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As we've seen, Elly seems transfixed by the notion that no one on the Earth has suffered as much as she has. You and I see a rather nondescript housewife living the sort of charmed, cozy existence that most of the human race would envy. She has a jackhole husband willing to indulge her whims, pliable children, people content to let her extract her pound of flesh and the indulgence of a community too apathetic to slay the local dragon. Since she's a selfish, ignorant child who confuses her petty envies and minor greeds with genuine deprivation and since she seems to think that the need other people have to express themselves is a malevolent attempt to deprive her of everything she has, she seems to believe herself entitled to reduce those around her to serfdom as a means of paying herself back for her lifetime of horrible abuse. There is one obstacle that stands in the way of her playing the victim card; this obstacle (known, of course, as Jim Richards) remembers that she always was a tiresome ignoramus who stood around ranting about things she didn't know thing blessed one about (owing to her hapless inability to understand the world around her) as well as remembering that his daughter is a spoiled brat whose eyes are bigger than her stomach. Hell, he even remembered that most of the time, she was lecturing her kids not to do stuff she did as a kid. This meant that as much as Elly was grateful that Jim kept the Martian occupied, she didn't like that he was doing unfair things like telling her that the world was not arranged so as to satisfy the petty whims of the ignorant or that excelling at a skill is loads of fun or that Mommy is the local sales rep for Crapola. Rather than admit that her hatred of people who work towards a goal is the yowling of a mongrel sitting on the porch because she couldn't run with the big dogs, Elly had to find some way to marginalize him so as to keep him from poisoning April's mind any further. The best way of doing so is to place an ignorant, abrasive, demeaning incompetent who doesn't have the brains God gave an ant in charge of his care. This is why it's great that Iris is in charge of him. We know that she acted as if he were a spoiled child before his stroke and is too stupid and proud to ask for for the help Elly wouldn't have given anyway. What really seals the deal is not her brusquely assuming that she knows what she's doing because she already buried one husband owing to her ineptitude; she also dismisses the advice of the female therapists trying to help Jim because they're young and don't have penises. Her need to obey the male doctor who only saw him once ensures that Jim will never be able to spoil Elly's victimism with his evil and unfair reality.

As I mentioned a little while ago, Elly, Iris, Marian and Georgia share the desire to see the men in their lives quit smoking. Jim and Phil do quit for a time but, sooner or later, they return to the habit and scowl about how selfish meddlers want to deny them their link to sanity while they pretty much run around in circles and look, talk and act like a pair of junkies in high panic mode because they need a fix yesterday, man. The reason I mention this is that it's one of the things that Lynn consistently gets right; her rightness about how smokers are psychologically and chemically dependent on coffin nails even extends into the Declining Years. That being said, it seems somewhat odd that the excuse Connie uses to travel to Montréal and making a clingy chump of herself is that she "has" to return a different delivery system for Phil's favorite addictive chemical: the pipe she catches Michael and Lawrence playing with. The only thing that makes it sort of appropriate is that she's addicted to the idea of getting a man to complete her.

The problem with taking Elly's part, as I did yesterday, is that she really doesn't seem to know How Things Work. As an example, she seems to have not noticed how buttoned-down society was in the nineteen fifties and why; not only did the victors of the Second World War want Rosie the Riveter to change back into Suzie Homemaker after the emergency situation that got her out of the kitchen was over, there were two horrors that frightened them into wanting to turn back the clock. Those demons were named International Communism, which made the average Joe fear any sort of social change, and the Hydrogen Bomb whose presence meant probable doom to all; since Jim and Marian lived as I and my parents did in the shadow of Oppenheimer's deadly toy, they wanted a safe, tidy world wherein traditional values held a certain amount of weight. This meant, of course, that little girls had to be protected from tomboyish behavior for what society at large agreed was their own good. If that meant that Elly got a bicycle later than Phil, it was sort of unfair but those were the rules. Also, the antics of little boys were shrugged off as harmless enough monkeyshines as their parents quoted the law "Boys will be boys" and "Proper young ladies should mind their manners"; the Richardses didn't set out to be jerks but it just sort of happened that way. The worst of it is that their attitudes changed too late to do any good; they knew that they'd frakked up royally and made Elly of the non-stop victimism feel unloved but couldn't do sweet Richard all about it. Since they couldn't undo her upbringing, all that was left was trying to make her adult years better.

I realize that this is coming out of left field here but I'd like to rehash a favorite subject of mine: trying to figure out what Jim and Marian really thought of John. It would seem to me that Marian had a higher opinion of Train Man than her husband. This is, of course, owing to her need to think that Elly can do no right; he cannot be blamed for Elly's flaking out and spoiling everyone's hopes for her. It doesn't really matter that she was so down on herself that his suggestion that she be a SAHM seemed like salvation; that's because the poor self-image that resulted from years of the corrosive bullshit we saw spewing from Great Grandma BattleAxe's mouth isn't the problem; if Elly were 'good', she'd be able to withstand an unremitting stream of verbal abuse. Jim, on the other hand, might not be so quick to see John as the ideal husband; that's because he actually did have a certain amount of faith in his daughter; in his eyes, she didn't need a keeper. Sadly, nobody else, not even Elly herself, seems to have thought that way. This, it seems, is why he was so great with April; if I'm reading the situation right, he was trying for a second chance to raise Elly. If he couldn't get the real one to have a happy life, a lookalike would have to do.

As we all know, Mike idolized his grandmother Marian. It's hard to see why, though. The sequence that had him wax rhapsodic about how swell a lady she was faithfully recorded her blowing him off, dumping him in a peeved Grandpa Jim's lap and enjoying her favorite past time: chewing Elly out for her imaginary inadequacies. Whenever we saw the old doll, she ran her mouth about how lazy, spoiled and immature Elly was, how her cooking and cleaning didn't measure up and how disappointed she always was in her. Her Liography said she did all that to keep Elly from being a spoiled petty tyrant; the message I got was that she did that because she was herself tyrannical and small-minded. The end result was that Elly burned herself into the ground doing pointless busywork she hated trying to please a woman who couldn't be pleased and collecting junk she didn't need so that people would take her seriously. That's, of course, because her dizzy old meataxe of a mom was the source of the Pattersons' love of needlessly complicating their lives with clutter; the only one to escape that was April who fell in with Jim's bizarre, unfoobly habit of only keeping one or two souvenirs.

As you know, Elly’s behavior doesn’t seem to make much sense in real world terms if you believe that she had the bland childhood she claims to have had. It’s difficult to tie together the following odd phenomena:

Elly does not regard Vancouver as being home but simply as where she used to live.
Her moving thousands of miles away to Southern Ontario but never again doing anything that adventurous.
Her desperate need to drop out of University so as to marry and have a family.
Her constant cleaning that, for some odd reason, results in nothing getting done.
Her obsessive fear of being harshly judged by a world that doesn’t actually care.
Her emotional distance from those around her.
Her constant moaning about how bad her life is.
Her treatment of Jim in his old age.
Her distant relationship with her brother
Her need to have someone like Connie to feel superior to
Her dread of motorcycles
Her need to abolish anything that isn’t familiar and safe.

unless you assume that Elly had suffered some sort of horrible disruption in her past that she never shared with her family. In a recent blog entry. forworse put things together the only way that makes any real-world sense: she assumed that Elly had gotten pregnant when she was seventeen. It seemed likely to her that, rather than face the scandal of having their daughter be seen to be carrying someone else’s illegitimate child, acknowledge its existence or look her in the face, Jim and the others packed her off to relatives in the Toronto area where she could have the kid in secret and then stay there so they wouldn’t have to be reminded of their shame. It also explains why the Hell the old buzzard never smiled and why Elly went into convulsions when she learned that he didn’t care if Philip cohabited with Georgia. It’s not very pleasant to realize that your dad is the sort of fink who thinks that having a Y-chromosome allows you to get away with pretty much everything. It explains her depression, fear of being judged and need for safety at all costs: I should think that she lives her life still convinced that her parents were right to treat her like she wasn’t fit to live among civilized people. This self-loathing is almost as crippling as her fear that said child would one day emerge from the shadows and destroy all that she had managed to create for herself. It seems likely that even now that forty years have past, John would react negatively to being reminded that she had a past that didn’t include him; what’s more, she assumes that if people knew something that didn’t affect them in any way or was really worth mentioning, she’d be the pariah that her parents made her all over again.

It would seem that we might soon be subjected to the story arc that depicts Elly’s extended visit to her parents. I can’t quite remember the reason she did it in the original continuity but I have a fair idea of what reason will be offered this time. Simply put, Elly will have had too much work, too much time near children and too little support from her oafish boor husband to be able to cope; she’ll need to get away from her ~~family~~problems or she’ll go nuts. This, of course, is a rather specious reason because we’ve seen that Elly deliberately piles on the work as a means of getting attention and sympathy. What’s more, her parents know her well enough to see what she’s up to. They go so far as to remind her what an immature, selfish little fool she is. This, of course, is meant to show them as being blind and mean-spirited clods who don’t know or care how hard her life is. Unfortunately for Lynn, her attempt to make them bad people will end up making them folk heroes. It doesn’t matter how grumpy Jim is or how passive-aggressive Marian gets; since they call Elly on her BS, they’ll have a following among those who snark Foob.

howtheduck made an interesting point today. As you know, she'd planned to end the strip last year only to miss her deadline generating false suspense as to who'd marry Liz. She also wanted to leave her other characters' story lines equally open-ended so as to create an audience for The Tome of Destiny. We were supposed to see the following branching-off points a year ago:

- April's garage band breaking up so she concentrate on her studies with the understanding that she will eventually marry her Twoo Wuv Gerald.

- Michael becoming a best selling author worried about becoming too big for his britches.

- Deanna balancing a career and motherhood.

- Liz and Anthony settling down to more or less become the new Elly and John.

- Jim and Iris spending their last years in an assisted living facility.

and

- John and Elly seeing Jim's poor health as a reminder that one day, one of them will have to take care of the other.

Since she gave herself an extra year, she had to find some way to force people's story lines back to the conclusion she'd decided on. To that end, we had the business last spring where April and Gerald had a spat over his touring with Evil Becky, the Blood Cargo ego-fest and more strips with Dee being gobsmacked. This is also why Jim had a second stroke. That way, his health problems would still be fresh in people's minds so they could believe in Lynn's attempts to revisit the recent past just as much as they do her rehashing the distant past.

One of the things that

howtheduck has noticed that Lynn's attempts to make the Pattersons look better fail to do so. Instead, the Patterson whose reputation Lynn tries to salvage looks worse. As we all know, her attempt to prove that Anthony was the injured party in his marriage turned his wife into a folk-hero and her sequence with Mike and his children six months ago only proved that he was a worse failure as a father than we'd thought. Where the Pattersons really shine as horrible people, of course, is how they interact with Jim. We've seen that Mike and Liz only appear when they want something. This is bad enough but who really fails as a person is Elly. We've seen her stand there looking at Jim with an oddly-detached look on her face as if his and Iris's needs had nothing to do with her. Now, we're going to see that she's, as anna_bat_sarah said, far too immature to be trusted with his care because she seems to regard her duties as "sitting down and supervising the nurses", "acting as if Jim were a naughty child" and "spouting nonsense about how she understands what he's going through when she doesn't have a clue". This will provide us with more examples of Pattersons Behaving Awfully. It will also make his usual dimwit caregiver look good.

howtheduck raised an intersting point on his blog yesterday. If you check out Iris's retcons on the FBorFW.com site, you'll notice a pattern: she can't abide the people her children married. Not only that, they live so far away from Milborough, visiting them is difficult for a person on a fixed income like her so she does it very regularly. This means that she's not a regular part of her children's lives. Not only that, Jim is fine with that. He, too, isn't involved all that much with Phil and Georgia and spent most of his time in Milboring trying to avoid Elly and the others. They'll complain about their children's choices to their faces but they won't go further than that because the kids have made their mades and thus must lie in them. They may not be mice people but they're easier to take than John and Elly. As we know, Train Man and Flapandhonk have arranged their lives so that their adult children are living the lives they chose for them. The road to adulthood leads not to the freedom they have but to dependence on them for almost everything. This is, of course, so that when John's time to go the the Big Roundhouse in the Sky comes, Elly can become a female Ed Crankshaft, living in Mike or Liz's house, spouting nonsense and cooking greaseburgers.

As we all know, there's nothing more appalling than a Patterson attempting to be virtuous. A fairly good example of that was Elly sitting April down after the Housening and admitting that she and John should have probably tried to find out what was bothering her but now, after things were too late, she understands the issues she should have addressed when she had the chance. The revelation in the strip for 22 July 2008 that she's going to stay with Jim while Iris gets a well-deserved rest put a nasty idea in my head about how Jim was going to end up in Sunset Manor. As we know, Elly is fairly ignorant and gets frustrated really easily and quickly. Instead of stolidly and somewhat witlessly plodding along like Iris has been doing, she's going to want a fast, fast solution to what will seem to her an insoluble problem: dealing with her father's needs. This means that before he needs to and before Iris or April can object, Elly will check him into Assisted Living. Watching her justify a decision borne of impatience rather than real need will be almost as entertaining as criticizing the Coffee Squawkers who think that Elly's a saint.

One thing that I wonder about from time to time is what Jim really thinks of Anthony. He, like most people Elly encounters, has been subjected to a barrage of nonsense about how funny, smart and charming he's supposed to be. On the rare occasions that he's met the man, he sees how off-base his daughter is. He probably chuckles to himself about how she said much the same thing about John and how poor a judge of character she is. He probably thinks that Elly is shoving them together because she can't or won't see how big a failure the guy is. I should also expect that he'd have asked pointed questions about the man's first marriage. The huffy, self-righteous, "You-can't-blame-me" attitude we'd no doubt have seen every time Therese was mentioned is too much like the one April copped when he called her on treating Becky like a traitor because she didn't realize that she was "supposed" to do what she was told. He'd quickly realize that his family was demonizing this woman because she got in the way of what they wanted. He also knows Elly well enough that she won't see how bad an idea this is until she has proof that even she cannot deny. He knows he won't live to see it but sooner, rather than later, the Pattersaints will be forced to see how they've embraced another devil to their bosom.

As I said yesterday, Liz is more worried about a dead woman who has no say in the matter than the living people around her. Consciously or not, she's doing this to punish all the people who've ever made her feel bad. She may not have intended to be cruel to her grandfather and his wife but she was. First off, the very fact that she appeared in a wedding dress out of nowhere is a horrible thing to do to two old people. As howtheduck said, they can only assume that she'd gotten married without inviting them. Even after that fact is cleared up, the hate just keeps on coming. First off, rubbing Jim's face in the fact that time has passed him by is a horrible thing. He's forced to remember all the good times he had and the loss of the woman who wore the dress. Also, his second wife is standing right there, being reminded that they expect her to compete with and lose to a ghost. He desperately wants to apologize for his family's witless cruelty but cannot. If he could get out of that chair and tell people off, he most certainly would.

As we all know, Mira's always thought that any problems in her daughter's life can be traced to the same source: the worthless twit she married. Over the years, we've seen strong hints that Mira lies awake at night asking herself the following questions:

- Why does a daugher she raised to seek out the best in everything buy second hand goods for her children?

- Why did she live in a series of rathole apartments?

- Why is she treading water financially when she was brought up to be careful with her money?

- Why does the bright, cheerful young woman who went to Honduras look like a carbon copy of the shouting idiot she calls a mother-in-law?

All these horrible questions have a horrible answer: the selfish creep she'd married is draining the life out of her. As far as Mira can see, the daydreaming slacker sits on his fat ass pretending that he's a big time author thereby forcing Deanna to wear herself out to support him. This, to her, is a terrible thing because she could have married a better man and had a better life. The only real problem with that line of reasoning is that Deanna wants to do this. She, for reasons that make sense to her, refuses the life her mother had planned for her. Not for her the understanding that Mom thinks that she has to be twice as good as everyone else just to be accepted. Everything we know about Deanna tells us that she wants nothing to do with the overly-structured life her mother values. She's willing to endure a few minor inconveniences in the name of a slower life. She clearly thinks that once things settle down, she'll have the quiet, tidy life she thinks that the Pattersons have. To sum up, she knows she can do the things her Mom wants her to, she just doesn't want to.

This sort of contrasts her with her role model, Elly. As we've seen over the years, our hero complains non-stop about the potential she's wasting raising children and cleaning house. What's more, Jim was always right in there mourning the loss of the great contribution she made to society, always seemingly ready to blame John and his selfish habit of keeping his child from excelling for her constant unhappiness. He, too, would do so in vain because Elly was not really serious about wanting her degree. She wanted a husband, kids and a home to care for and she wanted to complain about having them because she's only happy when she's upset and getting everyone else wound up. I remember most of the strips from the early years and she wasn't talking about her great work never being accomplished. She wanted to hear adult voices that talked about things she might care about and that was that.

It seems obvious that right from when Jim had his first stroke that the only character not really affected by it was John. Even Elizabeth, who can scarcely be bothered to think of anyone beside herself, was moved by it. Not moved enough to not give away his harmonica or visit him much, mind you, but it did disturb her enough to realize that it could divide the family. That might be what she'd tell herself when she was trying to explain why she gave the harmonica away, that the family couldn't afford to be distracted by a side issue. That, parentheticaly, would be a great suggestion to hand into Coffee Talk. John's sang-froid is somewhat difficult to explain. I've only seen him visit Jim the once and that was with Elly in tow. Otherwise, he can't get away fast enough. The reason seems obvious enough when you consider that he doesn't go to visit his own parents all that often; he doesn't like hanging around old people because he doesn't want to remind himself that he's old, too. He can rag on Doctor Ted being a pathetic old fool chasing after women for hours but he, you see, is middle aged. It doesn't matter to him that he's damned near retired, that he has two grandkids now and will have a bunch more now that Liz and Anthony have finally settled down and that he's older than most of his youngest child's parents. He. Is. Not. Old. Being old, you see, is what Jim is because he is sick and weak. Iris is old because she has nothing much left to live for. It matters not that both people called him on being on the fast track to Geezer City because he belives things that their parents rejected as being archaic, since he feels good about himself, he's still fairly young.

It seems obvious that Elly isn't really all that worried about what Jim is going through right now. We know that he is lucid for the most part but seems to be slowly slipping into a predicted state in which he no longer recognizes his surroundings or the people around him, thereby moving him from the Senior's complex in which he now lives to spend the last of his days in an assisted living environment. Her refusal to be bothered by this or to offer Iris clearly needed help makes her look selfish and ungrateful because we can clearly see that even for a healthy young woman taking care of the indefinitely infirm would be backbreaking labor. I should think that we'd end up seeing strips in the immediate future that would point out that Elly spent most of her time trying to get Iris to make things easy on herself and let Jim go to Sunset Manor, that letting go would be the best thing for everyone. This is because Lynn sort of realizes that Elly kind of looks like a creep and wants to retcon away her sins. I should also expect to see something that explains that our turnip-nosed protagonist had gone through the stages of grief in a few milliseconds, that she's convinced that her dad is dead but his body doesn't know it yet. I get the feeling the point of all this drama we're seeing is to convince Iris and April that it's letting go of him and moving on is the best way to honor him.

It seems obvious to me that Jim will pass away quietly in ther first few pages of the Tome of Destiny. That's one of the few facts upon which I can agree with Lynn. I disagree with the family's belief that he'll do so not knowing what's happening to him, however. It disturbs me that they've given up on him so easily just because the doctor says so. It doesn't shock me, though. Elly's worst fear is that she'd be lucid but unable to communicate so she'd rather think that Elvis has left the building, so to speak. As for Iris, she wouldn't seek out a second opinion because she doesn't want to hurt the first doctor's feelings. Everyone who isn't April follows their lead. It's pretty awful that his last thoughts will be about how much he loves his family while they think he's not thinking much at all but it happens too often to be a rarity. That leaves us the question of what happens to Iris after Jim's memorial service. Lynn would probably have us believe that Elly would indeed take care of her for whatever time she has left, that she'd have lost a second husband but gained a daughter. I don't know about that. It seems to me that after Jim had passed, Elly would start to thinking that if Iris hadn't stuck her nose in where it didn't belong, she'd have had more time with a lucid dad. As I've said before, Iris would go from a Tireless Ministering Angel to a Black Widow in a Milborough minute once her husband danced off into Batiuk's Great White Void. I can see her spending whatver time she has left in the company of her daughter and her family, sullied, sickened and confused by the behavior of her second husband's family.

It occurs to me that it was, after all, more or less necessary to end the Patterson saga with Jim in declining health. It wouldn't be realistic to have a man in his mid-eighties without some sort of health concern that would make him think that each holiday might be his last. The problem I have is Lynn's questionable choice of the infirmity she assigned him. As you all know, the general reaction to his stroke may be summed up by the phrase "being a gratuitous jerk". Aside from April, none of the Pattersons have shown any sign that they care what happens to him. This is because they falsely believe that the man they knew is gone. There are many perils facing the elderly that could raise the chances of sudden death that leave him with the ability to communicate. When you consider that Elly spent years complaining about Jim's smoking, we could have reasonably expected to have seen a storyline based of his being diagnosed with emphysema. That would make the Pattersons and Iris look a lot less foolish. Iris, for instance, would only have to learn how to monitor and maintain his oxygen tank. Watching her master that would cretainly make her look a lot smarter than she does now, what with her inability to tell for sure what he wants. A Mike and Elly who tell him to save his breath for himself would look way more charitable than the goof who asked if Jim was crazy or the daughter who treats him like a simpleton. All we'd need is the odd couple of strips showing him trundling along and his story could then write itself. That way, he wouldn't have to suffer from over-exposure as do Liz, Anthony and Mike.

It seems obvious that Jim doesn't have much time left on this Earth. He may have been there for this holiday season but things do not look good for the next. Given that truth, it's time to ask ourselves what he'd leave behind. Or, more appropriately, how those left behind would react:

Iris: Jim would be the second husband she'd have lost within the space of about five years and that would, of course, devastate her. She'd spend the rest of her life wondering if she did enough. Or, as far as that goes, the right thing. I'd say she'd have an awful thing to wish for -- that the man not have been aware of what was happening.

Elly: She'd turn on Iris in a Milborough minute. The same woman who was an adequate care-giver when her dad was alive would be a hopeless incompetent before he'd entered full rigor. We could also look forward to her being a shit about any will Jim might have written.

John: He'd make some pompous remark about how the man died because he didn't act his age. According to the Train Douche, having fun in public kills.

Mike: We could well expect him to somehow try to promote his book, anout how Jim hung around just long enough to see his favorite (and only) grandson become a success.

Deanna: She'd spout some chirpy, trippy-sounding pile of mush about birds and flowers to hide the fact that she didn't know the man from Adam.

Liz: She'd manage to upstage his disgusting brother and boring old dead guy by announcing that she wasn't going to waste any more time: she was going to marry Anthony.

April: The only other person who'd miss Jim if he were gone. Too bad her family wouldn't let her grieve. If she wasn't stuck home with the Patterspawn, they'd accuse her of trying to ruin his funeral for everyone by calling Liz on letting her stalker get away with swiping Jim's harmonica because he spouted some phony flattery.

Remember last year, we were told that Jim and Iris were gently told to not show up at the Pattermanse for Christmas because of the chaos engendered by having too many people under one roof? It occurs to me that Jim is being ignored in his time of need because the family focuses on non-issues instead of what's important. We've seen it happen before. Elly's career as a mother is based on her either being in a blind panic about things that never seem to occur, smugly thinking nothing is wrong when disaster is about to strike or ranting about something she doesn't understand. Nothing I've seen in the last twenty-eight years leads me to believe that she knows what's important. Add into things a husband so self-absorbed, he's in his own little world and you quickly realize that these people waste their time on the trivial and silly. There were two non-events that monopolized the Pattersons' time to the exclusion of the more obvious priority of caring for Grampa Jim:

1) The Housening. It seems to me and to a lot of people that it would have taken a matter of weeks to find Mike, Deanna and their kids an acceptable hoooooooooome, no matter how pooooooor they were. Instead, they hung around like a bad smell so Deanna and John could manipulate everyone into the domestic arrangement that suited them. All it took was making April feel like a piece of crap but in an odd way, they did her a good turn. She can't really rely on having the 'rents look out for her after she hits eighteen because they'll be barely getting by themselves because they're stupid with their money.

2) The Settlepocalypse. The time not spent worrying about overcrowding and who was going to have to give up what was wasted stressing on Liz and her pointless issues. Fretting about her and her fellow obsessive and the havoc they wreak on the world seems to me to be an exercise in futility. Like it or not, people like her and Awfulny just seem to get stuck with one another and there's little we can do about it.

What makes things worse is that it could be that this was done deliberately in order to not have to face things. Elly, you see, fears being dependent on other people. Her idea of horror is being in the position her dad is in now. If she avoids him, shuts him out of her heart, she can pretend that it might not happen to her.

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Entries tagged with chinnuts

Iris: The Most Loyal Vassal.....

On smoking in the Foobisphere.

Elly versus her childhood.

John and the in-laws......

Marian the not-so-great......

The Grand Unifying Theory of Elly……

Marian and Jim in the new-runs

Of repeated themes and missed deadlines...

Elly : Failed Caretaker

Iris and Jim, Elly and John : a comparison

Jim, Elly and Sunset Acres, A Prediction.......

Anthony, Therese and Jim.

Jim, Iris and the Miracle Dress.

Mira and Jim and John and Deanna.....

John's absence from Jim's side: an explanation.....

Elly and Jim: a theory.

The Big Book of Foob Destiny, Chapter Six: Jim and Iris.

Image vs. Reality, Part Five: Jim and Iris.

After Jim: An impact assessment......

House of Distractions.....