Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 11, 2015

Enjoy it as long as you can.

Almost everywhere you go, you’re confronted with utility poles and microwave towers decimating and desecrating the landscape. It’s nearly impossible to take an uncluttered photo of fields and hills.

We had a nasty storm last week, and lost power for several days. It was nice and quiet for a while. But after a time, the last thing we cared about were the utility poles or cell towers, we just want the lights on, and our phones to work.

Some people think that Hobbes is nothing but a product of Calvin’s imagination. If that were the case, then in the last panel today, Calvin would be alone with his thoughts.

It’s so hard to get away from the background rumble and whine of traffic. And if you do, there’s still likely to be the drone of a plane overhead. I wished I’d walked deep into the Yorkshire Dales during the time that Icelandic volcano grounded everything over Europe.

I want to go to one of the Dark Skies parks sometime http://www.visitscotland.com/en-us/about/nature-geography/dark-sky-park . There’s quite a few in the US of course.

You can hear bees, flys and mosquitos!

when i am alone with my thoughts i always seem to be right…and that makes me nervous….

You’ll feel real comfortable in 2015 suburbia Calvin, the cars are now continuous if you can hear them over the constant 12 hour 7 day a week drone of the leaf blower and lawn mower… As for the radio you’ll need to turn that up really high just to be able to make out the words and music.

I speek with God, when I am allone. I ask him, what he would do, when he would be in my situation. Than I don’t feel allone, I have no fear and I have a better life, since I do this. When I was younger didn’t want to hear and went my own ways, that was not always good, it is much better, since I ask HIM!

Yes and no. When other people are around Hobbes is certainly a stuffed tiger. But occasionally there are things Hobbes does with Calvin when they are alone that would be difficult to explain if he were JUST a stuffed tiger.

When my family first moved from “town” out to the “suburbs”, I had trouble sleeping. Was too used to the noise of the semis going past our house as they chugged uphill.

I’d hate to alone with Calvin’s thoughts.

This is but one of many reasons I love backpacking solo. So dark out, so quiet….

It’s called peace, Calvin m’lad… trust me, you’ll learn to appreciate it.

I had a friend who was reared in Ft. Worth and Dallas. He was stationed in London for his military service. I got him to go with me to Las Vegas to attend a seminar. He had been to Las Vegas many times, but never by car. The desert and small towns were like another world to him.We were driving through the New Mexico desert late one night. No lights anywhere. He asked me if the Milky Way was really something you could see or was it something like a constellation, kind of an imaginary thing. It was a moonless desert night, the air so clear it almost hurt.I stopped and killed the car and said, “Get out and look up.”He was 30 or so and had never seen the un-polluted night sky. He was speechless. He confessed that he had no idea of it’s magnitude.I kept thinking, “The Stars, Like Dust”……..

In spite of some of the comments above about pollution, aloneness, and soliloquy ….. the universe still lives – the Perseid meteor shower is peaking. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html …. hope it’s visible where you are!

Figures. Haha

The Sound of Silence

And in the naked light I sawTen thousand people, maybe morePeople talking without speakingPeople hearing without listeningPeople writing songs that voices never shareAnd no one daredDisturb the sound of silence

c/o Simon and Garfunkel

Some people think that Hobbes is nothing but a product of Calvin’s imagination~~~~Hobbs, I’m convinced you are not Calvin’s imagination because you know things Calvin doesn’t.You could be a guardian angel or a poltergeist that only Calvin sees. Does anybody else have a suggestion? And, yes, I know it’s just a comic strip.

The Nostalgia is real.

Calvin is just a comic strip character, but Hobbes imagines that Calvin is alive.

@LX013: And we imagine that the other posters on this site are real, even though we have never seen them move.

Calvin’s not a big fan of thinking. He’s more a “man of action.”

People are part of nature.

When we camp on the Kern River in California, we can still see the Milky Way. Deserts are pretty good for that too. The kids friends are stunned to see it and be able to walk around in the dark by just that amount of light. You can probably find the same effect in any state or national park river valley.

I was gonna watch the meteors last night—but we got a thunderstorm instead! :(