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MINDY NEWELL: Pissed Off Again

by Mindy Newell · November 21, 2011

Lots of ruminating this week. Mostly political. Mostly causing me to make sure my passport is up-to-date and to wonder what the hell country I can move to if the Repugnanticans – my term for what passes as the Republican Party these days – actually win the Presidency.

This past Thursday, November 17th, marked the two-month anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street. Some smart mouth caller to the Tom Hartman show pointed out that the prefix “anni” comes from the Latin anno, which means “year,” so November 17th couldn’t be the “two month anniversary.” Why did I think while listening to this jackass that he was a front for the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity or Karl Rove’s American Crossroads? So just call it an observance, a tribute, a celebration, or a commemoration, asshole.

The Los Angeles Times reported on November 20^th that police officers who just walked up to students peacefully demonstrating in solidarity with the Occupy movement at the University of California-Davis and pepper-sprayed them dead-on in their faces have been put on administrative leave while their actions are investigated. (You can go to my Facebook page to see the video, or check out this link.) Hmmm. Administrative leave. That means they’re getting paid. Just like…

Alixandra and Jeff are hosting their first Thanksgiving. Spent the afternoon at Wegman’s with Alix as she prepares for the feast. I’m definitely not scared, because Alixandra is a hell of a cook. But I do get pissed off, because she’s always telling everybody that that all I ever made for her while she was growing up was Lean Cuisine. That’s not true. I made her Smart Ones, too. Anyway, I keep telling her, “It’s not that I can’t cook. It’s that I don’t cook.” To prove to her that I can do more than heat up the oven, I’m making a pot roast to go with the turkey. She will – sorry, can’t help the pun – eat her words. I make one hell of a pot roast. The secret is to…

Mark McQueary, the graduate student-turned-assistant football coach at Penn State, still has his job. Yeah, he’s been put on administrative leave, but he’s collecting his paycheck. Now McQueary has e-mailed his “friends” saying that he did stop Jerry Sandusky’s shower sodomy of the boy; only this apparently directly contradicts what McCreary told the Grand Jury, in which he said, he did nothing but walk out, and then later told his father, who called Joe Paterno…well, you know the story. Anyway, I think McCreary was “advised” to do this by “someone” so that it would fuck up the Grand Jury’s case and McCreary’s possible indictment.

I also don’t understand why all the pundits are expressing amazement that trustees of Penn State “shoved this whole thing under the carpet.” It’s about $$$$$$, boys and girls – isn’t it always? Money from the state, money from the Feds, money from television revenues – oh, yeah, especially television revenues. College football = big money, in case you don’t know.

Joe Paterno fired? Why not also the entire board of trustees who shoveled this shit under the carpet to begin with????

The Giants are playing the Eagles tonight. The question is, which Giants? The ones who smack-a-rooed the Patriots two weeks ago? Or the ones who slept-walked against the Niners? (Don’t point out that last drive, please. The G’ints should never have been in that position in the first place. And you know the Niners studied the films from the last five minutes of the Patriots game all week with microscopes and MRI scans, don’t you? They were prepared for Eli’s march downfield.) Oh, yeah. You’re reading this tomorrow. Don’t tell me who won. It’ll probably piss me off.

Who the fuck are the fools, morons, brainless, dim, dense, senseless, unthinking, incredibly, hard-to-believe, implausible, astonishing, inconceivable, absurd, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, staggering drones who think the need to be intelligent, well-read, and diplomatic is not necessary to be President of the United States? Oh, right, they’re the same fools, morons, brainless, dim, dense, senseless, unthinking, incredibly, hard-to-believe, implausible, astonishing, inconceivable, absurd, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, staggering drones who would actually vote for Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and whoever will be the next – as Chris Matthews puts it – “flavor-of-the-month yahoo” on the Republican primary ticket.

What can you expect from a party named after a sexual act?

I love BBCAmerica, but there’re too many commercials. Hey, BBCAmerica, nobody has to go to the bathroom that much! Watching The Tudors and Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who and Whitechapel on the channel is a great… uh… commercial for Netflix.

What, no comics this week?

TUESDAY: Michael Davis

Mindy Newell

These days Mindy Newell knows that if she could do it all over again she’d have gone to college for screenwriting and film editing. Instead she became a nurse to please her parents and pleasing your parents was what it was all about for nice Jewish girls who graduated from high school in 1971. But the creative larva was in her soul, and when the cocoon broke and the butterfly emerged, it flew to DC’s New Talent Showcase program. Under the auspices of legendary editors Karen Berger, Len Wein, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, and ComicMix’s own Robert Greenberger, Mindy learned the craft and art of writing comics, including Tales Of The Legion, V, Legionnaires 3, Amethyst, Lois Lane: When It Rains God Is Crying, and numerous other comics, including a Superman story based on a dream Mindy had as a child. She also worked on Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! and other independent comics. All this time Mindy continued to work as a nurse while being a single mom to her daughter Alixandra, until the late and dear Mark Gruenwald hired her as an assistant editor at Marvel, while writing stories of the Black Widow and Daredevil. She edited NFL Pro Action, a licensed kid’s magazine about football with the NFL until Marvel imploded in 1996. Returning to full-time nursing, she she also co-wrote a story for 2000 A.D. with her then-husband, British artist John Higgins. A few years ago Mike Gold called and asked her to join the team of columnists here at ComicMix, where her topics freely range from comics to pop culture to politics; she even wrote a piece about the great American thoroughbred Secretariat, which caused editor Mike to tell her that she had won the prize for the most off-topic column ever written ComicMix.

fairportfan says:

November 21, 2011 at 1:45 pm

I more-or-less support Occupy's goals (if not their methods – mostly because i don't see any real achievements coming from them, but, hey, at least they're doing something…), and i agree that "two-month anniversary" is an amazingly dumb, high-school sophomore-going-steady phrase.