Originally published February 2, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1159
I knew better than to roll over the corpse of the Big Boss—or, should I say, what was left of the corpse of the Big Boss. The last thing I needed was to have my fingerprints all over the epidermis of the recently deceased.
But even without getting close, I noticed something straight off.
Love him or hate him, I think there’s no denying the impact he had on the world in which we live.
PAD
Originally published January 26, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1158
Oops. Almost missed an annual tradition here at BID: the utterly unasked-for “Most Awards,” named after the guardian angel of the column—Donny Most, forever known as Ralph Malph of Happy Days. So we’ll get back to the adventures of Ðìçk Cosmic, the Cosmic Ðìçk, next week. (Hey, don’t complain. If this were a comic book, you’d have to wait a whole month instead of just two weeks.) In no particular order, here we go:
Sarah Palin has just made news in announcing that she’s not running for President. This is not to be confused with Chris Christie getting tons of news coverage over insisting that HE isn’t running for President.
I just don’t understand all this news coverage for people who aren’t doing something. Even more bewildering is the CONTINUED coverage by reporters who keep asking, “Are you SURE you’re doing nothing?” Perhaps Sarah Palin, seeing all the coverage that Christie is getting for not doing something, decided–in her media-obsessed way–that she wanted a piece of that action and announced that she was doing nothing so reporters would start asking her if she was sure she was doing nothing.
Shouldn’t headlines be reserved for when people are announcing they ARE doing something?
Oh, and just for the record: I’m not running for President, either. And this just in: A man didn’t bite a dog today.
PAD
Considering the current controversy surrounding Rick Perry, if I ever run for public office, I’d better remove the stone from outside my house that reads “Kike’s Peak.”
PAD
So I kind of slapped around “Doctor Who” a few weeks ago. Let’s see how it turned out. In the words of River Song: Spoilers.
Continue Reading “Cowboy Pete Attends the Wedding of River Song”
The following is a letter from my daughter, Shana, that just went out. I reprint it here and urge you to support her project if you haven’t already. If you’re one of the thousands of people who read this blog and have just kind of shrugged or said, “Maybe later,” there is no more later. This would mean a lot to her and a lot to me. Please help make this happen:
Happy Friday!
If you’re reading this email it’s because you have kindly allowed yourself to be hassled about a project that is much needed in Riverside, the takeover, rebranding, and renovation of the 5 Points Theatre. Through your support and that of other residents and businesses Tim and I have raised over $46,000 on our crowdsourcing site at ulule. That’s pretty impressive, except that our goal is more than twice that and we only have a week to pull this off. As of this writing we have 142 “supporters,” and I know at least one of those is my grandma. Consider that Riverside and Avondale have what, 25,000 people and when you add Downtown, Springfield, West Jax, and Ortega you’re at 250,000. Dangit, I just don’t think that Jacksonville’s representing the way it oughta.
For the sake of our hood, please spread the word far and wide. Remind people this restoration likely will not happen if we can’t raise the funds. Let them know this ain’t a donation, you can buy two tickets and a tub of popcorn for only $25, lifetime movies or a year’s worth of onscreen ads for $1000, or have the best company Christmas party ever for a cool $10k, with lots of great incentives in between.
To break it down:
If 2000 people drop that 25 bucks we’re set. 500 people could buy a card that gets them into 10 movies and we’d be there. Or 50 people at $1000. We don’t have a second shot at this. The kind folks at Ulule gave us this rare opportunity to extend our campaign so let’s all get on the Facebook, the Tweeting, and the guilt tripping because next Friday it’s all over.
Power to the people!
Shana
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