Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 31, 2017

If you ain’t failing once in a while, then you ain’t even trying.

And once you have “gotten it”, then what?

Thanks for overlapping the balloons in panel 2, rather than inadvertently connecting them (something I have complained about before).

Just another step toward ‘getting it’. Nothing said there about ‘keeping it’. What? have you NEVER loved someone? Ownership of technique fades. Money escapes. Rust never sleeps. Enlightenment? Huh.

Even great Olympic performers in our"Best in Breed" humanoid trials have ‘it’ slip away. As an old, foolish man, I mourn….of course, uselessly and needlessly. All is temporary….enjoy NOW.

It’s “unbelievably, profoundly difficult” to bounce back from a bad race?! Might be overdramatizing a bit.

Obsessive exercising is a way of making you feel that you’ve accomplished something when you really haven’t.

I’m no closer to getting it, by which I mean the point. Or the punchline.

I understand the point, but is there a joke here?

His black tee displays the September ‘Run Wild for the Detroit Zoo’ 5/10k that winds thru Jef’s Huntington Woods neighborhood (and i’m sure he participates in.)