Ridiculous Opinions #163
I am currently sitting in the Sandstorm Comics booth, where I have been planted for the day. Sandstorm Comics is the first UAE-based comic company. Last...
Ridiculous Opinions #162
Let me tell you about my favorite cat. I’m telling you this in confidence, because if the two cats that I actually own were to find out that they were not my...
Ridiculous Opinions #186
I’m sitting here at my desk this morning, enjoying a lovely breeze with the window open, when I hear a KRAK on the wall. I look out to see three little boys,...
Ridiculous Opinions #185
I am here. Notice that I have included my “flipper-like” foot to prove it. I’m currently sitting by the pool at Emirates Palace, feeling like I have fooled...
Ridiculous Opinions #184
It me. So, I am irrelevant when it comes to popular music. That is a clear statement. I have always wanted to be hip when it comes to music, but once I had...
Ridiculous Opinions #183
As I am writing this, our youngest cat, Mango, is sitting beside me, staring. Every once in a while, she will let loose with a rather pathetic “meow” that...
Ridiculous Opinions #182
The victim: Randall P. Girdner. Destined to suffer trauma, despite his innocence. I’m not really going to write this newsletter about things that annoy me. I...
Ridiculous Opinions #181!
Wednesday morning, I woke with a slight cough, but I went to work. I’ve been off and on sick since the beginning of December, which I blame on stupid masks...
Ridiculous Opinions #180
I’m a bit of a curmudgeon. This is probably not a complete surprise to most of you, because most of you have dealt with me in various forms over the years....
Ridiculous Opinions #179
What a year it’s been… The new year has always been a symbolic “new beginning” for most people, and I count myself as one of them. Though there is no...
Ridiculous Opinions #178
It’s Christmas Eve here in the Girdner/Ramsey household and I am sitting in a quiet house with two cats sleeping near me. Everyone else is sacked out because...
Ridiculous Opinions #177
And so we begin the season before Xmas… I have spent the week sick. Want to know why? Yes, dear readers, I have reached the stage in my life where I am...
Ridiculous Opinions #176
Quite a dramatic beginning there, eh? As many of you might know, I spend a lot of time on the internet. I read a lot. I examine a lot. I absorb knowledge...
Ridiculous Opinions #175
We made a film! Every year, our school does something called Viper Venture, where the whole school leaves to engage in various “outside of school”...
Ridiculous Opinions #174
Oh, I was cute. There was no Thanksgiving celebrated in the Girdner/Ramsey household this year. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that it’s...
Ridiculous Opinions #173
Not a ton to say this morning. It is that time of year where all teachers get so busy that they start to vibrate a little bit. On Monday, we have our fourth-...
Ridiculous Opinions #172
At long last, I can finally announce that the publication of the SECOND collection of Maurice cartoons will be hitting the stands at some point in the...
Ridiculous Opinions #171
I’ve been hard at work with various things over the last few months. Aside from my daytime teaching job, and my nighttime teaching job, I have also been...
Ridiculous Opinions #170
Yesterday, I quit Twitter. My account is not deleted. I just deleted the apps from my phone and removed it from my browser. Why? Elon Musk, of course. Not a...
Ridiculous Opinions #169
So, if you remember last year at this juncture, I published a book that I had been working on for a very long time, called, The Completely Unreliable Travel...
Ridiculous Opinions #168
I love this video. Some of you who have been around me enough know of my feelings around the fact that I believe that music videos are a perfect form of art....
Ridiculous Opinions #167
Today’s newsletter is a request. It should come as no surprise that I used to collect comics when I was a little kid. We were not a rich family, but despite...
Ridiculous Opinions #166
So, as many of you have heard a hundred billion times, I do a comic strip called Maurice the Beaver. I publish a new comic three to four times a week in...
Ridiculous Opinions #165
Did you know that you can tell your future by looking at the damage to your phone screen? I have nothing to say today. So, I will now present to you,...
Ridiculous Opinions #164
This morning, I woke up and our youngest cat, Mango, was sitting in between the two of us. I looked over and she was just staring at Tracey. She did this for...
Ridiculous Opinions #161
Hi nerds! It’s 6:49 AM on a Saturday and I am still experiencing jet lag. Ugh. In lieu of writing anything coherent, here’s a little mental exercise… You...
Ridiculous Opinions #160
I write this on a Saturday morning from a hotel in Cambridge, Ontario. In just about an hour, we will check out of the hotel and go see our daughters one...
Ridiculous Opinions #159
It is currently 15 degrees Celsius here in Canada right now. I am wearing my 100-year sweatshirt and listening to the Canadian geese on the lake outside of...
Ridiculous Opinions #158
This is my friend, the bullfrog, who occasionally visits the pool. He likes to stay in the pool filter because when he does, all of the meals come to him....
Ridiculous Opinions #157
So, the big thing on the internet at the moment (besides the Instagram meltdown) would be Dall-E. I shall try to explain this as simply as possible…Dall-E is...
Ridiculous Opinions #156B
Got an email from Amazon. They’ve looked at the information I sent them about the book and acknowledged their mistake. They’re putting the book back up for...
Ridiculous Opinions #156
I know that many of you purchased my awesome tome, The Completely Unreliable Guide to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. If you did so, you’re lucky, because...
Ridiculous Opinions #155
It was May 4, 2012. I was sitting in a theater in China, watching a movie on screen that I never thought I would see, surrounded by almost thirty students...
Ridiculous Opinions #154
Hello, friends! I do realize that it’s been a while since I published a Ridiculous Opinions letter, so let’s get started, shall we? See that view above?...
Ridiculous Opinions #153
Oh, my, Maurice! In my attempt to expand the empire of Maurice the Beaver, I have recently begun posting in other places besides Instagram. Instagram might...
Ridiculous Opinions #152
Mango 2016 Mango 2022 Okay, so Abbey graduated last night. That means Tracey and I are Empty-Nesters. In celebration, I will acquire a used Playstation 4...
Ridiculous Opinions #151
By popular demand, here is a picture of me, Mango, and Tracey’s foot. So, yesterday, I had my final surgery as a follow-up to all the rigamarole that I went...
Ridiculous Opinions #150
Welcome to the 150th issue of Ridiculous Opinions! In today’s installment, let me talk about how sad I am. In just a couple of weeks, my youngest daughter,...
Ridiculous Opinions #149!
Not a whole lot to say this week, but I want to get back in the groove of writing weekly, so here you go… One of my favorite shows as a teenager was The Kids...
Ridiculous Opinions #148
Hey folks! I’m back. “So, what?” most of you would say, and that’s a fair opinion to have. I mean, really, have any of you missed me? Have any of you sent me...
Ridiculous Opinions #147
Oh, hai! My name is Randy. You might know me from such popular television shows as, “Failed Screenwriter Takes Names” and “Angry Teacher Loses His Cool”. The...
Ridiculous Opinions #146
It’s been a fun week! That’s sarcasm. This week I had surgery. It was a fairly common one, in that I had my gall bladder removed. At this point, post-...
Ridiculous Opinions #145
The author, 1997. Greetings, all! In September, I started writing a memoir. I don’t know where the idea came from. It simply appeared to me one day as I was...
Ridiculous Opinions #144
I’m back from the dead, people. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I have a lot to say…I do not. But I wanted to take a bit of a break in terms of writing...
Ridiculous Opinions #143
Greetings, all! In 2014, I knew that we were moving from Shanghai to Bangladesh, so I tried a little experiment that I had learned from somewhere on the...
Ridiculous Opinions #142
I feel like that cat feels. I’ve got a late start to the newsletter today because, well, quite frankly, I’m exhausted. Spent the morning going for a walk,...
Ridiculous Opinions #141
Every year here in Abu Dhabi, they have the F1 Race. Notice how I refer to it, vaguely, as the “F1 Race”? I do that because I don’t have the faintest clue as...
Ridiculous Opinions #140
Over the last week or so, we have been watching Peter Jackson’s documentary on The Beatles, called Get Back. I don’t know why we sat down to watch it. I’m...
Ridiculous Opinions #139
The glorious part about being an adult is the simple fact that, now that I make my own money, I can buy what I want. The horrible fact about being an adult...
Ridiculous Opinions #138
The other day during my advisory class, I gave my students some time to journal. It was only ten minutes, but it was an opportunity for the kids in my...