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 On Avatar Being the Next Star Wars or Marvel Maybe Star Trek is a better comparison. It's the twentieth anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The not-quite-new Avatar Studios under Nickelodeon has announced their next series, Avatar: Seven Havens. Avatar Studios was established in 2021 to make more Avatar shows. A few years ago they announced there would be some movies too. As for any of these pieces of media to actually materialize, it feels like they've been frozen in an iceberg. Over the past twenty years, there have been books, comics, games, and an ongoing Netflix adaptation of the original show. There were even Lego sets around the original run of Avatar. What's missing are more actual movies and shows. Basically, Avatar is getting the franchise treatment, but for some reason really slowly, almost hesitantly. The original Avatar show is perhaps the greatest animated show of all time. It's the greatest I've ever seen, but I admit that's a limited samp...

 On A Story About People Falling Over on a Family Trip After some political posts, I want to get back to some funny stories. A few years ago, my family took a road trip through Pennsylvania. Along the way, we stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere at a covered wooden bridge. That was apparently the big thing to see in the area. An old bridge, but this one was covered with a roof. Very historical. Anyway, we weren't the only intrepid explorers of rural Pennsylvania who made the trip to see the old covered bridge. A group of twenty or so Vespa-riding tourists pulled up after us. Now, these were American Vespa riders. They were middle-aged and older, and not one of them had experience controlling a small moving vehicle traveling at medium speed in their lives. By the looks of them, bicycling was right out. When they had finished their tour of the covered bridge, they got back on Vespas, something that took some coaching from the tour guide. One lady, in an attempt to remain uprigh...