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2:33 PM, 9/25/2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

It's pretty obvious I'm a crossword junkie. The New York Times and I have a date each day at lunch. I read a story or two, a column or two then get to the Arts section to peel out the crossword. But Thursday through Sunday the crossword can only be completed by a MENSA convention.

So I get finally get desperate enough to turn to the Daily Herald. Yes, yes, we all know the end of that joke, so just keep your cake hole closed. Anyway, sometimes I do the Herald's crossword, which is surrounded by the worst collection of comics since "Alley Oop," "Rose is Rose," "Buckles" and "Crankshaft" which are, not suprisingly, the exact comics I'm talking about.

One of those is also "Mary Worth", which for years, decades even, I've scorned, laughed at and mocked, which all pretty much mean the same thing. Seriously, who's going to follow a cartoon that's maybe two panels long and is a freaking DRAMA about old people and some slightly less older people they know.

You want to know who? ME, that's who.

It's the repetition, I suppose. Looking at that comic, at first off-hand, and then reading it while I mull over how many times this month the crossword is going to use "tor" for an answer. (It's a craggy hill.) But about a week ago I realized I was reading Mary Worth FIRST when I opened the page.

I mean, I had to see what was going to happen to Dr. Drew after Dawn caught him and Vera at the horse riding park. Dawn certainly deserved better than to find those two at her favorite riding place. Granted, Drew tried to break up with her on the phone, but seriously. Then she went and slapped his face on last Tuesday, that was awesome...

Ah, crap.
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11:24 PM, 9/25/2007 .. Posted by ataylor
"Mary Worth"? -- I have lost all respect for you.

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