"Donald in Mathmagic Land"

 You know, in spite of the grim unavoidability (I could've said "inevitability; it's denotatively the same thing, but somehow it doesn't sound right to me) of thinking about President Dumber Azathoth, he hasn't totally colonized my brain: when I hear the name "Donald," my immediate impulse is still to say "Duck," not...that other thing.  So I've got that going for me.

Okay, so for the last few months, this kind of weird thing: I've been getting emails from a woman, all very similarly phrased, instructing me to review various stories (VERY strange array, including Barks classics, stories that have never been released in English, at least one that I've already written about, and a few that I found totally unidentifiable from the given titles).  I mean.  It's not that I've NEVER been known to write about a story on a whim because a stranger wanted me to, but this isn't necessarily the way to win a duckblogger's heart.  Its not that the emails were rude, but...well, I guess it was that a little, but moreso that I just found the presentation baffling.  Also, a little creepy.  She once sent four emails in a three-day span, and I'm concerned I might be about to live out the duck-comics-writer version of Misery.  Still, I thought, I dunno, maybe I should reward this weird, robotic repetitiveness.  What's the worst that can happen (famous last words)?  One of the stories she requested at one point was this one, so, uh, I guess this is for you, Ms. MacGregor.  But in all seriousness, let's be clear: this is the ONLY one.  If I ever happen to cover any of the others, it'll have nothing to do with you. 

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