Wallace the Brave is consistently filled with such surreal touches that it is generally easier to point out the ways it could have gone wrong than to explain where it all came from in the first place.The timing is exquisite: My feeders have been crowded the past two weeks as birds either gas up for […]
Let’s start the week with a surprise: They still make Gravy Train.Well, I was surprised, anyway.Sherman’s Lagoon has been toying with this little dog shark for several days and it’s been a fun arc, but today’s stopped me, because I thought, of all the time-worn irrelevant references in comic strips, Gravy Train really stood out.That […]
If I’m going to connect comics with the past, I should start with today’s Bizarro, which riffs on the Reality TV notion of pampered, catty women in big houses, comparing them to housewives of earlier days.The 19th Century was about when things began to turn around for “housewives,” which, up to the end of the […]
My town has been replacing an outmoded sewer system, which will improve the cleanliness of the Connecticut River but has played hob with trying to get from one place to another, since it involves very large pipes under very important streets. This has given me many opportunities not only to contemplate how they could have done […]
Let’s begin where we left off yesterday, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s bizarre boycott of their own cartoonist. See yesterday’s blog posting for background, see JP Trostle’s cartoon above for a response I like.And here’s Rob’s latest cartoon. What the hell, if his own paper won’t print them, I will. And they’re still paying him, last […]
Bizarro touches on a nerve, because I’m never sure where my Old Anti-Tech Man intersects with common sense, but I really don’t get texting ahead for a cup of coffee or for McDonalds.Even if you adore technology, the difference — as Wayno suggests — between texting your order or just saying it is pretty small, […]
A well-named cartoon strip this morning, “The Buckets,” given that the most of the stuff I drink is shipped in them. I share the inability to find hints of blackberry and essences of chocolate in wine made from grapes, and I suspect that I share Greg Cravens’ apparent suspicion of those who claim to.Mind you, I […]
The book drops today, and if you love me you’ll order it here but that’s not what I wanted to say about it.Jack Ohman comes close to what I wanted to say about it, because it’s a portrait of chaos and paranoia that would be funny if it weren’t actually happening in our actual government.I’ve […]
So my question, Tank, is where “at the end of the day” came from in the first place?That is, I first heard it on BBC and I’m blaming them because they’ve been undermining our grasp of language for quite awhile now, particularly the prepositions.Things are suddenly “different to” rather than “different from,” and “based off […]
If you thought 2016 was unpleasant for you, be glad you’re not a parishioner of First Baptist Church, because they’ve just gone from a church that serves the homeless to a homeless church.This was the view from my front yard at about 1:30 last night, and as I write this, I’m parked outside the library […]
Just for fun, we’ll go in order of dumbness today, and, when it comes to dumb jokes, Wayno often leads the pack.Don’t get me wrong: I like dumb jokes, but I like them done well, and there are a million ways this joke could have been done badly.Instead, by not actually telling the joke, he […]
I’ve stopped watching the talking head shows on Sunday, but, if I ever feel the urge to start up again, I’m going to consult this Matt Bors cartoon first.For two or three years, I wrote for a magazine that was distributed to Realtors in the Colorado Springs market and basically existed for the sake of […]