wtf is up with Lynn Johnston? "For Better or For Worse" seems gratuitously cruel today.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
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Laga - Aug 16, 2008 9:01:19 am PDT #1945 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2008 9:08:41 am PDT #1946 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I think I read that she's ending the strip soon.
Laga - Aug 16, 2008 9:21:54 am PDT #1947 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Speaking of questionable journalism: when did Lake Michigan become a sea?
vw bug - Aug 16, 2008 9:25:07 am PDT #1948 of 10001
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Oh, that's sad, but not beyond things she's done before.
My aunt fell in the shower the morning of her son's wedding this past March. She had surgery the morning of the wedding and was at the wedding doped on pain killers, bless her heart. I've always liked how Lynn Johnston really captures real life.
vw bug - Aug 16, 2008 9:27:25 am PDT #1949 of 10001
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Poptarts:
Calling JenK or Barb or someone who knows Spanish. What's "Spring Training" in Spanish?
Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2008 9:35:20 am PDT #1950 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
OK, Lynn Johnson isn't ending the strip, she's rebooting it: [link]
[edit: and here's a YouTube interview with her: [link] ]
amych - Aug 16, 2008 9:41:35 am PDT #1951 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Eh, better to just end it, I think.
Laga - Aug 16, 2008 9:49:36 am PDT #1952 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've always had a weird relationship with that strip. Me and Elizabeth are around the same age and we have the same name. When Farley died my Dad called me to ask if I'd read the strip yet and we cried together (OK maybe I was the only one actually crying but Dad was upset). I've never gone back and read from the beginning so I'm looking forward to seeing her blend in the earlier strips next month.
Mom pointed out that it is very common for people with health problems to take a turn for the worse on big days like weddings so even though I'm mad at Ms. Johnston for going that way, I can't say it's unrealistic.
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 9:50:47 am PDT #1953 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Calling JenK or Barb or someone who knows Spanish. What's "Spring Training" in Spanish?
You know, I don't know that I've ever heard a term for it-- in Miami, during the sportscasts, I know I've heard them say the words "spring training" and I even found this snippet from El Nuevo Herald:
Nuevo Herald - June 10, 2008 - 2C Deportes
LUIS E. RANGEL El Nuevo Herald La rotación de los Marlins de Florida ha sido el principal punto débil del equipo en la campaña, pero bien pronto los peces pudieran recibir ayuda. Josh Johnson, quien llegase a ser catalogado como una de las principales promesas del pitcheo de la organización, dio el paso más grande hasta ahora en su rehabilitación al lanzar cinco entradas en el spring training extendido en Júpiter. "El reporte que tengo es bastante positivo y que...
vw bug - Aug 16, 2008 9:53:54 am PDT #1954 of 10001
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Ok. Then I'll just leave it as spring training. Gracias!