Halloween week! Time once again for Caulfield’s costume to be based on great literature. Enjoy.
Speaking of costumes, yesterday was my local open-water-swim cadre’s annual Vampire Swim. It’s the invention of Phil White, a member of my wider open-water-swim cadre. He started it in Vermont, and we’ve hopped on it along with a bunch of other groups around the country. It’s nationwide but as grass-roots as it gets: You get together for a swim on a date close to Halloween, and then you swim. Costumes optional, but urged. Wetsuits optional, but urged against, though not very hard. Swim length dependent on water temperature and toughness (in our case, 48º and not very freezin’ far). Fun mandatory. Cost of entry is a recent or promised blood/platelet/money donation to the Red Cross. I like a costume I don’t have to take off to swim in, and this year I wore a swimsuit (yes, that kind) with Jack-O-Lantern faces all over it. Then I covered my pumpkin-shaped and -textured head in orange face paint with black eyes and a big smile, got a pair of black-tinted Swedish socket goggles and rigged them with an orange bungee and nose bridge. Fastened a pumpkin stem to the top of my head and I was good to go. Good to go, unfortunately, by way of picking up a big load of coffee and hot chocolate at Starbucks. As I walked into the cafe, orange head a-blazing, the staff reacted … not a bit. Like guys with Surf-Fur parkas and Jack-O-Lantern heads come through the door all the time. When I told the story at the beach, one of my fellow swimmers, another Jeff, explained it: “That corporate sensitivity training was really effective.”
eromlig over 5 years ago
The Old Man And The Sea??
debra4life over 5 years ago
I’d say Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn, but I don’t think so. I never am able to figure out what he is.
Stephane D over 5 years ago
Daedalus ?
hyddyr over 5 years ago
A River Runs Through It?
Chrisdiaz801 over 5 years ago
Miss Plainwell looks nice as a skeleton.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
She seems to have opted for Bones.
crobinson019 over 5 years ago
Harold and the Purple Crayon?
AndrewPetersen over 5 years ago
I’m thinking Hemingways “Old Man and the Sea” personally.
smoore47 over 5 years ago
Mark Twain’s Jim.
FSOG Rich over 5 years ago
Trout Fishing in America?
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Lots of elements to put together but no solution. Will have to wait – as usual.
ChazNCenTex over 5 years ago
Pogo?
The Legend of Brandon Sawyer Premium Member over 5 years ago
I’m still rolling with pigpen
MS72 over 5 years ago
Today’s ‘Unstrange Phenomena’ is a good halloween janitor strip.
matzam Premium Member over 5 years ago
On the Road
Masterskrain Premium Member over 5 years ago
if it wasn’t for the fishing pole, I’d have guessed Charlie Brown and his kite…
peabodyboy over 5 years ago
Yes.I was thinking Intruder in the Dust, but I think The Grapes of Wrath is more likely.
Bill Löhr Premium Member over 5 years ago
I don’t think that’s dust. I think it’s the fishing line unraveling.
Corey Cohen over 5 years ago
Pogo?
DM2860 over 5 years ago
My thought was Moby Dick because in the end, Ahab gets entangled in the line of the harpoon.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
Grapes of dust?
drnihili over 5 years ago
Paul McLean?
Ina Tizzy over 5 years ago
I didn’t know Caulfield knew my husband.
streetbeater over 5 years ago
That’s what I’m thinking. Remember, last Thursday’s strip referenced Hemingway.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member over 5 years ago
How about good old Charlie Tuna? (I’m sure Caulfield has good taste…)
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
The Complete Tangler.
Uncle Bob over 5 years ago
The Andy Griffith Shiw…
seismic-2 Premium Member over 5 years ago
“Caster” in the Rye?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Frazz14 hrs ·
Halloween week! Time once again for Caulfield’s costume to be based on great literature. Enjoy.
Speaking of costumes, yesterday was my local open-water-swim cadre’s annual Vampire Swim. It’s the invention of Phil White, a member of my wider open-water-swim cadre. He started it in Vermont, and we’ve hopped on it along with a bunch of other groups around the country. It’s nationwide but as grass-roots as it gets: You get together for a swim on a date close to Halloween, and then you swim. Costumes optional, but urged. Wetsuits optional, but urged against, though not very hard. Swim length dependent on water temperature and toughness (in our case, 48º and not very freezin’ far). Fun mandatory. Cost of entry is a recent or promised blood/platelet/money donation to the Red Cross. I like a costume I don’t have to take off to swim in, and this year I wore a swimsuit (yes, that kind) with Jack-O-Lantern faces all over it. Then I covered my pumpkin-shaped and -textured head in orange face paint with black eyes and a big smile, got a pair of black-tinted Swedish socket goggles and rigged them with an orange bungee and nose bridge. Fastened a pumpkin stem to the top of my head and I was good to go. Good to go, unfortunately, by way of picking up a big load of coffee and hot chocolate at Starbucks. As I walked into the cafe, orange head a-blazing, the staff reacted … not a bit. Like guys with Surf-Fur parkas and Jack-O-Lantern heads come through the door all the time. When I told the story at the beach, one of my fellow swimmers, another Jeff, explained it: “That corporate sensitivity training was really effective.”
El-Kabong over 5 years ago
Mel Lazarus.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 5 years ago
I think he may be going non-fiction and “fishing for dirt”, so therefore an investigative reporter.
FrankTAW 8 months ago
I’m not sure what to make of it, but that “sort of” in the first frame must mean something.