...Especially to Karen Moy, writer of the Mary Worth comic strip, for a full year of entertainment right up to the very end. Because nothing says "Christmas" to Mojo like "child abduction", which is what Mary is dealing with right at the moment! Or, rather, she is dealing with a bureaucratic police dispatcher who is demanding Mary's life story before they decide whether or not to send the police around to check out Mary's allegations that she's seen the child in question at a diner getting free ice cream.

Mary Worth has been so awesomely entertaining this year, and we have the fun and all-around good sport Karen Moy, serial strip writer extraordinaire, to thank. Who not only started up the Mary Worth Merch Shop on Cafepress, but who also very recently added a sly boots self-reference that warmed Mojo's cynical and cracked heart-cockles like nobody's bidness:

Hah! Ya gotta love it, Mojo sez! REALLY!

A Mary Worth Christmas to everyone! Even to those Scrooges who don't like the old biddy!

Mojo

So this weekend Mojo received a link to a YouTube video that was shown by a comedian Mojo has never heard of on a talk show Mojo has BARELY heard of. (Again, not being heard of or not being watched is not always Mojo's judgment on the quality of said people, only yet another indication that Mojo does not get cable where she lives.) This video also includes the participation of a movie star Mojo has indeed heard of, since there *ARE* movies in Mojo's world, and the participation of said movie star among people Mojo wouldn't know if she fell over them caused Mojo to wonder why, and hence do Vast Amounts of Research to try to determine why this should be.

It turns out, as Mojo suspected, there is a veritable soap opera of personal stories and running gags both on the show itself and among the trio of participants. Not knowing this made the video amusing in a mildly offensive way, but KNOWING this history would have made it substantially funnier.  MORE Mojo! »

Mojo is of course blessed with two wonderful sisters, the Favorite Older Sister and the Favorite Younger Sister, and has spent most of her life in friendly competition with the two. In the sense that, while Mojo whiles away her life in silly pursuits her two Favorite Sisters have been making careers for themselves, and Mojo pretends to compete when really she's just doggin' it so when she fails miserably she just explains that she's been doggin' it the whole time. Hey, it works for her.  MORE Mojo! »