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POTATO MOON, Part 45: “From Out in Left Field” by Matthew “Yotsuyasan” Atanian

“Why, to be my Queen!” the man exclaimed.

With that, he threw back his hood and indeed shed his entire cloak. Bela was startled to find his visage was not at all hideous as she had imagined. Indeed, she found him rather handsome. That his ears were decidedly not symmetrical with ...

POTATO MOON, Part 44: “Off the Rails” by Matt Adler

The walls of the castle began to shake. The companions looked around in alarm, and quickly saw that this was no passing tremor; it was steadily increasing in intensity. “Go!” Bela screamed. Too late. Debris began to rain down and Bela lost sight of her companions. Soon, blackness took her.

Her ...

POTATO MOON, Part 43: “That Which Directly Follows Part 42,” by Tayna Laubacher

As the madness unabashedly continued elsewhere in Washington state, two men sat a picnic table on a hill overlooking a quaint American town, that could have been anywhere in the nation. Accept that it was somewhere near the northwestern Pacific coast, which meant persistent clouds, chilled air and the vast ...

A Doonesbury Icon for Obama

For the last few decades, Garry Trudeau has represented each American President with an icon. GWB went through the most, eventually ending up as a floating Roman centurion's helmet with increasingly tattered plumage as the war dragged on.

Thus far, though, Obama has yet to be assigned an icon.  Today's ...

POTATO MOON, Part 42: “The Douglas Adams Memorial Chapter” by Lynette Browning-Brock

Bela, newly empowered by her fluttering swarm of tiny mothlike friends, wheeled on the Potato King.  "You monster!  You knew this would happen!  You've made everything worse, and I can't even figure out how that's possible considering the storyline so far!"

"Don't, darling," Edwood soothed.  "You know you get those awful ...

POTATO MOON, Part 41: “Questions Without Answers” by Miriam Rocke

The Potato King frowned.  "What are fanfiction writers?"

Jakob mooed, meaning either "How do you know so much about freaking
werecows but haven't heard of fanfiction?" or else "ow ow ow can we
please get back to the POINT before I DIE."

Edwood said, "Let me explain.  No, there's too much.  Let me sum ...

POTATO MOON, Part 40: “An Uncomfortable Situation” by Jason Andrew

Jakob mooed painfully.

Something was horribly wrong.  He tried to shift forms again, but agony shattered his concentration.  He was nevered that good at focusing his attention, except towards Bela, potatoes, and on occasion heartfelt teenage coming of ages movies he found late at night on Cinemax.

Edwood patted Jakob uncomfortably.  He ...

A JOSS-LESS BUFFY?

Whedon fans are up in arms over the widely reported notion of "Buffy" being rebooted on the big screen sans Whedon.

I could very well be wrong--in fact, wouldn't be surprised if I was--but I see this as a big negotiating ploy. I think that at some point the producers ...

POTATO MOON, Part 39: “Storming the Castle” by Chris Magnano

"Who was that?" Yukon Gold asked as Edwood put his phone away.

"Moo?" Jakob seconded.

"Um, that was my step father.  I like him to keep tabs on me.  We have a rather special relationship."  Edwood shrugged his shoulders the merest fraction of a centimeter to demonstrate his nonchalance.

"Good for you," Yukon ...

POTATO MOON, Part 38: “Four Short of the Answer To It All, or Kevin Smith Plus One” by Arlene C. Harris

Meanwhile back at stately Sullen Manner, Dr. Argyle Sullen was engrossed in the new game from Poptart Games, “Potatoes Vs. Werewolves” and he couldn’t get the catchy themesong “there’s a werewolf in my yard” out of his head. Not surprising since he was a 400 year old doctor and his ...