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January 15, 2009,

Brian,

How are you FEELING? Do you feel good....about this economy, and the Sugar Bowl loss?lol

I feel like you are Al Vanguard and i am Mitch in the latest strip and you are Al in that latest comic strip story. It has been hard for you this last year. You are against idealologies. You are against change. You may be conservative on most issues but you are liberal elsewhere. So am I. But I am optimistic for the future.

Obama has increased my confidence because I believe now that anything is possible now. I've seen a Black male take on the highest office in the land. So I am overachieving now in my life by going to school again and bettering myself. Transformation starts with the individual. Let's all support Obama. If he fails, fine, but if he succeeds, even better.

Brian, I love you and your dancing is awesome, even though I don't agree with you all the time/hee hee.

And stop making excuses that Utah is #1.....Florida is #1

Let's move forward.

I will support you always and forever....thank you so much for signing my calendar.....I LOVE IT!!!! ;)

--Sears, from Downtown Milwaukee

 
Why would we be concerned about the Sugar Bowl loss, Sears? Well, other than the fact that Alabama losing just confirms that Utah should have been number one?

Saying you're "for change" is like saying you're "for temperature". It's a meaningless phrase. Either could be positive or negative. Our beef with Obama isn't his call for change. Rather, it's his unwillingness to define which change he wants.

And we're glad you're bettering yourself. However, unless Barack himself is standing over your shoulder prodding you, he really has nothing to do with it. In fact, Sears, your improvements are entirely of your own making. You are the one who decided to go back to school. You are the one doing the studying. You are the one who will reap the benefits. All of these abilities were within you all along.

We're thrilled for you that you're making this progress, but we're not going to credit Obama for it. We'll give Obama credit when credit is due, but remember, his current presidential accomplishments are exactly the same as ours: zero. Unlike you, we don't think it's fine if he fails, but for the sake of the country, we hope he does well.

 
January 16, 2009,

Ah, Ricardo Montalban. He was great in everything he did, and I can't even say his name without doing it with his engaging accent.

We'll always have the Island...

--Tony

 
His speaking accent was great, Tony, but have you ever heard him sing and dance? He was a triple threat!

 
January 18, 2009,

Will each Rockwood Thursday Haiku begin with:

" Black is the Color"?
Or..
will it be:
" What happened to White?"

Maybe Rockwood could comic an early Monday Inaugural Haiku.

--Me

 
We don't write 'em, Me, we just judge 'em. Who knows what people will write in this week? Just remember, haikus still use the 5-7-5 syllable format. There can be no "change" in that!

 
January 18, 2009,

Glad to see you didn't make any references to Fantasy Island - I heard he hated those especially "da plane!" which wasn't even his line.

--Spike

 
We hadn't heard that, Spike. In fact, he seems to have some affection for it in this interview. However, we don't know that for sure. But in the meantime, did you know that his was the first popular version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside"? You can watch the master at work here.