“Beauty and the Beast” from two years ago
Month: August 2009
In Case You Haven’t Heard…
Marvel Comics has been acquired by the Disney Corporation.
Seriously. I’m not kidding. This is the AP article:
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters.
Disney said Monday that Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share in cash plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share they own.
It said the boards of Disney and Marvel have both approved the transaction, but it requires an antitrust review and the approval of Marvel shareholders.
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Okay, Now I Can Announce It…
X-Factor is not canceled. The following month will see the numbering switch to issue #200, and the story is double sized so we need to give the artist extra time to get a jump on it.
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POTATO MOON, Part 77: “In Which The Author is Really Happy He Took a Nap in the Middle of This,” by Lance Karutz
Edwood’s eyebrow raised almost imperceptibly, but everyone happened to be blinking at that precise moment, so his act was, in all actuality, imperceived. He stabbed at his potato (or was it potatoe?)-made voodoo doll of Jakob. He had done many things to the spud… effigy… spudigy thing that he had secretly kept in his pants since chapter fourteen. Over the course of the past few days, he had molded it into many shapes, including his favorite failed politicians, Michael Dukakis and Dan Quayle, and a potato bug. And have you ever seen a potato bug? Those things are disgusting. My sister once found one in her shoe when we were kids. I think it scarred her for life. Anyway, Edwood even molded the spud into a snaggle-toothed Shark Boy at one point. But for now, since no one in the Gap seemed to be fawning over his perfectly-coiffed beauty, or even approached him to see if he needed assistance, he was content to jab a perfectly-formed finger into the eye of what now looked like normal old Jakob.
Well, She’s Off…
Kathleen took Ariel and her stuff up to college today. I keep thinking of how lucky I was to marry Kath, because second wives sometimes have little interest in children from the previous marriage (probably why stepmothers get such a bad rep in fairy tales.) But Kath has been Ariel’s main maternal figure for the past decade, and done a terrific job raising her, so it was nice that she was able to bring Ariel up to Connecticut (leaving me, on deadline, to get more work done.) And soon Ariel will be heading off to Ireland as part of a freshman program; how’s THAT for an intro into co-ed life?
I’m going to miss her terribly; I’m so used to having her around. But this is the most exciting time in her life ever, and I’m confident she’ll take full advantage of it.
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Separation? What Separation?
A whole bunch of years ago, when I was sitting in a court room during divorce proceedings, I noticed the words, “IN GOD WE TRUST” emblazoned on the wall above the judge’s bench. And I leaned over to my attorney and, indicating the wording, said, “So…the whole separation of church and state thing…?”
“Not so much,” said my attorney.
Well, a blow for remembering that shoving God in your face isn’t exactly always appreciated was struck in Kentucky when a judge ruled that a state law regarding homeland security had crossed the ever-flexible line in that regard. The law apparently treated survival in a manner similar to the way AA treats alcoholism: You have to acknowledge your dependence on a higher power for survival. And the judge rightly said, “Uh uh. Unconstitutional.”
The state representative–who is, not coincidentally, a pastor–declared that it wasn’t a matter of religion. “God isn’t a religion. God is God!” he declared. He also pointed out that the words “In God We Trust” appears on all the money. Which is true. But the mandate to put the newly declared national motto on all the money (not just the few coins on which it previously appeared) didn’t occur until the 1950s, at the same time that the words “under God” were inserted into the pledge of allegiance. You know, back when Congress was desperate to prove that we were different from the Godless commies, not to mention falling over each other to weed out Reds in our society and consequently ruining the careers and lives of a lot of good people.
Not that we’ve moved beyond the need to persecute people, harass them, and boycott them simply because of opinions they might or might not possess; the spirit of Tailgunner Joe is alive and well to this day, I can assure you. So the insertion of God into various aspects of life by government fiat has a not-so-proud legacy. I’ll be interested to see if the good pastor’s observation about the money triggers the next law suit.
More details can be found here:
STASH WEDNESDAY–NOW WITH ADDITIONAL DAY!
Yeah, yeah, I forgot to do it yesterday.
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