CSotD: Sheer Wrapture
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Today's Loose Parts could be titled "loosely wrapped" but then Dave Blazek's panel rarely seems to be very tightly wrapped even on an average day.
Plastic wrap is one of those inexplicable things that women can do. It's not as intriguing as when their arms disappear inside their sweaters and then return clasping a bra as if it were a rabbit, but then, few things are. But effective use of plastic wrap is, indeed, part and parcel of the mysterious crone magic that began in the Dawn Time, on the solstice, with the gathering of herbs and berries and roots and fried green tomatoes when women were wise and made quilts.
Or maybe they can use the stuff because, back when I was in junior high (which was about three-and-a-half years after the Dawn Time), the boys took shop and the girls took home ec. We learned to clamp and glue, they learned to tear and wrap. They compensate by using glue guns, we compensate by throwing everything in a plastic bag, which we seal by spinning it and placing it with the twisted neck underneath.
And no, the serrated metal edge on the box doesn't make a damn bit of difference. There be magick in this stuff, and either thou knowest the craft or thou don'test.
Thus was it ever, even before the Dawn Time, even before the birth of Blazek, yea, even at the time of 1955, when Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder pondered this mystical substance in Mad #25.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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