I thought this might interest some of you because of the Peter Arno connection.
We saw this show, by the way, and were impressed by how they stitched it all together to create something comprehensible. Also by how much time and expense they put into something they was only going to run for five days.
And now they’re going to make a recording which… is also going to lose a ton of money.
Yesterday, I happened to read something Norman Vincent Peale wrote in 1957 for Look magazine, regarding school boards banning books like Huckleberry Finn “because of inappropriate language and ideas” (yes, as far back as 1957).
He referred to “the peculiar notion that all ideas in fiction must be good,” and predicted that in the future “supernervous boards might drop Merchant of Venice or the Bible because some characters are depicted unsympathetically or in a way that some people might find disturbing [we’ve already gone there, of course]. If children’s minds are to be shielded from conflict and social change, it might be better to keep them away from reading entirely.”
Once more, I need to Marie Kondo my daily reading list. Maybe I’m just getting old. Maybe it’s just some strips that’are getting old. Hell, maybe it’s “I’ve been running CIDU for 23 years burnout,” who knows?
In any case, what replacement strips might bring joy to my mornings?
And would knowing that explain the @#$% Squirrel’s point?
A Seattle RE/MAX wants his home address so they can send him a commission check…
“The Devil’s in the details.”
Okay, if Random-Child-Who-Isn’t-Caulfield is eight, then this is his ninth spring melt-off.
Though actually, based on what Frazz is saying about the first two years of his life, seventh actually is accurate.
Though since Frazz doesn’t mention The Diaper Years to confirm Random-Child-Who-Isn’t-Caulfield’s use of “seventh,” why is he even mentioning it? And what is the alleged point that Random-Child-Who-Isn’t-Caulfield is allegedly ignoring?
This is a follow-up of sorts to something we discussed some years ago either here or on the CJA or Crimeweek page (assuming one of them was active at the time; I can’t keep track of how many incarnations there’ve been since 2000).
Anyway, Crimeweek currently exists, so I’m shifting this over there.
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