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May 30, 2026

On Seeing the Sunset Three Times

"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee

A reminder to get all your comics at Radiator Comics, including all three Sloth and Manatee books, yes yes! Tell friends! And thank you to everyone who has ordered so far! They’ve got a lot of good stuff over there, I tell you what.

Sloth and Manatee

Recently I was in an airplane flying into SFO (San Francisco) and there was a holdup so we had to circle around for a while before landing, so around we went, over Northern California, looking at the ocean and then looking at the mountains and then looking at the ocean some more and then the mountains again and during this whole time the sun was setting.

We did three circuits and each time the sun had done more setting. And so we got to see the same sunset, three different times, from a plane.

The first trip around

Second trip around

By the third trip around, the sky looked like this, also there’s the lil moon and I assume Venus

The colors of the light hitting the plane’s wing kept changing completely. First it was a thin bit of bright pink/yellow, next it was a line of blue. Then it was just a bit of an orange grey glow.

The day is full of things like this, combinations of people and situations and art and whatever that are utterly unique and can never happen again, that unfold into more utterly unique things, but this view from the plane window of the same sunset over and over really put a fine point on it. I felt like I witnessed something.

Sloth and Manatee books at Radiator Comics


Brainwaves

Best of Brainwaves Volume One: The Fountain of Stuff

Best of Brainwaves Volume Two: Mom, Dad, I'm a Cat

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Art!

It is the end of the school year, so my classes have had a whole year to develop their own ways of doing things. By this point they will often come into the room with something already in their head, and they will declare this as they come in. It’s such a joy to see how they gravitate toward their own groove, and their favorite materials. Although, I will say that everyone loves tape. Tape is the best. All projects can benefit from some tape.

I mean, LOOK.

This kid layered a bunch of colored paper together, cut it, taped it (TAPE!), and then made a little dude who lived inside.


Came across this little dude

Things Of The Week

You know you want to make your own Waffle House Sign.

Every so often I have to re-post this Star Trek theme coming from the Enterprise video because I just find it so funny

Here you can see current weather conditions in a wide variety of cities, as interpreted by way of a Rothko Painting


Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.

May you see a sunset, may you see another sunset or the same sunset or a whole bunch of sunsets, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy


HELLO AND THANKS FOR READING!!

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