This month’s Mike Mount creation references a very specific driving experience that is unfortunately not uncommon in these parts.
“The constant nails in the tire, thanks to all of the construction and unpoliced construction dumpsters,” Mike said of the topic. “Seems to be a thing for a lot of people I talk to around here.”
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This month’s Mike Mount creation is more of a graphic than a cartoon.
People in Arlington, like people in many communities, enjoy complaining about certain things. Now imagine a house in Arlington so perfectly configured that you basically have an endless supply of things to complain about. That’s what is depicted above.
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As noted in our Morning Poll last week, pumpkin spice season slipped even earlier this year.
About 62% of you said it was “way too early.” And yet! People are clearly buying it, talking about it, and even making videos about its inexplicable cultural allure.
This month’s Mike Mount cartoon puts the pumpkin spice juggernaut in a uniquely Arlington context.
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In honor of the one-month anniversary of this article, we give you a new Mike Mount cartoon.
In case you don’t get the reference, it also riffs on some of the controversy over the Walter Reed pickleball courts.
There has been little additional news about the repeat indecent exposure suspect since our last article, though a few days later we did pick up some scanner traffic suggesting that police were actively working the case and might have identified a perpetrator.
You knew it was coming. This week’s Mike Mount cartoon is about that controversial Missing Middle vote last week.
Tired of reading about it? Well, might want to steel yourself this week, as ARLnow has a series of follow up articles planned. And it’s clearly what many locals are continuing to talk about (in real life and in cartoon form).
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Being a school board member is a tough job, which perhaps explains why it can sometimes be difficult to find candidates who want to run for the position.
Nonetheless, elected officials in charge of steering a large public school system are not immune from criticism, no matter how thankless the job may be.
This week’s Mike Mount cartoon takes two recent memes and imagines them as the potential representation of current feelings towards the Arlington School Board, in light of a stretch that saw a fatal in-school overdose, a possible armed trespasser and other school news of note.
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This month’s Mike Mount cartoon is a holiday special.
Santa may be coming to town, but he better not park his sled in a privately-owned lot that’s contracted with a certain prolific trespass towing company.
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This month’s Mike Mount cartoon takes on two hot button issues: Taylor Swift’s concert ticket debacle and Arlington’s ongoing camp registration saga.
The website crashes suffered by Ticketmaster as millions of Swifties tried to secure tickets to her latest tour are reminiscent of those caused by Arlington parents eager to get their kids in coveted county summer camp slots.
As we reported last week, Arlington parks department officials are promising further improvements in the registration process and technology, but so far the clicking fingers of local moms and dads are undefeated.
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This month’s Mike Mount cartoon gently ribs Arlington’s most prolific candidate for local office: Audrey Clement.
Clement, who we’ve covered since she first ran more than a decade ago, has thus far been unsuccessful in her nearly annual quest for seats on the Arlington County Board and school board. But she remains undeterred, and is hoping to win over voters with an anti-Missing Middle housing message this year.
Perhaps this is the year for Clement and, as the cartoon suggests, residents will no longer be able to keep track of their Arlington tenure by counting the hats she has tossed in the ring.
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Whatever you think of Arlington’s missing middle housing proposal — and there are those who strongly support and oppose it — you might find yourself agreeing with Mike Mount’s latest cartoon.
For opponents, suddenly living next to a multiplex building in what has otherwise been an exclusively single-family home neighborhood for decades may seem like the worst idea ever. For supporters, proposing eight-plexes off the bat, even if only on certain large lots, may seem in retrospect like a blunder that galvanized opposition.
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“Stop. Just…stop.”
This week, Mike Mount is tackling the topic of recently-created neighborhood names.
Mike’s new cartoon pokes fun at modern place name inventions, perhaps given recent media attention for National Landing — the nearly four-year-old collective term for Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard — and its self-appointed “NaLa” nickname.
There is an obvious South Park reference to be made here, and the cartoon comes up with its own absurd new place name. But one thing that’s not fictional: there is, in fact, a Taco Bell Cantina coming soon — to Courthouse.
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