Nor Brittany Murphy. (sob)

Well, with Steven, it was a *fall* special.

And the episode where Steven failed to reconcile the alien gem, with terrible consequences, would still be in the back of our minds.

Typing this _before_ getting into the comment section: if there are any other comments along this line, I'll delete it.

"Audiences brought up on . . . Popeye were often baffled by Krazy’s stew of loopy wordplay and surreal imagery." I don't know. Popeye in the 20's (first called "Thimble Theater") could get pretty weird in itself. Alice the Goon and the Jeep and Wimpy's poetry . . .

Were Larry, Darryl and Darryl meant as a tribute?

The episode I remember was from the latter part of the run. Gosalyn is taken out of Darkwing's life, and he becomes a vigilante, with no sense of right and wrong. The ego is significant, but without other elements it becomes poisonous.

I wonder if any money for the movie came from the government of Kazakhstan . . .

He does have occasional female protagonists, like the young woman in one of his short stories, a witch, who shares in the courtship of a townswoman. She spends most of the story invisible. And this fits the pattern, I'm afraid.

Not _another_ article about the election!

And we must adapt it to move into the future. Seriously. If you don't, the computer clock stops.

King Vitaman is our only king!

It's a very funny show that is also a joke-free show. It doesn't fall into hackneyed rhythms, (no laugh track!), so the pratfall or the funny lines sneak up on you.

I hope Americans aren't as credulous as we're supposed to be. There are too many "prehistoric sharks in modern water" documentaries.

"The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead."

_Gray Magic_/_Steel Magic_ by Andre Norton was set in upstate New York. _Seven Day Magic_ by Edward Eager was set either in New Jersey or in another state up from NYC, where the father of one of the families worked.

Natural rights people have an easier time of it. Just follow the Constitution: "natural and unalienable."

And the people who say "never before have we had this fear" don't know their history: the Alien and Sedition Act, the 1919 Red Summer, the panics of the mid-to-late Cold War.

Fortunately, the Trump family situations are full of these ironies. Life is just a bowl of cherries.

They're great singers, though. Loved the movie.