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Our first Master of the Month for the 2017-2018 school year will be Jack Kirby. He was the co-creator of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and more. He would have been 100 years old this month. Kirby introduced Captain America with a political statement. The titular hero punched Hitler in the face nine months before the United States entered World War II. American Nazis hated that cover. “Pick a lamppost,” they told him, “Because you’ll hang from it when Hitler arrives.” Kirby was stouthearted. Once, while he was in the Timely Comics office, he received an angry call from someone in the lobby. The caller threatened Jack with bodily harm if he showed his face. Kirby told the caller he would be right down, but by the time Jack reached street level, there was no one there. “The only real politics I knew,” Jack Kirby said, “was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.”
This triptych is titled “I don’t know how to trim a beard.”
Get ready to fall in love with this face! Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd’s short film, Unlovable, was a laugh riot. Which means, I think, that you’ll be seeing a lot more of it soon.
We make hours turn into seconds together
The weight of the world feel like a feather
‘Cause we’re holding it right in our hands
Sick days are for Thor.
I took the kids to see a movie at the Universal Studios theatre. The fancy seats have foot rests, and they recline completely at the push of a button. My children woke me up when the credits began to roll.
“Put on your shoes! We’re going to get pie! And dinner. But mostly pie!”
This beard was a birthday present for my daughter, the only thing she asked of me. Now that her bday has come and gone though, I can’t decide what to do with it: learn to groom it, wait and see, or shave it away. I don’t know.
PLAY at the Autry Museum isn’t the exhibit that I expected, but that’s probably a good thing. The kids had a much better time there than I thought they would.
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