March 5, 2021
Roger Rydell Dishes the Dirt
‘ROMEO & JULIET’ IN NEARLY FATAL LOVE TRIANGLE: The star-crossed lovers of the nation’s capital camethisclose to meeting the same end as their doomed namesakes — only not by their own hands, in this case.
Your correspondent has exclusively discovered that Peter Blackwell and fiancée Beatrix Harper were attacked in January by another wizard, a man who had earlier proposed to Miss Harper.
My well-placed sources tell me that police are searching for this man and blame him for Omnimancer Blackwell’s month-long coma. No name for now, rabid readers. But have patience — it’s coming.
That the never-married Miss Harper, 33, is the object of not one but two wizards’ affections boggles the mind. There’s the little matter of her advanced age, for a start. And she’s not even the best-looking woman in her immediate family.
March 6, 2021
Typic-Rights Bill Advances in Md. Senate
By Helen Hickok
Starstaff reporter
The effort to claw back the constitutional amendment that bars typics from running for national office unexpectedly cleared its first hurdle in the state Senate yesterday.
The Judicial Procedures Committee voted 6-5 to send legislation sponsored by Sen. Mitchell Gray, an Ellicott Mills Republican, to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. A House version of the bill faces its own committee vote on Monday, but in that case nine of the 11 members have already indicated they plan to give the measure the go-ahead.
Gray’s bill, by contrast, had been expected to fail.
He said yesterday evening that he knows the true challenge will be the full Senate vote in just over two weeks. But it was a buoying moment for the burgeoning typic-rights movement — the first vote on such legislation anywhere in the country.
March 7, 2021
Roger Rydell Dishes the Dirt
‘ROMEO’ A NEO-SUFFRAGIST: Politicians who see the so-called typic-rights movement as their key to a Washington power job, take heed: The wizard helping push the reforms thinks females are qualified to fill those positions.
“Let anyone run for Congress or president, and may the best person win,” Omnimancer Peter Blackwell said at a press conference last week.
“Even a woman?” your correspondent asked, eyebrows raised.
“Of course,” Blackwell said.
Don’t say you weren’t warned …
March 8, 2021
‘Romeo & Juliet’ Hometown Wishes They’d Been Less Discreet
By Marc Leviton
Portland Evening Journalreporter
ELLICOTT MILLS, Md. — This tiny outpost twenty-five miles north of the nation’s capital has a different take on the tale of the wizard and his anti-magic paramour than the rest of the country devouring it.
That’s because the couple lives here, and Ellicott Mills had plans for Omnimancer Peter Blackwell that did not include fiancée Beatrix Harper.
“No one had any idea that he wanted to marry her,” said Harry Delarose, 51. “Nearly every woman in town was trying to catch him for herself or a relative, and they’re all mortified.”
March 10, 2021
Roger Rydell Dishes the Dirt
