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GEM's Scrooged! Exhibit Opening Party a Success

Friday, February 29, 2008 Geppi?s Entertainment Museum in downtown
Baltimore at Camden Yards held another in a highly successful series of
GEM member events. The Scrooged! exhibit is now open in celebration
of the legacy of the ?Good Duck Artist,? Carl Barks (1901-2000),
illustrated through a unique exhibition of original oil paintings, artwork
and other memorabilia starring the likes of Uncle Scrooge McDuck,
Donald Duck, and the rest of their orange-billed family.

Special guest in attendance that night was Don Rosa who graciously
signed autographs and conversed with GEM members during the
7:00?9:00 PM event. With numerous beloved, highly intricate Scrooge
McDuck adventures to his name and an international fan following,
Don Rosa ranks among today?s most significant Disney comics creators.

GEM members said that the event was very informative, interesting,
and they look forward to the next installment in this series. Thanks to
Steve Geppi and his GEM staff for a lovely evening!

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Finally, after five years of cumbersome circumventive
rotational calendaric actions, we are back to home ground
again, and can use our Don Rosa calendar as it is.
Since 2008 is a leap year, allowing a Friday February 29,
March 1 is a Saturday again -- just as in 2003!

For five years we, the users of the Don Rosa 2003
calendar, have managed, by the clever device of
writing Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun on small
pieces of yellow stick-its paper, and patiently affixing
these in the appropriate places, at the start of every
new month. But now we're back in sync, and the
2003 calendar looks better than ... if not ever, then
since 2003.

The next time the calendar will be as easily workable
& interpretable again, and free of yellow stick-its,
appears to be in 2014.

Nils Lid Hjort

PS: With modest archaeological efforts I succed in finding
the following DCML message from May 2003, under the title
" happy Wendseday, Don Rosa ":

We know Don Rosa as a thorough, dependable guy, with
a meticulous attention to details of facts & fiction. As a memorable
preface in a book with and about his work has it,
" This is a person not content simply to draw 4900 people
if his school teacher had asked him to illustrate "Jesus feeds
five thousand". "
This explains the *culture shock* the Norwegian population was
exposed to yesterday, when they innocently and happily threw
their collective glances at their calendars, to check that this was
indeed May 7, important liberation-from-war day for 57% of European
nations, and also the birthday of one of our planet's most wondrous
composers ever (1833-1897). It was May 7 indeed, but our Don Rosa
calendars proclaim that this was ... "Ondsag". A diabolic counter-counter-
counter message over the counter from Mr Rosa, no doubt, creating in
our innocent minds connections between May 7 and ... Evil Saws! Our
genuine "onsdag" is named after our own Odin ... might there be a fiendish
plot & putch to throw out the Nordicness of our souls, starting with
midweek-day, inserting these Evil Saws instead? Is not only Mr Rosa,
but also the CIA involved in this subversive scheme? What is next,
"Sheffield Wendseday" beats Manchester Disunited?

No wonder everyone from school pupils to university professors had
difficulties focussing on studies and work yesterday. I suggest that
either we have to sue Mr Rosa, in a massive collective legal effort which
will leave Big Tobacco and Ugly Asbestos as peanuts to the chickens
-- or he will have to sue Egmont.

Nils Lid Hjort

http://tinyurl.com/2rbswbThe Don Rosa Library Volume 1: 1987-1988 (Hardcover)Book Description This is it! Duck fans worldwide, wiggle
your webbed feet for joy - the complete,chronological Keno Don Rosa
collection is here! Uncle Scrooge McDuck,Donald Duck, and Huey, Dewey,
and Louie headline a cast of classic CarlBarks bit-players,
reinvigorated in fighting trim for Don's first 1987-1988triumphs: "Son
of the Sun," "Nobody's Business," "Mythological Menagerie,""Last Sled
to Dawson," "Metaphorically Spanking" and more. Restored,recolored,
and furnished with numerous editorial features, here's the first in acracking, wakking Gemstone multi-volume series!Hardcover: 208 pagesPublisher: Gemstone Publishing (December 24, 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1603600647ISBN-13: 978-1603600644Product Dimensions:

10 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
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Don Rosa is scheduled to have eye surgery.
He will be unavailable to answer emails for recovery time.
Please keep him in your prayers.

Barry Branvold

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Barry Branvold wrote:

> Don Rosa is scheduled to have eye surgery.
> He will be unavailable to answer emails for recovery time.
> Please keep him in your prayers.

Sorry to hear surgery has become necessary. Best of luck to you, Don.

Lars

BARRY WROTE:

Don Rosa is scheduled to have eye surgery.
He will be unavailable to answer emails for recovery time.
Please keep him in your prayers.

AND I RESPOND:

Actually, Don was rushed into emergency surgery (a vitrectomy and a
pneumatic retinopexy) as soon as the eye doctor diagnosed his problem as a
detached retina. It will be about six weeks before it is known if the
surgery was successful, and for a week or so he must remain in a position
that makes it nearly impossible for him to view or answer e-mails (as Barry
correctly noted).

> From: Dan Shane
>
> Actually, Don was rushed into emergency surgery (a vitrectomy and a
> pneumatic retinopexy) as soon as the eye doctor diagnosed his problem as a
> detached retina.

Oh, no!!! Thank you for explaining what has happened, although I had hoped
that it would have been a bit less serious than a detached retina.

We will keep Don in our thoughts during these weeks. Please convey our best
wishes for a speedy recovery and that the surgery recovered his eyesight!

//Christina Hellstr?m & Pekka Timonen from Finland