If I were a Newbery-winning author who was remotely superstitious, I'd be a little nervous right now. Maurice Sendak died two weeks ago, and Jean Craighead George died last week … so who's next? Seriously, though, I'd argue that these two deaths are more than just the loss of one or two icons. It's a changing of the guard in children's literature.
Freedom is a precarious thing, especially if it depends on a "handful of freaks" with serious ego problems. When villainous god, Loki, arrives through a mysterious power source known as the Tesseract, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) calls on a team of superhero misfits known as The Avengers to defend the earth from his nefarious plans. (Insert comic bubble: "Avengers Assemble!")
Moe, Larry, and Curly may be the stupidest guys you-or your parents or their parents-have ever seen. Which is, of course, the reason we've paid good money to watch them poke, slap, gouge, hammer, and nyuk each other for nearly a century now.
Theology | Simple pleasures can remind us of what we have in common
