Metapost: Keep on COTWing on
It's Friday? And that means it's COTW time? You know it's COTW time. "Dr. Jeff notices Mary eating her dessert with a canapé fork and immediately calls 911...
Mostly soapy Friday
Judge Parker, 12/6/24 Oh, yeah, my prediction that Judge Parker Senior has his fugitive daughter Anne living in his basement turned out to be correct, much...
Love a newspaper headline that eschews proper nouns
Crock, 12/5/24 If these two guys have names, I don't know what they are -- the Wikipedia Crock article just calls them "the men of Outpost 5," and they don't...
No AI could come up with ideas as "complex" (polite euphemism) as "Alice"
Slylock Fox, 12/4/24 An extremely fond memory I have from my youth is seeing Fugazi playing an outdoor show in San Francisco sometime around the turn of the...
He shouldn't be alive -- and I for one think it's time to do something about that
Mary Worth, 12/3/24 It can be hard to remember sometimes that Wilbur doesn't dedicate his full energy to being a sad loser with a host of emotional problems;...
The dog smells the chicken and wants to eat it, simple as
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/2/24 I had never really thought about it, but if you had asked me before today, I would've told you I was pretty sure that...
Mary is about to enter her shut-in era and I'm here for it
Six Chix, 12/1/24 Often after reading the daily Six Chix comic strip, I use this weblog to express opinions along the lines "I have no idea what the fuck is...
I could be wrong, it could just be a bunch of skeletons or ghosts or something
Judge Parker, 11/30/24 Hey, remember at the beginning of this year, when we found out that the Judges Parker had a secret daughter (to Judge Parker...
Metapost: Progressing pilgrims at the COTW
Just as the Mayflower Contract was an important early example of constitutional self-government in the North American British colonies, I have an unwritten...
Maybe they just want to make sure he picks the poop up. Lotta people don't
Rex Morgan, M.D, 11/29/24 Oh, hey, it turns out that Rex's cranky old patient is Merle Lewton, who we met a few years ago after he got scammed by Miss...
Thanksgiving quickies
Hagar the Horrible, 11/28/24 What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Personally, I'm thankful to learn that, in the Hagarverse, the imported Near...
Charterstone will be empty by the afternoon
Mary Worth, 11/27/24 Oh, man, this is incredible, we're now on day three of Mary's dinner guests making it very clear that they don't mind at all that...
Can't believe the French are stealing our Thanksgiving. How dare they
Crock, 11/26/24 The thing that's great about this Crock strip (and that's a phrase I never thought I'd write) is that Barlow is covered with feathers, which...
Hat Ghost: The Ghost Who Wore A Hat
Blondie, 11/25/24 A common development in all sorts of open-ended narratives (comic strips, TV shows, what have you) is that ancillary characters are...
Do the bird-people's tree(?)-houses have roofs?
Shoe, 11/24/24 If told you to imagine a local TV news report about a city clerk being appointed, you'd probably think, "Wow! Can't get duller than that!"...
Good thing it's not Princeton, because I'd have some harsh words
Mary Worth, 11/23/24 Big news everyone. Huge news. Incredible news. Mary is coming down with COVID or the flu or maybe just a bad cold, who's to say, but the...
Metapost: Pre-prandial comments of the week
I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure that laughter is the best way to expand your stomach in preparation for your upcoming Thanksgiving binge. And what...
Unpleasant Friday
Gasoline Alley, 11/22/24 Oh, sorry kids, looks like you're going to slowly suffocate to death as your spaceship goes dark and circles Mars in an erratic...
What's next, CRANBERRY SAUCE out of CAN?????
Mary Worth, 11/21/24 This whole week has been about everyone ("everyone" being Toby and Dawn, admittedly) getting jazzed as hell about Thanksgiving, because...
Quick takes on still more babies and other terrible children
Marvin, 11/20/24 Good news, everyone! Marvin? The terrible baby? The one who does all the pissing and shitting? Well, he doesn't know about sex yet. Yet....