Recent Comments

1. about 23 hours ago on Rip Haywire

   Yes, but waffles are (even) better.

2. about 24 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   It would be interesting to poll a large sample of people who hate the very idea of pineapple on pizza and ask how many of them had ever tried it.

3. 1 day ago on Day by Dave

   I understand that there are practical reasons in many circumstances for people to want daylight to linger, but a purely affective aversion to long dark evenings is hard for me to grasp . If I were in this cartoon, the reason I’d have for feeling gloomy is precisely that, from now on, the incursions of the afternoon sun on “my old friend” dark evenings are going to be more and more transgressive.

4. 2 days ago on Truth Facts

   Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go is the Wham song to cue up if elation is the mood you want to go with.

5. 2 days ago on Rip Haywire

   I can’t help thinking that, having made Linus the sincere spokesman for the real meaning of Christmas, Schulz deliberately undercut his credibility as a messenger of traditional piety by making him a zealous apostle of the Great Pumpkin.

6. 4 days ago on Tank McNamara

   I guess baseball players have to be even much bigger superstars than he is for me to have heard of them.

7. 4 days ago on Daddy's Home

   A bit like the reindeer roster in Bob Dylan’s version of Must Be Santa:

   Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen / Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon / Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen / Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton

8. 4 days ago on Tank McNamara

   The only Freddie Freeman I ever heard of is the one who could turn into Captain Marvel Jr. (And he spelled Freddy with a y.)

9. 6 days ago on Thatababy

   Thanks to Gene for writing that song, and for much else, but the brilliantly inventive rendition by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters is far and away the best.

10. 7 days ago on Looks Good on Paper

    In the style of Little Annie Fanny by Will Elder?? But if this is a takeoff on a Harvey Kurtzman script it must be one (of many) that escaped my notice.