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Thursday, March 05, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [wood-l] Digest Number 1902

Man, I'll bet you guys (the ones that remember me) thought I was nuts
when I kept ranting about how Jews invented comic books. Nobody here
wanted to talk about it, it was like the subject has cooties or
something - now EVERYBODY is talking about it - for example, see
below, DANNY FINGEROTH (Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the
Creation of the Superhero) but also Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters,
and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones, From Krakow to
Krypton: Jews and Comic Books by Arie Kaplan, Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: How
Jewish History, Culture by Simcha Weinstein, and on and on.

The trouble with being ahead of ahead of the crowd is you're always
alone. hope that I am also ahead of the crowd in my near total
rejection of comic books, now that the mainstream has embraced them.
I'm sick to death of hearing retarded cops, politicians and soldiers
talking about "good guys" and "bad guys". I want to take people by the
lapels and bitch slap them, explaining to them that, no, we are not in
a comic book people, this is the real world.

The more subtle the comic book tropes become, the more insidious I
find the propaganda (as with the various permutations of Star Trek,
each more sophisticated in it's apologetics for empire than the
previous, apparently until the last one, which I gather was blunt and
dire). That said, I do like the geopolitical information contained in
The Dark Knight though. Heath Ledger captured George W. Bush in a way
that Oliver Stone could only dream of. And Obama as Two-Face was
well-done, too.

A more nuanced analysis (even appreciation) of Frederick Wortham is
emerging too - I've been espousing that since 1977, when I pursued the
exotic notion of reading a couple of his books.

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Free Will Eisner Panel this Saturday

Posted by: "AIRBOYO2@AOL.COM" AIRBOYO2@AOL.COM   sheldonmayerfan

Wed Mar 4, 2009 6:31 pm (PST)

**FREE** WILL EISNER WEEK PANEL THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 7, IN NYC, WITH DENNIS
O'NEIL, DANNY FINGEROTH, N.C. CHRISTOPHER COUCH, AND KENNETH GINIGER

New York, March 4, 2009

From Danny Fingeroth:

CELEBRATING WILL EISNER: A panel of Eisner experts discusses his life and
career, examining just what made (and still makes) him so significant to the
comics medium. Featuring DANNY FINGEROTH (Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics,
and the Creation of the Superhero), DENNIS O'NEIL (longtime Batman writer and
editor), N.C. CHRISTOPHER COUCH (The Will Eisner Companion), and KENNETH
GINIGER (legendary publisher and lifelong friend of Will Eisner).

Saturday, March 7, 2:00-4:00 pm
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4 W. 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Appreciation for Cindy Sheehan

I've just been listening to a speech by a recently widowed Canadian woman. Her husband was killed in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan  Canadians still want to believe they are the world's peace keepers - they are something like 48th in the world now, probably because their military is pinned down in the occupation of Afghanistan. 


There is such tremendous psychological and social pressure to believe that your loved one died in a noble cause.  If you say that your loved one was involved in a good cause, the nation mourns with you. I don't want to belittle anybody's pain or suffering, but if somebody close to you dies in a car accident, you, your family and friends mourn, and the rest of the world goes on about their business.  But the entire country of Canada stops every time somebody dies in Afghanistan.  Let me chose my words more carefully.  Every time a Canadian dies in Afghanistan.  When Afghanis, the people that English speaking North Americans are supposedly there to help, die, nobody cares at all.  You have to live among these people to understand - they are just as hard, and cold, and self-serving and self-righteous, and delusional as the folks south of the border... the folks they like to look down on.

So this woman gives a speech, calls her husband a hero, and they broadcast the whole thing, over and over, all day long.  It's the same in the US, of course, though they can't give as much time over to these things, Americans have been dying 30 times as fast as Canadians.

When Cindy Sheehan took a different posture, the hate that was directed towards that courageous woman was just unbelievable.  First she suffered her terrible loss, and then she was demonized for speaking a powerful truth.

My cousin died in Vietnam.  It was impossible to see it as anything other than a senseless, meaningless event.  He was a juvenile delinquent who was given a choice - the military or jail (I don't know what it's like now, but many, many poorly adjusted young men were given that choice).  He joined the military, and after a stint in the brigg at Fort Lewis, the next stop was Vietnam.  It was impossible to see anything heroic about any of it, even when I was a child... as an adult I'm afraid things don't look any better.

Is it more heroic if somebody maintains the delusion that it is a good cause, and they lobby hard to go and occupy another country?  I don't think so, but it sure is easier to sell it when you put it up on a pedestal and put spotlights on it. I give all my appreciation to Sheehan, who held her ground before an avalanche of propaganda, slander, and hysterical public opinion.

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Paul Harvey RIP

I see that he actually had fans on Facebook - 1,594 of them. Not bad,
that's more than I have.  However, my hero Muntadar al-Zaidi now has
259,314 fans one one group alone. Goes to show, in this crazy, mixed
up world, some things are as they should be.

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