The Story Of O 2 (kinda), by Michael Davis
In my ever increasing attempt to break the mold, I am giving my fateful readers not one but one and a half columns today!
Last week’s The Story of O about a young man I mentored who attacked me with horrible career ending voice mail and text messages resulted in a wee bit of a stir. That article received a LOT of interest and some people have called me and asked me where ‘O’ and I stand now.
Well O still does not grasp the impact of what he did. His last text told me that he pitied me. Yep, I tried to help him and it did not work out so I’m the bad guy…pity. Well, I am done dealing with it. I realize that some people just don’t get it when you try and help them so I’m done.
Hey, wait! My birthday is coming up! I think I’ll give myself a pity party on the grounds of my VAST estate I built on the back of former students I mentored who I have never taken a dime from.
Mike Gold was my comics’ mentor when I started doing work for DC. I lost a HUGE job because DC did not like the work I was doing. Mike was the person who helped me get that job. I remember vividly getting the call that I was off the project because of what I did.
I walked into Mike’s office and called him all sort of names. I also turned Mike’s desk over then took out a Mac 10 and set my sites on him and then the rest of DC editorial for the first comic book company blood bath in history. Mike ducked under his desk as I fired my first shots barely missing his head.
“DIE GOLD DIE! HOW DARE YOU HELP ME! I LOST THE JOB BECAUSE OF MY ACTIONS SO I BLAME YOU!!!!” I shouted while looking for Mike under his desk. Mike came up from behind the desk and threw his Captain America shield at me! I have always wondered what a DC editor was doing with a Marvel character’s gadget. The shield knocked the gun from my hand and Mike and I stood looking at each other. Then like crazed animals (which in fact we were. HELLO, we work in comics!) we started running at each other with murderous rage in our hearts each yelling our battle cry! Flame on! Mike bellowed. It’s clobbering time! I screamed back! (Sorry DC, Marvel has the best battle cries. Up, up and away! is a bit lame)
OK, none of that ever happened.
I did lose a huge job that Mike helped me get. It was all my fault and I was devastated. What did I do? I went to my studio and did other samples over the next few weeks and presented them to DC and got the job back. DC had every right to fire me and I had no right to be mad at them or Mike. That makes NO sense what’s so ever. I wish O would learn that.
Strange, No STUPID Bedfellows, by Michael Davis
Straight, No Chaser #59 1/2
Last’s week column was supposed to be about politics and the sheer stupidly of the former Governor of New York, but I decided to address the O issue and as luck would have it the Clinton and Obama camps have gone buck wild since then and given me all this great stuff to write about!
So for now I will forgo the opportunity to chime in on the current Governor or former Governor of New York. So they can keep their Ho-humping, wife-cheating, hemp smoking and cocaine sniffing antics to themselves.
Before I go on, I want to clear up the “Senator Obama is coming to Comic Con” rumors that have been flying all over the net. Last year the Obama campaign talked to me about coming to the San Diego Comic Con. Why me?
Anywho, I never said he was definitely coming. I said he MAY come and people lost their mind!
Someone even called SDCC to confirm if he was coming. How do you confirm a “maybe?”
Message to whoever called Comic Con. May does not mean will. If you are expecting a young lady to put out because she said she may go out with you, then you are doomed to a lonely life of porn, my friend.
It is my hope that the Senator comes to Comic Con and I would be overjoyed to walk him around the floor (because people would recognize me so he would get a bit of exposure as well) but that is not a done deal and I never said it was…duh.
Last week The Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, a long time Clinton family friend and former member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet announced his support for Barack Obama.
Because of President Bush’s Patriot Act there is a recording of that conversation. Using my vast influence (and a state department employee who owed me 20 bucks) I managed to attain the transcript thus scooping CNN, ABC, NBC and Fox news!
I have a real fear that the Democrats will destroy each other and McCain will walk (with the help of a cane and medication) right into the White House. This week a bunch of powerful rich democrats sent an ugly letter to the Speaker of the House which in effect said “No more money if you don’t let Hillary win.”
I have nothing against McCain. In fact I like him. I just think that he will continue Bush’s policies.
This election which should go down as historic because there is a black man and a woman running will be remembered not by that but rather by hate speeches from Obama’s pastor and outright lies from Clinton.
Listen lady, you said the same thing over and over again. How is that misspeaking? Now she’s suggesting that the Super Delegates forget who won more states won more votes and has more delegates which by the way is called The Will Of The People!
I am a life long Democrat but if the Super Delegates overturn the will of the people I will quit the party and become an independent.
I was a very strong supporter of Hillary and was leaning toward her when her campaign started treating the American people like idiots. It saddens me to see a woman I have met and admired would do the sort of things that she is doing to win this election.
Hillary if by some chance you read this just stick to the issues, I thought you were about a new direction, a new hope, a new beginning for America.
Or did you just misspeak?
Hollywood mogul Michael Davis is happy-pissed.
One might expect a sustained show of real Presidential Timber, or at least timbre, after all these years of mere shrubbery, or Bushery. "Nobody's choice and anybody's guess," as Steve Goodman put it.
I truly believe that Barack Obama wants to help the country. I may not agree with his plans, but I buy that he's truly interested in running the nation, and the fact that he'll make history is secondary.Similarly…I truly believe Hilary simply wants to be the first woman president. And that she will do and say ANYTHING she has to in order to achieve that aim. I've been following the campaign (and the results of Operation Chaos) with all the glee that some watch Survivor. Because that's what it's become. Tempers are fraying, alliances are being made and destroyed, and mark my words…someone's gonna slip. One of these two, or someone so close to them they won't just be able to fire them and move on, is going to say something in the heat of the moment; something so vicious and (group)ist that's it's gonna put "Well that oughta shut up the little bastards" to shame. It'll be said in anger, and not really mean, and there will be a sonic boom as their hand flies up to their mouth at supersonic speed, but it'll be too late.I have an opnion which it'll be, but I'll not say. But if this goes all the way to the convention…it'll be the first time a politcal convention out-draws the season finale of American Idol.No matter who wins, MILLIONS of people are gonna be disenfranchised. Just like Michael, they will walk away from the party, never to return.It's gonna be like the end of Cars, where Chick Hicks wins the Piston Cup and everybody just can't STAND him for the way he just rolled over everybody to win, and made himself look like a total lugnut. That's gonna be the Democratic candidate.
Disenfranchised will just be the start Vinnie. All the hope and vigor that we see from these young people will be lost, perhaps for generations to come. What kills me is everyone sees how stupid this and STILL they don't stop. Its like picking up a knife and accidently cutting yourself. The SANE thing to do is put the knife down and do something to stop the bleeding. No, not these people they keep cutting as if by some miracle the cuts will be gone and the healing will begin immediately. The Dems are an inch away from their jugular…STUPID.
JUST PLAIN STUPID.
"Mike ducked under his desk as I fired my first shots barely missing his head."How do you miss a target that big & shiny?
NO idea, T.T. None. Zip. Nada.
I'm regressing here as I didn't have a chance to comment on the first story. The story of O is a dynamic between the dominant and submissive. What O doesn't realize is that there are rules and if he does not learn to play well with others, then he will be in comic limbo forever (aka: less than submissive). O, don't you know you're just a fledgling and now you have the door shut in your face over and over again because you have lost all accountability. For the bleeding heart liberals (me), this campaign is breaking my heart. THE END…
"For the bleeding heart liberals (me), this campaign is breaking my heart."You and me both Hannah, you and me both.
hello just want to ask you some thing ? ? ? did you ever work at Boy's harbor on 103 st and the children's art carnival? sorry just need to ask.
Off Topic: Do you know that there's black people on All My Children again? I almost passed out. Don't bother turning on SOAPnet, but it's worth a trip down YouTube lane.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wSPgkFUVw&fe…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtv7zunVqU0&fe…On Topic: The O story makes me sad. I want to find a silver lining in it, but there really isn't one to pick out.
oh and they're bring Dixie back… as a ghost! *groan*
Jeez. I hate when shows do the ghost thing.