Robert J. Elisberg’s “The Noble ‘I want My Country Back'”
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Month: September 2010
BID Mailbag: Political Correctness
Originally published December 31, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1050
Continuing on our sojourn through the BID mailbag, we come to a missive from Hector in New York. I’ve taken the liberty of editing it for length, although I emphasize that the editing does nothing to change any meanings or statements:
Question for fans of “Get Fuzzy”
Were the plush toys of Satchel and Bucky ever released? I see them listed on Diamond as being out of stock and permanently unavailable, but they would have the same thing if the toys had been announced and then canceled. And there are zero listed on that catch-all of Americana, ebay.
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BID Mailbag: Marvel sales and distribution
Originally published December 24, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1049
That creaking sound you hear is the mail vault at BID being opened. Let’s see what we’ve got.
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Off to Madison, Wisconsin
To attend Madcon. The big draw, of course: Harlan Ellison, who looked for a while as if he were going to be ailing too much to come out, but changed his mind and decided to attend.
After that, I’m heading to Los Angeles to watch the recording session of my first episode of “Young Justice,” so that’ll be fun.
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National Non-Stories
Just the other day I was chatting with my father, and he was contending that the world is so much worse than it used to be. More violent, angrier, etc. And my contention was that, no, that’s not the case; that the pervasiveness of the media and the incessant need to feed a twenty-four hour news cycle results in a constant requirement for more “food” for the beast, and our Internet/video age helps to supplement that need. Once upon a time, national TV news consisted of a half hour or one hour slot around dinner time, and that was it. Local news mostly reiterated national stories with a local edge, plus stories involving fires or physical danger, and that was pretty much that. Now potential media involvement and national attention is no further away than the latest video cam. Case in point:
My Niece’s Quiz
My niece, in second grade, took the following quiz, which is from a standardized book of tests used in schools nationwide. Why, you may ask, am I reproducing it here?
Just read it. You’ll know it when you get to it.
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