Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 23, 2011
December 22, 2011
December 24, 2011
Transcript:
Petey: My mom let us stay up late last night to decorate our Christmas tree. The last ornament we put on it was a star Alice made in preschool. It's huge. It made out of cardboard. And it's got pieces of pasta glued all over it. Thousands of them. But the pasta is gradually coming unglued. So all night long I heard bits of pasta hitting the living room floor and bouncing around. Andre: Noodles falling from trees! It's a dream come true!
margueritem almost 13 years ago
Andre would like food falling from trees.
Catfeet Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Only Alice could come up with an al dente Christmas star!
Christopher Shea almost 13 years ago
Is the pasta the only thing coming unglued?
pouncingtiger almost 13 years ago
Andre is using his noodle again.
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
A dream to some, a nightmare to others, like me
Ida No almost 13 years ago
Andre is happy with anything as long as it’s LOUD.
LHPuttgrass almost 13 years ago
Imagine a young Tim Burton/David Lynch – that’s Andre.
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
That star is just Andre’s size! Falling pasta is a bonus, though I think Andre would prefer it to be cooked, unlike Dill, who’d eat it as-is….
lavaman1320 almost 13 years ago
Christmas is in two days
cdward almost 13 years ago
Some day Andre will be a famous movie director. Alice will be his actress wife (okay, she’ll be a stunt double for a star). They will work with Petey on his first movie, “The Adventure of Little Neuro and the the falling pasta tree.” It will feature a hero filled with ennui, plus lots of exploding pasta. I smell Oscar.
Gokie5 almost 13 years ago
Many years ago, I rolled some rice in different shades of food dye and let my daughter glue the rice onto a drawing with Elmer’s glue. We put the drawing on the old oil heater in the hall to dry. (It was summertime.) During the night I heard a “click, click” like Venetian blinds being blown by the breeze and hitting a window. The sound was coming from the heater. I turned on the light and found a huge cockroach on the picture, happily crunching on the rice.
HUTCHMUCH almost 13 years ago
Does Andre’s sweatshirt say “UNSEEN U”?
Muzition almost 13 years ago
I like Alice’s expression in panel 2.
Popeyesforearm almost 13 years ago
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. How I wonder what you are.Wish I may, wish I might, Oh damn it’s a satelite
Drewdove almost 13 years ago
All hail the reign of pasta rain.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 13 years ago
We use (raw) elbow macaroni in a population biology simulation in first-year Biology. Students have to be restrained from treating it as snack food even though the pasta is years old, well handled and eating it will ruin the experiment!
DonVanni almost 13 years ago
Of course, that star was made with pounds and pounds of glitter.
Gilda Blackmore almost 13 years ago
I love Andre’s clasped mittened hands in the last panel. It shows how very delighted he is!
TWAdair about 8 years ago
This reminds me of the Swiss spaghetti harvest…