Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for July 29, 2010

I want to travel back a few decades too and visit my youth.

I forget, did Cathy have a smaller size decades earlier or was she always like this even in teen flashbacks?

Nothing romantic about a splitter. I’m not sure I want to go back to my youth unless it’s to tell my young self, “Don’t be a moron!”

I have a Wilton’s Cathy cake pan, and I can see no change in the pan then and now.

I don’t blame her. “Cathy” was a great comic strip 30 years ago.

I love classic rock (and be-bop and punk and folk), but hearing only the greatest hits thereof every day for years can drive me nuts. NYC has at least one great station that plays current indie, alt and other adult rock (a mix of well-known and offbeat), but also frequent interesting songs (similar mix) from prior decades that influenced what we hear now. Like Kinks, Iggy Pop, Little Richard, Ramones, Who, Neil Young, etc. Just the kind of mix that makes radio worth being on radio (as opposed to a jukebox).

To make it romantic, today’s teens have the right idea - not a splitter, but one earbud of the regular pair for each listener. Being tethered while sharing music no one else is hearing adds cameraderie to a friendship and intimacy to an attraction. With those goals, who cares so much about sound fidelity?

Aren’t we in the 2010s now?