# THE INDEPENDENT INK Cultural criticism, political commentary, satirical snark, and indecent exposures of the naked truths that make us all blush, boast, sing, and swear! Page: Feed: --- ## [The Profound Treachery of Graffitied Glass](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-profound-treachery-of-graffitied) _2026-08-18 · Mr. Fish_ “Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield ## [A Dog Goes Into a Bar](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/a-dog-goes-into-a-bar) _2026-08-06 · Mr. Fish_ "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." —Ludwig Wittgenstein ## [I'll Shut Up Now](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/ill-shut-up-now) _2026-08-03 · Mr. Fish_ “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” —William H. Gass ## [Mr. Fish in Conversation with Paul Haeder](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fish-in-conversation-with-paul) _2026-07-18 · Mr. Fish_ “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw ## [We Don't Make Jokes Here](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/we-dont-make-jokes-here) _2026-07-10 · Mr. Fish_ “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ## [Mr. Fish on the DMZ America Podcast with Ted Rall](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fish-on-the-dmz-america-podcast) _2026-06-22 · Mr. Fish_ With the targeted assassination of exiled Russian cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky in Poland and the disenfranchisement of political artists everywhere, Fish and Rall discuss the future of the profession ## [Long Story Short](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/long-story-short) _2026-06-16 · Mr. Fish_ “Art is anything you can get away with.” ― Marshall McLuhan ## [Mr. Fish's CATCH OF THE DAY](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fishs-catch-of-the-day-4c3) _2026-06-11 · Mr. Fish_ Thursday June 11, 2026 ## [The Gag Reflex](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-gag-reflex) _2026-06-09 · Mr. Fish_ “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ―Henry Louis Gates Jr ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cRDMC8M5xnIQ) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [The Independent Ink in Conversation with Elliot Mintz](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-independent-ink-in-conversation-171) _2026-06-07 · Mr. Fish_ “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” ― Gustave Flaubert [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201010800/368a7d8f49bdaaa3ac80ba9cff47344b.mp3)