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President's Corner by ASIFA Central President Jim Middleton

So there I was, calmly working through a multiple choice exam on pharmacology, wondering if the insertion of questions involving naltrexone would be beyond the scope of the section...and I remembered that I had to finish an edit on futuristic kitchen film clips for a project involving futuristic kitchens... and that reminded me that I had left the water running in the kitchen sink, and that bothered the dog, who ran barking into the office...and I got him his allergy medicine, which then reminded me to include a question on antihistamines into the multiple choice mix.

And that made me consider cycles, so I got out my bicycle, and the odometer needed a battery, and I wound up at Radio Shack, and the clerk was drawing on his pipe, and that reminded me that I had to give out a drawing assignment for next Tuesday’s animation class, and I was on the linear park, and I thought linear-cycles-drawing, and figured this is really, really overthinking the situation, and that I could go for a cup of coffee.

So I was at the coffee shop, and the espresso machine was going tapoketa-pocketa, and that reminded me of Walter Mitty, and that reminded me of James Thurber, and that reminded me of his “Touche!” cartoon, and that reminded me of the National Lampoon “Toupe!” parody of it, and that reminded me that I still hadn’t turned off the water in the kitchen.

So I was pretty tired by the time I got back home, but the power had gone off, so the pump had stopped, so the water had stopped, so all was well, except the dog was still pretty annoyed.

So while I was thinking about being annoyed, I thought about how annoyed Bill O”Reilly was on C-Span when Al Franken called him a liar, and that reminded me how fun Franken’s book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” was, and that reminded me of how fun his previous book, “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot” was (and how it’s such a great title that I should say it twice, as in “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”) and that reminded me of a cartoon project I have been working on about His Royal Shrubness called “Political Asylum,” and how I showed clips of it at an ASIFA gathering, and then I remembered that Jennifer was waiting for me to get some comments to her for the upcoming ASIFA issue, and I thought, what a wonderful time to share my day with some of my closest friends.

So what’s new with you?
Jim Middleton