Tagged as: babies, New Year

Last sum­mer in Istanbul, this lit­tle guy was prob­a­bly ask­ing that too.

Alfred E. Neuman is the jug-eared mas­cot on the cover of Mad, my favorite mag­a­zine grow­ing up (and peo­ple accuse me of being an intel­lec­tual, so hah!). Every issue he fills the page, always dressed in some­thing top­i­cal, rel­e­vant, timely. Yet one thing never changes: his wide, tooth­less, silly grin — so silly I find myself wish­ing I could just smack it right off his face.

But now as we wel­come New Year 2011, I find myself with the same silly grin and all I can ask is Alfred’s sig­na­ture question: “What, me worry?”