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Posted by Ryan Acra on November 7, 2018


The Weekly Sugarbeeter #2

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Posted by Ryan Acra on October 31, 2018


The Weekly Sugarbeeter – Volume 1 – Issue 1

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Posted by Ryan Acra on October 3, 2018


My Pants Are Going To the Dogs

If anyone truly ever needed Sugarbeet Falls’ first and favorite superhero, The Bathroom Manager, its me.
 
This morning, while I was in the shower, I put my clothes for the day on the floor in my room. I got out of the shower, dried off, and got dressed, just like normal. As I was walking back and forth from my closet, I noticed a little nugget our new puppy Banksy left. After an eye-roll over the loss in the latest house-training battle. I cleaned up the mess without thinking much of it.

 
As I helped my wife get our girls ready for school, I thought I was catching whiffs of the baby German Shepherd’s morning dookie-doo. I re-washed my hands a few times, but ultimately decided it was all in my head.
 
When I got to my office and sat down, I realized the powerful smell of keister cakes couldn’t possibly be in my head, but after checking my shoes and my clothes, I couldn’t find the source. My paranoia was strong as I assumed that potentially, now that I’m 40, I might just be one of those old guys who stinks.
 
Eventually I went a little nose-blind to the smell and got to work. Later in the morning, I went to the rest room to change to go work out. When I took off my jeans, I saw it. A four inch streak of what was once perfectly harmless puppy food. Now it was digested, passed, stinky, and crusted to the innocent hairs on my leg.
 
It occurred to me that the reason I hadn’t noticed the original tushy tot on the floor, was due to the fact it wasn’t there until I shook it out of my pants while walking. The lingering smell is obvious. And the cleanup annoying.
 
I needed The Bathroom Manager because…Banksy pooped my pants!

Posted by Ryan Acra on September 28, 2018


Coolest Thing Ever

FOr those who have followed the Sugarbeet Falls evolution, the inspirations for Xander and his bookmates is already known.  For those who haven’t, here’s the quick version:

When I was 18, my son Zack was born.  Zack is the coolest person alive in spite of his old man, and I am endlessly proud of him.  He has made the best of every situation he has ever encountered and based on this, has become the producer of a statewide news program called the MTN 9:00 News.   As a kid, he loved superheroes, and made up many of his own when he would play in the park or swimming pool, or anywhere he was awake.  This imagination and creativity was the inspiration for Xander Zackery and the world of SUGARBEET FALLS.

 

Fast forward to yesterday… I did a presentation to kids at Giant Springs Elementary in Great Falls.  The local news station came to cover the presentation.  As the producer of the statewide news, Zack did his pop a huge solid and picked up the story for his state-wide program.  It was amazing, and he even got to add a touch of his fantastic personality and our relationship at the end.

 

Please enjoy!!!  I certainly did!!

 

 

 

Posted by Ryan Acra on September 4, 2018


My Favorite Superhero

Every time I go and visit a class or a school, there are few guaranteed questions I will receive.   The only one that is hard for me to answer is probably the one that seems easiest on the surface. 

What is the question??

 

“WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SUPERHERO?”

 

That’s a tough one right?

 

Sure, I could just throw out a name.  I really like Batman, but that starts the  “is batman really a superhero?” debate.  Are we talking about favorite in general? In movies? In the comic books?  Its just way too difficult to properly answer in the allotted time. 

 

For example, when I was a kid and I actually read comic books and voraciously watched The Super Friends, my favorite here was The Green Lantern:

He was funny and cool and had a wildly creative power with the ring thing. 

 

But then, the story got weird and there was a Green Lantern Corps and all these alien guys and Hal Jordan was replaced.  I just couldn’t keep up with it. 

 

I battled through the Batman movies, the Spider-Man movies and anything else superhero I came across.  They were all great, but nothing I truly loved…until the last scene of the first of these movies:

“I am Iron Man” changed the game for me.   I was team Tony all the way.  New spin, new excitement, the promise of a whole world of Marvel superheroes not named Spider-Man or X-Men, was just too exciting. 

 

But alas, this cat showed up…

Another game changer.  Now superheroes are laugh out loud funny!  Yes please!

 

So I guess that’s a small look at my favorites, but then one remembers I write my own superhero characters.  They’re like practically my own children.  Of course I like them too!

 

I love the Bathroom Manager.  Also Fa Fa Floo Fly, Belcher, Marvelous Maid, The Comfort Crusader, how can I choose just one?

 

Its quite simple.  I can’t.  I simply love superheroes.

 

I guess that’s that.