IDWID: It do what it do

I don’t know what this means, but I thought I’d dash off a few sentences about it. At work, I sit by a window that’s next to a fairly busy intersection. Every few days for the past few weeks, this semi-truck drives by the building through the intersection. Except, for some reason, he always sounds his horn — very briefly, maybe a quarter of a second — as he approaches. Read the rest of this entry »

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Going up the page in reverse order of my daily comic-strip reading, what’s next?

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman: What’s not to like? Zits has got to be among the funniest of current comic strips. We’ve all been teenagers, so we can all relate. Zits is current, fresh, funny, and true. The interaction and sarcasm between Jeremy and his parents reveal the best and funniest of teen-related cliches. This is the rare comic strip that can actually make me occasionally laugh out loud. The authors understand humor, which might be more rare in comics than one might think (see B.C.). Read the rest of this entry »