Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 18, 2019

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    Chrisdiaz801  over 5 years ago

    Anything you do at any time can now be considered a advertisement, is what Frazz is saying.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I wish I was, but my legs just won’t take it.

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    mclukk  over 5 years ago

    Gotta put some ice 9 on those knees.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 5 years ago

    In circles. You’re running in circles.

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    sandpiper  over 5 years ago

    Kinda looks like they bought two outfits and then each wore the top to the other one. What is not stated is that they seem to be enjoying each other’s company, which can be worth a lot in the long run.

    Anybody know where the quote appeared in Vonnegut?

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    brianwar  over 5 years ago

    From the Frazz facebook page:“That line, that image, is from Slaughterhouse-5, so at least it’s not like you get blindsided by it while enjoying something light. I’ve read the book a few times, and can remember once in particular, thinking a little too smugly that, boy, good thing he wasn’t talking about me. Then I looked down at the t-shirt I was wearing with some triathlon or bike gear logo on it, and further down at my nice running shoes from the running store, and my triathlon/GPS watch, while taking sips out of my logo-branded water bottle … you get the picture.

    I found it a little ironic and maybe even embarrassing. But not disturbing. Certainly not disturbing enough to try to construct a new life from things that could be bought at the liquor store."

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 5 years ago

    and so it goes

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    well-i-never  over 5 years ago

    You don’t construct a life that means something from gift shops. You do it from toy stores.

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    cissycox  over 5 years ago

    I love gift stores. I could construct an itinerary of every where I have visited, every museum I have explored, many plays and operas I’ve seen just from T-shirts.

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    cervelo  over 5 years ago

    Miss Plainwell appears to be in the midst of an existential crisis.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  over 5 years ago

    Allow me to state, categorically, that Kurt Vonnegut was the greatest American writer of prose, bar none.

    (For poetry, it’s a tie between Robert Hunter & Townes Van Zandt. Yeah, I like my poetry with a melody…..)

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    Herb L 1954  over 5 years ago

    “Gift Shop” Tragically Hip.RIP,Gord Downie ;)

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    JudyAz  over 5 years ago

    When I was a kid I wondered why you had to pay for things in that store. After all, wasn’t it a “gift” shop?

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    JimBodeen  over 5 years ago

    Billy Pilgrim’s mother. She’s also looking for the right church.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Exit thru the gift shop” has allowed me to construct several other people’s lives as well, since we always want to bring home souvenirs for the pet sitters.

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    1MadHat Premium Member over 5 years ago

    My wife and I took a ten day or so tour of Alaska – by train from Fairbanks to Anchorage, by ship to Vancouver. Great trip!! Of course, we only spent about ten hours total being more than a quarter mile from a gift shop. On the boat (960 ft long), on the train (one in each tour companie’s section), on a bus, EVERYWHERE!!!

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    jvn  over 5 years ago

    So, you can only run in name brand fashions? I’m sure Kurt has a quote about that somewhere, too.

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    Bilan  over 5 years ago

    You don’t get items from gift shops, you get lego blocks. With imagination, you can build anything from that.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    Blog PostsFrazz15 hrs ·

    That line, that image, is from Slaughterhouse-5, so at least it’s not like you get blindsided by it while enjoying something light. I’ve read the book a few times, and can remember once in particular, thinking a little too smugly that, boy, good thing he wasn’t talking about me. Then I looked down at the t-shirt I was wearing with some triathlon or bike gear logo on it, and further down at my nice running shoes from the running store, and my triathlon/GPS watch, while taking sips out of my logo-branded water bottle … you get the picture.

    I found it a little ironic and maybe even embarrassing. But not disturbing. Certainly not disturbing enough to try to construct a new life from things that could be bought at the liquor store.

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