Thursday, November 27, 2008
Turkey on DG
Well the holiday season officially begins today! Time to get out there and spend money you don't really have and get gifts and put up the tree.
However, before we embark on all this and bust out the Andy Williams Christmas or Sing Along with Mitch(a fav in my house growing up) we take a day to eat a mess of Turkey. The other day in my office I sat and listened to three people debate over the meaning and origin of the first Thanksgiving.
It was quite humorous.
So now here I am on DG for another holiday. Despite all the changes going on in my life right now I am in a bit of a better space then I was last year. I have survived a tour in Iraq. Yes I was in the Green Zone but it did get kinda hairy for me twice. Maybe one day i will write on that. So as we enter the holiday season I am looking forward to boarding the plane and getting home to see my kids and the rest of my family. I have a lot of thank yous to give out to people who have prayed for me over the last year and will be good to hug a few of their necks. So today I put on some nice clothes and go to the galley and eat some island prepared turkey... Gobble Gobble!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Goodnight Opus
Goodnight Opus
Some may know but many will not that Opus has run its course. Berke Berthhead decided to end the comic stating that America is headed to a dark hour and that he wanted to end Opus on a lite note.
I am paraphrasing.
In the end Opus is told by the ghost of Elvis that his strip will be ending soon and he better find a place to live out eternity. elvis goes onto explain that since he died on the commode that is where he lives out his days.
Our favorite penguin then goes out and tries to book passgae to a troppical island but when he goes to the airport he is asked for a passport. Opus explains that he does not have one as he smuggled himself into the United States some 30 years ago in a box.
Opus is then rounded by Homeland Security and is tortured and waterboarded! to this Opus screams out to the strip creator that this is not how he wanted to end up, that this treatment is unfair! the strip creator hears our waterfoul's plight and transports him to the Humane Society and asks Opus, "Is this Better?" Opus outraged yells back, "NO!"
In the Humane Society Opus meets a fellow prisonner, a dog, and begins to tell the some of his favorite memories to him of his time in Bloom County. A life of friends, politics and dandilions(We should all be so lucky).
The Humane Society is vistied by three lovely young ladies who say that they are going to a tropical island but can only save one of them.
Steve Dallas finds out where Opus is and rushes to the Humane Society not to resuce Opus but to get $20 that is owed to him by our flightless bird.
(the following is taken from www.wikipedia.org)
The clerk stationed there informed Steve that Opus had chosen his final eternity and that Steve should do so likewise, and very quickly. The conversation ended with Steve finally realizing he was in a cartoon strip by breaking the fourth wall and asking the clerk who "all those scruffy-looking people [are]." as he looked at the readers, to which the clerk replied, "I'm thinking Democrats at this point," since he did this after dropping his towel, standing naked (but with a black censoring block over his more intimate areas). The next week, Steve found the tropical island girls and told them to give back Opus. It was then revealed that Opus had let his doggy companion in the shelter go with the girls, said "goodnight," and returned to the kennel. After seeing a vision of former "Bloom County" residents (Milo, Binkley, Oliver, Cutter John, Portnoy, and Bill the Cat) wave goodbye as they rode off into the distance atop Cutter John's wheelchair, Steve walked back to the animal shelter to find nothing but Opus' bow tie and an empty kennel. The final strip showed a glowing light coming from a box inside the kennel. Steve reaches into the box, and smiles at what he sees. Following a link to the Humane Society (http://www.humanesociety.org/opus, which shows the last panel as part of the $10,000 contest), it shows Steve opening a copy of Goodnight Moon and seeing Opus tucked in bed, sleeping peacefully with the bunny happily snuggling him, and a mother rabbit watching over them. The subtitle at the bottom read "Goodnight Opus, and goodnight air. Good night noises everywhere" This is because Opus' doggie companion had said "goodnight" and inspired Opus to set his final eternity.
so I say goodnight to my friend and fellow dreamer, Opus...rest well my friend!
Some may know but many will not that Opus has run its course. Berke Berthhead decided to end the comic stating that America is headed to a dark hour and that he wanted to end Opus on a lite note.
I am paraphrasing.
In the end Opus is told by the ghost of Elvis that his strip will be ending soon and he better find a place to live out eternity. elvis goes onto explain that since he died on the commode that is where he lives out his days.
Our favorite penguin then goes out and tries to book passgae to a troppical island but when he goes to the airport he is asked for a passport. Opus explains that he does not have one as he smuggled himself into the United States some 30 years ago in a box.
Opus is then rounded by Homeland Security and is tortured and waterboarded! to this Opus screams out to the strip creator that this is not how he wanted to end up, that this treatment is unfair! the strip creator hears our waterfoul's plight and transports him to the Humane Society and asks Opus, "Is this Better?" Opus outraged yells back, "NO!"
In the Humane Society Opus meets a fellow prisonner, a dog, and begins to tell the some of his favorite memories to him of his time in Bloom County. A life of friends, politics and dandilions(We should all be so lucky).
The Humane Society is vistied by three lovely young ladies who say that they are going to a tropical island but can only save one of them.
Steve Dallas finds out where Opus is and rushes to the Humane Society not to resuce Opus but to get $20 that is owed to him by our flightless bird.
(the following is taken from www.wikipedia.org)
The clerk stationed there informed Steve that Opus had chosen his final eternity and that Steve should do so likewise, and very quickly. The conversation ended with Steve finally realizing he was in a cartoon strip by breaking the fourth wall and asking the clerk who "all those scruffy-looking people [are]." as he looked at the readers, to which the clerk replied, "I'm thinking Democrats at this point," since he did this after dropping his towel, standing naked (but with a black censoring block over his more intimate areas). The next week, Steve found the tropical island girls and told them to give back Opus. It was then revealed that Opus had let his doggy companion in the shelter go with the girls, said "goodnight," and returned to the kennel. After seeing a vision of former "Bloom County" residents (Milo, Binkley, Oliver, Cutter John, Portnoy, and Bill the Cat) wave goodbye as they rode off into the distance atop Cutter John's wheelchair, Steve walked back to the animal shelter to find nothing but Opus' bow tie and an empty kennel. The final strip showed a glowing light coming from a box inside the kennel. Steve reaches into the box, and smiles at what he sees. Following a link to the Humane Society (http://www.humanesociety.org/opus, which shows the last panel as part of the $10,000 contest), it shows Steve opening a copy of Goodnight Moon and seeing Opus tucked in bed, sleeping peacefully with the bunny happily snuggling him, and a mother rabbit watching over them. The subtitle at the bottom read "Goodnight Opus, and goodnight air. Good night noises everywhere" This is because Opus' doggie companion had said "goodnight" and inspired Opus to set his final eternity.
so I say goodnight to my friend and fellow dreamer, Opus...rest well my friend!
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