-It turns out some of you really do read this blog! How do I know? Cause some o’ youse goons knew the password to win a free prize we gave away at the Tulsa Comic and Anime Convention last week, that’s how ya ingrate! Shoulda come and seen us, shouldn’ta ya!! Maybe even got yerself a gift! Butcha didn’t! So there! On to my thoughts for the week!

- They’re selling Mt. Dew in tallboys now and all I can say is ‘BOUT TIME SON! People have been guzzling funny tasting “energy drinks” in tallboys for years now. Meanwhile those of doin’ the delicious dew have had to put up with the tedium of having to crack open two cans to get the delicious refreshment and energy spike that us Dewers and our chemical altered adrenaline systems require. The tallboy is and has always been the can of the addict and it is satisfying to see it being put into the service of one of the largest addict communities out there.

- When will people at comic and anime conventions stop dressing up as characters that they love but that they can never be or even look like and start dressing up like the creators of the characters they love, people that they can be and look like? Not saying anyone has to do it but the next dude I see at one of these things dressed up like Stan Lee or Jack Kirby will get my vote in the costume contest. Unless of course there is a slave Princess Leia who can actually pull off that outfit. I think that is just obvious.

-Did you know that if he had lived, Samuel Johnson would have turned 300 this last week? I KNOW! Why didn’t anybody remind me?! I totally missed it. Its cause the dude gets no respect. Guy writes the ever lovin’ English dictionary, is one of the most important writers in English after Shakespeare. How much does anyone have to read of his work in high school? Next to nothing. Maybe bits of Boswell’s biography but that is it. Course literary giant or not I guess he does kinda deserve what he gets, what with the hating American Independence and all.

-You know what else I missed? The Everlovin’ Talk Like a Pirate Day! It was last week too! That is my favorite internet based holiday. At least it is my favorite internet based holiday after National Gorilla Suit day. If you have to choose one and only one internet driven holiday to celebrate then of course you’d have to choose National Gorilla Suit day, because of course no one wants to look like an idiot and not be wearing a Gorilla Suit on January 31st. You’d just look like a jive turkey if you didn’t. It is nice to be able to celebrate the economical yet discipline requiring Talk Like A Pirate Day for those of us on a limited budget, but the humiliation at not wearing a gorilla suit would be too much to bear.

- The modern suit does not suit the modern politician. It is to carefree and easy, to comfortable looking. Their suits makes it look like these guys are quite comfortable with the matters they are discussing. And you never see a politician carrying around something that shows he is working like a bunch of papers or a briefcase or a writing pad. They just walk around, saying stuff, actiing like they have the world of politics mastered. Since they now are only saying what they think we want to hear, stuff like “I can pay for this by cutting waste!” and “We have to do this to make things cheaper” when we all know it is bull, I’d like for politicians to at least dress like politicians. I’d like to see it required for politicians to have to wear stiff high collared suits and shirts with elaborate cravats and for them to carry around bunches of paper and parchment, maybe some of it rolled up in one hand. You know, the kind of accouterments that says “Hey, I have a lot of responsibility and this job is complex and hard!” At least then when things blow up in their faces they’d look like they had worked at statecraft, even if what they said beforehand was still ridiculous pandering.

-Bob

- PS The password for the free gift was “Kookamunga” or as we now know it to be properly spelled “Cucamonga”. Turns out it is in California. Whodathunkit?

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