PIBGORN

"Suppose Sir Walter, instead of putting the conversations into the mouths of the characters, had allowed the characters to speak for themselves?  We should have had talk from Rebecca and Ivanhoe and the soft lady Rowena which would embarrass a tramp in our day"--A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I've started reading Brooke McEldowney's comic strip Pibgorn online from its 2002 beginning.  The title character is a fairy, but the story is a very offbeat adult comedy. The real star of the strip, like young sister Eve was the real star of The Heart of Juliet Jones, is succubus antiheroine Drusilla. (A succubus, of course, is the supernatural realm's version of a "fast girl.") The first year and a half have stuff like a game show in hell--someone saw Elvis Costello's "This Town" video!--vampires in the world of Regency romance, and a film noir mystery. 

I've also looked at the first episodes of Al Capp's hillbilly strip Li'l Abner from 1934. The first story actually has the hero visiting his rich aunt in Manhattan!

I've started reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, for the second time, for the Classic Book Club. (Oddly unimaginative title!) The author definitely had an anti-romantic vision.  It occurred to me that the title character bears a resemblance to the Wizard of Oz...

Thursday at the campaign office I was stapling notices to some flyers indicating the date when Jill Andrew will be visiting the local district.  But today I had to unstaple many of them because the regular flyers have been moving too quickly to keep them in reserve! (The polls in this riding sound promising, but only one poll counts...)

I've lost interest in the online game Big Farm and started playing Emporea instead.