For those of you who might be thinking, "Hey, what's a waterfall doing in Tucson, Arizona? That isn't what I was expecting!" I give you this website, which states: "The Tucson area is a waterfall lover's dream."
You see, Mary Worth & Me is a PLACE OF LEARNING.
Yesterday, I had a very special surprise when UPS delivered a package from long time Citizen of Santa Royale, Toots McGee!
Love and Other Stories of Mary Worth
is a self published (presumably by King Features or Karen Moy or Uncle Joe) collection of three stories: Anna Tieg: Wannabe Home Wrecker, Aldo Kelrast, and Ice Castles, featuring the Worthy Award winning Lynn Griffin. This book may be the most awesome present anyone has ever given me. Thanks, Toot, for thinking of me. It will hold a place of honor between my nearly complete collection of Peanuts strips and Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse serials.
Today's Full Strip
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Wait...what? Mary's been hiking in the perishingly hot and arid desert when there's a river and a waterfall handy?
...of course, the dialogue has been pretty arid for the last several weeks, so that might explain her preference.
Mary has reviewed past interactions and repeats the same meaningless psychobabble she used on June.
Here we are, back in the desert again. Maybe this time we'll catch a glimpse of the dead horse these two have been beating.
I don't know. I'm start to find this rather eerie - Mary's pontificating is taking on a kind of summarizing tone, as if she were preparing to move on to some new level. Perhaps this whole story line has just been her hallucination as she fades after a fatal stroke, and in a day or two (or, at this rate, some time in February), we'll abruptly transition back to Charterstone, with Dawn or Toby standing over Mary stretched out on the floor next to her half-packed suitcase...
Why was Mary so worried about taking water with her on previous walks, when there's a FREAKING HUGE RIVER COMPLETE WITH WATERFALL at her disposal. Of course, it's probably contaminated, but still!
I thought torture was outlawed by the Geneva conference!
@ Muscato: I had a similar thought after we were done with the widow June and the sharing circle began. I thought what if, once Mary goes back to Santa Royale we follow the adventures of Shannon at the Pax Wellness center. She, like Mary, meets her clients? And they spend weeks telling their boring stories about their boring lives. I figured the strip would be called "Mary Worth: Shannon's Stories!" This was Moy and company could double the pay check by having two strips at once and bringing a more youthful heroine to the strip to lure in the much sought after 18-25 female demographic!
I broke my foot at school this week and I've been treated to things like "learn from it!" "things happen for a reason"! You know what I've learned, Mary? That platitudes are bullsh**.
:)
How ironic! Mary spouts off about change in one's life while Moy's writing never changes.
Uh oh, I think I just saw Aggie float by...
I'm hoping that tomorrow we'll see the Maid of the Mist go by, full of Pax guests in blue rain ponchos. Including Aggie, who'll be giving Mary and Shannon the finger.
Will this simply not just die?!
OMG! Sunday's strip is a replay of every ridiculous platitude uttered in this train-wreck of a 'storyline'. In case we didn't get the profound message the first time around??? Deranged desert dweller needs to show up and shove these two down a canyon somewhere... PLEASE!
So, as the dog my upstairs neighbor has in her apartment yaps away and scares my aged cat I should ask myself what I can learn from this? O.K....
I've learned my upstairs neighbor is a total douche, especially since this is the second time she's had the dog up there in violation of her lease and my sanity. I hate the sound of hight-pitched barking. My cat is freaked out by high-pitched barking....
Yep, that made it ALLLL better!
What a crop of crap.
I'm with heydave. This thing needs to die. It will give Moy a chance to learn about herself!
P.S. Craptastic book!!
SUNDAY
All along, I felt as if KM was making it up as she went along. Why else the sudden appearance of Aggie and the quickie wrap-up with pointless platitudes? Why else the disappearance of June et al? Why did Mary leave Charterstone for Pax in the first place? It's like KM was struggling and thought "something will occur to me. At least things will LOOK different!"
What a long, boring trip it's been.
Please go to Amazon to read Wander's glowing review of Moy and Giella's book. I am certain that the authors will appreciate the additional two or three copies that will be sold as a result of the buzz.
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