As Pearls Before Swine was pointing out last week, most comic strips exist in a Nether-Nether Land where Billy never gets old and Charlie Brown never kicks the football (even if Sparky kicks the bucket). This creates a bizarre situation whenever they attempt to bring up issues like growing up, like every back-to-school season. It [...]
I don’t think any other mainstream comic strip artist goes after his peers (if you can call them that) like Sebastian Pastis. Then again, satirizing Family Circus is like shooting babies in a barrel. Still, there’s something ballsy about doing it while sharing the same page, if not the same syndicate. Earlier in the year [...]
Posting on this blog has obviously taken a steep downturn since, oh, about late 2005. I’ve gone and started a new blog (of course) documenting my work on law teaching in virtual worlds. See it here.
What do you do when you think you know someone, but you’re just not sure? According to Rachel, you just come out and ask: “You know, you really remind me of this person I once played soccer with in 1989 in Bumblepuck, MN. You wouldn’t happen to be that person, would you?”
Fair ’nuff. But what [...]
