The Purple Sage Revisited Saturday, May 14, 2005

Received my high school's alumni magazine, with a lovely obit for Father Duffy (who I talked about a while ago). All of a sudden I remembered a detail from one of his freshman religion classes: He used to collect ads, headlines, cartoons, anything he could weave into a lesson; like a bird making a nest of strings and straws. One of his favorites was an ad for Life magazine: "Life: Consider the alternative."

I brought in one cartoon for him, which he seemed to like a lot. God (voice in cloud) is watching an artist painting something hubristic, can't remember what. Word balloon: "I admire his spunk." Lightning zaps the artist. "But nobody steals my act." He recognized the artist and the layout, and asked if I had gotten the page from Omni. I said yes. Close enough: One Guccione magazine is the same as another, right?

A signpost, and I didn't even know it. Ay yay yay, to be thirteen again.

@ 10:22:00 PM,

1 Comments:

At 1:42 PM, Blogger Rob L. said...

OMNI was the best science magazine ever. I have a dozen or so old issues in mothballs somewhere - there's some great stuff in there.

 

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