Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 24, 2016

times sure ’ave changed

I have the same problem as Luann, kind of. I don’t text, but get lots of emails on the computer I bought to write short stories with, and somehow the short stories aren’t getting finished…

I tried to look at each single lineseeking even one clue to her whinebut all that I had been able to findis that she might be out of her mind

Wait a minute … isn’t this the strip that ran in some newspapers on March 10 instead of the one we got?http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/03/20

oops March 20

An important saying, from the recently ancient Twentieth Century:

“There’s always room for Jello!….and One Hundred Characters…”

No talent for poetry, have I got, I do know one thing, though… Luann is a snot!

One of the best Sundays in some time.

“Caught Thread Handed”“I Think, Therefore IM”“Spam, In The Place Where You Live…” (♪)“Crackers For Instagram”“What A Fine SMS You’ve Gotten Us Into”“Throw The Facebook At Him!”“The Snapchat’s Out Of The Bag”“The Whisper Of Tweet Nothings”or“One Good Twitter Deserves Another…”

I had a deep tissue message, the other day!A quite therapeutic textSo deep, sad and sweetI ran out of Kleenex….I wanted to forward it to all my groupsAnd a share with my Facebook peers-Until I saw I was down to only a 5% charge…And, now, I’m really in tears!

There was a Luann in NantucketWho went to fetch water with a bucketI can’t think of any more so duck it Quack quack.

I love Luann’s poems even this one

Want to write sonnets,But fourteen lines is too much.So I just haiku.

Ah yes, the haikuUndernourished poetryDoesn’t even rhyme

Haiku are easyJust count up to seventeenSyllables, then stop

“WHERE Did All those ‘Hours’ GO??”“Pretty-Boy Chasing, Don’t ’cha Know?”“Now, If You Had ANY ’Common Sense,”“You’d Go Pull Gunther OFF the Fence!”“And Have the Romance that You DESERVE!”“So STOP Kicking the G-Man to the Curve!”“And QUIT being a Sticky, Like some Toffee.”“And while You’re at it, FETCH Me Some COFFEE!!!”

I can attest to this, personally. Yesterday, my family chartered a boat to go out and scatter the ashes of my recently departed “last uncle.” About 50 family members. After we had the brief service and we lowered the bio-degradable container, combined with all the rose petals, etc., we headed back to the dock. I can’t believe most of the family were texting rather than consoling each other! <sheesh> <facepalm>

They are living in “The Matrix”, rather than reality.

A commentary on the times! I love it.

Everyone wants to be a poetand all these comments show it!

Laughing!

A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind.

Related to the topic of using technology in ways which are less effective than older approaches Related also to a past class scene when Luann was the only one taking notes by hand Also, could be of interest to profs and students here:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away

And, yes, I still get a good chuckle when i reread today’s Luann!

Technology was supposed to make our lives easier, giving us more free time to do what we want and to be together with loved ones, but in many ways it has done just the opposite.Now, with technology, everyone expects instantaneous responses to everything. If you don’t respond to a text immediately, you get another one asking “are you there?” or “Is something wrong? Where are you?” And if you don’t reply to those, you get a call from that person asking why you’re not responding to texts.It extends to the workplace, too, of course. Instead of giving humans more free time, businesses of course immediately figured out that if you can now do something in a third of the time that it used to take you to do it, then you have the other two-thirds of the time to do something else. So, all technology has done is increase the workload. More, more, more, and faster, faster, faster. Someone sends an email or a company IM to you and expects near-instantaneous responses.I’ve had people at work send me an IM. I’m busy talking to someone else, and the issue can wait, so I ignore it for now. The person then walks to my desk and stands behind me while I’m talking on the phone. Stands there for a while watching this, then walks back to his own desk and CALLS ME. Unbelievable. When I obviously don’t answer because I’m still on the phone, I get an email saying “I texted and called you a while ago but you didn’t answer.” Yeah…and guess what…I’m not going to answer your voice message or your email right now either, just because. Idiot.Technology also has changed behaviors for the worse. Couples at restaurants texting other people instead of talking with each other. Or, texting each other instead of talking to each other! WTH? Kids at family get-togethers that are completely disconnected from what is going on, instead just staring at their little screens the whole time and texting friends or looking at Facebook. Families on vacation where the younger generation (not to pick on them too much, but it’s definitely more true of younger people than older), are completely bored at whatever amazing National Park or landmark they’re at, because, you know, they Googled it already, saw it in 360 degrees on their computer screens, and now it’s basically just…“Seen it. Next.” So…Bryce Canyon…Googled it…just a bunch of weird looking rocks…BORING…when are we going home? Well, maybe just one selfie for Facebook. OK, done. NEXT!Oh, and the narcissistic use of selfie sticks. The most bizarre example of that was on a long hike to a distant, gorgeous lake. The hike was not very strenuous, so plenty of non-hardcore-hikers and non-hikers do it. But it is long, and it took all morning and the better part of an afternoon to reach the lake. The lake was fantastic. My partner and I were just sitting on a rock and gazing at it for a long time. Then here comes this young couple. The guy has a selfie stick. He looks completely serious and slightly bored. They walk up to the bank of the lake, turn around to face the other way so that the lake is behind them, hold up the selfie stick, smile fake smiles on cue, snap a shot, resume their bored, serious expressions, and then…walk away! — heading back down the hiking trail. We just sat there looking at them in amazement.Well, this was a bit of a rant, wasn’t it? Hahaha. I guess that’s one thing technology is good for. I can sit here at my computer and rant to strangers about computers. Oh well.Have a good Sunday, everyone. Put away those smartphones and get out and get some fresh air! That’s what I plan to do!

Good one, but needs to be read out loud.

… I’m multitasking.

Or maybe … Multitexting.

Uninterrupted time’s needed to contemplate,And to hang out together to learn to relate,To buoy each other and to debate.Observation secures the foundation.

And there is the circle people have found:Observations require time to be sound.And thus the wheel goes aroundWithout interruption for latest sensation.

A tool is a tool only when it servesSo take the free time that you deserveOr you’ll be the tool. There’s the curve.And that info comes from observation.We all need to recall observation.

“All the poetry and doggerel we here have writtenMust have left Greg a more than a slight bit smitten…”*BS – Our wit oft surpasses, that of his lasses.

Like Lu, in high school I had important things to sayThen I committed to a weekly newsletterAnd my thoughts are tripe, they say.

So answer your text in rhyme,Seek the perfect phrase to useIt really doesn’t take much timeAnd what’ve you got to lose?

-Regarding Wiselad’s comment; he posted the same thing under a different name at ArcaMax. And that site is known for the contempt its posters proudly hold for most of the characters in this ’toon, especially Luann. They only post there to talk to each other, basically.

yes, post there once in a blue moon, when I look at the strip a few hours before gocomics posts the strip, they tend to usually be very offensive or defensive with comments contrary to their views……………………. and my little post was about how Luann wrote about how hard was to do poems and rhyme with such little time yet it was so full of talent that it obliterated her own complain, one can always choose to make the time

hope you don’t think I am one of “those” in your view, I am one who even if it is in the mind of Greg and her daughter, I try to look at each character as a human, that has both good things and bad things. we can;t look at them as totally EVIL, or as angels who can’t do no wrong, which happens a lot there, and here sometimes

I am a terrible poet and even though very verbal have the alliterative voice of a gerbil, so instead of trying to contribute to the best, I think I will just manifest dumb silence and admiration of the rest.

How about that. Luann is a poet. And she doesn’t even know it.

“By the way, the expression is “kicking the G-Man to the curb””I saw that too, but I took it that he wanted it to rhyme.And, yes, someone please oblige Mr Mordock with some java! (I’ve got mine here beside me.)

In Hawaii, they have a lot of Haikus about SPAM (the original, not the email kind.) Here was my contribution:Prem for SpamWe could not affordThe real thing.(Yeah, I know, it’s a 3-5-3. So what?)

Oh, lord! The Sunday Interlude has brought on an inevitable rash of “Look at me, I’m a poet, too!” versifying here….It’s a Poetry Bug epidemic! Is no one immune?!

Ouch! Ouch! Pun!

Is this the ref, Airman?

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-e-childs/human-being-vs-human-doing-which-one-are-you_b_5501612.html>

Spoiler: confusing tales of the travelers

SPOILER THREE

Today is officially tomorrow, so rhymes are not needed. But interpretation may be!

Yeah, without them being in the Village.