Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for March 02, 2015
February 28, 2015
March 03, 2015
Transcript:
new used gibbous bilious sullen boorish march skywatch virago spot lacto the milk carton booties teleprompter the big zigzag gary the cvs assistant manager speculum pudding cup rictus jellomold hello stargazers! well, this month the night sky is a mess, an incoherent mishmash of second-rate constellations. frankly, i've done dot-to-dots on bennigan's kid's menu that were more compelling. also, the planets are all clumped up in one corner, including some that don't even belong in our solar system. this seems unnecessary, wasteful even, and is best ignored. oop: "chapter one - the informercial" finally, the annual "insipid" meteor shower promises fitful glimpses of random flaming space lint. why bother? go watch tv, or work on your novel, or both.
puddlesplatt about 9 years ago
what beauty to behold, shall stay up all night, til mornings early light.
comixbomix about 9 years ago
“Speculum”??? Eewww!There’s an awful joke there, but i don’t want to be banned…
John Glynn creator about 9 years ago
I think that last moon is mooning me
kas300 about 9 years ago
These cartoons are galactically wonderful
OldestandWisest about 9 years ago
This reminds me that when I was a kid, fifty or more years ago, cartoon views of the universe would always feature several ringed planets like in the bottom left of Thompson’s cartoon today, even though back then only Saturn was thought to have have rings. Now we know that Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings, just not as developed as Saturn’s. Score one for the cartoonists!
Sisyphos about 9 years ago
Richard should be a professor of astronomy!