CSotD: A toast to pie
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Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can't just sit around pretending not to know what's happening.
On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn't neglect that, either.
So I have no idea what sort of insightful, brilliant, deeply significant and critically important stuff is happening on the political cartooning sites because I didn't look.
Sue me for negligence, but, at the risk of referencing the same poet two days in a row,
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Or pie. Pie is even better than toast, especially if taken before all that.
After all, pie are round, and toast are square.
Skip the questions for now. Apple pie and coffee.
Lemont, my friend, we are on the same page. And let me tell you, you should thank your lucky stars you aren't living in New Hampshire.
I hope that you are out in the kitchen, eating pie.
Juxtaposition of the Day #1
(Ben)
Actually, around here, "me time" and "dog time" are pretty indistinguishable.
In fact, I kind of got into the "to hell with significance" mood last night, not this morning, and the result was a walk around several blocks at a much later hour than we usually go anywhere.
No objections from the dog, though, being a hound, he is fairly laconic and only pesters when he needs to go out for reasons more pragmatic than recreational.
Which brings us to …
Juxtaposition of the Day About Both #1 and #2
(Bizarro)
The connection being that, while I assume Dan Piraro is referencing the way cats enjoy digging their claws into shag, my first reaction was remembering back to when I bought a repossessed house that still, in 1987, had shag carpeting. And had had cats.
And I suppose in those depressing weeks leading up to the eviction, not a lot of housekeeping.
Fortunately, I had planned on tearing it up and getting rid of it anyway.
And thanks for the suggestion, Brian, but putting wall-to-wall carpeting in the freezer would not have been a practical solution, even if I'd wanted to keep it.
A More Appetizing If Even More Vague Juxtaposition:
(Monty)
I know this is a stretch, but I'm convinced that Disney wanted us all to believe that lions and other predators were, in fact, vegan, because, in the films on "Wonderful World of Disney," the real wonder was that those poor lions never caught anything and yet didn't starve to death, either.
If Wiley's right, though, maybe the reason so many of the big cats are endangered is related to their unhealthy carnivore diets, while, to tie this back to the juxtaposition about dogs, I sure seem to know plenty of dogs with issues in that regard.
I'm willing to believe that a lot of dogs simply weren't very healthy in the past and would have been better off if someone had fussed about with what they were being given. On the other hand, just as there are helicopter parents, there are helicopter dog owners, some of whom have theories on canine diet that would make Jenny McCarthy snort with derision.
I'm also willing to go along with Wiley on the human aspect of this, though not to the extent of complete revision. While our prehistoric ancestors probably did an equal amount of hunting and gathering, I'm quite sure the gathering was more productive and that meat as a garnish is likely a better idea than, as the lions do, shoving your whole head into the body cavity and gorging on meat until you can't move.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the "omni" in "omnivore" is supposed to indicate food type, not portion size.
In any case, I'm with Fleshy on the TV aspect and am glad that nature documentaries are less bowdlerized than in the past. Predators deserve to win once in awhile.
Circle of Life and all that jazz.
And to stick with the dogs for another moment, the interest in TV among my pets has been varied over the years, but a GF of mine had a ridgeback who was fascinated by nature documentaries.
The first time he noticed, he got up off the couch, went up and stared at the gazelles running across the screen, then went and looked in the bedroom, apparently thinking the TV was a window and that they were all cavorting in there, just on the other side of the wall.
When she went to work, she'd put on Wild Discovery and he'd just lie on the couch all day watching.
Which in turn reminds me of this "Tommy Watches Television," a short-lived-but-dearly-missed webcomic by YDK creator Owen Dunne, because I've had several dogs who would watch Westminster.
My current pal prefers the real dogs at the park to the high-maintenance enhanced types on TV, though he does, I'm sure, have warm memories of his Aunt Esme, who did rather well at Westminster but was still able to school the young pup in the art of merry, violent chaos.
And, finally …
Today's Adam@home is offered as one more argument in favor of the idea that things are not required to be cosmic, important or deeply, deeply meaningful.
And as an excuse to illustrate that important principle thusly:
(You've gotta ask yourself one question:
"Do I feel musical?" Well, do you, punk?)
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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