CSotD: Friday Funnies
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Top story of the day is that tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day and a chance to check out what the comic book people think is hot and attractive. Johanna Draper Carlson has a look at what she considers the top titles.
I suspect this is a time when living in a major metro helps. Out here in the sticks, the comic store is part of a chain and they have a table or two of free comics but would rather you bought some bobbleheads. Apparently there are 50 titles potentially being offered but we'll likely see a dozen-and-a-half with the most sought-after gone by 10 am.
Get there early. Even if it's not how you track the market, it's a good chance to get some younger kinfolk hooked on the medium.
And if you don't care about the new and fabulous, hit Comics Kingdom's Vintage area, where Thimble Theater has just started up a new 1931 adventure with that fellow who seems to be taking over the strip.
You have to be a subscriber to get into the Vintage section, but at twenny bucks a year, come on.
And more or less on that topic, the Daily Cartoonist reports that Deflocked is wrapping up a decade at King Features and heading over to GoComics starting Sunday, so update your bookmarks or your comics page accordingly.
Today's Alex got a particular laff because, back when I was in TV advertising sales, the boss and I would often go to lunch, which by the way included at least three drinks, which I find unbelievable these days. At the end, he'd sign the bill and say "Who do you want to be today?" and I'd choose the name of some ad agency type, he'd write it down and we'd head back to the office.
This was in 1976 and the height of the Bicentennial, which I mention because our station got sold, a new general manager came on board and the boss was called into his office to meet him and go over things. And he noticed one of the things to go over was a stack of lunch tabs.
And he noticed that, sticking out of the pile was one with the name and title of his lunch companion written on it: "James Madison, Virginia Legislature."
Which, when the new Big Boss wasn't looking, he snatched and pocketed.
Bet you never saw that on "Mad Men."
Juxtaposition of the Day #1
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(I have nothing to add to either of these, but they made me giggle. Well, snicker.
Men snicker. Girls giggle.
Which brings in Reply All, because "horses sweat, men perspire and women glow," which sounds like sexist wordplay but let me assure you that, if men starting putting on sneakers and going for brisk lunchtime walks in their business clothes, you'd spend the rest of the afternoon wishing they would just go back to getting drunk at lunch instead.
Anyway, we snicker. We don't giggle.
Juxtaposition of the Day, Teacher's Edition
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Research shows that kids do not start their brains up until midmorning and that whatever you do in the first couple of periods is largely wasted.
Having done a lot of presentations in schools, I have no idea how anyone teaches anything first period anyway.
Start with the fact that I've presented in schools where the class period was 37 minutes, which means you sit them down, collect homework, hand out the new assignment and then the bell rings. Tell them to read the next chapter because you don't have time to go through the material.
But first period is when you also have at least five minutes chopped off at the start for the pledge and announcements, and I think they purposely pause just enough between announcements for you to think they're finally done and are going to let you teach something, and then off they go again about the bake sale or the drama club tryouts.
As for Zits, I suspect teachers like the word "overall" because I keep having to teach my young writers not to put it in their reviews.
It's a stupid word that just takes up space.
Juxtaposition of the Admittedly Political
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(I'm gonna sneak a little politics into the Friday Funnies because both of these features pinged an old rant.
They're both right in that we should be taking care of our own people. Lemont doesn't mention the issue of priorities Sack hints at, but it is frustrating when we shortchange schools, infrastructure, health care and just the whole matter of "promoting the general welfare" because we "can't afford it."
In normal times, saying we need to take care of our own people first can become an isolationalist, even racist, position, particularly since a lot of the people saying that sort of thing generally don't consider either Flint's substantial minority population or Puerto Rico's near-total minority population "our own people."
Admittedly, too, we're stuck in a Pottery Barn loop overseas, spending money on the stuff we shouldn't have broken in the first place, but, then again, this was a hell of a time for a tax break.
We're in crisis, here, folks. If we can go a couple more trillion in hock to blow up people in the Middle East, we could probably look under the sofa cushions for spare change to swap out bad pipes and re-start the power system on this side of the Atlantic.
Back when we were just out of Vietnam, I had a rant that, instead of going into other countries and blowing them up, we should add some muscle to the Peace Corps and send the National Guard to install water systems and suchlike.
American factories would still get to make money making pipes and sanitation equipment instead of bombs and guns, and people might like us instead of despising us.
Sigh. I wish this song would go out of date:
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