CAN'T SPELL? THEN YOU'RE A RACIST...

I despair, I really do.  As if there aren't enough people desperate to take offence at something by jumping on the racist bandwagon, now actress Parminder Nagra (no, never heard of her before either) joins the club.  Apparently, Parminder experiences racism every day.  Her example: "The other day I went somewhere for work.  I'd been there four times and the person still kept misspelling my name."

So misspelling is now a racist act it seems.  My name has occasionally been misspelt as Robinson, Robertson, Robison, and Robeson over the years, but it never once occurred to me that it was due to anything other than someone not listening or reading with their full attention, not because they were a bigot of some description.

Spare us from those who are determined to see a racist insult everywhere - especially when it doesn't necessarily exist.

ARTIST JAMES BAMA PASSES AWAY - R.I.P. ...

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James Bama, an artist whose work anyone who ever had an Aurora monster kit in the '60s and '70s or read a Doc Savage book would be familiar with, has sadly passed away just a few days short of his 94th birthday.  I first saw his art on the square version of the Frankenstein kit (below), which was a slightly altered version of how it first appeared (above).  He's known for much more of course (and was a tremendous influence on, and inspiration for, many other artists), but that's what I'll remember him for.  Another slice of childhood gone, alas, though his name and work will endure for many long years to come.