The boat is sinking.
Supporting the Democrats is bailing water with a bucket with a hole in it.
Supporting Republicans is shooting more holes in the boat’s bottom with an automatic shotgun, hoping the water will drain out.
Supporting third party candidates is hoping a playmate-laden sailboat will come by and save us.
What do we do?
Great song by the Derailers (perhaps the perfect theme band for my weeks “off track” of late)…
Another mile, another memory
of a love I’m trying to forget
There’s no cure, for my misery,
or I haven’t found it yetChorus:
Can’t stop a train, can’t stop a heart;
I’m feeling pain when it’s falling apart
Can’t keep the one you love from changing;
When it’s rolling, can’t stop a trainOur love is a raging fire that consumes my heart and soul
It ran hot right down to the wire when it burns out of control
Where is our love, was it just a sweet dream?
So good while it lasted, now it’s gone, moving on,
can’t stop a trainRepeat Chorus
When it’s gone, moving on, can’t stop a train, can’t stop a train
If you need a bit of perspective on life…
Whoever you are, whether you’re a Batman fan or not, whether you’re a comic book fan or not, if you like to laugh, you should read the review of Batman: Odyssey at Comics Alliance.
Today, Editor-in-Chief Laura Hudson and contributor David Wolkin sit down and attempt the nigh-impossible task of figuring out exactly what happens in Odyssey, a book that has both challenged and redefined our notions of Batman, comics, and our tenuous grasp on sanity…
Neal Adams is one of the all-time great comic book artists, the man who truly defined the cool modern Batman. For many years as a kid, I had a huge poster of this Adams image on my wall:
Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case in comic publishing, someone at DC thought, “Hey, the man can draw, I bet that means he can write too!” Because after all, writing is easy, right? And they gave Neal no telling how much money to do a twelve issue epic series about Batman. The result seems to be one of the most completely batshit crazy comic book stories in history.
You need to read the review. Honestly. I laughed till I couldn’t breathe while I read it. I had to take breaks so I wouldn’t asphyxiate myself. It’s comedy gold, and I say that as someone who hasn’t even seen the comic book in question.
Deconstructing the Complete and Utter Insanity of Batman: Odyssey
I don’t know the source of this tale, but it’s one I needed to read and it found its way to me.
Grandson, why are you so full of hateful words?
Grandmother, because I am angry and I feel like saying what I want and who cares anyway, they are just words!
Grandson, here is a box of nails and a hammer. Go and every time you abuse someone or tease or say other hurtful things hit a nail into the fence.
Grandmother, I have used all the nails in your box what now?
Grandson, every time you say something nice to someone you have spoken badly to or even apologise for your words take a nail out of the fence.
Grandmother, I am finished but it took a lot longer to take them out then to hit them all in.
Yes, Grandson, and you see all these holes left behind from the nails?
Grandmother, of course I can see them..why do you ask?
Grandson, every time you hurt someone with words or deeds you make a hole in their hearts and leave scars you can’t see… so even when you apologize or do good deeds later, you remove the nails but a scar or hole remains and takes a lot more time to heal…
It is a wonderful world. I hope to have a lot more time to experience its magic with those I love.
Under An Outlaw Moon 