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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

I had a discussion pop up on a friend’s Facebook page yesterday about this, so I thought I’d toss it to you folks: What do you think of the band Journey, and specifically, the song “Don’t Stop Believin’”? (Personally, I … Continue reading

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And now, the walls!

Now that all the books are squared away, my focus in getting my library the way I want it is stuff for the walls. It began with my Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace poster, which faces my desk: … Continue reading

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Sunday Stuff That’s Weird and Cool

Time for some oddball stuff, eh? :: Roger e-mailed me the links to these first two items. First, it turns out that this week’s surprise re-emergence of Bill Watterson onto the comics page had a charitable side to it. The … Continue reading

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BOW BEFORE ME, FOOLISH MORTALS

The other day I speculated on who might be drawing the substitute art on the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Today, the Internets are afire as Pearls creator Stephan Pastis has confirmed my hypothesis, with details as to how it … Continue reading

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John Oliver gives Caillou some tough love

On this week’s edition of his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver — in the midst of a brilliant segment on Net Neutrality, which you really should watch in its entirety — took a few seconds to address everybody’s favorite … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

It’s a bright and sunny day, and I’m in a good mood. Wow! Anyway, here are a few completely unrelated songs that are in my “Songs That Make Me Generically Happy” list. (I don’t actually have such a list, but … Continue reading

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Speaking of Comics….

One of the recurrent storylines in Funky Winkerbean of late has been the quest of Holly, the wife of the strip’s title character, as she seeks to complete her son’s collection of the entire run of a comic book called Starbuck … Continue reading

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So….

One of my favorite comic strips is Pearls Before Swine, which this week is running one of its “breaking the fourth wall” storylines. Stephan Pastis, the creator, does this frequently, by including a smoking, pot-bellied version of himself in the … Continue reading

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Egg salad: yay or nay?

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Ummm…hello, Reddit people….

I see that some folks are hitting this blog via a particular Reddit board, which is fine, obviously. I would like to note that the quote superimposed on the photo over there is nothing I have ever thought or written. It’s … Continue reading

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