To paraphrase the Everly Bros and Linda Ronstadt – I’ve been cheated, been mistreated; in addition, I’ve been put down and (coincidentally) pushed ’round; I almost hesitate to add that I’ve been lied to and made blue. With a nod to Stephen Stills, I’ve been aro-o-o-ound the world, looking for that…girl (I think Stills is singing “Mormon”, but I’m sure that’s wrong) .While I have not been (a la Charlene) to Nice or the Isles of Greece, with their attendant yachts and champagne I have had shotgunned Summit on a pontoon boat on Minnetonka. With apologies to Ms. Smyth and Messrs. Lennon and McCartney, I’m neither a warrior nor an eggman. But I will lay claim the high-and-low-searching Seeker of Pete Townsend fame.

And the thing I seek at the moment is one bit of knowledge. To wit: what does “Pwn3d” mean? I’m assuming it’s the past tense regular verb form of “Pwn” (To Pwn. I Pwn, you pwn, he/she/it pwns…), which only highlights the limitations of grammar for analyzing intent.

Anyway – while I have no idea what the state of “pwn” means, it’s been brought to my attention that I apparently am…it. Whatever it is.
Searching for clues (or, alternatively, “clw3z”), I went to my email, where I saw a note from a correspondent:

He notes that his predecessor at *giggle* Screw went on to the NY times…

And he went on to….

…get fired from the 4th most-read freebie rag in Minneapolis.

It’s becoming clear.

Pwn: v. to be proven less pathetic than the subject of ones’ narrative.

I think I know all I need to now.

And with this, all discussion of “cartoonist” Ken Avidor is over. Turn out the lights.

CORRECTION:  Everly Bros, not Buddy Holly.  Blah.

And while Avidor notes that his former “boss” was a big First Amendment crusader, his bigger impact may have been on the Second Amendment; his crusade for a NYC carry permit, after the shooting of Larry Flynt, is the stuff of legends.

Unlike…well, no. I’m done with that.

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