Recent Comments

1. about 16 hours ago on Betty

   I can remember when every household had someone who could play piano! It wasn’t that long ago. My grandmother’s generation grew up during the first days of radio and recorded music, when entertainment was a thing you made yourself.

2. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   My cat would have been yeeted right off my lap by this. If he even sees me scratch my nose he’s out of there. I sneezed on him once, years ago, and he has never forgiven me.

3. 1 day ago on Frazz

   Wellesley college is at about the halfway point. It’s a long-standing tradition for the ladies to cheer on the race. If you search YouTube you can get a better idea.

4. 1 day ago on Frazz

   The organizers actually instruct you to toss your cups. It prevents clogs of runners at the trash bins, and they already have a crew ready to sweep the street afterward anyway. You paid for the cleanup crew as part of your race fees.

5. 1 day ago on Frazz

   A few years ago an online running friend of mine died after qualifying for Boston so we held a virtual memorial race to benefit his widow. A lot of us were old and slow and low miles runners so we ran a virtual Boston over a week. I made a map and the marker for each person moved on the map to show where on the Boston course they would be and the race had a dedicated page where we cheered each other on and posted videos of stuff like the scream tunnel as each person passed through it. It came out really cool. I think it distracted us from being miserable over our friend and wanting to quit running, and we raised a tidy little sum for his wife and kids.

6. 1 day ago on Luann

   To be fair the nail business was successful, the college just wouldn’t let her do it.

7. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Unfortunately mice are social so setting them free far away isn’t really a kindness either. They have babies and loved ones. I don’t have a solution other than to find the holes and block them, which isn’t always possible. We eventually took our kitchen cabinets out completely and plastered the whole wall behind them with this expanding plasticy stuff and put them back, and haven’t had an issue since.

8. 2 days ago on Frazz

   I have a very nice long-sleeved tech fabric shirt from an ultra marathon in support of doctors in Haiti. I wear it a lot in the winter because who doesn’t want others to know they have finished an ultra? And people are always coming up to shake my hand and thank me for being a doctor. And I have to explain, no, no, I’m not a saintly doctor who travels to third-world countries to volunteer or indeed any type of doctor, I just spent 24 hours straight running through the woods. And they say something like “Well that’s a thing too!” Yes. Yes it was. Ugh.

9. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I feel like many of the commenters have not known the joys of mouse droppings in their cabinets. Mice are cute… in comics.

10. 3 days ago on Luann

    Slice of life comedy depends on recognition to be funny. None of this is recognizable as actual human behavior. It hasn’t been for some years now.