Bad Teacher and Lost Jeremy

Aside from the astonishing revelation that teachers can ruin the very subject they teach, today gave us almost nothing upon which to snark. I suppose there was a certain degree of astonishment after having had so many uplifting strips about the importance of teachers that Lynn would actually put one in that showed them in a different light.

Jeremy Jones was doing pretty much just reaction posts today until the always challenging Adrianne_p posted in the Meta how she would like Alexandra portrayed watching the TV program Lost, and in particular posting how Alexandra does not like a character on the show, by viewing comments she made to a board that talks about Lost. I have never seen this show and so the comments made on the other board were so much gobbledy-gook to me, because they were inside jokes and references to things seen on the show I had not seen. I was checking out Lost links and at the time nobody had posted an episode summary for tonight’s show. So, I researched the show and made some guesses. Hopefully it was a decent post, but who knows?

The good constable is getting better and went for a dinner date with Liz, only to be interrupted by Billy Strongblood. I jumped back into the 7 fires prophecy thing. I did not realize the first time I found this description, how really important this story is. Apparently, a long time ago, before the whites came to the Americas; there was this story about the prophets of the 7 fires who predicted the coming of the whites and the destruction of the natives’ way of living. The meaning of the prophecies is argued on several websites, because the final prophecy is that from the light-skins and the natives a new race will emerge. I tried to make this the focal point for Billy Strongblood and Paul Wright’s conversation without going into it too much, otherwise it will be a tremendous bore. The more I post as Paul Wright, the more I realize that he is essentially a man to provide love and conflict for Liz. The fact he is willing to travel hours to meet a girl he has only seen in a photograph indicates his need for a relationship. The fact he is a policemen who treated Elly with extreme patience and politeness, says he is a straight arrow, law-abiding kind of guy. The fact he referenced his grandfather in talking to Liz says he respects his elders and the traditions of his people. There is nothing wrong with the guy that I can see, except for being a little desperate to meet a woman. So, I am using him to push schmoosie a bit, posting as Liz—to put her into those situations of love and conflict, so she has a chance to portray Liz as more than wet rag or a limp biscuit.

Howard Kelpfroth. The solution to his return was written up by the fantastic qnjones tonight, with references to Sleeping Beauty, whom I did get to meet at Disneyland, by the way. There is a restaurant there where all the princesses come to each table for photographs and autographs. I asked her if she could recommend a mattress. She said I would have to ask the fairies, since they created her mattress with fairy magic. That was a pretty good answer.

Tomorrow’s strip is zits yet again and pity for the poor skinny girl who wishes she had curves like fat April. (Well Rebeccah called her fat, or so April says.) Yes, in the days of Paris Hilton, there is actually a teenage girl who doesn’t want to be skinny. Riiiight!