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With Netflix envelopes coming and going at our house, we’re working our way through no fewer than three different Animé TV series! One of them is the enigmatic Haibane Reinmei, highlighted previously. The video has the opening and closing credits.
This is the start of the most significant blog posts I can ever possibly make. It’s about the most incredible and amazing magazine article I ever read, or ever could read, published in my lifetime. It predicted the future with uncanny accuracy. It’s about people who said, “This is what we are going to do.” And they did it.
Let me show you an example of what I’m talking about. Here is a laptop for accessing the Net.
The year? 1972. That isn’t a typo. I’m talking about the year of the Watergate break-in. More in Part 2, coming up.
I’m prejudiced against political cartoonists who introduce a regular comic strip. Comic strips done by someone who is primarily a political cartoonist are invariably bad. For example, I think Mike Peters consistently has some of the best ideas for political cartoons, yet “Mother Goose and Grimm” is consistently awful.
I also believe the opposite is true — that people born to create comic strip characters aren’t good political cartoonists. For example, above is the best-known example from Bill Watterson’s brief foray in the genre. Who remembers the Jimmy Carter killer bunny incident?
I’m late getting this posted. Pearl Harbor Day is almost over!
It’s been eight years since my first eBay bid. So now, at age 51, with 51 positive comments, I’ve crossed some significant milestone and have been promoted by eBay. Yay. I’d guess about ten sellers failed to leave feedback for me, so the count should be higher, but it’s still a relatively modest number.
My late mother, who had six children, was a big fan of Phyllis Diller, who had five children. I have vivid memories of my mother enjoying Diller on TV in the 60’s, watching the Bob Hope specials.
Phyllis, born in 1917, is still with us, and there’s a new interview with her on NPR. Click here to hear. She’s still sharp, and there are excerpts of her doing a live performance in 2002. No need to apologize for her age — the jokes and Diller’s delivery are very funny!
