in this no-income no-jobs economy just get to pocket a hefty speaker fee and lots of applause. Thanks to D.W. Griffith's BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) I was able to do a bit of retribution. It still hurts to see Lincoln martyred again, even if he is giving his life for satire.

Dope Island: a Dope Island tribute to 2012 graduates (it's pretty sad)

By Charles Cassady, Jr.

This I found on a "Little Audrey" cartoon from 1949. It does resound well today, doesn't it? Except, of course, none of you will get a job right out of graduation. Especially a cool government job like sanitation-worker, with benefits and things; that takes real connections. Oh, what's the movie connection? Besides that the film-school students will likely top the list of unemployables (giving the Philosophy Majors someone to look down on and bully, at least), it might be of interest that Jeff Lenburg, animation historian, informs that "Little Audrey" was a Paramount cartoon series of the late 1940s/early 1950s, that went into production when Paramount lost the rights on a previous moneymakes, the newspaper comic-strip derived "Little Lulu" (and I'm still seeing Little Lulu comic books out there; shouldn't she be at least Teenage Lulu by now?).