Dan's Papers - May 22, 2009 -

"Spider, I got big news. Dan's Papers wants us to write a story about Mickey and his mom, Betty. Mickey did the cover for the Memorial Day issue. Do you know that this is his 56th cover?"

"Wow, that's awesome," said Spider.

"Well you know... they wrote 20 children's books and they're the creators of 'Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.'"

"That's my favorite cartoon... that's awesome."

"Maybe we'll be like Woodward and Bernstein ... maybe we'll get a Pulitzer. This is our big change."

"Now Flytrap... Let's not get carried away. True, they are doing a movie about us. An Oscar maybe - but a Pulitzer?"

"Well Mickey's in the Smithsonian. He did the cover for Time Magazine."

"How about Betty? She wrote all those scripts for 'Maggie.' That show is running on Noggin every day."

"You know it's funny how all the kids love to visit the Ferocious Beast at the Paraskevas Gallery in Westhampton."

"They're producing a new animated TV series. It's call 'Peter Pepper's Pet Spectacular.'"

"Spider, we better get started on typing all this up."

"Oh... you know how to type?"

"I taught myself. Every day I practice a new letter. The trouble is I'm only up to H."

"Mickey also does all the cartoons for Dan's stories. Aren't they a great team?"

"Yes they work very well together."

"Betty and Mickey also have a great puppet show on WVVH. 'The Cheap Show' runs every Friday morning."

"Yeah, that's awesome. Ernie and Greg are terrific... they did such a great job of covering the horse show."

"Well you know Mickey did the poster for the Hampton Classic. Did your face get red when I mentioned the Horse Show?.... Ooooh. I forgot. You have a crush on Shanette."

"I have not."

"Yes you have. Now come on... Fess up."

"She does a great job running the Horse Show... Let's get started... is there anything else we should include.

Well... let's see... Mickey's worked for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Town and Country... even The New York Times."

"Woah, that's awesome. Okay what have you got down so far."

"I've got Mickey and Betty Paraskevas by Spider and Flytrap."

"I like that by line... it looks so impressive in print."

"That's a good start... Let's take a break. Boy, this is hard work. Now I know how Woodward and Bernstein felt. Let's go get a banana split. We'll finish this up later."

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