Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 23, 2021

That’s its reputation, anyway.

Some things work in a wide context, some only narrowly. Even “eternal truths” don’t apply in the wrong context. For instance, “Money can’t buy happiness” only works in the context of “for yourself”.

It’s not the length time, it’s what you do with it. Dame Judi Dench had 8 minutes on-screen to win an Oscar in Shakespeare in Love.

I thought we were supposed to get fifteen minutes.

Reputation won’t get you much if you’re a has-been. Unless you can be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown!

Taking things out of context can be “fun”.

Sadly, it seems to be the standard operating procedure for so many in politics. This makes it very difficult to know what is really true.

a clear perspective concerning context brings solutions to problems. At least, that’s the way I see it.

Reputation once lost is rarely recovered no matter the context it is in.

Text without context is pretext (i.e., you’re making a pretext of understanding something if you don’t know the context of it).

Reputation can get you five minutes, but what you do in those five minutes can maintain or even increase your reputation.

Unless you can be Batman, then alwasy be Batman.

Not everyone loves a clown, just ask someone that has coulrophobia.

After 5 minutes, you have to prove you are still relevant, in todays world.

For my money, the Universe is everything. But maybe that’s just me.

Boy, little kids sure are big fans of Jerry Seinfeld! It reminds me of how much I liked Buster Keaton when I was their age, in the 70s!

Are u kidding? Clowns r scary

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It’s not as bad as the Garrison Keillor thing. I knew about Garrison Keillor as an author. His books were not too bad. And I really liked him as a short-form writer, particularly an advice column he did for, I believe, Salon magazine. So I was excited to learn he was going be a speaker at an editorial cartoonists’ convention I’d be attending. And when he spoke, I thought, damn, this guy would be really good on the radio. (This is the same convention I kicked off with a 15-minute conversation with a “fellow cartoonist” I couldn’t quite recognize who turned out to be Walter Mondale; it was not my finest weekend.)

I read Jerry Seinfeld’s book during a stretch (i.e., most of my life) when I didn’t have a television and therefore wasn’t as conversant in his TV show as the rest of the country was. But at least I knew his show existed, so it wasn’t quite as bad as the Garrison Keillor thing. And I have since seen a few episodes of Seinfeld. It’s OK. But what I really like is his writing and his stand-up. I have no idea what Seinfeld or Keillor would think of all that, and I probably don’t want to. Both seem like they might be kind of prickly. Or maybe it’s just Walter Mondale seems like he’d be an awfully nice guy, and HE didn’t take too long before he’d had just about enough of my obliviousness.

Context is very important just as the placement of apostrophes are to understanding.