A very late Sunday.
We've got other illustrations still loading but after hours and hours, we're not waiting any longer. At one point, we even took a four hour nap thinking the illustrations would have loaded. They did not.
Along with Dallas, here's who helped with the writing:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ann who's filling in for Ruth at Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.
And here's who helped with the illustrations:
Betty's three kids,
Kat,
Wally,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts
and C.I.
We thank everyone.
This is the summer read edition, our fifth one.
The June 26, 2005 edition was our first summer read. Those who worked on that edition were:
Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava of The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man;
Kat of Kat's Korner;
and C.I. of The Common Ills
You can also be sure Dallas worked on it as well. The short story content was:
A Fractured Life (the Wally Lamb style book) K-Boy Tries To Get Back Home (a horrific parable) The Gleeful Boy (the Sue Miller type read) Summer poetry: "Filling the Well" Peek (the summer page turner) Kooky Cokie Roberts offers up advice
and rounding out that summer read edition:
Five Books, Five Minutes, Editorial: Mainstream Press Do Your Homework on the pre-invasion bombings and TV Review OC: The arm pit of body wash operettas
The June 4, 2006 edition was our second summer read. Working on that edition (along with Dallas) were:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man;
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills);
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix;
Mike of Mikey Likes It!;
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz;
and Wally of The Daily Jot.
The fiction offered:
Song of the War Hawks Super Laura?
Once upon a time there were plenty of Baby Dumbasses
Sherman's Story
From a diary found in the Mayflower Hotel
The ones we never know
TV: TESR Investigates
June 24, 2007 was our third edition. Along with Dallas, the following helped:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
and Wally of The Daily Jot
And we produced:
TV: Hidden Yawns
Base Is Hell
The Tired Tryst
The Asbury Park Murder
Creation Theory
Samantha Power Between Her Knees
Cut The Fat! Newt Takes It Off!
June 22, 2008 was our fourth edition and along with Dallas, the following worked on it:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
and Marcia SICKOFITRDLZ.
And our summer reads included:
TV: Breaking what?
New York Times, Early Edition
Clouds
The non-whistle blower
Bee-bees and cockle bugs
Circling
And this week, we offer the fifth summer read.
So here's what we have this week:
Truest statement of the week -- Yea, Sandra! We could have done a roundtable on this and would have if it weren't the summer read edition. The illustration is by Isaiah. I (Jim) believe he was working in water colors but that may be markers.
Editorial: It's not over -- The Iraq War is not over. It may be difficult for you to believe, the press and the president certainly seem to want you to think otherwise, however, it's not over.
TV: Fiction -- Narratives overtake facts on programs allgedly attempting to inform us.
The curse -- This is the story with twists. The illustration is by Betty's kids with Wally and Isaiah's help.
Hey there! Marilyn Monroe is using Twitter. -- We've wanted to do a Twitter thing with Monroe for some time. This was written quickly and we already had the illustration from a piece back in 2005.
Clooney's Dark Secrets -- Wally and Betty's kids did this illustration and Isaiah helped on eyebrows and skull.
Summer reads -- We're still waiting for just one comic cover to upload. That's why you don't get it in this article. This is an overview of things you could be reading.
The Dumb Ass Hour every Saturday morning -- An awful hour of public radio inspires a story. Illustration by Kat and Betty's children.
The wedding day -- Betty's kids did this illustration with some help from Isaiah.
The house -- An illustration was done for this by Betty's kids and Kat and it will not upload.
The literary ranter -- Regarding illustration, the same issues as above.
Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Kat, Betty, Wally, Cedric, Rebecca, Stan and Marcia wrote this and we thank them for it.
With the short stories we attempted to go for different voices. Did we succeed? We're not sure. The issues with Flickr soured our enthusiasm. And then some.
And that's the edition. See you next weekend.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.