Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 13, 2013
June 07, 2013
June 14, 2013
Transcript:
enjoy this classic tom the dancing bug every thursday panels from the annals of the tom the dancing bug archive check back every friday for a fresh, brand new tom the dancing bug! tom the dancing bug by ruben bolling "flowers for trinitron" may 16. in the middle of n/y/p/d/ blue, cable goes out. there is bad reseption where i live, so i go to bed early. may 17. cable still out. woke up better rested than usual. great day at work, then met a friend and then brought home some magazines. may 18. cable still out. i feel great, though.. i went jogging after work and then went to the library to get some books. began reading. may 19. after dinner with some friends i hadn't seen in a while, i finished reading east of eden. i spent the rest of the evening contemplating humanity's inherent nature. cable still out. may 20. i began volunteering at a homeless shelter. i met another volunteer there, jill, who seems very nice. cable still out. may 21. i'm sending out resumes in an attempt to escape my current dreary employment. i finished chapter 3 of the novel i've started writing, and my first date with jill was delightful. cable still out. may 22. i feel as though a fog has been lifted and i'm living for the first time! i never realized that television was such an insidiously stifling presence man: demon box! thief of time! i forsake you! farewell forever, purveyor of inanity! tv: fzzz... ...i'd like to buy a vowel, pat. may 23. big day! on home improovment, al almost took a job in annother city, but then he didn't.
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Donaldo Premium Member over 11 years ago
Aināt it the truth
lbatik over 11 years ago
Ha ā who needs cable when youāve got internet. :Ā¬/
jazzmoose over 11 years ago
Too sad to be funny, but a great strip.
drkala over 11 years ago
And Ted Rall today tells you how it can be doneā¦
Packratjohn Premium Member over 11 years ago
As Groucho Marx said, āTV is the opiate of the massesāā¦ Oops, wrong Marx, and thatās not quite what was said, but you get the pointā¦.
wcorvi over 11 years ago
Over 20 years ago, I took my TV out, put a blindfold on, taped a cigarette to its screen, and shot it. Life has never been so good. Yes, internet, but I can download what I want when I want, and turn it off a lot easier.
They spend billions on research on how to get you to keep watching. READ A BOOK!
ROLtheWolf over 11 years ago
I find the internet is just as much a time-thief, but I love it so much, I canāt stay mad at it.
lafayetteann over 11 years ago
Youāll have to pry the TV remote for āBreaking Badā from my cold dead fingers.
Ushindi over 11 years ago
I have a big flatscreen TV which Iām using for my computer monitor ā I had my Dish cable put on hold for six months and if I donāt miss it (which I havenāt so far) Iāll just have it disconnected permanently.
Thehag over 11 years ago
So true. Donāt have TV anymore but have Hulu, Netflix, GoComics and paperbacks from the library. Ha ha.