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You know how, when you watch “Mission Impossible” (the original series) there’s this absurd aspect to the rubber masks they would wear. That somehow they would pull on these rubber masks and then the camera would cut away and then cut back and magically the “mask” was an undetectable human face. And of course you knew they simply switched actors because in real life the “face” would just kind of hang there and look artificial.

Well, I’ve been looking at pictures of K’Daffy, and his face looks like a fake rubber mask.

Apparently the LIbyan government has been infiltrated by the IM force. Now I feel better about the end game: Phelps always knew what he was doing (I’m ignoring the movies which had the temerity to paint Jim Phelps has a traitor. No way.) This is going to end with the real K’Daffy coming to in the middle of a square somewhere in Libya, with angry people aiming guns at him from all directions, and in the distance an oversized van is going to be rolling away while familiar theme music plays.

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Mike Weber informs me that X-Factor won a GLAAD media award for positive portrayal of lesbian and gay characters. The awards ceremony was last night in NY.

UPDATED March 21:: Have I mentioned how much I love automatic translation programs? Naturally I did a Google search to see how widespread reporting of the GLAAD awards was. This is from the AP wire service piece:

Nonelectronic media winners include The New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Peter David for his Marvel comic book “X-Factor.”

And this was from a web site in Hunan:

Nonelectronic media winners include The innovative York epoch contributor Frank Rich and Peter David intended for his Marvel comic tome X-Factor.

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In Libya, I mean. When you’ve got an international effort going on and it’s the French who are leading the charge, then basically it’s Anything Can Happen Day.

Like they’d say in Texas (or some other state where they say such things) Gadhafi is like a turd that just won’t flush. But I don’t see the international community having the nerve to go in and oust him or charge him with war crimes. On the other hand, one of his own command saying, “Enough’s enough” and putting a bullet in his brain…that I could see.

UPDATED 6:53: And what the hëll is with the guy’s surname?! The New York Times has Qaddafi. The Daily News has Khadafy. This guy is like the Doctor Who of names: Every time you see it, it looks different. From now on, I’m just calling him K’Daffy.

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X-Factor #217, now on sale.

Fallen Angel: Return of the Son.

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Check out this website for details about your chance to win original “Fallen Angel” artwork by J.K. Woodward.

art contest

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Lately whenever I’m channel surfing and I see that something is on PBS that looks interesting, I go to it and–lo and behold–either I hit a pledge break, or I watch for maybe five minutes and then, stop the music, stop everything, time for a pledge break.

Understand that this is purely anecdotal, but it seems to me there used to be a lot fewer pledge drives, and now it’s literally whenever I happen to tune in. Now for all I know it’s just that they only run shows of interest to me during pledge drives, but jeez. Unless I record stuff so that I can buzz past the pledge drives, it’s pretty much impossible to watch the channel.

I don’t even want to think what it’ll be like if government funding goes away altogether.

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The Red Cross is accepting donations earmarked for earthquake and tsunami relief. You can go to their website at www.redcross.org.

Alternatively–and what we’ve just done–is that you can text REDCROSS to 90999 from your cell phone which will result in a $10 donation.

Help if you can.

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