You know me Readers, I aim to keep my Blog relevant. So with today’s headlines being filled with the horrors of all the “fake news” being propagated by persons on social media, I feel very strongly about my post today.
While packing up my house to move to Arizona and I came across this “newspaper” written, illustrated and published by my then 9 year old son.
Turns out Fake News is not new, nor was it invented by social media platforms. A strong case could be made that it was started by a nine year old Okie boy. It’s hard to make out, but the headlines of the day were:
- 3 Year Old Boy Bigger Than His Mother
- 63 Foot Long Shark Found in Hawaii Washed Up On Shore
- Dinosaur Found in Maine
- Godzilla Found Dead in Tokyo
- Dracula Found Dead in His Cascit
- Man Kill Himself to See What Its Like in Heaven.
Special note: My son could not afford an editor at the time.
Love your son’s creativity – though I must say that is a whole lot of death and destruction! Someday I will share my nephew’s childhood comic strip wit you – “Low Budget Man” – a superhero with no special powers or cool high tech-y stuff.
What’s this about Arizona and how come I didn’t know you have a son?
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Just posted again which will ‘splain the move to Arizona. My son was always a bit dramatic. He battled drug addiction for years but has been sober for 4. I have written about his life in recovery but admit there are a lot of years of stories I can’t quite find the words to tell. I will look forward to Low Budget Man!
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I thought I had gone back and read all your blog posts from the beginning – but maybe I missed some. Theory #2 – my dementia is beginning and I simply forgot. And now to the new post . . .
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Around September I wrote “The Addict and the Boy”. That’s pretty much the Reader’s Digest version. I still need to catch up on your adoption stories. I stopped with “Not Lilly (Lillie?). The suspense is killing me!
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funny stuff
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