Real Life Adventures, on Hollywood’s tendency to wring every last nickel out of any concept that seems to work.As someone who assigns book reviews to young writers, I’m very much aware of how book publishers pile on a successful theme to attract the teen and preteen market. It’s as though they send dump trucks to […]
Harry Bliss about something or other.Gotta go walk the dog. I’ll deal with this as soon as I’ve taken care of that.Although I really should get the dishes done …
The Heart of Juliet Jones was broken on a fairly regular basis, and the current rerun at DailyInk has her falling for a feckless (Note to Irish readers: That’s not what it means) architect, who dreams great artistic thoughts but doesn’t seem to ever buckle down and get to what other people would recognize as […]
I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]
Harry Bliss touches a nerve on the eve of my annual physical.Kind of funny: When I called to make the appointment, the woman at the doctor’s office pulled up my records and was trying to schedule me for next month. I said that I had a prescription that needed to be renewed now, however, and […]
Wiley Miller plays with fire in today’s Non Sequitur. They’ll get him for suggesting that everyone who claims to be the victim of a conspiracy is cracked or some kind of egghead. (heh heh)Did he jump? Did he fall? Or was he pushed???Uninquiring minds want to know. (Inquiring minds might wonder, but then they’d look into […]
I think it took Richard Thompson a few strips after his enforced layoff to get back in the swing of things over at Cul de Sac, but he’s back to knocking them over the wall on a regular basis. This is the opposite of Saturday Night Live Syndrome, where, a few seasons in, you learned to […]