tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12216080276897546792024-03-13T12:47:07.064-07:00Sunday Comics DebtThis is a site devoted to casting a spotlight on those comics in the Sunday pages that for one reason or another, were never collected.
Also, I'll be paying attention to other comics worthy of wider recognition.DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.comBlogger785125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-62539629674259276362024-02-28T20:05:00.000-08:002024-02-29T15:10:14.090-08:00Hair Trigger<p>I've mentioned before that I'm one of the few people who actively prefers going to the <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2011/08/barbers-vs-dentists.html">dentist than the barber's</a>. The reasons are varied, but they basically boil down to: getting my hair cut is a series of multiple micro-aggressions. There's the constant hair-pulling, the moisture, the electric cord touching, the vibration of the razor, no glasses, no communication, and the cut hair gets everywhere, no matter how much I try to prevent it, even going so far as to clench my shirt up. And it itches like mad until I shower up, which I'm reluctant to do.</p><p>Compared to that, the occasional stabbing pains from inside my teeth is pleasant in comparison.</p><p>However, even compensating for that, some people may still view going to the dentist a traumatic experience they'd rather soon forget. Therefore, I've developed some little tricks to make your dental visit a more pleasant one:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ol><li>Wear sunglasses to protect against the glare on your eyes.</li><li>Have a heavy book to press against your stomach.</li><li>Close your mouth when the dentist isn't looking inside your mouth.</li><li>Wear a shirt with a collar to protect against the cold chain of the protective bib.</li><li>If possible, have music to drown out the buzzing noise. (<i>I'm deaf, so this doesn't really affect me</i>)</li></ol><p></p><p>What brought this up was seeing <a href="https://celepom.tumblr.com/post/742601467891941376/lemondoddle-wardenmcpherson">this image</a> on Tumblr. It hurts just to look at it. It's on par with the kid with butterfly wings and the caption, “Parents, don't be your child's first bully.” It hurts, but for a different reason.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmxG85OSFtrJF_FEXvv6OTzqJSwdmE70Mbj7TQSmJiDOSD2KjK_bXq8ieHfsZ9eNvNggyPEMt_S5a9MiYfq-KrL2aXQ7acrW70GiAj_FBkchNLl3SUNQRQ3jf-qK8Nvt4DNuW4sEqU3i4e53fMi2SSEsJFXSF-br32eo1aMFX4ZlVxVsiKGx9c4uQzZPS/s750/%5BWebAutismHaircutMedusa1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="485" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmxG85OSFtrJF_FEXvv6OTzqJSwdmE70Mbj7TQSmJiDOSD2KjK_bXq8ieHfsZ9eNvNggyPEMt_S5a9MiYfq-KrL2aXQ7acrW70GiAj_FBkchNLl3SUNQRQ3jf-qK8Nvt4DNuW4sEqU3i4e53fMi2SSEsJFXSF-br32eo1aMFX4ZlVxVsiKGx9c4uQzZPS/w414-h640/%5BWebAutismHaircutMedusa1.jpg" width="414" /></a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>“art by @BottlngSunshine</p><p>Is it about butchering Black girls’ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just too… “different” to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?”</p></blockquote><p>And the hashtag:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>#ART BY OP #POSSIBLY VERY TRIGGERING #IT IS FOR ME #MY MOM USED MY HAIR TO CONTROL ME #EVEN INTO MY LATE TEENS #I RARELY GO TO THE HAIRDRESSER #AND IT'S A TRIAL EVERY TIME #BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH I AM (THEORETICALLY) IN CONTROL NOW #THERE'S STILL SO MANY NEGATIVE FEELINGS #ASSOCIATED WITH HAVING MY HAIR CUT VIA TEEJAY-KAYE</p><p>SOURCE ODE-ON-A-GRECIAN-BUTT</p></blockquote><p>I also enjoyed seeing the mirror showing what was going on in my mouth, and missed that visual stimulus when they no longer used it. The main thing that prevented me from panicking (<i>apart from knowing what was going on</i>) was the annual appointment where I would have to wear a weighed vest for the dental x-rays. </p><p>In grade school, I was ferried about not by Bus, but by taxi. And during these trips, I would invite anybody to rest their schoolbags on my lap. Which they willingly did. It must have been a sight, me being buried underneath these heavy loads, but I couldn't be happier. And I carried that same sentiment when I could not longer go via Volkswagen and had to take public transportation to high school.</p><p>To compensate for the loss, I started carrying my heavy backpack on my lap, both to and from school. I found it easier to lug these school books around than keep them in my locker, which had an easily bypassable lock, and apart from my school stuff, never kept any valuables inside.</p><p>I used to end the school days by racing out the door the instant the bell rang in a mad dash to catch the early bus before it left, which would usually come around the exact same minute, around when the light would be turning red. Otherwise, I’d be crammed in with dozens of other students all waiting for the same ride. And being around rowdy teenagers with little impulse control was an assault on my senses, which only further heightened my anxiety.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzIRJG3gBkKsoWr8lOYmAjT02PCua2Yj2XZ70zRWZ0Ca4-4dvt6nj4TNrrybLWcDUASxkh73iPAFFQ-DxJmoZCSoGywmnfxi_r1f8k0uAcQnXQIFrG7I-k3gCK-Qxk6tXSEyd_f08RL7kIFyjO9L5_rmUmbKY0-nq8nlUTZ5yWAIRliCpkfMN50ytiSQMZ/s1532/Pooch2000-06-05-Eat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1532" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzIRJG3gBkKsoWr8lOYmAjT02PCua2Yj2XZ70zRWZ0Ca4-4dvt6nj4TNrrybLWcDUASxkh73iPAFFQ-DxJmoZCSoGywmnfxi_r1f8k0uAcQnXQIFrG7I-k3gCK-Qxk6tXSEyd_f08RL7kIFyjO9L5_rmUmbKY0-nq8nlUTZ5yWAIRliCpkfMN50ytiSQMZ/w640-h218/Pooch2000-06-05-Eat.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>It was always a challenge to find a seat, since they would be quickly filled up. It wasn’t unusual for me arriving home to enter the doorway screaming, wanting nothing more than to vent the frustrations of the day. I saw no reason to stay behind and engage in after-school activities. I'd already endured the trials of having to get through a whole day. Why would I want to prolong that experience any longer?</p><p>I never really wanted to grow up and face the responsibilities that being an adult entailed. Getting facial hair was the closest thing to experiencing dysphoria in the same way that some women dislike having breasts. I could no longer rub my hands over my smooth face. It was that experience (<i>and preferring the company of women to men</i>) that led me to wonder if I might be Trans. I wouldn’t mind being androgynous, but I never actively sought ways to permanently remove my facial hair. I was worried about having to face too much pain. I was afraid of shaving out of fear of cutting myself, and having a bad experience with shaving cream getting in my mouth as a kid. I spent my high school and college years trimming my facial hair with scissors, hacking away until it was slightly shorter. I didn’t even like calling my facial hair a beard, since I’d have to acknowledge that I was growing up, and I didn’t want to.</p><p>Even handling an electric razor years later was an uphill struggle, since the vibration made me uneasy. Constant reassurances that the razor wouldn’t break my skin didn’t assuage my anxiety.</p><p>I got easily upset in work environments where the desk layout were radically different from mine, where the keyboards were precariously placed on flimsy plastic sliding woodframes that could fall apart from the slightest applied pressure. I needed constant stability world where there was none, and the world wasn’t willing to accommodate those needs.</p><p>For a long time, I thought that unlike other Autistics, I didn’t have any visible stims such as waving my hands in public. (<i>I tend to do that when handling hot plates or in the privacy of the bathroom in order to dry my hands faster, which never get sufficiently dry enough even after applying a towel</i>) It was only recently that it occurred to me that my persistent need of wanting to sit near the table - constantly pressing my stomach against the edge of the table and wanting to lie down on the floor - THAT was my stim.</p><p>It’s why I got so upset when my parents got a dog for my sibling. They got it as a gift and thought I would warm up to it. But I never did. I saw it as an usurper of my floor space, constantly giving me unwanted attention when I didn’t need it. I didn’t like the idea of having to spend time with something that would never increase in intellect, remaining a perpetual child.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOQchCycmKDXGNODHMBcTqH4PZAdDxPLZT1fEb6I1GU2hK5t5Y2C0hq28byl8oiz2SYy-LO45wsyTMQR-gYGFUnA0R9mR6PCcFp9oOmCyBbDraz7oAh5fV8KCr3zTpCWwlqfikK8bx9G2i2BPztZFTReFRFk4I1TV_Mw95m4eeG3COqSAwcTivkYzJMbi/s1487/Pooch2000-06-06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="1487" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOQchCycmKDXGNODHMBcTqH4PZAdDxPLZT1fEb6I1GU2hK5t5Y2C0hq28byl8oiz2SYy-LO45wsyTMQR-gYGFUnA0R9mR6PCcFp9oOmCyBbDraz7oAh5fV8KCr3zTpCWwlqfikK8bx9G2i2BPztZFTReFRFk4I1TV_Mw95m4eeG3COqSAwcTivkYzJMbi/w640-h220/Pooch2000-06-06.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>By the time my objections were made, it was already too late to give it away. I spent my formative years in abject terror of having something unpleasant greet me whenever I came home, a constant reminder of a bad experience of dogs biting me while collecting payment for my newspaper route. And it was a Yorkshire Terrier, a small animal that wouldn’t shed, giving an allergic reaction. There was just something about those eternally black dilated eyes that unsettled me, much like how comic snobs look down on Manga characters with glinty expressive eyes.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgETOhk1pxjw2lFABFM-ahnRNSThbKmYsbUOLtY-hb7AQ4PCv_JzMaZIdLQ3RjgngB7ztnb2yhQpdrc5AGZ96ySIajt6d1m_bn-k5ydZaI-kEv5qvr6JsMAMe5S6SUDoSUTeDbb_t6ef0BWLblhbfDcBrRFCCiGQwxUS_65JqBDBDZNh7FcCvLefRh5o0qR/s987/Pooch2000-06-07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="987" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgETOhk1pxjw2lFABFM-ahnRNSThbKmYsbUOLtY-hb7AQ4PCv_JzMaZIdLQ3RjgngB7ztnb2yhQpdrc5AGZ96ySIajt6d1m_bn-k5ydZaI-kEv5qvr6JsMAMe5S6SUDoSUTeDbb_t6ef0BWLblhbfDcBrRFCCiGQwxUS_65JqBDBDZNh7FcCvLefRh5o0qR/w640-h212/Pooch2000-06-07.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>(<i>Of course back then, I was also cautiously nervous of Anime characters, because their eyes conveyed too much emotion</i>.)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMp3ndX_aBI5AqFwY8fpgetESTFC6z3TJWQL-iFn7zAKq42-KUnmmh_0JfTNLfroXnvmXC8DbGkLqh2IVzXgffFXdyhykUfZrPMTTV64k0ZiEJWse8yYOUKhPP2VZciX1_K6m5T6GmhO-oRNGs7xtJ5u9TSYJamOxh9q5Tpi9esKIGirlj5iIzHryP5ad2/s1495/Pooch2000-06-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1495" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMp3ndX_aBI5AqFwY8fpgetESTFC6z3TJWQL-iFn7zAKq42-KUnmmh_0JfTNLfroXnvmXC8DbGkLqh2IVzXgffFXdyhykUfZrPMTTV64k0ZiEJWse8yYOUKhPP2VZciX1_K6m5T6GmhO-oRNGs7xtJ5u9TSYJamOxh9q5Tpi9esKIGirlj5iIzHryP5ad2/w640-h230/Pooch2000-06-08.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>My thoughts which were once optimistic increasingly turned to darker areas not before traversed. I devised several ways in trying to get rid of the animal. I deliberately left the gate open so it’d run away. I had it gorge itself on kibble, threatening to burst its stomach. That got me a lecture, asking me to think about what it’d be like to imagine what it’d be like to induce vomiting / having my stomach forcibly pumped, to which I replied I’d gladly endure such pains if it meant getting rid of the creature. Once, while my family was going away on vacation and the dog was being taken care of by someone else, on our day of departure, I fed it some rat poison I’d found lying in the school floors. I assumed that it would die, far away from any assumed blame. So when I returned and saw it was very much alive, I felt like I was in the presence of a demon.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzpKEyV_hdwz0B9ODFiKyLHGwXjxU04XQT1Ju62TOnTW0_6SWcxlj7Hg2q1d3Lx2ASynGZ4l37GQ79n_2L635oRuAGpJPBXUvC08tGChMupG8d8Jojq-sUs3fbbnQY1-edoO0vpJQ_Lz1qjwS6d4EvEcfzBCJh98B6qeOdnTcjh7NgplZOgv_rsxrnkMW/s927/Pooch2000-06-09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="927" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzpKEyV_hdwz0B9ODFiKyLHGwXjxU04XQT1Ju62TOnTW0_6SWcxlj7Hg2q1d3Lx2ASynGZ4l37GQ79n_2L635oRuAGpJPBXUvC08tGChMupG8d8Jojq-sUs3fbbnQY1-edoO0vpJQ_Lz1qjwS6d4EvEcfzBCJh98B6qeOdnTcjh7NgplZOgv_rsxrnkMW/w640-h216/Pooch2000-06-09.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Back then, I engaged in shoplifting, because I felt I deserved to be punished. I had the feeling that I was a danger, since my thoughts and feelings were so out of tune compared to everybody else, and needed to be stopped before it was too late. Upon being caught (<i>I didn’t try to hide my theft very well</i>), the mall cop asked if I liked boys. This was a confusing question for me to answer, since while I’d looked at plenty of straight and lesbian Hentai, I’d also experimented and branched out on Yaoi, finding the feminine boys to be cute. But actual human people? No, I didn’t. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSxyNBar41cr9SBMJPshZ7bIYmqVhwHPIYzGn0vGYuOYko1kMkSUepvWDq-9gwX26QyuNm8RhFBOOsOJz4ggw9KZ1So2HYOLdYVW4uMJ_7GMeJk_0UjqzfO3ilIpIVCROe354sozjrmGZvWYS39IsB-7B8gu_7txjLt7i0vmV2-x6c56DtNu8YCRpKJn_/s1490/Pooch2000-06-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="1490" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSxyNBar41cr9SBMJPshZ7bIYmqVhwHPIYzGn0vGYuOYko1kMkSUepvWDq-9gwX26QyuNm8RhFBOOsOJz4ggw9KZ1So2HYOLdYVW4uMJ_7GMeJk_0UjqzfO3ilIpIVCROe354sozjrmGZvWYS39IsB-7B8gu_7txjLt7i0vmV2-x6c56DtNu8YCRpKJn_/w640-h226/Pooch2000-06-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Looking back, I'm left wondering if that's the kind of thing law enforcement is supposed to ask.</p><p>When my mother found out after I’d basically confessed to doing shoplifting, she had me go back to the stores I’d shoplifted from and personally pay for the items I’d filched and issue a public apology to the managers. While this was a suitable punishment fitting the crime, I still didn’t feel this was punishment enough for me. After all, I was still free to do whatever damage I was capable of.</p><p>It was a mystery as to why I was so sensitive to these minuscule details that didn’t seem to bother anybody else. I made complaints about not wanting to be touched by fur that would have uncomfortable sensations. I was given patches of varying fur samples to try to desensitize myself, but I didn’t like having to overthink these things. I wanted to have these tasks done automatically and not have to focus on breathing, which I always did to excessive extremes, wanting to get the breathing in and out over with. I wanted instant relaxation, and breathing simply wasn’t doing it. Everybody put my actions down to hormones and teenage rebellion.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvh4-91JZ_3QdudwAg3ruRMNUAYvAyOqklp1wJjqfWA901_2sguc3oW9qDamE8eFWS9qOfldtKZrxu2yLOz-6oKYduT3be_C4q3Cl_LBy_-cRIU31YZOLtQLDfhpDzJf6BWCeKiJiVaBUAh4fBh4ZHsFRdHc6Rs1rFxN-dE2YTgH48DtOQ86HpB5AQcMav/s740/HairFbofw.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="740" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvh4-91JZ_3QdudwAg3ruRMNUAYvAyOqklp1wJjqfWA901_2sguc3oW9qDamE8eFWS9qOfldtKZrxu2yLOz-6oKYduT3be_C4q3Cl_LBy_-cRIU31YZOLtQLDfhpDzJf6BWCeKiJiVaBUAh4fBh4ZHsFRdHc6Rs1rFxN-dE2YTgH48DtOQ86HpB5AQcMav/w640-h222/HairFbofw.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>And then, my psychologist found the description for Asperger’s while looking for another client, and thought that the symptoms sounded a lot like me. A test of 10 questions consisting of theoretical scenarios was devised to determine my reactions, choosing from multiple choices, and my answers were textbook responses. My symptoms weren't easily noticeable, since I tended to look people in the mouth when they talked, and they never noticed. I had an oral interpreter intervene on my behalf to clearly explain things for me. I'd basically fallen through the cracks in the system for a long time before somebody finally noticed.</p><p>After that, my parents who’d been frustrated with my behavior finally had an explanation and better understanding of my thought process, and sought ways to accommodate my needs. They couldn’t get rid of the dog entirely, but ways were devised to make the continued living experience not as unpleasant. I compensated by having a raised cushion to block the dog’s resting spot away from my peripheral eyes while watching TV.</p><p>So when the dog finally passed away from old age, I wasn’t sure how to react. I’d lived in abject fear and hatred, constantly pounding my foot to the floor to scare it away. Every time I opened the door, it would greet me, and remind me of its presence. All I wanted was to be left alone, and it never learned that much.</p><p>Ironically enough, if we’d gotten a cat, I probably wouldn’t have been bothered as much. I didn’t want constant blind affection. I wanted subjective affection, but only on my own terms. My personality would be more on par with a cat’s being more introverted than extroverted. And yet, my sibling would wind up owning several cats, while I wound up with none.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAk81tlNu43_n8D0kU_RosIIZk-5RdNCOupviTTPwjf_9VyoW5KUrQ-LChbX03MRd8dwh1Mx0n6Wq2QsdUt_iL_jM6uoAPs7VhCg4EJT-NbyAZxqlQ4aMXFCLsH6CIT6b_JZnR2gCdx4-xMcZV8LGgb0NdNimgU-vingX45rm8fIcL42WznbJfKci5ThvI/s900/HairCalvin.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAk81tlNu43_n8D0kU_RosIIZk-5RdNCOupviTTPwjf_9VyoW5KUrQ-LChbX03MRd8dwh1Mx0n6Wq2QsdUt_iL_jM6uoAPs7VhCg4EJT-NbyAZxqlQ4aMXFCLsH6CIT6b_JZnR2gCdx4-xMcZV8LGgb0NdNimgU-vingX45rm8fIcL42WznbJfKci5ThvI/w640-h204/HairCalvin.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>I was perfectly willing to let myself stay miserable rather than ever let myself admit that I could ever find welcome company with a dog. It’s why I greatly empathize with women who’ve been assaulted and have to face their attackers at work/school/home who’ve gotten off scot-free.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-51252801080777272422023-10-29T21:24:00.002-07:002023-10-30T08:46:46.066-07:00 Embarrassment Redux<p>I would like to make an amendment to my previous blog post about <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2022/11/how-embarrassing.html">feeling embarrassed</a>. At the time, I only had difficulty in expressing my frame of reference for embarrassment. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel embarrassment, since there were certain acts I was loathe to do in view of full public, but didn’t consider those worthy of being my most embarrassing moments.</p><p>Just recently, I experienced an incident that had me re-evaluating my previous description. I limited embarrassment as being a social construct, the visible type to blush furiously when unfairly placed in social situations, such as being forced in admitting to having a crush in a teasing public. But there were other manifestations that I hadn’t considered.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMKbTBgDQMXxmNr25fG85eB3dwFbypGdwiHcSZ84ZC67AmFdLzPPa5TJ7JKGviEGAEbx8lnC8ezdSLlJyglf1ZtLVPH1-Yr-6bgmlezOfRP9toIm-ZcT7kXKk4bgNXfPrd6qxrwzG-IWMNefYJZ8KFV8FN6QCQa3WGTHjpXdvQUWtdONV9wbl-g1ATgh7/s600/EmbarassFbofwDeanna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMKbTBgDQMXxmNr25fG85eB3dwFbypGdwiHcSZ84ZC67AmFdLzPPa5TJ7JKGviEGAEbx8lnC8ezdSLlJyglf1ZtLVPH1-Yr-6bgmlezOfRP9toIm-ZcT7kXKk4bgNXfPrd6qxrwzG-IWMNefYJZ8KFV8FN6QCQa3WGTHjpXdvQUWtdONV9wbl-g1ATgh7/w640-h426/EmbarassFbofwDeanna.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>On this particular day, I was on my way out after doing some volunteer preparations when I entered the Metro and saw the station terminal was delayed. Since there was a larger crowd than usual, I decided to check out the bus schedule to the next station. That involved leaving the terminal and going back upstairs to see the timesheets, which showed that they’d be coming in about 20 minutes or so, and I’d just missed the last one by 2 minutes.</p><p>I attempted to go back and see if the Metro was running late, but my card refused to go past the main gate, having already having used it very recently, and not passing the honor system. I briefly said a few words to the Ticket Counter to try to explain my predicament, outlining the details above. He said a few words that I didn’t understand. I stood expressionless, nodded and then turned back towards the bus stop. Only, I decided not to wait for the bus, but walk to the next station instead.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFrzNyeAhNml7ROSiQY-1QnDU8ffRKjBdXbm7wzY6cvukVnvuyyq1KEF1B1ICG0sV7UZbKHhJbxsN8IzFtQyqzzthSVni42DHz-GtIA0gth3QX4h9TglzgOwtJ4kMBmQ98u7Kei_CkRPMrdSuppZIAWtv3rSUXcM5WGbz78ganany086iL8Bo1oDS5pan/s602/EmbarassFbofwBus.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="602" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFrzNyeAhNml7ROSiQY-1QnDU8ffRKjBdXbm7wzY6cvukVnvuyyq1KEF1B1ICG0sV7UZbKHhJbxsN8IzFtQyqzzthSVni42DHz-GtIA0gth3QX4h9TglzgOwtJ4kMBmQ98u7Kei_CkRPMrdSuppZIAWtv3rSUXcM5WGbz78ganany086iL8Bo1oDS5pan/w640-h248/EmbarassFbofwBus.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>As I was trekking, I became acutely aware of how heavy my backpack was, having brought some library books that were due. I was accustomed to carrying heavy loads, since I enjoy the weight while it’s resting on my lap as I sit on the bus, but it makes for unpleasant travel companions during long walking hours. Which is why I take public transportation in the first place.</p><p>I ruminated about my current predicament, going over the previous events in my mind. Sure, I could’ve made things simpler if I’d just waited, but that would’ve made things uncomfortable waiting in a crowded station with no way of knowing when the next subway would come or if the delay would be longer than expected. Sure I could’ve waited for the bus, but it didn’t feel right to be standing around doing nothing. There was also the possibility of catching another bus going my way. I could’ve simply explained my situation more clearly to the man behind the ticket counter, but that would’ve been too - </p><p><br /></p><p>oh.</p><p><br /></p><p>At that moment, I realized that embarrassment wasn’t limited to just being uncomfortable in group conversations. I didn’t register it as embarrassment because that’s my default state. When things get too difficult for me to explain, I find it easier to do it on my own.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FZD_PR71pwkYSvlgh3OCR5MxH-qR2dbZp1RABK3wuA1j7D75Y4wh-UQz74RKjWP8gBTek_0li1wSwZT5XmC0pREzHMdlz65nBGoh-Brg5hnXxik32xV0-mJXCkol9H7ZUY5CUo1Sr-DxkXieIT_sQ1livY-XqhwzhlVoq3xVreBCPActhPWpJtsmiRQg/s666/EmbarassRanma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="666" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FZD_PR71pwkYSvlgh3OCR5MxH-qR2dbZp1RABK3wuA1j7D75Y4wh-UQz74RKjWP8gBTek_0li1wSwZT5XmC0pREzHMdlz65nBGoh-Brg5hnXxik32xV0-mJXCkol9H7ZUY5CUo1Sr-DxkXieIT_sQ1livY-XqhwzhlVoq3xVreBCPActhPWpJtsmiRQg/w640-h496/EmbarassRanma.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The ironic part is that this happened right after I’d helped out with my <a href="https://hearhear.org/">volunteer organization for hard of hearing people</a> to seek out services. And right next to the library that day, there was a booth for <a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/research/research-library/2021/02/deaf-and-disability-arts">Deaf and Disability Arts Practices</a>. I had an extraordinary amount of trouble asking the people there if a pamphlet available there was free or not, despite doing my best to gesture emphatically and raising my mask up to be better lipread. Even though these were people who should’ve been easily able to convey their agenda forward, communicating in a noisy environment was still an unsurmountable obstacle.</p><p>If you want to see yourself in a good light, you’ll avoid situations that’ll leave you looking bad. It’s also why so many elderly people are reluctant to admit their hearing which they’ve grown dependent on is starting to become less reliable than usual. As a result, there’ll be increased instances of flare-ups due to miscommunications and misunderstandings, keeping your distance from people you were once close to. Loneliness is one of the easiest causes of dementia, and deafness just enhances it.</p><p>There’ve been times when I’ve gotten frustrated over someone’s inability to understand me, despite my thinking that I was speaking clearly enough, a growing annoyance of having to repeat myself, the recipient unwilling to believe my words.</p><p>Though I’ve certainly never gone as far as to vehemently deny the existence of certain family members.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHI0EQB8ucw1BTMLHOv1mikyy4KxXSezIVzDyjm7VFjbWxGHipco2uUMrzNKGpTFsJ6DP8R-DJVLw9Vm7b_hxZsTeeXJTS3UmxEU4JqNnLVXWitDijrYEgYe4sipaWOchaWnCHXtP237N2ojpMO7F8irvI2WidTF1RD-lHGkMdzZkGHM7gx2ykdw6v74LU/s681/EmbarassRanmaN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="681" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHI0EQB8ucw1BTMLHOv1mikyy4KxXSezIVzDyjm7VFjbWxGHipco2uUMrzNKGpTFsJ6DP8R-DJVLw9Vm7b_hxZsTeeXJTS3UmxEU4JqNnLVXWitDijrYEgYe4sipaWOchaWnCHXtP237N2ojpMO7F8irvI2WidTF1RD-lHGkMdzZkGHM7gx2ykdw6v74LU/w640-h232/EmbarassRanmaN.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Ignoring your relatives so you'll remain on speaking terms.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-38678890148703120022023-09-25T03:19:00.001-07:002023-09-25T03:48:12.456-07:00 Obituary: Joe Matt, and Self-Pitying Horny Comic Biographies<p>Just recently, Joe Matt died of a <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-matt-cartoonist-obituary/">heart attack</a>, found <a href="https://www.fresherslive.com/latest/articles/joe-matt-death-and-obituary-what-happened-topeepshow-creator-joe-matthow-didjoe-matt-die-1555184661">slumped at his drawing board</a>. Fittingly, this was something that was penned by Chester Brown of the triumvirate of the Toronto Three, Seth and Chester Brown, two Canadian Cartoonists who were close friends, though you’d never know it from how often they were portrayed complaining about his complaining.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BsLaN2F2EkGIvdItVppPZMScfqNPMgwPWC61PO7tobR71pkcCNhp7biSc9mBDtxZyBziOAgKro8tbS6cz-X9IWp9iqSG7oJubCXGIIswYszMaESGdHvowRYZ_zoGqARjMt-QIkSSIonvIrDj3gjThlYJGk_RWVtti0HgD4z62pLqteCPoNwgkU8XXLxw/s969/MattChesterBrown3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="601" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BsLaN2F2EkGIvdItVppPZMScfqNPMgwPWC61PO7tobR71pkcCNhp7biSc9mBDtxZyBziOAgKro8tbS6cz-X9IWp9iqSG7oJubCXGIIswYszMaESGdHvowRYZ_zoGqARjMt-QIkSSIonvIrDj3gjThlYJGk_RWVtti0HgD4z62pLqteCPoNwgkU8XXLxw/w396-h640/MattChesterBrown3.jpg" width="396" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0nT1vkSSzbuCGCEkz1E4oPmV5NUiHGjYmzNsmaE9W6Cu9aSXdc32Y_w4qPGoKpBpZj7vqshiiZrXYZzurzrsdQ00l6TJz5neGlaMrrEIjY8-WCEwimNm-L4OYQNJLYbXLzzpeaRMN9sJ0i6sv11IUvcT8DL3dpgJt9EDLF7uorYYPAprVAlWhqROfxg9/s696/MattChesterBrown4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="515" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0nT1vkSSzbuCGCEkz1E4oPmV5NUiHGjYmzNsmaE9W6Cu9aSXdc32Y_w4qPGoKpBpZj7vqshiiZrXYZzurzrsdQ00l6TJz5neGlaMrrEIjY8-WCEwimNm-L4OYQNJLYbXLzzpeaRMN9sJ0i6sv11IUvcT8DL3dpgJt9EDLF7uorYYPAprVAlWhqROfxg9/w474-h640/MattChesterBrown4.jpg" width="474" /></a></p><p>The sad part is that due to Joe Matt's cheapness, he would put off his health, refusing to go to a hospital which would cost him money, which likely heightened his possibilities of dying sooner.</p><p>Coincidentally, I was thinking about the caricatured portrayal of comic biographies and how they tended to have a negative outlook. The general image of a comic autobiography is to have a nebbish protagonist constantly narrate inner insecurities about life all while remaining indecisive about girls, exemplified by Robert Crumb who took his fears and fetishes onto the comic page. A trait inspired and endlessly plagiarized by countless imitator cartoonists who no doubt greatly identified with this self-loathing portrayal.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ntFVca-u1bqPKku3Ad3EUgQtIu-0FA2Y8rOQWYM8U-gtL04aE-jAXeY4VgJor-iCRwrBJd63PFpxkStnOmsgRAY78s_qE_vT0yXtWwMlShaqh2GYTSzGrXqBOrw2hDSfj9iOK1Tg02n3t0LMrgHAaV9DlJ4z0YmSDM3hL3yAE-5fX7Qbb1GNX-1HOmf7/s1227/MattCrumb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ntFVca-u1bqPKku3Ad3EUgQtIu-0FA2Y8rOQWYM8U-gtL04aE-jAXeY4VgJor-iCRwrBJd63PFpxkStnOmsgRAY78s_qE_vT0yXtWwMlShaqh2GYTSzGrXqBOrw2hDSfj9iOK1Tg02n3t0LMrgHAaV9DlJ4z0YmSDM3hL3yAE-5fX7Qbb1GNX-1HOmf7/w438-h640/MattCrumb.jpg" width="438" /></a></p><p>I had these thoughts during the comic I was reading, <b><a href="https://www.printmag.com/comics-animation-design/graphic-novel-crossword-history-puzzling-mystery-paolo-bacilieri/">Fun</a></b> by Paolo Bacilieri, about the history of crosswords started out fairly interesting, then it segued to a cartoonist who exhibited the kind of nerdish fascination and narrative sensibilities, seeking reconciliation from an ex-girlfriend abroad. Even though there are much better and varied comic biographies out there, that’s the general image that tends to stick in people’s consciousness. The genre is still tainted by the prospect of Woody Allen-like main characters.</p><p>As such, Joe Matt’s comics about his issues tend to be rather repetitive, constantly complaining about being alone, seeking impossible feminine ideals that Seth described as ‘being caught on a treadmill’.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbhpApTy38qqh11bx18EVIjDQOdzQrX_DnbVBbn1cWYIq7YTeVfVvQ25vnTsE_s5Zj81i_kn3POnlYCIaM63gLPg0jvXNnOVUFHY9q4VBMOHMuA3EeRzWDRyfejFCadSZWp-o54S2J5d3bmRUU8Qd3gMIrZgkX-9ZzmAvBKRpbyxje2OWpvnZNXpkYr1y/s1227/MattDates.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="850" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbhpApTy38qqh11bx18EVIjDQOdzQrX_DnbVBbn1cWYIq7YTeVfVvQ25vnTsE_s5Zj81i_kn3POnlYCIaM63gLPg0jvXNnOVUFHY9q4VBMOHMuA3EeRzWDRyfejFCadSZWp-o54S2J5d3bmRUU8Qd3gMIrZgkX-9ZzmAvBKRpbyxje2OWpvnZNXpkYr1y/w444-h640/MattDates.jpg" width="444" /></a></p><p>The thing was, as much as these comics might have had a certain appeal towards a certain segment of the comics market, I never really had these moments of introspection in narrative detail, being more concerned with getting through the day. My thoughts would likely only come into being after I put some thought to it.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewNz1djMzaDIy007LCOr96ecQh8fZJLwnDdzNVMverH-hjUJpRmymxC3Hc8Cj0aZwcVzH5Mam42OwWEXdqvXVMFV__db8bkpL4yqW9nsiQLxiZK9ersVfjp2nfSwnZwt0l0s1n6GswLPPk74qWg2idJx6jeXiPGuSToGdZ_CadG1iUQAuOazw39BvVdUv/s1227/MattBio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewNz1djMzaDIy007LCOr96ecQh8fZJLwnDdzNVMverH-hjUJpRmymxC3Hc8Cj0aZwcVzH5Mam42OwWEXdqvXVMFV__db8bkpL4yqW9nsiQLxiZK9ersVfjp2nfSwnZwt0l0s1n6GswLPPk74qWg2idJx6jeXiPGuSToGdZ_CadG1iUQAuOazw39BvVdUv/w440-h640/MattBio.jpg" width="440" /></a></p><p>As casually interesting as these comics were, I never really identified with them, since they indulged in extraneous inner turmoil in excessive verbiage and constant pining for unrequited lusts, something I had no real desire for, since it would mean having to open myself up, an ordeal further exacerbated by my social anxiety in talking to complete strangers who I’d have to inform that I was deaf, needed them to face me, emphasize key words, and making sure they understood English; a process that would have to be repeated ad nauseam with every new person. Not to mention that I was more comfortable being alone anyways.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMoCwpu2haraqhA3Enek-cBIiENlJgCu8omCNKJkhuYAAAeqIxB4CRYWmckk3VmrZVkcIPmSLDE4BNCTz78p1x7HhG33UeUVaFKdK7X3Y1sWqBYm1J3ZTtihgGfTbJ-He12x0MIeAOwMNzP-so1piuv-XpgXCYmaADZOtH4XG5mXu3s5vt6DGuED7SENJ/s775/MattSeth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="775" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMoCwpu2haraqhA3Enek-cBIiENlJgCu8omCNKJkhuYAAAeqIxB4CRYWmckk3VmrZVkcIPmSLDE4BNCTz78p1x7HhG33UeUVaFKdK7X3Y1sWqBYm1J3ZTtihgGfTbJ-He12x0MIeAOwMNzP-so1piuv-XpgXCYmaADZOtH4XG5mXu3s5vt6DGuED7SENJ/w640-h610/MattSeth.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>For a time, I had a brief online relationship with a <a href="http://lcvtranslations.blogspot.com/">female German comic blogger</a>, correcting her translation of a comic, and the two of us enjoyed a rapport. Eventually, it led to video conversations, with the helpful option of writing notes by the side, clarifying details that I would’ve missed.</p><p>She helped me with doing the basic translations for the first 2 volumes of Red Ketchup, and I did the rewriting and scanlation edits myself. We continued our relationship past simple translations by sharing books, something I was reluctant to do, but she shipped her English versions of Walter Moers’ titles, <b>The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear</b>, <b>Rumo </b>and <b>The City of Dreaming Books</b> over with no hesitation. In return, I recommended the comic series, <b>Finder </b>by Carla Speed McNeil. It might’ve been a little too ambitious for her taste, since she said she wasn’t too crazy about it. I wasn’t that crazy about Bluebear, so it was fair. (<i>She enjoyed my recommendation of the early writings of Gordon Kormon though</i>)</p><p>Then one day, she said that she would be moving to my country, just one province over in Kitchener, and offered the option to come over to my house. I was enthusiastic for the possibility of having a physical friend over, someone I had several things in common. I even pointed out the possibility that she might’ve had Autism, since she certainly matched some of the symptoms exactly. She had Prosopagnosia (facial blindness), and mentioned having a kind of synesthesia where she ‘heard’ voices in colour, and she said mine was orange, her favorite colour.</p><p>I took her sightseeing, showing her my favorite places to find comics and second-hand books, but then I fell sick, and had to lie low for a day while my Mother took her to an Oral training seminar teaching deaf students on how to lipread. Before she left, I handed over some Neal Shusterman books (the <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/DNH/dark-fusion">Dark Fusion</a> trilogy of Fairy Tale retellings, <b>Duckling Ugly</b> being the best among them)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWY8qAOHWTSe_sdNhOjNSvDyn7KMZzTuRTPWI17C6X1pruL8UDOqkMOndRCyoyWCFDN4640Xp15j3ah_RP9hNtzDmrellkMZQlNUGJYeaQ5wZogJFTKGVPx5R5fohg4ft8njX_wnhOMYeqN8hhgN22-wTP_N8I1K5UGNCdbUoXtDEM-QWaHgAyMGnEJPB/s1444/MattChester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="969" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWY8qAOHWTSe_sdNhOjNSvDyn7KMZzTuRTPWI17C6X1pruL8UDOqkMOndRCyoyWCFDN4640Xp15j3ah_RP9hNtzDmrellkMZQlNUGJYeaQ5wZogJFTKGVPx5R5fohg4ft8njX_wnhOMYeqN8hhgN22-wTP_N8I1K5UGNCdbUoXtDEM-QWaHgAyMGnEJPB/w430-h640/MattChester.jpg" width="430" /></a></p><p>The last time I heard from her, she said she was getting married to someone living in Toronto. I didn’t fall into a screaming fit of outrage. I just simply accepted this news the same way one would getting an evening weather report.</p><p>Upon reflection, I realized that other than giving advice on grammar and toning up her vocabulary to sound more natural, I basically had nothing to offer her. I had no basic survival skills, couldn’t manage a full-time job, didn’t even have the courage to travel across province to where she lived. It's also possible that our tastes weren't compatible.</p><p>I was always worried about the possibility that I would be alone. But ever since I self-diagnosed myself as being Asexual, I now <b>KNOW </b>that I’ll be alone, and am fine with it. I don’t have to share my bed with somebody and worry about my personal space being invaded.</p><p>What really hurt was that after she got married, we were no longer in communication with each other. I still would’ve liked to remain friends after all we’d done together. She still has my Neal Shusterman books.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzkpJc1vv3olOtYuKJQ8tG9B1tclMhexvoX520wJ2acXakFHLJU30S4TMBfDZ-j-QRvevQEmDF8O6PSXVcVT_JmweGV4Mf5VQqmmwaZrLfgySlguuOd1WTCMjvLDA5voJczSu2npqd3uWPaxc1-IN0W7zub-2_JBDMIIRpbXq0yv8i03NSbgR6_rKbYOR/s910/MattBooks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="910" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzkpJc1vv3olOtYuKJQ8tG9B1tclMhexvoX520wJ2acXakFHLJU30S4TMBfDZ-j-QRvevQEmDF8O6PSXVcVT_JmweGV4Mf5VQqmmwaZrLfgySlguuOd1WTCMjvLDA5voJczSu2npqd3uWPaxc1-IN0W7zub-2_JBDMIIRpbXq0yv8i03NSbgR6_rKbYOR/w640-h274/MattBooks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-51416219469462398212023-03-31T19:58:00.000-07:002023-04-01T10:38:05.686-07:00 A Medical Season of 24<p>It seems like every time my parents go away on vacation during winter, something unfortunate happens. In 2018, I suffered from a <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-bout-with-gout.html">bout with gout</a>. The year after that, there were worries when I suffered from chest pains after shoveling their driveway, (turned out to be a pulled muscle) and that same year, my sibling <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2019/08/trans-form.html">came out as trans</a>. The years 2020-2022, <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2020/12/brought-low-by-my-knees.html">nothing serious</a> happened to me, but they didn’t go vacationing because of a <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2020/03/black-jack-under-quarantine.html">widespread contagious disease</a>. You may have heard about it.</p><p>So since no drama took place, and they’d received numerous immunizations, they went vacationing for the first time in years. Everybody laughed when I expressed worries about being afflicted, since the last time I contracted Gout was during Spring Break on Super Bowl Sunday, an awful time to get medical attention when everybody’s attention was directed elsewhere. It was a reoccurring pattern, but everybody was convinced I was just being superstitious. And wouldn’t you know it? Something happened. Not on Super Bowl Sunday, but the week after that, I contracted shingles.</p><p>At first, I thought it was just a pulled muscle, since my back slightly hurt and I’d just taken out a bunch of books out of the library. Didn’t think much of it until the tingling got worse. Like last time when I had a sudden body shutdown, I had to get outside intervention, and was able to get help via a sweet old lady from my volunteer group. Through her, she was able to get me a recommended prescription through the pharmacy, and verification from the clinic the next day. I attempted to go to the clinic myself, but was held back by an online website with no available openings and an archaic system that could only be accessed via phone. An impossibility to navigate for a deaf person.</p><p>When I received the medication through the pharmacy, I accepted the pills, but was unsure of the validity of the other supplement, since it didn’t seem right that arthritis cream normally applied to hands would be effective in handling my shingles. But it turns out applying the balm helped numb the pain. The next three weeks were spent recuperating, just in time for me to do some volunteering for my volunteer bi-annual mailing. An arduous task with numerous repetitive minor details that I was an expert at doing assembly line work on.</p><p>Only, on the day I was supposed to start my volunteer work, just after the symptoms of my shingles on my right side was starting to go away, I suffered a massive stabbing pain in my left side. I sent a quick email notification to my volunteer group that I wouldn’t be able to make it since it hurt so much. After resting long enough to miss the last train, the pain went down to a more manageable level, and I put it down to stress. The next few days, my pain level was at a 1, compared to the 7 I’d just had before, so I didn’t think too much of it. But then, the night before I was supposed to get ready for my week-long volunteering, the pain started coming back.</p><p>I tried to go to bed early, but having spent so long from getting back to a regular work routine, I was worried I might not wake up in time. Add to the fact that this was a new alarm clock, a completely different model than what I was used to, and I was still unsure of turning the alarm off properly. I knew I’d programmed it, and that the vibration worked, but it’d been a while since I’d last had to depend on an alarm system since I had a tendency to wake up prematurely before the alarm did.</p><p>I was reminded of how my mother would complain about having gas pains and would relieve herself by having her sensitive side massaged, forming little bubbles that’d make her burp, and thought this was similar to what I was experiencing. I tried to cope with the incoming pain by pressing my body against a thick book. This tactic helped me in the past when I was suffering from stressful situations, but it didn’t seem to be working this time. It didn’t help that I hadn’t acclimated myself to forcing myself to go to bed earlier and not stay up all night like I’d been doing.</p><p>Officially, the crisis didn’t start at exactly 12:00, being more around 11:00, but if we were following the template of the popular show <b>24</b>, also known as the <b>Jack Baur Power Hour</b>, it would be an appropriate place to start. One thing the 1st season did that everybody seemed to have forgotten (<i>apart from the 270 degree camera rotations</i>) was that the anti-terrorist staff were just coming off a 24-hour working shift, which meant that they were more than doubly tired than they otherwise would’ve been.</p><p>So, for anyone watching me, the first three hours would be encased in complete darkness while I was lying with my eyes closed, but not sleeping, only surrounded by my own thoughts. Hardly thrilling stuff for anybody looking in, and nothing terribly exciting, until I got up and moved around, trying my best to make myself comfortable. It would only be around 4:00 that I started to feel sleepy, even as I worried about not getting up on time.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogqcFtK5V-BJBkX1Tq5snL2si4i3955krRn2tCB6uHny656_tTTIRlXjPxzlxCZ-xSeqrVs0TH-jIxwu0qjfNu8Clca-kyPROfRD2VVljjhEmS3HL6SUOgsWfwcJrx0OC8GOSmJNpO_M4QXSwn0zMQsiVcTL9jiVdpB6MpMtS395D3J0LNnHmHBsomw/s1111/HospitalCerebus_273_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1111" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogqcFtK5V-BJBkX1Tq5snL2si4i3955krRn2tCB6uHny656_tTTIRlXjPxzlxCZ-xSeqrVs0TH-jIxwu0qjfNu8Clca-kyPROfRD2VVljjhEmS3HL6SUOgsWfwcJrx0OC8GOSmJNpO_M4QXSwn0zMQsiVcTL9jiVdpB6MpMtS395D3J0LNnHmHBsomw/w640-h386/HospitalCerebus_273_12.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Roughly 3 hours later, I woke up before the alarm did, but stayed in bed in fearful anxiety in waiting for the alarm to go off, just to make sure I’d be able to turn it off properly. I could’ve simply tested it myself, but the time setting was notoriously finicky, and would require resetting the whole alarm clock 24 hours ahead, which would be a massive headache in itself. Not to mention the LED lights were notoriously bright, and I compensated every night by flipping the clock face down, which meant I wouldn’t know what time it was until I flipped it back up. Once the alarm finally went off, I went for the unorthodox switching off method, which involved sliding an un-intuitive slot to the side instead of pressing a large button on top. (<i>I’d have to reset the switch to set it again tomorrow</i>) The deed done, I was certain that once I’d experienced the dreaded waking procedure, I would be able to pass the rest of the day with minimal pain. Wishful thinking.</p><p>My side still hurt, but as before, I put that down to stress. I ate what little I could, packing only a single oatmeal cookie for later before leaving. I dutifully walked towards the train station, being lucky enough to catch an early bus that’d get me to my destination faster, so there would be no excuse for my absence. On the train, I was so tired and hurt that instead of standing near the exit platform, I sat in one of the upper seats, something I loathed doing under favorable conditions. And these were far from favorable conditions.</p><p>I could’ve simply stayed and rested at home, but felt that I’d already wasted enough time and wanted to be helpful. Not to mention there were some old electronic devices and a handbag I’d been meaning to return that’d been cluttering up my bench as a reminder for months, and their presence was annoying me. I wanted to get those properties of the volunteer organization out of the way.</p><p>One of my chief concerns was that my shingles left me feeling so sensitive I could hardly bear to wear a shirt, and had gone mostly unclothed for the past three weeks. I thought that if worst came to worse, I would have to take my shirt off while working. There was another reason for my high rise in stress. Earlier, my volunteer organization had moved their office supplies to another space in the building across from us, a much brighter place than what I was used to. Light bothers me, and I take pains in avoiding in strenuously. The previous place had plenty of working rooms without windows, and I was freaking out about having to help out in a new environment I was unaccustomed to.</p><p>Upon seeing my working environment, I was dismayed to see that none of the labels that were supposed to have been done in my absence had been done. In addition, the lighting of the room was still too bright for me despite it being cloudy out. I tried my best to control the lighting by closing the blinds and putting various objects against the underside of the shade to reduce the glare. If I didn’t help out here under favorable weather conditions, I might never be able to help out again.</p><p>Not to mention I was operating at only half efficiency due to the pain in my left side, which still hadn’t gone away. The height of the table was too high to press against my sore spot, which would’ve mitigated the pain.</p><p>The way I labeled envelopes was slightly different from how other people normally do it. I would turn the envelopes and labels upside-down, and apply the labels thusly, which saved the time and energy of reaching all the way across the vast empty space. Even so, I was working at less than half my usual capacity, which let me working much slower than usual. I normally would have half the envelope labels done before lunchtime, and was struggling just to get even that much done. Observing the competition, I saw that my co-worker put labels on the other envelopes which pleased me, since she showed initiative.</p><p>There was a bathroom right next door in case I needed to go in an emergency, which I felt would happen any time now. I was asked when was the last time I peed or pooed. I had to admit I couldn’t remember. It wasn’t like I took meticulous notes on every time I had an executive function. I had the distinct recollection that I HAD gone to the bathroom. I just couldn’t remember for WHAT.</p><p>Was there anything I’d eaten over the past few days that was unusual? Not really, the only thing I could think of was a week-old egg salad sandwich I’d wrapped up in crab meat. For some reason, I was completely ignorant that these these things were only supposed to be good for three days, even though food poisoning didn’t seem to explain my symptoms. (<i>I wasn’t puking for starters</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-iN_iUozMTdaskZkZmb2GIn7oF1J8UmEXzYJTrME8Nu8khQAcHnd5Tr5fbdepPxM-bTaRYfGUJi9U3xsYXJ-YNNA9Sf2pbBL6rIwLsWz3zHY11xa7Auf09zYZm0wtnEQoxxsk-zaex7VmBa2W3JyJrOxf9hQs9mExpU8QqYLr3augNogzhGaRJpO3Q/s694/HospitalHermanEat.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-iN_iUozMTdaskZkZmb2GIn7oF1J8UmEXzYJTrME8Nu8khQAcHnd5Tr5fbdepPxM-bTaRYfGUJi9U3xsYXJ-YNNA9Sf2pbBL6rIwLsWz3zHY11xa7Auf09zYZm0wtnEQoxxsk-zaex7VmBa2W3JyJrOxf9hQs9mExpU8QqYLr3augNogzhGaRJpO3Q/w346-h400/HospitalHermanEat.gif" width="346" /></a></p><p>My boss kept urging me to eat, even though I didn’t feel hungry. “What did you have to eat?” All I’d had that morning was 2 raspberries to swallow my pills, a banana, and a clementine that I forgot to mention. All I could drink was water that was thankfully cooled down with ice cubes from the freezer. The pleasure receptors in my brain that let me keep eating even when I wasn’t hungry had just suddenly been cut off.</p><p>I explained my symptoms to my volunteer higher-ups, and they were sympathetic, even as I was only operating at half efficiency. The Pharmacy Lady who helped me get treatment for my shingles volunteered to go out for medical supplies to help cope with my current condition. When she left without me, I was surprised because I thought I would be going with her, since I didn’t feel in good enough condition to continue working, and would be going home after. Still, I continued doing the labels as best as I could.</p><p>So, that would’ve taken place between the hours of 9:00 and 13:00, where I continued to work right through my lunch break, only taking breathers to go to the bathroom at random intervals when I felt like it, which was often. These breaks wouldn’t have been so bad if I’d produced some results, but I kept coming up empty.</p><p>When the Pharmacy Lady returned at 1:00, she had Pepto Bismol, and I drank some Milk of Magnesia, which seemed to help alleviate the pain some. She also bought a bran muffin, and I was told to eat all of it. I told my boss I wasn’t feeling very hungry. “You’ve got 15 minutes.” Total deadline pressure bearing down upon me, I dutifully took my first bite. It took an ungodly long amount of time for me to even swallow it, mushing it up in my mouth into a mushy paste before swallowing the contents. It was much denser bran muffin than what I was used to. I tried to soak the remainder in water, but even doing that didn’t soften it up any.</p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2TtisfjtKefaKXMgutfJ3G4xJ47iV0jd9NzscpbsFV4YUvi2WRIi-EjpXt-jV_MoewXZPgbA_ckcVQbs03HJ8Ru4PAZ2CAwHf0FkWQru_LkzcMPzUzUHJaOn3ea4cgx9vBfTc-ynAkFAYTmTVM9MwpKnuU_goyr9eldsCQAvsUoBrj4YaOgBQP9D7xA/s552/HospitalHermanDrink.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2TtisfjtKefaKXMgutfJ3G4xJ47iV0jd9NzscpbsFV4YUvi2WRIi-EjpXt-jV_MoewXZPgbA_ckcVQbs03HJ8Ru4PAZ2CAwHf0FkWQru_LkzcMPzUzUHJaOn3ea4cgx9vBfTc-ynAkFAYTmTVM9MwpKnuU_goyr9eldsCQAvsUoBrj4YaOgBQP9D7xA/w326-h400/HospitalHermanDrink.gif" width="326" /></a></p><p>Taking breaks was always an arduous task for me, because I felt that any time not spent working was time that could’ve been put to better use. But I was taking more bathroom breaks than usual with nothing to show for it. I kept going everytime I felt sick to my stomach, which was often, and only having air come up.</p><p>The remainder of the labels on the envelope continued as best as I could manage. I kept swallowing portions of the bran muffin even as it made me feel like throwing up. Fortunately, the boss hadn’t followed up on her 15 minute deadline threat, which would’ve doomed me if she’d been paying attention. I’d read that one of the aftereffects of recovering from shingles was a weakened immune system, and I wondered if I’d contracted something because of that. Just as I was finally finishing up the last of the leftover bran muffin, the moment I’d been dreading finally came. I felt sick and made a mad dash to the bathroom where I puked up ALL the bran muffin I’d been forcing myself to eat. At that point, it was decided that I should be driven to the hospital after work.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn65gON3DfAP52eZV49PvYSlQEYy_QpsC-C6zJ8iwmXudgF1tXFXhk20yhlBBx3qEwr0Dqo2wrv6s4Pilfw_ajEJqHT7iDZWOqhgI8jCGCnePl1BALqjfe3XOjEsXBtxqfPlbufCd__No3HP_XhKjhqVRhL_nSDiB2koqo3rShuRmL-O8VRTm8wLd7Q/s2014/HospitalFlower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2014" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn65gON3DfAP52eZV49PvYSlQEYy_QpsC-C6zJ8iwmXudgF1tXFXhk20yhlBBx3qEwr0Dqo2wrv6s4Pilfw_ajEJqHT7iDZWOqhgI8jCGCnePl1BALqjfe3XOjEsXBtxqfPlbufCd__No3HP_XhKjhqVRhL_nSDiB2koqo3rShuRmL-O8VRTm8wLd7Q/w640-h342/HospitalFlower.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Of course, since it was only 4:00, there was still time to kill until everybody could leave, and there was still stuff to be done. The last manageable task I could do was organize the addresses on the envelopes in order. The way I did this was different from how others do it. Normally, they might organize them alphabetically by name, but I always found this process very confusing, since sometimes there were 2 surnames instead of 1, making it easy to get first and last names mixed up, and sometimes you would have two envelopes for two people with different last names living in the same place, creating unnecessary doubles.</p><p>What I did to counter this was to organize the addresses not by name, but by number. This was a great time-saver, since every time I tried to figure out someone’s name, I’d have to go through the whole alphabet just to figure out whether Hart came before Harris or Hartnell. Not to mention how easier it was going through 10 digits compared to 26 letters.</p><p>A typical pile would be as follows:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1020</li><li>11256</li><li>1564</li><li>1999</li><li>20</li><li>210000</li><li>324</li><li>4442</li><li>4443</li><li>5555</li><li>6</li></ul><p></p><p>You get the idea. Anyways, I was only able to complete one pile before it was time to leave, but that finished example would come in handy for my coworker to learn from later.</p><p>If we were still paying adherence to the 24 formula, this would be the halfway point where the plot would focus on the secondary backup plan. But since I was still reeling from the effects from last night, this wouldn’t be much of a change, only in a new location. So, more of a scene change than a threatening change.</p><p>Of course, my boss could drop me off at the hospital, but couldn’t take the time to register me, since she had more pressing concerns elsewhere. Along the way, the ride was bumpy and I apologized prematurely in case I threw up. She said that would be unacceptable, and had her passenger in the back seat look for a bag for me to use. It was a plastic bag more suitable for reusable grocery use, but fortunately, all I experienced was gradual burping motions. Upon arriving at my destination at 5:00, I was nervous since I’d never gone to a hospital by myself before. I’d always had someone accompany me to go through the registration process for me.</p><p>Going through the main entrance, I didn’t see a registration window. There were many seats of patients sitting down at various locations in multiple hallways, chairs at sporadic locations and a waiting room of afflicted, all waiting for their turn. Not knowing what else to do, I opted to wait.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrdhBqwpR4vvf8bCBseUbTHa_6YicIrq-SdHNiOq5i4KsYS1iB5fr5fqGRCmhuuqkQj1XnUE4NtTDEpZJT0l-zArpzl9d6snRrvqIQW6byzOc06tUV1S9esrCZkRruCnppj79qPZYfRjRxUHHEnqGZ90_RUZSa8-_yl_IF6hMseamXQj4mPuAlWxAS4A/s2000/HospitalSign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrdhBqwpR4vvf8bCBseUbTHa_6YicIrq-SdHNiOq5i4KsYS1iB5fr5fqGRCmhuuqkQj1XnUE4NtTDEpZJT0l-zArpzl9d6snRrvqIQW6byzOc06tUV1S9esrCZkRruCnppj79qPZYfRjRxUHHEnqGZ90_RUZSa8-_yl_IF6hMseamXQj4mPuAlWxAS4A/w480-h640/HospitalSign.jpg" width="480" /></a></p><p>After waiting for 20 minutes, unsuccessfully leaning against the plastic covering being notoriously fragile to my finicky expectations, I couldn’t rest for very long without having something solid to press against myself to mitigate the pain. I was fortunate to be able to find a seat close to the wall, even if it meant frightening a small child staring at me.</p><p>I’d wanted to avoid going to the hospital at all costs, since I was worried about being unable to talk to the staff with everybody wearing a mask. Fortunately, it seemed that regulations had relaxed enough for the staff to go around without a mask, so I didn’t have to constantly request the pull their masks down so I could see their mouths. While looking around, I took the opportunity to sign a petition to keep the ER from closing.</p><p>After more waiting, I was worried about my brother coming and finding me in the waiting room having failed to get myself noticed and having wasted time doing nothing that I inspected my surroundings again. There was an empty Emergency hallway sloping downwards with nobody there, no observable windows for registering, and several chairs that had the notice of </p><p>“<i>Wait for emergency diagnosis/triage</i>”</p><p>I hadn’t sat in these, since I didn’t think of myself worthy of being considered an emergency.</p><p>But a mother with her baby was in one of these chairs, and I decided to ask her if she knew where the registration window was. She admitted she didn’t know. But then it looked like she was admitted for being there. After seeing that, I decided to wait in these Emergency chairs as well.</p><p>I must have made the right choice since shortly after a few more patients, an examiner called for me. I explained my symptoms as best as I could, taking time to say that I was deaf, and needed to rely on careful communication via my Live Transcribe. Upon hearing me, the examiner took me and my Medicare card and went down the sloping Emergency corridor that I’d seen was empty. Further down and around the corner in a <u>completely blind spot</u> was the elusive registration window. There were no arrow signs, no people waiting in line, no visual cues that could’ve possibly clued me in to this location. Somehow, I was supposed to know about this beforehand. Could you blame me? I barely had enough energy to go exploring off on my own, let alone in an unspecificied place without a known destination.</p><p>That problem settled with, I was then led to an examination room where my blood was taken. Not a good sign when they lead with that. I’d had blood drawn before, and wasn’t surprised when an attachment was placed on the back of my palm for repeat usage. Unfortunately, the nurse didn’t do a good job in locating the vein, and touching it caused pain, not the first unpleasant sensation I would have all day.</p><p>That taken care of, I had a heart test by having multiple sticky electrodes attached to my chest and then wires attached to the metal parts. Then after that, I was given a medical package and told what to do with it, which my Live Transcribe failed to convey accurately. I was struggling to understand the instructions the nurse was giving me when my brother showed up. I simultaneously have both the best and worst timing in the world. On the very day my integration officer went on vacation, I contracted shingles when he would’ve been helpful to have around. And now my brother just returned from a vacation of his own, showing up to help. It was a good thing he came when he did, since he was better able to explain just what I was supposed to do with the supplies I was given.</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Take the packaged sanitary napkin and wash my penis with it.</li><li>Pee out half of my urine out and capture the remaining half in the container.</li><li>Put the urine container back in the plastic bag.</li></ol><p></p><p>Apart from a surprise visit from an unsuspecting nurse who opened the bathroom door not expecting anyone using the faculties to lock beforehand, the procedure went surprisingly well, considering I hardly had anything to eat or drink all day.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-Qa2WnLb5n0rp9Hqf0aUtUlnDBG9P0up3TklcKe6Ld0Bk-Y-z2tF7msw5kfjKr8yXDFrNcPuyMi5F-ipj9wC8llwXUILrYIVBvY9jccyXXORudAubxz935pm5w_zS-sDHQ-_BV_2pW4w1sLpbq4Ml9F6zY5cU0Ffq8JMW83orOADVz5nCmHMLQ9ZKg/s1047/HospitalEpileptic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1047" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-Qa2WnLb5n0rp9Hqf0aUtUlnDBG9P0up3TklcKe6Ld0Bk-Y-z2tF7msw5kfjKr8yXDFrNcPuyMi5F-ipj9wC8llwXUILrYIVBvY9jccyXXORudAubxz935pm5w_zS-sDHQ-_BV_2pW4w1sLpbq4Ml9F6zY5cU0Ffq8JMW83orOADVz5nCmHMLQ9ZKg/w640-h608/HospitalEpileptic.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More successful than this is what I'm saying.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>After that, a wheelchair was presented before me, another foreboding sign. Sure enough, I was wheeled to a hospital room with various occupied beds where I was the youngest resident there. I was told to get out of my clothes and into a hospital gown, a routine I was already familiar with. Various sticky pads were attached to my chest area to monitor my heart rate, a monitor strapped to my finger and an automatic blood pressure device wrapped around my arm that filled up every hour and three minutes. (<i>I timed it</i>) The first time it activated, I had no idea what was waking me up from my beauty sleep until I figured out the likely cause..</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8RlbYDCScXY50-wLtM-aPQp7IgUFt1x64L7zss8MIuKWj4pHvB09VKUQ57Eb4Ypfxx10Z3CC7k8Sjl_zB_d55jNSK7MzDFW-zQBKjQBTQuaqsdrOpAzafPRdf6Sc7j3NP0ts294ZxtdBUQ4415nW4TE1Ne9onlHnvVS9-JV55x-k5oR7MRGcPnV0JA/s2000/HospitalSelfie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8RlbYDCScXY50-wLtM-aPQp7IgUFt1x64L7zss8MIuKWj4pHvB09VKUQ57Eb4Ypfxx10Z3CC7k8Sjl_zB_d55jNSK7MzDFW-zQBKjQBTQuaqsdrOpAzafPRdf6Sc7j3NP0ts294ZxtdBUQ4415nW4TE1Ne9onlHnvVS9-JV55x-k5oR7MRGcPnV0JA/w480-h640/HospitalSelfie.jpg" width="480" /></a></p><p>I had this photo taken for posterity. You can’t tell under my mask, but I’m putting on a brave face of solidarity, trying to look pleasant through all the unpleasantlessness. It’s a wonder I was still capable of rational thought considering how little I’d slept.</p><p>I was drifting in and out of consciousness, having mini-dream states where scenes I was familiar with were playing Mad Libs with their nouns and verbs. The only one I can recall for sure was from a Richie Rich comic where Cadbury instigated a frightening dictatorship where everybody HAD to be thin, including animals that were naturally obese such as elephants, pigs and whales; “Even their tornados are rainbows!”</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5X9-EmWVEuf9S7UUlrnqOR7yU1ta-FC5ztg9JTRTyJKpNNy_yTtSwFbmr0qo9Ce-Q8Ahsd2xIUNiXGRtllYrm3h8Y6D7QtvSxO318O0PSoyLe6P08IdeKShfp7oqJJ9RuBf-7HBaBoAPjWblaHavBMMcVl9RopVlSawHqf_kTihFpXrSNQQ3ZLnaGmA/s912/HospitalRichie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="912" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5X9-EmWVEuf9S7UUlrnqOR7yU1ta-FC5ztg9JTRTyJKpNNy_yTtSwFbmr0qo9Ce-Q8Ahsd2xIUNiXGRtllYrm3h8Y6D7QtvSxO318O0PSoyLe6P08IdeKShfp7oqJJ9RuBf-7HBaBoAPjWblaHavBMMcVl9RopVlSawHqf_kTihFpXrSNQQ3ZLnaGmA/w640-h470/HospitalRichie.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Look, </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>any </b></i><span style="text-align: left;">description of a typical Richie Rich plot is going to sound unhinged, no matter what.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The nurse told me to breath in and out, or as the French vermicular put it, inspiration and expiration. Very innocuous in their home language, but vaguely threatening in my first language. After all, wasn’t this how Kafka died? (<i>More from tuberculous, which is treatable now, but still</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiStV2taJADL3Wgulc0IFYAapWaQOuYWSMbR1aDD3DxjGoG-zXbG-nDZSARdQqqlkHFf215ddtBtNJwt2APqF3Z8s_SxAcY0v2MBhJ4Q3dbr8QWtys70TPeWwKc7qTkLxWdFk4EGIenkWj9u_DiZrgw5yYNjFXy4L0SMYXoAS4_PUa6LvO6hxx71GLRrQ/s661/HospitalHermanBreathe.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiStV2taJADL3Wgulc0IFYAapWaQOuYWSMbR1aDD3DxjGoG-zXbG-nDZSARdQqqlkHFf215ddtBtNJwt2APqF3Z8s_SxAcY0v2MBhJ4Q3dbr8QWtys70TPeWwKc7qTkLxWdFk4EGIenkWj9u_DiZrgw5yYNjFXy4L0SMYXoAS4_PUa6LvO6hxx71GLRrQ/w363-h400/HospitalHermanBreathe.gif" width="363" /></a></p><p>Around 19:00, after lying for 2 hours and only having sporadic check-ins by passing nurses, I began to feel that I wouldn’t be able to volunteer tomorrow. The whole time there, I kept a hardcover book and my cellphone firmly pressed against my left side to reduce the pain in my side. I mostly spent my time shifting sides, which wasn’t easy with all the wires attached to my body. I also took my socks off which were starting to feel uncomfortable. My brother didn't have anyplace to sit down on, since there weren't any visitor chairs in the emergency room, so he opted to sit on the side of my bed instead.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8URPfGWd_g2uTkm1thLcG9E2c6UMhTut_BzzyvJ8m-mkgre2r_JE_UNZI57R8H2N_0XmZP4-9bivnb9RtgSCOp8g8YizQ-E8paaK9X30RJ-T3_Sm_kttDBdUBusVnHz7SddY9ffrZElLcWHjjztGxHwSxDdDr95yHcpqTddiZgr-_mm8_xwWkw7tjQ/s497/HospitalHermanTV.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8URPfGWd_g2uTkm1thLcG9E2c6UMhTut_BzzyvJ8m-mkgre2r_JE_UNZI57R8H2N_0XmZP4-9bivnb9RtgSCOp8g8YizQ-E8paaK9X30RJ-T3_Sm_kttDBdUBusVnHz7SddY9ffrZElLcWHjjztGxHwSxDdDr95yHcpqTddiZgr-_mm8_xwWkw7tjQ/w363-h400/HospitalHermanTV.gif" width="363" /></a></p><p>The early diagnosis made was that I was likely suffering from gastronomic infection. I was certain that my intestine was blocked, which would explain my localized pain and lack of appetite. (<i>Though it didn’t explain why I could manage to drink but not eat</i>)</p><p>While I was resting up, my mother was frantically keeping up to date, looking for someone who could stay with me overnight, but neither my integration officer or any of the volunteer organizations were able to scrounge someone up. She was willing to pay for someone who could come on short notice. A Filipina worker was suggested then rejected because of her accent. The Pharmacy Lady from the volunteer organization could’ve offered to come, but she was still needed to help with the mailing. There wasn’t a social worker at the hospital, but the staff said they’d do their best to accommodate to my communicative needs. Anybody who could’ve come would likely only be available tomorrow.</p><p>Around 21:00, my brother was going to my place to pick up my meds and any other medication I had lying around in case they needed to ask for my medical history. But I was worried about being unable to talk to the doctors without assistance, so using a pen and notepad, I wrote the following instructions:</p><p>“<i>Before talking, let patient wear hearing aids & glasses first (w) Live Transcribe.</i>”</p><p>It was the best I could do writing in mid-air with a tube in my dominant hand. My brother did a more legible and concise transcript. You can compare the two side-by-side.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOlHRGtvCMvXOACbhIXp4ecH5OB3LGT3begdNDg7V9Q1-w5wLGe3U95_w8YMb7GYJ-uzl6mhNI5sDeqIRXnArfC2EK6ngT3g_6LOy5sNyWlGqPEh4C-_Dq22awD9CPcI08b4gHxoiUDIGRyRnYe-SyUoXDA3yS393Hvji3Ycpqfxzt_ScIeAoRfWBZg/s1867/HospitalNotes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="1867" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOlHRGtvCMvXOACbhIXp4ecH5OB3LGT3begdNDg7V9Q1-w5wLGe3U95_w8YMb7GYJ-uzl6mhNI5sDeqIRXnArfC2EK6ngT3g_6LOy5sNyWlGqPEh4C-_Dq22awD9CPcI08b4gHxoiUDIGRyRnYe-SyUoXDA3yS393Hvji3Ycpqfxzt_ScIeAoRfWBZg/w640-h410/HospitalNotes.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>I was worried about asking for water, since it didn’t feel right paging for a minor issue. Fortunately, I was able to get attention from a passing nurse and made a request. The water was thankfully cold with a straw, which saved on possible spillage. I also put my socks back on.</p><p>It was around 22:00 when the lights finally went out, which came as a great relief to my senses, and I was able to relax my eyes and get some well-deserved sleep. My brother also returned with the necessary supplies, including a phone charger, which would come in handy because using my Live Transcribe drained my battery notoriously fast, and was already at half-power. However, after plugging it on the side socket near the electronics hooked up to me, he wanted to recharge his phone first, since his was nearly dead.</p><p>There were worries about my medication, because of the possibility of it being stolen at the hospital, a very real concern. It was suggested that instead of bringing the whole package, just take the boxes and only bring a few pills at a time. They couldn’t find the cream for my shingles, and that was because it was in my backpack.</p><p>While my brother was looking for my pills, I had another involuntary reaction from my lower end. Jubilant, I sent a text proudly saying, “Had my 2nd fart!” This was welcome, since it meant my body was expelling gas, and might not be gastronomic after all.</p><p>Around 23:00 when the staff rotation changed, I got a welcome news that there would be another test given that would pump radioactive lighting fluid inside me that would trace my blood flow. I was aware of what this would entail, and after being wheeled into the scanning room, I was prepared for the stinging sensation in my wrist, but what else was new? There was a slight hurdle when I had trouble communicating with the radiologists, but the matter was over with relatively quickly, and I was wheeled back, though there was a temporary scare when we were briefly locked outside the emergency room.</p><p>After that test, there was talk of how I could possibly get home by myself, since my brother would have to leave soon, and there wasn’t any nearby public transportation. The possibility was raised of me either being transferred via ambulance or taxi, both of which were ruled out, since I’d need to be accompanied, and I’d never used a taxi before. It looked like I’d be discharged around midnight, the perfect cap to a season of <b>24</b>.</p><p>Then 00:00 rolled around, and the doctor returned and said that I’d have to be transferred to another hospital for my kidney. Okay, clearly we’re going into extra innings now. Apparently, my kidney had suffered something like a heart attack, and half its blood flow had been cut off. They weren’t able to cure my kidney with the supplies they had, so I had to go elsewhere that would be better suited for my needs.</p><p>The hospital I was in was in danger of closing due to the lack of medical staff. You know what would help support the declining numbers of those in health profession? Hiring immigrants who weren’t exclusively immersed in French language. Immigrants who might be reluctant to arrive because of an ineffective racially motivated dress code targeting them. And letting English students complete their nursing lessons in a province that’s running low on burnt-out nurses to take advantage of.</p><p>The doctor who diagnosed me was impressed by my ability to be articulate in explaining my symptoms and admired how I was able to understand him very easily. I said that was only possible because he was very expressive in his speech even though he had a beard, and I was worried the new doctors I’d be seeing wouldn’t be as understandable.</p><p>The ambulance ride that transferred me was nerve-wracking, since there was a loose strap that kept swinging side to side, which in addition to the bumpy driving, didn’t do wonders for my already aggravated stomach. In addition, I was completely unaware that my stuff was packed underneath the stretcher. No one bothered to tell me this, and I thought everything was being relocated elsewhere.</p><p>This was what I was most scared of. That I would have to fend for myself in a hospital all by myself with no one to assist me. My brother wouldn’t be able to come along - he’d already used up his familiar visitation time to see me past normal hours, and had work tomorrow.</p><p>Upon arrival at the 2nd hospital at 2:00, it took roughly 20 minutes for the doctor to go over the notes and examine my symptoms. I looked up the symptoms of kidney failure, and it seemed to match better than the previous hypothesis of gastro. One of the symptoms was swollen legs, which could explain why my extra-large socks always felt so tight.</p><p>Once I was formally admitted, I was moved to an observation room where the heart monitors were attached to my chest once again. I explained my needs for clear and concise communication to understand what would be done to me, despite my fatigue. Most worrying was that I didn’t have access to my phone charger, which was under my bed, and there was no nearby outlet to charge my phone.</p><p>Further tests were done, repeating the same tests I’d had at the 1st hospital, including a second Covid test, and I was given material for an urine test consisting of a container and a cardboard bedpan when I told them that I always peed sitting down. Upon hearing that, the doctor went away, leaving me alone to contemplate whether I’d said something funny, bracing myself for potential surgery.</p><p>At 3:30, the specialist and urologist said they checked my kidneys, and my blood was running fine. They didn't see a problem, despite my not having an appetite. They gave me some unexpected news regarding the cure for my condition. Upon hearing this, I asked again to make sure.</p><p>“<b><u>Aspirin??</u></b> That doesn’t <i>sound </i>right.”</p><p>“No, it’s what you need to take for the rest of your life. It’ll help relieve your stress.”</p><p>They gave me the option to either stay in the hospital until the morning or take a taxi. At first, I thought I might as well stay the night, but a few minutes after they left the room, I had a change of heart and opted to take their taxi offer up.</p><p>But first, I had to get their attention first. I was in a dim room that faced a glaringly bright office space of computers with only a single dinky movable screen to block the light, and I was feeling the urge to pee. I tentatively removed the heart monitor from my finger. This was a calculated gamble on my part. If there was something wrong with me, they would come running. And if there *<b>wasn’t</b>* something wrong with me, they wouldn’t come running. Seeing no outside reaction, I proceeded to remove the other wires connected to my chest that were keeping me down. Still no one showed up even as all my monitors were flatlining. Freed of my restraints, I edged myself over the side of the bed and made my way to the cardboard bedpan and proceeded to relieve myself, only to realize that I didn’t leave enough for an urine sample even though they said I didn’t need to.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeFDKj8BCGw4whHOH4c2Qp2zCy02mmAUSr39v4oAbOodIxKcvfvGCThjiAbu2vsthn0fR_6bGBoTh6l-TDA45i3WHaF4F7AOl9jq5rDE6Es0WxOdJkIUF0KAZexoBbihPKUJUvasDrfyZnk6-AFxxv5ovcmVlk9Ud1y-8MRnFA8uRj8idUhKCZzJKPQ/s597/HospitalHermanFlatline.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeFDKj8BCGw4whHOH4c2Qp2zCy02mmAUSr39v4oAbOodIxKcvfvGCThjiAbu2vsthn0fR_6bGBoTh6l-TDA45i3WHaF4F7AOl9jq5rDE6Es0WxOdJkIUF0KAZexoBbihPKUJUvasDrfyZnk6-AFxxv5ovcmVlk9Ud1y-8MRnFA8uRj8idUhKCZzJKPQ/w301-h400/HospitalHermanFlatline.gif" width="301" /></a></p><p>I also got the opportunity to get my stuff that was packed underneath my stretcher, and saw that it was slightly squashed when my bed was lowered. Thankfully, nothing important was badly bent. Now that I could move freely, I didn’t have to worry about charging my phone. Upon getting dressed, the doctors saw my efforts to make things more comfortable for myself by moving the screen, and congratulated my ability to figure things out for myself. None of this had been adequately explained to me at the time. I knew I should be proud for navigating this independently, but the truth is, I had a lot of help. I like to think I’m reasonably self-sufficient, but when placed in an actual life & death situation, I’m absolutely hopeless.</p><p>With the doctors present, we went to the effort of removing the taped heart monitor implements that were taped to my chest, including the annoying blood vessel sticking out of the back of my palm. Removing the electrodes was more painful because of all the hair involved.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-BonIENGDwEowMI6WAWUhuRkN3nkeGvZoZsvx6LIjsp4uLNPcjQxRLvvSi737bM95lSseWa-mHUHEReAnTt2tLLkPt7XHvkgXao0B3BDrnB1rkmNmTE7HzaZLkpzr38NvuZ4nRQbqKY09B7KGR6X4qy4MvknwtusSi5_0wC-4VLFFku1atFjYdXULA/s664/HospitalHermanBandaid.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-BonIENGDwEowMI6WAWUhuRkN3nkeGvZoZsvx6LIjsp4uLNPcjQxRLvvSi737bM95lSseWa-mHUHEReAnTt2tLLkPt7XHvkgXao0B3BDrnB1rkmNmTE7HzaZLkpzr38NvuZ4nRQbqKY09B7KGR6X4qy4MvknwtusSi5_0wC-4VLFFku1atFjYdXULA/w361-h400/HospitalHermanBandaid.gif" width="361" /></a></p><p>A hospital taxi was called for me, and the assistant waited beside me for their arrival. At first, I thought the first car was mine, but it turned out not to be the case. It gave me time to inspect my surroundings, making sure that I had everything I needed. And then I realized, </p><p>“<b>HEY!</b> I never got my prescription!”</p><p>This would be a sore point, getting in the taxi and finding out at the last minute I’d forgotten a piece of paper that could help relieve my pain. The assistant quickly made his way back, leaving me to wait alone once again. Upon returning, he presented me the valuable piece of paper I desperately needed.</p><p>Getting in the taxi was my first time and an expensive fare, but I was beyond caring at that point. All I wanted was to go home.</p><p>When I finally made it to the sanctuary of my place, the first thing I did was fire up my computer to check up the stuff I hadn’t bookmarked on my phone. I also sent a message to my mother informing her that I was going home. I got a reply saying I should stay at the hospital, since I wasn’t well. I apologized, saying I’d already left. She later got in contact with the 2nd hospital doctors, and got the diagnosis that’d eluded me. I had to get an official diagnosis through second-hand sources who would then explain it back to me in terms I could understand. </p><p>Apparently, I’d contracted <b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400519/">renal artery dissection</a></b>, a very rare ailment. My condition was a blocked abnormality on my blood vessel that normally feeds my kidney, killing 30% of my left kidney. There were very few observable cases of this occurring in the world. There was no known cure, so there was nothing they could do for me except prescribe some rest. What I had to do was take a baby aspirin every day to thin my blood and expel the blood clots in my kidney through my pee. Leave it to me to beat the odds yet again and catch <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-kawasaki-myself.html"><i>another </i>rare disease</a>.</p><p>It seems that my health was making up for lost time in my parent’s absence, giving me a double whammy one after the other. The ironic part is that when I dared to weigh myself after recovering from my shingles, I was dismayed to see that I’d hardly lost any weight over the course of my treatment. At the time, I thought if I had a way to turn my appetite off, I could lose weight faster. All of a sudden, I had no appetite, and was losing weight at an astronomical rate. Not having an appetite was a freeing yet frightening thing.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7JasA-CbAy5xCEY96R8cgcNF3TbC-co1CAHKJbaoAxSuCevqnrmknCk6dZgUy-ykS1XdBeZU9zeRdS71lA_09XOdn9UJIQLx7sjv9Wy18N10OtdV8fZXBiZtyNSh_Cyee-esTYgxAYxuc1Q2m3ua0dU4V73iSaFRUocH0qTWLh-QVGopOg-TYnllkA/s879/HospitalHermanWeight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="879" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7JasA-CbAy5xCEY96R8cgcNF3TbC-co1CAHKJbaoAxSuCevqnrmknCk6dZgUy-ykS1XdBeZU9zeRdS71lA_09XOdn9UJIQLx7sjv9Wy18N10OtdV8fZXBiZtyNSh_Cyee-esTYgxAYxuc1Q2m3ua0dU4V73iSaFRUocH0qTWLh-QVGopOg-TYnllkA/w640-h598/HospitalHermanWeight.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The vascular surgeon will follow up with me in about 2 months. There should be no long-term consequences. This condition might be associated with high blood pressure. It shouldn’t affect my kidney function.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-46591217035375620382023-02-12T21:55:00.000-08:002023-02-12T21:55:40.188-08:00Weird Romance: Cathy and Alex’s Wedding<p>Following up from my previous mega-post on <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2021/02/weird-romance-cathy-alex.html">Cathy’s relationship with Alex</a>, which I’d been meaning to do, but never got around to. Well, no time like the present. Especially in the month of mid-February. And it only took 2 years to get to this point.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For those who forgot, or don’t want to go to the trouble of refreshing their memories, Cathy was going out with a gym instructor who was much younger than her. Despite the age gap, they had a healthier relationship than she’d ever had with Irving. Even so, she still had misgivings, as they didn’t have much in common. And it all ended with Alex proposing to her on Valentine’s Day with no set-up or foreshadowing. Cathy naturally didn’t accept the terms gracefully, and reluctantly bowed out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though she broke the proposal off, she still felt affection for Alex, and there was the occasional reference to the man, she didn’t hear from him until six years later when he became socially relevant again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before we get to the main event, I might as well show a few more instances of the ever-elusive Emerson, who I presented in my last post, and found some more comics of the pre-Alex-like boyfriend.</p><p>Despite his brief appearance, Emerson was significant enough to make an appearance in an early Cathy book, <b><u>What's a nice single girl doing with a double bed?!</u></b> as part of the cast introduction.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichcpHSGsWVuX8yUZ1cSB-MwIEGwGOSNnbeC-crdrssfUcU1ATe4KOlhg1QwyeQkW5Whc3GEP6D79dXJR24awpcbqiNVxPA70Mz7qTrUHCmlrjhEZFd0GGDTtKv0R2zctHy7sI2bdWTIqfw8v3Bl-4cL135LTywIzoDpNai3ekP3-1G-AiC2mM26EVmQ/s737/CathyEmersonOldSuitor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Also included is Emerson's only known appearance within a Sunday comic - a rarity within a rarity.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyKlFlwwyLuJCRwvPtFu0E4cS5x6UYL6GS9uAvn88LXbAfQi2Fl2x1S-pFYSMNqzAuz3oCu8ypSgGQE3vB4rDk_-DdQ4XhoGrlGWTcHhbA7rqwXVkjRmOtPG2ryK1EEyhD6ttNSmgoOd8CZDljDYKjCfr9BXFOcPSKVJLoovjOITB8aqW5RlR7k1KOQ/s835/CathyEmersonOldSunday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="835" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyKlFlwwyLuJCRwvPtFu0E4cS5x6UYL6GS9uAvn88LXbAfQi2Fl2x1S-pFYSMNqzAuz3oCu8ypSgGQE3vB4rDk_-DdQ4XhoGrlGWTcHhbA7rqwXVkjRmOtPG2ryK1EEyhD6ttNSmgoOd8CZDljDYKjCfr9BXFOcPSKVJLoovjOITB8aqW5RlR7k1KOQ/w640-h448/CathyEmersonOldSunday.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Interestingly enough, during these early strips there was the brief introduction of <i><b>another</b></i> Alex, completely different from our Alex.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoTAj5vVZV6icmXWjMYx1Vy-hq7j7NIWaIh8VWv5XbAktvVtmkdRSLx8ke6j7WcExm6OyIvOD1GrkbY83O-XO2NHUu3qGKoMUqZJ4HAvY8zUUPiFOEK2tViUA9HQ9hguVgb7bGdmFmIfm5anHWFsAs8t7yKWJCuZ-h1V5w2JdcV9bSYdEBTTZhIzVAA/s879/CathyEmersonOldAlex1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Now that we've gotten through the preliminaries, it's time to move on to the good stuff.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4h915N-q9idKhK3ujswzkmsAf7zpDg94w9x3AP3shM4POVNad5yoQO-XdaeOBPYeloWmU0PYsNp-HDhhU2tckpt3c1tDT7HvRRTgQyv6L_N3WacGT-kpg1lRYrZlRNYpHT04zKkwnZGkZjDI2barqobg7uy9m4I54LjfnpM5hqZZuEJU9DBMuDO7oDQ/s1085/CathyAlex1995-05-05.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="1085" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4h915N-q9idKhK3ujswzkmsAf7zpDg94w9x3AP3shM4POVNad5yoQO-XdaeOBPYeloWmU0PYsNp-HDhhU2tckpt3c1tDT7HvRRTgQyv6L_N3WacGT-kpg1lRYrZlRNYpHT04zKkwnZGkZjDI2barqobg7uy9m4I54LjfnpM5hqZZuEJU9DBMuDO7oDQ/w640-h212/CathyAlex1995-05-05.png" width="640" /></a></div><div>This continues right after where I left off, so in case you haven't clicked the link earlier, here's a <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2021/02/weird-romance-cathy-alex.html">reminder</a>.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0dBtDTKzORHQXR94fBUNBgeBtVEolMTGtn0RWP9wW5aFSiYLHNM2dCy-dJ-QBTwZM1gcdC96Pv2-ntA9KHIEbe5J9gOq1rbR4cYJpDIwhf-9xNl4hyTEiRj7WfJMTuOPgDH1Hop95IPckaxVOEGFBHGVkShscCID1Yv6F65577P7Z4I9VICilSxUFA/s904/CathyAlex1995-07-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">After the wedding, we get one last bit of closure ending in the only Cathy way it possibly could - eating a pie with Mom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3N7i2X3hJmAf5cfjPvJqxLgmenbyeSBMlZufSWx2-uTJhR1HTZ9wO53i_GyWC7OamCKdnBcWf7gGYf5cKK6O1L3GGD6rnQMz-XOWeqvfZD9tRFQCRS8iI9wehtjjKXLJGThk6XurNT4ybXiMwCTLDUqITkLdRyMKKgYVw7LxjkALSqY7_Tn80uY5UmQ/s900/CathyAlex2001-10-03.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3N7i2X3hJmAf5cfjPvJqxLgmenbyeSBMlZufSWx2-uTJhR1HTZ9wO53i_GyWC7OamCKdnBcWf7gGYf5cKK6O1L3GGD6rnQMz-XOWeqvfZD9tRFQCRS8iI9wehtjjKXLJGThk6XurNT4ybXiMwCTLDUqITkLdRyMKKgYVw7LxjkALSqY7_Tn80uY5UmQ/w640-h204/CathyAlex2001-10-03.gif" width="640" /></a></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-60434010302495918112022-11-11T19:15:00.002-08:002022-11-19T23:14:17.440-08:00How Embarrassing...?<p>One of the first writing assignments I was ever given in High School was to write about my most embarrassing moment. I just wrote down something along the likes of, “<i>Having to write this stupid infantile meaningless (etc.)... essay</i>.” It was a litany of double-spaced synonyms stretching down the page, and after handing it in, I was told to redo it properly.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpW9wqhaAh1aD3FUGlT_o5hvQLi9_SzS7n4HhxsPYIxWj9fJMeHwGTQZptzwYrFRV22XfTZUZb_botjjCyKEr4hihkAdJMyvSydSwx1bdjfYS2ApbD-ulQ3g0LRTj1N-aaAIp3vOc2lCuuKq53xUQaxyrtxSbT0i1DENfzhZAtDuV7b-qPvZBlGElnQ/s607/EmbarassFbofw.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="607" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpW9wqhaAh1aD3FUGlT_o5hvQLi9_SzS7n4HhxsPYIxWj9fJMeHwGTQZptzwYrFRV22XfTZUZb_botjjCyKEr4hihkAdJMyvSydSwx1bdjfYS2ApbD-ulQ3g0LRTj1N-aaAIp3vOc2lCuuKq53xUQaxyrtxSbT0i1DENfzhZAtDuV7b-qPvZBlGElnQ/w640-h256/EmbarassFbofw.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>It wasn’t that I <i>didn’t </i>want to write up something personally embarrassing to me. It was that I <u><b>couldn’t </b></u>remember one. To me, being unable to think up anything was embarrassing in itself.</p><p>I couldn’t remember anything that could be considered embarrassing, so I made something up that could be considered embarrassing to other people. <b><u>That</u></b> essay was accepted and praised for being more honest. But I can’t recall a word I wrote.</p><p>I’ve never been accustomed to feeling embarrassed. Being self-conscious about being seen doing something in public, sure. Being uncomfortable about reading / watching something that makes me emotionally insecure, sure. But, not typical things that would normally embarrass other people. I didn’t mind when my Mom showed up at school to give presentations and help out. She was looking out and supporting me.</p><p>As a kid, I would be late for when the school bus came to pick me up, being more preoccupied with the TV. At first, Mom had me go to school in my pyjamas, *certain* that the shame would shake me out of my complacency. It didn’t.</p><p>I only changed my habits when I went to school without having lunch prepared, and then wasn’t allowed to have any food. The teachers had been warned beforehand, and were told not to share their lunches with me, no matter how much I complained, even as they agonized over my reactions, but my Mom said it was necessary. When I came home that day, I was practically <i>starving</i>, and my Mom said something along the likes of, “<i>If you had been prepared before the bus came, you would’ve had lunch</i>.”</p><p>Since then, I’ve always made it a point to be on time for anything.</p><p>It might’ve seemed borderline abusive at the time, but she was just applying <a href="https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/logical-consequences">Logical Consequences</a>, which are different from <a href="https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/natural-consequences">Natural Consequences</a>, where a child learns things after making silly mistakes and figuring things out, which is pretty much the mainstay of children’s TV episodes. Once the child realizes that certain actions result in certain consequences, they’ll be better prepared to avoid doing that again. But other times, there are moments when simply learning the lesson afterwards doesn’t work, or won’t stick without outside intervention. </p><p>My main problem was that I never learned these potentially reputation-saving lessons until long after the fact.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyFhRVpqpFJAvPvQIXHx5grIZnRN6rQtnNh51v4wFgSpkaRkGm9GAyPx_yiJjhOv5PAh7Z2uNHMj4SDPHNZRMFNm-1bew7K81ozQ2ScO_FJdYSIu_8Sx7IMy0tst0--XTQrMg_nIpTyIVvb0yZrd87m1HlFxBmRRFLXMZ7VtSe-ZD7j0_G8bCkZFQtA/s900/EmbarassPeanuts.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="900" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyFhRVpqpFJAvPvQIXHx5grIZnRN6rQtnNh51v4wFgSpkaRkGm9GAyPx_yiJjhOv5PAh7Z2uNHMj4SDPHNZRMFNm-1bew7K81ozQ2ScO_FJdYSIu_8Sx7IMy0tst0--XTQrMg_nIpTyIVvb0yZrd87m1HlFxBmRRFLXMZ7VtSe-ZD7j0_G8bCkZFQtA/w640-h160/EmbarassPeanuts.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>When most other students would have been embarrassed at the concept of sex ed, I just engaged the lessons with the same clinical detachment as any other class, having been familiar with the source material, thanks to books like <b>Where Did I Come From?</b> and <b>What’s Happening to Me?</b>, which explained body functions like the most normal thing in the world with silly drawings.</p><p>That in turn led to me being called the 12-letter ‘M’ word. (<i>No, the other one</i>)</p><p>One time in class, the teacher gave a question. I don’t remember the question, let alone what subject we were talking about. It could’ve been ‘<i>things that were once thought to be harmful</i>’, but I remember the answer I piped up with, which was, “Like Masturbating?” which elicited tons of laughs from all the students around me. I had no idea what was so funny, and it had to be explained that even though the text said the act wasn’t something to be ashamed of, what I said wasn’t the kind of thing normally said in public conversation. For about a year, I was paired up with a lab partner who disparagingly nickednamed me ‘Masturbation’.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5im8sUikYEt9rT83zTCdftxoADGW6FmoGgO3S_xNoiCHitpd0hIZUfSnkHgmY1da69CdEqfr-B96Nb5jFyAUsDliCYAL4oDPPF11mD8RJfr_assvahg7xFzs_NKQewn1OKwXlJo81-WRi6pyMYS_XVHXJTEgOLsCKdFJ75I5HB1DbCrgPNk5FGg07Q/s1637/EmbarassMastur.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1637" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5im8sUikYEt9rT83zTCdftxoADGW6FmoGgO3S_xNoiCHitpd0hIZUfSnkHgmY1da69CdEqfr-B96Nb5jFyAUsDliCYAL4oDPPF11mD8RJfr_assvahg7xFzs_NKQewn1OKwXlJo81-WRi6pyMYS_XVHXJTEgOLsCKdFJ75I5HB1DbCrgPNk5FGg07Q/w640-h342/EmbarassMastur.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Even though the act was on my mind, having it continuously pointed out and reminded really rankled on me. I couldn’t understand why these High School teens were so utterly infantile about basic sexuality. (<i>Looking back on my thoughts and actions now, that should’ve been a big honking clue</i>)</p><p>To this day, I have reoccurring dreams of being naked at school, but in these scenarios, I’m more concerned about completing my 3-month project due in 2 weeks that I haven’t even started and didn’t even know about.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGB2y-944jtt6nAi-Ro_KI054l-UGB2TLSU4vNrdSZhnVLvYXwVtHsW0lONSXysRWy6Erp3RxUWeOqZ71Fh3Nk8SW_UUtMJ5efVGBbi18FblRJkSQTT_hf20YG0sJc26WM80ZmfVvhp0JKbruCWXlwVLWQHPj1D3nE1LmV-Z7DsEEvkEmiDh-tHjUrnA/s1322/EmbarassRarebit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="998" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGB2y-944jtt6nAi-Ro_KI054l-UGB2TLSU4vNrdSZhnVLvYXwVtHsW0lONSXysRWy6Erp3RxUWeOqZ71Fh3Nk8SW_UUtMJ5efVGBbi18FblRJkSQTT_hf20YG0sJc26WM80ZmfVvhp0JKbruCWXlwVLWQHPj1D3nE1LmV-Z7DsEEvkEmiDh-tHjUrnA/w483-h640/EmbarassRarebit.jpg" width="483" /></a></p><p>I also never understood what was supposed to be so funny about men wearing women’s clothes.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUC2DkzX4eVU522MBGAuOwWcHZpR8CWzm2YVeLpWjhujJXgmSy9UxmPyrxATaKgu2Apx_A2kldcg9ZmxPOrwi9bml6TImkEGs1cMZK6_BClhqUvDt0FPhlQooDRWZxq32ZKNYf1BRIId-7BHLaChRCjtNuNXruwShTYVeDrGogAJFKT4HI8Vq-WzarQ/s1652/EmbarassBlondie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="1150" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUC2DkzX4eVU522MBGAuOwWcHZpR8CWzm2YVeLpWjhujJXgmSy9UxmPyrxATaKgu2Apx_A2kldcg9ZmxPOrwi9bml6TImkEGs1cMZK6_BClhqUvDt0FPhlQooDRWZxq32ZKNYf1BRIId-7BHLaChRCjtNuNXruwShTYVeDrGogAJFKT4HI8Vq-WzarQ/w446-h640/EmbarassBlondie.jpg" width="446" /></a></p><p>If it was okay for women to wear men’s clothes, then shouldn’t the reverse be true? Just wear whatever’s comfortable! If the clothes you want to wear are on the other side of the rack, that shouldn’t be a deterrent, just as long as it fits. </p><p>I don’t really care about fashion or style, just function. My choices are fairly basic. I prefer to wear soft clothes with seamless seams, little social commentary (allegiance to specific sports teams or cartoons are visually distracting) I’ve often had to have the holes in my clothes pointed out, since I’m so used to feeling comfortable, and don’t really care about how I’m perceived.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqITwgyzkPFYXrgwflmTolwodf4StfJ_HItWVewuC6tzMrXdjv3HdYTrRYvId-zRz6hgi4q6DJ6En05jVORyHmsmq6Xy0DhsyKb3wW6PPwq8pfUQk2GrLvrhi5ya4XOqSCWOK3EfhN2SYXz2QVOX5kArfyGkMgRhkpF_hjuKDL1nkw6V12KASgeuR0Q/s1353/EmbarassSergio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="919" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqITwgyzkPFYXrgwflmTolwodf4StfJ_HItWVewuC6tzMrXdjv3HdYTrRYvId-zRz6hgi4q6DJ6En05jVORyHmsmq6Xy0DhsyKb3wW6PPwq8pfUQk2GrLvrhi5ya4XOqSCWOK3EfhN2SYXz2QVOX5kArfyGkMgRhkpF_hjuKDL1nkw6V12KASgeuR0Q/w434-h640/EmbarassSergio.jpg" width="434" /></a></p><p>When I started getting more invested in comics that weren’t of the Newspaper variety, I was quite enthusiastic about reading digest collections of Richie Rich and Archie. (<i>Don’t sneer - they were extremely popular and cheap</i>) But the more I read them, the more I noticed that there was an element in these comics that kept cropping up that annoyed me. It wasn’t the repetitive plots, the page limitations or the corny jokes. It was that the sentences invariably ended with exclamation points, and there were very few instances where periods were put in place, and that put me off. (<i>Question marks didn’t count</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRr2GSoKOMH64oxEJ7TIiI0TjJgp2zBGuBRiB5drjpnyjX35VMFxCMfvnGsTd4sjGkM38msBtg8DBSJQzYa0aqMGPsINTqa1AxGZg4LWnjPl74kgR1k82y9W7xEkUYpmYaRx_-0XxWUOyW2FIWGZff8X2Ya3BP1savTgO7GEWtG8jwPih7SrC8q0Rvfw/s1072/EmbarassSabrina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="1072" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRr2GSoKOMH64oxEJ7TIiI0TjJgp2zBGuBRiB5drjpnyjX35VMFxCMfvnGsTd4sjGkM38msBtg8DBSJQzYa0aqMGPsINTqa1AxGZg4LWnjPl74kgR1k82y9W7xEkUYpmYaRx_-0XxWUOyW2FIWGZff8X2Ya3BP1savTgO7GEWtG8jwPih7SrC8q0Rvfw/w640-h302/EmbarassSabrina.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>When I become overexposed to media, I become hyper-aware of the limitations of the form, and once notice something that keeps showing up, it becomes impossible to ignore, especially when certain themes start to show up.</p><p>I don’t know when it started (probably around Twilight & the Hunger Games), but I got annoyed when dystopian stories struggling under suppression started shoehorning in romance plots which only served to distract, particularly love triangles that hardly elevated the story, and would’ve benefited from their absence. Why did EVERY story need a forced romance subplot? Being more interested in creating artificial drama than authentic chemistry.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8Nqbdmn0FO9IjmRBdNGXwDRod7TpQJOXo0-YDqI2IKGf_PDbxrcUnLTdB7kCOkLgPq8uIzMVA4gDDpNaZ8LcFZNBr3HfxvJl48pV6lx6_jtze44mNj1hSEnbiHjX3gwQ5DXVkPfqR_jotmsZbQCqG0-HnGaWopP2KbS1y3lCLuyw0N62bwer3KNEtA/s900/EmbarassYAevery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8Nqbdmn0FO9IjmRBdNGXwDRod7TpQJOXo0-YDqI2IKGf_PDbxrcUnLTdB7kCOkLgPq8uIzMVA4gDDpNaZ8LcFZNBr3HfxvJl48pV6lx6_jtze44mNj1hSEnbiHjX3gwQ5DXVkPfqR_jotmsZbQCqG0-HnGaWopP2KbS1y3lCLuyw0N62bwer3KNEtA/w640-h640/EmbarassYAevery.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>I got so annoyed by this that I even parodied this outlook early on in my <a href="https://thisisthey.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/sweet-sick-teen-27/">WebNovel</a>:</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>“There are Romance serials where there’s built-up sexual tension between a guy and a girl who have loads of chemistry. This can last for hundreds of pages. The buildup can be so prolonged that audiences can go into a wild frenzy if the two wind up not getting together. Modern Romances have decided to sidestep this annoying will they/won’t they dilemma by having them kiss early on.”</p><p>The Girl made an overhead sweep with her arm. “Get it out of the way! Once that’s over and done with, the audience that’s been tingling with anticipation can finally concentrate and enjoy the rest of the story without wondering whether these two will hook up or not. It doesn’t matter if they never kiss again, since they’ve already done the dirty deed. You understand?”</p></blockquote><span><!--more--></span><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDvqpf-924WjSGDViII--hj8Eev7wKTA2Il5usOTl1YGwMKs-a7787UXPKItE5gQqcSskRgOwlGM3yGPl2Mu6mEG-03GwbNaxIDpkSFEnCFY_0ztH12KESnzwjuzQhESibRdLyRjXy55cnnjN8CLlJu1eqUOX7SLEB1FQTP0eNBF-14jcxxNW0PU6ow/s858/EmbarassYA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="858" height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDvqpf-924WjSGDViII--hj8Eev7wKTA2Il5usOTl1YGwMKs-a7787UXPKItE5gQqcSskRgOwlGM3yGPl2Mu6mEG-03GwbNaxIDpkSFEnCFY_0ztH12KESnzwjuzQhESibRdLyRjXy55cnnjN8CLlJu1eqUOX7SLEB1FQTP0eNBF-14jcxxNW0PU6ow/w640-h597/EmbarassYA.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Harlequin Romance novels basically get a bad rap for catering to women, basically serving up the same plot, but the same argument doesn’t seem to apply to Hollywood, where EVERY movie was <b>really</b> a Romance movie and were little more than flimsy excuses for executives and directors to openly harass their actresses without fear of retribution, since they’d never work in film ever again if they didn’t ‘<a href="https://www.themarysue.com/we-can-only-stop-sexual-abuse-if-we-admit-its-built-into-the-system-and-that-we-let-it-happen/">play nice</a>’.</p><span><!--more--></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Elia Kazan explained that studio heads “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-casting-couch-perverts-who-peddled-fairy-tales">thought of every film they made, no matter how serious a theme, as a love story</a>.” As a result, he admits cleverly but crudely, “They went by a simple rule and a useful one: Do I want to f*** her?” Kazan justified that disgusting calculus, explaining: “The audience must be interested in the film’s people in this elemental way…. If the producer wasn’t interested in an actress this way, he was convinced an audience wouldn’t be.”</p></blockquote><span><!--more--></span><p>More and more, I found myself looking forward to watching movies for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbch47oz2c">rare instances</a> where the two leads of opposite sex <b><i>didn’t</i></b> wind up romantically entangled. These unicorn moments always came as a pleasant surprise.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfMl0EBzrE8pjpCc5aYS24jMjioBEMHzbEPhhBByofiTMJCPa004bsvx1ZTo9mAxAgZ5HKoqHMjnkgJJid_HGmLiG7WGe_1Zc7kshbFj-2CatnM7q5TwIZjRMnuAnaGSLGWVfuh6lUBtJVDty-RAxpCw2OZfsBpznoV_qx4A0ymfweLAzuxbZqvgUJzA/s970/EmbarassRomance.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="858" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfMl0EBzrE8pjpCc5aYS24jMjioBEMHzbEPhhBByofiTMJCPa004bsvx1ZTo9mAxAgZ5HKoqHMjnkgJJid_HGmLiG7WGe_1Zc7kshbFj-2CatnM7q5TwIZjRMnuAnaGSLGWVfuh6lUBtJVDty-RAxpCw2OZfsBpznoV_qx4A0ymfweLAzuxbZqvgUJzA/w566-h640/EmbarassRomance.jpg" width="566" /></a></p><p>Circling back to my topic earlier, I likewise didn’t see the big deal in seeing affectionate action between my parents. It was casual and often spontaneous. But having to see kissing scenes where none was needed started to annoy me, like it was checking off some bulletpoints on a script.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>“Okay, we’ve got the rising action, the inspirational speech, the teaser for the sequel, the MacGuffin and the saved cat. What’s left?”</p><p>“The cast.”</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvrUZrd2KGA9h1u0DhU28dZ4AOsn4R_S26UW7QCuzrTuxUgc_ICxnUcNfQk67KcN7Ov2dL7RBEzNclIVfbbiIcicmHyqvEkcDQx6bBBaxJY-9ICjbkg40xK3rPO4-S8oWuHOZ9jm032y8Fl82jkWsF_CMODkC5qANFO_qd-qETJSIEsYdGEdrTEuFYeQ/s527/EmbarassFamily.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="499" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvrUZrd2KGA9h1u0DhU28dZ4AOsn4R_S26UW7QCuzrTuxUgc_ICxnUcNfQk67KcN7Ov2dL7RBEzNclIVfbbiIcicmHyqvEkcDQx6bBBaxJY-9ICjbkg40xK3rPO4-S8oWuHOZ9jm032y8Fl82jkWsF_CMODkC5qANFO_qd-qETJSIEsYdGEdrTEuFYeQ/w379-h400/EmbarassFamily.jpg" width="379" /></a></p><p>In the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on">Hays code</a>, any hint of salacious behaviour onscreen that could’ve been possibly hinted at was looked down on, until it was overturned, and then any restrictions on once-taboo subjects was let loose. (<i>Particularly with Some Like it Hot</i>) In that sense of freedom, something was lost. Look at any new pilot of any show, and see how often someone’s making out or getting out of bed with a lover. It’s a fast way to attract attention, but is extremely repetitive and becomes noticeable when overused.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqt4dWqpWd4OBT9IsoYJRorSkMmcqor3kcgqWd6ATDwLmBsnpyuPkk7LKWYFObhLDvMHWOyM4sWFGZxb9TxlfEO3ythS7pVuqLrxGrWECXxjrC32dmpwFz2desa_fuHT6flAXd6aEW2XIy8vbso7QOWN7CIUKId4qB4Hp124tkHsIkO3BPmxgNwOwKQ/s500/EmbarassLiefeld.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="362" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqt4dWqpWd4OBT9IsoYJRorSkMmcqor3kcgqWd6ATDwLmBsnpyuPkk7LKWYFObhLDvMHWOyM4sWFGZxb9TxlfEO3ythS7pVuqLrxGrWECXxjrC32dmpwFz2desa_fuHT6flAXd6aEW2XIy8vbso7QOWN7CIUKId4qB4Hp124tkHsIkO3BPmxgNwOwKQ/w464-h640/EmbarassLiefeld.jpg" width="464" /></a></p><p>I'm reminded of <b>Cinema Paradiso</b>, where censors would routinely edit out any kissing scenes. That was until the house theater burned down, and was replaced with a commercial theater, where the once-deleted scenes were left intact to the delight of the viewers who were constantly denied the pleasure of forbidden voyeurism. The significance of a kiss should be in the rarity it provides. If we’re seeing kisses everywhere, then that significant action becomes lessened when it should be meaningful.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3k4hEU6PDVdPh_jBJJvm0C4uW-mlIs_I9FXfG1bVRkYLHpzPGAlwPXk6VIFyJ8SfCvr4U4Bg0u0ktKNNJcid5YY0Jw-ztbwCe5YnkHbhoTgIny25Yvno_yEDNH5mgeZeHjRnLS_iYulnqcemfUcTaA-2RfD5ksY-5rLesOqM1rT9ReAceu33utVO1aA/s1200/EmbarassAhMm22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="848" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3k4hEU6PDVdPh_jBJJvm0C4uW-mlIs_I9FXfG1bVRkYLHpzPGAlwPXk6VIFyJ8SfCvr4U4Bg0u0ktKNNJcid5YY0Jw-ztbwCe5YnkHbhoTgIny25Yvno_yEDNH5mgeZeHjRnLS_iYulnqcemfUcTaA-2RfD5ksY-5rLesOqM1rT9ReAceu33utVO1aA/w452-h640/EmbarassAhMm22.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><p>The manga <b>Ah... And Mm... Are All She Says</b>, about a socially awkward teenage Hentai artist delved in interesting behind-the-scenes details behind the production of an otherwise shameless industry. And then after 4 volumes with no hint of romance, it ended with a kiss between the two leads. At first, it annoyed me, seeing it resort to such cliched outcomes, but then I thought about it, and was fine with the outcome. Sometimes there are some things that simply can’t be conveyed with words.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ov80_7QoOQgVBGT58tw2sGSnvCroY3QY_iPKg5aiTXR8QJCTPJTXFcRqQOT-R6nFmAYqiORXLOL_3aChaf8hINRQHiIJslndh0EwS9EvpGmE-sA1Gx_GhK4xGisHcGaDmN7GMQ86w-JBREX5BFZ5beePp2wncDdIJ5y1S3zInpcoACBmbkCj93pHbg/s1200/EmbarassAhMm23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="848" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ov80_7QoOQgVBGT58tw2sGSnvCroY3QY_iPKg5aiTXR8QJCTPJTXFcRqQOT-R6nFmAYqiORXLOL_3aChaf8hINRQHiIJslndh0EwS9EvpGmE-sA1Gx_GhK4xGisHcGaDmN7GMQ86w-JBREX5BFZ5beePp2wncDdIJ5y1S3zInpcoACBmbkCj93pHbg/w452-h640/EmbarassAhMm23.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><p>With this, I can rest easy, having produced a more suitable essay on the subject of embarrassment than would've been accepted back then. Though I doubt it'd be easily accepted with the visual aids and sudden change in subject material halfway through. But at least I'll remember this one.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-46665080581754478592022-07-18T23:46:00.000-07:002022-07-18T23:46:28.337-07:00More Mangled Poirotisms<p>I’ve been cleaning out my excess reams of notes, trying to slim down the excess piles of organized mess that’s been lying around for months, years now. They’ve been accumulating to such an excess that I’ve been ritually moving these stacks of papers from my computer desk to my bed, with the intent that I’ll look at them later. Only, because these stacks of paper are behind me, I never look at them long enough before fatigue overtakes me, and I switch them back, and repeat the Sisyphusean process all over again next morning.</p><p>Now, the mess has become something that’s become unavoidable to overlook much longer, and I need some way of jotting these observations down, otherwise they’ll become lost. Some time ago, I made a blog entry showing several instances of how the <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2016/01/mangled-franglish.html">French language could be mangled</a>, even by someone competent in verse.</p><p>Before I jump ahead to the main course, it would be remiss of me not to include this bit of mangled Christmas song from <b>Farscape</b>:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Hark! The hee rawld angles seen guh</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Glowry to the nude bored keen guh</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Peach on Erp and Murky mill ed</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Gode and signers reek n silled</p></blockquote></blockquote><p>And now, the most notable Poirot Malaphors:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZqZ9A4GbQKL5Fu4p9qePYBLqqESz3NTHou87fzk20cLk3cT2AnX_452e7tW6y-fMldlEb4hZsRSfCm0H2iyULFi4L36r5yD_5xOMjK5PQaPscr1PEX-0WpcPITPRprEeUweD0fsbjyhkKsZB0I8-d8yVN-IMcqTERoHRkqPHmZBDBNqtrOyLdgIl6w/s742/%5BWebWordMalapropism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="742" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZqZ9A4GbQKL5Fu4p9qePYBLqqESz3NTHou87fzk20cLk3cT2AnX_452e7tW6y-fMldlEb4hZsRSfCm0H2iyULFi4L36r5yD_5xOMjK5PQaPscr1PEX-0WpcPITPRprEeUweD0fsbjyhkKsZB0I8-d8yVN-IMcqTERoHRkqPHmZBDBNqtrOyLdgIl6w/w400-h159/%5BWebWordMalapropism.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It’s just a turned ankle (twisted ankle)</li><li>The pain already passes (has passed)</li><li>Has he the tenderesse for her? (affection?)</li><li>Your friend’s life has been attempted. (An attempt on her life.)</li><li>I am desolated (devastated)</li><li>The extreme prudence is what is needed (extreme prejudice)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3MlK5q-WkDUru4HV5DoLVP6STbygS5f4xqmxe2CaXP9bJO9-LSdtZbk3NyjZixSgi9zlKwjloYVcVq-4cyt4bOJ55RKH9sEMIkBi6W0tWp8fRvfWZKDhV6xk7dwlltFQQB9i7KDwoJo5x7_3ZBDRFcK05vJ2Aq14UiEFe1WlA2uva5lxjqtQ9y5QgA/s813/%5BWebWordMalaphorMix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="473" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3MlK5q-WkDUru4HV5DoLVP6STbygS5f4xqmxe2CaXP9bJO9-LSdtZbk3NyjZixSgi9zlKwjloYVcVq-4cyt4bOJ55RKH9sEMIkBi6W0tWp8fRvfWZKDhV6xk7dwlltFQQB9i7KDwoJo5x7_3ZBDRFcK05vJ2Aq14UiEFe1WlA2uva5lxjqtQ9y5QgA/w372-h640/%5BWebWordMalaphorMix.jpg" width="372" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If I mistake not (If I’m not mistaken)</li><li>Does not hold the water (Doesn’t hold water)</li><li>Frying his important fish (Has more important fish to fry)</li><li>The fat is in the flames (The fat is in the fire)</li><li>Get off Scottish free (Scott free)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7CkF5HoAPoI5fwIfqhU_0aIGRvKaIbZc6At4fF-JgN-v4YVCC0PN1lM1Zqjh19SwHJNC_3eW26KZQnXp92TP5zn5OJgZUyYrQBUiGCNlqhQ_NsOoDVP4sm9E6YqFLrgrpmV4ppySKP6hqP1Fcd3lk2aK9bv7IViq1U_0WJ0Nth5ORGWiD2xDwMbkFA/s560/PoirotScottFree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="560" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7CkF5HoAPoI5fwIfqhU_0aIGRvKaIbZc6At4fF-JgN-v4YVCC0PN1lM1Zqjh19SwHJNC_3eW26KZQnXp92TP5zn5OJgZUyYrQBUiGCNlqhQ_NsOoDVP4sm9E6YqFLrgrpmV4ppySKP6hqP1Fcd3lk2aK9bv7IViq1U_0WJ0Nth5ORGWiD2xDwMbkFA/s320/PoirotScottFree.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>My train of reasoning (train of thought)</li><li>We have killed both the birds with one shot (2 birds with one stone)</li><li>It may come in useful (come in handy)</li><li>The matter of greatest import (great importance)</li><li>Poirot does not pull the legs (pulling my leg)</li><li>Throws a hammer in the works (wrench in the works)</li><li>Rest calm (calm down)</li><li>What is the use? (What’s the use?)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrPegIxKcJLjEkdjrZyoytPXUDDlcjvopiby3bRUqoeIugqQglxdMgtr4qO2T01bMYtrcg7VzMXHkB8vJpNScAbx4VpvUQtFo_sUbbGip4WiO3RRMdSYENl-JRACjoo1-l855AzeuG6OhgNPrqv4I6VCcDVGKeBv8PkjDj-sw-DpXn35CYfkKG7xEhQ/s900/PoirotSchroeder.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="900" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrPegIxKcJLjEkdjrZyoytPXUDDlcjvopiby3bRUqoeIugqQglxdMgtr4qO2T01bMYtrcg7VzMXHkB8vJpNScAbx4VpvUQtFo_sUbbGip4WiO3RRMdSYENl-JRACjoo1-l855AzeuG6OhgNPrqv4I6VCcDVGKeBv8PkjDj-sw-DpXn35CYfkKG7xEhQ/w640-h126/PoirotSchroeder.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I comprehend perfectly (understand perfectly)</li><li>That will not exist for long (last for long)</li><li>Candle grease (Candle wax)</li><li>Keep to myself at the present (Keep to myself for now) or (Not at the present)</li><li>A good grip of the affair (A keen grasp)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSosNUzLiCudYGHnTVggWMGQqU5A3KPjuvwiv1QeQglcDp9EAgqxdlxiaXT4Uprsxi4dW7mmA5vz9gZcT2vrA04ZE7QZTS-FCPb1B_6aHe8-VqLbiXyO7shCBHbZY5z1wWA22oqxL3IormuvResk7GS7vQ46NCeyAVSgYNHBNylmVVbBSbhc4VTadyrA/s797/%5BWebWordMalaphor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="665" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSosNUzLiCudYGHnTVggWMGQqU5A3KPjuvwiv1QeQglcDp9EAgqxdlxiaXT4Uprsxi4dW7mmA5vz9gZcT2vrA04ZE7QZTS-FCPb1B_6aHe8-VqLbiXyO7shCBHbZY5z1wWA22oqxL3IormuvResk7GS7vQ46NCeyAVSgYNHBNylmVVbBSbhc4VTadyrA/w534-h640/%5BWebWordMalaphor.jpg" width="534" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Make great steps (great strides)</li><li>A fall back on (safety cushion)</li><li>The peak of condition (tiptop shape)</li><li>Making the hills out of the mole mounts (mountains out of molehills)</li><li>Wild gooseberry hunt (Wild goose chase)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTZKTNWXsonLrHlg_RJ0Dc6n6QBDJw1OBDLJGjt5PAJnZBniFM7Sp_F8ydKZnP80vHHuDTVUK_MvG37B9Txr8MPRbh5ni-3_an-kuqGVGROKU0C0hdD_p-jYnSqXRQGwxqHzDem2sk0_Chqn16ecymO7_nqojq7pv9ZsaQEja7ykjU9GMzrpeP4iSHA/s556/%5BWebWordMalaphorHorse.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="537" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTZKTNWXsonLrHlg_RJ0Dc6n6QBDJw1OBDLJGjt5PAJnZBniFM7Sp_F8ydKZnP80vHHuDTVUK_MvG37B9Txr8MPRbh5ni-3_an-kuqGVGROKU0C0hdD_p-jYnSqXRQGwxqHzDem2sk0_Chqn16ecymO7_nqojq7pv9ZsaQEja7ykjU9GMzrpeP4iSHA/w618-h640/%5BWebWordMalaphorHorse.png" width="618" /></a></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Slept like a top (log)</li><li>Not a moment to waste (to lose)</li><li>Head him off the scent (Throw him off the scent)</li><li>Strike while the metal is warm (iron is hot)</li><li>Not keep waiting a lady (keep a lady waiting)</li><li>You are up with the bird (lark)</li><li>Grey cells they grow the rust (getting rusty)</li><li>One grips at the straws (grasps at straws)</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii1v12iqBsC6DlRwwxnzFl0sV-O-0HkMhKJ3tNtBKjttXnZy5ULXGSLKPIRySYs0bOxWLKGByf3Dk30OXtXxNDZAsEpxHgBD0aISKbe8JzlBNE4yWSZE2N5ZMzYnD47rmBhxtijD2F795qj9xAEaW7nc0wGyP9o4037aJ7K8Yv3ZgHCokPWMFaNqEmAQ/s928/%5BWebWordMalaphorFarm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="736" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii1v12iqBsC6DlRwwxnzFl0sV-O-0HkMhKJ3tNtBKjttXnZy5ULXGSLKPIRySYs0bOxWLKGByf3Dk30OXtXxNDZAsEpxHgBD0aISKbe8JzlBNE4yWSZE2N5ZMzYnD47rmBhxtijD2F795qj9xAEaW7nc0wGyP9o4037aJ7K8Yv3ZgHCokPWMFaNqEmAQ/w508-h640/%5BWebWordMalaphorFarm.jpg" width="508" /></a></p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-83938408587557992522022-07-10T00:33:00.000-07:002022-07-10T00:33:37.338-07:00Blondie's Catering Move<p>I've been gradually making my way through the archives of my newspapers, filling in the holes in my collective memories, that was under indefinite hiatus due to the pandemic. As far as I'm concerned, my main interest in newspaper comics ended the day Calvin & Hobbes did. I continued collecting as long as <b>Doonesbury </b>and <b>For Better or for Worse</b> continued, but my diehard obsession was on the wane as the quality of remaining comics continued to decline, their heyday having plateaued long ago.</p><p>Still, while scouring through the remaining months of 1995, I came across an unexpected story arc, which gave one last gasp of creativity. With Bill Watterson's impending retirement, it passed completely unnoticed, but looking back at it now, I wondered if it was paying tribute in terms of ambition.</p><p>It started off perfectly innocuously enough with a one-off strip that had no follow-up the next day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Q_LBcOiKv7BxXmRFM_d8OF2347i4T8J75IBzo_LvKF0LuS_Yt0-rI-dp-qUf6J9NbwVh2nSm06W6KovnsQDn8DhkQHNFHpC2APki26_pLuJ8MFxRV7FPHRI1GaJIoE3ze11yYhz58MismSvpsqtjc0EgepH-3kMLyJZR8FcdnFuzBrfnI2mFZeoDKQ/s1130/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-06.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="1130" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Q_LBcOiKv7BxXmRFM_d8OF2347i4T8J75IBzo_LvKF0LuS_Yt0-rI-dp-qUf6J9NbwVh2nSm06W6KovnsQDn8DhkQHNFHpC2APki26_pLuJ8MFxRV7FPHRI1GaJIoE3ze11yYhz58MismSvpsqtjc0EgepH-3kMLyJZR8FcdnFuzBrfnI2mFZeoDKQ/w640-h220/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-06.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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On Wednesday, Julius makes the implicit presumption that Dagwood's job takes priority, but the very next day, says that he needs to focus on his family instead.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYv9i9Ntfjn2My6k1lQSciH0cu5zoqN3EwTbLdDoFile1f5w3tHNrppZ81jQ-1jeMHZ3CK8Sg3n6Jexc7cg5GhZiL7H_Njmvk3oJMcCwn2EU_WkEUe8NQ7OG84jZ6eDKg-89fyrQEUUkNDZEA7gQRaYpy2HspiU_54VSZunrlwYeL95r53X99gdo6IDQ/s1126/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-19.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="1126" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYv9i9Ntfjn2My6k1lQSciH0cu5zoqN3EwTbLdDoFile1f5w3tHNrppZ81jQ-1jeMHZ3CK8Sg3n6Jexc7cg5GhZiL7H_Njmvk3oJMcCwn2EU_WkEUe8NQ7OG84jZ6eDKg-89fyrQEUUkNDZEA7gQRaYpy2HspiU_54VSZunrlwYeL95r53X99gdo6IDQ/w640-h222/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-19.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdMNRAh4R-tHrpwGdg8WOrWlqnt0Mr3scLFR9999GqgFKOSPOGZXZxhHOtAJjlKwUbH_n8P6uuiWKWa1Dxn73zpz_CaaFBNewxR_6ypW_Tfq6uY8lRJhki5uCByahSyBL3Z2nwO2zczXElsBi0dwoUEbP31YFI2A2OHTokWjk4cCR7MUWRTqfB4sfEA/s1124/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-20.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="1124" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdMNRAh4R-tHrpwGdg8WOrWlqnt0Mr3scLFR9999GqgFKOSPOGZXZxhHOtAJjlKwUbH_n8P6uuiWKWa1Dxn73zpz_CaaFBNewxR_6ypW_Tfq6uY8lRJhki5uCByahSyBL3Z2nwO2zczXElsBi0dwoUEbP31YFI2A2OHTokWjk4cCR7MUWRTqfB4sfEA/w640-h216/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-20.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_Wy0U61D04EirSxOKmj-ZHbhJTxvkVU0raKDLosoiVWw6m1vEGRNh9gNXVyYlvlzYBMJqWdk8bCkETA2FNPCTEmvnU6K_md_BtzOxoJegPAsQLaRwfQpEPw14KCwMe25ZE_2YtqL3FVCMhFX7ih7mzwI77m4WTkrWncYSAXbXt75V8Ky9PVDbDf8qA/s1119/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="1119" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_Wy0U61D04EirSxOKmj-ZHbhJTxvkVU0raKDLosoiVWw6m1vEGRNh9gNXVyYlvlzYBMJqWdk8bCkETA2FNPCTEmvnU6K_md_BtzOxoJegPAsQLaRwfQpEPw14KCwMe25ZE_2YtqL3FVCMhFX7ih7mzwI77m4WTkrWncYSAXbXt75V8Ky9PVDbDf8qA/w640-h218/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-21.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1dvV08fwJhG7n91daSQrGn44cXZXjMfE5gg4W3dRttMv7f4UiRDlI85dbqtmBJIlq4baqhsyum_UPaI5Wq5U0qMBWG4G-9zM75gXs3Odyo9Wi4750-2yHhRQiG_Zdsmr8EEc0FwGa9nO6Kwb8WxKe96zMWNcl3YcfY7b1WnCTC9NLaursevmfxxmmw/s1849/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-22s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="1849" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1dvV08fwJhG7n91daSQrGn44cXZXjMfE5gg4W3dRttMv7f4UiRDlI85dbqtmBJIlq4baqhsyum_UPaI5Wq5U0qMBWG4G-9zM75gXs3Odyo9Wi4750-2yHhRQiG_Zdsmr8EEc0FwGa9nO6Kwb8WxKe96zMWNcl3YcfY7b1WnCTC9NLaursevmfxxmmw/w640-h452/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-22s.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>By now, a certain rhythm starts to settle in. Each week tackles a single dominating topic that is then concluded on the Sunday page. For anyone whose papers only held one and not the other, there would be the general sense that some story was happening when they weren't looking.</p><p>With the threat of Blondie moving her business elsewhere no longer looming as large, effort goes into actually finding a place to conduct said business.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfNg2_K2zo55NabBgh-z3SK6kJV13vpYi1TGZTzeV5tZxG18GPLmCkWvSe5ydqn0VhBVtwQwBgO7uFP90Ts5XG_dg6K73Ok-Rte71HLcpjGWBPQ7XsKp_xy1DsAiCjpP5-WnLNIdI4gSm9lz_tP8-hAEcow9T6h2VfK-IO_AoqIYC3UPVuBU2bxiB-A/s1140/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="1140" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfNg2_K2zo55NabBgh-z3SK6kJV13vpYi1TGZTzeV5tZxG18GPLmCkWvSe5ydqn0VhBVtwQwBgO7uFP90Ts5XG_dg6K73Ok-Rte71HLcpjGWBPQ7XsKp_xy1DsAiCjpP5-WnLNIdI4gSm9lz_tP8-hAEcow9T6h2VfK-IO_AoqIYC3UPVuBU2bxiB-A/w640-h210/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-23.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFW7WvCkrvU9s_ISBBnW3N9CUfGZFYH39_g4DD0ecabv4qJHEPAksZL6zKzASLdx-uM7KDgBhczwKqsSu9q0mHnC-8KLYV_wTJpwHBHBXoBLW1FQMjca1HKrgnFyGnizb9WneNKVjMztOV5BeVUL-2XRyb18mIdkYFD3EfRrHdVPVbVFXr9sazfsx5dQ/s1125/BlondieCatererMove1995-10-24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The matter is soon settled, and Blondie can move on to the next obstacle... reconstruction and endangered species.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVCL6KOtmnRPu0ribSA61xkLuh7QfLAXXEJmzUR3fb-uF3BWyjbTBAJRPY2rkQZN92JQDPPb97OcVnJoariRaQH7zNZ8ZuxCwvlJuAyNtGremnCHngCIXyAeGBlYZbZYpKGA4h_m0xFhI2SOhfNt0yLVfWQoPWg0f8v0whL27jmU__W0zb1MMJfDg7A/s1143/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-14.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="1143" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVCL6KOtmnRPu0ribSA61xkLuh7QfLAXXEJmzUR3fb-uF3BWyjbTBAJRPY2rkQZN92JQDPPb97OcVnJoariRaQH7zNZ8ZuxCwvlJuAyNtGremnCHngCIXyAeGBlYZbZYpKGA4h_m0xFhI2SOhfNt0yLVfWQoPWg0f8v0whL27jmU__W0zb1MMJfDg7A/w640-h234/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-14.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheA6laOz4l3xOc9vtsSMrD_7WE9QaHylbeu75xXHPSG1bGhoeVO7l3avdsANSa5m-0-TiDsVEfW-f6g_RL29sRunGAVoUcAfUBeyJw7PN5iP7m3GcsEmdwMrJOniA88D9BCmaYO35WROrlpHN7VavHWIPz6ZlHJxlXbkVsbMnuB_xkW-VnZVfcLjEKDg/s1153/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="1153" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheA6laOz4l3xOc9vtsSMrD_7WE9QaHylbeu75xXHPSG1bGhoeVO7l3avdsANSa5m-0-TiDsVEfW-f6g_RL29sRunGAVoUcAfUBeyJw7PN5iP7m3GcsEmdwMrJOniA88D9BCmaYO35WROrlpHN7VavHWIPz6ZlHJxlXbkVsbMnuB_xkW-VnZVfcLjEKDg/w640-h216/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-15.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGaUJ9OL9wesH3n0UfymAQBTAWtCzCd_HexOzHhxpRWtOer9pfmJdk3Lx586flVS0EKK_Joo-JdKVS6h1FAYtkkaeJdJG91Zp4RgDxWcST6kZpudo6tbd_ZaPkall8eNx2XnM-tDBzMo7jiZv5fneE-DBXBcQ_vXjkBgd3GyZgpEpbDEOFxDe4SlX3Q/s1135/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1135" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGaUJ9OL9wesH3n0UfymAQBTAWtCzCd_HexOzHhxpRWtOer9pfmJdk3Lx586flVS0EKK_Joo-JdKVS6h1FAYtkkaeJdJG91Zp4RgDxWcST6kZpudo6tbd_ZaPkall8eNx2XnM-tDBzMo7jiZv5fneE-DBXBcQ_vXjkBgd3GyZgpEpbDEOFxDe4SlX3Q/w640-h222/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-16.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oHCu1kqovrE3qgLMLx8i0_FsQANSuyuErnOzSlkT5OxMhQ6PgkuXhCqLbUqcs20Nfhl0PkEeYQFTxs44q1qvtJ46hzSMCutsVcF9I_kqU0efayA-uMQGwK1Mo1GMRaJJ7EYiNp169LLiiKwbijMj1wyXTXaRCCThaL3BFYt9pTPnyrIO-Boh-_C1IA/s1145/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="1145" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oHCu1kqovrE3qgLMLx8i0_FsQANSuyuErnOzSlkT5OxMhQ6PgkuXhCqLbUqcs20Nfhl0PkEeYQFTxs44q1qvtJ46hzSMCutsVcF9I_kqU0efayA-uMQGwK1Mo1GMRaJJ7EYiNp169LLiiKwbijMj1wyXTXaRCCThaL3BFYt9pTPnyrIO-Boh-_C1IA/w640-h234/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-17.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7mLzW2PuyYBr95oKxJwpGlQnt63su5Ui8eAcx24mj1bAFz-vgph2pX_ezb-zNgjLcXRi_xxK9VzJI4bEFV9t7kKL4jHp8VTOFk4T8_164Ngn2W49cgsrRQ2lAdf1ae1mazuQ5M_P-sNDrxlt2an9LNFFK-XltT6zQTFpyDjtrYDrEAvnRcoALN_H2w/s1138/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-18.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="1138" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7mLzW2PuyYBr95oKxJwpGlQnt63su5Ui8eAcx24mj1bAFz-vgph2pX_ezb-zNgjLcXRi_xxK9VzJI4bEFV9t7kKL4jHp8VTOFk4T8_164Ngn2W49cgsrRQ2lAdf1ae1mazuQ5M_P-sNDrxlt2an9LNFFK-XltT6zQTFpyDjtrYDrEAvnRcoALN_H2w/w640-h210/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-18.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDR8PCvA3TTiTdt7-cdgZkjSX-CKUfTEjjLzmCdpN8cDh3yk5I-MnkYXshQahZh_hfTzCjAShn-NjHAeLbjfpOXkhHMP2UCulSGnp0mpZL-8AENx4yGY3XYm6o4AmNcZHOp1gMeXn6-mVDbLVzuH8fnax-q_ew2fmuqJD-LJ7X6X6NSS0g5Ut_EU5a8A/s1891/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-19s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="1891" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDR8PCvA3TTiTdt7-cdgZkjSX-CKUfTEjjLzmCdpN8cDh3yk5I-MnkYXshQahZh_hfTzCjAShn-NjHAeLbjfpOXkhHMP2UCulSGnp0mpZL-8AENx4yGY3XYm6o4AmNcZHOp1gMeXn6-mVDbLVzuH8fnax-q_ew2fmuqJD-LJ7X6X6NSS0g5Ut_EU5a8A/w640-h462/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-19s.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Well, that's one way to solve a problem - just have <b>Krazy Kat</b> do an uncharacteristic cameo for you. Somehow, I suspect this wasn't very popular with the ASPCA. There's also a <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1995-11-19-9511171230-story.html">note</a> in the margins for meeting the comic creators, Dean Young on America Online, with the keyword, "comic strip". If anyone happens to have this specific video recording stashed somewhere in their VHS collection, feel free to share.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lkJyIP39yULg7nqnFSxggT7j-ExknRm9M3mH4QzSlnM6itnwPdJ0HLvc4OtqTtcWyJ8kUXs8_kKPmRbXZrNXkXI4_tLQ2Pi-qbT3cm6MbpIa0IZjxtlo-2XWcZI36SYQ3qPbjRVRd7Oy1OPsQpme2CavXn0IdlDeOIqV4PRzwquzTIsdKh0_W0xMOA/s1135/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-20.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="1135" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lkJyIP39yULg7nqnFSxggT7j-ExknRm9M3mH4QzSlnM6itnwPdJ0HLvc4OtqTtcWyJ8kUXs8_kKPmRbXZrNXkXI4_tLQ2Pi-qbT3cm6MbpIa0IZjxtlo-2XWcZI36SYQ3qPbjRVRd7Oy1OPsQpme2CavXn0IdlDeOIqV4PRzwquzTIsdKh0_W0xMOA/w640-h214/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-20.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Auqx_RS8fIOSYZ9jYnp1nU7ksi2OgtWsjRAv_Pz63rKaMsScZnmuf9UJGiFrtogziAgnA7O8JZjAc-vhYOUqumZ6vX2KPnIsSQ7OJySr2zZrGE2f2FjbZzufH4Zuq-kMuq1tQFrPkBz_o8ZH3Q-HhAtmzLoK0lswsN2NSaodbejqK3aI5e1WCrNifw/s1135/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="1135" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Auqx_RS8fIOSYZ9jYnp1nU7ksi2OgtWsjRAv_Pz63rKaMsScZnmuf9UJGiFrtogziAgnA7O8JZjAc-vhYOUqumZ6vX2KPnIsSQ7OJySr2zZrGE2f2FjbZzufH4Zuq-kMuq1tQFrPkBz_o8ZH3Q-HhAtmzLoK0lswsN2NSaodbejqK3aI5e1WCrNifw/w640-h220/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-21.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgTL6rbqp9iVo6rtoPCAXCqWRoW0qzfzkbl8VwuIiB9fhK7gJOit-4eUAdzYKM2tIZ668V1eNkLIAyeuQzX4tUxT5iGbEMsv2yE-NejDeGafOHPPv5BvabGy1nQV1uuDSxeDUqSuia7EzJDXjJn9BlhzYiB1rcOp7NYKjb25KQidPKqDGNFCHpQSpfA/s1130/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1130" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgTL6rbqp9iVo6rtoPCAXCqWRoW0qzfzkbl8VwuIiB9fhK7gJOit-4eUAdzYKM2tIZ668V1eNkLIAyeuQzX4tUxT5iGbEMsv2yE-NejDeGafOHPPv5BvabGy1nQV1uuDSxeDUqSuia7EzJDXjJn9BlhzYiB1rcOp7NYKjb25KQidPKqDGNFCHpQSpfA/w640-h224/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-22.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>One unorthodox tradition that was unknown to me was that after teenagers help with a moving, it's customary to serve all who participated with celebratory pizza. I've never seen this celebrated, either in media or otherwise, but this comic which occurred on November 23rd may be the closest thing to representation.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4F3EAqfxfLwRyjfTJugddJAnkxM5sejtpfy4pkJlqA-IJGoGKy2RHwQ7ARw9RObgC4zYTIKHRVI6OHuDNiXP4O24lSVC_AY4w_QZOMd2vcHzHXONWya1mFm-fNQfBRUyh7IvaObOW_tHZPLFHZafL8tDLwdNU_C0gW2PN7HhJ9gDcBHTt8iVz9fk1Q/s1124/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="1124" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4F3EAqfxfLwRyjfTJugddJAnkxM5sejtpfy4pkJlqA-IJGoGKy2RHwQ7ARw9RObgC4zYTIKHRVI6OHuDNiXP4O24lSVC_AY4w_QZOMd2vcHzHXONWya1mFm-fNQfBRUyh7IvaObOW_tHZPLFHZafL8tDLwdNU_C0gW2PN7HhJ9gDcBHTt8iVz9fk1Q/w640-h216/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-23.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPosPj5h86U0Ur5p7iuBfSnhSPWHIB9ulmJUBJkxQFwN8A16uUlsVsT48PegCon9Kev80om7LutVdzKSy155Q1P7toPYLPqrd1nMnwlhrkPKRkCIspA18z5XdeUonoCsdBID6cTURvQOGyJxcVQwdL8ivbsnQ-2txenO2SRLV5SDnx9gu5S3IITv7NOA/s1127/BlondieCatererMove1995-11-24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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After this, the next two days are filled with filler, and there's no further mention of Blondie's, until the arrival of Friday's strip, which gives a fairly solid conclusion overall:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXEjkaJwzrhm5aK0xiN6I0WhqjxV_uWV1Oq5gmiVsI8ibkpDKy2fu6GPosLjdZXJhjRcwSvV-ATxTZciqaNIbcz8EFQKy-DdQv6GGYAxpPxTpSD0RWXoweB_AqaogipsCTDtCrFWWCEbT06zzDEPFJ7NzrLKcvjQ7Eis4VJ7pB1M-3_mcTV69V_MYDQ/s1007/BlondieCatererMove1995-12-08.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="1007" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXEjkaJwzrhm5aK0xiN6I0WhqjxV_uWV1Oq5gmiVsI8ibkpDKy2fu6GPosLjdZXJhjRcwSvV-ATxTZciqaNIbcz8EFQKy-DdQv6GGYAxpPxTpSD0RWXoweB_AqaogipsCTDtCrFWWCEbT06zzDEPFJ7NzrLKcvjQ7Eis4VJ7pB1M-3_mcTV69V_MYDQ/w640-h206/BlondieCatererMove1995-12-08.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>Well, Dagwood shouldn't really complain. Who is the strip named after?</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-56918595643323095102022-06-24T20:00:00.001-07:002022-06-25T07:22:19.626-07:00Woe Vs. Rade<p>Well, the day we've been dreading finally happened. The U.S. Senate just overturned the Abortion rights of Roe Vs. Wade. There's been righteous outcry from far more eloquent people with higher stakes to lose who'd have more experience to run from. All I can do is post an early Carol Lay comic that was the basic building blocks of what would become her <b>Story Minute</b>. (<i>Later revamped as <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/lay-lines/2015/01/26"><b>Lay Lines</b></a></i>)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZo_gMpf0F-vqBx7xJMj4mhjdcWMXCTUPfyfdja20wnvl17xsr1sD4ZIPcYxRxPGrnjrxZnimnF8pneqtBOejazmrSqS3PVW5MnaP33IXQiFUXDpSE3KLDkwJEktmsTuqHV6atAZltTG2UVyKH_Uq9bn1PSdRDIKd_68zf9dO7wC0dWXcB5qeIQV0tSw/s1344/Abortion1a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1344" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZo_gMpf0F-vqBx7xJMj4mhjdcWMXCTUPfyfdja20wnvl17xsr1sD4ZIPcYxRxPGrnjrxZnimnF8pneqtBOejazmrSqS3PVW5MnaP33IXQiFUXDpSE3KLDkwJEktmsTuqHV6atAZltTG2UVyKH_Uq9bn1PSdRDIKd_68zf9dO7wC0dWXcB5qeIQV0tSw/w640-h482/Abortion1a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlaeYEYnP-oO5Owla0yNJ7wRjKIK-yFxgo4D9E0ua7k3VrAwfSA3YCvUypBdeikC5vlbsUy3OoaEcnGSfXwekc7WOBnyQJrRYcb3hjFQ69ZwFiplN-2GvMLAo6UliKb24LsZQCuc-BIKK4K0FrCvJxoJ-iYr50dUuSH0sMG2qVN6tuP8q6lI19VYming/s1347/Abortion1b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1347" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlaeYEYnP-oO5Owla0yNJ7wRjKIK-yFxgo4D9E0ua7k3VrAwfSA3YCvUypBdeikC5vlbsUy3OoaEcnGSfXwekc7WOBnyQJrRYcb3hjFQ69ZwFiplN-2GvMLAo6UliKb24LsZQCuc-BIKK4K0FrCvJxoJ-iYr50dUuSH0sMG2qVN6tuP8q6lI19VYming/w640-h482/Abortion1b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSupx2eaQcc9jwe7h9DdxwTm9_CK9sUsrFnOMZaO1ARVJX1ei-JdTOA6joFKQcHqhYixR39V2IpBJsxYIBCC5JBJ1JhUD7ZhjrV8_vbpKRaP2rJczd9lvAvSuxs3ftJv-b3F8V7Ld8Ohy3lYwL9kRb3Ry7BR2wpVUxezBHYTo3ul5WQTJACkN7fFXzqA/s1362/Abortion2a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1362" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSupx2eaQcc9jwe7h9DdxwTm9_CK9sUsrFnOMZaO1ARVJX1ei-JdTOA6joFKQcHqhYixR39V2IpBJsxYIBCC5JBJ1JhUD7ZhjrV8_vbpKRaP2rJczd9lvAvSuxs3ftJv-b3F8V7Ld8Ohy3lYwL9kRb3Ry7BR2wpVUxezBHYTo3ul5WQTJACkN7fFXzqA/w640-h474/Abortion2a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKtp9KAKTgq4puLR6qHY378OtU73lKCQcz6jtRxmq4wUTXaJV-iLZKZ4xvOe3MWUAXuzOtkxWMNQQ-8gsq8Uy-Ff-7OGwTF7nx8KFQ80VIoIRL7dhF2PgcyWEW_wTW9Ad_5VuHiSdu5KZUsoJFHZ1SdJtSPCLd8dW-ih0QtQGK327AvoaKC5GG6pg10g/s1371/Abortion2b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1019" data-original-width="1371" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKtp9KAKTgq4puLR6qHY378OtU73lKCQcz6jtRxmq4wUTXaJV-iLZKZ4xvOe3MWUAXuzOtkxWMNQQ-8gsq8Uy-Ff-7OGwTF7nx8KFQ80VIoIRL7dhF2PgcyWEW_wTW9Ad_5VuHiSdu5KZUsoJFHZ1SdJtSPCLd8dW-ih0QtQGK327AvoaKC5GG6pg10g/w640-h476/Abortion2b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For those wonder what possible stake I could possibly have in this, being an Asexual Male, abolishing Abortion rights is just the first in a long line of long-term planning of abolishing other rights. The ink on the unconstitutional law isn't even dry yet, and talks of <a href="https://twitter.com/BreadPanes/status/1525189666021982209">further repression</a> is already taking place.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQVJB4zw4vXi1uWPgL9wRFrbc-TNv26f62MmRTyioxwwwMp31TRAMkCgI03DZ4L55DRZGheaU_DakO5LOWV2392gODnSDGIokNjw6nmXvt2_Z4SZx4Sr_iYphdA-HxaRiRtrIoecJFqxpdxtEG8H48L_67oU1r0OIy8_SBYLK0cgNBzGlJSgBhiCwEg/s1250/AbortionDomino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQVJB4zw4vXi1uWPgL9wRFrbc-TNv26f62MmRTyioxwwwMp31TRAMkCgI03DZ4L55DRZGheaU_DakO5LOWV2392gODnSDGIokNjw6nmXvt2_Z4SZx4Sr_iYphdA-HxaRiRtrIoecJFqxpdxtEG8H48L_67oU1r0OIy8_SBYLK0cgNBzGlJSgBhiCwEg/w640-h640/AbortionDomino.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chances are that somewhere along the line, denying services towards handicapped minorities will be next. Already, attacks are being laid towards LGBTQ rights, restricting sex education, books, videos, or anything broaching the subject, doing more to permeate 'Cancel Culture' than <b><u>actual</u> </b>Cancel (<i>facing consequences</i>) Culture ever does.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyMjHNxaF_8RLvjnQRAZpUEWr48cCVWeIThC_a8PISlCrJetZrkPpGtSnR6ZQrg7jdweArvs0VbmRCFwMUpOuVf95WbIYZA2_7DHwGuR54_kQuyLfBzIe6kFC194l22EeIUp3gYFcfH6f8slfQ_KUKJmJ8eskYo9RyQ5zz5AS5FzEWN4kJ0JCfeG3Uew/s2130/AbortionVickie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2130" data-original-width="1619" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyMjHNxaF_8RLvjnQRAZpUEWr48cCVWeIThC_a8PISlCrJetZrkPpGtSnR6ZQrg7jdweArvs0VbmRCFwMUpOuVf95WbIYZA2_7DHwGuR54_kQuyLfBzIe6kFC194l22EeIUp3gYFcfH6f8slfQ_KUKJmJ8eskYo9RyQ5zz5AS5FzEWN4kJ0JCfeG3Uew/w486-h640/AbortionVickie.jpg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For those confused, she's wearing a Taliban Burqa.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>One thing that struck me while researching sexual identity was that a large percentage of Autistics are part of the LGBTQ spectrum. So anything that directly affects people who think similarly to me is perceived as an attack on myself. Particularly since the so-called Gay Conversion "treatment" and Applied Behavior Analysis were both created by the same man.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-Tdqt88Sw-Rv4mnbII0sb-ekfuN6prxTRTB5PVJkQg2ew02asYw3qtRqFfPQsAbqECCIuFw6JSfviAaHcgMnktkLOtX60THHgAuNIEs9_NjDyq-bFVmIq2Kq-Yaz-vpzX2McP1WoIBZOlKY-BbSvh6-qfTcaQcD9B5bWdjiFLL1zz-KsWfwEzUfqSQ/s1280/Aspirations236-ABA%20Conversion.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1280" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-Tdqt88Sw-Rv4mnbII0sb-ekfuN6prxTRTB5PVJkQg2ew02asYw3qtRqFfPQsAbqECCIuFw6JSfviAaHcgMnktkLOtX60THHgAuNIEs9_NjDyq-bFVmIq2Kq-Yaz-vpzX2McP1WoIBZOlKY-BbSvh6-qfTcaQcD9B5bWdjiFLL1zz-KsWfwEzUfqSQ/w640-h486/Aspirations236-ABA%20Conversion.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When people's perception towards you is a vehement refusal to see you as having any value, save for what possible use you bring, they're likely to treat you as an piece of property. When parents would rather their own kid get killed than expose them to life-saving vaccines, that's a sign of them denying your existence. Wanting absolute control over a percentage of the population, neatly dividing gender into two privileged lanes.</p><p>That, and being touch-averse, I can understand the need to turn down unwanted advances. You shouldn't have to be forced into sexual situations against your will. Especially if you're not prepared. You shouldn't have to be coerced into taking extra responsibility before you're ready.</p><p>(<i>Of course, the Supreme Court in their 'infinite' wisdom, felt that open-carry gun rights were more valuable than women's rights</i>)</p><p>Anything that affects the U.S. flows up to Canada. 4 years of Trump was more than enough. I don't think I could tolerate more intolerance from him or his enablers who'd learn from his mistakes.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-80518431384152840862022-03-02T20:03:00.001-08:002022-03-03T06:51:26.157-08:00Potential Asexuals: Schroeder<p>One of my drafts for a potential blog entry was exploring how the cast of Peanuts wound up influencing the character designs for other famous comics, even if they weren’t obvious or intentional.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Charlie Brown - Krillin from <b>Dragon Ball</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2D973BWdQam4hfzJHs8GpZPeKICqOo8ircM932ccePnu6G0pO7A46qa-BBtFwG5PThKrez4m6TqwQRyvL46PGFQ7z0MxRBdNn3XLvg7VeSVT8BBacIoXf5bYJYxLtnzNgk44EjeaXbioUFqfzJRnLQXJHvhDL6ymih2rK7R3FdkquRSg_rRNWzf2oLg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2D973BWdQam4hfzJHs8GpZPeKICqOo8ircM932ccePnu6G0pO7A46qa-BBtFwG5PThKrez4m6TqwQRyvL46PGFQ7z0MxRBdNn3XLvg7VeSVT8BBacIoXf5bYJYxLtnzNgk44EjeaXbioUFqfzJRnLQXJHvhDL6ymih2rK7R3FdkquRSg_rRNWzf2oLg=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Sally Brown - Emily Elizabeth from <b>Clifford the Big Red Dog</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZv0WXy2hSj3Jn4oMhXrSkCfG9L39Z0DUS6dP4g-X04xwHIyoKJJ1Ebl-3NvrnzPbWm2lB3spHJQX60BvPlyiQWn5DGMKF6bmAClOUTHZr_bshFpzlOYwgvZO9aIGkVDwDBvjfKeKy9KQtjb7ANOj2n1xqlfkvhjZdanF6RtHoze6gpA7CJ22xNRA_Jg=s986" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="986" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZv0WXy2hSj3Jn4oMhXrSkCfG9L39Z0DUS6dP4g-X04xwHIyoKJJ1Ebl-3NvrnzPbWm2lB3spHJQX60BvPlyiQWn5DGMKF6bmAClOUTHZr_bshFpzlOYwgvZO9aIGkVDwDBvjfKeKy9KQtjb7ANOj2n1xqlfkvhjZdanF6RtHoze6gpA7CJ22xNRA_Jg=w400-h200" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Lucy - <b>Cathy</b>’s sales clerk, Mabel</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA_VYM54wubunN3UeqPMWk8-cBHmQ_QfdATbqKKAVv1M4t16lyl-oJFaR-jgIh2B13tGmEgxcdVfhDZJBdoAEYnbJHmfZeDrwAL5SAKRFt1-IC7jnU_HArML09rgVC6kK8FcxR9grYtVRgBxxXS2yEqjiK7f5EZmqNrKxafq3AWY5O1d7-N5ZmBejbqQ=s433" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="433" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA_VYM54wubunN3UeqPMWk8-cBHmQ_QfdATbqKKAVv1M4t16lyl-oJFaR-jgIh2B13tGmEgxcdVfhDZJBdoAEYnbJHmfZeDrwAL5SAKRFt1-IC7jnU_HArML09rgVC6kK8FcxR9grYtVRgBxxXS2yEqjiK7f5EZmqNrKxafq3AWY5O1d7-N5ZmBejbqQ=w400-h248" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Linus - Izzy from <b>Digimon.</b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihtcPZCj4rdq9vFJ-JsPm8zbJxodBMloNNNuxBt0amV59UpBWv8VwjZ9dBvoaJPwklquOPzizbjYThR5cmksiKSXJ-WEfJsStYEvcsrZUZD5Ar6ivHWcYv_VaBop_8hRKA92Or80KJvmIKInrEvUFO3EdOBPnRZjpebGPFMstkf-k04qP48NCYcHz9EA=s720" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="720" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihtcPZCj4rdq9vFJ-JsPm8zbJxodBMloNNNuxBt0amV59UpBWv8VwjZ9dBvoaJPwklquOPzizbjYThR5cmksiKSXJ-WEfJsStYEvcsrZUZD5Ar6ivHWcYv_VaBop_8hRKA92Or80KJvmIKInrEvUFO3EdOBPnRZjpebGPFMstkf-k04qP48NCYcHz9EA=w400-h373" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Marcie - Honey from <b>Doonesbury</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Lwl57vnpc5ctKgN8nl7rI6BZsrEsELvcz1zSGqBZP676M768RrBFE2Sftub7EilQ3M6nUJLNERQG4AloxDxbHMqI6fdo-5lvRhdZ4w3aVc-6rfFI3v8Dxdvc_8KZ_LVTN2PxSieY4lHvh2Es4f2QNYxShwHSEd8ZmlwxurNklUkJSF5MHjcBcGPTCQ=s367" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="367" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Lwl57vnpc5ctKgN8nl7rI6BZsrEsELvcz1zSGqBZP676M768RrBFE2Sftub7EilQ3M6nUJLNERQG4AloxDxbHMqI6fdo-5lvRhdZ4w3aVc-6rfFI3v8Dxdvc_8KZ_LVTN2PxSieY4lHvh2Es4f2QNYxShwHSEd8ZmlwxurNklUkJSF5MHjcBcGPTCQ=w400-h369" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Peppermint Patty - arguably Marie Kanker from <b>Ed Edd and Eddy</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7GW77TOFt8f_A-bhtEhkvcAzd_b16WTimcaET0Lrdj4FLz8Q3WRXvPisIiNi8pbjMH9sufHMl7ZQLuxAM-D8482HAMa2ADIG9cyZKZQB_sL0LKO6btx4Fzw8X8i7aW749v6c_86ersQ4sy8lCGWWM2Ou9WixxKHPJw3xNqJQhay5XO8bGuHtsVcoSpQ=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="600" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7GW77TOFt8f_A-bhtEhkvcAzd_b16WTimcaET0Lrdj4FLz8Q3WRXvPisIiNi8pbjMH9sufHMl7ZQLuxAM-D8482HAMa2ADIG9cyZKZQB_sL0LKO6btx4Fzw8X8i7aW749v6c_86ersQ4sy8lCGWWM2Ou9WixxKHPJw3xNqJQhay5XO8bGuHtsVcoSpQ=w400-h339" width="400" /></a></p><p>And working backwards in terms of influence, Schroeder was likely inspired by <b>Little Lord Fauntleroy</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQYXDEmGT47bV4jJ4EXsZ2uMtF9-yXXN7cRG7oNhvuoddrof9Z_Wz5I-wk19aRgLsywEjNo5KkPl7jwvsEiIZaJf7RdA_O4dr_sroFQK7Fts67NZBTP5H8Dj4J7c_QxEBk_PivsvlFaX46xKP99t5yJuta07RYhdCgrnlrWep-gU5DF03A8wllHBBcuA=s798" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="798" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQYXDEmGT47bV4jJ4EXsZ2uMtF9-yXXN7cRG7oNhvuoddrof9Z_Wz5I-wk19aRgLsywEjNo5KkPl7jwvsEiIZaJf7RdA_O4dr_sroFQK7Fts67NZBTP5H8Dj4J7c_QxEBk_PivsvlFaX46xKP99t5yJuta07RYhdCgrnlrWep-gU5DF03A8wllHBBcuA=w400-h304" width="400" /></a></p><p>However, the major difference between Schroeder and those snobby upper-class twits is that Schroeder never lorded his piano talent over his friends, essentially remaining one of the gang, even as his obsession may have weirded them out.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvSefY6-BVBccsaibyRXrFwI3y9Zul8BHjBttKbpRkT0C9M3G2JG2REi9xHhUQb1pTmaXyMdti5-BUGb0fR5uyiBI2YC0Cc_T0lQTAihANdMKDwXq3YtX1T27CD-XFH_J4eXWsFCugs_yjGpqlWceFN4WNFSUebS2TkIB8FVEwjYQHftngO6xlD38R2w=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="900" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvSefY6-BVBccsaibyRXrFwI3y9Zul8BHjBttKbpRkT0C9M3G2JG2REi9xHhUQb1pTmaXyMdti5-BUGb0fR5uyiBI2YC0Cc_T0lQTAihANdMKDwXq3YtX1T27CD-XFH_J4eXWsFCugs_yjGpqlWceFN4WNFSUebS2TkIB8FVEwjYQHftngO6xlD38R2w=w640-h132" width="640" /></a></p><p>It was argued that Schroeder’s obsession with Beethoven and music was a reflection of Schultz’s dedication to crafting the Peanuts comic strip. But the wonderfully versatile nature of Peanuts makes them widely open to interpretation. If the model fits...</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMjErF432KMmsp47_ElsBlmFV_V8Qf5vZRrXcsW8c6HHRWPI-FNXec7a1wApr63nMh1phlMhJMqr_cGvquKrrnnc194jqYeFk2H-eNn2DAqbF_2GSWRsgFk5EY8Q_Sq-rw3Y7GQ5V2mHuFMc_g3yarVN5JU7_UruH_QUpOUs6DFx-doARVYA0IdJcDwQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="900" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMjErF432KMmsp47_ElsBlmFV_V8Qf5vZRrXcsW8c6HHRWPI-FNXec7a1wApr63nMh1phlMhJMqr_cGvquKrrnnc194jqYeFk2H-eNn2DAqbF_2GSWRsgFk5EY8Q_Sq-rw3Y7GQ5V2mHuFMc_g3yarVN5JU7_UruH_QUpOUs6DFx-doARVYA0IdJcDwQ=w640-h130" width="640" /></a></p><p>Another rationale is that Lucy is simply too unlikable to be with even in the best of times, being too much of a fussbudget (<i>to put it politely</i>), and that these are <i>children</i>, too young to engage in any serious romance. But the rest of Peanuts is filled with unrequited longing for unattainable lovers. Of the larger secondary cast of Peanuts, Schroeder is the only minor character who isn’t actively interested in pursuing unrequited romance with anyone. His devotion to Beethoven is entirely one-sided, secure in the knowledge that the composer died out centuries ago, his masterpieces preserved to be absorbed and appreciated. (<i>Also, Beethoven is the only adult face to regularly appear in Peanuts.</i>)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcVsjyO-JJEWHTla9dwcX29ki8sADagihaFRS3HXc6CPg-wh6q20trsQPdNETmlFmiYjUbDSZCy3uQVwvBvourHcfnlxMO-Oo-VQQ5FkszAqU6ahMVTRILv7qHYOYvxy9BxtwiEazm3Wce8lU6dX-oEOZ-wnhoMkkzskzEfOng5EayC9mNqMggQXOfTA=s900" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="900" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcVsjyO-JJEWHTla9dwcX29ki8sADagihaFRS3HXc6CPg-wh6q20trsQPdNETmlFmiYjUbDSZCy3uQVwvBvourHcfnlxMO-Oo-VQQ5FkszAqU6ahMVTRILv7qHYOYvxy9BxtwiEazm3Wce8lU6dX-oEOZ-wnhoMkkzskzEfOng5EayC9mNqMggQXOfTA=w640-h434" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who else would buy busts of Beethoven in bulk?</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I looked up online to see if anybody else explored this theory further, and was surprised to only find a single <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/asexuality/comments/c9b2qu/schroeder_from_peanuts_is_ace_right/">Reddit question</a>. The closest alternative in exploring his alleged sexuality was in a blog entry showing <a href="http://everydayheterosexism.blogspot.com/2012/10/gay-coded-peanuts.html">potential homoeroticism</a>, the only flaw being that Schroeder never displayed any affection towards any of the boys as well. So with that in mind, let’s break down the fundamentals of why I feel Schroeder is a potential Asexual candidate.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMv2FN9iLnjCs_EyTiZ8Hihv8d_RffkPvDEleHvj3iBsz2coZn7fJXjMBVzx5dYoPHhVnsgaNe_iDyY10V7GDKR5LxY2-fWVkN4S4YgnpatQIDo1Ou_UCEJk7XxchJspqO_G2pkwTDrVsPJVlXRng1TG7L-oBGn10FrdCSPhy5ho36WamvosglePZBjQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMv2FN9iLnjCs_EyTiZ8Hihv8d_RffkPvDEleHvj3iBsz2coZn7fJXjMBVzx5dYoPHhVnsgaNe_iDyY10V7GDKR5LxY2-fWVkN4S4YgnpatQIDo1Ou_UCEJk7XxchJspqO_G2pkwTDrVsPJVlXRng1TG7L-oBGn10FrdCSPhy5ho36WamvosglePZBjQ=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNJrjEq1W8VJUqD1FvlLAPykR4apcG3CDh8pOGZo_dtFghEDyhIRxnqfTNxxMlQ0qlASV_rQ-S8YTYrn4VVXMsoB-XRZ7QTaINnQjgcRdvKVZgI_UJk4ArBr8vIWkN6go3kp2zCBcMH3EcQJapRhvivThG_2VwKxlgjNFTqsA4wuP_5hTPW6J6yP26Cw=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="900" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNJrjEq1W8VJUqD1FvlLAPykR4apcG3CDh8pOGZo_dtFghEDyhIRxnqfTNxxMlQ0qlASV_rQ-S8YTYrn4VVXMsoB-XRZ7QTaINnQjgcRdvKVZgI_UJk4ArBr8vIWkN6go3kp2zCBcMH3EcQJapRhvivThG_2VwKxlgjNFTqsA4wuP_5hTPW6J6yP26Cw=w640-h132" width="640" /></a></p><p>The most obvious example is that Schroeder displays little to no interest to the girls leaning on his piano, finding them more of a distraction and tolerating Lucy at best.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUKXi_Jk8AxsXP6IIOpuZUAeXPxDO5Dow-6aXjG4MVBuXGDw6PYfmapGrRwe0qWDOWV-LMXpjAjGOX0R3I0ANsKA7kmBztwV8NrIbt9SxIFdB5H8Rld16uM7x0aCvQcpqUEtG8lusMlYYjc44FRI-HpKPu91I8qnDcqa_OnJH4wg20rAu3tFIzJSB0wA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUKXi_Jk8AxsXP6IIOpuZUAeXPxDO5Dow-6aXjG4MVBuXGDw6PYfmapGrRwe0qWDOWV-LMXpjAjGOX0R3I0ANsKA7kmBztwV8NrIbt9SxIFdB5H8Rld16uM7x0aCvQcpqUEtG8lusMlYYjc44FRI-HpKPu91I8qnDcqa_OnJH4wg20rAu3tFIzJSB0wA=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzF1y2RjvmEbBDonZJ2bPlsYpk8j93ghq83-zVpvPc9RpgcBxLJOlNAIENT6ADIs1RFWhEQ1lZVVJZcqgq1fJK6SL_ltmORzub7Hb6wEgslsxuBQr2QpTDr5GtO-t2pVxuWo285XJTU83QOsTbU7dm0CnCcEeXGbeAoj3e2062vt48Ae6MbbNljPmCzA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="900" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzF1y2RjvmEbBDonZJ2bPlsYpk8j93ghq83-zVpvPc9RpgcBxLJOlNAIENT6ADIs1RFWhEQ1lZVVJZcqgq1fJK6SL_ltmORzub7Hb6wEgslsxuBQr2QpTDr5GtO-t2pVxuWo285XJTU83QOsTbU7dm0CnCcEeXGbeAoj3e2062vt48Ae6MbbNljPmCzA=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></p><p>Schroeder isn't totally ignorant about matters of love. He simply doesn't have any inclinations towards it.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnX5WWEECms-YXOwa0uMZPa1OVRt-LanFahhLfRxoogKhRXK6cC5Fd_OI7ENdMjrbSccghPzdpQ1AWracYFz63Wzc1gZJn1GveK01FB-tCflxqgA7G7hIkfvUAvxVsawAC_Sc2ZktY3YI3B3kRCcEGZHs6JdiRTbYJHt5wlC-o2X9NORA2GnrqyK1G0w=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="900" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnX5WWEECms-YXOwa0uMZPa1OVRt-LanFahhLfRxoogKhRXK6cC5Fd_OI7ENdMjrbSccghPzdpQ1AWracYFz63Wzc1gZJn1GveK01FB-tCflxqgA7G7hIkfvUAvxVsawAC_Sc2ZktY3YI3B3kRCcEGZHs6JdiRTbYJHt5wlC-o2X9NORA2GnrqyK1G0w=w640-h162" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSk5hYIY7VK1MHVuqjgUsoP1bGJI300yayNY2Hfj8Bw6El6LQFG0Q5_LtMJNauwnadCbF3CuVfWPnu0cAM7CCEiEr6NZtefG0ANV8OYy9rxYO8rF5x_v43vcX49e1luXv_78G6PmgZ9TKF52ah-pdKd3_7TKmV4SZsPo91nPbPjWRfdEkAzb4BttR4Ww=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="900" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrbX0YQARAJirfMKQkfmPFprtDxLvCb2qWmAN0q27BTC_oTqD0sMlx51FOIsiI6ra9bxr6539JemIVWf8h2YcJZL8iFVk1_JxDavdOAcz8n1_uih5AMD4fnsoE8ACUCotPB4clSNEluspiA7Dly8se3wuEM3RfUfGAYKDIyPopEW-MCQ1QJQsRgu75Kw=w640-h140" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPFm2e2ohq9E3eQbEIqe8TrwDuf93BqfUFb55etiN-rK9FfnRKKBFPaZGjWva_9KwaWDonz1TxfmkkATX2xj8aSn2OUw9XPgbIdKb1UPusD17w1dqQiniHgwoukPEDuoj5AbXNuiVi6KaJ0lVvs2kvY9q1v1XVHBAUSPdOIef2pX-Xl-dCq6utZYPEug=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPFm2e2ohq9E3eQbEIqe8TrwDuf93BqfUFb55etiN-rK9FfnRKKBFPaZGjWva_9KwaWDonz1TxfmkkATX2xj8aSn2OUw9XPgbIdKb1UPusD17w1dqQiniHgwoukPEDuoj5AbXNuiVi6KaJ0lVvs2kvY9q1v1XVHBAUSPdOIef2pX-Xl-dCq6utZYPEug=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRU8DO5rHTkZXeRAFsG2vaoUB2w7lqpsjSNUxo9qemOPR5NzFVRkqGrixEDhlm3cVemcyzLFMBJ9xuyinAsZx2-XRT39sNqHJQ6Um2NbQlhCFLRq8cL6qJ_ZkD748q5IVgX72Gv4BD6NSi2poEs9VN6Vb4W3jqw5Hm_cck2hubHUZezlasa08QF0CkmA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRU8DO5rHTkZXeRAFsG2vaoUB2w7lqpsjSNUxo9qemOPR5NzFVRkqGrixEDhlm3cVemcyzLFMBJ9xuyinAsZx2-XRT39sNqHJQ6Um2NbQlhCFLRq8cL6qJ_ZkD748q5IVgX72Gv4BD6NSi2poEs9VN6Vb4W3jqw5Hm_cck2hubHUZezlasa08QF0CkmA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></p><p>The only time we see him flustered is when he’s complimented for his looks, but that could easily be a result of being unaccustomed to being praised for something outside his skill set.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW5s9-t6bp6qHEXto2MmK2w8udo4qtTRQwmEDgOmTHOlY1Se8QCnQKjbe5x_I1qvy441IHs-isg00MTQnGhi0RhAr5IOtwWa-7CkuXWXIty9qUthyPNKO45iFD38Ygr3ON6_eSeIKxzFtp0FIlFqvbs9dJFtCrhy1LcQ01bcSRrqpr14jLks5pcSfXHQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW5s9-t6bp6qHEXto2MmK2w8udo4qtTRQwmEDgOmTHOlY1Se8QCnQKjbe5x_I1qvy441IHs-isg00MTQnGhi0RhAr5IOtwWa-7CkuXWXIty9qUthyPNKO45iFD38Ygr3ON6_eSeIKxzFtp0FIlFqvbs9dJFtCrhy1LcQ01bcSRrqpr14jLks5pcSfXHQ=w640-h136" width="640" /></a></p><p>For the most part, Schroeder's fraught relationship with Lucy consisted mainly of Lucy making up the majority of the conversation, resulting in a monologue while he whaled away on his piano, hunched over in a Glenn Gould manner, punctuated by the occasional unwelcome interruption.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiPUa05Tw4jAlRHYpPQ9fzNAYDBc9H0l3uWu5rS-BDotq3ED1L35fG6eGEOK73e9BYrW3mdadi1LMxtwh-Togy9I7aAih8jGZZaJz8X2ZGZm8Oh57AOf2XmwnNUaaU4p2koTyblgAtfS5xVRZPr7UED1eRn08brh0Ty7lGOLcVx8v8xbeVdsuNIJ7V_Q=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="900" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiPUa05Tw4jAlRHYpPQ9fzNAYDBc9H0l3uWu5rS-BDotq3ED1L35fG6eGEOK73e9BYrW3mdadi1LMxtwh-Togy9I7aAih8jGZZaJz8X2ZGZm8Oh57AOf2XmwnNUaaU4p2koTyblgAtfS5xVRZPr7UED1eRn08brh0Ty7lGOLcVx8v8xbeVdsuNIJ7V_Q=w640-h138" width="640" /></a></p><p>Here's a sampling of some of their most memorable dialogues:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnEdca5K3wFK1vSa5qoiZTD1aFALGpjylFr_qAHwQA_iWWieuu0A7iX01QhNdAfsmqOkQ0dyVLOYOln-3eJjtd40f8gKJNru99ibETfFPIZmVYKsTH2HfTiRlkTnzNT9esg5FRh5Tut8sdxD08Vj6Oxb_RcNUA6nZrRlxmFC8HJA_M3HMnWTq8rcN9lQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnEdca5K3wFK1vSa5qoiZTD1aFALGpjylFr_qAHwQA_iWWieuu0A7iX01QhNdAfsmqOkQ0dyVLOYOln-3eJjtd40f8gKJNru99ibETfFPIZmVYKsTH2HfTiRlkTnzNT9esg5FRh5Tut8sdxD08Vj6Oxb_RcNUA6nZrRlxmFC8HJA_M3HMnWTq8rcN9lQ=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0c2xgmfg5HIApHuC0PrUAplPU2SZlKK0jbLyKT85TDbdeLkRMZom41Ng6bXSTTeNiB_Wnr-nNfojUG80P5pSjczCgSNiRF22Z_5UiICxFEeA9FDlZdpJLIX5p7hqNry57rAx35j5RlN78Y_DZsOIbV3_jSl_dzwp9OilPtqz3SAAMxqGNOLPzuM7VOg=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="900" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0c2xgmfg5HIApHuC0PrUAplPU2SZlKK0jbLyKT85TDbdeLkRMZom41Ng6bXSTTeNiB_Wnr-nNfojUG80P5pSjczCgSNiRF22Z_5UiICxFEeA9FDlZdpJLIX5p7hqNry57rAx35j5RlN78Y_DZsOIbV3_jSl_dzwp9OilPtqz3SAAMxqGNOLPzuM7VOg=w640-h134" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEFvfFD5fkOpAmiLB-C2zOcQXdRyX8wzzVQoRS6bOaSi-V5NWCYvOzeWjjcyM7TaeZjeQxwfD7jsxT20xM_gDKSxA_EXEnDzsJ4jFovwPD3Voew8a0bWXtuqgIP_sAxn3-5WbDz4gUe38QPVHZMbkcZZrHRhT0invn7SwM0eEs0CV-kJ5vT-lbfuPJsg=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="900" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEFvfFD5fkOpAmiLB-C2zOcQXdRyX8wzzVQoRS6bOaSi-V5NWCYvOzeWjjcyM7TaeZjeQxwfD7jsxT20xM_gDKSxA_EXEnDzsJ4jFovwPD3Voew8a0bWXtuqgIP_sAxn3-5WbDz4gUe38QPVHZMbkcZZrHRhT0invn7SwM0eEs0CV-kJ5vT-lbfuPJsg=w640-h162" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUITi_7Rap38pH6KOgsWO0XcHP7S2KTH_rTOPQHIpU-E0kyycYhf_sf-bG8YaYVWy0BBDJtRNAgjRn1axKMJ-0QNVrFO_Wrapqamh7EWhnvSUdg8IOIcn5U3-YmR4vIkXaYYGwhuifRb9jSqvoKiWHbjGunmalvxxhEfe9ygdFUyHOzs0sbQR3T0-fgA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUITi_7Rap38pH6KOgsWO0XcHP7S2KTH_rTOPQHIpU-E0kyycYhf_sf-bG8YaYVWy0BBDJtRNAgjRn1axKMJ-0QNVrFO_Wrapqamh7EWhnvSUdg8IOIcn5U3-YmR4vIkXaYYGwhuifRb9jSqvoKiWHbjGunmalvxxhEfe9ygdFUyHOzs0sbQR3T0-fgA=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQwZ6dCBMwl98efb7-adptkvS2QYk7RDbdiWCy2MrD8Dff355AZWSMucvHiOUTR_iW0gjlSyRTX4lnd5MW_st0VzZwID_Mq8Ur4Ak1zPdI12xPx7jL8aRxe72CGAJGUUWGU7DEHZW4RnpbAA5BYx7vwY8u4V7WjKpOSjjoO8f9DrnHVCn2XuvjooZNRw=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQwZ6dCBMwl98efb7-adptkvS2QYk7RDbdiWCy2MrD8Dff355AZWSMucvHiOUTR_iW0gjlSyRTX4lnd5MW_st0VzZwID_Mq8Ur4Ak1zPdI12xPx7jL8aRxe72CGAJGUUWGU7DEHZW4RnpbAA5BYx7vwY8u4V7WjKpOSjjoO8f9DrnHVCn2XuvjooZNRw=w640-h136" width="640" /></a></p><p>Lucy didn't take these constant rejections of her advances well, to the point that she started taking more extreme measures to get his attention.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUIIIBeZo7R-Uqpsrx6bVbTp_Q13lm8MG7ent-Ha7UKs53l9fjOlz_B4N0gUO40G434GJPXLQUh-TO0mNt5XLiSfxzIeVyYUACm154YA8S56ngyTHUTQ-8SC6PgI8ywUXdTITJUWvEpRUzC-Dyu6ZMdfttoNju5WYBjb3PrQUAf_rntKXEi-KmH1GVA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUIIIBeZo7R-Uqpsrx6bVbTp_Q13lm8MG7ent-Ha7UKs53l9fjOlz_B4N0gUO40G434GJPXLQUh-TO0mNt5XLiSfxzIeVyYUACm154YA8S56ngyTHUTQ-8SC6PgI8ywUXdTITJUWvEpRUzC-Dyu6ZMdfttoNju5WYBjb3PrQUAf_rntKXEi-KmH1GVA=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwj67_Ro32uqAaPZJmUHFN9GjNfzWIoyhlcjs0VySJqdPvP1SRuZ2-lYeHAiW1iWHsWdu5eRhMdZz44FdoDCh6Fkz5Mr1p29rIsmxjXOilU_PZAHh-re91fBPHgQs2jqMle5n_2hp5idaLYCTeh7w-OFiwYcmH5elEbUlmYBhRvWw6s0Z8ENSifm_30w=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="900" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwj67_Ro32uqAaPZJmUHFN9GjNfzWIoyhlcjs0VySJqdPvP1SRuZ2-lYeHAiW1iWHsWdu5eRhMdZz44FdoDCh6Fkz5Mr1p29rIsmxjXOilU_PZAHh-re91fBPHgQs2jqMle5n_2hp5idaLYCTeh7w-OFiwYcmH5elEbUlmYBhRvWw6s0Z8ENSifm_30w=w640-h134" width="640" /></a></p><p>Silly girl. Removing his obsession in front of him isn’t gong to endear him closer to you. Quite the opposite in fact!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXAsgN4FxiruBPA2_S84O8f31TlxocPCgIIm5WCr_SGGcveDj2iZta_OlCYLEx4_aaQQ75kqbr3REj14GVOzOMcOLKzhOxSa-sT88cSJhhxoyQWxvlo1Z-E1grIYn5j2pS4XQP66D53-Vi9uBViNrZ4XBvfhE6bW0Dkg49S-9nTHhh6sPS4GVRCBWLiQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="900" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXAsgN4FxiruBPA2_S84O8f31TlxocPCgIIm5WCr_SGGcveDj2iZta_OlCYLEx4_aaQQ75kqbr3REj14GVOzOMcOLKzhOxSa-sT88cSJhhxoyQWxvlo1Z-E1grIYn5j2pS4XQP66D53-Vi9uBViNrZ4XBvfhE6bW0Dkg49S-9nTHhh6sPS4GVRCBWLiQ=w640-h132" width="640" /></a></p><p>The strip above might come across as being callous, but it could also be read as Schroeder trying to be sympathetic in the only way he knows how.</p><p>When it comes to exploring life outside the piano room, Schroeder was most commonly seen on the baseball field, secure in the role of catcher, where Charlie Brown's abysmal pitching averages meant that his delicate hands were in no danger of being injured. In that setting, there was the mini-arc where Lucy said she'd hit a home run in exchange for favors:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUbIRrcJmIMD-ebdfacodTKzroQwmsoWUNqXD8p4KCd-4j7vcqubqRuMj1qWpzKdcrGSsNm6yUNKfD3lQ1YtkP62NQTqfjuZZLa_-YrrQkNXggDCABERJr_EI-lf5g6kbJRp9oEH3NZcsKwIhrkEc6Z7eRRJZRLDu7Pyfs4TnC4QRd4dyxCXXgkvo72Q=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="900" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUbIRrcJmIMD-ebdfacodTKzroQwmsoWUNqXD8p4KCd-4j7vcqubqRuMj1qWpzKdcrGSsNm6yUNKfD3lQ1YtkP62NQTqfjuZZLa_-YrrQkNXggDCABERJr_EI-lf5g6kbJRp9oEH3NZcsKwIhrkEc6Z7eRRJZRLDu7Pyfs4TnC4QRd4dyxCXXgkvo72Q=w640-h146" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4i_-tERaDAq2dRZYXKRRog4kscc8IyKCkz3_ikfvjrw5indIfIC6DK3TR0HvO9RNF_XD5ufKEKX-UP-Y3qtmed-haPyjzF3Mj3ep07Lgx0B1KAd26vmRJkSak0uZowHUahZagm9ji0V5W8KqDp4XmkYHPe1M-VY9l6BNlSR6nz_lG9pJlKNjVqfImUA=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="900" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4i_-tERaDAq2dRZYXKRRog4kscc8IyKCkz3_ikfvjrw5indIfIC6DK3TR0HvO9RNF_XD5ufKEKX-UP-Y3qtmed-haPyjzF3Mj3ep07Lgx0B1KAd26vmRJkSak0uZowHUahZagm9ji0V5W8KqDp4XmkYHPe1M-VY9l6BNlSR6nz_lG9pJlKNjVqfImUA=w640-h134" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIZiRei3_NiC8I6Fj_1PVYpU_0h3o55sEDCzyKw4ha0Nl1cw72wpJmUPCja3Vo4_RQ_nFGL0RJktfeEmpv6tQ8cx5tKAdup7-NSbTlyTHVcZSCBnUzg4xGY4GnzHD9aC-Lqo8YWQUeeGpUo8_-avU4rgLW_rGNhNx3rgAfiIHeUyqeskyJAjHAcFYhiw=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIZiRei3_NiC8I6Fj_1PVYpU_0h3o55sEDCzyKw4ha0Nl1cw72wpJmUPCja3Vo4_RQ_nFGL0RJktfeEmpv6tQ8cx5tKAdup7-NSbTlyTHVcZSCBnUzg4xGY4GnzHD9aC-Lqo8YWQUeeGpUo8_-avU4rgLW_rGNhNx3rgAfiIHeUyqeskyJAjHAcFYhiw=w640-h136" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpMTCs9ynEYXlah8lani4iro_sTp3_dVbpdREohdWax5OfUVW4frU5m8Whw12BWGxPIUQWAAMfhHRqjTqBUPUs7mysGaHoMaGBqTqcEWi_9iFGDgOPVcv90VtJ2YwfPKvYFwHRDeuijraBvgB2Idb92V-wSuhUx4Yj08ooNg83q98rMC83hwcSXRFjyQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="900" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpMTCs9ynEYXlah8lani4iro_sTp3_dVbpdREohdWax5OfUVW4frU5m8Whw12BWGxPIUQWAAMfhHRqjTqBUPUs7mysGaHoMaGBqTqcEWi_9iFGDgOPVcv90VtJ2YwfPKvYFwHRDeuijraBvgB2Idb92V-wSuhUx4Yj08ooNg83q98rMC83hwcSXRFjyQ=w640-h138" width="640" /></a></div><p>Like many Asexuals, I have no interest in getting married, but would be willing to undergo the ritual for someone else’ sake, such as saving someone from a loveless marriage, preserving their hidden sexual orientation or helping their immigration status. In that sense, Schroeder’s willingness to undergo some brief discomfort for the greater good appeals to me as well.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9pFZ1i2Fratl31_E98F3I0Cevx_Tc_4gBvckfy_KAq563O0n8bJd3erVyjJ6VE0Mz8D-mZj59NImxMyvn6EjfqKvLd-NVRvjTpqsPfUdbbm1QRovO5jdn3xrFD5LlyiDMnvpAggmxmXdE9CfIoOrzFnEvniJhTHtyzAW-tk1uSnaRKGYSQ8LMYAiBNQ=s900" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="900" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9pFZ1i2Fratl31_E98F3I0Cevx_Tc_4gBvckfy_KAq563O0n8bJd3erVyjJ6VE0Mz8D-mZj59NImxMyvn6EjfqKvLd-NVRvjTpqsPfUdbbm1QRovO5jdn3xrFD5LlyiDMnvpAggmxmXdE9CfIoOrzFnEvniJhTHtyzAW-tk1uSnaRKGYSQ8LMYAiBNQ=w640-h138" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And if a surrogate can do the job, that would be even better.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As with any discussion of publication over the course of 50 years, anomalies are bound to crop up, so let's get these examples out of the way. One of the rare instances where Schroeder showed genuine concern was when Lucy temporarily moved away.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2BfQaOMMCMcoep8yIy6mUax8xVJqa94YLNyR3EP2bumfeCh_r5acRaJ6CkQAOESgrXT-qN3bDC5cW4HoGIBXjatXIJWJUO1lLMHa6u-oMWaOSe7cnLc_xM_KzXa_kkpZaE_MQE7SKHPpB64_9KTmqwbJac7UTIyDUoNyBM3pJSPgsXhxVS2J6wi0ODg=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="900" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2BfQaOMMCMcoep8yIy6mUax8xVJqa94YLNyR3EP2bumfeCh_r5acRaJ6CkQAOESgrXT-qN3bDC5cW4HoGIBXjatXIJWJUO1lLMHa6u-oMWaOSe7cnLc_xM_KzXa_kkpZaE_MQE7SKHPpB64_9KTmqwbJac7UTIyDUoNyBM3pJSPgsXhxVS2J6wi0ODg=w640-h134" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjqeeNi5we-MiMlqvyvTtZgffd6Pgp4RXJPl3vOShiz_bwIHcqW44VWZ8Vl-s20fxHXs5VdYNBrb0BxeaWFJqH1jG-uvVJ8C1HVpBtMhbzufsRI7VNOVVDbHRmHUYg8umOqLhrAVlHPsG9Y-p9hgefTmJbZ1i1jg5X6pLjVFTrFZ8EpQFkVccpeD03Kw=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="900" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjqeeNi5we-MiMlqvyvTtZgffd6Pgp4RXJPl3vOShiz_bwIHcqW44VWZ8Vl-s20fxHXs5VdYNBrb0BxeaWFJqH1jG-uvVJ8C1HVpBtMhbzufsRI7VNOVVDbHRmHUYg8umOqLhrAVlHPsG9Y-p9hgefTmJbZ1i1jg5X6pLjVFTrFZ8EpQFkVccpeD03Kw=w640-h138" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg07MrLTLMfeVdYFtHznA3TPBht340QdvXVjxA151Pjp7FukV6KHyQdQzCWWzAHxb8PT8sD0RhrLI1nYQFd2q6jlDKNMFjlahCsi4Sy5GX2rn8oF-uzJNOEgu96YWoYIIC1K_QJvluakUYjlU5KRq1o5VnKlBMd3-f5-qEhLd14PYwAnq1JmbxC8jyl-A=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg07MrLTLMfeVdYFtHznA3TPBht340QdvXVjxA151Pjp7FukV6KHyQdQzCWWzAHxb8PT8sD0RhrLI1nYQFd2q6jlDKNMFjlahCsi4Sy5GX2rn8oF-uzJNOEgu96YWoYIIC1K_QJvluakUYjlU5KRq1o5VnKlBMd3-f5-qEhLd14PYwAnq1JmbxC8jyl-A=w640-h136" width="640" /></a></p><p>However, when Lucy moved back, Schroeder showed no notice to her presence, so it's difficult to tell if he was affected or not.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEQxJ17y4QWfW8I86vQ1bhskGjSdMc_AmSSXM4p6m6KOeZSBEN0Bp4S4_h95DgWS7imaOm9P9hQKQVdMpNKLxlQIG59wjwB_eqzhu1xHzy84axMeFGDko-uOADrg8LrlsM9MAaDLFwnEwcxsoAKpulLMBon6ke28i-eBZRpx3mSCY6mSb5DWngnlT-gw=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEQxJ17y4QWfW8I86vQ1bhskGjSdMc_AmSSXM4p6m6KOeZSBEN0Bp4S4_h95DgWS7imaOm9P9hQKQVdMpNKLxlQIG59wjwB_eqzhu1xHzy84axMeFGDko-uOADrg8LrlsM9MAaDLFwnEwcxsoAKpulLMBon6ke28i-eBZRpx3mSCY6mSb5DWngnlT-gw=w640-h136" width="640" /></a></p><p>The biggest argument that Schroeder might not be considered Asexual (<i>Aromantic at the very least</i>) would be this Sunday comic which could be the exception that proves the rule.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzzFIdIQasbGkNImgGgg4GJPHa8NlAl3Fq7vHAhJqBlat4oSNT7Epma-DPu8CliEgA4Zx1volxYiki7OCyhk1soNZbTxa339UElgOyYidRIP1k0PnE6gL5EkYYmJ-0gNXEOWSYgAckQzbHPihLvCfl_4I-9rHWEKWYa5jVV2ScHdSOG1MYq3BHlNs-TQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="900" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzzFIdIQasbGkNImgGgg4GJPHa8NlAl3Fq7vHAhJqBlat4oSNT7Epma-DPu8CliEgA4Zx1volxYiki7OCyhk1soNZbTxa339UElgOyYidRIP1k0PnE6gL5EkYYmJ-0gNXEOWSYgAckQzbHPihLvCfl_4I-9rHWEKWYa5jVV2ScHdSOG1MYq3BHlNs-TQ=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></p><p>Let's break the scene down. Lucy gives a cupcake commemorating the birth of his favorite composer when she normally doesn't display rudimentary knowledge about music, after which Schroeder gives a peck on the cheek unprompted. And when she runs away screaming, makes an effort to correct her misunderstanding. When Schroeder isn't pressured into displaying signs of affection, he's more likely to reciprocate in kind.</p><p>There's also this moment where Schroeder gives the most impassionate speech he ever made that wasn't related to baseball or Beethoven, on Violet giving a pity Valentine. He clearly has thoughts on the subject.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvT6_vbnRPqeOGq4uL92ZB1Y-DdR-B_gu3V68zc9wtf19tzAT3W65dNkJt7SfuClRGOsD0leJ8qoCtBM0CqLiNAOkxsk8-aTgFbcW-b3YLJMJisS3ptIcwRfDTqrwMEgVSLetEfW0dWfOYQLRAq-EaZ6kBggDkXNixf84bfL59IZwXuRiKTVw1uAqzMw=s900" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="900" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvT6_vbnRPqeOGq4uL92ZB1Y-DdR-B_gu3V68zc9wtf19tzAT3W65dNkJt7SfuClRGOsD0leJ8qoCtBM0CqLiNAOkxsk8-aTgFbcW-b3YLJMJisS3ptIcwRfDTqrwMEgVSLetEfW0dWfOYQLRAq-EaZ6kBggDkXNixf84bfL59IZwXuRiKTVw1uAqzMw=w640-h434" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Of course, Charlie Brown is so starved for affection he'll take whatever breadcrumbs come his way.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In closing, it feels appropriate to borrow a line from Citizen Kane: “A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4BIqOjRbIFYBjUE0rbHrNqmcyRFrmtjy_y-dOyyix85Cf8sbrb3LXjpE0IpjBSYlOtDRrbprozWreB4IpXShs-fY3FwO6beiyNUSArJ193QZUaH5TCsGZ3nJACGjTQHLjL8bu258Yu-4Ve0EmLbWdxp8zPzsArnrBkL7_CZGh3KHs-NFFHUomNtTRCQ=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4BIqOjRbIFYBjUE0rbHrNqmcyRFrmtjy_y-dOyyix85Cf8sbrb3LXjpE0IpjBSYlOtDRrbprozWreB4IpXShs-fY3FwO6beiyNUSArJ193QZUaH5TCsGZ3nJACGjTQHLjL8bu258Yu-4Ve0EmLbWdxp8zPzsArnrBkL7_CZGh3KHs-NFFHUomNtTRCQ=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-75767388575122827622022-02-28T22:05:00.002-08:002022-02-28T22:05:24.238-08:00 Interpreting Primer<p>I’m currently in the process of helping clean my Mother’s office up, which has been consistently cluttered for years, yet I never saw anything wrong with her setup, being accustomed to working in messy environments before. The reason for the sudden rush for tidying when we weren’t having any company over was because we were running out of scrap printer paper, not having had the opportunity to take home any work documents in the 2 years we’ve been under quarantine.</p><p>A lot of items had to be checked beforehand deciding to shred, recycle or reuse, which was another procrastination factor. Not to mention the messy business of removing staples, poring over pages for confidential information and cutting away said information in smaller portions for easier shredding use.</p><p>In the process, I came across an information pamphlet as a primer to oral interpreting in the classroom. It may seem obvious to have assistance for handicapped students, but there was a lot of resistance in even having oral interpreters present.</p><p>The argument presented was that College and University deaf students were allowed access, but this service was denied for High School students, when their formative years were still taking place.</p><p>A trial run was agreed on, only having interpreters present for half of my non-essential classes. At the end of the first semester, the teachers in the classes I had no interpreters present commented on how sullen and uncooperative I was, but in the classes an interpreter was present, the teachers commented on how enthusiastic and funny I was. I’ve <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-matter-of-interpretation.html">mentioned it before</a>, but it bears repeating. I’m much more likely to engage when I understand what’s going on.</p><p>The artwork and humour isn't nearly anywhere near Larry Gonick's level, but it does the job. The <u style="font-weight: bold;">Interpreting Services Student Package</u> started out with an introductory page that clearly took inspiration from a popular animated movie at the time:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFM9TJCsuGcJYStaidXh8AFN5Ih6yWQxScVwqZ68_3m-UXMoiKdM0oM90H8bKilvDACbjLveVjmF4Wg-wNYxZFCg06902CJ9CWALAktDFgIqaWpskfAVpp1Mv3BxzdmWt6bIlouJYfH423WoPbxR_Dsg1sXAPJNIc5la0Wa1Ymf78CbljjnGuelfo2MA=s1828" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1361" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFM9TJCsuGcJYStaidXh8AFN5Ih6yWQxScVwqZ68_3m-UXMoiKdM0oM90H8bKilvDACbjLveVjmF4Wg-wNYxZFCg06902CJ9CWALAktDFgIqaWpskfAVpp1Mv3BxzdmWt6bIlouJYfH423WoPbxR_Dsg1sXAPJNIc5la0Wa1Ymf78CbljjnGuelfo2MA=w476-h640" width="476" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">WELCOME TO HIGH SCHOOL!</p><p style="text-align: center;">AND WELCOME TO OUR INTERPRETING SERVICE!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2Murdy_yxAnbrmBKllL4UPtnQchQXEhmJvgGKWxfVu4BrVBJ_0pO8jSAUcks7hWRV4Jj6dRzqY2ahMzcE-qEoMFgnJ2GZwKlrWufUcVOleJ5l3MnzFFJaXUkX2QRTgrn0FKzJWnQIP8gTHO5QDPwfoUkGfqUHLQ3pyJvyXHQn6t_QNSehGvhduDcB5w=s2011" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2011" data-original-width="1554" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2Murdy_yxAnbrmBKllL4UPtnQchQXEhmJvgGKWxfVu4BrVBJ_0pO8jSAUcks7hWRV4Jj6dRzqY2ahMzcE-qEoMFgnJ2GZwKlrWufUcVOleJ5l3MnzFFJaXUkX2QRTgrn0FKzJWnQIP8gTHO5QDPwfoUkGfqUHLQ3pyJvyXHQn6t_QNSehGvhduDcB5w=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This is a big step for you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are now a high school student!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf5mC4Vf1NDPbZFF7ZroPi-4FPE0T3WCz4Bs3AYW0-de9KQMg0OhJi5vY-3zUoj14uJrRrwoidWGrFCELD8767XGooH7sZCK2m5ZcA41tQ6_IlLEeqNOUJWa1EN6ylROAApQIY0ZDnoEh0hc9semG6sHHAQg8cYZaAh7d-NyNRrdwfKlSTT7FOl6l1cQ=s2004" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="1582" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf5mC4Vf1NDPbZFF7ZroPi-4FPE0T3WCz4Bs3AYW0-de9KQMg0OhJi5vY-3zUoj14uJrRrwoidWGrFCELD8767XGooH7sZCK2m5ZcA41tQ6_IlLEeqNOUJWa1EN6ylROAApQIY0ZDnoEh0hc9semG6sHHAQg8cYZaAh7d-NyNRrdwfKlSTT7FOl6l1cQ=w506-h640" width="506" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">A.S.L.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Interpreter</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWGuGKpLh5BJde-BTg38_8Yqn8M92OsJjszsipX2e5tkQE-MzJF5eD1hpH3rdLJWMEWqjldI3qacLuUqT__-gacIBuolAg8oyYVOXJURYZP08XYwmErd7kos_urObUw7bjD-Zj0Ovy-Zd6dMC3GLjvuXQXiEfaRzRe_KaueYrE5ncCx279laZF7t7T6A=s2008" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2008" data-original-width="1568" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWGuGKpLh5BJde-BTg38_8Yqn8M92OsJjszsipX2e5tkQE-MzJF5eD1hpH3rdLJWMEWqjldI3qacLuUqT__-gacIBuolAg8oyYVOXJURYZP08XYwmErd7kos_urObUw7bjD-Zj0Ovy-Zd6dMC3GLjvuXQXiEfaRzRe_KaueYrE5ncCx279laZF7t7T6A=w500-h640" width="500" /></a></p><p>You are a high school student using an interpreter.</p><p>That means that on top of having to do all the things a hearing high school student has to do.</p><p>THERE’S ALSO AN INTERPRETER TO WATCH.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirZ8CSdPKLydw3n-SbTUKp-dhhsfEIRjFtgd34Rf-xp_GvjB90XGrUWx2FnkKNq5DxfWQk-a_Jmd2Le929xbfg1D9UpJDIVUxy0RySrNciqsPyb9N7lm0925gsRIaY6Z3lVVTyPV4pHqxiDmTxP98yx9awZXNeXkfCYe1jbZJvolsmZCL1R27ugT1BNw=s2102" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2102" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirZ8CSdPKLydw3n-SbTUKp-dhhsfEIRjFtgd34Rf-xp_GvjB90XGrUWx2FnkKNq5DxfWQk-a_Jmd2Le929xbfg1D9UpJDIVUxy0RySrNciqsPyb9N7lm0925gsRIaY6Z3lVVTyPV4pHqxiDmTxP98yx9awZXNeXkfCYe1jbZJvolsmZCL1R27ugT1BNw=w486-h640" width="486" /></a></p><p>It may be the first time you use an interpreter so here are some guidelines for things for you to know about interpreting and being a high school student.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The student uses A.S.L, sign language, or communicates orally.</li><li>The student is the person who goes to class, does the homework and writes the exams.</li><li>We have coordinators to do the scheduling of interpreters.</li><li>Some students may prefer to voice or speak for themselves.</li><li>If the student is late..... The interpreter will wait 10 minutes before leaving the class.</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgR2HbyJrj3Ciz3br2ToJAXdQQXMQJAuuV6qyCrfwVN6TxMWKzYUdE1PdG1hHI_0_bgkmNMvg2wG4DbcIGlQSEL-_EdYqnITPDf9uqEFcwpRa601MvowSpWGdMR9rz0kMiV_Z8LZ1oikVrUkKMVI3wY9BRGhf7RLstH2UA542Ywmu08UM79IOw_vfpNZg=s2032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2032" data-original-width="1593" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgR2HbyJrj3Ciz3br2ToJAXdQQXMQJAuuV6qyCrfwVN6TxMWKzYUdE1PdG1hHI_0_bgkmNMvg2wG4DbcIGlQSEL-_EdYqnITPDf9uqEFcwpRa601MvowSpWGdMR9rz0kMiV_Z8LZ1oikVrUkKMVI3wY9BRGhf7RLstH2UA542Ywmu08UM79IOw_vfpNZg=w502-h640" width="502" /></a></p><p>STAFF ROOM</p><p>Inform the interpreter about other interpreting needs, like study groups, tutoring sessions, meetings with the teacher...</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf6bRKAa0SXAqdS16z3ZX2FNW_GjbKAteUqNkvb-Df7cMFJMe6XJmTd1mtJO7SSb5MUIe4-IjQJOovsx3i8WQPs25RdYPrntaYVSLLJ-80wX79KrsY8pAGasejL6L-ScByfVCE9ZAtcdLaxNqVmTa2adSV4wel0bQTx54R6eEs5kMrkJTGnXEKrbY7DA=s2095" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2095" data-original-width="1579" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf6bRKAa0SXAqdS16z3ZX2FNW_GjbKAteUqNkvb-Df7cMFJMe6XJmTd1mtJO7SSb5MUIe4-IjQJOovsx3i8WQPs25RdYPrntaYVSLLJ-80wX79KrsY8pAGasejL6L-ScByfVCE9ZAtcdLaxNqVmTa2adSV4wel0bQTx54R6eEs5kMrkJTGnXEKrbY7DA=w482-h640" width="482" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZZSaTx0a6ifroEBhURvfgyCdJ4wK6IeACoxNSVKtAUPkUpAFbWtc1Ero-Rt0Q07S1ryzgAh_9TkjcSqyzQ-_88T7G53CbiJkY-dBkLHEDgpUkhwYYf9S29kjH6EqoTAPRgGN8h2kQsBqEqHiFiRBxCxWhUtxBBZLoEj-_xAItz-P4NnImmTkp7neKCw=s2053" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2053" data-original-width="1568" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZZSaTx0a6ifroEBhURvfgyCdJ4wK6IeACoxNSVKtAUPkUpAFbWtc1Ero-Rt0Q07S1ryzgAh_9TkjcSqyzQ-_88T7G53CbiJkY-dBkLHEDgpUkhwYYf9S29kjH6EqoTAPRgGN8h2kQsBqEqHiFiRBxCxWhUtxBBZLoEj-_xAItz-P4NnImmTkp7neKCw=w488-h640" width="488" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJ4mnHJGeKGYWKiIezWufC9OXW2kuaA0MRzqyMdxjXB1WuO_ltss1-G8ttMk-5XgOBOFgQR_9YGZydjoSSuQ8usqNhcdbFtImbWdvBkJck6A08RmROagzr34GggHvWXK6GWDYw9kd043fxFxMmPAkUJAyVnu34FE6cCDjm-YLhkO8vRBusXLgtQNGiA=s2057" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2057" data-original-width="1572" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJ4mnHJGeKGYWKiIezWufC9OXW2kuaA0MRzqyMdxjXB1WuO_ltss1-G8ttMk-5XgOBOFgQR_9YGZydjoSSuQ8usqNhcdbFtImbWdvBkJck6A08RmROagzr34GggHvWXK6GWDYw9kd043fxFxMmPAkUJAyVnu34FE6cCDjm-YLhkO8vRBusXLgtQNGiA=w490-h640" width="490" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLzZ1IFhDIxdVGI87i1dB6sXFgZFGu3EBhqmJGGgHLrjFWcduW4Aiqj3SOGrSn_wjMKz_l-GsvJPhAnE1tcqLZJYmISAzFaNguDiZe1a4Oc_cOQqJGkbnZwQhIguLlmDhY5rbhZmOwMLq6m3nDQUXB82Ot0oiHQhq2SKXhkf5bUQY0K7DUqMpN10i5Qg=s2057" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2057" data-original-width="1565" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLzZ1IFhDIxdVGI87i1dB6sXFgZFGu3EBhqmJGGgHLrjFWcduW4Aiqj3SOGrSn_wjMKz_l-GsvJPhAnE1tcqLZJYmISAzFaNguDiZe1a4Oc_cOQqJGkbnZwQhIguLlmDhY5rbhZmOwMLq6m3nDQUXB82Ot0oiHQhq2SKXhkf5bUQY0K7DUqMpN10i5Qg=w486-h640" width="486" /></a></p><p>As you can see, there are lots of things to think about when you start high school. You have new challenges and new responsibilities.</p><p>If you feel the need to talk to someone about your courses or about the interpreting services, here are some names and phone numbers that may be useful.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrPsJiPtsJM6yzsqOwfFcXAF1apO-truG0FC2lMVXebCKq-mOKJVfa5UHdPyJMDHhMymFvq1pHXQB-1qseQbU2XPXIVP2m6tNACMGv9EMZhVVZp2xKI6cYgsQyfPUZXOrbD0vyJWgKjNadmDMxj0vps8E9Fl283tOKAT76pa0q7miEkz26bZAfzi6FuA=s2092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2092" data-original-width="1565" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrPsJiPtsJM6yzsqOwfFcXAF1apO-truG0FC2lMVXebCKq-mOKJVfa5UHdPyJMDHhMymFvq1pHXQB-1qseQbU2XPXIVP2m6tNACMGv9EMZhVVZp2xKI6cYgsQyfPUZXOrbD0vyJWgKjNadmDMxj0vps8E9Fl283tOKAT76pa0q7miEkz26bZAfzi6FuA=w478-h640" width="478" /></a></p><p>(CONTACTS REDACTED)</p><p>The second page of the Student Package had a foreword that consisted of the following:</p><p style="text-align: center;">F O R E W O R D</p><p>Dear students,</p><p>Welcome to college which you have reached after plenty of hard work and good will. We sincerely hope that your “transit” there will also be fruitful and rewarding as the months go by.</p><p>In order to facilitate your way through college and university, the Service à l’intégration des élèves from the Cègep du Vieux Montréal have adapted a documents from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) which provides you with information pertaining to oral and sign language interpreter’s services, note taking, etc... which will be useful throughout your studies.</p><p>This booklet is designed with comic strips which illustrate different ways of getting various services.</p><p>Special thanks go to Louise Daoust who worked on this project along with the anglophone team of interpreters.</p><p>We hope that you will read it for your own information and enjoy it as well.</p><p style="text-align: center;">ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS</p><p>The information in this handbook is based and adapted from:</p><p>Vancouver Community College: Student’s Package </p><p>NTID: Principles of Interpreting</p><p>Texts and Drawings by Louise Daoust</p><p>There was also an alternate condensed version of the above for the <u><b>Montreal Metro Region</b></u>, which continues as follows:</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHsCe_e0paXPGJkVoEAsB96s46srjqhZzVEEo_14ipOk_hHk9SssHiagEhEk7sB_OafLYG8lt1LWlrNw31xlNt0eepozw_hFfhUxoZTDdtV3U8ScHN0xdTRBIkvZ86TGkgZohMIgDsYHhc5WNO8MjUK4kymOwFYBZn0Zh8iX8iolfK6VehHejMfQTKRw=s2032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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There's a slight modification made to the first that may look very similar to the 6th page Student image above, but has a slight difference. The second page below isn't included anywhere, which is a shame since I find the third panel to be somewhat cute.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8ehnBS1VnwGS0qwVo5Lp6WLOie4Xe-Thcek8rANURDl3c_ORA_CAjBLHk5_YSNp_gFhkxsCeKQDn6cSwu4rRMlTEwemOSogIx7a9WgLGClAvmmXiBUaQ1paVx2LdRP7CI8EEOiMA9ZO2Xa3KLsHhGeyLiDDqzRXgrc4IL-xrkw-1Dgd6h_UsmPzbLZg=s2064" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2064" data-original-width="1572" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8ehnBS1VnwGS0qwVo5Lp6WLOie4Xe-Thcek8rANURDl3c_ORA_CAjBLHk5_YSNp_gFhkxsCeKQDn6cSwu4rRMlTEwemOSogIx7a9WgLGClAvmmXiBUaQ1paVx2LdRP7CI8EEOiMA9ZO2Xa3KLsHhGeyLiDDqzRXgrc4IL-xrkw-1Dgd6h_UsmPzbLZg=w488-h640" width="488" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivZwAPkHKjVfbGL45Z-d4UgVC9O_oF7CI6Rj6r0R4AkcpW1LjzdP1ZhSKDLtZBIAJo_ec8zN4c9avI6z01GZhROaq4Do_zBTA7ynQ_sUz3tOe1-OjOBf5Hc3fcYGUjXw2BrxeaPBBvloi4mN7yfs-cZNVuhuoDMZjHycPduJusRT2qiDXlAai2p9oV_Q=s1951" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1951" data-original-width="1533" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivZwAPkHKjVfbGL45Z-d4UgVC9O_oF7CI6Rj6r0R4AkcpW1LjzdP1ZhSKDLtZBIAJo_ec8zN4c9avI6z01GZhROaq4Do_zBTA7ynQ_sUz3tOe1-OjOBf5Hc3fcYGUjXw2BrxeaPBBvloi4mN7yfs-cZNVuhuoDMZjHycPduJusRT2qiDXlAai2p9oV_Q=w502-h640" width="502" /></a></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-83113481566669559762022-02-04T22:52:00.004-08:002022-02-07T19:03:40.742-08:00 The Gravity of the Situation<blockquote><p>Ever since he has looked heavenwards in envy, man has wanted to fly, consequences be damned.</p></blockquote><p>On a random comment board, it was mentioned in passing that of all the mechanism failures that occurred on Star Trek, ranging from Holodeck Malfunctions to Warp Core Explosions, the one standing feature that remained intact during all these disaster scenarios was the gravity controls. No matter how dire, it was imperative that everybody keep their feet on the ground. Other Sci-fi shows with a higher budget such as <b>The Expanse</b> managed to expand on that concept, showing just how unfeasible it could be to survive on a gravity-free zone. The major reason that these far-concept shows had such a stranglehold on the gravity controls is that they were mainly filmed on Earth. (<i>Sorry for spoiling the illusion guys!</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih61kKADLWNRhAiIBiJrJ8SxlLXp7DhP9oRPc8-_uWwLC8INXkfvjaxpFxrtw6fsQDPa4Dl34LUimI-1NoSdJHz1z4dwZpLr1rDQdU0ulWzdtzZAoCDeT95GsPNhA_NMJpcXKKD5zSAhKTuxloX0VX4OlA9HcIcXXCmt2213QDZh_xdgtU4ua37ftRWQ=s1210" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1210" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih61kKADLWNRhAiIBiJrJ8SxlLXp7DhP9oRPc8-_uWwLC8INXkfvjaxpFxrtw6fsQDPa4Dl34LUimI-1NoSdJHz1z4dwZpLr1rDQdU0ulWzdtzZAoCDeT95GsPNhA_NMJpcXKKD5zSAhKTuxloX0VX4OlA9HcIcXXCmt2213QDZh_xdgtU4ua37ftRWQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></p><p>All this stemming from news that the latest Tom Cruise movie, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/world/europe/russia-movie-space.html">Vyozov</a> (<i>The Challenge</i>)’s marketing gimmick would be the first film that would be filmed entirely in space. By a Russian crew, no less. (<i>Whether it’d be any good is immaterial</i>)</p><p>This led to a discussion of realistic portrayal of living in a stimulated environment, and there were very few comics that accurately reflected what it’d be like to live in a world without gravity. The ones that did, showed just how ubiquitous gravity surrounds us to the extent that we don’t think about it. This page from chapter 21 of <a href="https://greasemonkeybook.com/intro/">Grease Monkey</a> by Tim Eldred shows what happens when it's not around, and how much of a mess keeping everything floating around would be.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqnoeaGOykF5fD5d2TdSIz1brpMzNxdQ2RMPDWzTpOLgllkQfs2_hAEhCifeckUJkkn169INNAhZT9ZcW31OdGC88uAdUTnRwhaOU5kna5olrmTKVT3UthD-Xeb_CbV7Mthz68imWQtAo24IUa2cne-b5gqhXOj-GXKQbmIRFHJf4isWRXXSg1edUJw/s1116/GravityMonkey21-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="739" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqnoeaGOykF5fD5d2TdSIz1brpMzNxdQ2RMPDWzTpOLgllkQfs2_hAEhCifeckUJkkn169INNAhZT9ZcW31OdGC88uAdUTnRwhaOU5kna5olrmTKVT3UthD-Xeb_CbV7Mthz68imWQtAo24IUa2cne-b5gqhXOj-GXKQbmIRFHJf4isWRXXSg1edUJw/s16000/GravityMonkey21-4.jpg" /></a></p><p>I started thinking about this after reading the entirety of <b>Skyward</b>, written by Joe Henderson, and drawn by Antonio Fabela and Lee Garbett. At first, <b>Skyward </b>seems to openly embrace this concept with open arms, when one day all of a sudden, gravity just seems to cease working properly. But then this open-world policy quickly devolves into cliched territory, making for a less satisfactory read than would otherwise be expected.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG70ve6StqKJuXB_6y76exw34ADQ-XEvO-fq4ScGlAL9ggEdkLe78u4aA3UHCbXpwNVPSHmf2RwRUSXQNfS6M3QIGPPZcUUdQLhp4sH7KsLwOYuO4lJjS0c5po0uHKWtQ0elMCFPN_8pMio2N_vLoL2WgnxxBisJS0qrpTjdYEXwGXxzx9NwohC-blrQ=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1600" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG70ve6StqKJuXB_6y76exw34ADQ-XEvO-fq4ScGlAL9ggEdkLe78u4aA3UHCbXpwNVPSHmf2RwRUSXQNfS6M3QIGPPZcUUdQLhp4sH7KsLwOYuO4lJjS0c5po0uHKWtQ0elMCFPN_8pMio2N_vLoL2WgnxxBisJS0qrpTjdYEXwGXxzx9NwohC-blrQ=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></p><p>There are scenes of imaginative worldbuilding such as having millionaires fitted with magnetic boots to recapture life like it was before, and people using slotted buckets to capture water from an incoming storm, but for the most part, it’s filled with flawed leaps of imagination.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL506EzHYZ4EvxlslsSTAL3_0OBxkGVSCFd1vxaGWDvDmg-1vVT6Qnhq1V52QSvOQ51axKXEENmNaIG65SWl5Ie4ObXsjuGGe65f1ml_MwS7sC_3IWGOKjnhw3gFfLee_clTJVplSjjHVy3crD7LvqBSaUn2qNmN9RPfEVye_jWFKZu1y4AqzhXg8hCA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1041" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL506EzHYZ4EvxlslsSTAL3_0OBxkGVSCFd1vxaGWDvDmg-1vVT6Qnhq1V52QSvOQ51axKXEENmNaIG65SWl5Ie4ObXsjuGGe65f1ml_MwS7sC_3IWGOKjnhw3gFfLee_clTJVplSjjHVy3crD7LvqBSaUn2qNmN9RPfEVye_jWFKZu1y4AqzhXg8hCA=w416-h640" width="416" /></a></p><p>One of the failed suspensions of disbelief is the inclusion of a disabled love interest who would prefer to remain in this gravity-free world where where a return to normalcy would mean being tied down.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPw-3sRlsFV0V2Hn5JlFm16RpGImcv7RgBYlHzK4J5at539acRdDU_lnik9hA3XibddjcS6oZbp0BnTl3X3YE8fVd10kg2q9O0srr4a6-UlW0MpNZPwVblKtpgNM3j0pggIl2KDKSg1LdLUOnjgutXI-CWJ59jqdX10PwxnQ5yAFEziZLMVDnnk6e-zA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1041" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPw-3sRlsFV0V2Hn5JlFm16RpGImcv7RgBYlHzK4J5at539acRdDU_lnik9hA3XibddjcS6oZbp0BnTl3X3YE8fVd10kg2q9O0srr4a6-UlW0MpNZPwVblKtpgNM3j0pggIl2KDKSg1LdLUOnjgutXI-CWJ59jqdX10PwxnQ5yAFEziZLMVDnnk6e-zA=w416-h640" width="416" /></a></p><p>That in itself isn’t a bad idea. The problem is, all portrayal of him shows him as being at the same height of everyone, regardless of his missing legs or not.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJV47uWutaU96Y4Yec8gR8ZyVBN73Yf-9oAoXfUkTwL39b33JKe1RWpLal7pCCvK8zZBvKiEWoX6DwezyJXVLaVcNIF_KpVCC9FP2A9VqpJviZKDj0pSlrshCM-94Y9RtXJ_lPSAxn_IARPgSl-D_pNVbR2fG5vDDroKfiUPGgpHjNLpdMsNbTADR5sA=s1041" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1041" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJV47uWutaU96Y4Yec8gR8ZyVBN73Yf-9oAoXfUkTwL39b33JKe1RWpLal7pCCvK8zZBvKiEWoX6DwezyJXVLaVcNIF_KpVCC9FP2A9VqpJviZKDj0pSlrshCM-94Y9RtXJ_lPSAxn_IARPgSl-D_pNVbR2fG5vDDroKfiUPGgpHjNLpdMsNbTADR5sA=w640-h498" width="640" /></a></p><p>Standing around like a disembodied leg guy from that episode of Quantum Leap.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN0HMtiPCnzC6uXX6_ZKdgQjfL887BZSx0plKTjnJZGdmhp2lDptf2QRpltDBTn5V7wcehsF_j8qwERNq_QzLgIR8GuwqblMk4jrcXrpNjwsWrdNsu8lPRMAO0Rta6tczccGs3LK1HW2WY2-3kqjPoU2PFyvZdbrsZ3Af-F5Z6iDorhN-6eX6uQ7BMdg=s765" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN0HMtiPCnzC6uXX6_ZKdgQjfL887BZSx0plKTjnJZGdmhp2lDptf2QRpltDBTn5V7wcehsF_j8qwERNq_QzLgIR8GuwqblMk4jrcXrpNjwsWrdNsu8lPRMAO0Rta6tczccGs3LK1HW2WY2-3kqjPoU2PFyvZdbrsZ3Af-F5Z6iDorhN-6eX6uQ7BMdg=w562-h640" width="562" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAuAh1lMScN8A55dTYqIhxC-zRv8EX35sM2GxfqLx5iVGzJvQ4q_pF42PHQVMVKjr4stEJtQ9G4dRf8KTqGgMZh9-ZywOIO54tUacJpuBDgU0N-JGm-415qcQAr3HI0Dyb4dE3AIcLg2bj4jW85HhOsHPnBthORhJW6GhNmRAbAklmjfSG3HfuwCKQ-w=s715" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="449" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAuAh1lMScN8A55dTYqIhxC-zRv8EX35sM2GxfqLx5iVGzJvQ4q_pF42PHQVMVKjr4stEJtQ9G4dRf8KTqGgMZh9-ZywOIO54tUacJpuBDgU0N-JGm-415qcQAr3HI0Dyb4dE3AIcLg2bj4jW85HhOsHPnBthORhJW6GhNmRAbAklmjfSG3HfuwCKQ-w=w402-h640" width="402" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9zflRhtVyHDpOUE8ASGwvbhnRnqX2bib8nMiPGZtClYA3xeAOAb9D9nKGV8hcK_GAHYRaTN1EvoF5PdjMJvkr2Rcyn2UJRyHbKhwHBLPAkRWM1vZ1c2i5b2ReqHOTJOC4RvQcal3Gm8DlrzEVfF7GuHj0YA6BAq2Itu6kr8QNQKflf6jFWp1GXcjiQw=s975" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="975" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9zflRhtVyHDpOUE8ASGwvbhnRnqX2bib8nMiPGZtClYA3xeAOAb9D9nKGV8hcK_GAHYRaTN1EvoF5PdjMJvkr2Rcyn2UJRyHbKhwHBLPAkRWM1vZ1c2i5b2ReqHOTJOC4RvQcal3Gm8DlrzEVfF7GuHj0YA6BAq2Itu6kr8QNQKflf6jFWp1GXcjiQw=w640-h236" width="640" /></a></p><p>Whether this fault lies at the hands of the author or the writer, I couldn’t say, but it’s safe that neither of them are sufficiently handicapped.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9r-x0203j-1tDy0Cn_LK_65NiulNbfjkWgiT6SYr9YIw73heBfCjWJiHREjUpfrB95gm9z1fDqiYBCvQ7q1TdnvH8XS8krydfQvoLBWwiLW6xbT0DTtDskE4QM4yvoKUfxZQ20qZJrmYz03JGqZj4WdTSbcmdU_2x4SUHEJpYQbRNSCy-SUk5WKTAOA/s1300/GravityPitsberg209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9r-x0203j-1tDy0Cn_LK_65NiulNbfjkWgiT6SYr9YIw73heBfCjWJiHREjUpfrB95gm9z1fDqiYBCvQ7q1TdnvH8XS8krydfQvoLBWwiLW6xbT0DTtDskE4QM4yvoKUfxZQ20qZJrmYz03JGqZj4WdTSbcmdU_2x4SUHEJpYQbRNSCy-SUk5WKTAOA/s16000/GravityPitsberg209.jpg" /></a></p><p>Segueing back to Tim "Grease Monkey" Eldred, his other online work, <b><a href="http://pitsberg.com/">Pitsberg</a></b>, has a much more nuanced take on amputees closer to The Expanse, where condemned miners of space minerals (<i>there's a lot of exposition involved, but space minerals is what we're working with</i>) have to undergo required extraction of body parts in order to reduce expenses. And in a gravity-free zone, legs are just <b>one </b>of the many deemed minor unnecessary "<a href="http://pitsberg.com/video-chapter/video-chapter-2/">inconveniences</a>" to go. As such, there's a greater variety of legless bodies in a floating environment to deal with.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKk4AJfeBgunP2pd_JzrtkUmTI2dfkj0e8O6JgwJpnxdxoxtovDr63kkVXqeccPtURDRG9p_AGbdkdk-vf6aRJnvmDZb450lYOtVmVIEDRoLODoOggUSH9RhKlgrOCZ5yLwYPnn64Ydm2kzSpccJevtegpwC0Ur7feSQeY39kvWzvVp-I9u8VqoJas4w/s1085/GravityPitsberg316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKk4AJfeBgunP2pd_JzrtkUmTI2dfkj0e8O6JgwJpnxdxoxtovDr63kkVXqeccPtURDRG9p_AGbdkdk-vf6aRJnvmDZb450lYOtVmVIEDRoLODoOggUSH9RhKlgrOCZ5yLwYPnn64Ydm2kzSpccJevtegpwC0Ur7feSQeY39kvWzvVp-I9u8VqoJas4w/s16000/GravityPitsberg316.jpg" /></a></p><p>For the most part, until someone is able to spend sufficient time in a gravity-free zone and have the imaginative insight to document a wider-spread alternate reality, such fantastic concepts would be better suited to the realm of short stories.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixNX4FL77FUPUWBpmJijd5pU10zkiPuu8OiuUBht_72_ICmGGAPeBO6zsjNrl5lf7EeIvwAjG3j6IuywI08oQtJ5pEGUaLBXnVKg6Uzb9PJOJQAxTeR4IdHBpDJt9RbPnWqV7x0N7V9L1leSkNt67yMrOpzhqhjecQXhBOB3Pad8YY_cDZbDDDxDPblg=s769" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixNX4FL77FUPUWBpmJijd5pU10zkiPuu8OiuUBht_72_ICmGGAPeBO6zsjNrl5lf7EeIvwAjG3j6IuywI08oQtJ5pEGUaLBXnVKg6Uzb9PJOJQAxTeR4IdHBpDJt9RbPnWqV7x0N7V9L1leSkNt67yMrOpzhqhjecQXhBOB3Pad8YY_cDZbDDDxDPblg=w458-h640" width="458" /></a></p><p>For me, the one comic that manages to succeed in this where others fail would be Sherwin Tjia’s <b><a href="https://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/plummet/">Plummet</a></b>, where a young woman wakes up and finds herself falling mid-air.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHfSzyUoO8_r_RTw9e3nLCIlFAFmgDNlvvsuz9Bh7v_l-21GQKy2znNyEBhTN89q4uyGLbF3u3Cax3selJLNK2NGOzksojFHXbr910MiE38Wnej8k_4ED0lJjAiC0UnWbpL6aImAXo8fcrySOLzh7MGX6rcyDHBmlHvHVjNEhtVNaErxJw_-vUm9o47w=s1536" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="1536" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHfSzyUoO8_r_RTw9e3nLCIlFAFmgDNlvvsuz9Bh7v_l-21GQKy2znNyEBhTN89q4uyGLbF3u3Cax3selJLNK2NGOzksojFHXbr910MiE38Wnej8k_4ED0lJjAiC0UnWbpL6aImAXo8fcrySOLzh7MGX6rcyDHBmlHvHVjNEhtVNaErxJw_-vUm9o47w=w640-h208" width="640" /></a></p><p>It sounds like a Mr. Boffo joke, but it’s one of the best underrated Canadian comics you’ve never read.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVdxVRx5wjoTHv4iWwhAzmeQ9T96bD9MIR-hUOm5X0gm-MDTKzQariGsO27noRlMOKYF2B-H1dsm4vnWrJp574d_jczsL-lAXk0ZRyuq2hNM5IlOKXRC2vGrHmqIS0uaEf77NMZcB1okrEdy21iPQ9PQbUGiQ64crp2N26dTu7gwwTLGQ3OcOj-dTUYQ=s1993" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1993" data-original-width="1238" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVdxVRx5wjoTHv4iWwhAzmeQ9T96bD9MIR-hUOm5X0gm-MDTKzQariGsO27noRlMOKYF2B-H1dsm4vnWrJp574d_jczsL-lAXk0ZRyuq2hNM5IlOKXRC2vGrHmqIS0uaEf77NMZcB1okrEdy21iPQ9PQbUGiQ64crp2N26dTu7gwwTLGQ3OcOj-dTUYQ=w398-h640" width="398" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT8E568fUKJBpHDNq5ujyXYhjjI-29im2vS0ELSFoPfbhIutR1Giym689tCakWU3SnkX4nZX7T2yAr128Q4F1oCEWkv5sTx8f8a_CbweMTU9ENW8PLhQf9xF6BhPYSoMMJbpdYNatCLah3zhoxznE1WsXB0hwue-55DddP8NDovJV87b2H5EPqg5IMAA=s1986" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1986" data-original-width="1241" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT8E568fUKJBpHDNq5ujyXYhjjI-29im2vS0ELSFoPfbhIutR1Giym689tCakWU3SnkX4nZX7T2yAr128Q4F1oCEWkv5sTx8f8a_CbweMTU9ENW8PLhQf9xF6BhPYSoMMJbpdYNatCLah3zhoxznE1WsXB0hwue-55DddP8NDovJV87b2H5EPqg5IMAA=w400-h640" width="400" /></a></p><p>Being in perpetual free-fall with numerous random objects appearing out of nowhere means you’re never fully prepared for what may happen next. One of the falling objects happens to be a section of an apartment building, which has potential for housing valuable supplies like food and clothing. Of course, navigating inside isn’t as easy as it first seems.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFANc6JLDJ_IESOqh694fRVNIvWWyHdrlAvipcPAYDD7NwNVaznPWwZyDS0Nz4iu5QX7NDy1GaEI37dh2WlzlSxXAs7fTXPBbq7r6XCTmkzZm2V60E0Ot1GmgiL9wTSf7NFTE8Y-dg6ivEQfkAypP9ZvaYDEfltN4oVY_ItYKVAwIc73OlMYNwu3vNCQ=s1997" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="1259" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFANc6JLDJ_IESOqh694fRVNIvWWyHdrlAvipcPAYDD7NwNVaznPWwZyDS0Nz4iu5QX7NDy1GaEI37dh2WlzlSxXAs7fTXPBbq7r6XCTmkzZm2V60E0Ot1GmgiL9wTSf7NFTE8Y-dg6ivEQfkAypP9ZvaYDEfltN4oVY_ItYKVAwIc73OlMYNwu3vNCQ=w404-h640" width="404" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVfpvtZGfknSyq76nVSjNttgCEHgdYKuhenOLUKT3QHZFUR46T2WfRE5bvsL2sAXHfehNDRuua-AH1W4m5R4rBx_49NXqwOWUn2dCLh4rqWFV7E8o0i1jwluUS2ms7D0YOvl3W00qgvjZLsAKMKCdP9ZPjqpGG642_r-UIAUSTu3YWqSiF0E9IeVD4cw=s1997" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="1255" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVfpvtZGfknSyq76nVSjNttgCEHgdYKuhenOLUKT3QHZFUR46T2WfRE5bvsL2sAXHfehNDRuua-AH1W4m5R4rBx_49NXqwOWUn2dCLh4rqWFV7E8o0i1jwluUS2ms7D0YOvl3W00qgvjZLsAKMKCdP9ZPjqpGG642_r-UIAUSTu3YWqSiF0E9IeVD4cw=w402-h640" width="402" /></a></p><p>Trying to eat or sleep in these conditions is impossible without proper preparation or a little luck. And when it does come, it’s recommended to jump at the chance whenever it occurs. Eventually, she meets other people caught in the same situation as her, some who’ve managed to build something out for themselves, others who’re just as clueless as she is, some are friendly, and some are not. In the afterword, Sherwin Tjia writes that the format for this ambitious comic was written to be a road story. Well, a vertical road story, always going forward, never looking back.</p><p>The best thing about this comic is while there are various theories bandied about, the circumstances that caused this is never explained. Any potentially plausible explanation would RUIN the experience. If you get the chance, I heavily recommend you pick it up. Doubtless it’d be far more intriguing than whatever the upcoming Tom Cruise movie plot is.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-80915379200639792222021-10-31T23:43:00.001-07:002021-10-31T23:43:49.692-07:00Disturbing Stuff: Asexual Zimmerman Fanfic<p>How could someone introduce an Asexual at the very end of an erotic fanfic? For those of you curious about the fanfic I mentioned when talking about my <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2021/10/amazing-greys.html">Asexuality</a>, I’ll give a rough summary of the general outline I had in mind. There will be several compressed stories with the humourous highlights left intact. I tried to make it as SFW as possible without showing any of the images, but large swatches of the narrative still sounds very very dirty.</p><p>Fans of Zimmerman’s drawings should have an idea of what I’m referencing.</p><p>For those who don’t want to read all the parodic elements and skip straight to the disturbing parts, search for the word ‘Remember’ and read down from there.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Jeani E. Rikk was attending the prestigious Moorehead High School which was little more than an excuse for prepubescent girls to learn the numerous ways to illicit sex through various means. Nowhere was this more present than fitting into the school uniform, an open-cleavage shirt ensemble with plaid miniskirt two sizes too small. The head of the school was the prestigious Jessica Rabbit who had a tendency to formally introduce herself to every new arrival personally.</p><p>The curriculum was filled with seemingly-sounding legit courses. Art Class had everybody draw the naked model... with their clothes off. Music Class had girls rubbing ourselves to reach high pitches. Cooking Class baked Alice’s cakes and drinks that increased our busts while shrinking our waists and feet. Ironically enough, Sex Ed was the only class that actually lived up to its name.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfa4gnfypPIjiAapngnopAmxUEG3Jlkteq4Q_H5PsffLo5z5l5KOLiDnKEeswZP2ylx7K2nfFxx1EwNcRID6At4fN9lV2Qg6OIzUkWsQyHLyeS7zMXcFmXUnIH3HEcqdZAR1OMvc7ig8Sd/s473/AsexualZimmMadTitanic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="445" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfa4gnfypPIjiAapngnopAmxUEG3Jlkteq4Q_H5PsffLo5z5l5KOLiDnKEeswZP2ylx7K2nfFxx1EwNcRID6At4fN9lV2Qg6OIzUkWsQyHLyeS7zMXcFmXUnIH3HEcqdZAR1OMvc7ig8Sd/w376-h400/AsexualZimmMadTitanic.jpg" width="376" /></a></p><p>Learning at Moorehead High wasn't like learning at any other school she'd ever been before. For one thing, she actually <b>looked </b>forward to attending every class. There always seemed to be something new to learn, progressing from one level of sexiness to a higher plane. There were several rooms in her Dormitory that were still off-limits, because she hadn't accumulated enough 'O' points yet.</p><p>Jeani E. Rikk was bevy to the numerous rumours and stories of the students who attended there, such as Betty and Veronica, two veteran graduates had been retaking their courses for years, and still looked as good as ever.</p><span><!--more--></span><p>“We’re old-school, but it’s good to brush up on the basics.”</p><p>“And we’re as basic as it gets.”</p><p>“Tell me, how’d you two get together?”</p><p>It all started when their boyfriend Archie had somehow managed to get a date with both girls at the same time for the umpteenth time, and the two decided to settle things between themselves with a friendly contest.</p><p>“Whoever makes the other cum more often will be the winner.”</p><p>“You’re on.”</p><p>After several rounds of hate sex and denied pleasure finally giving way to giving in, the two admitted that they enjoyed each other more than expected, and had lost count after the 15th round. Still, they decided to go out with Archie to teach him a lesson.</p><p>At the movie theater, Archie typically tried to keep the girls apart by having one at the front row seat and the other at the very back. While the movie played, the girls would make sexual foreplay and would tease Archie, humping him while watching their girlfriend in the far distance showing expressed interest in their actions.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA573FUneREOjzhca5NiKh3g0hdSqYLkmhqTUxqkfFcIN3TOpowpyjoDvEpqP21KC5ugwSOFLBP6AMzIhE44-MjokNb8FL8I0fn6ZYWlNsxQIDZ62bMOTRMjVCogkGhfdmHDRnhXFrnBR5/s1768/AsexualZimmArchie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1673" data-original-width="1768" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA573FUneREOjzhca5NiKh3g0hdSqYLkmhqTUxqkfFcIN3TOpowpyjoDvEpqP21KC5ugwSOFLBP6AMzIhE44-MjokNb8FL8I0fn6ZYWlNsxQIDZ62bMOTRMjVCogkGhfdmHDRnhXFrnBR5/w640-h606/AsexualZimmArchie.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>This would continue with Archie getting more and more tired with every interaction with the girls, racing up and down the aisles, trying to remember what he’d said and what refreshments he was supposed to get. “Here’s the Cop Porn - I mean the Popcorn.” until the movie would finally end and they’d face each other, displaying mock outrage at being played, then they’d seduce Archie for one more threesome before unceremoniously dumping him afterwards.</p><span><!--more--></span><p>At the end of the first day, Jeani E. Rikk would meet with her newfound friends for a little get-together with the plan to stay for an all-nighter, and in the midst of her first orgy, had a sudden terrible cramp in her leg.</p><p>She was rushed off to the nursing station wing, where Jessica Rabbit was engaged in her unique treatment of “kissing it and making it better.” In addition to being the headmaster of the school, she was also the school nurse, the cleaning maid, the secretary, a teacher AND a student. It seemed she wore a lot of hats. She was both master and servant.</p><p>“We see a lot of first-timers here, eager to rush into everything without taking the necessary precautions.”</p><p>“How do you maintain your figure?”</p><p>“It’s an open secret, but the trick is Fairy Dust.”</p><p>“Is that a kind of drug, or...?”</p><p>“Close. Sprinkle this on your body, and just think happy thoughts. And we LIKE to think happy thoughts around here.”</p><p>That was how her breasts stayed so buoyant, how she suffered no back pain and how she could remain standing upright in those inch-high heels.</p><p>Jeani E. Rikk marveled at the school. It was like something out of a dream. The size of the dormitories seemed practically endless, the beds and shared showers roomy enough to fit multiple groups at once. She had no idea how the school could possibly afford all this luxury.</p><p>There was even a magical mirror that could reflect the hidden perversions and entice the students into their mirror world if they weren’t careful. Only Vampirella was immune from these effects, and had to routinely rescue multiple students who’d found themselves too far gone.</p><p>While the majority of the attending girls were drop-dead gorgeous and would be considered intimidating for any arriving newcomers, there was no restrictions for anyone who wanted to become models. The more sex you had, the sexier you became. And nowhere was that philosophy realized than with Daphne’s approval of her nerdy friend, Velma. Velma was considered as being too dumpy at first, but she soon displayed an enthusiasm that surpassed her popularity.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaA95TVMyufScRf7SWGZ_CrIqq3_lZAsdNhAto-YUodVv_QJPDeJuLo5F51nZbc1zERSpnVwZuOIXKtJN2Y-q1adNkw5pVV1EAsU1d79AHAVrXV2WFTIWfiKBKGhvsHoMVcVYXdiW4JUm/s640/AsexualZimmVelmaNerd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaA95TVMyufScRf7SWGZ_CrIqq3_lZAsdNhAto-YUodVv_QJPDeJuLo5F51nZbc1zERSpnVwZuOIXKtJN2Y-q1adNkw5pVV1EAsU1d79AHAVrXV2WFTIWfiKBKGhvsHoMVcVYXdiW4JUm/w512-h640/AsexualZimmVelmaNerd.jpg" width="512" /></a></p><p>Velma's biblical knowledge of the library and the passages of the steamiest part of romance novels made her an instant favorite, and everyone wanted to have her as their very own private tutor. But her knowledge didn't just extend to school studies. She knew how to manipulate the system to her favor, intentionally failing certain classes just so she'd be '<i>taught a lesson</i>' later.</p><p>Jeani E. Rikk would seek out further knowledge from Velma after finding out some interesting details. The History class taught by Lara Croft was basically a tutorial on how the school was founded. It all started when Aliens from Mars wanted to be with the Martian Queen, but were forbidden from getting too close, so they settled for the next best thing, being the hottest women at the time: Annie Fannie, Daisy Mae, Lara Croft and Jessica Rabbit.</p><p>Right away, they set to kidnapping and experimenting them for their depraved means. For Jessica Rabbit, they devised a cloning machine that would produce perfect replicas that would instantly fall in love with the first thing she saw. Only, the cloning machine got stuck, and with every new clone, the latest Jessica would create a copy that fell in love with herself.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4e_b5QORxCX_HP-G3Q6yMOMmxF9BQdgcy9Qyew2p8VtZPSGryNKsWs1iyei4PNOIJbfQS4PewDMV9g7ifpgUA-jwKsw-WRh_6DdvpbnL5x-sE17DdJOKiVBQ6LXDo9m9528q6r4pq6_q/s970/AsexualZimmAlf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="897" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4e_b5QORxCX_HP-G3Q6yMOMmxF9BQdgcy9Qyew2p8VtZPSGryNKsWs1iyei4PNOIJbfQS4PewDMV9g7ifpgUA-jwKsw-WRh_6DdvpbnL5x-sE17DdJOKiVBQ6LXDo9m9528q6r4pq6_q/w592-h640/AsexualZimmAlf.jpg" width="592" /></a></p><p>Eventually, these overwhelming bodies managed to take control of the twisted Alien devices for their own twisted means.</p><span><!--more--></span><p>There were forays in history not just the popular girls, but the mean girls as well.</p><p>Grimhilde, the Queen was very good friends with Maleficent, who not only introduced The Wicked Queen into saphic pleasure, but also taught her the basics of magic that kept her kingdom thriving.</p><p>It was she who taught these painful lessons to her daughter-in-law to seduce any potential suitors she might come in contact with. However, Snow White had taken her lessons to hear too well, convincing the Hunter to let her go, and was shacking up in a tiny house with seven men. And now Grimhilde asked Maleficent, “I understand you have a spell for casting someone into a deep deep sleep that they won't wake from?”</p><p>Maleficent had a bemused and insulted look on her face. "They keep getting it wrong. There's actually a funny story behind that. The actual story started when I wasn't invited to Princess Aurora's birthday party, simply because I was considered a corruptive influence.”</p><p>"We only had enough room for... Three Fairies" the King replied, his fingers erratically signaling his staff to start filling up the remaining empty seats.</p><p>"A likely story! However, just to show there's no hard feelings between us, I'll bestow your newborn child with a gift of my own."</p><p>"You don't really have to-"</p><p>"Yes, I do, otherwise, this'll be a boring short story. Your baby girl will grow up with all the typical benefits from growing up in a rich family with good genes. Then, on her Sixteenth Birthday, she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and DIE!"</p><p>“Oh no.”</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-raBHdq6vGLzIouZENaZlldJyOxqzwCvKRKWNW0AgZc0z6w3-JIlIgzaQm8crXPOAOuYbMTKDdk9a4sfQnF0QXNfv4VeXxL3i0BwEjvcNNOv2iCqUdMUaKhA8z4hUjvqJ6WSEn4XKgvM7/s1280/AsexualZimmOhNo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1280" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-raBHdq6vGLzIouZENaZlldJyOxqzwCvKRKWNW0AgZc0z6w3-JIlIgzaQm8crXPOAOuYbMTKDdk9a4sfQnF0QXNfv4VeXxL3i0BwEjvcNNOv2iCqUdMUaKhA8z4hUjvqJ6WSEn4XKgvM7/w640-h274/AsexualZimmOhNo.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>'<i>Don't get so upset. She'll only die a little! One small death, and then it'll be all over.'</i> "Then I transformed into a pillar of black fire, cackling maniacally. What I didn't know at the time was that the third Fairy hadn't granted her wish yet. She attempted to soften my curse so that instead of dying, Aurora would sleep instead, spreading out her death over a longer period of time, until a cure could be found."</p><p>"What she failed to notice - what <i>everybody </i>there failed to notice - was that my death curse was actually a bit of fancy wordplay. My intention was that when she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel, she would have a continuous orgasm - a Petit Morte."</p><p>"No wonder she was so tired."</p><p>"Indeed. Instead, the King decreed that in an attempt to prevent my curse from happening, all spinning wheels would henceforce be destroyed. As a result, clothing and textile shops were suffering from a ban on the latest technology, which led to the creation of an underground knitting operation. Furthermore, this meant that spinning wheels were now seen as dangerous, and being the rebellious sort, Aurora instantly took to the once-harmless feminine tool as something to lust after, even though she had no idea why it was so reviled."</p><p>"So she naturally gravitated towards a spinning wheel like a duck to water. I might've also had a hand in the matter, having stockpiled a few Spinning Wheels to sell to desperate midwives in the first place. Of course, if the King was any smarter, the whole thing could've been avoided by simply removing the needle from future Spinning Wheels in the first place."</p><p>"But then, Royalty isn't exactly chosen for their brains."</p><span><!--more--></span><p>Unlike other schools, fraternization between students and staff was heavily encouraged. The most infamous example being Kim Possible and Miss Go. Hardly anybody learned anything during French class because there was too much chemistry involved. On one assignment, Jenni E. Rikk was given the enviable task of finding a suitable present for Ariel.</p><p>“No worries. She’s the <b>easiest </b>person to shop for.”</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwa6wi-gRHR4vmDFvP5AZg4yIDpnLC2gcb2Kl4pboy1ta0-4uGo691ZtAkGlOy6RK9hWGmRA6pnkUCCpF-9E2E7hXknXFZDlQV8u_ngeRybtDvjc-dJTaD5-NqSLLpA78jFzgYDC_jpdCS/s1631/AsexualZimmCathy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1631" data-original-width="1287" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwa6wi-gRHR4vmDFvP5AZg4yIDpnLC2gcb2Kl4pboy1ta0-4uGo691ZtAkGlOy6RK9hWGmRA6pnkUCCpF-9E2E7hXknXFZDlQV8u_ngeRybtDvjc-dJTaD5-NqSLLpA78jFzgYDC_jpdCS/w506-h640/AsexualZimmCathy.jpg" width="506" /></a></p><p><i>“Oh my Poseidon! It’s a... it’s a... what is it?”</i></p><p><i>“A coffee cup.”</i></p><p><i>“I love it! Such a generous gift deserves suitable compensation.”</i></p><p>In between engaging in heavy makeout sessions and spying others, there was heavy gossip of salacious rumours of conversations between Ariel/Jasmine.</p><p>“I’m <b>so</b> hot.”</p><p>“I’m <b>so</b> wet.”</p><p>“Drench me.”</p><p>“Quench me.”</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5QrIYblfKTa7HygGdSHN9TjOA3MtUJrZFb5QIVqF6AH7QXvwaBf6xQDd-iN7NUiadD0VKwzwcLszwaowHjgPSyH5jc3LHFQeQuli2p5aKReq3ED1Ci7rr-GTexLhcTULaQ6-gYZafnWE/s522/AsexualZimmGayMarriage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5QrIYblfKTa7HygGdSHN9TjOA3MtUJrZFb5QIVqF6AH7QXvwaBf6xQDd-iN7NUiadD0VKwzwcLszwaowHjgPSyH5jc3LHFQeQuli2p5aKReq3ED1Ci7rr-GTexLhcTULaQ6-gYZafnWE/s16000/AsexualZimmGayMarriage.jpg" /></a></p><p>There was no resentment or jealousy between girls. All that mattered was finding the hottest combinations between whatever crack pairings was possible. And there were LOTS of pairings. Felica Hardy, the Black Cat had a particular interest in Mary Jane. "<i>These are the lips that touched Spider-Man's lips.</i>" One of the strangest was the relationship between Kim Possible and Violet Parr. Normally, no one would dare get between Kim and her teacher Miss Go, but the sordid history behind Violet’s past put all that to rest.</p><p>Violet started out fairly normal, a typical budding girl who could make herself invisible. Perfectly ordinary, really. She was so shy, she could hardly stand to be seen. But then she discovered the joys of masturbation, and started enjoying teasing the neighbouring kid. That was until she teamed up with the rest of her family to save her dad from the nefarious Syndrome.</p><p>While trapped, she was subject to a litany of electrical stimulation for days, hitting her sensitive spots far beyond endurance, never allowing relief to come close, always keeping her on the brink. Not even Storm had ever dared to approach that level of stimulation.</p><p>In addition, Syndrome had created an Omnidroid that could enhance the desires of anybody who’d dare cross its path. It had a full library of sexual knowledge that could rival Velma’s. By the time Violet got loose, she was so horny she overloaded the amplified drone all by herself.</p><p>But her adventurous pursuit wasn’t done. She started seeking out stimulus from her mother who was the closest thing to relief she had. Helen Parr couldn’t keep up with her daughter's increasingly insistent demands, and had her sent to Moorehead High to keep her husband from finding out. Violet was upset at first until she saw Kim showering. “<i>Just like Mommy...</i>” she whispered, turning invisible and becoming a legendary horny ghost that lucked in the girl’s shower room.</p><p>After that revelation, it would be announced that Violet Parr would be honorably chosen as Moorehead High’s honor student with a celebratory ritual with Pebbles, Wilma's daughter, and Judy, Jane's daughter infecting the already hot girls with lust-inducing hormones. In this way, Violet would be influencing past present and future, all with her perfect body.</p><p>While this ritual was taking place, Jeani E. Rikk would take the opportunity to explore the campus with other curious students who wanted to check out the forbidden wings that were normally off-limit. There were numerous silly dares focused on panty stealing from the faculty, which led to naughty punishments, some girls practically *begging* to be caught.</p><p>With everybody focused on finding dirty secrets, Jenni E. Rikk found herself at the end of a long hallway full of alluring side entrances. One door had the Jessica Rabbit clone machine pumped to full, filling the denizens of Heaven and Hell to overflowing, affecting their morality on both sides.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrBtrM0DiAldlaBDLlbPfVkfXsrhdtsQebfR2pIZ_rovIfVwhA1il7tJYwqGhKBJ7LHC47Y9MCpNz0s7DWN20e1BKTye6zi_ptH29RXwf3Eh8gvcfbsdLHMQt8iGvJgLl2feZZzgPEJ6c/s1347/AsexualZimmHitman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1347" data-original-width="865" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrBtrM0DiAldlaBDLlbPfVkfXsrhdtsQebfR2pIZ_rovIfVwhA1il7tJYwqGhKBJ7LHC47Y9MCpNz0s7DWN20e1BKTye6zi_ptH29RXwf3Eh8gvcfbsdLHMQt8iGvJgLl2feZZzgPEJ6c/w410-h640/AsexualZimmHitman.jpg" width="410" /></a></p><p>Jeani ignored the Tentacle room, the bondage room, and other maddening passages, moving towards the seemingly innocuous door that she felt compulsively drawn to.</p><p>She touched the doorknob. She opened the door.</p><p>And then, she remembered...</p><p>Oh God, she remembered.</p><span><!--more--></span><p>She remembered a mission briefing she’d been in a top-secret facility given by an intelligence agency. In front of her was a frantic-looking man agent forced into taking over multiple roles he was over his head to run simultaneously.</p><p>-Here’s the mission statement should you choose to accept it. Simply put, we're facing the greatest threat to the world we've ever known. Of all our contingency plans, including alien invasion, virus outbreak and zombies, we've been caught off-guard by something as basic as an erotic fantasy, and it's not going away. Rather, their strength seems to be increasing on a daily basis, and we have no idea how to stop it.</p><p>-Ever since the foundation of Moorehead High (what a STUPID name), they've been readily accepting women of all ages into their curriculum. The mandate is continued education, but their actual pretense is unhibited lesbian sex. Now, I don't condone lesbian acts, being gay myself, but there's a time and place for everything. Simply put, their power and influence seems to extend far beyond being a mere school for sexual education.</p><p>-We've cut off their funding, yet they continue to receive donations from millionaires worldwide.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Veronica</b>: Daddy's willing to pay for whatever I want!<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p></blockquote><p>-We've cut off their food supplies, but they're growing their own crops and contraband, trading with other countries for jewelry, bikinis and the latest fashion designs. We've cut off their power and water, and they continue to generate power from within. In fact, the mere structure of their school baffles all logic. From the scant reports we've gleamed, they receive upwards of 10,000 students daily with more arriving all the time, but their housing facilities should only number 2,000 Max. By all rights, the school should be collapsing under its own weight. They're overflowing with enough students to fill a small country, yet there's still room for expansion.</p><p>-Furthermore, the weather over their area remains consistantly consistent. The temperature is always a balmy 20 degrees, with the occasional downpour or snowstorm on a weekly basis, usually on the weekend. Against the patterns of weather predictions. Joke all you like about weathermen always getting the weather wrong, but on that patch of land, you could set your watch by it. That's statistically impossible!</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Storm</b>:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mother Nature is a harsh mistress, and I am in tune with her.</p></blockquote><p>-From what I've heard, it's pretty much every teenager's wet dream - a school full of lesbian harems willing to indulge every whim. While that sounds incredibly tempting, sustaining such an implausible scenario falls apart in reality.</p><p>-But more worrisome is the student's behavior once they've left the classroom. They try to initiate and convert others into their little world, with disastrous outcomes.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Displays of nymphomania in public places have gotten once highly-respected professions fired, never to return.</li><li>Young daughters are seducing their mothers and fathers against their will.</li><li>Mothers are introducing their children to sexuality far before they're ready.</li><li>Boys under the age of ten are becoming extremely popular to teenagers and middle-aged married wives.</li></ul><p></p><p>-Our only solace is that babies haven't been taken advantage of, but it's only a matter of time.</p><p>-Various students who haven't hitched up with men of influence (and there are only so many Cuckold Millionaires to go around) wind up having to fend for themselves by giving sexual advances to random strangers. These people have no idea how to act appropriately outside their setting.</p><p>-Not to mention that they're in serious debt to student loans, which from their lack of helpful education, can only be paid off by undergoing prostitution or being sold to sleazy underworld figures. From there, it's a nightmare mobius strip scenario of drugs and abuse they can't ever escape from. Furthermore, spreading these students worldwide gives added advertising for the school, and women in destitute countries are traveling far and wide in the slim hopes of being accepted into the school. Their immigration status is unprecedented, since they're intermingling with other refugees, and they're being helped along by innumerable sources. Every time we quash one, ten more take its place.</p><p>-Which brings up another worrying subject - the women's drastically changing looks. When they start out, the women all have individual different bodies, shaped by their personal experiences and body chemistry. But when they leave the school, they all have the same body type. And I mean <i><b>exactly </b></i>the same - a killer Supermodel's body. They're being modified to a specific type without the means of plastic surgery. There's theories that their body chemistry is altered via the transfer of fluids, like some kind of artificial STD. But since research has been mysteriously halted by the Government, there's no way to verify this. Either way, their individuality is wiped away.</p><p>-Their proportions started off as fairly realistic, but have become greatly exaggerated over time, their bodies <a href="https://eschergirls.tumblr.com/">twisted into pretzels</a> to show as much skin as possible. Not to mention their heavy breasts and tiny waists become impossible to sustain without the ingestion of a highly illegal substance known as Fairy Dust. Their internal organs have been compressed into smaller spaces within their disfigured bodies. When they can’t stand being away from the school for long, they return, taking as many potential converts with them as they can.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Judy Jetson</b>:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The future is paved upon the hardworking efforts and sacrifices of yesterday.</p></blockquote><p>-We've tried to invade the school with our armies... with disastrous results.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Miss Buxley</b>:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A daisy chain is only as strong as its weakest link.</p></blockquote><p>-Air-to-Missile strikes have been rendered ineffective from some kind of impenetrable shield we've yet to identify.</p><p>-Foot soldiers have been captured as willing (or unwilling) prisoners of war, and are probably being used as sexual practice in some dank location somewhere. Likely interrogated for information, revealing their battle formation plans. Tanks have been toppled with minimal effort from some of the strongest women there. The usual bout of SuperHeroes have been no help, saying they've got bigger world-destroying threats out there to deal with, when surveillance photos CLEARLY show them spending time with high-profile members there.</p><p>-And the same can be said of SuperHeroines, who've also taken permanent residence there.</p><p>-One small solace is that female SuperVillains (SuperVillainessess?) are also there, causing less trouble than usual. But their presence just adds further strength to a residence where all residents do their utmost to protect their property however possible.</p><p>-Confidentially, I'm worried. I seem to recall seeing many of these popular women when they were less corrupted, but under very different circumstances. I have vague memories of them being fictional characters from children's comics, cartoon shows and movies. But I have no way of proving it.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Lara Croft</b>: History is written by the victors. Any previous itteration that differs from common knowledge is just mere hearsay.</p></blockquote><p>-Unsurprisingly enough, their looks has attracted the attention of Hollywood celebrities as well.</p><p>-In a desperate attempt to leak the secrets behind their beauty tips, they've been actively supporting the school throughout their circle of friends, and even suggesting them to their legion of rabid fans who'd support them, no matter what any rational detractors say. Any detractors are constantly harassed on an hourly basis for weeks, months, YEARS until they recant or give up.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Holli Would</b>: If you try our latest product, you'll become loved by your families, friends and even foes! Decline, and you'll be outcast for eternity!</p></blockquote><p>-But their influence doesn't stop there. There's evidence that they've become tied to political figures compassionate to their world view, and take steps in introducing bills that further support them. With their influence, they've been introducing hormones into food that modify girl's bodies to become mature at ever-increasing younger ages.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Alice</b>: These nutrients should be added to the latest batch of baby foods. They're VERY healthy. Oh, and be sure to put these chemicals in milk. Trust me, it does a body good.</p></blockquote><p>-They've hijacked the Gay community in a way I don't agree with, forcing women to change their sexual preferences against their preferred gender. The only sense of comeradrebility this group has is whether the girl they're screwing is sexy enough or not.</p><p>-Their highest export is unsurprisingly enough, amateur porn. What IS surprising is that despite the explosion of Lesbianism (3500% over the past decade), birth rates aren't declining. In fact, most of the newborns are girls, heavily outpacing boys at a rate of ten to one. Everybody's who's profiting from the school's existence is just lying back, putting themselves free of the consequences, and enjoying the show, while deliberately ignoring the warning signs that are multiplying at an exponential rate. We've had numerous cuts to our budget for unspecified reasons, and our resources are already stretched to the breaking point. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we're extremely desperate.</p><p>-You've been specifically chosen because you fit the profile. </p><p>-You have the body type of a generic model.</p><p>-You've had training in several martial arts fending off multiple opponents at once.</p><p>-You're resourceful in dealing with stressful situations under unfavorable circumstances.</p><p>-And more importantly, the nerves connecting to your pleasure center have been severed from an accident you had when you were very young. Normally, I'd sympathize for you not being able to feel your G-spot, but it could wind up being extremely favorable in this case.</p><p>-We've tried previous missions to infiltrate the place with prudish female spies, but they all failed. We've sent Gay agents, but even they fell victim to their seductive call, and the scant few reports that've made it through aren't very informative. Apparently, there's some magical water that can change the gender of any man to a woman. We've even had soldiers willingly surrender to integrate themselves inside the school, sharing their military secrets and who knows what in return for sexual favors.</p><p>-I'd go myself, but even extremely Gay people such as myself have fallen to their seduction. That's some serious influence there to make us go against our preferred gender.</p><p>-This is going to be a deep-cover investigation. In order to get past the wall of telepathic mind-readers, you're going to undergo some psychic protection of your own.</p><p>-You'll be given a new personality fitting of their average student body. You'll be indistinguishable from everybody else there, and blend in easily with the crowd, making your way up through the ranks with little suspicion on your part.</p><p>-Your mission is to infiltrate the confines of the school, find out where their source of power is, and if at all possible, either analyze it, steal it or destroy it.</p><p>-Now, knowing the risks of this mission from which you may never return, do you accept these charges to undergo voluntary brainwashing?</p><p><i>"...I accept."</i></p><span><!--more--></span><p>It turned out that Jeani E. Rikk was a spy sent from a Government agency to infiltrate this place that had become a hotbed of international activity, influencing powerful figures worldwide with their sexual influence, being home to some of the most powerful polarizing figures holding more resources than should be possible, repelling invading forces and forcing even gay agents to submit against their will. </p><p>And now, she was face-to-face with the internal power source that made all this possible.</p><p>It was a 69 of Jeannie and her sister from I Dream of Jeannie.</p><p>Jeannie was always making wishes to please her Master, Tony Nelson, but they always went wrong. Her sister would confront Jeannie, and they’d get into big fights. One day, Tony said something along the likes of, “I wish you and your sister would love each other more!”</p><p>From that moment on, the animosity between the two of them changed to incestuous love, much to Tony’s confusion.</p><p>“I wish I could be a part of that action.”</p><p>And then, Tony was turned into a detachable dick, and implanted onto Jeannie.</p><p>From that moment on, every second was spent finding new ways to pleasuring Tony. But now reduced to a penis, he had no way of taking his wish back, no way of taking control. Whenever he grew limp, it only took the merest flick of Jeannie’s wrist to prop Tony back up.</p><p>But even making love to the same girl for days on can get tiring, so Jeannie and her sister decided to spice things up by introducing other lovers who’d be Tony’s type. They scoured the Earth, looking for the most erotic figures, subtly manipulating outside events to create more women, adding them to their ever-growing harem.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8x3C9gHPU2yZW-4jaeVaL7h6VqiFjwnQPEwZDOUe0PIkujKKrVveYG2ObnqHIaFAHL5Cni7rBPns_sAW37NTCmKLXXHiUY3fFolQ3o6NlGCexHeyvu8qQSfqP0dWrsJjx5E8uoTBoEd9/s1006/AsexualZimmUndertale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="1006" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8x3C9gHPU2yZW-4jaeVaL7h6VqiFjwnQPEwZDOUe0PIkujKKrVveYG2ObnqHIaFAHL5Cni7rBPns_sAW37NTCmKLXXHiUY3fFolQ3o6NlGCexHeyvu8qQSfqP0dWrsJjx5E8uoTBoEd9/w640-h328/AsexualZimmUndertale.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>All this background information would be psychically fed into Jenni E. Rikk's mind as the two Genies paused in the midst of pleasuring themselves to give this unexpected arrival their undivided attention.</p><p><i>“A lot of agents have come before.”</i></p><p><b>“You’re the only one who’s managed to come this far.”</b></p><p>Jeani E. Rikk could do little more than stand and gape in awe. Once she regained her power of speech, she asked, “Now that you’ve told me your plans, what are you going to do to me?”</p><p><i>“<u>Do</u> to you?”</i></p><p><b>“You’re mistaken.”</b></p><p><i>“It’s what we can do <u>for</u> you.”</i></p><p><b>“You have the chance to make a wish.”</b></p><p><i>“Your innermost desire.”</i></p><p>Jeani E. Rikk boldly strode forward, grunting with effort with every step taken, trying to keep her thoughts straight, but the erotic swirling energies was making her crazy. The Genies tempted her with promises of what they could offer.</p><p><i><b>“We can restore your nerve functions down below.”</b></i></p><p><i>“You can be as attractive as you can be.”</i></p><p><i><b>“You can have any body you want.”</b></i></p><p><i>“You can have anyone you want.”</i></p><p><i><b>“You can go anywhere.”</b></i></p><p><i>“You can do anything.”</i></p><p><i><b>“All you have to do is want.”</b></i></p><p>She struggled between the moral implications and the desire of cumming for the first time in her life, ever. Yes, throughout the whole time she’d been at Moorehead High, she hadn’t orgasmed once.</p><p>Her head swirled with alluring imagery with every step she took, her skin tingling with electricity, feeling more alive than she’d ever felt before, reaching heights she’d never imagined.</p><p>She strode forward with every amount of effort she could muster into getting closer to her goal.</p><p>She reached her naked arm across and touched the decanter bottle.</p><p>She made her wish.</p><p>She could live with it.</p><span><!--more--></span><p>And on that deliberately ambiguous note, it ends. Whether Jeani E. Rikk fails or succeeds in her mission is left entirely up to the reader. There’s also the possibility of a third wish that could resolve both dilemmas, but I lack the imagination to think up such a scenario. For the epilogue, what I had was a list of upgrades for a mock idle game called Clit Flicker. The philosophical approach towards unlimited sex and incremental games is the same. You can stop anytime you want.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHEov2PfRWKux3GiV7t9dH-Jg31vCSEHwS1Ilhookez9g_o1Esb4G695sHXdw1LRqBv8kbPhptER72PVX8q0UcwYoa89wCi1f_jMtLuzU1fHUk_CIUmFEQjFvXUNkWo12UMx5XSk0SAiP1/s900/AsexualZimmPeanuts.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="900" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHEov2PfRWKux3GiV7t9dH-Jg31vCSEHwS1Ilhookez9g_o1Esb4G695sHXdw1LRqBv8kbPhptER72PVX8q0UcwYoa89wCi1f_jMtLuzU1fHUk_CIUmFEQjFvXUNkWo12UMx5XSk0SAiP1/w640-h188/AsexualZimmPeanuts.gif" width="640" /></a></p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-89550219954829070652021-10-25T01:46:00.000-07:002021-10-25T01:46:19.141-07:00 Weird Romance: Zonker’s Quasi-Girlfriend<p>When I was preparing for my <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2021/10/amazing-greys.html">last blog post</a>, I collected as much relevant comic material that could contribute to the subject. However, there was one particular comic I left out after finding out there was more potential strips that deserved its own follow-up.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAt110HSoy9bYGGbsck-kURa5f9trm9fA5wjMkW6fnb5dohYPhyphenhyphen6-bEZgL6-65Hr4a47r0mCjdsFP-CNP4Vwy5obDX_sNIxrhwD-xeDHDEtCbTGFrScsbq8XhEJUPXmMHMwqMM1iteEv0/s950/AcesWild076-Media1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="950" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAt110HSoy9bYGGbsck-kURa5f9trm9fA5wjMkW6fnb5dohYPhyphenhyphen6-bEZgL6-65Hr4a47r0mCjdsFP-CNP4Vwy5obDX_sNIxrhwD-xeDHDEtCbTGFrScsbq8XhEJUPXmMHMwqMM1iteEv0/w640-h556/AcesWild076-Media1.png" width="640" /></a>No, not these comics from the wonderfully informative and entertaining <a href="https://tapas.io/series/Aces-Wild">Aces Wild</a>. When it comes to portrayal of Asexuality, those who identify with the spectrum will subconsciously seek out anything that they relate to however slightly, and care has to be made that said portrayal doesn’t offend certain sensibilities. The more wide-range examples given, the greater the chances one will ring true for someone. Representation is important. And there’s no better time to do so than during Asexual Awareness week.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfAPpCr5js9AmuFK4nXlALTr6ZSXUZKKq36W48Vnqw8-Z-dn7gXtdybS6Wn1yZgNJbdeFLlIChqAZily99TpUy3bVfrJbIZ448SZ1cYvzzdQ24wcBi2B_w_jcLJeMBHqw5KLARWj4o0TP/s931/AcesWild080-Media2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="931" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfAPpCr5js9AmuFK4nXlALTr6ZSXUZKKq36W48Vnqw8-Z-dn7gXtdybS6Wn1yZgNJbdeFLlIChqAZily99TpUy3bVfrJbIZ448SZ1cYvzzdQ24wcBi2B_w_jcLJeMBHqw5KLARWj4o0TP/w640-h556/AcesWild080-Media2.png" width="640" /></a>Jughead Jones is now the best-known popular representation of the orientation, but I would postulate that there’s another human cartoon character who would easily fall into that category. If you’ve read the title, you already know who it is.</p><p>For those not in the know, Zonker Harris is a lifelong hippie bouncing between random jobs, preferring to work in the company young children. One particularly annoying stereotype is that Asexual people are infantilized in their approach towards sex, preferring to remain deliberately ignorant about the subject. And in this case, Zonker has some blatantly blind spots. (<i>Though he's always been like that for anything involving the real world</i>)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVn0Xt4HRlluCzj1nst-nabk2i_XsxVPQrBw9yXYEPSCF97Db9t5Aqdn7_OM4YA1XebYK1kbpZRdfRziChsqUcjCsfFYho2IKh_83hzADZYYu8KMHVMjnwTN-HF9WAywmTcmrbFfZMVeb/s900/AsexualZonkerX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="900" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVn0Xt4HRlluCzj1nst-nabk2i_XsxVPQrBw9yXYEPSCF97Db9t5Aqdn7_OM4YA1XebYK1kbpZRdfRziChsqUcjCsfFYho2IKh_83hzADZYYu8KMHVMjnwTN-HF9WAywmTcmrbFfZMVeb/w640-h436/AsexualZonkerX.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>But first, some backstory on the woman in question, Marcia.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8JrH-K1M41Vt7U0mGQszgAuYhuA5ST9qOLHfUfTfgQ3-Tm4kUXLMIzXRz0jTWvQ8VEOxgo0iOJYHfPl-kg0AXBrHmcu-Ocohsy0plnFxu13K2b6Z7-TD2XguSkvAEepnPfWSh-XsjrZ6/s900/AsexualDoonsburyMarcia01.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8JrH-K1M41Vt7U0mGQszgAuYhuA5ST9qOLHfUfTfgQ3-Tm4kUXLMIzXRz0jTWvQ8VEOxgo0iOJYHfPl-kg0AXBrHmcu-Ocohsy0plnFxu13K2b6Z7-TD2XguSkvAEepnPfWSh-XsjrZ6/w640-h206/AsexualDoonsburyMarcia01.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>Marcia started out as Mike’s secretary in one of his morally dubious advertising jobs. Then as is typical of any long-running political soap opera, suddenly decided to thrust herself into the narrative.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHErT-TmxfAAH2bfnrJKIEwnFP8Lg1XTJbozy7MEPS84PlsC3tYnJdzVq433qfOAou7I50g75CQ8TQMBD44zfJyQrfzjLndgHupqJaAqfm-XKj4fKnEsP6C4zHeFLl-3LAX5zwNAMcGVRR/s900/AsexualDoonsburyMarcia02.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHErT-TmxfAAH2bfnrJKIEwnFP8Lg1XTJbozy7MEPS84PlsC3tYnJdzVq433qfOAou7I50g75CQ8TQMBD44zfJyQrfzjLndgHupqJaAqfm-XKj4fKnEsP6C4zHeFLl-3LAX5zwNAMcGVRR/w640-h206/AsexualDoonsburyMarcia02.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>After failing to find any suitable mates, Marcia decided to publicity take herself off the market.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFJMcayIX_0hBDhx-Y3whipUzy1Al_DfRuk0NmN4HgziLqgXEbitdTXsCLkZ32eN0h3OAl5kw-MZTxekqmetguVbEGGC1JmtKSiZnUxLMqpuyWDq_apAxraIISjb_xtq9bSgPFV6eT53D/s900/AsexualDoonsburyMarcia03.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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(<i>I <b>said </b>it was a long story!</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3r7MnzjeP0_05umIvMsT0cJaEjE25Ai6yH58MEjYREk9FgBZlFdG_Rd_6uxwdt8zQHT8iO4slPz6tMDUxjklAwjNgpL0s_lMvt4Gy-M8-aOIC4xp6jldNx3fPAOM7OCOR7U9pvfg0LgH/s900/AsexualZonker.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3r7MnzjeP0_05umIvMsT0cJaEjE25Ai6yH58MEjYREk9FgBZlFdG_Rd_6uxwdt8zQHT8iO4slPz6tMDUxjklAwjNgpL0s_lMvt4Gy-M8-aOIC4xp6jldNx3fPAOM7OCOR7U9pvfg0LgH/w640-h206/AsexualZonker.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_-xEX7tgs9PAUiXN5M6OLsANiZJ-9MWFpUvMTK321WN7DZ4-uWggdtDuJSgl3VbDrpNMYfwJZI1hy3IoYeIrKRi8cvcpUztpY0PokwH_S9WXhWwXG_HTmU4BDMpBMdovpGD-2S5VomVJ/s900/AsexualZonker0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_-xEX7tgs9PAUiXN5M6OLsANiZJ-9MWFpUvMTK321WN7DZ4-uWggdtDuJSgl3VbDrpNMYfwJZI1hy3IoYeIrKRi8cvcpUztpY0PokwH_S9WXhWwXG_HTmU4BDMpBMdovpGD-2S5VomVJ/w640-h204/AsexualZonker0.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYkvVaCUZdM8ZzYB746Q2a5X2Ij4nsxCSIHlxuKM47iO5Y2cN3l6AzksZPPeREr9j9DcdrGzKDDP8SprnqCnC02YdyHyjrPYQPCI_7DFdCT0RA5v3cgiPJzKJEa5S8tMGjL69jlDEISZr/s900/AsexualZonker0a.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="900" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYkvVaCUZdM8ZzYB746Q2a5X2Ij4nsxCSIHlxuKM47iO5Y2cN3l6AzksZPPeREr9j9DcdrGzKDDP8SprnqCnC02YdyHyjrPYQPCI_7DFdCT0RA5v3cgiPJzKJEa5S8tMGjL69jlDEISZr/w640-h208/AsexualZonker0a.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSrT_8wcE-mU-ZF9SY94Zc-Maq78aknCCmZY9qloYXNyFhhG2Czgij8GUPUfRE2ey69yHKxGwUq6Hes8JAEGT1fUofpjNjivbjaW9oHP9qXq1wOYySsMdIXixX_GfYSvwZHAQyIABQcmQx/s900/AsexualZonker1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="900" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSrT_8wcE-mU-ZF9SY94Zc-Maq78aknCCmZY9qloYXNyFhhG2Czgij8GUPUfRE2ey69yHKxGwUq6Hes8JAEGT1fUofpjNjivbjaW9oHP9qXq1wOYySsMdIXixX_GfYSvwZHAQyIABQcmQx/w640-h202/AsexualZonker1.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaQSUFaUElRI6v8Q7E5K-UpIpjcWSvKrGN9fSysiRMYK0IJJugrduKKolbWmicKe0bx0a6ti-qsm3BdY82lVzpYjltDj0oAtDaAxOKhcxkMuTzWX-CP4j97e_MVOB0ZKGHcyTaNtzZfpo/s900/AsexualZonker2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaQSUFaUElRI6v8Q7E5K-UpIpjcWSvKrGN9fSysiRMYK0IJJugrduKKolbWmicKe0bx0a6ti-qsm3BdY82lVzpYjltDj0oAtDaAxOKhcxkMuTzWX-CP4j97e_MVOB0ZKGHcyTaNtzZfpo/w640-h206/AsexualZonker2.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>So on one side, you’ve got a woman who’s sworn off all prospects of marriage, and on the other, a perpetual man-child who has no prospects towards romance in any shape or form. Put them together, and what do you get? A series of dailies that have never been collected before.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tmPOzPbC3_B88dUcbqbf2PNUPEVVIMG4gWCrNz-FRI9qmqyY8HmmhwUDrgq6ymQUYveEDoyIq3fiBWPDpT6nVI-ta0ZjHFJMGeTHLo4ccQuke-yxXly6I3a7T-SyAWEPB4E-cCl-L_51/s900/AsexualZonker3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tmPOzPbC3_B88dUcbqbf2PNUPEVVIMG4gWCrNz-FRI9qmqyY8HmmhwUDrgq6ymQUYveEDoyIq3fiBWPDpT6nVI-ta0ZjHFJMGeTHLo4ccQuke-yxXly6I3a7T-SyAWEPB4E-cCl-L_51/w640-h204/AsexualZonker3.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhFtC2-4Zqmul7KuwPWlPWat2TBULrZgzD33ikI5uERprrI8zmcHFTnsbZOaTDe9YDdAqGwA9nQCx9UGelYjtP8lrKKi4GVTGhEmiM00pPeVeOsLTTXZ5_cUQ3nKKNWikkW9kg1xZSedV/s900/AsexualZonker4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhFtC2-4Zqmul7KuwPWlPWat2TBULrZgzD33ikI5uERprrI8zmcHFTnsbZOaTDe9YDdAqGwA9nQCx9UGelYjtP8lrKKi4GVTGhEmiM00pPeVeOsLTTXZ5_cUQ3nKKNWikkW9kg1xZSedV/w640-h204/AsexualZonker4.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>Despite his objections, Zonker winds up going to the party anyways. The actual affair is something of a non-event, but I'm including these strips just for completeness' sake.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BSSgVZ6ysLe59rB5EvDCkCQZjtt9FADEoIkTmw0WrArjcKH140fxLp8SA-IsJOERTxZvDrLvxiBPguHpKbWapkRcFZoTP0tiOrfOtyo_YqwN78VHsfVR_ImEblzYkv3ozSUduA-EwQ09/s900/AsexualZonkerLady1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BSSgVZ6ysLe59rB5EvDCkCQZjtt9FADEoIkTmw0WrArjcKH140fxLp8SA-IsJOERTxZvDrLvxiBPguHpKbWapkRcFZoTP0tiOrfOtyo_YqwN78VHsfVR_ImEblzYkv3ozSUduA-EwQ09/w640-h206/AsexualZonkerLady1.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGEH-5s7OJ6o5Ln4UAda2YObGU3GMmTxmMPeUTrhtuqkymdcTAhmp2QEkQI3YS69NlhMk9xp0YAcu7Cgr0iKCsFxvGAo86Ix5HHhiQbulfZfkBRDP5N1rEBv4xlmLZL8zkPLr13U_1Uo5/s900/AsexualZonkerLady2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="900" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGEH-5s7OJ6o5Ln4UAda2YObGU3GMmTxmMPeUTrhtuqkymdcTAhmp2QEkQI3YS69NlhMk9xp0YAcu7Cgr0iKCsFxvGAo86Ix5HHhiQbulfZfkBRDP5N1rEBv4xlmLZL8zkPLr13U_1Uo5/w640-h208/AsexualZonkerLady2.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bE8rYkLCdMCbQaSkox7ldNz0ct8UtcMNm-Sfu3MfDYxqND72kLNfC-rOcMAoBv3dxdqn0Ac8JR4Qhg2FO1Ps9shGC4x2q5Ta9fL3wI4zgdkgBLxGEES9VtJ5NB4TYbgrJqSJOCqxDtqb/s1821/AsexualZonker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1821" data-original-width="1241" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bE8rYkLCdMCbQaSkox7ldNz0ct8UtcMNm-Sfu3MfDYxqND72kLNfC-rOcMAoBv3dxdqn0Ac8JR4Qhg2FO1Ps9shGC4x2q5Ta9fL3wI4zgdkgBLxGEES9VtJ5NB4TYbgrJqSJOCqxDtqb/w436-h640/AsexualZonker.jpg" width="436" /></a></p><p>While this normally would be the end of it, the odd couple didn't show up until <i>another </i>year later, with another weekly dose of strips that've never been reprinted. Probably the closest we ever got to seeing an Asexual date in action.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhREIp5Ll-gH05CVelBAC4Cpc_ne_5k_m0HIDNl6OR_8X0Q7hmIk02byIb0MEYXkRoe_QICiihvrXefKMakJfvBujWMFeEj6ib0q8KDvGCSFIElmS3h6n0HIzoJRJB__eMyCTVQgZdieN0B/s900/AsexualZonker7.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="900" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhREIp5Ll-gH05CVelBAC4Cpc_ne_5k_m0HIDNl6OR_8X0Q7hmIk02byIb0MEYXkRoe_QICiihvrXefKMakJfvBujWMFeEj6ib0q8KDvGCSFIElmS3h6n0HIzoJRJB__eMyCTVQgZdieN0B/w640-h208/AsexualZonker7.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEEGHN5f6JFdUCWRSDdQ00fOIwnJg794s9VyApTpPBOd1HqUw9vNNbHx4tEZZ-1skcNGNRLi78GIoUKwVicOUg3lDehWvw6UkGygft3dn1HOnSRwv6SKgnRNd4ip1iiBuAx9W57N2yl1T/s900/AsexualZonker8.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="900" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEEGHN5f6JFdUCWRSDdQ00fOIwnJg794s9VyApTpPBOd1HqUw9vNNbHx4tEZZ-1skcNGNRLi78GIoUKwVicOUg3lDehWvw6UkGygft3dn1HOnSRwv6SKgnRNd4ip1iiBuAx9W57N2yl1T/w640-h204/AsexualZonker8.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU0MZkYOkDzlSQAstA6Hk8e0YQ-yiPHhBFU6S4kMbPufIjp91X0C-SuoZdYolCizy1KqlwoYT1_5nGmwYCmyx87IW1MSzI7vwOVEzEWXEY0TwCL0Xhar4H7pwNeevL5FElIYMm1fhV23q8/s1200/AsexualZonker9.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="1200" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU0MZkYOkDzlSQAstA6Hk8e0YQ-yiPHhBFU6S4kMbPufIjp91X0C-SuoZdYolCizy1KqlwoYT1_5nGmwYCmyx87IW1MSzI7vwOVEzEWXEY0TwCL0Xhar4H7pwNeevL5FElIYMm1fhV23q8/w640-h204/AsexualZonker9.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJwU89lTmNQdLRlvUyggFmc1S-gfbOiy5EOY6bqZWmZDBBJwS-qsG_ZzTsZCRwpF3DLTjIf_XiLSikmNs0BWAdvN3WVLlfaITm3kjM16_Fnjy98p0JIYdMfQ5tKEzhsWI-6Q3aZ-BnFSI/s900/AsexualZonker10.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="900" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJwU89lTmNQdLRlvUyggFmc1S-gfbOiy5EOY6bqZWmZDBBJwS-qsG_ZzTsZCRwpF3DLTjIf_XiLSikmNs0BWAdvN3WVLlfaITm3kjM16_Fnjy98p0JIYdMfQ5tKEzhsWI-6Q3aZ-BnFSI/w640-h210/AsexualZonker10.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRczKzEdb5saj1DIYvNJN34YAIXbxPXh303_92ccE0AdpOodSCdSIlTzG9m0N6P9I_K7_0nbNvHS4gamNWLIVJRoCPuOS97GouwjzkTDDiJaN3PhROttXAEEPMbQliD9tjq0-hL13nF4F/s900/AsexualZonker11.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="900" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRczKzEdb5saj1DIYvNJN34YAIXbxPXh303_92ccE0AdpOodSCdSIlTzG9m0N6P9I_K7_0nbNvHS4gamNWLIVJRoCPuOS97GouwjzkTDDiJaN3PhROttXAEEPMbQliD9tjq0-hL13nF4F/w640-h202/AsexualZonker11.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UVK3-N0SLpZQdkWbcNIt68DJqM3kfcGq_Ni4aA7vmzkaN6Z-nZs6aWEqxjrM64Z8p6qxJDKxaOUNMzFOc1i-TC393xnaOniynaQWWg1ulxc1ezW62feekSjAGfGlBhoAyHVai43GTVdS/s900/AsexualZonker12.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="900" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UVK3-N0SLpZQdkWbcNIt68DJqM3kfcGq_Ni4aA7vmzkaN6Z-nZs6aWEqxjrM64Z8p6qxJDKxaOUNMzFOc1i-TC393xnaOniynaQWWg1ulxc1ezW62feekSjAGfGlBhoAyHVai43GTVdS/w640-h202/AsexualZonker12.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>After that, apart from a few more cameo appearances in the late 1980s, she hasn’t shown up since.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbqiUHH398z34frxl-AEzWInntquhQ8mRyUGBim6yfhbNAb5K1UtQEXLjlN6yBAjIWKiLKI0sPOmQrhCksH7eXv7TzDlxkN8pjt5TacPcbjaKOPtVpECXjgDau_zzzFYsQMudVTgaj4rr/s1666/AsexualZonkerDate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1666" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbqiUHH398z34frxl-AEzWInntquhQ8mRyUGBim6yfhbNAb5K1UtQEXLjlN6yBAjIWKiLKI0sPOmQrhCksH7eXv7TzDlxkN8pjt5TacPcbjaKOPtVpECXjgDau_zzzFYsQMudVTgaj4rr/w640-h442/AsexualZonkerDate.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>While Zonker's fun to be around, he can be tiring in the long run, and he was against Mark Slackmeyer publicly coming out as Gay. (<i>That's what happens when you have a mostly male cast and limited women to pair them off</i>). So despite filling in the majority qualifications for Asexuality, he’s probably not the best spokesman for the role.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNdUzV_7BfoufhixK5bDIgKu0n4EkswNzUqvbEF5NAZlp2ewao2fkyxljzGF7Zq4hPkd2FOd-K4ddmfxP6qIWIqo37mgb5iseB4HyeSVnUmd3FswTH02PI3jpBeNXn62dJo5GvjSaY9q8n/s900/AsexualZonkerGay.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNdUzV_7BfoufhixK5bDIgKu0n4EkswNzUqvbEF5NAZlp2ewao2fkyxljzGF7Zq4hPkd2FOd-K4ddmfxP6qIWIqo37mgb5iseB4HyeSVnUmd3FswTH02PI3jpBeNXn62dJo5GvjSaY9q8n/w640-h206/AsexualZonkerGay.gif" width="640" /></a></p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-46285971941666311682021-10-12T17:35:00.003-07:002023-07-08T14:16:18.697-07:00Amazing Greys<p>Much like a large segment of <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2020/10/previously-closeted-webcomics.html">online Webcomic artists who’ve taken an extended hiatus</a> (<i>due in no small part thanks to the pandemic</i>), before making a comeback about their sexuality, so too have I come into a realization about myself. I’ve recently identified myself as being Asexual. What does that mean? It means that when I’ve eaten too much substances such as cake, and my weight exceeds the natural limit, my current form won't be able to contain my mass, so I’ll split into -</p><p>What? That’s not the definition we’re going for? Too bad. 2 of me wouldn’t be a bad idea. I’d have someone to do half my chores while the other half lazes around. But then I’d have to share my space with me, so it’s not as good as it sounds.</p><p>Basically, Asexuality can be described as a lack of sexual attraction, much in the way that single-celled cells have no desire to split apart, and are content doing their own thing.</p><p>To make matters more complicated, Asexuals CAN feel lust. They just do so under very specific conditions. Like if they’ve known the person for a long time and deeply connect and relate to them on a relatable level. Or if they want to beat off to the latest salacious crack pairing fanfic. (<i>If I’d known Asexuals could masturbate, it would’ve saved me a LOT of confusion</i>)</p><p>This realization doesn’t come from abstinence from sex. It can come after being pressured from feeling left out twiddling your mitochondria while everyone’s dividing like crazy around you, trying to convince a cell to split. “<i>C’mon, you’ll LOVE it.</i>”</p><p>Anytime 2 couples are paired together, promos go teasing around by asking questions of “<i>Will they? Won’t they?</i>” and express their outrage of “<i>Why <b>AREN’T </b>they?!</i>”</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDzVk-dPzY4_gg0M7kdJzB05NCf-YjKZ9AdwTnWe68GezfajK0UPk1m1g9zu5aNY9HmIA_uWDR8FwhqA8CNKlov-ZETFWGPrE0rbbVQd9BE9l9LgT6hjOBcuWTKuP4d5NdZ1c0P2YL76BH/s1164/AsexualMADxfiles.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1164" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDzVk-dPzY4_gg0M7kdJzB05NCf-YjKZ9AdwTnWe68GezfajK0UPk1m1g9zu5aNY9HmIA_uWDR8FwhqA8CNKlov-ZETFWGPrE0rbbVQd9BE9l9LgT6hjOBcuWTKuP4d5NdZ1c0P2YL76BH/w640-h264/AsexualMADxfiles.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">From MAD’s <u>Real Reasons why the X-Files is Totally Unbelievable</u></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When the default state for romantic couples is ingrained in society, you start noticing it popping up everywhere, even in places where the hookup shouldn’t even make sense. If you removed the five-second shot where the lovebirds lock lips, it’d hardly change the narrative one iota, especially when they’ve had to condense the contentions of meet-n-greet, getting to know each other, getting used to the annoying quirks, culminating in a connection, all in a single day. It’s basically a narrative shortcut, and can be annoying when overused.</p><p>The thing was, whenever these pairings happened, they always felt forced, and I looked forward to the rare occasions where someone wouldn’t be romantically paired off with anyone. Like Sheldon in the early seasons of <b>Big Bang Theory</b> before he was unceremoniously paired up with Amy (<i>who originally had no interest in men</i>) because the writers couldn’t conceive of a purely platonic relationship between two like-minded individuals.</p><p>There were very few representations of Asexuals, and I would welcome those rare instances when they came, because I found it fascinating. That <a href="https://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla">Tesla</a> was able to fully devote all his time and energy into research rather than distractible foibles as love was admirable in a way.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPf-X10pQUUKYbXxFmFU4Vx4ufd8T_D29e1mATzSfCtgOiQrx0UxoOb_Wld2GW07Fn0MnfHx2IliLYxFhFubVXvsCRSwPZhjpZT2irHzmUSiEmUjvwGB6uo_O3hSQiuyTtU9vgmW5j9iAn/s752/AsexualTesla.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="752" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPf-X10pQUUKYbXxFmFU4Vx4ufd8T_D29e1mATzSfCtgOiQrx0UxoOb_Wld2GW07Fn0MnfHx2IliLYxFhFubVXvsCRSwPZhjpZT2irHzmUSiEmUjvwGB6uo_O3hSQiuyTtU9vgmW5j9iAn/w640-h518/AsexualTesla.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The earliest instance I ever saw the theme of Asexuality represented was in a Manga. Normally, this would sound counterintuitive, since Manga is known for having perverts and characters that are ‘<i>sexier than sex</i>’, but it works for the very first story in Mitsukazu Mihara’s <b>I.C. in a Sunflower</b>, <u>Keep those Condoms Away from our Kids</u>. In this world, the young populace has suddenly developed a deep disinterest in propagating in the forbidden act of reproduction, the cause of which was... well...</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf41QNHdDpbBYLvlYB96cW_5xYCjMcBp5W3PCJLyhAPXZ9uNBPqKFhoHNFfPAVVNFDD1qe0ETlFJjk5I-Q6u3WkGVesobWkXg4SSIlfGNwHmqSFStu62hTL4bYh3eXwUJ_iT7hnpmOGxlJ/s1010/AsexualManga1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="711" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf41QNHdDpbBYLvlYB96cW_5xYCjMcBp5W3PCJLyhAPXZ9uNBPqKFhoHNFfPAVVNFDD1qe0ETlFJjk5I-Q6u3WkGVesobWkXg4SSIlfGNwHmqSFStu62hTL4bYh3eXwUJ_iT7hnpmOGxlJ/w450-h640/AsexualManga1.jpg" width="450" /></a></p><p>Unfortunate implications surrounding vaccines notwithstanding, Mitsukazu couldn’t <i>possibly </i>know the false correlation between vaccines and Autism that would come up years later, but the power of the story still shines through. With the majority of youth drained of desire, schools have forcibly extended their boundaries in prompting sex education to be taught with pornography. As anyone knows, the surest way to deprive interest in any curriculum is to teach it in school. If a worldwide phenomenon as Pokémon was taught in class, interest would dry up. It’s not just that the very act of sex is rendered meaningless, but that main character Irori pretends he understands it to keep his parents and principal feel relieved.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4izqxPMDQek6cyt7SnAlrSCdQsGN_1jNDxwcUeD6nz9lHFC5zdjmMM2v5R-HT4X7Ak7dRlOOmFNuc2UeD6VGnBGAcjrbr1cQdleE0UmzYmxNTDK8_GFptEccz-O7px4sHTLuJN0d4ZIAr/s728/AsexualManga2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="728" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4izqxPMDQek6cyt7SnAlrSCdQsGN_1jNDxwcUeD6nz9lHFC5zdjmMM2v5R-HT4X7Ak7dRlOOmFNuc2UeD6VGnBGAcjrbr1cQdleE0UmzYmxNTDK8_GFptEccz-O7px4sHTLuJN0d4ZIAr/w640-h528/AsexualManga2.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>This summary fails to convey the sheer power portrayed through a scant 31 pages, but pretty much all the stories in I.C. in a Sunflower, and can’t be recommended hard enough.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBst0uDXhiyJAAmshLW3cGKgBFvO8QVtsCQS4K__Z7aT5w2Sb3sf0s8yutPMo38MmjwXRuoun2xXU1iKL5GnFFzhyXwWoVwLYFUHCUE8Fz-7uOVz-_UnolBoLmcXk7dgz5iX0YOjkHevsH/s1428/AsexualCriminals13-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="932" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBst0uDXhiyJAAmshLW3cGKgBFvO8QVtsCQS4K__Z7aT5w2Sb3sf0s8yutPMo38MmjwXRuoun2xXU1iKL5GnFFzhyXwWoVwLYFUHCUE8Fz-7uOVz-_UnolBoLmcXk7dgz5iX0YOjkHevsH/w418-h640/AsexualCriminals13-19.jpg" width="418" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9W4mOXpQNw1eiSmPddRG2PlreXT7y5O-WmulbISrpVyUj8JPs7yq5V51H8iZ3-Tx5vAzqiTYG5Ix1bHXyS0yMqt0GdvY3OlclbyngbJBJNTcmDKCrP0Q9bx7nxugNHHdT1dorIcpXcoeL/s1070/AsexualCriminals13-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="938" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9W4mOXpQNw1eiSmPddRG2PlreXT7y5O-WmulbISrpVyUj8JPs7yq5V51H8iZ3-Tx5vAzqiTYG5Ix1bHXyS0yMqt0GdvY3OlclbyngbJBJNTcmDKCrP0Q9bx7nxugNHHdT1dorIcpXcoeL/w562-h640/AsexualCriminals13-22.jpg" width="562" /></a></p><p>Another instance of portrayed comic Asexuality was in <b>Sex Criminals</b> where a side character was able to undergo the *reality-defying* ritual of stopping time by orgasming via an emotional high. <i>Still </i>I didn’t make the connection. I thought that Asexuals derived pleasure through alternate means via a kind of braingasm, deriving pleasure through different circuit pathways, much in the way that Jughead gets his jollies from eating hamburgers. Or solving a difficult puzzle. Or clearing a hard level.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SjehDoYMlTeLKFQ71ugkxG-sjuhm9pfvoP4EALHwVbU07plj7qLidLu_zXMtO6xWSCyyAs29_Ww5MyuedtVoo2SuJUQFePgw4EGDdTymMWp4hwLIxd92h8X9RTGB_LNriRWWRKjmF6gu/s931/AcesWild081.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="931" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SjehDoYMlTeLKFQ71ugkxG-sjuhm9pfvoP4EALHwVbU07plj7qLidLu_zXMtO6xWSCyyAs29_Ww5MyuedtVoo2SuJUQFePgw4EGDdTymMWp4hwLIxd92h8X9RTGB_LNriRWWRKjmF6gu/w640-h556/AcesWild081.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>When my <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2019/08/trans-form.html">sibling came out as Trans</a>, I supported them as best as I could, listing several recommended comics in support, even as I struggled to understand their dysphoria. One of which was <a href="https://tapas.io/series/beingace">How to be Ace</a> by Rebecca Burgess. It didn’t explicitly deal with Trans issues, but I extremely identified with the underlying social issues surrounding Asexuality. So when I saw the dead tree version that continued from where the Webcomic left off, I immediately rushed to take it, my breathing coming in heaving gasps of excitement. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to read something so much. I couldn’t until I got home, and started reading it immediately.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuDjBc-UpymyTf1-o8CUQK_SkqiA5xY4bTv_PrM7XvzGkJSi60uoRjjtO03TvrdiSxTpCdr-rUl7Q44cE_xiBlpUEsdjFGY8FEHAfpoRZAaTK-Las863p9HX6xw5Cvcd3yOEZt_1MwH5n/s499/AsexualHow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="352" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuDjBc-UpymyTf1-o8CUQK_SkqiA5xY4bTv_PrM7XvzGkJSi60uoRjjtO03TvrdiSxTpCdr-rUl7Q44cE_xiBlpUEsdjFGY8FEHAfpoRZAaTK-Las863p9HX6xw5Cvcd3yOEZt_1MwH5n/w283-h400/AsexualHow.jpg" width="283" /></a></p><p>It’s a very personal book, and I was struck with the outright honesty portrayed throughout, but it’s not perfect. Some of the panel layouts are meant to be read downwards instead of across, and it can come across as confusing the first time around.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8ZTe-dFijdxdGmXYoUTBaaXfC6tMQvEWFReob0Zf-vjbb6akWKlxTs6wXUJC_DZovSf0LC7-5IAkBXLklS6VN2hGKthO_TpjpqdhAkiV7t_JdBTbdkilRix_pNwdTEJStV-dKC6yYKNK/s868/AsexualPanel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="868" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8ZTe-dFijdxdGmXYoUTBaaXfC6tMQvEWFReob0Zf-vjbb6akWKlxTs6wXUJC_DZovSf0LC7-5IAkBXLklS6VN2hGKthO_TpjpqdhAkiV7t_JdBTbdkilRix_pNwdTEJStV-dKC6yYKNK/w640-h634/AsexualPanel.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Halfway through, I read <i>this </i>page and my perceptions completely changed.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R8BYCffdtvRpWOuArl7CYo6XIGE4XG2lkR-SKisuVbEvWrK7bEexXBvFUO7TNVlIo4jpj-TzVPHzf5BLPTmZKFdr63Ks6Gg_eOy8pitMu452X-mY6HVQUqM0koQXnYYcFn87_OcA_yre/s998/AsexualSex.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="998" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R8BYCffdtvRpWOuArl7CYo6XIGE4XG2lkR-SKisuVbEvWrK7bEexXBvFUO7TNVlIo4jpj-TzVPHzf5BLPTmZKFdr63Ks6Gg_eOy8pitMu452X-mY6HVQUqM0koQXnYYcFn87_OcA_yre/w640-h532/AsexualSex.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>For the longest time, I thought that the prerequisite for being Asexual was being <i><b>totally </b></i>disinterested in sex. I didn’t know that someone could engage in masturbation and <i>still </i>be Asexual. Once that little nugget of information slipped through, a lot of the puzzle pieces left strewn about started fitting together quickly. I’d never wanted to kiss anyone, and oftentimes thought if I were cast for a Hollywood production or a play, one of my requests would be that I NOT be cast in a romantic situation where I’d have to kiss someone. (<i>Unless it’d service the plot, like making out with an escapee to escape spies, though even there, I’d probably tuck my lips in</i>)</p><p>I’ve never had a wet dream, but I vividly recall what could be described as an anti-wet dream. In the scenario, there was a young girl who stripped naked and frivolously danced about, displaying her underdeveloped body for all who wanted to see her. Making herself available to any who wanted to take advantage. In my dreams, I’m more of an observer, but in this instance, I was a participant. I took my coat off and put it on her. It was clear to me she’d been conditioned to wantonly display herself from a young age and didn’t know any other way of being.</p><p>In this idealized realm free of consequences where I could indulge any whim I wanted, I chose to be kind.</p><p>I lean more towards Greysexual than outright Asexual, being primarily interested in porn. It may seem contradictory for a self-proclaimed Asexual to be interested in sex, but I’m a fan since so much of it revolves around humour, and I’m a connoisseur of humour in many forms. So, given that I wanked off to many available material (<i>online and offline</i>), I still felt like a fraud for even thinking that I belonged on the Asexual frame. (<i>Still do</i>)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh2IIpFRr-kN2FLyTRstoNhQlSCjqZztffBeglRrqhFinrnsJdyH_V3XL53R1v6wbbL-g7A5jOIltpTLs27pyHNAoLiFIJ1p5RWGcqIDKYYDcmty9DzVgHky53XfTquQNWmoT17CJeva-/s1120/AsexualGastro1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1120" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh2IIpFRr-kN2FLyTRstoNhQlSCjqZztffBeglRrqhFinrnsJdyH_V3XL53R1v6wbbL-g7A5jOIltpTLs27pyHNAoLiFIJ1p5RWGcqIDKYYDcmty9DzVgHky53XfTquQNWmoT17CJeva-/w640-h362/AsexualGastro1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the emotionally devastating Gastrophobia (Pepsiaphobia) story <a href="https://gastrophobia.com/comic/a-good-egg-part-4">A Good Egg</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It doesn't feel right to take the <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAce">Ace</a> slang that's normally associated with someone who's notoriously overtalented compared to his teammates. That, and when I hear the term, I think of the Manga <b><a href="https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3996">Aim for the Ace</a></b>, even though the current generation hardly even knows it exists.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrY_9Z1DNkK8I1vyeLW5MCJCtVVhbMCiKW71ljaTdx8H6kB4VUyHaS06pTMTj8XqPWQf2NdhUpnnq7OFtqBjFlZe6MKDWc9QskmMEi00rOAHL04QY9506Luv4DGfztiOOkRDHvPb17sGD/s503/AsexualGastro2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrY_9Z1DNkK8I1vyeLW5MCJCtVVhbMCiKW71ljaTdx8H6kB4VUyHaS06pTMTj8XqPWQf2NdhUpnnq7OFtqBjFlZe6MKDWc9QskmMEi00rOAHL04QY9506Luv4DGfztiOOkRDHvPb17sGD/s320/AsexualGastro2.jpg" width="286" /></a></p><p>Even though I like consuming pornography, I have no inclination to openly engage any physical relationship with someone I don’t know. Even communicating with someone I’m familiar with is an uphill struggle. Being Asexual is very different from the toxic online base of incels (<i>involuntary celibates</i>), who feel entitled to have sex, having it denied to them, and rant against those who won’t share. I’m not sex-repulsed, I’m <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HatesBeingTouched"><b>touch-averse</b></a>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgksYyyRdmt5wQMi19YLfMn9H6CtfO0GD3fq_Y9Cl4QsUtMddyqQMTMBgG_VhuaaXQX7AfiEjvYPFnyEOKvAaUk4jiXsyoM2ztmxRwfzuIr8COwZebxMERvF7wEy_WxCPcedr0olG7PGu02/s1672/AsexualFeiffer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1672" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgksYyyRdmt5wQMi19YLfMn9H6CtfO0GD3fq_Y9Cl4QsUtMddyqQMTMBgG_VhuaaXQX7AfiEjvYPFnyEOKvAaUk4jiXsyoM2ztmxRwfzuIr8COwZebxMERvF7wEy_WxCPcedr0olG7PGu02/w640-h346/AsexualFeiffer.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>So much of what passes for sex in a relationship revolves around communication, seeking out insights of little cues of what sensitive spots excites your partner, anticipating their needs and meeting them. And being both deaf and Autistic, I simply would fail to meet those requirements in making the other party feel appreciated.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMHGEDNNoC04YCzPRHkTAYoA7jG2iaI1FedLuytHcOkrg_iOPdyrMwseJC_uFRzNmIe_CgYYNdhD4F0JwVQLpFo9XVh1G0S4SCTyw6LilSUB5oMmawdED5hsw4quJYqELOKe6kuskIRc5/s957/AsexualLoneliness.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="957" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMHGEDNNoC04YCzPRHkTAYoA7jG2iaI1FedLuytHcOkrg_iOPdyrMwseJC_uFRzNmIe_CgYYNdhD4F0JwVQLpFo9XVh1G0S4SCTyw6LilSUB5oMmawdED5hsw4quJYqELOKe6kuskIRc5/w640-h242/AsexualLoneliness.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As of now, I’m in the trifecta of invisible disabilities; Deafness, Autism and now Asexuality. Though it shouldn’t be too surprising, since the LGBTQA+ rate is 2/3rds higher among Autistics than other groups.</p><p>Also, I don’t like the Asexual flag, despite liking the colours black and purple. It just looks so... <b><i>drab</i></b>. Though some artists have managed to make the colour combination work. (<i>Can be easily mistaken for the ‘Attraction to Women/Femininity’ flag, where the lower colour is pink instead of purple</i>) I much more prefer the Greysexual flag though - it’s <i>symmetrical</i>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWsXiV-sF6FGpd3v9d_m7UHth1tuOewqRtQCvN88SDZrkJF2gc9_y-nVp6MDc8Bswm7JMbS2U2LvW0dVjk-h6tLwAY8NQ5jUij22de4veQ82Boie8NMeKoqxs3N-vUB_tMFHxDmWkknFk7/s1550/AsexualFlagDifference.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1550" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWsXiV-sF6FGpd3v9d_m7UHth1tuOewqRtQCvN88SDZrkJF2gc9_y-nVp6MDc8Bswm7JMbS2U2LvW0dVjk-h6tLwAY8NQ5jUij22de4veQ82Boie8NMeKoqxs3N-vUB_tMFHxDmWkknFk7/w640-h290/AsexualFlagDifference.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>While there isn’t as much implied bias towards Asexuals, there’s still an underlying distrust towards them along the likes of Transexuals and Bisexuals. Trans for betraying their side, Bisexuals for playing both sides, and Asexuals for being on neither side.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqcypTBDv5w5oXW3cR4AM6SoFv0wqwjI3f-fzGqBUAS9N1yfv9Y3hklWzIRSrQ7zxtOgrVrHBWYn-Bt_JkHrKwFWJSJKAduNl7djK0wXeaGsdFFyAKSiGyAiFTCIVQwtIGAyJ38m_JoXQ/s433/AsexualAcesBias.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="433" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqcypTBDv5w5oXW3cR4AM6SoFv0wqwjI3f-fzGqBUAS9N1yfv9Y3hklWzIRSrQ7zxtOgrVrHBWYn-Bt_JkHrKwFWJSJKAduNl7djK0wXeaGsdFFyAKSiGyAiFTCIVQwtIGAyJ38m_JoXQ/w400-h314/AsexualAcesBias.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>One thing that struck me once I self-identified as being Asexual was how much Asexuality was a part of my stories. I never had any inclination of putting any romance in them, which freed me up from thinking up convoluted ways for people to be together, apart or whatnot.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uscXoolpSiZBk5_p3FKXh0DA_GletrAjyvY88GR5Eh_0E-izH8MfTAzkypX9a3UWz_rNewZuV0reSWawApjcGFGtX3iVeE5IpM9BHPIpI-hQa4Zmtow9j1Ybglu9gz9vs5b6idR9gTvk/s874/AsexualAcesStories.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="874" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uscXoolpSiZBk5_p3FKXh0DA_GletrAjyvY88GR5Eh_0E-izH8MfTAzkypX9a3UWz_rNewZuV0reSWawApjcGFGtX3iVeE5IpM9BHPIpI-hQa4Zmtow9j1Ybglu9gz9vs5b6idR9gTvk/w640-h248/AsexualAcesStories.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>I even developed an erotic fanfic based on Julius Zimmerman’s drawings (<i>most of them centered around Jessica Rabbit</i>) which focused on a girl, Jean R. Rikk (<i>generic</i>) attending Moorehead High who would be exposed to a litany of titillating erotic exploits about her busty cartoon classmates. And then in the last two chapters, the whole narrative would turn on its head after she found out she was Asexual.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgk3siJWncam51MCodLarK_8fYru1Oi09YoGHuMa-7Scl2UdJiLZ1vGnYb1jOQSCJpFskUC8pzx8RdiPLJ51Tk4jHExjJG0euIssCzup2T0qyjL-n1eG9gUaczUeG3qUyO0ARirHjxoXq/s502/AsexualZimm8076-keepsongiving21.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgk3siJWncam51MCodLarK_8fYru1Oi09YoGHuMa-7Scl2UdJiLZ1vGnYb1jOQSCJpFskUC8pzx8RdiPLJ51Tk4jHExjJG0euIssCzup2T0qyjL-n1eG9gUaczUeG3qUyO0ARirHjxoXq/s16000/AsexualZimm8076-keepsongiving21.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">This is the most SFW image he’s done.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A potential symptom of being Asexual should be that you think about characters along those lines more than most people do. To describe me, one of my favorite coming out comic bios could’ve just as easily been retitled <b>The Times I knew I was Ace</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuE2AvyEL5bxPvdGuEWm45Pp72lKiwrtlpDpm-qg37ifIAHsMPUhOpuR6dns882dxf-nmTGcrnW_hiFtXb15GhpmpglrJUB7Ow8S6FLJhHIUMG5YE02_v_lT1mYPzO8sXBNE0NRTb1IdQS/s499/AsexualKnew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuE2AvyEL5bxPvdGuEWm45Pp72lKiwrtlpDpm-qg37ifIAHsMPUhOpuR6dns882dxf-nmTGcrnW_hiFtXb15GhpmpglrJUB7Ow8S6FLJhHIUMG5YE02_v_lT1mYPzO8sXBNE0NRTb1IdQS/w416-h640/AsexualKnew.jpg" width="416" /></a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"People might think that everyone starts out in a closet until they're ready to 'come out.' The closet could be dark and scary or quite roomy and resemble more of a clothes rail. But what's funny for me is that I didn't even know that there <u><b>was</b></u> a closet - or that I was very much stuck inside it."</p></blockquote><p>Here’s a segment taken from a chapter of my WebNovel <a href="https://thisisthey.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/sweet-sick-teen-27/">Sweet Sick Teen</a> (<i>kind of a warped pregnant <b>Alice in Wonderland</b> that doesn’t emulate any inspiration from the Lewis Carol classic</i>) of a dialogue between the unnamed Girl and the Pale Boy as a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat">take that</a> on YA books that specifically devoted on romance over the political ramifications of the story.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>“There are Romance serials where there’s built-up sexual tension between a guy and a girl who have loads of chemistry. This can last for hundreds of pages. The buildup can be so prolonged that audiences can go into a wild frenzy if the two wind up not getting together. Modern Romances have decided to sidestep this annoying will they/won’t they dilemma by having them kiss early on.”</p><p>The Girl made an overhead sweep with her arm. “Get it out of the way! Once that’s over and done with, the audience that’s been tingling with anticipation can finally concentrate and enjoy the rest of the story without wondering whether these two will hook up or not. It doesn’t matter if they never kiss again, since they’ve already done the dirty deed. You understand?”</p><p>(<i>No, but yes</i>)</p><p>The above line was actually a simplified pale imitation of the Pale Boy’s facial expressions, which would be impossible to accurately describe. In terms of body language, the Girl was able to coherently convert the full extent of his thoughtful look into a range of comprehension that was closer to (<i>I don’t, but I think I do</i>). The same meaning, but very different connotations.</p><p>They continued looking into each other’s eyes, compassion and understanding passing through both of them. And it was this very moment that the Burned Man chose to interrupt the pair.</p><p>“What are the two of you lazing about for? Get back to work!”</p><span><!--more--></span><p>Incidentally, the title of this post also refers to the surveillance reflective walls casting a feeling of being watched that aren’t officially given a name until the 3rd story, <a href="https://thisisthey.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/proof-of-purpose-1/">Proof of Purpose</a>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQgDTgliQfdULZdAFt0yionF_hxzeiAefyg25e5WQ49zHnJ78ITCw-CJJIy-q1PbXPpbqsmCgLEjeXsOF5qXW1kYutfO2FZ3WJR9pndqCRexroy67qAbOK-83j7vjEPQZzhkvVyBmi5te/s858/AsexualYA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="858" height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQgDTgliQfdULZdAFt0yionF_hxzeiAefyg25e5WQ49zHnJ78ITCw-CJJIy-q1PbXPpbqsmCgLEjeXsOF5qXW1kYutfO2FZ3WJR9pndqCRexroy67qAbOK-83j7vjEPQZzhkvVyBmi5te/w640-h597/AsexualYA.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-50531536142418006622021-05-14T17:39:00.000-07:002021-05-14T17:39:56.005-07:00In Search of an Elusive Good Rabbit Artist<p>When it comes to sharing age-old comics that only registers in the memory of old-school comic readers, there's the borderline legal impetus to share that joy by posting scans of some notable short stories, like <a href="http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/">The Horrors of it All</a>, <a href="http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/">Four Color Shadows</a>, <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com/">Big Blog Comics</a>, <a href="https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/">Pappy's Golden Age</a>, and recently, the defunct <a href="http://looneycomics.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-word-from-author.html">Looney Comics</a> of Matthew Hunter who started his blog to share some Looney Tunes comics with his opinions on them.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIxx4KHQX3glpgCWUpoCQfjJe8_5wcsoE5ffXPd49eZuMuVf_7OIh_kQfkLlEb6tnF_E33XWVDISU3VaHEGimSNkqdGqw-jVhjmHuQufX83rv78ZW_olm_fZSC-gJVRjjQoEVTCjLfxh9/s1371/looneytunes187-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="937" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIxx4KHQX3glpgCWUpoCQfjJe8_5wcsoE5ffXPd49eZuMuVf_7OIh_kQfkLlEb6tnF_E33XWVDISU3VaHEGimSNkqdGqw-jVhjmHuQufX83rv78ZW_olm_fZSC-gJVRjjQoEVTCjLfxh9/w438-h640/looneytunes187-03.jpg" width="438" /></a></p><p>For the most part, most of the Warner Bros. Comics had sub-par art and stiff off-model characters. But there was one exception. In the few Looney Tunes comics that happened to fall in my hands, there was always one story that seemed to be slightly above average than the others.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvYochbG1Eoisl6880T23EOHq-SInvL3f1n2UvQVFItNswqCvH6knMhMENpngD_Z2C97m4-4yL4Wu6Tu1puXFpS0js8lF-jjSSF4qk8ebkCzfPOkpyK9b_ukSlPmgsmHMVGcdeJ_KbLNWj/s1359/looneytunes187-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="929" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvYochbG1Eoisl6880T23EOHq-SInvL3f1n2UvQVFItNswqCvH6knMhMENpngD_Z2C97m4-4yL4Wu6Tu1puXFpS0js8lF-jjSSF4qk8ebkCzfPOkpyK9b_ukSlPmgsmHMVGcdeJ_KbLNWj/w438-h640/looneytunes187-04.jpg" width="438" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some reason, Elmer's line of "<i>That's my Gwandfather you're punching!</i>"<br />is endearably funny to me.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>A long time ago (circa 2016), <a href="https://www.progressiveruin.com/2016/03/11/unless-you-all-were-already-familiar/">Mike Sterling</a> made the claim that there never was a “Good Rabbit Artist” and the reason Carl Barks comics was fondly remembered while Warner Bros. Comics weren’t. For the longest time, this confused me, since I thought this was the elusive artist that'd fit the profile.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRfhPEubAqCB_t7Y7GaaEAJ7KtGDbHhfy2abpbyLy5MTG5xtdT1BGyYQGQmyigLefk5S7IhPPCfG59_pyAB-i_VkjvTyKWwNTRiQxSYVehmrpHhiUX6WZEKfj6nVFR6LS4y9Xn4v4PWow/s1362/looneytunes187-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="936" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRfhPEubAqCB_t7Y7GaaEAJ7KtGDbHhfy2abpbyLy5MTG5xtdT1BGyYQGQmyigLefk5S7IhPPCfG59_pyAB-i_VkjvTyKWwNTRiQxSYVehmrpHhiUX6WZEKfj6nVFR6LS4y9Xn4v4PWow/w440-h640/looneytunes187-05.jpg" width="440" /></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLnsDx-399nDXkORjFuoQ_k4zjWmVRbEKDQ8NwtoqXeD5YSZyz6Lyc01AwADxlefsZPGjq0uTzYgLwLn25OY_N04ni8V61oyXb30loEcYF2kC47PeE4Zb0PwiYjdiSVjkjiFHiaoByykW/s1355/looneytunes187-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1355" data-original-width="947" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLnsDx-399nDXkORjFuoQ_k4zjWmVRbEKDQ8NwtoqXeD5YSZyz6Lyc01AwADxlefsZPGjq0uTzYgLwLn25OY_N04ni8V61oyXb30loEcYF2kC47PeE4Zb0PwiYjdiSVjkjiFHiaoByykW/w448-h640/looneytunes187-06.jpg" width="448" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's unusual for Bugs to build up to trickery, rather than just bulldoze his way <br />into forcing others into whatever reality he deems plausible.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-z3FQbLb99ZLCyrn1m-Bb0e1-DPqwc9P3PUZxsQzQJ3hYYEBtk0SAREmT7RD9v1h3mW8xJddzxBavWyeEh4omnGH9dfWjqkSgXygjgplyvFrwKWo6kkTmIDJujAqC06JPqxAy3xnLyCT/s1347/looneytunes187-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1347" data-original-width="927" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-z3FQbLb99ZLCyrn1m-Bb0e1-DPqwc9P3PUZxsQzQJ3hYYEBtk0SAREmT7RD9v1h3mW8xJddzxBavWyeEh4omnGH9dfWjqkSgXygjgplyvFrwKWo6kkTmIDJujAqC06JPqxAy3xnLyCT/w440-h640/looneytunes187-07.jpg" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>Nowadays, we'd recognize Bugs' tactics as gaslighting,<br />but at the time, I thought it was typical trickster tactics.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iUM-wGszt6xE9P6o4nruITwz5Iwhri-3yjsLEPMFb8mXeRsOhU7v1Q9J0tfbXyaja0Q8pFid-WqQIrAZkR0AXrc0mnx05Y2wzvMWRQNBfuj_aA3ZK7OZjDa40XcRovLKupi9Gpd-yipF/s1353/looneytunes187-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="939" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iUM-wGszt6xE9P6o4nruITwz5Iwhri-3yjsLEPMFb8mXeRsOhU7v1Q9J0tfbXyaja0Q8pFid-WqQIrAZkR0AXrc0mnx05Y2wzvMWRQNBfuj_aA3ZK7OZjDa40XcRovLKupi9Gpd-yipF/w444-h640/looneytunes187-08.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW186jKBYqcqWfT0AIDZMLSiDlu0kEx5j9_PAH3AGiFsqtOLqlu8SgeL1TwMaRIyLz7EBfv9UBK0eJi6vTovQKY6KTQ5eESMc4EDtRsPmZx3MxA44kn3AmBICbewVCyMS9N3PeRX9S-Lhj/s1353/looneytunes187-09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="942" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW186jKBYqcqWfT0AIDZMLSiDlu0kEx5j9_PAH3AGiFsqtOLqlu8SgeL1TwMaRIyLz7EBfv9UBK0eJi6vTovQKY6KTQ5eESMc4EDtRsPmZx3MxA44kn3AmBICbewVCyMS9N3PeRX9S-Lhj/w444-h640/looneytunes187-09.jpg" width="444" /></a></p><p>I started doing some research, but absent a name, I had no way of identifying him. By process of elimination, I knew he wasn't Ed Volke, Pete Alvarado, Chase Craig, Roger Armstrong, Tom McKimson or Charles McKimson [<i>no relation?</i>].</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJ2oAVhOrNPgPkSg_EgoxoRyzThLvtOE4DbK1rodNqvgxUhJj0j6U37IyF7I_HGtvxlN-BaKaVX4RRYjYmyIoBCHNZdYIsA4CChaPsVkP2yqvjXeUHR-tjJzA8pPtLquti6yVLHtR4db-/s1359/looneytunes187-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="944" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJ2oAVhOrNPgPkSg_EgoxoRyzThLvtOE4DbK1rodNqvgxUhJj0j6U37IyF7I_HGtvxlN-BaKaVX4RRYjYmyIoBCHNZdYIsA4CChaPsVkP2yqvjXeUHR-tjJzA8pPtLquti6yVLHtR4db-/w444-h640/looneytunes187-10.jpg" width="444" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT_93HJV_hvEakFZXHbM_q50FakdnCnpzd4qE2W_yfhhBNMepZGHKqzWyulmQ1k1qKhalwE9hHm1vX9HsOw8x-vq1UlAX7QyvxsAtf5qhsdboVV2ZtvgCYo9wD7gEjjsUdDPrvikRIsvC/s1366/looneytunes187-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="927" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT_93HJV_hvEakFZXHbM_q50FakdnCnpzd4qE2W_yfhhBNMepZGHKqzWyulmQ1k1qKhalwE9hHm1vX9HsOw8x-vq1UlAX7QyvxsAtf5qhsdboVV2ZtvgCYo9wD7gEjjsUdDPrvikRIsvC/w434-h640/looneytunes187-11.jpg" width="434" /></a></p><p>It was only by going through the <a href="https://www.comics.org/series/1112/">Comics Database</a> that I found this elusive clean line artstyle showcasing Bugs Bunny with highly defined buck teeth than usual was most likely <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de-lara_phil.htm">Phil de Lara</a>, who also did the Porky Pig and Daffy Duck comics in the same issues. The Bugs Bunny comics were also 10 pages long, which gave rise to the allusion that these were higher quality material, especially since the shorter comics weren’t as strong.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBTMq619sMOpQmw5sYI6uzWKbjss7Tpuom3ND_FPF3QSfxVClY0zralpeTHspuokdFOoMTWGQmIDvN5ZmcnVlZiStRLj-UT_OcbCOTRAZLf_LSIiJxik9HjRslnxV25GYdUOGgZsD3rN6/s1356/looneytunes187-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1356" data-original-width="927" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBTMq619sMOpQmw5sYI6uzWKbjss7Tpuom3ND_FPF3QSfxVClY0zralpeTHspuokdFOoMTWGQmIDvN5ZmcnVlZiStRLj-UT_OcbCOTRAZLf_LSIiJxik9HjRslnxV25GYdUOGgZsD3rN6/w438-h640/looneytunes187-12.jpg" width="438" /></a></p><p>He was quite the <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/phil-de-lara/4040-36152/">prolific artist</a>, working in animation, for both Warner Bros. and Walt Disney, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Chip & Dale and Woody Woodpecker.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJ63KfmAESx0YymGmaLBn3uNli81bi_F6S7g1Y42qI-TRfbsRHkLsUUBj1Mbrx0-2uh8vi4rrduuK02y1wrHXKPV7GXqg4I3vSq8p_hgRP0GQQgaF3mXvkmXc9O3IXv4LqzEmFCdB0Akb/s1162/looneytunes192-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="926" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJ63KfmAESx0YymGmaLBn3uNli81bi_F6S7g1Y42qI-TRfbsRHkLsUUBj1Mbrx0-2uh8vi4rrduuK02y1wrHXKPV7GXqg4I3vSq8p_hgRP0GQQgaF3mXvkmXc9O3IXv4LqzEmFCdB0Akb/w510-h640/looneytunes192-003.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PxgvyNmj7Sxyds3Pq4eiUP9VAqw9pmPASwevwy3saSF6uQOtlNkVuw99qARJIvbzVAaqQWKdAhMui-A9Ch1Kn3o0hhm-RgSQZc0HNHkX1Pwjls6c3V9yfind-wygHdbJz1OLAPMGG-nq/s1395/looneytunes192-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PxgvyNmj7Sxyds3Pq4eiUP9VAqw9pmPASwevwy3saSF6uQOtlNkVuw99qARJIvbzVAaqQWKdAhMui-A9Ch1Kn3o0hhm-RgSQZc0HNHkX1Pwjls6c3V9yfind-wygHdbJz1OLAPMGG-nq/w458-h640/looneytunes192-004.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div>My enthusiasm upon finding these comics was dampened upon actually seeing them all at once. One factor that comes up is that the Warner Bros. Comics bear little resemblance to the cartoons that inspired them. The majority of the Bugs Bunny comics had Bugs be on a frenemy terms with Elmer, and there were plots involving cursed idols, running across crooks, and casual racism which would make reprinting such stories a problem.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9xzxNtKamLVFzlr6oNX34xXhg4N2OicX0yZg2Q7FiOl-VrukBCENd4tURBgIUW1ds0HbHUpIPjeLl6LBH6Oav065dp_0mxbu8tKLeJyvdqbdIrsaT5_4B6ZdS9ZfqWcICvAcFiasrTux/s1397/looneytunes192-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9xzxNtKamLVFzlr6oNX34xXhg4N2OicX0yZg2Q7FiOl-VrukBCENd4tURBgIUW1ds0HbHUpIPjeLl6LBH6Oav065dp_0mxbu8tKLeJyvdqbdIrsaT5_4B6ZdS9ZfqWcICvAcFiasrTux/w458-h640/looneytunes192-005.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgixdEufUHq14YyWA8uqXm0TacrpbBaPuGZ2rnr3Jr853zhiXnwApbzrI4x454QGVblhBQzgrYCCviVPmKNxGxm7jSW5dHB4aVgo-Gz8ahgYGPtmO4kQMbyJXDdfcD6YCd4SnZ6E8cM_T6d/s1382/looneytunes192-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1382" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgixdEufUHq14YyWA8uqXm0TacrpbBaPuGZ2rnr3Jr853zhiXnwApbzrI4x454QGVblhBQzgrYCCviVPmKNxGxm7jSW5dHB4aVgo-Gz8ahgYGPtmO4kQMbyJXDdfcD6YCd4SnZ6E8cM_T6d/w464-h640/looneytunes192-006.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div>As with any adaptation of licensed products, there was a tendency to misunderstand the allure of the characters, grafting known marketable traits onto new properties that were known to work. Somewhat similar to the Weekday episodes of The Real Ghostbusters where the team temporarily branched out into <a href="https://fletchtalks.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/the-real-ghostbusters-episode-28-ghost-busted-1986/">Crimebusters</a>, cracking down on criminals. Not exactly the same as tracking down and analyzing ghosts, which made the team more like cops than anything, which wasn’t what they were supposed to be doing anyways!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdseIIQhRvhMmH0blVjeiO73RYUKWz3RHDLKAWU4Gb-qY_dmytpPzjhsOvG_nKvn33ypjxk8bNZDURp3lyPRgpyip765p9vy8aTp8U096Dz3R6DFmtOgoe6je09NJzGz3bXuahdEHqWtIH/s1396/looneytunes192-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdseIIQhRvhMmH0blVjeiO73RYUKWz3RHDLKAWU4Gb-qY_dmytpPzjhsOvG_nKvn33ypjxk8bNZDURp3lyPRgpyip765p9vy8aTp8U096Dz3R6DFmtOgoe6je09NJzGz3bXuahdEHqWtIH/w458-h640/looneytunes192-007.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskyeO0KgW085eZ3OWFRRY-mrtUNpxomC_jQ6om5RZeEp5KKaGr3ZkLhwvb_-8VsCvuiNzZz1qC-U3CIzZl9Semw2RohYugpTOZyG9g_NM9363w0TDgzugFSryuaXMgepHgdllIzLCuVVv/s1402/looneytunes192-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1402" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskyeO0KgW085eZ3OWFRRY-mrtUNpxomC_jQ6om5RZeEp5KKaGr3ZkLhwvb_-8VsCvuiNzZz1qC-U3CIzZl9Semw2RohYugpTOZyG9g_NM9363w0TDgzugFSryuaXMgepHgdllIzLCuVVv/w456-h640/looneytunes192-008.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><div>The difference between the nameless comics and the Carl Barks classics is that for all of Phil de Lara's skills, he worked off someone else's anonymous script. If given the chance, could he have used his imagination to create something that could've expanded on the nature of the Warner Bros. cartoons? We may never know.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVk5jJAP8-9gWyRnt3qDf4U0xgsFsORe3M9_RDEYyeTDK071c6K8Q06KwLk-23dy-0Vb38fJPneG_RQuBrWkE18fuuP4I3axz8UZNPjpBLp2UUoglez3ye8XBRfnY61JXOSJw3piORx06/s1393/looneytunes192-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1393" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVk5jJAP8-9gWyRnt3qDf4U0xgsFsORe3M9_RDEYyeTDK071c6K8Q06KwLk-23dy-0Vb38fJPneG_RQuBrWkE18fuuP4I3axz8UZNPjpBLp2UUoglez3ye8XBRfnY61JXOSJw3piORx06/w460-h640/looneytunes192-009.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgb5rIRk9QZycozYKQ5l0KW7qkIlND9R7czsCJ9RTvFtMXmNywK_41OCRxQVna3nWxMg_WEQNmRYFJ6LskTKZAKQBw3wc2rLRkhf8GbJWQM3E0_Reb43wnKJ0DgO5uIR1Lv68E_bOm8Vt/s1384/looneytunes192-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgb5rIRk9QZycozYKQ5l0KW7qkIlND9R7czsCJ9RTvFtMXmNywK_41OCRxQVna3nWxMg_WEQNmRYFJ6LskTKZAKQBw3wc2rLRkhf8GbJWQM3E0_Reb43wnKJ0DgO5uIR1Lv68E_bOm8Vt/w462-h640/looneytunes192-010.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><div>There's no animal such as a pip-squeak, but if there were, would it behave any differently from how Elmer portrayed one here?</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpSVDLW7nZ1drvGfieBVdm2-MFglop-3ZgaDt4vxHpBeDzi119SQ0S9INs5pq6DSfFLJ9C9ACpcmNST6M04qzPdTUH6WyjEgQZMW1dU8Ivp49-aDicOV1t6p8OHwgpdV-z0_GrEKqDrMv/s1395/looneytunes192-011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpSVDLW7nZ1drvGfieBVdm2-MFglop-3ZgaDt4vxHpBeDzi119SQ0S9INs5pq6DSfFLJ9C9ACpcmNST6M04qzPdTUH6WyjEgQZMW1dU8Ivp49-aDicOV1t6p8OHwgpdV-z0_GrEKqDrMv/w458-h640/looneytunes192-011.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9On2QN9KWw-PNOrndfk7Fvxt_oLeoIv2imug14ReU1FGLgMq4Yg3U-0lEIzV1s6j5Ew74tC55MeEryJVyb3PPh56aqHpJABR2vUiUzuRORVyOenSBfD42ZO4A3dGC8kt8aXDsgwtI4rK/s1408/looneytunes192-012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9On2QN9KWw-PNOrndfk7Fvxt_oLeoIv2imug14ReU1FGLgMq4Yg3U-0lEIzV1s6j5Ew74tC55MeEryJVyb3PPh56aqHpJABR2vUiUzuRORVyOenSBfD42ZO4A3dGC8kt8aXDsgwtI4rK/w454-h640/looneytunes192-012.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><div>I normally would’ve ended this post here had I not in my searches come across this otherwise unremarkable story from 1957 where Bugs encounters Elmer on the docks in an inconspicuous disguise and WAITAMINIT.</div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK94SsCP1u9cFy6NhftlG4u7pCOYa05uDC4XWDr6UskGfwUb2jVk04t-eZxlAKuMvKKrXxMyvEqUZeCWttQd6AZGzUfr7a9qfvZ3i93D8gvwC9uJB2rGf77iUo35yZ-WKHXYlVCEAZuZDU/s1083/looneytunes193-03-Tintin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1083" data-original-width="855" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK94SsCP1u9cFy6NhftlG4u7pCOYa05uDC4XWDr6UskGfwUb2jVk04t-eZxlAKuMvKKrXxMyvEqUZeCWttQd6AZGzUfr7a9qfvZ3i93D8gvwC9uJB2rGf77iUo35yZ-WKHXYlVCEAZuZDU/w506-h640/looneytunes193-03-Tintin.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX9rQuSSQIlyeQbLqmjXni_e3ql4DuGZ0Q82i03mZNZ8K_TGgUK1estPccT6uWd1Kr_10Rd_4XMf4595dY5YhJM6FLtPgNeqzlGCP9qwSATAEAfbOwkno_U6gjTNzpLbbbGi6Lxs2gLugt/s1310/looneytunes193-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX9rQuSSQIlyeQbLqmjXni_e3ql4DuGZ0Q82i03mZNZ8K_TGgUK1estPccT6uWd1Kr_10Rd_4XMf4595dY5YhJM6FLtPgNeqzlGCP9qwSATAEAfbOwkno_U6gjTNzpLbbbGi6Lxs2gLugt/w450-h640/looneytunes193-04.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div>That steamboat with cargo looks <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2011/12/alternate-tintin-interpretations.html">awfully familiar...</a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_A4gJm8XPPtW7oO898VZyPMy9oSA4AmU7Q1_Qxnhj0YIZWNgufG3f8SYQQgHEv15eKsIX9fzthF0O33HFu6q1sbXRWeQYuIc82wiOCbOAiQoxHXHZbGFS8RqM0bZUPEpNdjd_8gd856m/s1310/looneytunes193-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_A4gJm8XPPtW7oO898VZyPMy9oSA4AmU7Q1_Qxnhj0YIZWNgufG3f8SYQQgHEv15eKsIX9fzthF0O33HFu6q1sbXRWeQYuIc82wiOCbOAiQoxHXHZbGFS8RqM0bZUPEpNdjd_8gd856m/w450-h640/looneytunes193-05.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div>In fact, this whole setup is directly lifted off from <b>The Crab with the Golden Claws</b>, which was published in 1947, a full decade later, basically summarizing a 48-page comic classic in under 10 pages.</div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YsDSCZazA_rW9uo90sTu4LfAd-6KK0B-FZRRrjnp2mFF4NScQ98BiykYugN_NJL8xZ3LkIDEBHorP8-fBgL8W7K4d4Wt7GAJG0UbYLsjzNhCv7j88emzH6KEHqrZvqFTx8rg27PuJmjM/s1310/looneytunes193-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YsDSCZazA_rW9uo90sTu4LfAd-6KK0B-FZRRrjnp2mFF4NScQ98BiykYugN_NJL8xZ3LkIDEBHorP8-fBgL8W7K4d4Wt7GAJG0UbYLsjzNhCv7j88emzH6KEHqrZvqFTx8rg27PuJmjM/w450-h640/looneytunes193-06.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div>For any American ignorant of Tintin, this would be another unremarkable story, but for any comic connoisseurs in the know, this would be deliberate plagiarism, or at the very least, an indirect homage.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2g-lFwpUxrCTM5CYrRm35Eic8dA3TzLXbpMdx_dZcVELZKBVn7f8QoofwAecLEDNBwFyUU38Qv2prUGGwN9afM_kmfzhRPNsEyOHSEi3sO8HKMw5BQXZsj1W0HbCHhfVDbWmyf0NDLyj/s1310/looneytunes193-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2g-lFwpUxrCTM5CYrRm35Eic8dA3TzLXbpMdx_dZcVELZKBVn7f8QoofwAecLEDNBwFyUU38Qv2prUGGwN9afM_kmfzhRPNsEyOHSEi3sO8HKMw5BQXZsj1W0HbCHhfVDbWmyf0NDLyj/w450-h640/looneytunes193-07.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi361CJBmauKZOaNQ4WNvlqzDxXlN-e9AwiuYS2IY3DMJhDUkcPSnKRx0WkLCWvzCFYvX3fC9u_Tlv4a2AF2sK0dXbhdcZyTVAWs1dqUVkxWOAakGf8mBkSvjy4KvR6WRGL5ljwr2fYj_LW/s1310/looneytunes193-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1zhkcW5xhgswz5eGBdByNd2XaJ0aaV-SgSlRq3PWg2T6mihkuNLnVOuD7Jm1BjIEvDXiDFZHf-2Elvto8ajg-wFFEC5ehUDTW4kPH3_YX861xmSw5N3_5NbFHtim44gzjxyWKSVxxw8r/w450-h640/looneytunes193-12.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div>One other fault with these Warner Bros. comics is that the ending can be abrupt and with a somewhat unsatisfying joke, even for a condensed 10-page comic like this one. As such, it seems we won't be seeing a collection of Phil De Lara's works anytime soon.</div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-42306046732170398622021-02-12T22:33:00.005-08:002021-02-12T22:33:40.064-08:00Weird Romance: Cathy & Alex<p>Cathy's relationship with men can be described as being desperate, while also being unsatisfied seekers of perfection only to attract disasters, and being the inspiration for missing <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2020/01/pet-peeves-missing-comic-inspired-titles.html">Newspaper Comic Collection titles</a>.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2_s_96hGlKJ2wUChun805v30AIr7GWk8NSjZQHfCmc3PTRk0UPpVi8qc-0zvLnAod7Fq1tw-XmifogLosUnw-XXLbBqSQHfQOr-1u1pr6_Fs_d5gT3DmRskOisluc0mQcKypr5XP2xMj/s961/CathyEmersonMouth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="961" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2_s_96hGlKJ2wUChun805v30AIr7GWk8NSjZQHfCmc3PTRk0UPpVi8qc-0zvLnAod7Fq1tw-XmifogLosUnw-XXLbBqSQHfQOr-1u1pr6_Fs_d5gT3DmRskOisluc0mQcKypr5XP2xMj/w640-h248/CathyEmersonMouth.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>And in the rare occasions where there were acceptable men, they were either too good for her, leading the lead character to back off out of fear that there might be something wrong with someone who'd want her as a companion, or snapped up by her friends later.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDjCmVxG2OFS_4PW3G73aJl9y7PFg4GYZGifG9y6ZP2_Bo8GAYmkBjtztmloeC1DAzIUzVt3tsCenUcYL6Oaa0U74CX1UXCOMzhyphenhyphenqbMd1-9N8IC6uqGeULmhxirBqXxyM4Ypyr248jWU8/s600/CathyEmerson19780512.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="600" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDjCmVxG2OFS_4PW3G73aJl9y7PFg4GYZGifG9y6ZP2_Bo8GAYmkBjtztmloeC1DAzIUzVt3tsCenUcYL6Oaa0U74CX1UXCOMzhyphenhyphenqbMd1-9N8IC6uqGeULmhxirBqXxyM4Ypyr248jWU8/w640-h210/CathyEmerson19780512.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>Early on, there was a kind accepting boyfriend, Emerson, who had all the qualities Cathy wanted in a man, but just not in <i>his </i>kind of man. And he was quickly forgotten.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaJLLxMmsV-horDNyAODFaEheFYrh4RsemXJVAdmOlfYmKGcykAkQEFDtthPvAeQNeYvaNpI5AfpT1eROxCFn69P8FyhPirFMz6bb79AYWk5jPKX5V7Tdpb6Oa-GysKQ6PBLykMWjFIDc/s600/CathyEmerson19800404.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="600" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaJLLxMmsV-horDNyAODFaEheFYrh4RsemXJVAdmOlfYmKGcykAkQEFDtthPvAeQNeYvaNpI5AfpT1eROxCFn69P8FyhPirFMz6bb79AYWk5jPKX5V7Tdpb6Oa-GysKQ6PBLykMWjFIDc/w640-h216/CathyEmerson19800404.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>For the most part, her definitive man was Irving, an irrepressible clueless jerk who was somehow endearing despite his faults. He would be the backdrop against all the other awful men Cathy would go out with, serving as a barometer gauge of awfulness.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBB3HYcDZLR1Ax765O_PD6ohOf2NfU1xJ8M7ycWqt7Qj3UY_WStY6LabbLRDy41rzKGu0lfU2CubAXynIAtPyeS_0dpj-TGItYjNEgzfJ-5DYjhSuvNlkbW-6fzYmTX5MDcX8doOp_7kV/s944/CathyEmersonTooGood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="944" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBB3HYcDZLR1Ax765O_PD6ohOf2NfU1xJ8M7ycWqt7Qj3UY_WStY6LabbLRDy41rzKGu0lfU2CubAXynIAtPyeS_0dpj-TGItYjNEgzfJ-5DYjhSuvNlkbW-6fzYmTX5MDcX8doOp_7kV/w640-h276/CathyEmersonTooGood.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>But there was one instance where Cathy found a potential soul mate that would wind up being one of her longest lasting relationships over the course of a year. It all started innocuously enough in January 31st of 1994 when she signed up for gym membership.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrJmIg2MCBgRadAdqT1QSup1F26-ZD54BEjm1BX7kmb6upgnV1EHuAX18v39bfnMkXkKcKpzjIsalPhSprdzA7gm_gGeiIJsR4bRPkqwcdyip_HjgMsg_roJOrjXgUA0uJVh26WRAQeC6/s901/CathyAlex1994-01-31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="901" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrJmIg2MCBgRadAdqT1QSup1F26-ZD54BEjm1BX7kmb6upgnV1EHuAX18v39bfnMkXkKcKpzjIsalPhSprdzA7gm_gGeiIJsR4bRPkqwcdyip_HjgMsg_roJOrjXgUA0uJVh26WRAQeC6/w640-h216/CathyAlex1994-01-31.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oZoiVE6RIJB3-5Xc1_Xj8ZWMxF6ti8T_WQfJT0Uiy-4us42I5kamazdjsXjmhFE5W0ymfYgObTBXgOYruHFxYcTNoYgyO7dDG5efH1b64u6FtZU5Yyb1gaUZFF0tVjWgfk6uaC7pKA45/s900/CathyAlex1994-02-02.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Alex was simply too easygoing, and his childish immaturity was more a core character than a fault. If anything, he seemed simply too good for Cathy.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J98sWPJH7M4Il4rj7P28HT4eut1k2p41tiD7x_ueGNy1TFSwUkizAE-j-j2odshY21-ABw30KA4yueVkwHkPHGXkRfDk5JwNd85oN12MHstIOqlwuBh31JJ2UD2WZpR0CTkz1Q4Ueh-F/s899/CathyAlex1994-08-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="899" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J98sWPJH7M4Il4rj7P28HT4eut1k2p41tiD7x_ueGNy1TFSwUkizAE-j-j2odshY21-ABw30KA4yueVkwHkPHGXkRfDk5JwNd85oN12MHstIOqlwuBh31JJ2UD2WZpR0CTkz1Q4Ueh-F/w640-h212/CathyAlex1994-08-17.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb1vxSaxjhbdBDVPQYEuHtU4rcw-Nz7N_i350KAAfCSgA406juTv2DigvaeXO0B7ZgPeUV7tN60FkrsztlvED7HqpeU2RKdj4mQgwVXSwrgAS52C-ooy4aLQUHRSwbaFpc9kqd5nzQV6OK/s900/CathyAlex1994-08-18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It seemed somehow... mean.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezOomhbc-eV5Nll-Z8VwsYbbJRxFV-fL0HnX_YmY2I9pN0I0s36YdnVAmDOTrPU_Fep6v8gcrYVDUIlU1zdhoIpB0VlHQt1HbKungiVCV5nLaw-vUngN6xuP-QcGcyufooS2vCotpZ9IH/s899/CathyAlex1994-09-24p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="899" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezOomhbc-eV5Nll-Z8VwsYbbJRxFV-fL0HnX_YmY2I9pN0I0s36YdnVAmDOTrPU_Fep6v8gcrYVDUIlU1zdhoIpB0VlHQt1HbKungiVCV5nLaw-vUngN6xuP-QcGcyufooS2vCotpZ9IH/w640-h212/CathyAlex1994-09-24p.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzkslIqG6YiqGnxY9OC5AKVCnES_iHXPAbladunTWrIU_XsCe22qnyf3gafUd-W_88beKAaNYB7n7f10oRfeDb_etyS1vyMll5-0fWJnRH7FvIPPVUyPsUypXBnAhsj4IUZuMtB8F_DWI/s900/CathyAlex1994-10-10-Dinner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwlZvlD0m0zqHejf3w9fJVRaWBcwbtSvD6srPggTVIX41u-NRmDwgLgRPUq38EatSJY08257H32ipkL7EEB3WEHG-uf1qUV69nMtxRQuFEohqd3nditQHlnE6lH5KHCjI2g4NSsBD56YqT/s1633/CathyAlexDishes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1633" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwlZvlD0m0zqHejf3w9fJVRaWBcwbtSvD6srPggTVIX41u-NRmDwgLgRPUq38EatSJY08257H32ipkL7EEB3WEHG-uf1qUV69nMtxRQuFEohqd3nditQHlnE6lH5KHCjI2g4NSsBD56YqT/w640-h438/CathyAlexDishes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cathy's relationship with Alex while fraught, was still healthier than with Irving, and was said so in a Newspaper article I managed to find, back when going through physical microfiche archives was still possible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNqzYicqW8MF3Atg2RaxykDQnQRPMk7DMILCFHEDqKx6PSy31Q4pxuBCdfpjlZQ2rUcdpmlWyaeM2R0pEgHSbUaShHbnPClWk0GxtsdDToDMMKn-ObqQBq0tDmZHPPf-yRtdCSbmoj7Ap/s1264/NewspaperCathy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OhEKnjheotIxCgwwzMxi0dxMqjEBeAs8Em353qyipoqPv7BWMPvBXNkGdwA-cu0lBtyJyeReUesErw3penos8sBkHEF8JUzKrbKJF23ame0y5DFKf4IQl0GNnolQrOMUGGPytie8_Bai/s909/CathyAlex1995-02-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="909" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OhEKnjheotIxCgwwzMxi0dxMqjEBeAs8Em353qyipoqPv7BWMPvBXNkGdwA-cu0lBtyJyeReUesErw3penos8sBkHEF8JUzKrbKJF23ame0y5DFKf4IQl0GNnolQrOMUGGPytie8_Bai/w640-h212/CathyAlex1995-02-13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then on February 14, 1995, a year after Cathy met Alex, without any fanfare foreshadowing or buildup, we were suddenly faced with this:</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJpGaDpZpOtQq_haw03zCklmUB9w_6RY9hHqyK8BzS0uxKsRViGcqo-SDACm3y1zbkMFdLRAtALcHRj6zaTXOrmJ3Z9_DVEIAHuAgnFuClEaeehC3tQo1ZPEl2AYJdfKTo3i4IsJdgj_1/s903/CathyAlex1995-02-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBn9K32I_PbJ3U7kX-pJQMq_NDf8VMAo4fnjQCThT_YwgVN6s-F84BuZQqJgYUEe9iRqWl1G04hCLumdcW_VV5gakCj8rEUYXRdf2H0G1LY4ZMrD8ya4LEjlj2ibjeQ5iN8c_QVsKgnL6/s1085/CathyAlex1995-05-05.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="1085" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBn9K32I_PbJ3U7kX-pJQMq_NDf8VMAo4fnjQCThT_YwgVN6s-F84BuZQqJgYUEe9iRqWl1G04hCLumdcW_VV5gakCj8rEUYXRdf2H0G1LY4ZMrD8ya4LEjlj2ibjeQ5iN8c_QVsKgnL6/w640-h212/CathyAlex1995-05-05.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>This isn't the last that Cathy and Alex would see each other, but this post is running long enough already, easily outpacing my <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2012/04/bcs-last-fling.html">Epic</a> <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2015/09/bcs-epic-trip.html">BC</a> <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2016/09/epic-bc-epilogue.html">posts</a>. Maybe I'll post a followup sometime next year.</p></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-24219721684290554942021-02-11T01:39:00.001-08:002021-02-11T21:25:37.340-08:00License Re-request: Epileptic 2<p>David B.'s seminal comic biography about his epileptic brother is one of the most seminal comic works ever seen, easily outpacing the likes of <b>Persepolis </b>and <b>Maus</b>. His drawings have a grandiose dreamlike essence with a strong Mayan influence, giving a monstrous symbolic representation of the disease that took over his brother's life. <a href="http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/david_b">Paul Gravett</a> writes more eloquently about the masterpiece than I ever could.</p><p>Yet people may be largely ignorant of the fact that there was a followup after the 6-volume epic ended.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUCPVCl277A7mtQ_VUpDoNHpiftSOGV0RDaikMutJFThPsatViAilWgYQFx_Aku50bVFytKq_Siyeumgul5dTZoaSa1Lqzeap0hdwKocRvA-DSzWgndMfNyQLEvavplvHsVkYwmGT7UMB/s1420/FCBD+2006-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1420" data-original-width="1017" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUCPVCl277A7mtQ_VUpDoNHpiftSOGV0RDaikMutJFThPsatViAilWgYQFx_Aku50bVFytKq_Siyeumgul5dTZoaSa1Lqzeap0hdwKocRvA-DSzWgndMfNyQLEvavplvHsVkYwmGT7UMB/w458-h640/FCBD+2006-08.jpg" width="458" /></a></p><p>I only knew about this because there were samples made available in the pamphlets during <b>Free Comic Book Day</b> in 2006. However, I only flipped through the pages of the Fantagraphics sample (inappropriately titled<b> Funny Book</b> #2), since I wanted to make sure I'd get my money's worth, and didn't want to get something that would take up valuable space. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWhZFjJQ-p_cARzCwcH08RO9JpwVI4iE_tuOaGAcQmsiqcTdP-7M647rej-shtQagM6UeC7VpHLBA0XHARlKOFMTOAlwA6gI5Kowll0R0t14DG4f4m0yz4ePjieG597D_OZoVM1VVJb0r/s1416/FCBD+2006-09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1005" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWhZFjJQ-p_cARzCwcH08RO9JpwVI4iE_tuOaGAcQmsiqcTdP-7M647rej-shtQagM6UeC7VpHLBA0XHARlKOFMTOAlwA6gI5Kowll0R0t14DG4f4m0yz4ePjieG597D_OZoVM1VVJb0r/w454-h640/FCBD+2006-09.jpg" width="454" /></a></p><p>I'm guessing hardly anybody saw these pages, either from being largely unimpressed by the interior, or the subject material not being to their taste. Don't worry if you're missing anything - you're seeing the best that the issue has to offer. And it was freely available back then, so I have no compuctions in sharing it again now.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga11SSw660fJkS187NjI7EnUBWq0CtCvCHBdArcxM0ByFdCD_1CO9O2jFsMlvZVcfwyDSciCKpYVhyphenhyphen_9pttFzUM-kEr29jW0CqHi6_iNK7NqlpxXQ0Kwg5DxyucSsVVqmj2v2dabncKcwj/s1416/FCBD+2006-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1007" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga11SSw660fJkS187NjI7EnUBWq0CtCvCHBdArcxM0ByFdCD_1CO9O2jFsMlvZVcfwyDSciCKpYVhyphenhyphen_9pttFzUM-kEr29jW0CqHi6_iNK7NqlpxXQ0Kwg5DxyucSsVVqmj2v2dabncKcwj/w456-h640/FCBD+2006-10.jpg" width="456" /></a></p><p>This seminal footnote was from <b>Babel</b>, and was only a scant 32 pages, with the promise of more to come. So far, only 2 of the 3 issues have been translated. As such, there's too little material to justify collecting everything in one comprehensive book. It doesn't even qualify as an add-on for the already oversized tour de force tome that is <b>Epileptic</b>. Not to mention that some of the material retreads stuff that was already covered before, retelling it in a different manner, making the addition somewhat redundant.</p><p>BTW, there seems to be a translation error here, where the text says "<i>my brother ran into one of Professor T.'s assistants</i>", when it clearly shows his parents instead. The latter seems more likely - Jean-Christophe hardly talks to anyone outside his dwindling circle he’s not intimately familiar with.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMvQPVnxu3wThEbDohoeQJ1uh_A_9K0gegkKFx_QFkc37wVFTlR757vAAu9VpurTQid3Luvfjb52vRKu5uKj7e-Prs200GYiDjtUhoE6oXoHpKx6oijk0Igbs6HetHLEQjaLA-7EFDksA/s1427/FCBD+2006-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1427" data-original-width="1017" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMvQPVnxu3wThEbDohoeQJ1uh_A_9K0gegkKFx_QFkc37wVFTlR757vAAu9VpurTQid3Luvfjb52vRKu5uKj7e-Prs200GYiDjtUhoE6oXoHpKx6oijk0Igbs6HetHLEQjaLA-7EFDksA/w456-h640/FCBD+2006-11.jpg" width="456" /></a></p><p>That would've been the end of it, but there was <i>another </i>preview in 2008 in <i>another </i>FCBD book, not in <b>Funny Book</b>, but<b> I.G.N.A.T.Z. </b>instead.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqcRXQAnu9ntR3wjmZ5KZcoOSAWqjmjeIL8mYMffdSVERcSys4WHZX0Q0NiQJKjHPOuMtNb_GNOohVz2GzSTSWbOMJHJrE74p2qSIg-6eyJooRZFLVtPvZdrGJdZaRq5CPvA0JS3hOSDh/s2048/FCBD+2008-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1187" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqcRXQAnu9ntR3wjmZ5KZcoOSAWqjmjeIL8mYMffdSVERcSys4WHZX0Q0NiQJKjHPOuMtNb_GNOohVz2GzSTSWbOMJHJrE74p2qSIg-6eyJooRZFLVtPvZdrGJdZaRq5CPvA0JS3hOSDh/w370-h640/FCBD+2008-01.jpg" width="370" /></a></p><p>There's been a smattering of David B.'s other works translated into English, such as, <b>Black Paths</b>, <b>Incidents in the Night</b>, and <b>The Littlest Pirate King</b>,<b> </b>but none of these titles have really gripped my interest the same way that <b>Epileptic </b>does. The only title that does is his adaption, <b>Hâsib & the Queen of Serpents: a Tale of a Thousand and One Nights</b>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3m1waUoHL4PvIgrnBaoTSsPxNSJzfnMp76vY5zS0OxwVq_vp2LGtQTQUv3mOc1OvAfxC1iv9kJor6ed2jUYAQCYOe3hPPUy6EHQ3_rILVQPrc-OfBKTVevEJOoCQJNDw6d-fpSIs4AoO/s1835/FCBD+2008-02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1835" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3m1waUoHL4PvIgrnBaoTSsPxNSJzfnMp76vY5zS0OxwVq_vp2LGtQTQUv3mOc1OvAfxC1iv9kJor6ed2jUYAQCYOe3hPPUy6EHQ3_rILVQPrc-OfBKTVevEJOoCQJNDw6d-fpSIs4AoO/w446-h640/FCBD+2008-02.jpg" width="446" /></a></p><p>There were occasional forays in history and David B.'s dreams within the pages of <b>Epileptic</b>, but these segues however tangentially related still felt like part of the narrative. When I read his other works, these elements don't mesh as seamlessly. It's probably a mixture of history, violence and dream logic thrown together that works better for an adaptation than his other stories.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gfnuepyc2uQJfBzO7olH_kNsWdLGNR3V4Ujj1fVi12DeyUm5j1YvC2eKDQnKEvHtbrN6QY_dh5bn5kigNjEAcmHt4Pm_uPU71KJjdmAC5yTwmLw9dzc2tFciAQD6XYVTl-DBLPNhxCpk/s1672/FCBD+2008-03a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="1208" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gfnuepyc2uQJfBzO7olH_kNsWdLGNR3V4Ujj1fVi12DeyUm5j1YvC2eKDQnKEvHtbrN6QY_dh5bn5kigNjEAcmHt4Pm_uPU71KJjdmAC5yTwmLw9dzc2tFciAQD6XYVTl-DBLPNhxCpk/w463-h640/FCBD+2008-03a.jpg" width="463" /></a></p><p>One fair criticism of Epileptic is that David B.'s sister makes her presence known, and then is completely neglected for the remainder of half the book. A fault mentioned by his sibling.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OtufKwdOagcv0x_wkXSRvOu9y6VNQCm7KEglYZk74kLEqIW6TMZqkgLOAeK-JfoSD0Koxfdz2fzxy6drwijDS9rBxDSWHq4SvStz3kL-huzNLXbzuYTYjmGKHPPcUA0e1nIdH6GoXPdx/s1819/FCBD+2008-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1819" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OtufKwdOagcv0x_wkXSRvOu9y6VNQCm7KEglYZk74kLEqIW6TMZqkgLOAeK-JfoSD0Koxfdz2fzxy6drwijDS9rBxDSWHq4SvStz3kL-huzNLXbzuYTYjmGKHPPcUA0e1nIdH6GoXPdx/w450-h640/FCBD+2008-04.jpg" width="450" /></a></p><p>I'm not entirely sure how a collection of just three(!) issues could be bound together. It's something like how <b>Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers</b> was an expanded extra package never intended to be part of the narrative, just a special promotion for those who heavily invested in the property. I don't really have a suggestion in the matter. I just wanted to bring it up.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzY5nzDjxbjxF3l8i990l2HJoV_YFAo8v8U00yyqfjPJaL4uPew2pWJsEFN13U-CCEeQqqzpMFnghexhObAbasenZoGnId4tvzhmLytrJ45UhyG4y93MQ6lEoZMiqU-IL8R_jd1banji2/s1729/FCBD+2008-05a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1729" data-original-width="1216" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzY5nzDjxbjxF3l8i990l2HJoV_YFAo8v8U00yyqfjPJaL4uPew2pWJsEFN13U-CCEeQqqzpMFnghexhObAbasenZoGnId4tvzhmLytrJ45UhyG4y93MQ6lEoZMiqU-IL8R_jd1banji2/w450-h640/FCBD+2008-05a.jpg" width="450" /></a></p><p>I greatly identify with the story, despite not being epileptic myself, seeing it as a cautionary tale for what could’ve been me. If my parents hadn’t fought as long and hard as they did to overcome my deafness (<i>and my Aspergers</i>), I could’ve very well ended up like Jean-Christophe.</p><p>Despite all of David B.’s parent’s attempts to circumvent a cure for his brother’s condition, they never stopped trying, constantly moving from one to the next, never finding solace from any, as none worked for very long. At a certain point, Jean-Christophe just gave up fighting, and became utterly dependent on his disease. I still need help with basic living, but I can still contribute to family and society in my own special way.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-1226405534828510262021-01-16T00:19:00.000-08:002021-01-16T00:19:41.256-08:00 Computer AI Comics<p>There's been an ever-increasing influx of AI doing increasingly complex formulas to recognize the imagery and language that many of us intuit naturally. But there's still one area that computers are sorely lacking in, and that would be the realm of storytelling. Sure, there's the humourous <a href="https://botnik.org/creations/">botnik</a> website showing mock algorithms displaying a kind of warped dream logic storytelling that showcases programs almost but not quite getting it. Showing classics such as a <a href="https://botnik.org/star-trek-the-next-generation-script/">Star Trek Next Gen script</a>, or a lost <a href="https://botnik.org/harry-potter-chapter/">Harry Potter chapter</a> where all kinds of weird stuff happens, or <a href="https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/">Keaton Patti</a>'s claim of forcing a bot to watch 1000 hours of media and create a script based on what they read, then showing us the first page.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02y7kZLgvYXF5m1JYLuGjFv_SpcAhVA81e3NAB_eYm1k9YD9E88TaEhZz2KYSpX-0z_kHk_kwYScNbferNEVbeBqXzuGlA6yXwdxjucISao70wlGnwowNiUVMBsP7IpHYKzvK350ds-s1/s1024/ComputerPotterRobotex00a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02y7kZLgvYXF5m1JYLuGjFv_SpcAhVA81e3NAB_eYm1k9YD9E88TaEhZz2KYSpX-0z_kHk_kwYScNbferNEVbeBqXzuGlA6yXwdxjucISao70wlGnwowNiUVMBsP7IpHYKzvK350ds-s1/w400-h400/ComputerPotterRobotex00a.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>This has led to the amusing creation of turning human-made computer-prompted scripts into <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/ZObdVEh">actual</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/941096945308770304?lang=en">comics</a>. A kind of recursive creativity. But this practice is far more different than what actual computers do. See, predictive scripts while useful in spurts, has limited practical uses. It can't plan ahead for long-term storytelling, such as inserting a Checkov's gun to be applied later.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9jNAtrhyphenhyphenXEHfHuvIjWQN86dEvvjTh6UTiC2RQhAl385u8SZgklW1aawmIw8Cy9h4X03Y3A5IxM4XUlYQGP6nkcNsF9qlCtbgcGbHzoOi860h5jJ_D598ZjtIvTdHSdWR9kVpeZh37A2p/s1855/%255BWebBotBatman1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1855" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9jNAtrhyphenhyphenXEHfHuvIjWQN86dEvvjTh6UTiC2RQhAl385u8SZgklW1aawmIw8Cy9h4X03Y3A5IxM4XUlYQGP6nkcNsF9qlCtbgcGbHzoOi860h5jJ_D598ZjtIvTdHSdWR9kVpeZh37A2p/w414-h640/%255BWebBotBatman1.jpeg" width="414" /></a></p><p>When we look at a comic, there's more than one way to do so. Some people look at the text first, before moving onto the pictures. Some look at the pictures first before looking at the words. And some skip reams of redundant dialogue and narrative, and skip to the end entirely to see how it all turns out, then goes back to see how it got to that point. Those plans work fine for humans, but for machines, their thought process is much different. Instead of looking at an individual panel and wrestling meaning from it and making connections from one panel to the next, the computer <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/11/23/155863/ai-machine-attempts-to-understand-comic-books-and-fails/">has no idea what's going to happen next</a>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhAlbEbZDzOYIvCPJg_uMcxSjeZGkZW4SlXhtKJ1fbcNZmQPvvRVdyz3oabjsbv_EzNriyT31geQbKSOp-kH0fOVppiDXRh2CMxhz2e5xybQH0dSeRj83JZ75VI9rZNMQL-YLYDMxbtpW/s700/ComputerPanels.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhAlbEbZDzOYIvCPJg_uMcxSjeZGkZW4SlXhtKJ1fbcNZmQPvvRVdyz3oabjsbv_EzNriyT31geQbKSOp-kH0fOVppiDXRh2CMxhz2e5xybQH0dSeRj83JZ75VI9rZNMQL-YLYDMxbtpW/w640-h360/ComputerPanels.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>To parse the difference between words and pictures, computers would have to take in two disparate elements of fiction at the same time. A way to bypass this overwhelming influx of information would be that rather than analyze every page on a panel-to-panel basis would be to absorb the entire page at once. This would be equivalent to devouring the entirety of a novel in one go. There’s no sense of pacing, of slowing down or speeding up individual panels for personal dramatic effect. There’s no wandering eye, trailing from the text, to the images, (<i>or images to text</i>) and back. It’s akin to speed-reading on a quantum level.</p><p>Storytelling is basically telling a puzzle, making due with limited information gradually revealed over time. When the story is finished, we may mull over it, trying to figure out what made parts of it work, and others not. What possible reason could a machine have for going over the tropes of a story? Other than trying to parse obvious connections that crop up over time. (<i>See TvTropes</i>) For a machine to appreciate comics, they’d have to understand narrative. And the best way to do that would be to create works that speaks to their tastes.</p><p>I’m sure you can see the logical fallacy here.</p><p>In order to create a comic that would appeal to machines, we’d have to devise an algorithm that would work along their preferences. And what appeals to machines may very well be indecipherable to human taste. Here's an example of a <a href="http://www.aiartonline.com/design-2020/ilan-manouach-ioannis-siglidis-thomas-melistas-and-fivos-kalogiannis/">comic created by an AI program</a>:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWGW5xI2TMKYSXs4AvXVNuA9x9JNLOA-nrZsDwHfvVhMVsUjAzu0bK7BGCNUD_8LJE2J6cnpwf63nOEOHrwPsMFrcLSZ-BdPX2eRB6wrf9ULXy0tBxjYhKS1rnQWD_LCySO4G_vZUQfcV/s1839/ComputerAI0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1839" data-original-width="1821" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWGW5xI2TMKYSXs4AvXVNuA9x9JNLOA-nrZsDwHfvVhMVsUjAzu0bK7BGCNUD_8LJE2J6cnpwf63nOEOHrwPsMFrcLSZ-BdPX2eRB6wrf9ULXy0tBxjYhKS1rnQWD_LCySO4G_vZUQfcV/w634-h640/ComputerAI0.jpg" width="634" /></a></p><p>As creative entries go, it's certainly different. The poetic nonsensical prose reminds me of Josei narratives. Still, the lack of clear cohesive storytelling and abstract art makes telling what's going on near impossible. What's the comic even about?? That's the kind of maddening question that's going to plague linguistic comic schools.</p><p>The AI also has trouble with exaggeration of <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/mangagan-8362f06b9625">facial expressions</a>, even though a human could easily tell when someone’s deforming their body under extreme stress or for comedic reasons. Then there’s psychedelic backgrounds to heighten emotion or using unique pay layout to showcase optical illusions. All various ways of using the medium to convey a message.</p><p>What we’re seeing is like a child’s first attempt at making their first comic without really understanding what they’re creating. Of <i><b>course</b></i> it’s going to be a narrative mess!</p><p>Before machines can conduct stories of their own, they need to understand how stories work. And the best way to encourage them is by giving them a basic setup, then have them try to figure out what happens next. The whole appeal of cliffhangers is that the audience is filled with anticipation for what may or may not happen in the next installment, which can lead to runaway imaginations that can sometimes be better than the actual product.</p><p>You know how in movies, they show the T-800 using their infrared sight, getting data helpfully analyzed for the viewer? Chances are a smarter computer would multitask, inputting thousands of pertinent and irrelevant information all at once.</p><p>It’s the difference between seeing a movie play out, and reading the wikipedia summary. The webpage could be taken in as a whole, but wouldn’t have the same impact as the film, despite both sources containing the same information.</p><p>Computers have enough difficulty deciphering a simple image all on its own. How’re they supposed to figure out how two seemingly meaningless panels individually connect?</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aDLgWc0BtObrXeuhkHqRqmKaddMFfKh20A5Yc6ea1hUttnZpZO4Hf8vd9zi0YKujXAMSthgBJeb-E0rjtJ9zHe_5Eh_92aNsLfmawcfBqFVEFiRUe93iln9G8kEzJYO1CpMvzTVW8rph/s600/ComputerGarfieldArtist.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="600" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aDLgWc0BtObrXeuhkHqRqmKaddMFfKh20A5Yc6ea1hUttnZpZO4Hf8vd9zi0YKujXAMSthgBJeb-E0rjtJ9zHe_5Eh_92aNsLfmawcfBqFVEFiRUe93iln9G8kEzJYO1CpMvzTVW8rph/w640-h188/ComputerGarfieldArtist.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>You’d think the randomized Garfields would be a logical parameter for working with, but the Garfields that've been popularized online only work best when given limited parameters. When given only three panels to choose from, the alignment is completely randomized, with no thought given to whether the resulting mishmash is funny or not. No actual creativity is applied there.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrr0TVpzE1ObvQtdmL4ek7DGouiwpiB8M9qFZwZrwWWHB2A1DuVhF4hnfB4MaLgdub5Ps6oysIn4LFZ4Fk7_upwhtjMokrPQv8p-Wnxai-_c59lT_ZXx_kQ76bzSpPAJ8VWoxc3fg4_kEp/s2048/ComputerGarfield1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrr0TVpzE1ObvQtdmL4ek7DGouiwpiB8M9qFZwZrwWWHB2A1DuVhF4hnfB4MaLgdub5Ps6oysIn4LFZ4Fk7_upwhtjMokrPQv8p-Wnxai-_c59lT_ZXx_kQ76bzSpPAJ8VWoxc3fg4_kEp/w640-h366/ComputerGarfield1.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The Garfield <a href="https://twitter.com/calamardh/status/1148633176262217728">computer-generated remix</a> results in panels where the trio of the cast, Jon, Odie and Garfield morph into each other, the background and the text winds up being backwards and nonsensical with no meaning attached to any of the made-up panels present. (<i>Check the link to see the animated sequence in action</i>) In that light, that’s an *<b>actual</b>* presentation of a truly randomized Garfield.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGAjM1FyYjJiNhowF_Jsckxl3vCEU_EUwdrDzL3foPQAMG0ZNNUeMyFYwVwh6dzneMoV3rIivjQwugp-gDBaFW75wws6ghAniQU_T5C4A5aAC-hcnzPdLt0AJCDUvIbIMRfagsaMPHp1Z/s2048/ComputerGarfield2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGAjM1FyYjJiNhowF_Jsckxl3vCEU_EUwdrDzL3foPQAMG0ZNNUeMyFYwVwh6dzneMoV3rIivjQwugp-gDBaFW75wws6ghAniQU_T5C4A5aAC-hcnzPdLt0AJCDUvIbIMRfagsaMPHp1Z/w640-h366/ComputerGarfield2.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>I <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2014/04/copy-pays.html">posted an entry</a> that the best way for a computer to learn would be through constant repetition of repetitive layouts with different captions, so they could figure out the pattern for <a href="https://medium.com/@samim/generating-comics-1a749872cef9">setup and punchlines</a>. The iteration of Wizard of Id and BC strips would be a better factor in figuring out patterns than anything, since the use of setup, timing and punchline would give computers a way to figure out the formula much sooner.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfuw13s9iLTjSUs2er6eYKA2T7O8ABv4IDwk3KAK3oofWxstOUbplemUGJA0oLqBYow8khTONPU45tayQFssvRhd0d69mW-01q0RojhhDJRPqkHpgOrtJ0oiQp1cA3g1G_Qn5Uq6XPCpl/s1984/ComputerKoma1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1882" data-original-width="1984" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfuw13s9iLTjSUs2er6eYKA2T7O8ABv4IDwk3KAK3oofWxstOUbplemUGJA0oLqBYow8khTONPU45tayQFssvRhd0d69mW-01q0RojhhDJRPqkHpgOrtJ0oiQp1cA3g1G_Qn5Uq6XPCpl/w640-h608/ComputerKoma1.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImyNAkw9zyOa_z2bsBbMqZbgTNc8TDtd_23O-bH1pYJUX1R8tz7k5aCU9n7_FgsO0WluZ2V6hPJhL65FrZCRvKxcT4InMt5dgYytHRLKg_ipRkuLvJRauq1lozZBPhk_CFpOel7NJqmes/s1984/ComputerKoma2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1882" data-original-width="1984" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImyNAkw9zyOa_z2bsBbMqZbgTNc8TDtd_23O-bH1pYJUX1R8tz7k5aCU9n7_FgsO0WluZ2V6hPJhL65FrZCRvKxcT4InMt5dgYytHRLKg_ipRkuLvJRauq1lozZBPhk_CFpOel7NJqmes/w640-h608/ComputerKoma2.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>I think comics is still something solely dominant in the human domain... for now. (<i>Randomized Garfields notwitstanding</i>) The computer-generated Manga page I posted earlier may seem impressive at first, but it was actually half of a page. Even if you saw the other half, you'd hardly notice. Do the two sides narratively connect? Look at the repetitive panel layout! Apart from the speech bubbles bleeding over the borders, it's static, but boring. This? This is the computer equivalent of doodling. Free-thought association without coherent goals, letting ideas flow from one subject to another.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXvHsuUcfM5AQbLVh40Yikt9nJxrjwKrs2S6GxLuwcoLzUSu4rmf7lCg6ApPqz0ow8hXStGHbQzYl32hBb5LmqcnVKHixbNdoV1Q6J7Yw5vZbrt5lxAKz8l3PdxUqfJWFaqIfCiepP6w9/s2025/ComputerAI2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="2025" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXvHsuUcfM5AQbLVh40Yikt9nJxrjwKrs2S6GxLuwcoLzUSu4rmf7lCg6ApPqz0ow8hXStGHbQzYl32hBb5LmqcnVKHixbNdoV1Q6J7Yw5vZbrt5lxAKz8l3PdxUqfJWFaqIfCiepP6w9/w640-h406/ComputerAI2.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>For computers to understand a narrative, it would be helpful to see them adapting another work of fiction to their interpretation. Then we could see how much they put of their own take, depending on what they add and/or subtract from the narrative. Though I would suggest starting with smaller simpler stories before moving onto more complex works such as Frankenstein. But even the simplest Fairy Tales have a kind of internalized dream logic that has an inherent morality that would escape their mindset.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jEpS3YqTF0rGJlRNlXi4R6fWiE3w-J5tXPYzUMywLsC_kQA8MKb82ozUpPaOqD2wKDGVtBnVWGOubzArFKCgnWekaiwihLcLHk1rWS87pqdCQy8c1jb2qCfC_n6N6qCZZHl7nmDP-yHV/s600/ComputerGarfieldBook.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="600" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jEpS3YqTF0rGJlRNlXi4R6fWiE3w-J5tXPYzUMywLsC_kQA8MKb82ozUpPaOqD2wKDGVtBnVWGOubzArFKCgnWekaiwihLcLHk1rWS87pqdCQy8c1jb2qCfC_n6N6qCZZHl7nmDP-yHV/w640-h190/ComputerGarfieldBook.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>At least there's SOMETHING we puny humans are better at than computers! Until a machine can comprehend the elaborate innovative storytelling of <b>Cerebus</b>, we're a useful source of amusement.</p><p>"I HAVE FOUND MY CALLING."</p><p>"Don't give up your day job."</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-8512924469329080912020-12-11T18:54:00.004-08:002020-12-22T19:51:18.854-08:00 Brought Low by my Knees<p>Two months ago in early October, I had a bit of a health scare. Nothing terribly serious, but it was still alarming. I had a red rash on my leg that also hurt at certain odd spots when I moved. Notably on the thigh and below the knee. At the time, I thought I could simply tough it out, and wait for it to go away. Turns out that your motivation for toughing the pain away goes down dramatically when the pain doesn’t go away.</p><p>This perplexed me, because I hadn’t been in any kind of extraneous activity lately. The closest thing I could think of was when I accidentally twisted my leg while in an uncomfortable position around the debris in my room. But that shouldn’t have caused what was keeping me from moving properly. Another confounding analysis was that I’d bruised my leg before, but it was the <i>other</i> leg that hurt. My body has a strange reaction to pain.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjywWC9Zagmakue6IIVdyJWc1pB7_mgGXrKfYFBqL-y-IvcNle8wjDN7dS3uIEFMpEq7Bx7aBV4ssbgLluoD5SEpCCwrk2mj8OnN0hI8RwfrmdK6_cVqM3VlKoUlgio1v6rZMS2QqsD0Z52/s529/KneesHermanPain.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjywWC9Zagmakue6IIVdyJWc1pB7_mgGXrKfYFBqL-y-IvcNle8wjDN7dS3uIEFMpEq7Bx7aBV4ssbgLluoD5SEpCCwrk2mj8OnN0hI8RwfrmdK6_cVqM3VlKoUlgio1v6rZMS2QqsD0Z52/w340-h400/KneesHermanPain.gif" width="340" /></a></p><p>My sense of taste was heightened, yet I could hardly eat anything, and was throwing up multiple times in the middle of the night. I couldn't eat a hardboiled egg, finding it loathsome even as I choked it down. To paraphrase a saying, when you're tired of eating, you're tired of life. But I developed a taste for fruit. I liked the strawberry jam, but didn't like the strawberries. The grapes and pineapple and the cantaloupe tasted good. I even ate some off-brand clementines that had too much pulp, and finished off the leftover grape juice.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3J56vtT-5gze4-qqu5Cj70C2wMRomJHqbdnFpMSG48-BptbyrKhlKlGKbpj2n1JH_zLxANbfYeNi4zTQcUltphIW0WwF9UfItnj122ifJRZzEYwzKMjTWTqS_2g-YVk8UjuUCaEjj-E4/s501/KneesHerman.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3J56vtT-5gze4-qqu5Cj70C2wMRomJHqbdnFpMSG48-BptbyrKhlKlGKbpj2n1JH_zLxANbfYeNi4zTQcUltphIW0WwF9UfItnj122ifJRZzEYwzKMjTWTqS_2g-YVk8UjuUCaEjj-E4/w359-h400/KneesHerman.gif" width="359" /></a></p><p>The last time I’d felt this bad was when I had my <a href="infected. https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-kawasaki-myself.html">Kawasaki</a>, which ironically enough, has some Covid-related symptoms. If I experienced a milder version of what’s currently running around, then there was a chance I might be asymptomatic, and if so, take all precautions in preventing others from being affected.</p><p>What I was most upset about was that very same week, I had an appointment with my audiologist to get a replacement for getting my hearing aid replaced. I’d been given a loaner after my old h-aid conked out, and was fortunate to have that done in March when the Pandemic just started. (<i>It's a wonder the loaner lasted as long as it did without breaking down.</i>) But before I could apply for a new model, I needed to do a hearing test to be eligible for a replacement, proving that I was deaf and hadn’t been faking it all these years. And I couldn’t attend the simple 5-minute procedure since in terms of detecting dearness during a virus-laden society, it was low priority.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OWc1-cMo0RxUPaIaIWnb9RVR3Qtfgb5vjUKLJSyhv6Rs5nweqAxkhnoHktvUD5WjEJLiWNQO3vDTM9kavItv3mEbnpxYJhkP-rCxQcPhl_yKdDtTgAX09KCQFcWpeZlTqyPc6EYMw-UF/s531/KneesHermanHearing.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OWc1-cMo0RxUPaIaIWnb9RVR3Qtfgb5vjUKLJSyhv6Rs5nweqAxkhnoHktvUD5WjEJLiWNQO3vDTM9kavItv3mEbnpxYJhkP-rCxQcPhl_yKdDtTgAX09KCQFcWpeZlTqyPc6EYMw-UF/w339-h400/KneesHermanHearing.gif" width="339" /></a></p><p>But now, it looked like I might not even BE able to make it to my audiologist, my mental willpower notwithstanding. The pain was starting to severely intervene with my motor functions, my temperature fluctuated between a high of 101 and a low of 98.6, and I had a headache along with a high fever, all typical symptoms of Covid, though my breathing remained the same. Any potential sniffle and cough was cause for alarm when they happened, and was only relieved when they’re gone the next day. It’d been two days now, and my leg still hurt, even with applying cold compresses to the affected areas. I looked up my symptoms online, trying to find a stronger link between my leg rash and Covid, and didn’t see much of one. Not seeing an obvious connection, I looked up pain in the leg. The results showed bruising and blood clots, but nothing specific.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn59_h_KHGweK42_OVWy7LgODaxi4oo27xB4u31AeZ4Glx7AQ8_hS_xho7UTtGh2eBFYOe6PRH4pRFYINctRIITLYQ2az2QTTO67sLz-5hmI1U9SiXh12_8TM-r5kqPo3cqbsioicH7Mm7/s900/KneesPeanuts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="900" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn59_h_KHGweK42_OVWy7LgODaxi4oo27xB4u31AeZ4Glx7AQ8_hS_xho7UTtGh2eBFYOe6PRH4pRFYINctRIITLYQ2az2QTTO67sLz-5hmI1U9SiXh12_8TM-r5kqPo3cqbsioicH7Mm7/w640-h440/KneesPeanuts.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Eventually, the pain got to the point that I figured I might as well bring attention to my parents. When I showed them the upper portions of my thighs, they reacted with alarm. Not at the discolouring rashes or my nonexistent shallow breathing, but from seeing the state of my knees.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAky5QCcfOYUl-oaSLs8-anTc4Ctt9xnaRAHCrbJgURpE8LRFRWihYUTxBOaQdKQhtwCzrhlsHgY_dfQGxDtDd6hk7K1vJUIg7isc-iQHmc9crs6iTPcLA0CLMjtM5DVfLgr4ByVmjmXJL/s960/Knees1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="528" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAky5QCcfOYUl-oaSLs8-anTc4Ctt9xnaRAHCrbJgURpE8LRFRWihYUTxBOaQdKQhtwCzrhlsHgY_dfQGxDtDd6hk7K1vJUIg7isc-iQHmc9crs6iTPcLA0CLMjtM5DVfLgr4ByVmjmXJL/w220-h400/Knees1.jpg" width="220" /></a></p><p>I’d always had severely callused knees, not because of any kind of rough-housing, but because I often spent a large amount of time in front of the computer on my knees. This was a result from not only shifting positions from sitting down for long periods of time at end (I know, I know, sitting is the new smoking), and also needing to feel the direct pressure of the desk against my stomach, which the thin veneer of the edge isn’t enough to satisfy me. My early days of using the computer were of the bulky suitcases-sized variety which required heavy desks that could withstand their weight, and had large boards to press against. Today’s makeshift desks now have a flimsy slidable tray keeping a far distance away from the keyboard, which isn’t to my liking. To this day, I still have a kind of nostalgia for those oldschool wooden desks and chairs, even though my size and mass no longer fits. In fact, attempts to squeeze into that wedged space is something of a guilty pleasure.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3O2riNcVGgrFxnEu8-MR-hrvVBWULdAteqdq8sJHUBbzmTAncPkEU-JECFDflt9KZ2bgvHIFZ9x8KbI_3FNteRZ2Ko0omdM_vdlVwcyzPZm5kdAAtSZIgJXpJ-HUOAX5RlQMjgVfcgWPj/s960/Knees2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="528" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3O2riNcVGgrFxnEu8-MR-hrvVBWULdAteqdq8sJHUBbzmTAncPkEU-JECFDflt9KZ2bgvHIFZ9x8KbI_3FNteRZ2Ko0omdM_vdlVwcyzPZm5kdAAtSZIgJXpJ-HUOAX5RlQMjgVfcgWPj/w220-h400/Knees2.jpg" width="220" /></a></p><p>But it turns out those days of kneeling on my knees more often than a church preacher had unintended side effects. In addition to building up calluses that flaked over my knees as a symbol of inappropriate pride, the resultant buildup was a pathway for pathogens to come through, and had a high risk of infection. And it was likely a malignant virus unrelated to Covid could’ve entered my bloodstream.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wuwT1DMf3Cb5XHTIeiqfKUcslKPZ3u0YO_w-E4weWU2AuGuG2B_zXW38MCCU8qhnj0PNOKl3UxmutsY1V5fJop5TeK4nxNLucKWqQVg87f0YLUan3HXSWXwKOY9ntEFvQl6Wqt5uCR-n/s960/Knees3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wuwT1DMf3Cb5XHTIeiqfKUcslKPZ3u0YO_w-E4weWU2AuGuG2B_zXW38MCCU8qhnj0PNOKl3UxmutsY1V5fJop5TeK4nxNLucKWqQVg87f0YLUan3HXSWXwKOY9ntEFvQl6Wqt5uCR-n/w400-h213/Knees3.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>I’d been warned about my knees numerous times in the past, but this was the first time it <i>really</i> sunk in that it could be detrimental to my health. After all, one of the highest risk of old people is their legs, and like horses, when they can no longer properly walk, their independence fades away into the harsh sunset of the glue factory. For all my precautions at avoiding human contact, I’d foolhardily allowed a backdoor into my body at a knee-high level.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMXBFPmXcHqdC4ZlZIi0G6cUi_NwgVUTTOhwOQ4JQ3ja0pD9deTAJFipgKz5z_ifhLzl6sV3aWBkvDpjflKrXFPLOxseGBXacQUOl0UC-zReTjI0HeUBXSIauKoiEfql6w4nFOjUEySeE/s495/KneesHermanHorse.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMXBFPmXcHqdC4ZlZIi0G6cUi_NwgVUTTOhwOQ4JQ3ja0pD9deTAJFipgKz5z_ifhLzl6sV3aWBkvDpjflKrXFPLOxseGBXacQUOl0UC-zReTjI0HeUBXSIauKoiEfql6w4nFOjUEySeE/w364-h400/KneesHermanHorse.gif" width="364" /></a></p><p>My parents had gone out of their way to make things easier for me during this state of emergency. My Dad braved out on shopping excursions, even though he could’ve simply ordered what he needed. My mother bought a bunch of transparent plastic masks to make it easier for me to lipread people, and here I was, making things more difficult for them at their most busiest. I always seem to get sick at the worst possible times, when it’s most inconvenient, such as when I had my <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-bout-with-gout.html">gout</a>.</p><p>Since going out to a clinic at this late hour (<i>it was around 7:00 or so</i>), my parents had to make do with getting a secondhand diagnosis with a family doctor by sending photos of the infected area. It’s much easier to get an accurate result when you can see the symptoms for yourself. After some back and forth conversation I was completely unaware of, the general consensus was that I most likely had Cellulitis, a deep infection inside my leg that could severely affect my internal nervous system and blood pressure if left untreated. For this, I needed to take some antibiotics and painkillers for 2 weeks until it went away.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMSyN2oCePCRF8yf8-6sqiiIaBfs6KjFMHorO4wwf9Xbh-IGzHdyaL4Abqatv-VMJxqpASqXz820ykrO-Ew4F7mTQPxNlB3eVB4MObR92QFg7t6bo2cQ0HJYN-nK5pvBMEX9KdmZ4l_mS/s550/KneesHermanPills.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMSyN2oCePCRF8yf8-6sqiiIaBfs6KjFMHorO4wwf9Xbh-IGzHdyaL4Abqatv-VMJxqpASqXz820ykrO-Ew4F7mTQPxNlB3eVB4MObR92QFg7t6bo2cQ0HJYN-nK5pvBMEX9KdmZ4l_mS/w328-h400/KneesHermanPills.gif" width="328" /></a></p><p>I thought my old antibiotic cream would still work, and I’d only applied deliberately when certain body areas developed a scab from overuse. Turns out I wasn’t aware that there was an expiration date, and needed to get replaced, since it’d been sitting on the counter for over 10 years.</p><p>So my Dad went out to get the prescription for antibiotic pills and cream to apply over the infected area. The cream insisted on washing the affected area first, and since it was to be applied twice a day, I opted for simplicity by taking a shower. Easier than lifting my leg to fit under the faucet sink. Then, after drying myself off, I’d apply two kinds of cream on my leg, the clear one first, and the milky white one after, taking care to wash my hands before and after. While waiting for the cream to take effect, I noticed that the points where my leg hurt the most was the most used spots for when I’d rest my elbows in the bathroom. So I couldn’t even enjoy reading in the ‘library’.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90A7LrqmSOeiSlUKBzatvthF13VSwmJ2XEueNmxvb2RlnQnXhorH5MrhfeBBQ9WaGuYBfBlaYQmjOZnJW_E-MFM_Ny8hM6IvkpzgL7286TkjyMOacyITMhY9SfJ4VD4HIHmyPMKzoZYuk/s900/KneesGarfield.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="900" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90A7LrqmSOeiSlUKBzatvthF13VSwmJ2XEueNmxvb2RlnQnXhorH5MrhfeBBQ9WaGuYBfBlaYQmjOZnJW_E-MFM_Ny8hM6IvkpzgL7286TkjyMOacyITMhY9SfJ4VD4HIHmyPMKzoZYuk/w640-h190/KneesGarfield.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>I thought this would be enough, but my parents didn’t want to take any unnecessary risks, and wanted to follow the doctor’s recommendation that I go to the hospital <i>immediately</i>. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go to the hospital right at that moment because it was late at night, and raining, making for precarious driving conditions, even in the event of a potential emergency. No point in getting into an accident and having to go to the hospital via ambulance. Better to go early in the morning instead.</p><p>That night, I had trouble sleeping, not just from the pain in my leg, but my thoughts constantly racing over the certainty that I was going to die without having accomplished anything I’d set myself out for. I still had loads of notes that still hadn’t been jotted down for my <a href="https://thisisthey.wordpress.com/">Web Novel</a> which I’d kept putting off. I had piles of old articles on Asperger’s I’d been organizing and left an awful mess out of. One thing I can tell you, the fear of impending death is a great motivator for firing up the creative juices. Nothing like the impending threat of morality breathing down your back to motivate you to get your writing down. That's why they call them DEADlines. It’s also an appetite suppressor, though I wouldn’t recommend it as a diet plan.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10MKagNu0RK5wPZXD2AA-uW5x2L46KdjQl9I8Adhc5Wf60JKCfuBdL7LtOgloHFs8bjvD9FjQq4nC9aGcX5JvNXf6Y9B8WXie3GrOMlkS2C-BOUl5UF9bjdOUMa40rc5H2a7PEtV8rKKI/s600/KneesGarfieldAge.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="600" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10MKagNu0RK5wPZXD2AA-uW5x2L46KdjQl9I8Adhc5Wf60JKCfuBdL7LtOgloHFs8bjvD9FjQq4nC9aGcX5JvNXf6Y9B8WXie3GrOMlkS2C-BOUl5UF9bjdOUMa40rc5H2a7PEtV8rKKI/w640-h192/KneesGarfieldAge.gif" width="640" /></a></p><p>Even though we were supposed to leave at 5:00 AM, I was so upset I couldn’t stand waiting, and sleeping on the wrong side (<i>my hurt leg kept me from feeling comfortable</i>) and having a thick Reader’s Digest Medical hardcover pressed against my stomach during times of stress wasn’t helping me much either. I started off by preparing food for the upcoming trip, peeling the pulp off the off-brand clementines and packing grapes off their stems wrapped in napkins to absorb the moisture, not knowing just how long I would have to wait. (<i>No point using perfectly good paper towels when we’ve got plenty of napkins</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTx-uuLpt4iSFxAfNssss40HXZz0p75CJE5JwCy9OyDh6gDDFJtW_EqVVCY_Edpc5LrrxiJWOPwWqkhG4dFd2SsWfUHd-z7cz5OORzc5ZsnqxRJtpCHBZWpJN_V9jh4CStOloXNJhJJJah/s529/KneesHermanNapkins.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTx-uuLpt4iSFxAfNssss40HXZz0p75CJE5JwCy9OyDh6gDDFJtW_EqVVCY_Edpc5LrrxiJWOPwWqkhG4dFd2SsWfUHd-z7cz5OORzc5ZsnqxRJtpCHBZWpJN_V9jh4CStOloXNJhJJJah/w340-h400/KneesHermanNapkins.gif" width="340" /></a></p><p>My Dad found me in the bathroom at 4:00 AM, throwing up for the third time and decided to leave earlier than expected, which was something of a relief, getting the suspense over with. However, he was such a meticulous planner that, even with the two of us departing at an earlier schedule, we still wound up leaving at 5:00 anyways.</p><p>This early in the morning, there wasn’t much traffic, but still a few cars running at stop lights. I was annoyed that even in the presence of a pandemic, there were still too many people around. The air was cold, and the parking spot we found was far away from the main entrance, so we had to make our trek there, and I rushed peg-leg style, impatient to get this ordeal over and done with.</p><p>Upon arriving and seeing the white plastic sheet covering everything at the rear entrance of the Emergency room, all the strength went out of my legs, and I had to force myself to take further steps towards the daunting doorway, the enormity of the situation I was walking into began to weigh down on me.</p><p>I was guided to a waiting room with the resident nurse who’d determine the severeness of my illness, and where I’d get the chance to use the latest feature app on my Android cell phone, <b>Live Transcribe</b>, which I wrote an essay for a volunteer organization in a hearing magazine. (<i>Reproduced below</i>)</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Live Transcribe</u></b></p></blockquote><p>As a person with a profound hearing loss, I’ve always been notoriously shy. Unless I have a specific request or task to do, I’m helpless in communicating with people. For the longest time, I had oral interpreters, and never thought I’d have to face a time where I wouldn’t always be able to rely on their presence to let me know what was being said.</p><p>When it comes to talking to complete strangers, I’m always intimidated, because I never know for sure if I’ll be able to understand the first words that come out of their mouths, let alone whether they speak English or not.</p><p>I’ve been waiting for the longest time for real-time captioning, (where text would slowly reveal what reporters are saying during the news) to show up outside of TV, so I wouldn’t have to try following snatches of conversations, flipping my head back and forth like a paddle ball on a string.</p><p>After a decade of stalled progress, that time has come.</p><p>There’s an app called Live Transcribe that’s available for Android phones. It can convert speech to text, showing what people say. It’s all I’ve ever dreamed of. It’s really good compared to other free apps on the market. In fact, it’s almost as good as a person doing real-time captioning!</p><p>Granted, the technology isn’t exactly perfect, as some words tend to get garbled and misunderstood, and it’s not great at filtering out background sounds in a crowded noisy environment, but it’s a promising start. Hopefully, future upgrades will be able to improve on these glaring flaws and fill in the gaps, including differentiating between who’s talking and what background music is playing, but maybe that’s a little too much to ask.</p><p>The app has an extra feature, a colourful box that pops up when a certain kind of background noise comes up. Some of these noise notifications include, Traffic, Laugher, Barking, and the like. But like the Live Transcribe, it sometimes has trouble telling the difference between various sounds. When I whistle, it thinks I’m a Singing Bird.</p><p>In the meantime, it comes in handy for understanding what’s going on when people are talking to me, or when there are a few people engaged in conversation when I’m around. I can get the gist of their conversation without having to worry about jumping in and interrupting. And if I think of something I’d like to say, I can bring it up when I see an opening. Contributing what you know is a wonderful feeling.</p><p>An added bonus is that when I leave it in a room, it will retrieve all kinds of idle gossip spoken by people who talk freely, never knowing that their conversation is being recorded. Then, when I come back into the room, I can easily catch up on their dialogue without having to ask them to go through the trouble of recapping what they’ve just talked about.</p><p>Just as hearing aids aren't miracle cures for being able to instantly hear everything, the Live Transcribe app isn't a miracle cure for hearing rapid conversations in a crowded room... yet.</p><p><b><u>Tips to use when using the app:</u></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A stand you can rest your phone on is recommended. Preferably one that’s attached to your cellphone holder if possible.</li><li>The size, dimensions and colour of the text can be increased and adjusted to make it easier for you to read. Large, extra-large, white on black, or black on white.</li><li>Limit the amount of background music/noise. It doesn’t work as well if there’s too much noise, which may “confuse” the app.</li><li>It works better if there are not too many people talking. If possible, find a quieter place if you want to talk to a specific person.</li><li>Ask people to speak slowly and clearly. Considering their natural speaking speed, this might be an uphill battle.</li><li>If you plan to attend meetings or lectures, you can purchase a mic that connects to your cellphone via Bluetooth. The mic can be given to one specific person, such as a teacher or speaker. If needed, the mic can be transferred to whoever’s going to speak next.</li></ul><p></p><span><!--more--></span><p>However, as much as I lauded this app, this feature has a glaring problem. It works better on one-on-one conversations without much background noise. And it doesn’t work well behind muffled masks. Especially if the speaker has a French accent. My Dad had to intervene on my behalf. And to make matters worse, he refused to bring a clear mask, because it ‘felt uncomfortable’. So I had to listen harder to what he said, making my already stressful visit more stressful.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBu0c8ehpU4TavzKSxioEH2Rzy0ojEtrugH4INeWp06XxnLEjSmBjA4uID7GyCkGsqSrAHucb364mDnOdJiraEAviHShR7WOl1_owl5A-Cc3b8Yv0gXfPt_nUEuNd7rfQltfJc4fFxwoBL/s1367/KneesCerebus_46_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="1367" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBu0c8ehpU4TavzKSxioEH2Rzy0ojEtrugH4INeWp06XxnLEjSmBjA4uID7GyCkGsqSrAHucb364mDnOdJiraEAviHShR7WOl1_owl5A-Cc3b8Yv0gXfPt_nUEuNd7rfQltfJc4fFxwoBL/w640-h430/KneesCerebus_46_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>After some more dialogue I was completely out of the loop of, we were now shunted to another waiting room. My Dad later told me that we were now in the Covid section of the hospital because I had a fever, and didn't want me to possibly infect the other patients. The walls were separated by temporary dividers between beds, and I could see another patient sleeping through the panel closest to the wall. *<b><i>I</i></b>* didn't want to get infected by these other Covid patients! I’d brought a book to read, but the low lighting made reading the small dry text practically impossible. And asking the staff for brighter light didn’t seem like a worthy option. So I passed the time by updating my mother with a series of increasingly complaining texts about the situation. She wanted to informed of what was going on, and would catch up later, and not worry about waking her up.</p><p>By the time the doctor came around to check my symptoms around past 7:00 (<i>earlier than expected, but still not exactly on time</i>), the rash had started to clear up, thanks to that fast-acting cream. This was like when you bring your car or computer that's been acting up for inspection, only to have it behave perfectly normal when observed. Oh, and in order to see my leg clearly, the light was finally switched on at a bright enough level for me to read properly. That would've come in handy an hour ago if I'd had the courage to speak up back then!</p><p>And then, just as I was about to leave without further incidence, my Dad brought up the subject of subjecting me to a Covid test. This was the very thing I’d been hoping to avoid. And he was bringing it up now?! This was equivalent to the nerdy kid reminding the teacher of homework just before the bell rang. Looking back, I can understand his precautions, since the elderly are among the most susceptible victims, but at the time, I felt betrayed.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7s6w8yyPRft7G4IBzTquYFv5B3YFJAHMPdD7OEGMEnsTScByrURX6mjh85fTJFCoMeVTxnb-2TpkWgbaJc29wALinh-ed1kVs1PaTIXEsG_4YRg1eTjwjOIF2-CxwAwVOK_nketPH8Pa0/s1046/KneesCerebus_198_18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1046" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7s6w8yyPRft7G4IBzTquYFv5B3YFJAHMPdD7OEGMEnsTScByrURX6mjh85fTJFCoMeVTxnb-2TpkWgbaJc29wALinh-ed1kVs1PaTIXEsG_4YRg1eTjwjOIF2-CxwAwVOK_nketPH8Pa0/w640-h400/KneesCerebus_198_18.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>If I <b><i>was</i></b> infected with Covid, then I’d have to stay quarantined, and it would take at least 3 days before I could get a verdict. Meaning I might not be able to make my audiology appointment I'd been waiting six months for a hearing aid replacement, and I’d have to wait around in an uncomfortable mask around the house in uncertainty, never knowing if I’d be able to make my appointment or not.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgnOdzPIGnT4DYBtdXWgs1t47lrfEvFubE2xHokDPYFUYh7IAvKhyphenhyphenMZH72iBe1BsXP0fbOUVKAkdZ8W-vXWSlgvdTbAGJ5mW-IjFqXzOHAwxwwBBoJhRhdazeUZxHXeHgE5-FeBsQOXQM/s685/KneesCerebus_198_20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="685" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgnOdzPIGnT4DYBtdXWgs1t47lrfEvFubE2xHokDPYFUYh7IAvKhyphenhyphenMZH72iBe1BsXP0fbOUVKAkdZ8W-vXWSlgvdTbAGJ5mW-IjFqXzOHAwxwwBBoJhRhdazeUZxHXeHgE5-FeBsQOXQM/w640-h468/KneesCerebus_198_20.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Being unable to find a way out, I decided to play it safe, and insisted on lying flat down on the bed, since I couldn’t trust myself not to move my head back in reflex. The nurse moved in closer, brought the exploratory appendage towards the tip of my nose and GNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH.</p><p>Once the offending Q-tip was extracted from my nostrils, I lay there in a stunned state, still recovering from the shock. It wasn’t an experience I wanted to repeat. Not just for the physical sensation itself, but for the sheer difficulty in communicating with the hospice staff. Just trying to talk to someone is an ordeal in itself, and that was even before masks were introduced. There’s even more reason to avoid human contact outside my limited social circle, leaving me more socially isolated than I already am.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVpLvIKWKnyiBNyIJwuwiPGNSES2r9pQ_znZxtzEPeTwRlTjjRUDx4bs-H5GjoWfZZR1NMUNvbsZ1g7vxjxdpd2r-k9-u0s0MFd4_1G1R9MzCWbN64fJyITZdlQ3WPqeLgzNtC09KrmzN/s720/KneesSimpsons.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVpLvIKWKnyiBNyIJwuwiPGNSES2r9pQ_znZxtzEPeTwRlTjjRUDx4bs-H5GjoWfZZR1NMUNvbsZ1g7vxjxdpd2r-k9-u0s0MFd4_1G1R9MzCWbN64fJyITZdlQ3WPqeLgzNtC09KrmzN/w400-h300/KneesSimpsons.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>Oh, and I got the verdict from the rapid test fairly quickly, coming later on that same day, which came as an immense relief and a weight off my shoulders. And after all that death-inspired fear to clean up my notes, I started procrastinating again, and they’re still a scattered mess. Go figure.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6w8h5gBlp7EXl9ZJ5UjFYLPNv8lfrk1gxWpx7cJ568Zdf-EdetEX6N_uidNjpxVOHqAH7KbfZeWeznnCe5pP_uV7FGxMz5Jdtk3fFwt88L89HcyLUBgem7lihQOSThtPOEQn27yG_qhO/s572/KneesHermanPunch.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6w8h5gBlp7EXl9ZJ5UjFYLPNv8lfrk1gxWpx7cJ568Zdf-EdetEX6N_uidNjpxVOHqAH7KbfZeWeznnCe5pP_uV7FGxMz5Jdtk3fFwt88L89HcyLUBgem7lihQOSThtPOEQn27yG_qhO/w315-h400/KneesHermanPunch.gif" width="315" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-15189565659518435422020-11-10T23:20:00.004-08:002020-11-11T18:56:35.667-08:00 Obituary: “Who was the Host of Jeopardy!”?<p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Since 1984 this well-known and widely beloved television game show host lent intelligence and class to one of the most popular quiz programs in TV history, until his passing today at the age of eighty. --Karl J Martin</i></blockquote><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdiuMOx7QPzoCRxwfU7DNH9QcmcTPDX1rZ_H9fmktWNyf2ZBWbtVbqPGAntnTMz6ga6iJKo6DH3Q_em3sPVSCGjByo-rn7GQOrM6e7q4DjKJrm_uCKroEiuHqSUmfpTwJlp_-R79PqhnK/s1871/JeopardyBC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="1871" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdiuMOx7QPzoCRxwfU7DNH9QcmcTPDX1rZ_H9fmktWNyf2ZBWbtVbqPGAntnTMz6ga6iJKo6DH3Q_em3sPVSCGjByo-rn7GQOrM6e7q4DjKJrm_uCKroEiuHqSUmfpTwJlp_-R79PqhnK/w640-h438/JeopardyBC.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>In a roller-coaster Chinese cursed year filled with unexpected disastrous cataclysmatic results, the death of Alex Trebek feels more like an anticlimax. After the diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer, we all knew it was likely coming, but it still took us by surprise. He continued to keep up his Jeopardy! appearances, allaying the illusion that everything was still fine, so the ensuing impact still felt like a low blow.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtf0OzoFD86ThR-EsBU6rpiurjtBGH-WoFrxIQlSV5QN8i8Enhg70jYaq_C5t9_bCh_ShVXZbnGdMgWZwrq4sTE5HFwtGY1Gb2ZWGTMU4UcVJPlVebClArLQDdcrkbGsOMWOyTID6CT_jB/s1163/JeopardyWizardQ.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1163" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtf0OzoFD86ThR-EsBU6rpiurjtBGH-WoFrxIQlSV5QN8i8Enhg70jYaq_C5t9_bCh_ShVXZbnGdMgWZwrq4sTE5HFwtGY1Gb2ZWGTMU4UcVJPlVebClArLQDdcrkbGsOMWOyTID6CT_jB/w640-h434/JeopardyWizardQ.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>If there’s one thing that everybody seems to agree on, it’s that Alex Trebek was widely looked upon as a gentleman with hardly anybody saying a bad word of him. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/sadly-alex-trebek-is-one-of-the-few-universally-loved-and-trusted-figures-we-have-left">He was one of the few universally loved and trusted figures left</a>. This was accomplished via his indefatigable gracious manner and sense of humour, always ready and willing to make a joke. "<i>I try not to take myself too seriously,</i>" he told an <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/50044898/alex-trebek-long-running-jeopardy-host-dies-at-80">interviewer</a> in 2004. "<i>I don't want to come off as a pompous ass and indicate that I know everything when I don't.</i>"</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzXsercl2L9S79SXhsoXBV3IYNWvYoLKfRqui_DkHXeSvG0ZubzaqLQr7qXjNt-Upv61esCjNP_bRpsGBciKPhcGXQdWlU9e5Z0LriPmiVc_TitvpcUyDyj5HwIWGhbe5jXcF2QdtOPcR/s770/JeopardyMad-347-034.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="693" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzXsercl2L9S79SXhsoXBV3IYNWvYoLKfRqui_DkHXeSvG0ZubzaqLQr7qXjNt-Upv61esCjNP_bRpsGBciKPhcGXQdWlU9e5Z0LriPmiVc_TitvpcUyDyj5HwIWGhbe5jXcF2QdtOPcR/w360-h400/JeopardyMad-347-034.jpg" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From MAD 347, "If God were One of Us".</td></tr></tbody></table><p>For as long as I’ve known, he’s always been the host of <b>Jeopardy!</b>, and had a distinctive mustache. But before that, he tried out at various roles, covering news, sports and other gameshows that have long since passed <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/archives/alex-trebek-hosted-so-many-cbc-shows-before-jeopardy-1.4754826">public consciousness</a>, such as "The Wizard of Odds," "High Rollers," "The $128,000 Question", "Double Dare", "To Tell the Truth" and "Classic Concentration." The ironic part is that back then, Alex Trebek <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alex-trebek-obituary-1.5794540">remarked that</a> “<i>I don't want to do this all my life. Hell, I don't even watch game shows.</i>” Hardly the words of someone who would become a defining element of a nationally syndicated game show.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5e7K_7Km6hsRxpRWqhtaCnYz5qSbnHkUcj5FjaJim6ieamy-WssZ50XwQeNhSGC4d-5_T6OARt3sOuJM74E5k9h5TCT_8ED-MncM-ex86mv7RdXFuT8ukzheLC9tWB7wlkbXOraYEwiA/s1070/JeopardyMad-350-018.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="263" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5e7K_7Km6hsRxpRWqhtaCnYz5qSbnHkUcj5FjaJim6ieamy-WssZ50XwQeNhSGC4d-5_T6OARt3sOuJM74E5k9h5TCT_8ED-MncM-ex86mv7RdXFuT8ukzheLC9tWB7wlkbXOraYEwiA/w158-h640/JeopardyMad-350-018.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">From MAD 350, "Quotes You Can Bet Were Never Said"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Perhaps it’s because <b>Jeopardy!</b> demanded a higher degree of knowledge from the contestants that other shows didn’t that elevated Alex Trebek to giving higher quality services that was absent elsewhere.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1n7eyqQLfZE7gN7dGP7FqP4ylmfg9k-DVo5JpxQ7oCEfxoVnyUKGulg0aV1i2hEhK5ZZCpl48bifpsDgy49YbdC_rjhoTmD69S0Z-G9OFFoeos5ATQlXATj38bs6qwRo5LFMPVUZBJ_r/s1897/JeopardyReal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1897" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1n7eyqQLfZE7gN7dGP7FqP4ylmfg9k-DVo5JpxQ7oCEfxoVnyUKGulg0aV1i2hEhK5ZZCpl48bifpsDgy49YbdC_rjhoTmD69S0Z-G9OFFoeos5ATQlXATj38bs6qwRo5LFMPVUZBJ_r/w640-h312/JeopardyReal.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>It also didn’t hurt that Alex Trebek kept his known reputation as a honorary Canadian, being a natural ambassador, and his playful attitude helped play down his reservoir of knowledge, even as he was regarded as the guy who “<i>was arrogant because he had all the answers</i>”.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDXXeLWejesIs7FpEW4CCI90TT_Xl2nf0ofpbSzBgJAIH29DfwTFEhrP8QzlqXNlEoGEvCYMqhCEcdUhvCYoWLFBjk9Jizv7hVrmKoLR9yiPFvCIZbz0JTi7tsXyAc3KMRCrenokiNcyZ/s500/JeopardyPoster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="500" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDXXeLWejesIs7FpEW4CCI90TT_Xl2nf0ofpbSzBgJAIH29DfwTFEhrP8QzlqXNlEoGEvCYMqhCEcdUhvCYoWLFBjk9Jizv7hVrmKoLR9yiPFvCIZbz0JTi7tsXyAc3KMRCrenokiNcyZ/w400-h340/JeopardyPoster.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>And yet, even when the contestants were doing unevenly, when the contestants bet badly on True Daily Doubles, when the answers given were incorrectly stated, he never made anybody feel bad about having given the wrong answers. Even on the rare instance where all three contestants failed to win in the final round.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoG5-fS6AyS1qkywqojk0beapap2EEu93qUpHQqK79IDyYFO_v7fm88zT_A7thzg6s9dyHqf4K5Sz5AyJCT8rm9AWRyOek4S4trnn_f4_4NH9AO1L3BH1PIb39vxocrddGoycOldwjCFZF/s1494/JeopardyFoxTrot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="1494" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoG5-fS6AyS1qkywqojk0beapap2EEu93qUpHQqK79IDyYFO_v7fm88zT_A7thzg6s9dyHqf4K5Sz5AyJCT8rm9AWRyOek4S4trnn_f4_4NH9AO1L3BH1PIb39vxocrddGoycOldwjCFZF/w640-h214/JeopardyFoxTrot.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>When the Coronavirus was rampaging and Alex was recuperating, there were some old <b>Jeopardy! </b>reruns shown, back when the show had it’s name shown in giant blinking lights (leaving out the grand prizes presentations before announcing the final Jeopardy category, which was just filling up airtime). One thing that surprised me was that back then, the interview with the contestants - which normally took place <b><i>after </i></b>the commercial break - happened <i><b>before </b></i>the commercials.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YLlsAvCMs2h7bu3TDNTD0vO-267lm8By5HUw-rHvxnp9D0nE1wjB2knAKWs4vSHZFgKhZ4hrirPNLuEsWVCCyGRTQqZRbZ3NZs4z92SJ9GckAKOIMwOgDYMGvgmrnIoNldbo_PFKaLhq/s966/JeopardyAdam1986-10-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="966" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YLlsAvCMs2h7bu3TDNTD0vO-267lm8By5HUw-rHvxnp9D0nE1wjB2knAKWs4vSHZFgKhZ4hrirPNLuEsWVCCyGRTQqZRbZ3NZs4z92SJ9GckAKOIMwOgDYMGvgmrnIoNldbo_PFKaLhq/w640-h230/JeopardyAdam1986-10-21.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Somebody really should compile a collection of his <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/alex-trebeks-best-moments-on-jeopardy/">most humourous lines</a>. Sometimes he’d give amusing feedback when reading the categories. In one such instance, in an interview with one of the contestants, he’d mentioned he wasn’t good in classic opera. And guess what specific category showed up? The <i>very same category</i> the contestant was bad at. To this, Alex simply muttered, “Uh-oh.”</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C6G1b49rNGQ5palCThlqR-6ztSMbATYU_vDsOPQ0lrJKayegtHdMjtaAu4KOvcJpNObVMRXRwhugf8ghw2IzzX-VXx9djPfskIX0qVZ_PvOC6vPBUCfFyA-jqG5muCIKwgFMJw81NVeN/s611/JeopardyBizarroMosquito.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="489" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C6G1b49rNGQ5palCThlqR-6ztSMbATYU_vDsOPQ0lrJKayegtHdMjtaAu4KOvcJpNObVMRXRwhugf8ghw2IzzX-VXx9djPfskIX0qVZ_PvOC6vPBUCfFyA-jqG5muCIKwgFMJw81NVeN/w320-h400/JeopardyBizarroMosquito.png" width="320" /></a></p><p>A suitable replacement for Alex would be impossible to find, but the most speculated candidate would be Ken Jennings, fabled 74-time winner. That would be quite the coup, going from long-lasting contestant to taking over the role of gameshow host. Sadly, it turns out that Ken Jennings along with two other former Jeopardy! contestants is going onto another quiz game, <b><a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/jeopardy-replace-alex-trebek-ken-jennings-anderson-cooper-1234826467/">The Chase</a></b>. We'll see if the show has any brand-name recognition a year later. As a joke, Alex Trebek suggested that the person to replace him would be <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2551362/betty-white-for-jeopardy-alex-trebek-has-some-thoughts-about-his-successor">Betty White</a> of <b>Golden Girls</b> fame, since audiences would want "<i>somebody younger, somebody funnier to replace him.</i>"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHP0qEyuCzD2DSCjWxMpzNddNi1fj4oNjotlCOixXGuBev7LWW9tBPHgRMAiNP5mvK-8CaWBL7Ik21WEgRu-2BYE5J_sjTkd45n4SyPYkVLOgLvJ2goZspHOb0lxavWHv8YqCMFwcmKxm/s588/JeopardyMad-385-07_Letters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="588" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHP0qEyuCzD2DSCjWxMpzNddNi1fj4oNjotlCOixXGuBev7LWW9tBPHgRMAiNP5mvK-8CaWBL7Ik21WEgRu-2BYE5J_sjTkd45n4SyPYkVLOgLvJ2goZspHOb0lxavWHv8YqCMFwcmKxm/w640-h548/JeopardyMad-385-07_Letters.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The outpouring of affectionate compassion displayed towards Alex Trebek is in stark contrast to another certain gameshow host who thus shall remain nameless. For future reference, the unnamed individual-1 shall henceforth be known only as "Ol' Whatsisname".</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-J2jfhvllHv1Ofv6glm9lUjY4B0ZL1LhheNBsKumdrUyHEL17Agja4chfLEuWH_V3LjgKYXmHKd1Sz1nFTgQbvwSUdTiZD69Y_nQYLDUQGtDME3NhbojDzt7zwG1GfkWtsnVZG21dxBA/s640/JeopardyDance.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-J2jfhvllHv1Ofv6glm9lUjY4B0ZL1LhheNBsKumdrUyHEL17Agja4chfLEuWH_V3LjgKYXmHKd1Sz1nFTgQbvwSUdTiZD69Y_nQYLDUQGtDME3NhbojDzt7zwG1GfkWtsnVZG21dxBA/w400-h400/JeopardyDance.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>In fact, there's a surprising number of Jeopardy! comics devoted to crime, which is a stark contrast to the <b>$64,000 Show</b>, scandalized for informing the long-running challengers of the answers beforehand.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>"What if we gave the contestants the answers?"</p><p>"Isn't that how the trouble started?"</p><p>"But then, they'd have to figure out the <i>questions</i>."</p></blockquote><p>And that's how Jeopardy! was born. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjex12hN_rEuDKhtdLoA7TW4lJjrq9jr2uEZtGXmdLS6JFm2aagK0E4xNkwrv4qW9uf_ZoxvyqhWHOUGAOpS1xv0MzLg0APNAEtgCYx6p81JIUSj5OwpGGuIXAsEw2RyBidYJd2Z8IsVyL-/s681/JeopardyBizarro.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="571" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjex12hN_rEuDKhtdLoA7TW4lJjrq9jr2uEZtGXmdLS6JFm2aagK0E4xNkwrv4qW9uf_ZoxvyqhWHOUGAOpS1xv0MzLg0APNAEtgCYx6p81JIUSj5OwpGGuIXAsEw2RyBidYJd2Z8IsVyL-/w335-h400/JeopardyBizarro.png" width="335" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTOzMpvXUfBxQTofU7qY5itOx3p5n5d2TDVXOfq-i8ZRHkD-x9OrQ843kW9adIPkfDBI-xkV1qckH3Z6gzYNIjbvdW1sYeFFRJ4FKm6mQSghzYbzR5GZhAeuJwYxzL6eQqImCv2Kx2kFt/s685/JeopardyBizarroMob.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="527" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTOzMpvXUfBxQTofU7qY5itOx3p5n5d2TDVXOfq-i8ZRHkD-x9OrQ843kW9adIPkfDBI-xkV1qckH3Z6gzYNIjbvdW1sYeFFRJ4FKm6mQSghzYbzR5GZhAeuJwYxzL6eQqImCv2Kx2kFt/w308-h400/JeopardyBizarroMob.png" width="308" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76yWowFdOnUJAIYh0rG0Py3R-qK_327ptnbBCHs5EmFQjJLc7jCTVobMGxyE4gEvUpENqRG-KSFVSfMr1_OWwOlVCRYauSaPv9-O-Zmm2Tv9H7mWoWt-EASVX5v_HYOQbGlM6C8nnpBi0/s745/JeopardyFacts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="745" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76yWowFdOnUJAIYh0rG0Py3R-qK_327ptnbBCHs5EmFQjJLc7jCTVobMGxyE4gEvUpENqRG-KSFVSfMr1_OWwOlVCRYauSaPv9-O-Zmm2Tv9H7mWoWt-EASVX5v_HYOQbGlM6C8nnpBi0/w400-h349/JeopardyFacts.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7qQwxKy91l9yfcamRBgUxeKWwaB4vD9FUloAxXPAaczHzqM6jXjsUTdu3AjtF6zCS7r29yfOJvWgO8mWGdYLnJwKWd7uNuVvKT_JExIxqvaxflpU8gqz0ThJzYsuiOD0GLXa6RB_ecjW/s1612/JeopardyMad-322-038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="1235" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7qQwxKy91l9yfcamRBgUxeKWwaB4vD9FUloAxXPAaczHzqM6jXjsUTdu3AjtF6zCS7r29yfOJvWgO8mWGdYLnJwKWd7uNuVvKT_JExIxqvaxflpU8gqz0ThJzYsuiOD0GLXa6RB_ecjW/w490-h640/JeopardyMad-322-038.jpg" width="490" /></a></p><p>It's going to feel weird not having Johnny Gilbert introduce him anymore. But at least Alex produced a lot of shows before his death. His last airing will fittingly enough, be on Christmas Eve.</p>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-35885438382715757012020-10-10T03:48:00.000-07:002020-10-10T03:48:01.129-07:00The Darkest Silliest Stupidest Timeline (2019)<p><i>“Who’s got the worstest disposition? One guess — guess who! Who’d always, always start an argument? Who never shows a bit of compassion? Who’s always wrong but never right? Who’d always dream of starting a fight? Who sticks bad luck with all the chumps? No one but Donald Trump!” </i></p><blockquote><p>"You don't need to see the evidence that absolutely exonerates us completely!"</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelAYzVS4zGm0kEb8qrGjO7Mfq5M1BLm9QGpciqvH7yBQxCABJ-waY_aH0DS3BQe5PFcqzUNFWWBqhyH0XccfB1ndPMGQloukk140EpVwsN7JW2pb7n26mJsdtf9UtgqStqRQvhz8kgUuL/s768/TrumpMuellerSchoedinger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelAYzVS4zGm0kEb8qrGjO7Mfq5M1BLm9QGpciqvH7yBQxCABJ-waY_aH0DS3BQe5PFcqzUNFWWBqhyH0XccfB1ndPMGQloukk140EpVwsN7JW2pb7n26mJsdtf9UtgqStqRQvhz8kgUuL/w640-h426/TrumpMuellerSchoedinger.jpg" width="640" /></a>This is the last of the collected Facebook subjects and commentary from 2019, back when things seemed like they couldn’t possibly get worse, they suddenly did. The Mueller report turned out to be a dud. Impeachment fell apart due to a large section of Republican Senators simply refusing to condemn their beloved President, even as he continued to disparage them.</p><p>There’s nothing new that I can possibly add to the table that hasn’t already been said hundreds of times already. You’ve made up your mind if you haven’t been convinced otherwise. Or when Trump says we want more immigration from places like Norway. WHAT COULD HE BE IMPLYING? "No shenanigans. I only want Norwegians."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKFJTGkw2Q5dCw0fbYSRdAR2D2N4xAU5nHJ3Z8x9PPf0zvphGD5smudE_oFMMO5LqqtbtlllIj4KW1p-I2EjZhBH3rs1UCkalFfH2PHSZzcLenQTYYacWIwaCKklWahSmljLGVm6q2ch3/s850/TrumpTextSupporter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="850" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKFJTGkw2Q5dCw0fbYSRdAR2D2N4xAU5nHJ3Z8x9PPf0zvphGD5smudE_oFMMO5LqqtbtlllIj4KW1p-I2EjZhBH3rs1UCkalFfH2PHSZzcLenQTYYacWIwaCKklWahSmljLGVm6q2ch3/w640-h244/TrumpTextSupporter.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Considering the current Chinese Curse, I'm sure we can agree that we'd LOVE to be bored. I'd just like to have a Liberal President and a Liberal Prime Minister working together for longer than a year.</p><p>Whenever a white guy goes on a killing spree (and let's face it, it's almost always a white guy) the first reaction is usually, "Wow, he must be crazy." But if the killer is a Muslim or a person of color, the state of his mental health is rarely if ever questioned; it's just assumed that he's violent and dangerous because that's what "those people" are like.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgQD_IZPNGVO5-YtnG3w4za0lL5QFGLuQpDblkDPkNxEljMyN11kuSBjUkpjG69y_NkoJDWFxbafcocn50FwjFFdyIoeGlkZmLehE_65LqQZ0qiud0NpjRaV7jB3jf0OaJDsx3xhEi016/s1444/TrumpBomberTalk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgQD_IZPNGVO5-YtnG3w4za0lL5QFGLuQpDblkDPkNxEljMyN11kuSBjUkpjG69y_NkoJDWFxbafcocn50FwjFFdyIoeGlkZmLehE_65LqQZ0qiud0NpjRaV7jB3jf0OaJDsx3xhEi016/w284-h640/TrumpBomberTalk.jpg" width="284" /></a></p><p>White Supremacy IS a Mental Illness, though you'd never hear them admit it.</p><p>"It's utterly discriminatory to label all white guys as having mental health issues!"</p><p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-than-democrat-shirts/?fbclid=IwAR1MtS9rqRhNyFxF3bEL3id8-F7mAuHy-0R3-jOCLrUnHX3LfI7LB6BvcnE"><b>Are These ‘I’d Rather Be a Russian Than a Democrat’ Shirts Real?</b></a></p><p>Then: "Better Dead than a Red!"</p><p>Now: "Better Red than a Dead!"</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-not-even-sure-his-team-asked-move-uss-john-n1013961?cid=public-rss_20190605&fbclid=IwAR0mRW_C7y7SXgBJK1q0Mwu0y0zMyE-WRx1ffgrVYXti1rBy7SrJGOcrMlA"><b>Trump 'not even sure' his team requested the USS John McCain be kept out of sight</b></a></p><p>"Maybe it happened and maybe it didn't! Who can know for sure?"</p><p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/trump-finds-a-rear-admiral-willing-to-take-the-fall-for-his-incorrect-alabama-hurricane-projection/?fbclid=IwAR1HX6Y54RLACx2TjJ7Yc5yP_QtZpP0dJFt7unQTMLBveXME28s-uirPBJc"><b>Trump finds a Rear Admiral willing to take the fall for his incorrect Alabama hurricane projection</b></a></p><p>"Go to jail. Go STRAIGHT to jail. And pay me $200."</p><p>This poor naive fool must think he is saving the President's honor from liberal slander.</p><p>Trump will merely see, "what else can I blame on this tool? He cheated on my taxes! And defunded building the wall! And wrote every misspelled tweet! Everything everybody complains about was his fault! But not the Chinese Tariffs! That is still the greatest deal I've ever made!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDksq5fuqrnBMA2Dtyx_qsbXPXk88ebAaZFV0XupzYKV3HbuBhgiCKKhUBs0SwS1ufDqs0U2dwDOb7c5OtLyjnKwcsD-ESSHKLRfj_LwlARbqm_u91AxBNyF4swIJ8MBK0FyPRfU03py9/s1189/TrumpWizardHurricane.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1189" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDksq5fuqrnBMA2Dtyx_qsbXPXk88ebAaZFV0XupzYKV3HbuBhgiCKKhUBs0SwS1ufDqs0U2dwDOb7c5OtLyjnKwcsD-ESSHKLRfj_LwlARbqm_u91AxBNyF4swIJ8MBK0FyPRfU03py9/w640-h450/TrumpWizardHurricane.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/politics/trump-tax-returns-losses/index.html?fbclid=IwAR07scJh612D_-pSBTzQiN6n4MzpnmO8KWKtPTtBIiA1NqOcdwinHlozLzM"><b>Tax documents show Trump businesses lost more than $1 billion in a decade</b></a></p><p>"HEY! Those are private! And you have to spend money to make money!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYy6-pbQn9YupfT1Rln5kf3QJEp6cZSBxsPz0ydVR9_al58ji4013RSzeYEmGQ_AmgIvRS-dbI7j57rFtMshxatV1tCZ3bymGuNz-CXBsznMYhejv-KyRLo2uXiiRi_DAQlfXP9Qeal8u/s972/TrumpBoffo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="972" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYy6-pbQn9YupfT1Rln5kf3QJEp6cZSBxsPz0ydVR9_al58ji4013RSzeYEmGQ_AmgIvRS-dbI7j57rFtMshxatV1tCZ3bymGuNz-CXBsznMYhejv-KyRLo2uXiiRi_DAQlfXP9Qeal8u/w640-h328/TrumpBoffo.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-rebukes-dishonest-fundraising-groups-in-veiled-swipe-at-former-top-aide-david-bossie/2019/05/07/a1f0c9f4-70fd-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.c0ffdb79cb6c&fbclid=IwAR061kb5rM9mc5-HLyKnjFvfw5mJdD6Ro_xNMEoc9fNGhLnW5GXnH_2YKhk"><b>Trump campaign rebukes ‘dishonest fundraising groups,’ in veiled swipe at former top aide David Bossie</b></a></p><p>"Only *I* am allowed to spend funds fraudulently!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXghPQl-k7FGWU6P39-a1kR92-E4LTgLhmo_2Q8HRIbVtSWtb8PInUSUSILWiW1509J_tjPx3xB5MqZq8VFOHZ1c_F7yEBu8EOq7THb63OM6mG2IVcbq2yhvBggUV4SF1B5orAFUJD08_1/s1033/ShoeSenatorCorporation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="1033" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXghPQl-k7FGWU6P39-a1kR92-E4LTgLhmo_2Q8HRIbVtSWtb8PInUSUSILWiW1509J_tjPx3xB5MqZq8VFOHZ1c_F7yEBu8EOq7THb63OM6mG2IVcbq2yhvBggUV4SF1B5orAFUJD08_1/w640-h216/ShoeSenatorCorporation.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-frustrated-trump-questions-his-administrations-venezuela-strategy/2019/05/08/ad51561a-71a7-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.2e867b488699&fbclid=IwAR3ro1sxZASAHeRf2yDYlmK00jCrIxKT2kzxej4ofrSgtOenshmt1dCtqTY"><b>A frustrated Trump questions his administration’s Venezuela strategy</b></a></p><p>"I can't build any hotels there!"</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/05/09/how-long-can-dems-hold-back-on-impeachment-433983?fbclid=IwAR1Y_KO4TuGgDcluUnCxJHyhIl63kEQz9yefK2d1-phkvutbNY0AiDDAq6k"><b>How long can Dems hold back on impeachment?</b></a></p><p>Hypothetical question - if the Democrats take back the Senate AND keep their seats on Congress, AND Trump somehow STILL gets re-elected, can they impeach a re-elected President?</p><p>Nixon was re-elected.</p><p>Yes, but did the impeachment proceedings happen on Election Day?</p><p>They could, if Trump wins Electoral College but loses popular vote again.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6VSUgDAQTul1SYtTz0vKnyBaPqJ8H_6Zl1otisZ3TraENXgC8Nx_C4gQB0w8rUmyO_POqgfht3bBfsOaOSLAQPSnXV5roz-dKKT80vlaeyp8PoBhdzGb-YOpt5qALp1NU2gFa_V-7XKCH/s1171/TrumpWizardFool.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="1171" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6VSUgDAQTul1SYtTz0vKnyBaPqJ8H_6Zl1otisZ3TraENXgC8Nx_C4gQB0w8rUmyO_POqgfht3bBfsOaOSLAQPSnXV5roz-dKKT80vlaeyp8PoBhdzGb-YOpt5qALp1NU2gFa_V-7XKCH/w640-h212/TrumpWizardFool.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-john-kerry-should-be-prosecuted-for-meetings-with-iranian-officials/2019/05/09/98c313c4-727d-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.0c7fac9d4db1&fbclid=IwAR1KfNvhyU3cm3mcwKm4l2P9xuSXNfVn4lWTvnTXjuP_cam2V5OdinuHMfo"><b>Trump says John Kerry ‘should be prosecuted’ for meetings with Iranian officials</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>Said Trump: “I’d like to see — with Iran, I’d like to see them call me. You know, John Kerry speaks to them a lot. John Kerry tells them not to call. That’s a violation of the Logan Act. And frankly, he should be prosecuted on that. But my people don’t want to do anything that’s — only the Democrats do that kind of stuff, you know? If it were the opposite way, they’d prosecute him under the Logan Act.”</i></p></blockquote><p>He keeps whine-threatening. AND text-complaining. Governing via passive-aggressiveness, aggressive-aggressiveness AND massive-aggressiveness.</p><p><a href="https://www.reallyamerican.com/white-supremacists-chant-six-million-more-after-crashing-holocaust-remembrance-day-event-in-arkansas-405?fbclid=IwAR34sJyI6Q1ievb0g9cMoGmInXrgrQvn_aiWUQUGRlpEPDFTaxLrlGuWtps"><b>White Supremacists Chant 'Six Million More' After Crashing Holocaust Remembrance Day Event In Arkansas</b></a></p><p>These people constantly deny the Holocaust happened, yet cry out for a genocide of Jews and minorities.</p><p><a href="https://www.jns.org/tennessee-judge-posts-article-stating-jews-should-get-the-f-over-the-holocaust/?fbclid=IwAR3PgzoApUaM8grJ6MheeLBw8-NhpuendWWjyrP5T0sBNVl6l9SpvJvaGpI"><b>Tennessee judge posts article stating Jews should ‘get the f*** over the Holocaust’</b></a></p><p>"So, you're saying there WAS a holocaust?"</p><p>"There totally wasn't! And anyways, we should kill another 6 million just to be sure!"</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2019/05/14/trump-says-hed-absolutely-send-troops-to-the-middle-east-436342?nname=playbook-pm&fbclid=IwAR1l8ZmyIUthI1T-U7YM2bOb_-QSf3-MkNK4Jtq5KqDTUxkVnzgeSmustOU"><b>Trump says he’d ‘absolutely’ send troops to the Middle East</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>Trump dismissed last night’s New York Times story on the administration’s internal debate over sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter Iran as “fake news.”</i></p><p><i>But, he added: “Would I do that? Absolutely. But we have not planned for that. Hopefully we won’t have to plan for that. If we did that we would send a hell of a lot more troops than that.”</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>"We would send twelve million troops over. Maybe even twelve billion troops."</p><p>"That's more than the population of - "</p><p>"Twelve trillion troops."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen-told-lawmakers-trump-attorney-jay-sekulow-instructed-him-to-falsely-claim-moscow-project-ended-in-january-2016/2019/05/20/e98c6a5e-7b0f-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.ec9f3e919ffd&fbclid=IwAR3iozjQxX_9270VvA7fVMFX3E6pDfoQoN0F5x141tkWKvT1kX9L_-db4oc"><b>Cohen told lawmakers Trump attorney Jay Sekulow instructed him to falsely claim Moscow project ended in January 2016</b></a></p><p>"What can I say that won't get anybody in trouble?"</p><p>"Try 'I Resign.'"</p><p>"I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might get in trouble."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14FFfdHbbNjzwThqPJ81LfmM43dUaxVLMBju-gMLBCd1vx6FUf-IoJ98UT5OeLT8qMNaWydQnjkSC8vmIJbcsibpfvuFGZ_6siOi_tmgU54ba8ri3cvvt7m5W6Avj5QqqGPRrKhYgCao_/s1265/ShoeSenatorResign.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="1265" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14FFfdHbbNjzwThqPJ81LfmM43dUaxVLMBju-gMLBCd1vx6FUf-IoJ98UT5OeLT8qMNaWydQnjkSC8vmIJbcsibpfvuFGZ_6siOi_tmgU54ba8ri3cvvt7m5W6Avj5QqqGPRrKhYgCao_/w640-h226/ShoeSenatorResign.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/trump-impeachment-nixon-1359209?fbclid=IwAR3gJmaQJ8HXIS1KUMAzTd88otd3YQiS8O2nBwtvOiSFbc6_M_EVPRoP-9k"><b>Trump on impeachment and Nixon: ‘He left. I don’t leave.’</b></a></p><p>The difference between him and Richard Nixon. "Everybody leaves me. I don't leave. I've always been here."</p><p><a href="https://time.com/5608787/iran-oil-tanker-attack-very-minor/?fbclid=IwAR3MQr1L4HqFgyFetfZh7fnoxB8rQ7GFlPxkp-Eiomla-Q02L9qaJ8UYCy0"><b>Exclusive: Trump Calls Alleged Iranian Attack on Oil Tankers 'Very Minor'</b></a></p><p>"It was the SMALLEST attack done on one of our ships. Hardly anything worth mentioning. Why are we still talking about this? We should be talking about MY ship!"</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-his-team-to-tone-down-the-tough-talk-on-iran?fbclid=IwAR3_lHvtvTKy-GEPtIrmUlEtQYMdzSn6PwaYFGlfT6Ety3pgCw15qm3miis"><b>Trump Tells His Team to Tone Down the Tough Talk on Iran</b></a></p><p>What does Iran have on Trump?</p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html?fbclid=IwAR23f0vqiCelwxLHQulo6g75b34bATOmA634wewc0FrWWBeiSIAigyPMxRE"><b>Britain's man in the the US says Trump is 'inept'</b></a></p><p>"He's the most inept political figure we've ever seen. And considering that we have Boris Johnson, that's saying something."</p><p><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/07/09/ross-perot-self-made-billionaire-patriot-and-philanthropist-dies-at-89/"><b>Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89</b></a></p><p>NO! Now he'll NEVER be President!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3_TGjJg0U7Tp9FylMLWLw2qT1lUJrKGR2veVJnbSs961D8qvQjABWz0fNZPQuMdpz0C7UKBgeWP6Wc98ufVP3K2tdjQbcfOm-5QRUTfalSFcNLk_y1JIQt4rEuPKUeSZUoaLKG2GN_WE/s1157/ShoeSenatorNAFTA.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="1157" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3_TGjJg0U7Tp9FylMLWLw2qT1lUJrKGR2veVJnbSs961D8qvQjABWz0fNZPQuMdpz0C7UKBgeWP6Wc98ufVP3K2tdjQbcfOm-5QRUTfalSFcNLk_y1JIQt4rEuPKUeSZUoaLKG2GN_WE/w640-h222/ShoeSenatorNAFTA.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7?utm_source=CNN+Media%3A+Reliable+Sources&fbclid=IwAR3WZBDYsOYFtGwHQiR6yOmxLVqk4jOSwJ82RC0yv5KEFHVY0Ek3J5LOZ6s"><b>We hired the author of 'Black Hawk Down' and an illustrator from 'Archer' to adapt the Mueller report so you'll actually read it</b></a></p><p>"Have you read the Mueller report yet?"</p><p>"I'm waiting for the movie to come out."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/trump-organization-hush-money-filing/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3XvwR6YjClGl9oRJ0pQfaoz63jXC8w1wXkbFwRxsggIYkQ_8-B1C3xiqM"><b>Feds end investigation into Trump Org and hush money payments</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><i>“Federal prosecutors in New York have ended their investigation into the Trump Organization’s role in hush money payments made to women who alleged affairs with President Trump and have been ordered by a judge to release additional information connected to their related probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.”</i></blockquote><p></p><p>"Our investigation in Trump's illegal dealing has ended. Now, we move on to the next fifty dozen investigations on Trump's illegal dealings!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEPeLO1jNDBHyN7u5mzo2QRYILSnHXp25z4mHaMUsEe3GmBx7Yq8pW4BokyDa9m5o845Y1ug1Nd3-8ffdNSwbF5SbQNBjMlMF7y5OdF7l_0Pa86jNqRQV8Bd71PFREF243MksfZGc5wR6/s893/TrumpWizardCrime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="893" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEPeLO1jNDBHyN7u5mzo2QRYILSnHXp25z4mHaMUsEe3GmBx7Yq8pW4BokyDa9m5o845Y1ug1Nd3-8ffdNSwbF5SbQNBjMlMF7y5OdF7l_0Pa86jNqRQV8Bd71PFREF243MksfZGc5wR6/w640-h210/TrumpWizardCrime.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>One of the more disappointing abuses of power is the ICE rounding up of immigrants at the border, separating children from their parents and putting them in cages all in an effort to discourage crossing the border and justifying the existence of the Trump Wall, which is this century's Maginot line.</p><p>"What are you complaining about? Stop calling it a Holocaust Genocide! ONLY five million people have died so far! And we're getting calls for MORE deaths, so we're not as bad as you think! It’s one million less deaths than the first holocaust, which probably never happened!"</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HS8P0l_KU&fbclid=IwAR1rlrr7FJ38FEqNM4vuRHwOQx4b4K4lAsVDmm8vvnHabb9e2qp94QiLfjE"><b>Candace Owens visits ICE immigration center: "It's nicer than every school I attended!"</b></a></p><p>WHAT SCHOOL DID SHE GO TO?!</p><p><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/militia-member-border-migrants-hitler-gas-chamber-hate?fbclid=IwAR239OzeRpWoaROCFyybJZFEc5ya5ettTFW2q95REtJgqjou4scnMQLXPdo"><b>"Put Them All In A Gas Chamber," A Militia Member Allegedly Said While Stopping Migrants At The Border</b></a></p><p>But sure, they're not Concentration Camps.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/senate-candidate-arrested-trying-to-deliver-supplies-to-detained-kids_n_5b2d321be4b00295f15c3dd1?ri18n=true"><b>Senate Candidate Arrested Trying To Deliver Supplies To Detained Kids</b></a></p><p>"The Democrats are to blame for our not-Concentration Camps not having enough faculties!"</p><p>"Here, have some supplies."</p><p>"What you're trying to do is illegal. Stop being decent!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-plans-to-restart-capital-punishment-after-long-hiatus/2019/07/25/f2cc6402-aee5-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?utm_term=.4ffda760f137&fbclid=IwAR38qPyqrUUUhnGaPS6U4GMyspBzgKTlZy_lyt6LXtHW2jndb16xkYoDj5w"><b>Justice Department plans to restart capital punishment after long hiatus</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><i>“The Justice Department announced Thursday that it plans to resume executing prisoners awaiting the death penalty, ending almost two decades in which the federal government had not imposed capital punishment on prisoners.”</i></blockquote><p></p><p>"Stop calling our Immigration Detention chambers Concentration camps! They're not Death camps!"</p><p>"Yet."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama?fbclid=IwAR0YY_BMhcUkC9X9seeqZ5oNl09u1eKLAoyjYjJHN6l3dZvz611ZvfRdctM"><b>Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was 'no racism' before Obama</b></a></p><p>"If there weren't uppity Black people, Racism wouldn't exist!"</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/can-you-afford-betsy-devoss-lavish-lifestyle-708369"><b>Very Rich Betsy DeVos Has 10 Boats, Two Helicopters, A Yacht Scheduler And A Lavish Lifestyle You Can't Afford</b></a></p><p>"I NEED those five yachts to take me to work!"</p><p>"Your office is near the highway. WHAT KIND OF WORK DO YOU DO?!"</p><p>"Gotta have someplace to live once all the ice caps melt!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKpWQ3frYSVqCI9Cp0EGNgzoO8fh4LCJ7S57q6xqecC8gAgKKaOu3OqIUbYg2XX5on5Kg_VW-SikVDHIkMf8_Gs0D8SwCaoFPxrKlGg6CjZp87uaGCFzXooNulwF2ioxxvIFj3uCHZhHM/s893/ShoeSenatorBoatEconomy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="893" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKpWQ3frYSVqCI9Cp0EGNgzoO8fh4LCJ7S57q6xqecC8gAgKKaOu3OqIUbYg2XX5on5Kg_VW-SikVDHIkMf8_Gs0D8SwCaoFPxrKlGg6CjZp87uaGCFzXooNulwF2ioxxvIFj3uCHZhHM/w640-h212/ShoeSenatorBoatEconomy.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>So many the Republicans had a pressing need to have more yachts than spending money on their citizens for things they might actually need, such as food, education and medicine. And now, thanks to pleasure cruises being cancelled, those very same large ships are being <a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/10/photos-of-aliaga-ship-scrapyard-in-turkey-reveals-a-stark-reminder-of-covid-19-s-impact.html">shipped to </a><a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/10/photos-of-aliaga-ship-scrapyard-in-turkey-reveals-a-stark-reminder-of-covid-19-s-impact.html">the scrapyard</a>. How's that investment working out for you so far?</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2DjhnDtGn-gfSMIPv8XbpQmOTFfrbK1COchvX-lWznhLAYI3VECKiyfa6jLaGCKgOSoJSlxV2zBBpzQdbvWnN4F9gHK2pcU8xU4d1QpDc2vGuFzRzN046jsJxAmACUkl7POzysMu0q6T/s1247/ShoeSenatorBoater.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="1247" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2DjhnDtGn-gfSMIPv8XbpQmOTFfrbK1COchvX-lWznhLAYI3VECKiyfa6jLaGCKgOSoJSlxV2zBBpzQdbvWnN4F9gHK2pcU8xU4d1QpDc2vGuFzRzN046jsJxAmACUkl7POzysMu0q6T/w640-h230/ShoeSenatorBoater.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/06/trump-is-increasingly-relying-himself-not-his-aides-trade-war-with-china/?fbclid=IwAR2NXAgX9tFIbTas1lUVRDH37ccjJgnqEY4ifK-_G_wDjG8BPdMsXVJgzes"><b>Trump is increasingly relying on himself — not his aides — in trade war with China</b></a></p><p>"Once all my competitors go bankrupt, I'll buy them up at bargain-basement rates! And I'll put my name on all of them!"</p><p><a href="https://missoulian.com/news/local/superior-man-believed-he-was-acting-on-trump-s-orders/article_4842efed-7f34-5855-81fb-92ad2dc0c64f.html?fbclid=IwAR2YjikBhyd-jttNOx1gIGRKhswDA3aVRG7FdVP3uE8HyAAc0cor6rESdf4"><b>Superior man believed he was acting on Trump's orders in attacking boy for wearing hat during national anthem</b></a></p><p>"GOD told me to do it."</p><p>"That's no legal defense."</p><p>"In his mind, the President is GOD."</p><p>"Oh, that makes it all better then."</p><p>"Are you being sarcastic, your Honor?"</p><p>"At this point, I can no longer tell."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/bank-of-america-raises-chance-of-a-recession-to-1-in-3-in-the-next-12-months.html?fbclid=IwAR14X3I3Cf4sWm9YQwTFAf_AO9fX_Pb6Eg9HZ3ppIO6vooNeN0nWRSWWFc4"><b>Bank of America raises chance of a recession to 1-in-3 in the next 12 months</b></a></p><p>"40% in the next 11 months."</p><p>"No, 50% in the next 10 months."</p><p>"No, 60% in the next 3 months."</p><p>"Enough with these monthly updates!"</p><p>"These are daily updates."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkbrPC5n00ADcDjQCg1X5gk8Yy93DiNn5TUcNv3IgiPnuDl4G4nbcmdi3FKK5XhEoOf14ZkAUsR2q0Oqqh0nBLzbiITWvUidSWBLvlLsb_LvmFuM6EKwsEHzUaDNmMJqanSxPKnMUqPWe/s928/TrumpBCbudget.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="928" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkbrPC5n00ADcDjQCg1X5gk8Yy93DiNn5TUcNv3IgiPnuDl4G4nbcmdi3FKK5XhEoOf14ZkAUsR2q0Oqqh0nBLzbiITWvUidSWBLvlLsb_LvmFuM6EKwsEHzUaDNmMJqanSxPKnMUqPWe/w640-h212/TrumpBCbudget.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poem-about-europe_n_5d535ed3e4b05fa9df0671ee?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__081419&fbclid=IwAR2zUauWdziBXnBcEgYaG3T1CnJTswHSV9F4tloUzME6Xy2XgvxK8Ms1fsw"><b>Ken Cuccinelli: Statue Of Liberty Poem About ‘People Coming From Europe’</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>Asked Burnett: “‘Wretched,’ ‘poor,’ ‘refuse’ – right? That’s what the poem says America is supposed to stand for. So what do you think America stands for?”</i></p><p><i>Said Cuccinelli: “Well, of course, that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe, where they had class-based societies, where people were considered wretched if they weren’t in the right class.”</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>"White people and 10s only!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixsyV5L2FdwyBRQvyihIsKiQIu2M84iO14E-pHZP0Gp1MtGDSxrRhcEFVXPkx_m6G-PKoFPRM7FAirM6P9mMm5v9serm4iqmF0tiV-KR6S0yTqsB71CRMVoIFw8f9VU3TM_aQOU9OGQqQ7/s1071/ShoeSenatorBillionsPoor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="1071" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixsyV5L2FdwyBRQvyihIsKiQIu2M84iO14E-pHZP0Gp1MtGDSxrRhcEFVXPkx_m6G-PKoFPRM7FAirM6P9mMm5v9serm4iqmF0tiV-KR6S0yTqsB71CRMVoIFw8f9VU3TM_aQOU9OGQqQ7/w640-h208/ShoeSenatorBillionsPoor.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mark-sanford-says-hes-growing-ever-closer-to-launching-a-gop-primary-challenge-against-trump/2019/08/16/de7587b4-c019-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html?fbclid=IwAR221SCDcDC1TtpOOizCpoSdOjb4ZKQQg18Jb32c2fOZqPpwGWxAn1zFi5Q"><b>Mark Sanford says he’s ‘growing ever closer’ to launching a GOP primary challenge against Trump</b></a></p><p>"We're approaching Zeno's Paradox levels of getting there."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/world/asia/north-korea-missile-tests.html?action=click&fbclid=IwAR2nx5UHRgmStED-FC6HzljyY_LXVBmAoO6eEFskxcgbZOLzgcV7Q6XcSFk"><b>North Korea Launches 2 Projectiles; South Korean Experts Blame Trump</b></a></p><p>"They promised to only aim at countries that wouldn't let me build hotels on 'em."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVOoNtQAYvM24MBDiyL_ietnLxWZhDd0sBOJToVu0-2JjczXfDWMcztZPHlxswiSIjKoWc82OPhyM2eL3IxldWavzJbxhlc2RvPLOOO010Bgx3sjHNNC0C8hPZUzqfKz0NSTpb2WZcql1h/s750/TrumpPlanHotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="750" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVOoNtQAYvM24MBDiyL_ietnLxWZhDd0sBOJToVu0-2JjczXfDWMcztZPHlxswiSIjKoWc82OPhyM2eL3IxldWavzJbxhlc2RvPLOOO010Bgx3sjHNNC0C8hPZUzqfKz0NSTpb2WZcql1h/w400-h295/TrumpPlanHotel.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/21/trump-keeps-pushing-anti-semitic-stereotypes-he-thinks-hes-praising-jews/?arc404=true&fbclid=IwAR2h45mlP_zvKhjBlvrkMd8PZUw4_q8VEwVZ-RSenMcZfBdHu1mD2Vo0cVU"><b>Trump keeps pushing anti-Semitic stereotypes. But he thinks he’s praising Jews.</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>“So is Trump a philo-Semite or an anti-Semite? The answer is both. The principle that explains his seemingly contradictory outlook toward Jews is simple: Trump believes all the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews. But he sees those traits as admirable.”</i></p><p><i>“To Trump, the belief that Jews are foreign interlopers who use their wealth to serve their own clannish interests is not a negative — as it is for traditional anti-Semites — but rather a positive. He wants Jews to be his attorneys and manage his money, so that he, too, can be rich. He wants them in his political corner, so that he, too, can be powerful. He wants to buy politicians, just like they do.”</i></p><p><i>“As a man who has always stood solely for his own naked self-interest, Trump does not see the anti-Semitic conception of the self-interested Jew as a complaint, but rather a compliment. He prioritizes his needs ahead of the national interest, and so he sees the idea that Jews might do the same with themselves or with Israel as entirely natural.”</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>"I'm signing to make it legal to put blood in bread."</p><p>"That's an anti-Semitic MYTH."</p><p>"There's a myth?"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cancels-trip-to-poland-says-he-is-staying-in-the-us-to-monitor-hurricane-dorian/2019/08/29/1749da9c-ca9a-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2sj3rVPFIcOyd7xx0Z7BxWqgAO7U2s8V8K8ZrIVcjKdApK9WSu6Atiiig"><b>Trump cancels trip to Poland, says he is staying in the U.S. to monitor Hurricane Dorian</b></a></p><p>"I'll go invade Poland later. There's no buttered popcorn. And I can't throw a nuke at Puerto Rico. This is the most boring hurricane ever since the last one!"</p><p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-criticize-trump-meeting-taliban-camp-david-911?fbclid=IwAR29mYGM7MmGTTzGa3HhRjFMfN_mZTbvBXiKgY3FhQznkX8XNThhmccDYqw"><b>Republicans Criticize Trump's Planned Meeting With The Taliban Scheduled Days Before 9/11</b></a></p><p>"How DARE Trump make the Republicans look bad!"</p><p>This is literally the plot of <b><a href="http://comicsbulletin.com/bi-partisan-review-liberality-all/?fbclid=IwAR0Je18qDwbnZfKVPhyOeS0NMW7unoc97ekxi55pXuY01I288hX9Tb-g3gM">Liberality for All</a></b>, a Right-wing political comic about the fear of being in an ultra-Liberal extremist society where <a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5518130.html?fbclid=IwAR2RTHGDyGnjt5yzoT_dOjPXswLZNT2XUV6PC8WgbjMrGvP_epJ70crmT4g">Osama Bin Ladin is a UN ambassador, and Michael Moore is Vice President</a>.</p><p>"The Taliban never drove a plane in MY towers! They can't be all that bad! And my tower became the highest towers in New York! Higher than the Empire State Building! Look at this comparison chart!"</p><p>"Isn't this drawn with a sharpie - "</p><p>"THE HIGHEST."</p><p>"Aren't you taking advantage of a national tragedy - "</p><p>"Less than 3,000 people actually died there! And the 9,000 Jews who were warned off should PAY for it!"</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/460396-trump-cancels-secret-meeting-with-taliban-leaders-afghan-president?fbclid=IwAR1EmzZe1Nx6fDaaQNNMqv2KdkhHb1YI_7DOv-nqYvtA8lXWjhUgfguYWB4"><b>Trump cancels secret meeting with Taliban leaders, Afghan president after attack</b></a></p><p>"Let me build a hotel in Afghanistan! Then you can fly all the planes you want into it, and I'll collect the insurance! It's Win-Lose!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-prop-in-the-back-advisers-struggle-to-obey-trumps-kafkaesque-rules/2019/09/11/35bbf622-d4a9-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html?arc404=true&fbclid=IwAR2P2i9ILI8e0D-gBflr0dLzIpZMqOwC7dCoF4ltSrFoReiUT9jcJWdceI4"><b>‘You’re a prop in the back’: Advisers struggle to obey Trump’s Kafkaesque rules</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Said one former Trump official: “There is no person that is part of the daily Trump decision-making process that can survive long term. The president doesn’t like people to get good press. He doesn’t like people to get bad press. Yet he expects everyone to be relevant and important and supportive at all times. Even if a person could do all those things, the president would grow tired of anyone in his immediate orbit.”</i></blockquote><p></p><p>Schoedinger's Heisenberg efficiency candidate.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/trump-tax-returns-cy-vance.html?action=click&fbclid=IwAR1MKFXfrQqV44A51S9t2dJ8ZMzfW0whxobmnTKPcheSr4mkCnYMdWqd7-8"><b>8 Years of Trump Tax Returns Are Subpoenaed by Manhattan D.A.</b></a></p><p>"...you can have the years 1914, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1940, 1944, 1962 and 2000, though 1980-2019 are off-limits, as well are 1920-1922, and anything between 1939 and 1945."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4xckfLfywWacfbkqIIgWuyW6vUiSo7PSBhaj2bzB2Dgq8YP3H8v2ij7sLR8tQnvXRxoQEcwCuXy3_hQXiDlRWlObbKVDaIKxQGNacczjd6bcMe5UdyAKHFNWwVDxWpctXDErLzwA9Agw/s2299/TrumpBCants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="2299" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4xckfLfywWacfbkqIIgWuyW6vUiSo7PSBhaj2bzB2Dgq8YP3H8v2ij7sLR8tQnvXRxoQEcwCuXy3_hQXiDlRWlObbKVDaIKxQGNacczjd6bcMe5UdyAKHFNWwVDxWpctXDErLzwA9Agw/w640-h196/TrumpBCants.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-is-worthy-of-a-nobel-prize-for-a-lot-of-things--but-isnt-treated-fairly/2019/09/23/e715baa2-de2c-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1DuB9cxNmh9Yx-OEITCYNLGvWNqPDwq9tSrzT9z2XgCACLuZkzpwEBNeQ"><b>Trump says he is worthy of a Nobel Prize ‘for a lot of things’ — but isn’t treated fairly</b></a></p><p>There's no Nobel Prize for "Most Compulsive Liar".</p><p>"Well there SHOULD be!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-republicans-split-over-trump-urging-ukrainian-leader-to-investigate-biden/2019/09/25/48ec0e64-dfa6-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1HNmmriQgxgkW8BRsKsmZQI2EtL2p5-pNXPgej603XPSyx9LjYp2coTII"><b>Senate Republicans split over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden</b></a></p><p>"It was an awful mistake, but not THAT big a mistake if the Democrats are complaining about it."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-strategy/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2CGx1BD_KXs5C5f_oP4oPwWpztkzHg2DH_ECtMrlDqxj_r7chBdt3I4JE"><b>Trump without strategy in fast-moving impeachment inquiry</b></a></p><p>"I'm not in trouble!" says President in trouble.</p><p>-He doesn't have strategies. ever.</p><p>-As noted elsewhere, he is REALLY BAD when under pressure; it's just that we rarely see him under actual, real, minute-to-minute pressure. (<i>The Mueller investigation was a long-term slow cooker.</i>) Right now he's having to make one decision after another, and blowing any one decision makes everything exponentially worse, and he's blowing quite a few. (<i>To be fair, I don't know that releasing the report and the memo were actually BAD ideas because they were going to come out eventually anyway, but still, he made the call and they didn't help him and now he's panicking harder.</i>)</p><p>-Both he AND Rudy, within hours of each other, made perfectly clear how much evidence they were willing to give up on other people to save themselves. They're basically the equivalent of a sweaty 19-year-old perp in the ninth hour of a police interrogation when the detective says "let's start over from the beginning" and they have no idea of the order of the previous lies they told.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/impeaching-trump-may-not-be-risky-democrats-think/598876/?fbclid=IwAR1l2T2NCR__-7RobnAhiCfogMWq0p2KHpUBK-wg8TESXKliGAzTJFR6ixc"><b>The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown</b></a></p><p>"Those pleas for not being thrown in the briar patch turns out not to have lived in the briar patch all their lives."</p><p>Shortly after he got news that he was being investigated by the FBI, you'd think Trump would ease off on doing so much illegal activity. Nope. It only spurred him on further.</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/26/donald-trumps-call-with-ukrainian-leader-one-day-after-robert-muellers-congressional-testimony-shows-the-president-is-a-brazen-criminal/?fbclid=IwAR0RqJFBbVRFq-r9Ih9IZthcup0qEsLk0kXEtmlAMA9NANo0kvilZyRzbLM"><b>Donald Trump’s Call With Ukrainian Leader, One Day After Robert Mueller’s Congressional Testimony, Shows the President Is a Brazen Criminal</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>“Donald Trump just barely avoided prosecution earlier this year when special counsel Robert Mueller pulled his punches and refused to indict the president for either obstruction of justice or campaign finance violations in connection with the Trump-Russia investigation. Mueller’s decision not to indict Trump came despite overwhelming evidence in Mueller’s own final report that the president of the United States was guilty of a crime.”</i></p><p><i>“Most people who survive that kind of legal threat would lie low, at least for a while, and try to get back to some level of normalcy. But Trump is a habitual criminal, and his reaction to escaping Mueller’s investigation was to go on yet another crime spree.”</i></p><p><i>“In fact, Trump has been acting like a bank robber who beat one rap because of a technicality, and so decides to rob every bank in sight.”</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>"You just beat the indictment! What are you going to do now?"</p><p>"I'mma gonna rob a bank."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYk1BLZ2zS817lhtPfkwv32rUODB8FjR4qqP1YoURzyzrte6bAEiYZ2g3MoTM0JafPSgFeBP8OHFIOzJ2clN9fd1YvyqPelm_YsxggTmgyrV85iL32lj3jJ1PjouYEvk105YN7JlIIgai/s1179/TrumpWizardFriend.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="1179" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYk1BLZ2zS817lhtPfkwv32rUODB8FjR4qqP1YoURzyzrte6bAEiYZ2g3MoTM0JafPSgFeBP8OHFIOzJ2clN9fd1YvyqPelm_YsxggTmgyrV85iL32lj3jJ1PjouYEvk105YN7JlIIgai/w640-h208/TrumpWizardFriend.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-president-blames-light-bulbs-orange-884499/?fbclid=IwAR3clDCRwXU21bC_RXS_x-gX9QE_Y06klPCtqX2rQEJiyUV_ujJToYlZZyU"><b>Orange President Blames Light Bulbs for Making Him Orange</b></a></p><p>Truly, we are living in the darkest timeline. Literally.</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/463344-trump-demands-schiff-resign?fbclid=IwAR2fcw8YbO68lxqzB9SfcT7SxUanaj5yIQqQxauBIIyi4MNhFJFFRhSOrhc"><b>Trump demands Schiff resign over account of Ukraine call</b></a></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>Trump on Friday demanded House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) “immediately” resign from Congress for reading what the congressman described as a parody of the president’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader that is at the center of a whistleblower complaint, The Hill reports.</i></p><p><i>Tweeted Trump: “He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it… sound horrible, and me sound guilty.”</i></p><p><i>He added: “He was desperate and he got caught. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!”</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>I mean, if we want to change it so that anyone who misleads the public in any form has to immediately resign, well, Donnie, I don't think that's a *particular* rule you want to see put into action...</p><p>"I DIDN'T MISLEAD! IT'S THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA THAT CONSTANTLY PUTS ME IN A BAD LIGHT! Also, bad lightbulbs."</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/LauraLitvan/status/1177252784179224577?fbclid=IwAR2-hN6poBKyMTlphonQ9VRA8OKU5T8wfarTWINncdFru2-jS6nIbZAm3Kc"><b>Reporter Laura Litvan says she gets three responses from Republican senators when she asks them about the whisteblower report:</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>1. “I haven’t seen the whistleblower report so I can’t comment.”</i></p><p><i>2. “I’m a potential juror if there’s a Senate trial so I shouldn’t comment.”</i></p><p><i>3. Radio silence, pursed lips, rapid escape.</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>I'll only enforce the law of the land if it doesn't interfere with my re-election. "</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-dept-intensifies-email-probe-of-hillary-clintons-former-aides/2019/09/28"><b>Trump admin. questions more than 100 Clinton aides in renewed email probe</b></a></p><p>"Trump's been found doing collusion. This is clearly Hillary's fault! Somehow!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9JGBbvyhpsEjgy6rHOxKVmraYhLX3qpqXwask-JTAKxBX7HJGPuudxfY8AyHvgDAcTqj4Lihr5Q3SLWsMm7F32YIL8wK__0vbDQRctPFesjB2KGKklUXiDpuxcfJkZNyTcub4vm4slDk/s900/TrumpDoons20020526.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="900" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9JGBbvyhpsEjgy6rHOxKVmraYhLX3qpqXwask-JTAKxBX7HJGPuudxfY8AyHvgDAcTqj4Lihr5Q3SLWsMm7F32YIL8wK__0vbDQRctPFesjB2KGKklUXiDpuxcfJkZNyTcub4vm4slDk/w640-h434/TrumpDoons20020526.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-impeachment-whistle-blower-mattis-maguire-kelly-20190929.html?fbclid=IwAR2XykOzio5bPwefk1ccPfXJmt4-bosQmzsd3vmtPpPb5yTAMRnyAa85afE"><b>History will be cruel to many who saw Trump treachery and DIDN’T become whistle-blowers | Will Bunch</b></a></p><p>"Looks like it's time to erase/rewrite history!"</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/trumps-impeachment-plan-opposite-clintons/599095/?fbclid=IwAR3wX0Djfeb_eEagu1WMRA4nuZVXqcBQHk3oHPZ-_JmUQrfdG3sLTV0ZT4Y"><b>Bill Clinton Had a Strategy. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.</b></a></p><p>"Clinton didn't know what he was doing! I'm the clear winner here!"</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-digenova-and-victoria-toensing-worked-with-rudy-giuliani-to-dig-up-ukraine-dirt-on-joe-biden-report?ref=scroll&fbclid=IwAR04DLoYbp_KEeMuWZ7T-ZDrj2JxjnRNFn6gkFDoSnxmwpc5I1RS5XhNgHE"><b>Frequent Fox Hosts diGenova and Toensing Reportedly Teamed Up With Giuliani on Ukraine-Biden:</b></a></p><p>"You know, there are more impeachable revelations per HOUR than I ever expected."</p><p>"This is normal behavior. If the President did something truly objectionable, we'd act on it."</p><p>"He was caught on camera having oral sex with an underage intern!"</p><p>"Perfectly normal behavior."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/04/gops-choice-betray-trump-or-betray-country/?fbclid=IwAR2ZiQPw5Xqf2XqmPRkXHsZM2E-Fgsg8d22xvq729g4wUdq1bG24s6e-i8g"><b>The GOP’s choice: Betray Trump or betray the country?</b></a></p><p>Decisions... decisions...</p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/mick-mulvaney-trump-impeachment-2020-election-c49528ca-fd8b-492e-9d25-746b8775655e.html?fbclid=IwAR05S60bBlazYTyIQXVFmUZS0KffsGJRsxsr-C7P_64YaP80zU-BFkgJ6jQ"><b>Mick Mulvaney predicts post-impeachment election landslide for Trump</b></a></p><p>"100% of the population of the US will vote for Trump."</p><p>"That's simply impossible - "</p><p>"110% or else."</p><p>"The math doesn't - "</p><p>"He can win with 30% of the vote if 100% of everybody else doesn't show up!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzclzPFHxLIdYD4qpvHHSo6PepoXGo-A3y7Nh72CivGaM6_i3PGZT-oqkFgLGe3IdVFiw0Wmi-OW-dOjcMug3xioyzjd9zi1ngkQ_4awRUj5JT3s646IbIGTOGT76B96R-UR7aYl2ktMJM/s1197/TrumpBCchange.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="1197" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzclzPFHxLIdYD4qpvHHSo6PepoXGo-A3y7Nh72CivGaM6_i3PGZT-oqkFgLGe3IdVFiw0Wmi-OW-dOjcMug3xioyzjd9zi1ngkQ_4awRUj5JT3s646IbIGTOGT76B96R-UR7aYl2ktMJM/w640-h200/TrumpBCchange.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/06/04/novelist-jonathan-lethem-there-is-no-allegory-crude-enough-to-capture-trumps-america/?fbclid=IwAR0a1HQ-2AegZup1ZDJL7Q9uvbKApiKyXFEsoclSXipuHCH-_Pl7OuwQuzs"><b>Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"If you were pitching today's reality as a book or TV series, it would be outright rejected for being too unrealistic. No one would believe it. No one could buy it. It would be too outlandish for anyone to think America would allow themselves to be willingly duped by such an obvious conman. And yet, here we are."</i></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/trey-gowdy-trump-impeachment.html?fbclid=IwAR2UO_lzFaC91uYQjpjPtJcFgwFqOdnmkbt_QNIhr3bExttXF2pu9Ow_mXk"><b>Inside Trump’s Botched Attempt to Hire Trey Gowdy</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>“For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort to respond to a fast-moving impeachment inquiry.”</i></p><p><i>“A day later, the arrangement fell apart, with lobbying rules prohibiting Mr. Gowdy from starting until January, possibly after the inquiry is over. Now, according to two people familiar with events, Mr. Gowdy is never expected to join the team. And Trump advisers are back to square one, searching for a different lawyer.”</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>"Lionel Hutz, A.K.A. Miguel Sanchez A.K.A. Dr. Nguyen Van Thoc A.K.A. Saul Goodman A.K.A. the guy working in Kripsy Kreme was found for his actions in protecting the drug lord known as Heisenberg. He will be jailed for 30 days and fined $8."</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1187448379825180676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1187448379825180676&fbclid=IwAR1ZQ2O_8pUz1oh8aX8aGrERkmiSLPQPfnqWIkPzEQf5xdnuy1AojQldU9s"><b>Graham called the House impeachment process a “danger to the future of the presidency,” Bloomberg reports.</b></a></p><p>"If you can impeach Presidents willy-nilly, it'll threaten the whole American institution!"</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/trump-impeachment-quid-pro-quo/600640/?fbclid=IwAR1lruyW0iwXETe03-V4W3FT9hy0NFDAZx3J5E2bH3-oOOr0JDCtPUFKq40"><b>How Trump Lost the Impeachment Narrative</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>“Catchphrases have always defined Donald Trump’s presidency. In the same way that ‘no collusion, no obstruction’ went hand in hand with the Mueller report, Democrats have managed to turn ‘quid pro quo’ into the tagline for the current impeachment inquiry. It’s perhaps the first time since Trump entered office that Democrats have managed to wrangle the first word on a presidential scandal—which puts them in a better position than ever to have the final word, too.”</i></p><p><i>“Caught in unfamiliar terrain, the White House appears to be lost in this pivotal moment. And Republicans, bereft of guidance, have found themselves either mangling their attempts to defend the president or, as a growing number appear to be, unwilling to even try.”</i></p></blockquote><p>"No quid pro quo!"</p><p>"There WAS quid pro quo."</p><p>"Stop stealing my best lines! That's a quid pro quo!"</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-17/trump-impeachment-inquiry-should-be-public-not-secret"><b>The Trump Impeachment Inquiry Should Become Public</b></a></p><p>Tell Trump he'll get great ratings. He'll jump at the chance to show how GREAT he is at debating!</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/us/politics/kupperman-subpoena-impeachment-trump.html"><b>Key Witness in Impeachment Inquiry Asks Federal Court to Rule Over Testifying</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>“A key witness in the impeachment investigation filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal judge to rule on whether he can testify, a move that raises new doubts about whether President Trump’s closest aides, like the former national security adviser, John Bolton, will be able to cooperate with the inquiry,” the New York Times reports.</i></p><p><i>“House Democrats had subpoenaed the witness, Charles Kupperman, who served as Mr. Trump’s deputy national security adviser, to testify on Monday. But in an effort to stop Mr. Kupperman from doing so, the White House said on Friday that the president had invoked ‘constitutional immunity,’</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p><b>Kirk Boxleitner</b> "Constitutional immunity." They're literally just throwing out bullshit phrases.</p><p>WTF does that even MEAN? Is he trying to create some kind of constitutional executive privilege bullshit? Does he actually think that shit exists?</p><p>HOW has Pence not invoked the 25th yet? Is he too stupid or too cowardly? Or both?</p><p>Again, Pence wants to be president even less than WE want him to be president.</p><p>This is what happens when dime-store lawyers try to wing it.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudl88uUunDkWIqr87sJ5tyEqHoxSEdbQ0NterU-mGmpJI1IfkGCDw3AhkGUW9swgbDGSjx5SJeauy_Al30HlvU1XCDdu41LueEGXiWfXVC9loFO81Rz5H7O8TMR49BGyOLVHxyhDSRi1D/s960/TrumpSnake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudl88uUunDkWIqr87sJ5tyEqHoxSEdbQ0NterU-mGmpJI1IfkGCDw3AhkGUW9swgbDGSjx5SJeauy_Al30HlvU1XCDdu41LueEGXiWfXVC9loFO81Rz5H7O8TMR49BGyOLVHxyhDSRi1D/w382-h640/TrumpSnake.jpg" width="382" /></a></p><p>-And yeah, "constitutional immunity" literally has no precedent of any kind, anywhere. It doesn't even have a DEFINITION. I would bet five PayPal dollars that, if the judge asked Trump's lawyers what "constitutional immunity" actually MEANS, they’d react like trying to explain <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcderLXiwa8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR29kYEdu4i0m87VNmqXLc1B4VrVhjrGbodXttnDBtepcchqyCGNeAkApqU">sunny-bird law</a>.</p><p>-I don't even think this is dime store winging. I think Trump said that out loud, believed it was brilliant, convinced himself that BECAUSE it was brilliant it MUST be in the Constitution, and the lawyers are running with it just for the paycheck. They still get paid, win or lose, so they're just taking the easy route and nodding and smiling, because what good will arguing logic, reason, and fact do?</p><p>-"It means exactly what it means! Immunity from the Constitution!"</p><p>-The problem is, past a certain point of disingenuously dumb, you can literally lose your law license for making arguments like this.</p><p>With as much trouble Trump’s made with his constant tweeting, you’d think someone on his staff would try to take his phone away from him. Or at least have the company ban him.</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468198-twitter-announces-it-will-refuse-all-political-advertising?rnd=1572466584&fbclid=IwAR35Ke-O9IQ0HoFusOApl17BI-YKqozJGbwQOWUeqi5m5T7hyGtVDNPJs9c"><b>Twitter to start refusing all political ads</b></a></p><p>"What about Trump?"</p><p>"His posts barely even qualify as being political."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4j1e9q2aWNPd7I9fBNNGj1p3xd4-2pGOHZuj887cjY7J_mtdux-TcYj81WfA___R7G43nbCfypCN0AfGc-HJSucabfO2JTPa0L4wXJOjE3GcwzsBujH2mrq8ehzQJCdM43r3D_YEhWU27/s1270/ShoeSenatorAdStop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="1270" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4j1e9q2aWNPd7I9fBNNGj1p3xd4-2pGOHZuj887cjY7J_mtdux-TcYj81WfA___R7G43nbCfypCN0AfGc-HJSucabfO2JTPa0L4wXJOjE3GcwzsBujH2mrq8ehzQJCdM43r3D_YEhWU27/w640-h434/ShoeSenatorAdStop.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-acting-attorney-general-matthew-whitaker-says-abuse-of-power-is-not-a-crime?fbclid=IwAR1a9yM_Ch1g8duWyI-y64IGQBpuoF2BRqn4WRl_5UFb_KPrkUvNEDFfb10"><b>Former Acting Attorney General: ‘Abuse of Power Is Not a Crime’</b></a></p><p>"It's not a crime when the President abuses power!"</p><p><a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/congress-impeach-trump-actually-remove-him.html?utm_source=Sailthru&fbclid=IwAR3136X_9OkrTiYAJgA64wXO_a9MHIzP8u2PtZCMx-h0AKE5fkyEnsYH4QU"><b>Why Congress Might Impeach Trump and Actually Remove Him From Office</b></a></p><p>"We need to re-enact the sniping scene in the Shawskank Redemption."</p><p>"Mr. President! The Deep State's trying to kill you!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKLLN89BYOIyD5QmV_NHPQ3r3lbyIFE3XSZ8FPjEsTFMzy0rrdJWCMO3JqpTWT1p3-X0VgP9XXkX9ptiqEQFwJftHPh3ZZOIuCmEnTkQAIM7_SINXEQKdNtsIV5JOOoJohss7Ml2X7LvJ/s861/TrumpBeetleFire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="861" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKLLN89BYOIyD5QmV_NHPQ3r3lbyIFE3XSZ8FPjEsTFMzy0rrdJWCMO3JqpTWT1p3-X0VgP9XXkX9ptiqEQFwJftHPh3ZZOIuCmEnTkQAIM7_SINXEQKdNtsIV5JOOoJohss7Ml2X7LvJ/w640-h204/TrumpBeetleFire.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/politics/trump-deep-state-impeachment.html?fbclid=IwAR3j8c7TJs7m99D1iFWt2z1BXgTfCSZ2q6wY1nePw6IxYjAFoLbBt0SD920"><b>Trump’s War on the ‘Deep State’ Turns Against Him</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>Nameless, faceless and voiceless, the C.I.A. officer who first triggered the greatest threat to President Trump’s tenure in office seemed to be practically the embodiment of the ‘deep state’ that the president has long accused of trying to take him down.”</i></p><p><i>“But over the last three weeks, the deep state has emerged from the shadows in the form of real live government officials, past and present, who have defied a White House attempt to block cooperation with House impeachment investigators and provided evidence that largely backs up the still-anonymous whistle-blower.”</i></p></blockquote><p>Turns out the real Deep Staters were the Republican Senators we 'made' all along.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfb0Le_3MQzdXfyw7K9_84VtWXhQP675pi-xhcQnNcCFG3rKCvTAjWIVvcPvTvuf7oxAWVphHVKqr2LTvhbbgtE10H8tZejyvu9NBIsrk91bux0KBIc4JzJ1lcLL3DAVJRGNbUJhUOnP4B/s590/TrumpBizarroEmperor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfb0Le_3MQzdXfyw7K9_84VtWXhQP675pi-xhcQnNcCFG3rKCvTAjWIVvcPvTvuf7oxAWVphHVKqr2LTvhbbgtE10H8tZejyvu9NBIsrk91bux0KBIc4JzJ1lcLL3DAVJRGNbUJhUOnP4B/w334-h400/TrumpBizarroEmperor.png" width="334" /></a></p><p><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop?fbclid=IwAR3QKjaVQ3vpq_GnZ9ykFIq8fWiGJbti0-B3OvxUOYnG9iexQoctRGt3ats"><b>“The whole reason Trump's presidency has survived as long as it has is that he's ran a Gish Gallop of impeachable offenses past us in public, in real time.”</b></a></p><p>Gish Gallop, takin' a plop. Runnin' 'round like a horsie clop.</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467473-trump-dismisses-need-for-impeachment-team-im-the-team?fbclid=IwAR1-YtCnrDOMYaeQIygtkeEcr0qMnVwuVDFJlF6BT0ZiPHH-q9GetrAo568"><b>Trump dismisses need for impeachment team: 'I'm the team. I did nothing wrong.'</b></a></p><p>"I alone am strong enough to take on everyone at once."</p><p>"With all due respect sir, you're not a Dalek."</p><p>"Of course not! I'm much more stronger, smarter and handsomer than a Dialek!"</p><p>"You know what a Dalek is, right?"</p><p>"Dialups are nothing compared to me!"</p><p>"They're a genocidal race hell-bent on exterminating anything that's not a Dalek."</p><p>"Sounds like my kind of people! Ring them up and see if they'll allow one of my hotels on their properties!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/i-feel-bad-that-i-left-john-kelly-warned-trump-he-would-be-impeached?fbclid=IwAR1BlEqwKWyISmMPqtQpYVyGIOCBrgP7IMy8nKZWQLMKfhPpAiVBxllIxZw"><b>'I feel bad that I left': John Kelly warned Trump he would be impeached</b></a></p><p>"I hated every second spent together, and wish I'd stayed longer."</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/467988-schumer-increasingly-worried-trump-will-shut-down-government-over-impeachment?fbclid=IwAR32_ROk_zza7He10Bn0cODblgux3LwlY2FamY_dcwsNVm4TIvO5koZsVYE"><b>Schumer: 'Increasingly worried' Trump will shut down government over impeachment</b></a></p><p>"They can't impeach me if the Government's shutdown, can they? Let's find out!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-republican-senators-for-lunch-and-makes-his-case-against-impeachment/2019/10/31/d1bc2272-fc22-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2WWQ2aQ3a3geqXJu1x1DCs8oTbQw_oWSVtZGiHavrJ0YE9crWjZ2_OK0c"><b>Trump invites Republican senators for lunch and makes his case against impeachment</b></a></p><p>"I am the least impeachable President in all of history!"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-moves-to-bully-witnesses-and-derail-impeachment-democrats-see-obstruction/2019/11/01/0ee6edb2-fbec-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html?fbclid=IwAR3iLy-jxDErbZcNT-E-wfEL58z1cu7hN0gZmA97YVN2wY-Ya6tGcQeB7M8"><b>As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Democrats see obstruction</b></a></p><p>"I am the most innocent President that ever existed! These are the actions of a totally innocent man!"</p><p><a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trumps-ukraine-scandal-impeachment-defenses-conservative.html?fbclid=IwAR27lOZN8hiKmSKtxhCFkdyPYKmgbSbquvB6A-bG1OSHvG4UiJGsnfAHFtQ"><b>Trump’s Allies Growing Desperate for Defenses of Ukraine Scandal</b></a></p><p>"We don't need a WAR room! We need a Peace room to protect us from all this WAR going on around us!"</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1190292026530652162?fbclid=IwAR2bkp6OveBCORuT3eN1BPSFNhHkAhRo_vsobaYhO-MxBI0itPUr3J37sEA"><b>“He is the war room. We don’t feel the need for a war room.”</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>— White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, on Fox News, dismissing the need for a “war room” to defend President Trump from impeachment.</i></blockquote><p></p><p>"He sucks so much oxygen in the room he's practically a room unto himself."</p><p><a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/876854/lindsey-graham-claims-trump-incompetent-pull-quid-pro-quo?fbclid=IwAR1R-jhMh54rdNddpPQSTA46pXDWNIugIKPcAZVh5Zv8ih1g4L0G1kZL63M"><b>Lindsey Graham claims Trump is too incompetent to pull off a quid pro quo</b></a></p><p>"He had to get someone like me to do it for him!"</p><p>A defense that Trump overturned almost immediately:</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-you-to-know-hes-smart-enough-to-do-quid-pro-quo?fbclid=IwAR0PfW9VC4BhO5A10fmKqdGeh6FQsHSQu-Tu2Ck4OHiUF3Q-ZxUKJ7qNwAs"><b>Trump wants you to know he’s smart enough to do Quid Pro Quo</b></a></p><p>"So, there WAS a quid pro quo?"</p><p>"I'm a master negotiator! I could've easily quid pro quoed anytime I wanted!"</p><p><b><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/12/path-to-removing-donald-trump-from-office-229911?fbclid=IwAR1oMsko44iYcfK7LNaLuRPDJmoVKX-N0xZrceCia8TgM3CZQtWtEX9wSco">There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office</a></b></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>By most everyone’s judgment, the Senate will not vote to remove President Donald Trump from office if the House impeaches him. But what if senators could vote on impeachment by secret ballot? If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?</i></p><p><i>A secret impeachment ballot might sound crazy, but it’s actually quite possible. In fact, it would take only three senators to allow for that possibility.</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>"Did you vote for the removal of the most inept corrupt President ever, or did you vote against the Party? Tell us!"</p><p>"Okay, let's get this covert meeting to get the President removed started."</p><p>"HEY TRUMP! THERE'S SOME GUYS WHO WANT TO GET RID OF YOU! I HAVE THEIR NAMES!"</p><p>Then there was the time that Trump was mysteriously <b><a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/white-house-trump-walter-reed/2150466/">in the hospital for unspecific reasons</a>.</b></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>President Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical,</i></p><p><i>The appointment wasn’t on Trump’s weekend public schedule, and his last physical was in February. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the 73-year-old president was ‘anticipating a very busy 2020’ and wanted to take advantage of ‘a free weekend’ in Washington to begin portions of his routine checkup.</i></p><p><i>She did not specify which tests he’d received or explain why the visit had not been disclosed in advance.</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>Normally, under these conditions, this would be considered a sign of stress catching up to Trump, and a reason for resigning early for health reasons. But these are hardly normal times.</p><p>"The President has some solemn words to say to the nation."</p><p>"As a result of this unfairly biased witch hunt - the greatest we've ever seen! - I have been given my latest medical test results, and as I thought, I am the healthiest individual that ever lived."</p><p>"No, you were supposed to say the opposite!"</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1196752478513090562?s=20&fbclid=IwAR3YWwJ9AIM8IJvl4CUkJ8x5o1-XxauW0kGC8CWn-337H9ZBc4XJprsP_kM"><b>The hosts of Fox & Friends asked President Trump not to tweet during today’s impeachment hearings: “The president should just ignore this whole thing… Don’t get outraged over it. It ticks you off.”</b></a></p><p> "Don't add more fuel to the fire."</p><p>"I'mma gonna drive the gasoline tank over to the suicide protesters!"</p><p><b><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/nunes-vienna-trip-ukrainian-prosecutor-biden/index.html?fbclid=IwAR24zIiSPNOEXatvcnZ5_TuBLRvN_tdppO34GnJ5wdwDov7wLRcShH8gf8M">Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden</a></b></p><p>"If you're associated with Ukraine dealings, you can't be on the Impeachment board anymore. It would be a conflict of interest. You'll have to be replaced by someone else not involved."</p><p>"You may have trouble finding another Republican for that role."</p><p><b><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/30/rick-perry-energy-secretary-074410?fbclid=IwAR3E21IPKLegeqBOzuqTrGl9lnlPLDoBEeI13qBJYv_KPtDiOMLLWvnlJp4">Rick Perry dances toward the exits</a></b></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>He didn’t resign under fire for making sweetheart apartment deals with lobbyists, engaging in dodgy real estate development plans or racking up more than $1 million in taxpayer-funded flights. So by those standards, Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s tenure as a member of President Trump’s Cabinet could count as a relative success.</i></blockquote><p></p><p>"SEE! We found ONE guy who wasn't unfairly called corrupt!"</p><p>"...yet."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGZd6hGq27bYptN088eusgHdtyG72Bux9sKEWz5agQ8bOP3JMtKhSiTPT1jS644HrM3UIY2OUgQa01nVdRYO8RUaydtt4UZOUVO8GhGkYQG2fUbi7-PT_KbnkmZOD2BgC7UwUk1OJfjZH/s960/TrumpArchie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="960" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGZd6hGq27bYptN088eusgHdtyG72Bux9sKEWz5agQ8bOP3JMtKhSiTPT1jS644HrM3UIY2OUgQa01nVdRYO8RUaydtt4UZOUVO8GhGkYQG2fUbi7-PT_KbnkmZOD2BgC7UwUk1OJfjZH/w640-h202/TrumpArchie.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><b><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/472460-poll-majority-of-republicans-say-trump-better-president-than-lincoln?fbclid=IwAR00FUSmhKalL6MUFcrkcH8Ibc7ZqbVsU_-m6YFLq1wgR0ROFb2hKsP1nLI">Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln</a></b></p><p>"This is no longer the party of Lincoln. This is the party of Trump."</p><p>"Lincoln was too Liberal to be a Republican! He freed the slaves!"</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/471936-the-job-no-gop-senator-wants-id-rather-have-a-root-canal?fbclid=IwAR1B6yewTZEaVL2v82IzsXeiIYoEhVtSgzlLFDkrtWhAcsKxtMBWDWG8wn8"><b>The job no GOP senator wants: 'I'd rather have a root canal'</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) is set to retire in approximately a month, creating an opening atop the Senate Ethics Committee, a behind-the-scenes panel responsible for enforcing standards of behavior for senators and their staffs and investigating potential violations of federal law or the Senate’s rules.”</i></p><p><i>But GOP senators who spoke with The Hill, including current members of the committee, had a nearly universal response when asked if they wanted to take over the Ethics Committee: Thanks, but no thanks.</i></p></blockquote><p>Republicans: "None of us want to be on the ethics committee."</p><p><b><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/charlie-dent-gop-trump-impeachment_n_5de0c4a9e4b00149f72cd57d?ri18n=true">Ex-GOP House Member Reveals What Republican Lawmakers Say About Donald Trump In Private</a></b></p><p>"We're all secretly against Trump. But don't tell him we said that."</p><p>"We need somebody to say 'NO!' to the President, and we're all to cowardly to do it ourselves!"</p><p><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/us/politics/republican-impeachment-defense.html?fbclid=IwAR2UWV9NGisn1Q5ZVUZvrx8ux4PWjf0zlD6U9qw2swAocA63ZAnaLHfKXyk">Republican Impeachment Defense Claims Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Apolitical</a></b></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>House Republicans plan to argue that President Trump was acting on ‘genuine and reasonable’ skepticism of Ukraine and ‘valid’ concerns about possible corruption involving Americans, not political self-interest.</i></blockquote><p></p><p>Basically, their defense consists of: "I heard the Ukraine had incriminating evidence on future opponent Biden, and sought to suppress it for ethical reasons."</p><p>"The Bidens are clearly to blame! If they weren't so guilty, Trump wouldn't have to be forced to intimidate other countries to look into them in the first place!"</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_LC84_onn1NKa1CTu3Xj8A1zVRhyphenhyphenJ-0uhaBjpmXid0kyFrx5v8gY0W8P2APi0GYB32bygJ0AIDgiRXZrcsOdSifEZC755uyS_kCONuToU1618EzbM6ZBC1CDxN1Ez2SAVtG2DbJD94yt/s2316/TrumpBCplan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="2316" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_LC84_onn1NKa1CTu3Xj8A1zVRhyphenhyphenJ-0uhaBjpmXid0kyFrx5v8gY0W8P2APi0GYB32bygJ0AIDgiRXZrcsOdSifEZC755uyS_kCONuToU1618EzbM6ZBC1CDxN1Ez2SAVtG2DbJD94yt/w640-h188/TrumpBCplan.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-358-gary-cohn/id1043593599?i=1000458406738&fbclid=IwAR1YqLMDkoSujQPx7PSz0Hsz1QXNvx9mni6CU0bwsEQgbaD5EGzoprzi68Q"><b>Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn told The Axe Files that he’s “concerned” that nobody is left in the White House with the “personality” to push back against President Trump.</b></a></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>“I am concerned that the atmosphere in the White House is no longer conducive, or no one has the personality to stand up to tell the president what he doesn’t want to hear.”</i></blockquote><p></p><p>"We need somebody to say 'NO!' to the President, and we're all to cowardly to do it ourselves!"</p><div><p>"I'll detract from my crimes by pointing out all my other crimes!"</p><p>You laugh, but that IS essentially how he got elected.</p></div><div><div>There was a story posted that I can’t find that likened the Trump term to playing a card game. Every once in awhile, a group of friends would gather around playing poker for the fun of it. The winnings were modest, and strategy consisted of trying to find ways to tell whether someone was bluffing or not.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the game was ultimately ruined with the addition of one kid, one rich kid, whose presence would wind up breaking the game.</div><div><br /></div><div>Everybody else around the table had average funds, upping the ante to whatever was within their reasonable profit margin. This rich kid would constantly up the ante far beyond whatever was acceptable, practically winning every game through brute force alone. If someone bet 50 cents, the rich kid would bet $50 at every turn. It didn’t matter if he had good cards or not - his sheer force made what was once a pleasant card game one of one-sided upmanship that was vile to play against.</div><div><br /></div><div>And even if one of the players actually went through and called his bluff, the rich kid’s losses were so minimal he could afford to lose hundreds of times and not even feel a pinprick of remorse.</div><div><br /></div><div>In a game, there has to be equality across the board for fairness. That’s why featherweights don’t go up against welterweights.</div><div><br /></div><div>That’s why it’s so refreshing to have Trump actually face consequences for his actions. For the first time in his life, Trump is faced up against a threat he can’t scream, threaten, or bribe away. He’s infected with Covid-19, and no matter how much he’ll attempt to play it down, it will continue to ravage his internal system, no matter how much drugs they pump him up with. The crash when he comes down from the high will be tremendous.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Trump's inept handling of the Covid pandemic can be summed up in one simple sentence:</div><div><br /></div><div>"<b>Fission Maccomplished.</b>"</div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-54631718624417653892020-10-09T02:49:00.002-07:002020-12-07T17:11:17.866-08:00Previously Closeted Webcomics<p>Recently in the past year, some of my favorite WebComics had sudden hiatuses due to the creators suffering mental breakdowns and needing to take a break until they got their creative energies back. When they <b>did </b>return, there was a reoccurring theme.</p><p>Elli (<i>short for Ellipsis</i>) of <a href="https://www.goblinscomic.com/">Goblins</a> fame, after an absence of almost 2 years due to emotional trauma, eventually came out with the revelation that she'd been <a href="https://www.goblinscomic.com/blog/so-im-transgender">transgender</a> this whole time, and was still trying to process the implications of the dysphoria.</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>My breakdown in 2014 was the result of me trying everything I could to ignore this side of me and just live with the dysphoria. Or at least find other ways of coping that didn't involve me acknowledging this aspect of myself. I've been to two gender specialists and I've been on hormone replacement therapy for a little over 2.5 months now. Things are going really well and even though I'm still at the beginning of my transition, I'm super happy about the results already.</i></p><p><i>I'm amazed at the way my depression and self hatred have just melted away. I feel confident, energetic, social and creative. I know that transitioning is going to bring me through new difficulties and present new problems, but I feel like whatever comes at me, can't be as bad as wasting away like I was before admitting this to myself and to those people in my life.</i></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ALMjwt9wXRveZpgfH9R_hMS5l0aIP7wMGjkYtPSTYBP3WUIQMJ1gduQ1fT11VVde_qUvf0bmrWoBXkg3gltVqJh9ly-BUWoBKPHLaZh3C6uv8LTaBt_RuFDxMkFvdW0q06PTiR6PzqdH/s892/GoblinsName1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="892" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ALMjwt9wXRveZpgfH9R_hMS5l0aIP7wMGjkYtPSTYBP3WUIQMJ1gduQ1fT11VVde_qUvf0bmrWoBXkg3gltVqJh9ly-BUWoBKPHLaZh3C6uv8LTaBt_RuFDxMkFvdW0q06PTiR6PzqdH/w640-h588/GoblinsName1.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>In a now-deleted <a href="http://goblinscomic.com/blog/facial-feminization-surgery">blog post</a>, Elli was asking for money for reconstructive surgery for her face, likening having her male face to walking around with one of those uncomfortable plastic Halloween masks.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-bAB2BIEzImJB9QKAhT4tLuHf3hI6kdeWN9kJGv85auChT7bjn3N9vnb2ent6TuJCMqVpaQyuhMuvCvbTzgKpFcdcm9F34VO3LlDOO4mWWZSPLRYg00jpmGsOuNKmkMD0lhFVAx_8oaz/s1170/GoblinsTransgender1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-bAB2BIEzImJB9QKAhT4tLuHf3hI6kdeWN9kJGv85auChT7bjn3N9vnb2ent6TuJCMqVpaQyuhMuvCvbTzgKpFcdcm9F34VO3LlDOO4mWWZSPLRYg00jpmGsOuNKmkMD0lhFVAx_8oaz/s16000/GoblinsTransgender1.jpg" /></a></div><p>Only when she got the proper hormone treatment did she start to feel remotely human. It's only <a href="https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-10-2020">recently</a> that these themes have started to <a href="https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-14-2020">leak into her work</a>, which in any other context, would be big flashing neon signs, but comes across as nuanced.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QqhU__2Ii3M9Ua1jnC3rQBlCt3PJJeJ6x3zT9gADUtQzaPIkgAeDf4ZtDuBTVeBh2u3r6O4RbaqElz-vaeNZNGZYT8UpRZSLuMflx8UWVLmTJvtTsCalZ8Lgo2hj1Wdarhhc_dIDfL-R/s1200/GoblinsName2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="892" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QqhU__2Ii3M9Ua1jnC3rQBlCt3PJJeJ6x3zT9gADUtQzaPIkgAeDf4ZtDuBTVeBh2u3r6O4RbaqElz-vaeNZNGZYT8UpRZSLuMflx8UWVLmTJvtTsCalZ8Lgo2hj1Wdarhhc_dIDfL-R/w476-h640/GoblinsName2.jpg" width="476" /></a></p><p>The second WebComic to make a comeback was one of my favorites after a 3-year absence (<i>4 if you don't include the <a href="http://gastrophobia.com/comix/goat-diaries/hourlycomicsday2017/">Goat Diaries</a></i>), <a href="http://gastrophobia.com/">Gastro Phobia</a>, with a <a href="http://gastrophobia.com/comix/author-bios/vol-03-author-bio/">surprise revelation</a>:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvGms3Scs6yEZqxXebDcXn0z5hIoaSjEKXEHY5ub-CvuwQTPa5Rnl5qcBLn1gh6jm21DNUwPaeomkub-HzRqLwPp6dPTNib9xIbkYbUVAwK_OwQF2xDZHIZFDFabKIbl6kkvpNhZ5Dmmg/s1200/GastroBio2015-me+in+2015+vs+me+in+2020.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1200" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvGms3Scs6yEZqxXebDcXn0z5hIoaSjEKXEHY5ub-CvuwQTPa5Rnl5qcBLn1gh6jm21DNUwPaeomkub-HzRqLwPp6dPTNib9xIbkYbUVAwK_OwQF2xDZHIZFDFabKIbl6kkvpNhZ5Dmmg/w640-h440/GastroBio2015-me+in+2015+vs+me+in+2020.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>In addition to being one of my favorite humour story comics, that's a satirical take on Greek legends along the likes of <b><a href="http://gastrophobia.com/about.php">Asterix</a></b>, Gastro also has strong similarities to Steven from <b>Steven Universe</b> <i>years </i>before Steven Universe even aired!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIppPiCDwchG69H3N1cySVclHKroiMC8c8E7_xj8CX7CYvPgb_ABFR1WWxTjQi0lITLoxkr1tka09BVtb5RWUoKKQnPjWgEgkJ42HmHzqgzqdMxlAwaA9En5M1CyIZj6ewkIln8Cktiqm/s915/GobGastro2009-12-02.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIppPiCDwchG69H3N1cySVclHKroiMC8c8E7_xj8CX7CYvPgb_ABFR1WWxTjQi0lITLoxkr1tka09BVtb5RWUoKKQnPjWgEgkJ42HmHzqgzqdMxlAwaA9En5M1CyIZj6ewkIln8Cktiqm/s16000/GobGastro2009-12-02.png" /></a></p><p>They even look and act the same sometimes! Right down to befriending a Lovecraftian Centipede enemy! (<i>Though that was <a href="http://gastrophobia.com/comix/duplicity/s03e05-d/">more his mother</a>.</i>) There's also some <b>My Little Pony Friendship is Magic </b>influence there, down to Gastro <a href="http://gastrophobia.com/comix/duplicity/s03e05-e/">writing letters to someone he admires</a>.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-pV0s5hPPoESUx8pj2FUT8oqCPvCq1pVA3nsEenL38ggDVqgAwFQ7KjrpldBK9KEjbdtJM342kttSF3r7-68NEakf9gbG0N1smOCMRl-1GnZu_3cBk38I2gU2AVzZhrSHffipmwyMESw/s915/2009-12-11-Squirrel+is+a+staple+of+Gastro%2527s+diet..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-pV0s5hPPoESUx8pj2FUT8oqCPvCq1pVA3nsEenL38ggDVqgAwFQ7KjrpldBK9KEjbdtJM342kttSF3r7-68NEakf9gbG0N1smOCMRl-1GnZu_3cBk38I2gU2AVzZhrSHffipmwyMESw/s16000/2009-12-11-Squirrel+is+a+staple+of+Gastro%2527s+diet..png" /></a></p><p>It’s as if the process of creativity was a way for these Webcomic creators to discover their true selves, and trying to wrap their heads around this newfound revelation. And what better time to do a few days before <a href="https://www.uis.edu/gendersexualitystudentservices/calendar/nationalcomingoutdayclosetdooronthequad/"><b>National Coming Out Day</b></a>?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p>Sandwiched between these two, the third WebComic to out themselves is <a href="https://reallifecomics.com/index.php">Real Life</a> (<i>Which I was previously unaware of</i>) which showed up without fanfare of helpful tags on <a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8881410.html">Scansdaily</a>:</p><blockquote><p>“<i>Real Life is one of the oldest running webcomics still around and updating (1999), and while it might have a super villain as a roommate, time travel, and a casual disregard for the fourth wall, there have been plenty of story lines where it's lived up to its name. The past three weeks have been perhaps the biggest, as creator Mae Dean has not only publicly come out as a trans woman, but also had a storyline detailing her realization. It's a story that's hit me in a few soft spots and had me asking myself some hard questions the past few weeks, and I think the people here on S_D might well appreciate it. Link to the first page of the arc below.</i>”</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil5wVB6BH6MuCwuRr16aW5xNy-D9UH_Dvg9RNwIcK_ZCR40opLH2fq_mJDuyCP_G2O-9_W2PnqzMMw5Y19XwgOo-CXtGtSo8Gjvh05vRe4HqKHyPnFWwMlj3IzlaJ8YGorUdHWz4x2xUMI/s1105/RealLife_3391.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil5wVB6BH6MuCwuRr16aW5xNy-D9UH_Dvg9RNwIcK_ZCR40opLH2fq_mJDuyCP_G2O-9_W2PnqzMMw5Y19XwgOo-CXtGtSo8Gjvh05vRe4HqKHyPnFWwMlj3IzlaJ8YGorUdHWz4x2xUMI/w580-h640/RealLife_3391.jpg" width="580" /></a></p><p>The revelation spurred a scathingly honest 2-week <a href="https://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=june-29-2020">introspectional confession</a> that led me to delve into the archives, looking for subliminal signals that were always there.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7-pMa-aDuSfxf3mnuUnHlelgJE0JR54vtQVT6H-PrlH4B49HhfJhWboURoOD7ZO-05OaaV_XcWsqW5FO_TCzdB-2U-JtRaHN1MRyi3m5Dx_0MymFNZhAGaM4vBk9d0pcIy9leomyTqrD/s1105/RealLife_3392.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7-pMa-aDuSfxf3mnuUnHlelgJE0JR54vtQVT6H-PrlH4B49HhfJhWboURoOD7ZO-05OaaV_XcWsqW5FO_TCzdB-2U-JtRaHN1MRyi3m5Dx_0MymFNZhAGaM4vBk9d0pcIy9leomyTqrD/w580-h640/RealLife_3392.jpg" width="580" /></a></p><p>The other two WebComics are easier for me to binge through. Going through <a href="https://reallifecomics.com/index.php">Real Life </a>was more of a chore, since there was only the occasional storyline and several years of sub-par material before getting to the good stuff, and even the good stuff was of variable quality. For the convenience of everyone who doesn't want to binge through 3000+(!) pages of 4-panel comics, I've taken the liberty of selecting the most relevant Trans-suggestive comics from the archives.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAqfCpXlXGIxBFfxhSK4avRfH7kZon6HgO60hzrpwvGuWzT0yEVrBcJyfwwQwEo60qfl5a8cCc6gozcm6SBKLPYJtIZ4Zm0H3-i6Cp82qBkcTguuaaWO5llDvUQa3zg4-RwVgOFCRTRla/s614/RealLife_802.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAqfCpXlXGIxBFfxhSK4avRfH7kZon6HgO60hzrpwvGuWzT0yEVrBcJyfwwQwEo60qfl5a8cCc6gozcm6SBKLPYJtIZ4Zm0H3-i6Cp82qBkcTguuaaWO5llDvUQa3zg4-RwVgOFCRTRla/s16000/RealLife_802.png" /></a></p><p>BTW, feel free to ignore the copyright info at the bottom of every comic. Editing all the deadnames out would be a nightmare to go through, and not worth the effort.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVdOT5GZYeNQpLCCuwydSo-ZGuBtjT-bofUEfrPWPSmJ3NSZhs49VNcMGHmYrlWR4FPlc82tMxQP_MnieDXC210sQnluTh_dwijw4T0S1e4NQy-SUB1_qvSjAqKk-8hNFVtCadpqqCIS_/s595/RealLife_803.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVdOT5GZYeNQpLCCuwydSo-ZGuBtjT-bofUEfrPWPSmJ3NSZhs49VNcMGHmYrlWR4FPlc82tMxQP_MnieDXC210sQnluTh_dwijw4T0S1e4NQy-SUB1_qvSjAqKk-8hNFVtCadpqqCIS_/s16000/RealLife_803.png" /></a></p><p>This is the very first instance of Mirror-Universe "Greg", while traversing through alternate universes. (<i>Just roll with it. A lot of wackyness happens.</i>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldEH0CmaWvXgKnjlV5H8Sm7i_MjTb3lE_lpRRRypD4zsI54bwPuDYzQs5s6sGb3HpDSms2zadMbo6UlGUgBOlzrvR13SK-60R6BgEwdOqLteknKWi49TXaWaSlkT3uOMnp1vYutcTASdw/s618/RealLife_804.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldEH0CmaWvXgKnjlV5H8Sm7i_MjTb3lE_lpRRRypD4zsI54bwPuDYzQs5s6sGb3HpDSms2zadMbo6UlGUgBOlzrvR13SK-60R6BgEwdOqLteknKWi49TXaWaSlkT3uOMnp1vYutcTASdw/s16000/RealLife_804.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19VDzh03k3mu_DTRS24tOiYia-TyVfPyfoKbCxHhpQxy3-TFbP5EYwEYQnCoZ1RX4MrtkumuOhNfBvPj87Cq10XBg2rsAELInnZehsv8hlr2UxoQsuYSpq2nBFGicoawysU7_STxy3Xna/s666/RealLife_805.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19VDzh03k3mu_DTRS24tOiYia-TyVfPyfoKbCxHhpQxy3-TFbP5EYwEYQnCoZ1RX4MrtkumuOhNfBvPj87Cq10XBg2rsAELInnZehsv8hlr2UxoQsuYSpq2nBFGicoawysU7_STxy3Xna/s16000/RealLife_805.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT6NEh-vFUOgruVFe4U0n6jl34P5ZqANVJ3cMPSC8wgeWJYF_5FjXIVD_WeXFGZ0n0fPNzH6ZVolSKJgLHP0qlNGcbKiC_SR4vH08WpZgtaaka-jnqr98iQqo2Y3WBaNNIdIyzHV-Ccef/s586/RealLife_806.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT6NEh-vFUOgruVFe4U0n6jl34P5ZqANVJ3cMPSC8wgeWJYF_5FjXIVD_WeXFGZ0n0fPNzH6ZVolSKJgLHP0qlNGcbKiC_SR4vH08WpZgtaaka-jnqr98iQqo2Y3WBaNNIdIyzHV-Ccef/s16000/RealLife_806.png" /></a></p><p>In another instance Greg* travels back in time and meets his younger self, who he takes the chance to push the buttons of his most secret shame:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAngSN6hnfSl4MZi-M3mkLHF-QCWtt1YmwlLIm0oiF0PfNpiWwXGrOXlPZjSYxy9IiHBwVseSgXrL2ysk70dK7QuNzqHjwWI54mtJF_6eh71NaVEa9B4-ILCmNiWGNPT33VpZcuegNEco-/s617/RealLife_1224.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAngSN6hnfSl4MZi-M3mkLHF-QCWtt1YmwlLIm0oiF0PfNpiWwXGrOXlPZjSYxy9IiHBwVseSgXrL2ysk70dK7QuNzqHjwWI54mtJF_6eh71NaVEa9B4-ILCmNiWGNPT33VpZcuegNEco-/s16000/RealLife_1224.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznnjcO9QaFH-PQQkUPwyvV1LX3QSvHVTn2vilZpnaid56DHycFSEvljXzvNiKG_thrfK-qOX-gWc8auYco-a0Ijh0WPzvgyS0I9XyHBKThRW6-47G7C5SEGpJktlhezbujs4s-fQJtPN3/s585/RealLife_1237.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznnjcO9QaFH-PQQkUPwyvV1LX3QSvHVTn2vilZpnaid56DHycFSEvljXzvNiKG_thrfK-qOX-gWc8auYco-a0Ijh0WPzvgyS0I9XyHBKThRW6-47G7C5SEGpJktlhezbujs4s-fQJtPN3/s16000/RealLife_1237.png" /></a></p><p>There's an unashamed preference to enjoying Girl's entertainment, which is a bold choice for someone involved in masculine nerdy stuff.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdYFKhKWFAgUsighJVT2z0KmNXOyZsSRD18WDxozLcxsc6qTpMRgYf6Vi3RBVCdw-2MTrmBEX5EKNBRqpjp8ZU0KbqLh045IRknt2Jmr4lGbdDAZktnbdAhyphenhyphenwfRsWVIW_m855jsHER3zV/s584/RealLife_1238.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdYFKhKWFAgUsighJVT2z0KmNXOyZsSRD18WDxozLcxsc6qTpMRgYf6Vi3RBVCdw-2MTrmBEX5EKNBRqpjp8ZU0KbqLh045IRknt2Jmr4lGbdDAZktnbdAhyphenhyphenwfRsWVIW_m855jsHER3zV/s16000/RealLife_1238.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAiQ3ZyslTr5cdbzHZa21eVkqkZcGFKJJ81bGkfYOLlMA8hFxLip-8DyL0tKZxRf2W-my3khx2nJy9Sio8vpL8p9QmnwQldrTCt4HKSXc6ZNxZe2nj-MBD2v6CvTrtgAwmgz7ueiR89co/s603/RealLife_1464.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAiQ3ZyslTr5cdbzHZa21eVkqkZcGFKJJ81bGkfYOLlMA8hFxLip-8DyL0tKZxRf2W-my3khx2nJy9Sio8vpL8p9QmnwQldrTCt4HKSXc6ZNxZe2nj-MBD2v6CvTrtgAwmgz7ueiR89co/s16000/RealLife_1464.png" /></a></p><p>Spot the cameo!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsquU0ni6XfD4xhnEJMCk6WJHHaG2_lKycxx2rpGoKMpC5FeoSTt37WIyOrdyFLHhT2_x1f3ifzk3WsP4W7le4QzJHaFl_u4FprB4UGGsVOFDGg34vTt13qdwNIOH3WDzK1CVk2ReLSsq/s584/RealLife_1473.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsquU0ni6XfD4xhnEJMCk6WJHHaG2_lKycxx2rpGoKMpC5FeoSTt37WIyOrdyFLHhT2_x1f3ifzk3WsP4W7le4QzJHaFl_u4FprB4UGGsVOFDGg34vTt13qdwNIOH3WDzK1CVk2ReLSsq/s16000/RealLife_1473.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQegb8sFl7UBArv6ZPmAcdcTMpsrl3XfZMOyvQeQn_1DNd4GKq9bYnFsjdl01fzlLKjJlVlDzq8Jc3TVNYMnDis6SZTcIwdIV9Frj-OvTxVtJ6OiVXfvYNFlni5tz_fu4jebIGNnQWA9c/s584/RealLife_1511.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQegb8sFl7UBArv6ZPmAcdcTMpsrl3XfZMOyvQeQn_1DNd4GKq9bYnFsjdl01fzlLKjJlVlDzq8Jc3TVNYMnDis6SZTcIwdIV9Frj-OvTxVtJ6OiVXfvYNFlni5tz_fu4jebIGNnQWA9c/s16000/RealLife_1511.png" /></a></p><p>More subliminal reveal or unintentional signaling? You be the judge.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTumkcTqa21ZQ7Xf2dmaGsv9Tj5XSNrZdEA61WJuENWyCXIihcDoz3ggW8R6nQTbojA4phmEqJgJs_QGXGP8dvV9kg-50QR5hr3D3enAcvHwMFe24pZy4qT_jrqtj6CoSvb0Qx4VhQeKd/s588/RealLife_1548.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTumkcTqa21ZQ7Xf2dmaGsv9Tj5XSNrZdEA61WJuENWyCXIihcDoz3ggW8R6nQTbojA4phmEqJgJs_QGXGP8dvV9kg-50QR5hr3D3enAcvHwMFe24pZy4qT_jrqtj6CoSvb0Qx4VhQeKd/s16000/RealLife_1548.png" /></a></p><p>The lack of stereotyping of gender roles would become a regular theme throughout, showing that preferences wasn't a fixed position. If something is good enough, it'll appeal to everyone, not just a narrow audience.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6hkWp9gNcUAI40oLzMTcpkioTb-4NQTWJ501SmQOW14-nRNQbRWr46NruGc9SgjykSnOh-PWNaOKO1zH6yg3wAf7LoMHE0PX_3tFqO4MGfQRJ7nljCl0fLUdxS-mXyT_pYE82OdvTFpc/s588/RealLife_1549.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6hkWp9gNcUAI40oLzMTcpkioTb-4NQTWJ501SmQOW14-nRNQbRWr46NruGc9SgjykSnOh-PWNaOKO1zH6yg3wAf7LoMHE0PX_3tFqO4MGfQRJ7nljCl0fLUdxS-mXyT_pYE82OdvTFpc/s16000/RealLife_1549.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheQ1Wc5unk5V5-e04ct8mN2yNjdfpj7FEl7334oZQCPcOOE5HSfqVUnDlACKCwt2oJtZAkGkRz2JChZZJ-l0QK1bHhi7yBSkkB6OJkdB0o_JAOLpMaYlUFcXp6187DM_TXa08M7z6i-oO/s584/RealLife_1685.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheQ1Wc5unk5V5-e04ct8mN2yNjdfpj7FEl7334oZQCPcOOE5HSfqVUnDlACKCwt2oJtZAkGkRz2JChZZJ-l0QK1bHhi7yBSkkB6OJkdB0o_JAOLpMaYlUFcXp6187DM_TXa08M7z6i-oO/s16000/RealLife_1685.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSa1B9BUVMHhFCPlZ3iqUEyXqffvgqCScm4d_6StPmKRavK6MaNuUgmW0Dl4AAcKzaREoEHN1NctBNIQENJOnOYnhXZoxqpJLqitjzIxt_2RThaHccpOfVpXWD05M-fSBOkaxabTR7azxg/s686/RealLife_1712.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSa1B9BUVMHhFCPlZ3iqUEyXqffvgqCScm4d_6StPmKRavK6MaNuUgmW0Dl4AAcKzaREoEHN1NctBNIQENJOnOYnhXZoxqpJLqitjzIxt_2RThaHccpOfVpXWD05M-fSBOkaxabTR7azxg/s16000/RealLife_1712.png" /></a></p><p>This is probably the first instance that the concept of Rule 63 Crossdressers began to breach the surface.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMLQrJ59HtckWN1t9MMZeqdSMCwc1CpXcEUaMULWHAo3sOqu_AvdGItIio-iYWcqukisQaEJRYfVpl30HN1Fxru8lIt-hZJPchViScEuf68eRoOACKabw4uR77jPL7TqBtANUSs-eYq2X/s614/RealLife_1739.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMLQrJ59HtckWN1t9MMZeqdSMCwc1CpXcEUaMULWHAo3sOqu_AvdGItIio-iYWcqukisQaEJRYfVpl30HN1Fxru8lIt-hZJPchViScEuf68eRoOACKabw4uR77jPL7TqBtANUSs-eYq2X/s16000/RealLife_1739.png" /></a></p><p>Another surprise visit!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7YgdJkc-4xZfAsHgmxpXKiJKvWoQ8d6khsY9Nd2fR8mTonkrLZWv-I8YgDe9AuvgIe6JCEAu-7oLE6-xi2dlL8PHYsUeEKCaqHxrICKZJ6dA1bnSpC6SS8oL492xT8AeakfL3rIXjbz6C/s584/RealLife_1801.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintAQ-LU6Fvd35nKB8lgw50mYzSkLsPOMMGX0PYrSds5450bLNR4tava8JIykaIQGwbSfpNKqYjo_r-iSAZPFpKTmlrJ5dLXcKTcoc4sLIGT6-Z-Mglps1g07VYJtcXp_vp7OzYs_f-7qi/s16000/RealLife_2054.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUoOqFUXXqJBTTciOK6Vrr65_FYfdWcaHzKydCkXJx5CCBAIVptlSc3YASPjo8a7v28TaETC7JUfnTtkB1DPyBh5N9AnTRGbzddeDvOrBWEK14bptQPfJc3BhYZ7tSYmp33gRbboRT-_H/s588/RealLife_2071.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUoOqFUXXqJBTTciOK6Vrr65_FYfdWcaHzKydCkXJx5CCBAIVptlSc3YASPjo8a7v28TaETC7JUfnTtkB1DPyBh5N9AnTRGbzddeDvOrBWEK14bptQPfJc3BhYZ7tSYmp33gRbboRT-_H/s16000/RealLife_2071.png" /></a></p><p>In an otherwise normal comic with inconsequential things happening, there was a story-length arc dealing with parallel universes.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7xXPFrkomq6AehE2O3B4JF1BgbE6IhNOSIyeyWZf-y1q5ssnOvApXRD8fgSxY2shv8JkRokoU0Cnfj3yYw_EwiHJc11SZO9MhboGB8TMWIZ088REDfleORkTOhiQkc9P2YDIRhaR-id9/s588/RealLife_2072.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlb0pIfZlx_LoiHI-WEjQVYnn0Gb5DovOm5zm1LgK3N-jQKZ0-gl73jTC0k-Vnw75X91Awkb0rewyP-h8QM1E-D1cD0VVer-WH9Feax5vGexCCRpvXykP1TFMR_Zkr82pt2VwWRoDH5u3/s16000/RealLife_2074.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmeXFOHVmqwr7DYi-LXXVuLKiOdqA1-B30ugCbKaam7VkNxWn2WrmUe2TapvfPeThtk5Yf8VRa3IDR6X6Qideq2Cyk3WEJerbOLdEvuPfsXXJg-5Tj4mbhpJJbOD4sMfAe-gVhPR-K9-7/s592/RealLife_2077.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmeXFOHVmqwr7DYi-LXXVuLKiOdqA1-B30ugCbKaam7VkNxWn2WrmUe2TapvfPeThtk5Yf8VRa3IDR6X6Qideq2Cyk3WEJerbOLdEvuPfsXXJg-5Tj4mbhpJJbOD4sMfAe-gVhPR-K9-7/s16000/RealLife_2077.png" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSsFB1LFfgostgFJMge7iP_Q40H887zSjHL4AsiHSI3ht_j9fF0oqGV59uTR3ANU0YgdY-ndYEGNyNZQoEUoDSnr6kM9pld1JAbcwnTMPz-qGzACRjR-v-bppB4iZ01wLVz-at2afYQ_z/s592/RealLife_2078.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSsFB1LFfgostgFJMge7iP_Q40H887zSjHL4AsiHSI3ht_j9fF0oqGV59uTR3ANU0YgdY-ndYEGNyNZQoEUoDSnr6kM9pld1JAbcwnTMPz-qGzACRjR-v-bppB4iZ01wLVz-at2afYQ_z/s16000/RealLife_2078.jpg" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4GCJj7VyQVU9JUY7_IBOezDjPpdgEK1KAT1sj5PCorzhVRa4c0DepW8rlIwi_rfLtSxmUCMMQ2kYhq4pd6Lqc5_mz3gvsS2kgWS3t26c1ymarmK8AQtFc2zdkxLSDkj2EBsuPVluP1Y2/s605/RealLife_2111.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4GCJj7VyQVU9JUY7_IBOezDjPpdgEK1KAT1sj5PCorzhVRa4c0DepW8rlIwi_rfLtSxmUCMMQ2kYhq4pd6Lqc5_mz3gvsS2kgWS3t26c1ymarmK8AQtFc2zdkxLSDkj2EBsuPVluP1Y2/s16000/RealLife_2111.png" /></a></p><p></p></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKIcyppV2vjRQKlPUH-aO13rfJc1C8L11cc5fi5WCodpTkVw3UQP-buRn4TXV9C5mWUfdETTHz47-FzVOBPEI0sJ0DDkdG1GN1U3ikNnSparNHW8y0Y4_alt0I_G9fqHMMucrkeY5ym2a/s585/RealLife_2308.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0cJ8Ngr90GXB6We9zyiOldVGDmQqtcUU781DrhqzWwXMyoqZOcGrCTScFykoynMd0B8lTLPx8NNZAoW-NMhHo1v0ndUGNnQN3_sIMkhSOUza7f1Wp9UK3Apl5K4yHwqoR3qtAdvo4JMl/s16000/RealLife_27421.png" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6w-ztcEbhK6wrcBptnqw7UwHOqfhmaAttXtslYzP1kk3lj6yVIWpsNKFbhkpCX3K1JWYBs6p2QPUT6OLwEGM6BHH0qIGmwLn0XNgHuEPQUHBBuQRJbWQQj3qhJYk5rCJjjr27VUEqtNlE/s617/RealLife_3035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6w-ztcEbhK6wrcBptnqw7UwHOqfhmaAttXtslYzP1kk3lj6yVIWpsNKFbhkpCX3K1JWYBs6p2QPUT6OLwEGM6BHH0qIGmwLn0XNgHuEPQUHBBuQRJbWQQj3qhJYk5rCJjjr27VUEqtNlE/s16000/RealLife_3035.jpg" /></a><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AuKo031xjJ5065Tid9CqOLrcETvGr9kr8ghUYyHSS5uELKhx1A1tWJZhB-A2zLgAC3kuvvro_2yCbILLEM5qH76GN5AlsJZgy9iW7z9GPbuM2GSMU1ai1aVOeDhKUT7_OyhjjlqKhMsk/s617/RealLife_3251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AuKo031xjJ5065Tid9CqOLrcETvGr9kr8ghUYyHSS5uELKhx1A1tWJZhB-A2zLgAC3kuvvro_2yCbILLEM5qH76GN5AlsJZgy9iW7z9GPbuM2GSMU1ai1aVOeDhKUT7_OyhjjlqKhMsk/s16000/RealLife_3251.jpg" /></a></div><div>For the sake of completeness, I'm also including two guest comics which are thematically relevant:</div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFN1M8NeTLifPdvut8PWVDv-EPnT7nU317PVYPyPV96eDjp8qLSSLN118NqKotbAkpO_ZCbgtv0z0Td-YDFnDvWcTT92vlz4cprQtqSiZRe37u5wCL_WpODcNJnpKelEUmEyhArHAs6fft/s618/RealLife_2235f.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFN1M8NeTLifPdvut8PWVDv-EPnT7nU317PVYPyPV96eDjp8qLSSLN118NqKotbAkpO_ZCbgtv0z0Td-YDFnDvWcTT92vlz4cprQtqSiZRe37u5wCL_WpODcNJnpKelEUmEyhArHAs6fft/s16000/RealLife_2235f.png" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdaK3H_ojKIn3PcdLC-ggMLJbo4O6iRi7Lmvb_VjR2rzEGROMp8gJx1UDJCSrjBcH2e1MRj_n3qf5O4xqkAj66MMkuzpeRB2PzQdpbz-oe2Hsnxc5fUN8trvdPJHW-5tOZeVCIKgyMW9w/s707/RealLife_2385F.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdaK3H_ojKIn3PcdLC-ggMLJbo4O6iRi7Lmvb_VjR2rzEGROMp8gJx1UDJCSrjBcH2e1MRj_n3qf5O4xqkAj66MMkuzpeRB2PzQdpbz-oe2Hsnxc5fUN8trvdPJHW-5tOZeVCIKgyMW9w/s16000/RealLife_2385F.jpg" /></a></div><p>Ever since my sibling <a href="https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2019/08/trans-form.html">outed themselves as Trans</a> last year, I've been trying to identify with their plight, even as I don’t fully understand it. I know what it's like to go about life without knowing what your place in the universe is, feeling slightly off-kilter from everyone else. Fittingly enough, a large proportion of Autistics have a tendency to have <a href="https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/">gender diversity</a>.</p><p>Playing as the opposite gender in videogames is a common choice. Though it can be rougher for those who play as women in online multiplayer games, given the sheer amount of sexual harassment. When given the chance, I take it to give the other sex equal time, and without fear of persecution. But if the range of choices is too much, I prefer to randomize my stats. I don't like to think about how every single aspect of my personality will bleed over into my fighting style. I just want to play the game!</p><p>I know that given the chance to switch genders, I would carefully consider the options just to see what it was like, but only under the assurance that I could switch back, and maybe not even then. The difference being that other Trans person would jump at the chance without a second thought.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMixyDBxgkgk0Ku3pf6pNUf6i47CfdGhX2sI8_hIpEH9Oy52TyCcaMjkRbFez0TCtdM2dF5KynJ-lvLp1403FKz86GBwPg-Mhf3ZvDW4IqQxu7yP6OO30ZvbONlBeUbOU4ITrq6VqV_8XK/s1139/RealLife_3400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMixyDBxgkgk0Ku3pf6pNUf6i47CfdGhX2sI8_hIpEH9Oy52TyCcaMjkRbFez0TCtdM2dF5KynJ-lvLp1403FKz86GBwPg-Mhf3ZvDW4IqQxu7yP6OO30ZvbONlBeUbOU4ITrq6VqV_8XK/w562-h640/RealLife_3400.jpg" width="562" /></a></p><p>I’m loathe to look at myself in the mirror, because I don’t like looking at my face. One time, I had a dream where there was a female version of me standing beside my male self (a hairless face with softer features), and it didn’t seem out of place at all.</p><p>And yet, I have no desire to put in the effort to look attractive. I don't really care about my looks, preferring to devote my energies elsewhere.</p></div>DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-44307296163737174642020-07-25T20:33:00.000-07:002020-07-25T20:33:03.279-07:00The Darkest Silliest Stupidest Timeline (2018)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“<i>Who’s got the worstest disposition? One guess — guess who! Who’d always, always start an argument? Who never shows a bit of compassion? Who’s always wrong but never right? Who’d always dream of starting a fight? Who sticks bad luck with all the chumps? No one but Donald Trump!</i>”</blockquote>
I had planned to post some more of the noteworthy personal commentary for news article around June, but the recent Coronavirus Pandemic and constant disruption of my schedule has seriously dampened my enthusiasm for doing so. Not to mention the repeat failed attempts from the current Dictator-in-Chief's attempt to re-establish something resembling order. Still, I went to all this trouble to find these, and there's no point in letting this go to waste.<br />
<br />
For starters, this opening news item is a microcosm of the sheer exhaustion of keeping up with the news:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/19/trump-blasts-new-york-times-white-house-counsel-report-in-twitter-rant?fbclid=IwAR0tk73fLSI8qD8RoguzbXaFRYvLO3IydynJuVuc5jHn4bT7GV17Wifz91o">Trump blasts New York Times over White House counsel report</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>
President Trump “repeatedly attacked the New York Times on Sunday, over a report which said White House counsel Don McGahn has cooperated extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Russian election interference, links between Trump aides and Moscow and potential obstruction of justice,” The Guardian reports. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
”The president both called the report ‘fake’ and confirmed its substance.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91oHb1LqhJ8ZYR81q_QaeJ2ulKA_9wZos8NoQtzyHWeXb9xbX6Vig8PPAySn-GBw9j7MdvNlUGI6en1X2HD9dqou914HOZdRT1mMlkgNYY7J-Hmsb6xknn4NDvlfZ-vxQmCE2921NR5XH/s1600/ShoeSenatorMemoirLoss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="1089" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91oHb1LqhJ8ZYR81q_QaeJ2ulKA_9wZos8NoQtzyHWeXb9xbX6Vig8PPAySn-GBw9j7MdvNlUGI6en1X2HD9dqou914HOZdRT1mMlkgNYY7J-Hmsb6xknn4NDvlfZ-vxQmCE2921NR5XH/s640/ShoeSenatorMemoirLoss.png" width="640" /></a><br />
Living in an age of Trump constantly <a href="http://wondermark.com/1k62/">sealioning</a> us is like living this <a href="https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2193/what-is-the-origin-of-this-contradictory-poem">Nonsensical</a> <a href="https://sinclairstoriesblog.wordpress.com/tag/two-dead-boys-poem/">Rhyme</a> that I first saw in <b>Emperor Joker</b>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Ladies and gentlemen, skinny and stout,<br />
I will tell you a story I know nothing about.<br />
Admission is free, so pay at the door.<br />
Pull up a chair and sit on the floor.<br />
I come before you to stand behind you<br />
To tell you a story I know nothing about.<br />
One bright morning in the middle of the night,<br />
Two dead boys got up to fight.<br />
Back to back, they faced each other,<br />
Drew their swords and shot each other.<br />
A deaf Policeman heard the noise<br />
Came and killed the two dead boys<br />
If you don't believe this lie, it's true!<br />
Ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too!</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCVzLJb1Zy7omSfWxQLirSBfWLoatVP4IVAFNS8UmDePkb_d8WGMJHZrI0xzVBX8b6YUYnTIzNJZ0QCJ-iSkmT4nJ-afglxJfT0IwWni_BfszeURS6FoppDhlv4MH6Bs_xikCfip8t6z7/s1600/ShoeSenatorSignBillIssues.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="1167" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCVzLJb1Zy7omSfWxQLirSBfWLoatVP4IVAFNS8UmDePkb_d8WGMJHZrI0xzVBX8b6YUYnTIzNJZ0QCJ-iSkmT4nJ-afglxJfT0IwWni_BfszeURS6FoppDhlv4MH6Bs_xikCfip8t6z7/s640/ShoeSenatorSignBillIssues.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6tRHc55P_JVMHQH3iiR4mHlHnSMI6mitLvaz7xOPFpvzFJxilodLEHd72UI93HUMFXGm1Qh-kXOoKPy-pQZ191rJnnj3qAC4RQUZ7IclJp25YYT-7f8ZQk_RVQBN9xzjJlrUa94TGhKV/s1600/ShoeSenatorTaxAnswer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="1215" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6tRHc55P_JVMHQH3iiR4mHlHnSMI6mitLvaz7xOPFpvzFJxilodLEHd72UI93HUMFXGm1Qh-kXOoKPy-pQZ191rJnnj3qAC4RQUZ7IclJp25YYT-7f8ZQk_RVQBN9xzjJlrUa94TGhKV/s640/ShoeSenatorTaxAnswer.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/12/29/after-questioning-spicer-democrats-want-to-depose-priebus-about-election-night-activities-164571?fbclid=IwAR1NoHCJlgO6CJ3Fmc8J9UG77t0kyo3Tm6c0g_J8SDahzzvLfEeb8AFseBw">After questioning Spicer, Democrats want to depose Priebus about election night activities</a></blockquote>
"What were you doing in - "<br />
<br />
"NOTHING! I WASN'T DOING ANYTHING! NOTHING SUSPICIOUS!"<br />
<br />
"I haven't finished the question yet."<br />
<br />
"MASTURBATING! I WAS FURIOUSLY MASTURBATING!!!"<br />
<br />
"Really? Because I have your search history here, and - "<br />
<br />
"THOSE WERE ILLEGALLY GOTTEN!! THEY WEREN'T PART OF THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION REPORT!!!<br />
<br />
"Really? How would you know that?"<br />
<br />
"...THE DEMOCRATS SHOWED ME THEM!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MAUGF7est1sxC5AvFMcX7KvmByeH04bAftz5ZQ3USbf7PdaTLMxesz_eJawX2LYyNubdjBRkOyoTadFanLY9LUnBCm3TB6jJYWqJYRIKfEwVsGuldBv5CEP1AxACoyBcP8vkZnoIecTb/s1600/ShoeSenatorAccuse2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1600" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MAUGF7est1sxC5AvFMcX7KvmByeH04bAftz5ZQ3USbf7PdaTLMxesz_eJawX2LYyNubdjBRkOyoTadFanLY9LUnBCm3TB6jJYWqJYRIKfEwVsGuldBv5CEP1AxACoyBcP8vkZnoIecTb/s640/ShoeSenatorAccuse2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/confused-readers-are-buying-the-wrong-fire-and-fury/?fbclid=IwAR3SQNVNBNnjGiN9GKvoeR1YK4vvLrRozoIeIWAnAJ_sD_7IXGR2QcO_P3s">Confused readers are buying the wrong ‘Fire and Fury’</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Confused readers are buying a military book in droves all because it has a title similar to Michael Wolff’s bombshell Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, according to a new report.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Said Randall Hanson, the author of Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945: “It amused me and part of me thought, can people really be that dumb to be confusing these books?” </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The Canadian political science professor at the University of Toronto never imagined his book — exploring civilian perspectives on the Allied bombing of Germany during WWII — would make it to Amazon’s bestseller list ten years after he wrote it.”</blockquote>
"Are you sure you've got the right book? It doesn't have Trump's face on it."<br />
<br />
"How many '<b>Fire & Furies</b>' are there? Add it to the burn pile."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-exclusive/exclusive-trump-takes-hard-line-on-immigration-rejects-horrible-bipartisan-plan-idUSKBN1F62QL?fbclid=IwAR2ttH1Gpmfl1fIMoCwD06qqbKCaRA-qJyQwa90mVzPZjeObyqMc5s2zoyA">Trump takes hard line on immigration, rejects 'horrible' bipartisan plan</a></blockquote>
"There! Now that the Government's on Shutdown, I can finally get some well deserved rest."<br />
<br />
"Sir, your job still isn't over yet. You're the President."<br />
<br />
"WHAT?! Why didn't anybody tell me?!"<br />
<br />
"We did. Multiple times."<br />
<br />
"When will this nightmare ever end?!"<br />
<br />
"We've been asking ourselves that since day one."<br />
<br />
"What was THAT?!?"<br />
<br />
"You could always resign if the pressure is too much for you, and before you're indicted - "<br />
<br />
"NEVAR!! I worked too long and hard to achieve this position, and I'll be damned if I give it up without a fight! Here, have somebody do it for me."<br />
<br />
"Do it yourself sir. I quit."<br />
<br />
*Long string of incoherent swearing in the form of a 280 character tweet that's immediately caught on voice recording and sent worldwide that's later denied by Republicans and admired by the Alt-Right for 'saying it like it is'.*<br />
<br />
You'd think that given how much Trump's pissing everybody off on both sides, he'd have a higher number. "Just LOOK at how much death mail I'm getting from all these losers! SAD! But I'm getting more than Obama ever did!"<br />
<br />
"Sir, this is a stalker message saying how much they love you. And it's in your own handwriting."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1Qz60QbOA5CEaacGDytcjVfVpDBrFr31v12qHpXk1IBHzs9AkuflefpRgNcQJlOKH4q9t_C8VLcCnn5LHtkRqDJzG0VlESFJZYLqqJnwO2COEIOxdp31GfQyS2lxcWj7AEdzOHyiTAcq/s1600/TrumpSimpsonsGuilty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1Qz60QbOA5CEaacGDytcjVfVpDBrFr31v12qHpXk1IBHzs9AkuflefpRgNcQJlOKH4q9t_C8VLcCnn5LHtkRqDJzG0VlESFJZYLqqJnwO2COEIOxdp31GfQyS2lxcWj7AEdzOHyiTAcq/s400/TrumpSimpsonsGuilty.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-tells-theresa-may-he-wont-visit-uk-unless-she-bans-protests-1656638?fbclid=IwAR0nlxj6IEVP_bT9BZWvKpk0c9ji2ZURc9jcoWTvya_hwaJj11AywHfSlH0">Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests</a></blockquote>
"We've just declared war on North Korea, South Korea, East Korea, China, Japan, one of those Asian countries no one remembers, India, Africa, those S-hole countries we've banned Muslims from, the EU, The Royals, Ireland, Switzerland, Mexico and Canada."<br />
<br />
"Yay!!!!.... um, now what??"<br />
<br />
“What if we declared a war and everybody came?”<br />
<br />
“Here’s a worse scenario - what if we declared a war and nobody came?”<br />
<br />
WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES. WE WANT TO EXPERIENCE THOSE EXPERIENCES VICARIOUSLY THROUGH OTHERS SO WE CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW UNREALISTIC THOSE CHOICES THEY'VE MADE ARE DUE TO BAD WRITING.<br />
<br />
Not applauding is Treason! Kneeling while the National Anthem is playing is Treason! Forgetting the words to the National Anthem is Treason! Not putting your hand over your heart while the National Anthem playing is Treason! Hugging the American Flag is Treason! Giving Tax Cuts to the poor is Treason! Using Solar Energy is Treason! Helping Puerto Ricans is Treason! Not accepting Bribes is Treason! Weakening the moral code of America is... not treason.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kelly-offers-account-of-porter-exit-that-some-white-house-aides-consider-untrue/2018/02/09/119feb7e-0db1-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?fbclid=IwAR04EjduCXcshNd3MgRLpLQiBl7x8YspwmzMyaGEjdB-h9c2EKZEaoX9TkQ">Kelly offers account of Porter exit that some White House aides consider untrue</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “instructed senior staff to communicate a version of events about the departure of staff secretary Rob Porter that contradicts the administration’s previous accounts.</blockquote>
"He molested his children."<br />
"Uh huh."<br />
"He sold off his first-born to the lowest bidder."<br />
"Yeah?"<br />
"He starved a whole country because they wouldn't buy his stock."<br />
"Mmm."<br />
"He caused the extinction of 500 rare species."<br />
"Yawn."<br />
"And he posted a single anti-Trump tweet."<br />
"FIRE HIM AT ALL COSTS!!!"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/16/more-than-40-percent-of-trumps-cabinet-level-picks-have-faced-ethical-or-other-controversies/?utm_term=.a72d1c629987&fbclid=IwAR1uY9ugvq50vyZgbpCuZCldHeFFpHIKmOltNBxQdcH5Rorf0A2phB8Blv4">More than 40 percent of Trump’s first Cabinet-level picks have faced ethical or other controversies</a></blockquote>
"See! I'm draining the Swamp! Everybody who's been corrupt has been leaving!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9FmoJet5xrgFIOOyi2zWzm3Ybxil2Oy1alngMrf3dZlreaDHa_fHq7Rsnqg3xB4GiTa1v-S9dTGbqUhUYTZFbGsgQAeg_QJDpNp7Y5BVdvHFqo0cZOhAjJPoXvRq3dZE5YE1imfDYjzJ/s1600/ShoeSenatorBarbados.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="1191" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9FmoJet5xrgFIOOyi2zWzm3Ybxil2Oy1alngMrf3dZlreaDHa_fHq7Rsnqg3xB4GiTa1v-S9dTGbqUhUYTZFbGsgQAeg_QJDpNp7Y5BVdvHFqo0cZOhAjJPoXvRq3dZE5YE1imfDYjzJ/s640/ShoeSenatorBarbados.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375597-trump-i-would-have-run-into-school-during-shooting-even-without-a-gun">Said Trump: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Trump: I would have run into school during shooting even without a gun<br />
President Trump claimed he would have run into a Florida high school to prevent a gunman from carrying out this month’s mass shooting, The Hill reports.</blockquote>
"I would've single-handedly won the Vietnam War if it wasn't for my darned bone spurs!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s5l9JdBu0dW5rWg5M8M77k24Yojnq2InLCZ0h7gxcvNMKpITUL1Q4rOsvu44HzUc1TJ72LfS7Hh5ouhCLDdqVxs-K6rf5fKBXrPTudlJ4y46paJEdl59t1PI-1UVFT00VSqy2ZQ52_ee/s1600/ShoeSenatorSignMilitaryF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="953" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s5l9JdBu0dW5rWg5M8M77k24Yojnq2InLCZ0h7gxcvNMKpITUL1Q4rOsvu44HzUc1TJ72LfS7Hh5ouhCLDdqVxs-K6rf5fKBXrPTudlJ4y46paJEdl59t1PI-1UVFT00VSqy2ZQ52_ee/s640/ShoeSenatorSignMilitaryF.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
Speaking of funding, remember Trump's promise to build a wall? That the Mexicans would pay for to keep 'em out? THAT wall?<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo3UMI7ZMFL8CMuTr78QjjCmQHZ5r5Y5N2DypSyYpj9otVZzo8g3ZUfU7IptH8i0EUfHoi1D8KmIwXFNbBsU6kUaoRKfrTXPKGX-yOM3lGVN5khFCE54iV7fZN7-DsGfXHLvYewNu_I7Y/s1600/TrumpWizard11-13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1009" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo3UMI7ZMFL8CMuTr78QjjCmQHZ5r5Y5N2DypSyYpj9otVZzo8g3ZUfU7IptH8i0EUfHoi1D8KmIwXFNbBsU6kUaoRKfrTXPKGX-yOM3lGVN5khFCE54iV7fZN7-DsGfXHLvYewNu_I7Y/s640/TrumpWizard11-13.png" width="640" /></a><br />
Well, there was talk that they were running out of money to accomplish building such a impressive intimidating barrier even though only three meters had been completed so far, and Immigrants were already <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/border-wall-video-trump-us-mexico-climb-a9236656.html">climbing and pole-vaulting</a> over it with ease. This led to some concerned followers starting a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-signals-its-backing-down-in-shutdown-dispute-will-find-other-ways-to-fund-border-wall/2018/12/18/159994dc-02d9-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html">Kickstarter for the Wall</a>.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Folks, have I got a deal for YOU. Are you sick of those Dirty Immigrants coming over from Mexico, some of whom are very good people, taking our jobs with their drugs and taco trucks and crime? Then the WALL is what you need! A beautiful beautiful wall that stretches across the land, blocking the way into the good ol' US of A. No one inside can get out. No one outside can get in. But we're constantly stymied by those fat cat bureaucrats in Government, many who I've drained from the swamp - and there's more of them than we ever thought - are unwilling and unable to provide tax funds to pay for our beautiful wall. Mexico won't pay for that wall. The corrupt Government won't pay for that wall. *I* sure as hell ain't paying for that wall. But you, the people, are more than willing to pay for that wall. All it'll take is a hefty bite out of your paycheck, which will go into the Trump Charity fund, which will go into constructing a hundred feet tall wall that will stand the test of the ages, and protect us from the dirty immigrants threatening our way of life." </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Believe me."</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVpl3CHHg9lqLmdxTHYO237Bm7Pc2lupBHr_5EpoKW6QZrRvD5DhhYxTF9wScHXG_GNf0bpr2EscyzZ8iljfskuhnngxkdZWzep18NMYSeIjQPuaOR5qA-vnZgMJwK3p4JFJ7YNxyiz98D/s1600/ShoeSenatorBuilding.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="1085" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVpl3CHHg9lqLmdxTHYO237Bm7Pc2lupBHr_5EpoKW6QZrRvD5DhhYxTF9wScHXG_GNf0bpr2EscyzZ8iljfskuhnngxkdZWzep18NMYSeIjQPuaOR5qA-vnZgMJwK3p4JFJ7YNxyiz98D/s640/ShoeSenatorBuilding.png" width="640" /></a><br />
In terms of effectiveness, the Trump Wall is the new Maginot Line. But that's not even close to the most expensive wastely product, which would have to be these Gold Chicken Wings, dipped in liquid gold.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/24k-gold-chicken-wings/index.html">24K gold chicken wings are NYC's latest weird food craze</a></blockquote>
I'm assuming this is aimed at the Trump demographic. BTW, does anyone know if Gold Dust can be filtered through the body once digested? I'm guessing it doesn't.<br />
<br />
Trump is well-known for eating mainly hamburgers (hamberders), because junk food is preprocessed and prepared beforehand, then served randomly, making polonium poisoning much more difficult. Unless you’re willing to affect hundreds of people to go after one target.<br />
<br />
If so, this could be the most elaborate expensive assassination plot on Trump. Because how else could he resist? Gives a whole new meaning to Brown-Nosers and Gold Diggers.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1gfaYwwEDf2QUTsgI5Mlnb1y0Fgr4Y0RLXa_Jzz7-yH8VMfk2aFBs4WUyT7J3fljcL-3jamdRoL0pDrknBlsYUjJpch8vR19i-vJsInalok6v0SJH2HnorMQhvgnxP2LyaefAliHSCed/s1600/TrumpBeetleGold.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="979" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1gfaYwwEDf2QUTsgI5Mlnb1y0Fgr4Y0RLXa_Jzz7-yH8VMfk2aFBs4WUyT7J3fljcL-3jamdRoL0pDrknBlsYUjJpch8vR19i-vJsInalok6v0SJH2HnorMQhvgnxP2LyaefAliHSCed/s640/TrumpBeetleGold.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/jeff-flake-donald-trump-2020-challenger/index.html?fbclid=IwAR31P4ckZgn5oMTBaN0nr3Dopd7Vdr1p_wsPiwZwPqJykhlwYWwh4C4eKXY">Flake: 'There should be' Republican challenger to Trump in 2020</a></blockquote>
"ANYBODY would be better than Trump."<br />
<br />
"Who are you planning to have him run against?"<br />
<br />
"...Trump for life! Life for Trump!"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-4f35de9b-44de-412b-aa1c-8f2322d9fe9e.html?chunk=0&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=lisocialshare&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR1FisVHp64NL-SokP-ZMn8HRx2JBqEJWd9IQO2dwWUyLhpwpjGwK4wGR3E#story0">The most toxic working environment on the planet</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In 14 months covering this White House, Jonathan Swan says he’s “never registered such a mood of acute anxiety from within the West Wing.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Nobody knows what exactly is happening, who’s about to be fired, or which staffer will next be frogmarched out the door by security for some shadowy clearance issue.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Said one official: “This is the most toxic working environment on the planet.</blockquote>
Chernobyl Cleanup Crewman: I can't possibly imagine a more toxic working environment.<br />
<br />
Trump White House: Hold my beer.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-keeps-saying-hes-innocent-so-why-does-he-keep-sounding-like-hes-guilty/2018/04/24/c50196be-4712-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html?utm_term=.ac4c3a5ac253&fbclid=IwAR1Bn7jR241Wqz87oZbZGIKa8j4AsHRpkylrQqc_IAn083IV3O55wL-PMrA">Trump keeps saying he’s innocent. So why does he keep sounding like he’s guilty?</a></blockquote>
"I AM INNOCENT! JUST LISTEN TO HOW INNOCENT I SOUND!!!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHwLwZP4oHTIMljosAmNHXpBt8zlN-b6szgNR45Jmve1pamiIiroA2MHb615vdfhNGPT1QvOE0OPjLJakWnRSGA3C1NN9au8au_BJMmuyTOXq3F8MNyQLr0JSCPb-KYNuy3GO8SM8JZkh/s1600/ShoeSenatorMediaFacts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="1001" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHwLwZP4oHTIMljosAmNHXpBt8zlN-b6szgNR45Jmve1pamiIiroA2MHb615vdfhNGPT1QvOE0OPjLJakWnRSGA3C1NN9au8au_BJMmuyTOXq3F8MNyQLr0JSCPb-KYNuy3GO8SM8JZkh/s640/ShoeSenatorMediaFacts.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kelly-denies-calling-trump-an-idiot-calls-report-pathetic-attempt-to-smear-people/2018/04/30/545c5d22-4cbc-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.2feb77782f50&fbclid=IwAR1cHVPazXpkhGoq7tOp62mxwGF1nNLN_J52AwvBRiGhNNuF2BKfCD6Jr1k">Kelly denies calling Trump an ‘idiot,’ says news report is ‘pathetic attempt to smear people’</a></blockquote>
"I didn't call him an idiot. I called him a %*%^(#$%*@)@(#$*#%@#$()$^*@$%@#$*%*<br />
@#$%@#%*@#%@#$!@$*!$!@#$#*%#$*^#$*%^@$(@#$#!@$(@#*^#$(^ idiot."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIfzPdrbcde9bzDszInKrRZnyiKIIGmj1RmTSsIUotXJ5he9SttNuoV9qg_b3YJhhq45Y0YXyduAp66l6nDGN75WrYUmrT-Ijg7qtFPaqc_17J4JRrhze3dbsk1OQldtnVA0-bg3E-zzH/s1600/ShoeSenatorNames0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="997" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIfzPdrbcde9bzDszInKrRZnyiKIIGmj1RmTSsIUotXJ5he9SttNuoV9qg_b3YJhhq45Y0YXyduAp66l6nDGN75WrYUmrT-Ijg7qtFPaqc_17J4JRrhze3dbsk1OQldtnVA0-bg3E-zzH/s640/ShoeSenatorNames0.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/01/many-gop-politicians-dislike-trump-theyre-terrified-to-admit-it/?utm_term=.43dfefa6564c&fbclid=IwAR2xVm7jyIqQNOEbKAWf64s45sPgnzQ_b8qZTLu4MIBgFWvYSY64z0U3QNc">Many GOP politicians dislike Trump. They’re terrified to admit it.</a></blockquote>
"I am Vehemently against the President, and everything he stands for. And I'm not afraid to admit it. Uh... this is off the record, right?"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMiuyQp_jVyUNPcX9x1es6MoJsEplCvKicAR6VoxUGbGqenlW3KGZrEz2No3SYYheCwCLoduJYBtcl658T7Tvm0-lvCrlIu0buHcF0kDU_kMSQNeaS9vq0c7Lf3C7yj1OOMoptzOFm4yV/s1600/ShoeSenatorBillParking.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="1097" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMiuyQp_jVyUNPcX9x1es6MoJsEplCvKicAR6VoxUGbGqenlW3KGZrEz2No3SYYheCwCLoduJYBtcl658T7Tvm0-lvCrlIu0buHcF0kDU_kMSQNeaS9vq0c7Lf3C7yj1OOMoptzOFm4yV/s640/ShoeSenatorBillParking.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-white-house-never-apologizes-kelly-sadler-86ba91d7-678f-47c8-b903-82ed1f30fbc0.html?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=lisocialshare&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR2y1okwPd8e3eDTlVepAo_ZtdyIVL8FctUx3UyMu2_Zfo87jTOXpqTKIvs">Why Trump's White House never says sorry</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Once you’ve worked for Trump for a while you know that the worst thing you can do, the biggest show of weakness, is to apologize. He never does and never did (with one exception — the “Access Hollywood” tape). So staff knows that if they publicly apologize they’re actually MORE likely to incur Trump’s wrath than if they just move on.” </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Said a senior administration official: “Not apologizing is a core operating principle for Trump. The basic belief is that you never actually get ‘credit’ — from the Left, the media, political opponents, etc. — for apologizing, so why do it? Even the Access Hollywood response video included a defiant Trump going after the ‘actions’ of Bill Clinton and ‘bullying of victims’ by Hillary, and ended with ‘See you at the debate!'”</blockquote>
Being Trump means never having to say you're sorry.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www3.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/05/15/putting-white-house-resume-less-boost/BSNVmebfnTFzjzoxB77bII/story.html?event=event25&fbclid=IwAR0jWiCEOmEzfhABrfD5ZyOgv87-qPDOwCYGxSE8rKDGqkQemzgfUCqhsLM&arc404=true">Putting ‘White House’ on the resume is less of a boost</a></blockquote>
"Let's see, you performed for Saddam Hussain, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden, Milosevic, Kim Jun Il, and Fidel Castro, but you won't perform for the White House?"<br />
<br />
"I have ethical standards. Besides, Trump won't pay me."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7CxsMklEmm6z6WSYBz-NgFODNXO06CACUHdOry6tY5LsXr-VKfJZQReA59LqZ6qF8SQwtDdoidGwNiaDkFvzqEQ00kbhdjibRQQIzB1ETSWY0QegmjQDl_3tXop9zmNCbn9E5M1JzSdb/s1600/ShoeSenatorCheck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="954" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7CxsMklEmm6z6WSYBz-NgFODNXO06CACUHdOry6tY5LsXr-VKfJZQReA59LqZ6qF8SQwtDdoidGwNiaDkFvzqEQ00kbhdjibRQQIzB1ETSWY0QegmjQDl_3tXop9zmNCbn9E5M1JzSdb/s640/ShoeSenatorCheck.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvnmnv/corey-stewart-proves-the-republican-party-is-racist?fbclid=IwAR19wZa2vtitHuHtpER62n1t_6G0Emzym1lTxlIKIZpTrzt22h1Q6wY4p7k">It's Become Impossible for Republicans to Deny Their Party Is Racist</a></blockquote>
"What are you talking about? Why would I throw these stones in my glass house? And my kettle's blacker than your pot! Remember the good old times when we were the party that freed the slaves?"<br />
<br />
"Dude, I wasn't even ALIVE back then. I'm not THAT old."<br />
<br />
<a href="https://dennisupkins.wordpress.com/">Denny Upkins</a>, one of the most opinionated people online, and perpetual Cassandra who saw Trump’s Presidency happening. As one of his most favorable quotes goes, ‘America was all cool till Trump came & started treating everyone else like Black People.’.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObxLmyfEejOwlUhOLm28U8j1EW9ovfQ-miz39Wnvso3tC_6sAqaZ1Ac-JV9GYVU50oNBWMZDTfgyzVDocbMyTxLpN9jtds7rOhRSBrTvhhstIRb8hpxjbHY-VFeOlkEUCUpdOZsoxmoxj/s1600/TrumpDenny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObxLmyfEejOwlUhOLm28U8j1EW9ovfQ-miz39Wnvso3tC_6sAqaZ1Ac-JV9GYVU50oNBWMZDTfgyzVDocbMyTxLpN9jtds7rOhRSBrTvhhstIRb8hpxjbHY-VFeOlkEUCUpdOZsoxmoxj/s400/TrumpDenny.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggidN1QzoYOW5ghztHxvjj6Wb71oYU5xjBX_Q1sWxQUhoG4LdGZLhbi3vnTlV26kZMynL9p1z1T_YhJksQciQKmXvMw8VK3wZkyr8sUfXGtA4NSk5WHxjFf-buaEXF9_bgYBTsUOEpQzns/s1600/TrumpPlagues.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="431" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggidN1QzoYOW5ghztHxvjj6Wb71oYU5xjBX_Q1sWxQUhoG4LdGZLhbi3vnTlV26kZMynL9p1z1T_YhJksQciQKmXvMw8VK3wZkyr8sUfXGtA4NSk5WHxjFf-buaEXF9_bgYBTsUOEpQzns/s640/TrumpPlagues.png" width="446" /></a><br />
"Alright, we're up to the 97th plague. Feel like compromising to our demands yet?"<br />
<br />
"Nope. You've got to run out of plagues sooner or later."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/republican-accused-of-being-devotee-of-bigfoot-by-democratic-opponent-in-virginia-house-race/">GOP candidate accused of being 'devotee of Bigfoot erotica' by Democratic opponent in Virginia House race</a></blockquote>
"This raises disturbing issues in the realm of Trump's tastes."<br />
<br />
“We were fine with you stealing children out of mother's arms, but Bigfoot erotica is GOING TOO FAR."<br />
<br />
Trump: "There are fine people and not-people on both sides."<br />
<br />
"Well, Trump is clearly all for it, so there's nothing wrong there."<br />
<br />
"There was no need to have the Censor bar extended that far! It wasn't that exaggerated!"<br />
<br />
"So, you're attracted to small-dicked snowmen?"<br />
<br />
"You're detracting from the bigger issue! Which is that there are political issues worth talking about!"<br />
<br />
"What are your feelings on Trump's future plans?"<br />
<br />
"Let's get back to talking about Bigfoot erotica."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://apnews.com/86bbb02de5e249eba482c4d2fb651120?fbclid=IwAR05wze3-OiNMRMCaWWM_v_bBxazvQFXV02LjYwyPdqlECx3rGDGenLwp8U">Promoting voter ID, Trump says ID needed to buy groceries</a></blockquote>
"You need to show ID just to smoke. You need to show ID just to drink. Why wouldn't you need to show ID just to eat?"<br />
<br />
Something that explains a lot:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eric-trump-father-kill-himself-criticism-tune-out-us-president-donald-a7921961.html?fbclid=IwAR17H-aiTm37st-sptcdVAhGnf2M64mdUd_o5Bn33p-JRc4iTnYSHS0lQRw">Eric Trump says his father 'tunes out' criticism so he doesn't kill himself</a></blockquote>
“Sorry, I can’t hear you over the chorus to ‘Deck the Halls.’”<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/24/politics/trump-tower-doorman-contract-ami/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0i4cR60EE9kq946X-vjREaoANTjTxrkD7_hhR264DAW1M0p-ZhOYIE6yY">EXCLUSIVE: ex-Trump World Tower doorman's "catch-and-kill" contract released</a></blockquote>
"I WAS PREGNANT WITH THE PRESIDENT'S BABY!"<br />
<br />
Not a National Enquirer headline. Anymore.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChEDmj-fRghHRLiE1O-jtI6Vl1xLRA_b8RiLh7SMiN-s041Pd54XIXShn-qsBLa0Z3KNnVmNORiGw4IP8_brcMy8DtIgYdvEI_dmW2v4bKvngLxgm8x1Wwb8HQvJ15UTqOWalSgG1T0K0/s1600/ShoeSenatorNationalEnquirer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="1019" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChEDmj-fRghHRLiE1O-jtI6Vl1xLRA_b8RiLh7SMiN-s041Pd54XIXShn-qsBLa0Z3KNnVmNORiGw4IP8_brcMy8DtIgYdvEI_dmW2v4bKvngLxgm8x1Wwb8HQvJ15UTqOWalSgG1T0K0/s640/ShoeSenatorNationalEnquirer.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/news/in-hilton-head-mayor-race-candidate-a-holocaust-revisionist-another/article_75d0d3f0-ab91-11e8-b01b-b3d8f85f28e5.html?fbclid=IwAR1ltjr4Fe5YVimhoH6kttu5RJKWqcsHioA_sfKyEfPhntLe1H9gEVbeLRQ">In Hilton Head mayor race, 1 candidate a ‘Holocaust revisionist.’ Another admires Hitler.</a></blockquote>
"Okay, so he's a Holocaust-denying Nazi, but at least he's not a DEMOCRAT."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5mjEVxYEIZtu7JdkvLXoLFKyqULgqwm1NGV5rtIaz8VhJb_pJhg-YX051K9apApGUDRn2e_tlafmWDjmKji02M7M1e8la8srnwYMo_KWK_pyNO20flmbhEFzbm1nk5i4i92Hvy4RxOQGC/s1600/TrumpSimpsonsBestOne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5mjEVxYEIZtu7JdkvLXoLFKyqULgqwm1NGV5rtIaz8VhJb_pJhg-YX051K9apApGUDRn2e_tlafmWDjmKji02M7M1e8la8srnwYMo_KWK_pyNO20flmbhEFzbm1nk5i4i92Hvy4RxOQGC/s400/TrumpSimpsonsBestOne.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/404844-gop-senator-responds-to-trumps-latest-attack-on-sessions-the-united-states-is?fbclid=IwAR1Xmc67mqNPm4RSQqixkoOatAqepNBg19u96qqlbVPGNzJsGLwwIa846vc">Republican senator slams Trump's DOJ attack: US 'not some banana republic'</a></blockquote>
"The US is not some banana republic."<br />
<br />
"...yet"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-part-of-the-resistance-inside-nyarlathoteps-death-cult?fbclid=IwAR2eXE6fXoSq1WyCu3i6UxKJ0bVHOFUcGMA-2koSOk1uPB-OhXAynoZLYFo">I Am Part of the Resistance Inside Nyarlathotep’s Death Cult</a></blockquote>
"We warned you this was what would happen if you elected a Black Man in the White House!"<br />
<br />
"As I recall, those warnings were for Obama."<br />
<br />
"That's completely different."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/politics/trump-dumb-southerner-retarded.html?fbclid=IwAR3yHUqISDcPOste2DZJ9EluTAhUAY0NbOzijZMEn6P7sKcWT4oIMdgfijg">‘I Don’t Talk’ That Way, Trump Says. Except When He Does.</a></blockquote>
"Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sarah-sanders-new-york-times-call-1111260?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&fbclid=IwAR3CsKcNJFFczZIMkTORwTD3gia3U_RafgZdhQYdt-xwnSiI2xvcx9FvZJM">Sarah Sanders told people to call the 'failing' New York Times, but people phoned to thank the paper instead</a></blockquote>
"No, NO! You're supposed to be complaining to them, not complimenting them!"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/cnn-poll-trump-approval-independents/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZH7P4OXBrGZnx1MTKOKN30RR-gB-zj_5fmKd4kl5UiPLOIhUwkdmpWkw">CNN Poll: Trump approval dips, hits low among independents</a></blockquote>
"Why are my numbers dropping?! These are the most shocking developments happening EVER!!"<br />
<br />
"Your audience is becoming desensitized to your antics."<br />
<br />
"What can I do to win them back?"<br />
<br />
"Try being more Presidential and Boring."<br />
<br />
"I did that for five seconds. It was terrible. Never again.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQuffEKcx4GRAkeJ-PB1788BT7vxQC9nTMIVMEh7EksatO95ldqmZmyZ2bVpK3B-VinSyeP2aBOk3I_bYSp-L4vBGxZQf9thmz5PKYwLnbwnGbpsN0CDsR0cIQLlA9UliW0UpMIRswuUsu/s1600/ShoeSenatorPollsOpinion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="1014" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQuffEKcx4GRAkeJ-PB1788BT7vxQC9nTMIVMEh7EksatO95ldqmZmyZ2bVpK3B-VinSyeP2aBOk3I_bYSp-L4vBGxZQf9thmz5PKYwLnbwnGbpsN0CDsR0cIQLlA9UliW0UpMIRswuUsu/s640/ShoeSenatorPollsOpinion.png" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/31/trump-economy-gop-midterms-2018-952129?fbclid=IwAR2lRYCXtSvgp15ujaidT0GpwnDVebz8Dp8esTE3vDwWsphoXdF8LVMp0cc">Trump says Americans will ‘lose a lot of money’ if GOP loses in midterm elections</a></blockquote>
Translation: "I've put a pool on ALL the Republicans, so don't make me lose my bet!"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/congressional-leaders-warn-check-trump-presidency?fbclid=IwAR0lYrQ_EbH-W6qir1Yq6vXePAaNevXdH1q2TOSfcMW7zkURq1A9SbTTkk0">Congressional Leaders Warn of Democratic Check on Trump Presidency</a></blockquote>
"If you elect Democrats, things will become dull and normal again."<br />
<br />
Trump may be thinking that voters won't like Biden because he won't get as big ratings. Considering the current Chinese Curse, I'm sure we can agree that we'd LOVE to be bored. I'd just like to have a Liberal President and a Liberal Prime Minister working together for longer than a year.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/midterms-test-whether-republicans-not-named-trump-can-win-by-stoking-racial-animosity/2018/11/04/bb5f00ac-e059-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1JApGjM_g-F8kFRruxPH5tLKm3zi5fCpgWdk7F-59i3SMtvxvA3H0zxGc">Midterms test whether Republicans not named Trump can win by stoking racial animosity</a></blockquote>
"On a totally unrelated topic, I'm legally changing my name to Trump. The President's lawyers can contact me for buying the rights to his name. I’m sure he’ll appreciate the publicity. He won’t miss it."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/fox-news-legal-analyst-stunned-at-how-mueller-made-it-impossible-for-trump-to-save-manafort/?fbclid=IwAR1alP7sW2EpuS_l2p2Bapy0yJPpv3jDSBmi2XQaolaZ6EiuHHDWUZXgtOE">Fox News legal analyst stunned at how Mueller made it impossible for Trump to save Manafort</a></blockquote>
"Did you try to bribe a Federal Agent to ignore evidence against you?"<br />
<br />
"Is it against the law to bribe a law official?!"<br />
<br />
"Yes it is."<br />
<br />
"Oh."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxmtNC3riGOE0azMjtNPvt-JwZbvxQAXUViGgEOCNBoDNz-yFL1V7Cngh9dM5VL2oySkJdqg5RFmR868VscZUmXrlvtQL9V61mcWHQxOFxSOqzpFSITsSeHTU8lGVmAFKRCET-aeXmZFO/s1600/TrumpSimpsonsCrime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxmtNC3riGOE0azMjtNPvt-JwZbvxQAXUViGgEOCNBoDNz-yFL1V7Cngh9dM5VL2oySkJdqg5RFmR868VscZUmXrlvtQL9V61mcWHQxOFxSOqzpFSITsSeHTU8lGVmAFKRCET-aeXmZFO/s400/TrumpSimpsonsCrime.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up?fbclid=IwAR3RC6ctEScPH108WCN9aMNKG93CD219BIWFibKRwsGme91cBGU9SKxr6eE">Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up</a></blockquote>
"You can always default it on your debtors when the bill comes. That's what I've always done, and it's worked fine for me!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyCcnCBxLvynxo7ksvC2UOx3zRERdVDGbWNZOUfaauDr67DjcUBTyl9pPH17ktkhxmSETqqG4uVvxe7eCS6v7sBqYewK_EOp7WJDV2i8VaAgkwBELGbvOo-WmEmNhbDeb_59SXGatqJU8/s1600/ShoeSenatorDebtCharge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="1011" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyCcnCBxLvynxo7ksvC2UOx3zRERdVDGbWNZOUfaauDr67DjcUBTyl9pPH17ktkhxmSETqqG4uVvxe7eCS6v7sBqYewK_EOp7WJDV2i8VaAgkwBELGbvOo-WmEmNhbDeb_59SXGatqJU8/s640/ShoeSenatorDebtCharge.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtrTxJSmcVq1BBCkkg8ZuE0AfhkTga9ssaeKUv397_fkG15yc80c_mDXWa5G2xBFE-XFC5xFattxcseL6H7U4QP-Dav1p5eHvNMiFhup6D068TFZsSWRkOmtzlvutxrLzivjPAVvPUklB/s1600/ShoeSenatorDebt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="1023" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtrTxJSmcVq1BBCkkg8ZuE0AfhkTga9ssaeKUv397_fkG15yc80c_mDXWa5G2xBFE-XFC5xFattxcseL6H7U4QP-Dav1p5eHvNMiFhup6D068TFZsSWRkOmtzlvutxrLzivjPAVvPUklB/s640/ShoeSenatorDebt.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/friday-3-new-documents-may-show-some-what-ex-trump-n944801?cid=public-rss_20181206&fbclid=IwAR1U8N9bckAruU_IX_6eE3i-AwTZHSb3eW-s0SDVjngZjEiaewdbO-g7PTs">3 new docs may show some of what ex-Trump aides have told Mueller</a></blockquote>
And like the Marvel movies, we're gonna need MULTIPLE movies just to cover the BASICS of the entire Trump scandal. Scandals.<br />
<br />
"Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover even ever!"<br />
<br />
Trump bio/expose/documentary: "Hold our beer."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/news/do-a-marginal-number-of--year-olds-believe-in/article_2c86d3ec-0876-11e9-a470-87234a04ef7e.html?fbclid=IwAR3hKImX-TS0XVh4s2i-r9sGyBodfdKx5ewEguTn417j3cbJouoPKGWQgzM">Do a ‘marginal’ number of 7-year-olds believe in Santa? That’s what Trump told a SC girl.</a> That was the time Trump told a 7-year old girl that Santa Claus was ‘marginal’.</blockquote>
Best comment: “The ONE time we need him to lie, and he screws it up.”<br />
<br />
"I bet you believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy too?"<br />
<br />
"Right now, I believe them more than the President."<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/26/trump-says-he-will-do-whatever-it-takes-to-secure-funding-for-border-wall-1075870?fbclid=IwAR0VZICbM4R6lOwMdnPLIbx6-cRm-yI-j1Tx3kX8sZ3q_6P9_KB3ypErPCY">Trump says he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to secure funding for border wall</a></blockquote>
“These politicians should start telling him they’ll only vote for the wall after he gives blowjobs to everybody in Congress and Senate.”<br />
<br />
"Okay. Where can I get some #10 hookers in this deadbeat town?"<br />
<br />
"No, that's not what... actually, there's some quality women on 10th and main. But you didn't hear that from me."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkpVjcTfNfSNc_NdxBMXvugpRTlCk9-1nJj0mDRZiAeMV_nCNXZnJJgsPIUjVUnUfr_ejZJ_k10RKu-mHkxEzjAqvVeSuUMTtmn_9H9Afz9qqdhPJBTQhnmPq387BoOM-PyxvPYEKPGli/s1600/ShoeSenatorBlackmail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="1239" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkpVjcTfNfSNc_NdxBMXvugpRTlCk9-1nJj0mDRZiAeMV_nCNXZnJJgsPIUjVUnUfr_ejZJ_k10RKu-mHkxEzjAqvVeSuUMTtmn_9H9Afz9qqdhPJBTQhnmPq387BoOM-PyxvPYEKPGli/s640/ShoeSenatorBlackmail.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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And on top of everything else, Trump made good on his promise to get tough on immigrants by rounding up any refugees and putting them in wire cages, separating the kids from the parents, some of them as young as 2 years old.<br />
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DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221608027689754679.post-67371061127940105072020-07-23T01:23:00.002-07:002020-07-23T01:32:54.244-07:00Text be Gon!In the early heydays when Manga was being trotted out, one of the early properties that was picked up by the so-called "Big Two" of comics was the silent dinosaur comic, <b>Gon</b>. The dense illustrations being their major selling point for anyone who happened to like seeing nature scenes interjected with miniature Popeye-strength dinosaurs.<br />
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And even though the story could still be understood well enough, they still felt the need to insert page-length essays to validate purchasing these quick-read volumes to adult customers who would've wanted something worth reading to stimulate their minds, not having gotten enough out of the pantomime actions themselves.<br />
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If you really think that reading silent comics is an easy thing, check out the massive book, <b>2000 Comic L'association</b>, filled with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comix_2000">2000</a> pages of <i>nothing </i>but silent comics from all over the world, each with their own different beats and rhythms, and see if taking a casual 'read' through that monstrous brick is an easy experience.<br />
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Future printings have gone away with the expositionary introductions, but there's still something charming about the need to insert commentary where none is really needed.<br />
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The ironic part is that while the first essay compared the kidification of dinosaurs to be little more than merchandisable toys to be sold to children, Gon has become something of a mascot himself, making cameo appearances in fighting video games. If you look at the character design, Gon is basically a Chibi Godzilla.<br />
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If you have the more recent printings, chances are you've probably noticed that some of these chapters are slightly out of order. (<i>Also compare the similarity between the title covers, "<b>Gon Builds a Mansion</b>" and "<b>Gon Glares</b>"</i>) This was to subtly hide the still-budding artwork by surrounding the early stories with later ones, and also cover the early installment weirdness when Gon was acting more like a jerk to his fellow animals.<br />
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I'll be honest with you - the rough treatment that Gon sometimes conveys towards his surrounding animals makes me uncomfortable, and amount to animal abuse. Usually, all it takes to suffer Gon's wrath is incurring a crime as simple as trying to eat. Even when predators deserve whatever disproportionate retribution they've incurred over the length of dozens of pages like some kind of Fletcher Hanks villain, I can't stand to see them suffer.<br />
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Everybody seems to enjoy wanting more realistic graphics while playing video games, but I couldn't stand to look at the violence of something as basic as <b>Double Dragon</b>, simply because the 8-bit sprites was too 'realistic'. I could stomp on face-sized mushroom heads with no problem, and take a sword to land octopuses and spear-chucking goblins without impunity. But smacking a human being with blunt physical force was more than I could handle.<br />
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Another slight difference between the American version and other foreign publishers was that at the very end, there was a participating illustration accompanying the last page.<br />
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Somehow, this pun was abandoned in a later printing to display Gon's toughness:<br />
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In the original Japanese, this normally static pose was just one of several accumulative stances that ultimately ended up with the titular dinosaur spinning faster and faster.<br />
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This is the last known image I was able to find. If Gon continued to spin any faster, he'd probably approach the speed of light, creating a force equivalent to the Hadron Collision Collider.DeBThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05711985474864185922noreply@blogger.com0