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I tried to find a good excerpt about thankfulness, but I didn't quite manage to come up with one. (I looked through a book by Deitrich Bonhoeffer, and funnily enough, the excerpt I ended up with is remarkably similar in theme to one I considered by him.) But I will say a few things I am thankful for in general: family, friends, a good work year, and especially that my little one on the way is healthy and just as she should be.

I'm also thankful to all the folks who have donated or made bids over at the kickstart_tu auction, and hoping that it continues to get more folks visiting over the next week and change that we're running it!

One of the books that I've always appreciated for distilling thoughts about the nature of divinity and the human relationship to the divine is a very small memoir called Mister God, This Is Anna. It's mostly a view of "Mister God" through the perspective of a six-year-old girl, who shares her wisdom with the author, Fynn. It has the kind of feel-good nature that reminds me of Thanksgiving, so that's where today's excerpt is coming from. I hope all of my American readers had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday, and all my international friends have many things to be thankful for, holiday or not.

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So far as Anna was concerned, being good, being generous, being kind, praying, and all that kind of stuff had very little to do with Mister God. They were, in the jargon of today, merely "spinoffs." This sort of thing was just "playing it safe," and Anna was going to have none of it. No! Religion was all about being like Mister God and it was here that things could get a little tough. The instructions weren't to be good and kind and loving, etc., and it therefore followed that you would be like Mister God. No! The whole point of being alive was to be like Mister God and then you couldn't help but be good and kind and loving, could you?

"If you get like Mister God, you don't know what you are, do you?"

"Are what?" I questioned.

"Good and kind and loving."

This last comment was delivered in her throw-away tone of voice as if it were insignificant and irrelevant. I knew this one of old. Either you had to pretend it hadn't happened, or start asking questions. A moment or two of hesitation on my part as I watched the grin spread from her toes and explode in one short sharp hoot of mirth, and I realized that she had sprung the trap. She had something to say and had forced me into asking the question. If I hadn't done it then I would have had to sooner or later, so...

"OK, Tich. What's all this goodness and kindness and loving lark then?"

"Well," and the tone of her voice slid down the roller coaster of excitement, shot up the other side, and took off. "Well, if you think you are, you ain't."

Life is meaningless and full of pain.

Suddenly it seems a thousand years ago when the G-Men were 5-0 and dominating. What the hell happened? Clearly I can't leave the country during football season. My teams just seem to fall apart without me.

Oh Fileberto's sausage burrito why were you so evil? Yes you seemed tasty as I ate you, but as my poor abused toilet can attest you were pure evil indeed. Oh the smells. The horrible horrible smells...

I'm having a #blackfriday print sale. All prints in my archive are $10 each. If you order two or more, you get a free pdf copy of my new book, Tomorrowland: The Art of Aaron Acevedo.

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As always, if you have any questions, ping me at aaronace[at]gmail[dot]com

Peace.

• 07:33 Prepping for a big layout job and thinking about doing a print sale for #blackfriday. #

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Poll #1491009 Thankful
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I am thankful

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Feeling much better this morning, and off in a few minutes to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family.

(I am once again relying on TIVO to record the Giants - Broncos contest tonight, so no commentary about it here, please. I probably won't watch it until tomorrow).

I have a lot to be thankful for. My readers, my friends, and most of all Parris.

I hope all you reading this are similarly blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving.

• 09:30 Happy thanksgiving to all my friends and family! Stay safe and have a great day. #

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As those of us in the right country (its the U.S.A. in case you were unsure) celebrate the harvest by gorging ourselves (and then having pie) let us not forget the less fortunate. Like me. Who is still lacking a pony. Because you're all a bunch of selfish bastards (because you haven't got me my pony)...

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I am sad because my shop ran out of the new Tick relaunch. So I have to wait for the re-order. I am happy though that I flipped thru Image United#1 before buying, because it was dumb and thus I saved myself four bucks...

Not dumb though? The new Beasts of Burden. Wise "dog" Orphan goes into the sewers in search of the final fate of a friend. Where he finds creepy rats. Plus a Rat King. Rat Kings are cool. Creepy as fuck. But cool...

In Criminal: The Sinners Tracy continues to investigate the death of several of Mr. Hyde's people. Plus some big clues as to the motivations of the killers...

I'm still not liking Molina's art on Avengers: The Initiative. Its very uneven and doesn't really work to show-case how threatening both Penance and Nightmare are meant to be here...

The Guardians of the Galaxy soldier on despite the loss of half their team to the Magus. And that means trying to explore the Fault and find a way to close it...

And finally the last issue of Models Inc. Kind of wishing I'd trade-waited on this one. Mostly because of the art again. Vincenc Villagrasa is a decent enough artist, but he doesn't do action scenes very well. I so wish that Tobin's wife had done the art. Oh well...

I got interviewed! I'm over at Weird Westerns talking about Serenity Adventures. Something will go up there about Cowboys and Aliens II soon, also.

Is it because the holidays are coming up that my brain is fried? If others are experiencing the same fried-brain symptoms, then I'll be happy to blame the season rather than myself. To everyone celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. tomorrow, I hope you have wonderful time with friends and family (and food)!