PDR Vomit News

No, this isn’t a post to reveal that I have vomited again. Luckily, I haven’t been sick or anything lately, so that’s not the issue. What is, unfortunately the issue is that I feel more like I could vomit.

Most recently, it was like a week ago, I was walking past a construction site. Dust filled the air pretty thickly, or at least my body felt it was pretty thick, and I began to cough, to retch, really. My eyes watered and, I could tell, if I had committed to it, I could have thrown up as easy as that. I didn’t vomit, though, but I could have. And that’s not the only time that’s happened. It seems like the last time I did throw up, I reminded my body that that was a thing it could do. So now, under certain circumstances, mostly related to air quality, my body wants to heave. I see this as a pretty unfortunate weakness.

Given this, I feel like it is very unlikely I will ever get another decade-long vomit-free streak. Not until we’ve all levelled up our bodies into a superior form. That day can’t come soon enough.

So anyway, that’s my vomit-related post for the day. You’re welcome!

“Sometimes a cigar is just a sitar,” I said, taking the cigar from his mouth and plucking at it. It made no sound. “I said ‘sometimes’.”

Super Sunday: Bella Harrison and Bunnra the Mighty

Bella Harrison

Bella Harrison is an enlightened old black woman who offers wise spiritual advice to white people who are having problems. It happens all the time. Some white person is losing confidence before the big game, or a married white couple is drifting apart, or some white detective just can’t seem to pull together the necessary clues to solve the case. One conversation with Bella and her down-to-earth wisdom helps to turn everything around.

But this skill has not gone unnoticed. People in power have caught on that Bella always seems to know what to do. A secret government task force was formed. At first they just monitored as she advised white people, but then they tried to go undercover and solicit advice for a made-up problem. Bella saw right through the ruse and fled. Now Bella is on the lam, always one step ahead of the task force that wants to know her secrets, even if it means bringing her in and dissecting her brain.

The Magical Negro is, of course, a patronizing attempt at white people who make movies to create black characters who are so great that the people who make the movies can’t possibly be racist. Instead of creating black characters who were realistically human, they did this. Naturally I needed to get onto that bandwagon and make it weird.

Bunnra the Mighty

Bunnra was, for a time, just an ordinary rabbit used in ordinary magic acts. She would “vanish” into a hat or “appear” from a sleeve. It was a good enough gig for a rabbit, she supposed, but it didn’t last. One day, the magician who owned her bought a used hat that he thought would add a touch of flair to his act. What he didn’t realize was that this hat was actually once the property of a genuine wizard. If he’d placed it on his head he would have been instructed in all manner of mystical arts, but before he did so, he wanted to make sure Bunnra would fit, and so it was that she was the one who was privy to the secrets of the cosmos. Soon being in a magic act is not enough for her and she returns to the woods to be back with her own kind, as a magical rabbit queen!

I started a tradition when I got rabbit-themed Superheroes and a rabbit-themed Supervillain into previous Super Sunday years. Had to keep it going. I think she and her realm of rabbits would have to meet the Horribloid.