Takin' A Break Soon Monday, November 24, 2003 - 7:45 PM PST by: MelMel This week's strip, Black Beads (for lack of a better title), is just another old strip I've pulled out of my personal archives. After next week, which is a follow-up to this week's strip, I may actually have to take a couple of weeks off, or only upload different sketches and things. I've been running into a rutt with the comic, and right now I'm deciding whether I want to let it take a more serious route like I've been planning, or if I just want to keep with the comedy and introduce Pinki's first friend, who I have already sketched and planned. Either way, her first friend is going to be introduced soon. As I run out of ideas, the first chapter of the plot will end and I'll take a little break to recollect my thoughts. I'll warn you before it happens, but I know that it's going to happen, and soon. Or I could be like "For Better Or For Worse", which right now is for better, and do both serious and funny things. I like the daughter in that comic. Oh, to be a student teacher. I ramble. Here's to hoping my creativity lasts forever and a day. -MelMel Update: Resurrection Monday, November 23, 2003 - 10:29 PM PST by: George Two news posts in a row. I am on a roll. Shall I go for the big number three? Maybe. If any of you read my posts, you should know that I have been having stomach problems. I have stopped losing weight. (Woo), yet I have not gained much either. So far I have evened out at about 120-121 pounds. Tomorrow morning I get to go in for the last batch of medical testing. So far they have proved that I do not have cancer or anything serious. Now they just have to figure out what is wrong. Anyways, I get to miss school so I am a happy boy. Now, some of you may look around this time of year and wonder, “Just what happened to Thanksgiving?! It is not Christmas yet! Why is everyone putting up lights and wreaths?!” Well, I wonder as well. I also believe that I know why this occurs. The answer lies in Mickey Mouse. You read right, Mickey Mouse. Think back, have you ever seen Mickey Mouse in a pilgrim hat? No. (Actually, I have. Shh, don't tell him I said this. -MelMel) Now you may have seen him in a parody brown hat that is almost a pilgrim hat, but never a true black and white Puritan Pilgrim Hat. Herein lies the answer. If Mickey were to ever don a Pilgrim hat he would instantly contradict his own existence. The Puritans were quite strict in all aspects. Anything they did not like or understand was “of the devil!” Now, what do you believe they would think of a moving picture of a rat talking to their kids? They would burn it at the stake. Now, donning this hat would make Mickey a pilgrim, and the pilgrims were Puritans. Therefore, Mickey would be a Puritan and instantly contradict his own existence, creating a space rip in the fabric of the universe. A paradox of this magnitude could easily create a black hole large enough to swallow the earth. And there you have it. That is why people immediately switch from Halloween to Christmas and completely ignore Turkey Day. Thank you for reading. ~ Rant Master, George

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