Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 04, 2020

bummer, Petey

The acute anxiety of genius…

So are we all Petey, so are we all.

It’s an accurate summation of the year, then.

Well, vast amounts of material can be packed into a very small space.

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,

Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.

Wait…

The Earth began to cool,

The autotrophs began to drool,

Neanderthals developed tools,

We built a wall (we built the pyramids),

Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery,

That all started with the big bang (bang)!

[And that’s just about 25% of the song….]

No worries, Petey! Just use your Picky Eater’s App to edit the project! Don’t forget to do Notes! Teachers ❤️notes!

Everything but sports. Wasn’t there a soccer ball somewhere in there last year?

An incoherent mishmash sounds pretty accurate to sum up a year (particularly this one).

Anyone else read that in C-3PO’s voice?

Try making it a comedy! Like History of the World Part I

Chew on your arm.

Before seeing this strip I had never heard of a shoe-box diorama. Are they really a thing? My kids never made them, that is for sure.

Petey is NINE. That’s quite a curriculum for grade 4’s!

An incoherent mish-mash is pretty much what human life seems to be about. Find a niche and don’t think about it.

Yup, he filled the space with angst!

A little too much Westward Expansion… ☺

As a former teacher, I can tell you if you will write that explanation out to put with the display, you’ll get an A just for remembering those subjects!

He left out Interpretive mud-wrestling…

My final shoebox diorama is empty. It represents everything important I learned in school.

He’s ready for Academe.

Now I’m curious what adjectives he has used; milquetoast, bland, mild…?

life at times can be incoherent, a mishmash…just look at what is happening to our lives during these 2 pandemics…virus and racism. we can only hope that one day it will be more clear/simple and less complicated/confusing.

public school, and inch deep and a mile wide. Which is how it should be for little kids.

Wow ! That’s pretty much all of sixth grade, except mixed fractions.

Petey must be in 3rd grade AP, studying all those topics! Wow!

It’s a great stuffed diorama, Petey!

I’m from New Orleans: we made shoe-box Mardi Gras floats