THAT was a long five months!

On a personal note, I thought you’d all be relieved to know that I finally have a job again. Yes, you can get off of your pins and needles now. I got a job as a freelance web designer with Mayo (the clinic, not the condiment).

Hard to believe it was the end of July when I was laid off. I’d just seen “Superman Returns” and was gearing up for a major review of it on Monitor Duty, and then losing my job took the wind out of my sails. I think I’ve actually posted much less frequently when I didn’t have a job because when you’re unemployed you have to use all your time productively, either looking for a job, making money in other ways or doing chores around the house so you don’t feel totally useless.

My first thought when I was laid off was that I’d finally have time to write intensively and get Metro Med’s script finished up. Instead, I never even touched the script in those five months (due to, as I said, the need to job hunt and be productive, and writing a script for something that may never turn a profit is not “productive”). That turned out to be okay because in the end Phil Meadows found that he no longer had time to devote to being a comic book artist and Shooting Star Comics folded up shop. No, the project’s not dead, not at all…but I think the name for what’s happening now would be “re-tooling”. I have to find a new art team and a new comic company, and I have to find out if I’m doing a mini, an ongoing, a graphic novel, etc., before I can get the script completed.

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Inventor of Instant Noodles Dies This Past Week

This great little cartoon from www.phdcomics.com captures in a snapshot the contribution that this humble man made to human history. And I do mean that seriously.

The following info is quoted from here.

“He was born in Taiwan in 1910, when the island was under Japanese colonial rule. He moved to Japan in 1933, according to Japan’s daily Mainichi newspaper. Faced with food shortages in post World War II Japan, Ando developed the idea that a quality, convenient noodle product would help feed the masses. He founded Nissin in 1948. In 1958, “Chicken Ramen,” the first instant noodle product, was introduced after many trials. Following its success, the company continued to add innovative products, including “Cup Noodle” in 1971.“

Well one can well argue about the nutitional value of most of the instant noodles in North American supermarkets… but anyone who puts some affordable food in a human belly to keep them alive a day longer deserves a measure of honor when they cease to live anymore.

Thank you, Momofuku-San.

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