Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 08, 2014
August 04, 2014
August 11, 2014
Transcript:
woman: i'm engrossed in "duck! the complete guide to modern living." with over 250,000 pages & reinforced bind-ing, it doubles as a handy, family-size emergency shelter. kid: mommy! i'm trapped in the index! duck! the complete guide to modern living old man: i'll just be trying to decipher the instructions on this bottle of medicine, so don't you mind me. what in hell does "flummoxofin" treat, anyway? boy 1: until a new "harry potter" comes out, i'm going to concentrate my reading on cereal boxes exclusively. i find that there is much to learn from the feverish, sugar-crazed imaginings of over-paid copywriters with too much space to fill and hey there's no toy in this one. boy 2: i read only the comics page, the last venue for quality work by dead white males. guy: "brewed using only the finest malt, hops & barley." there, i read something. go away.
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
How many books did you read this summer?
pumaman over 9 years ago
I read lots of good bottles. Cans not so many.
Dual over 9 years ago
Are they cutting off the headline portions of these ‘strips’ now?
ehtaniguchi over 9 years ago
I read only the comics page, the last venue for quality work by dead white males.
If you’re talking about Charles Schultz, I’m glad his Peanuts strip continues to run (or rerun) in our local paper. But it is kind of depressing how so many strips are now in rerun mode: For Better or Worse, Doonesbury, Calvin and Hobbes. (And then there are some I can’t tell if they’re in reruns or not: Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Hi and Lois.) There are a number of great new artists out there, but it’s as if the editors don’t want to change the lineup, or don’t care.