Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 10, 2018

Or, at his age the wrong kind of free videos and by the wrong person.

Or spending too much time at GoComics…

Try free falling.

Feel free to respond.Don’t take life to seriously, we’ll never get out of it alive.

What if surfing free videos is what you actually enjoy, as opposed to free climbing?

A note on freediving: I’m a freediver who’s been living in the Cayman Islands for the past 6 years. Best part of freediving is going into “free fall” mode after about 40 ft; your lungs have compressed enough to where you’re negatively buoyant, so you began to free fall to your target depth. It’s crazy, but once you’re able to work up to this point (after 1000s of dives), it’s one of the most liberating, free-your-brain activities you can do. And if you’re properly trained and give yourself plenty of time to let your body and mind acclimate, it’s perfectly safe.

So, how does one “properly train”?

How about cliffdiving versus cavediving?

Very narrow view of living. “Creating” is every bit as thrilling as risking your life. I’ve gotten as big a thrill from determining a new analysis approach to an engineering challenge as I got doing cross wind landing in winds that turned out to be 10mph higher than the ATIS report at take-off (which I considered challenging enough).

Some people feel that they live a very satisfactory life without engaging in physically demanding pursuits. Frazz (i.e., Mallett) cannot understand that and would maintain that such a life is in fact unsatisfactory, but the people living it just don’t realize it. “Free time? What a total waste of protein these lowly lifeforms must be!” thinks Fazz, until he too experiences the end of mortality by swelling with pride and smug self-satisfaction until he bursts.

Curiously enough that was my rationale for pipe smoking. I realized that I could get mouth cancer that could shorten my life but I enjoyed it and the nicotine relaxed my brain and made my writing work better so I felt it was worth the risk/price. If one is going to die anyway, one might as well enjoy life.

Time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted time.

So Frazz doesn’t want us spending time reading his comic?

Frazz16 hrs ·

Rodale Inc. is a publishing juggernaut specializing in health and longevity through diet, lifestyle and exercise. It was founded in 1930 by Jerome I. Rodale, who lived the lifestyle he preached. In 1971, J. I. Rodale appeared on the Dick Cavett Show, announced that he had decided he would live to be 100 and proclaimed, at 72, that he’d never felt better in his life. Then he slid down the couch to make room for the next guest, and, cameras rolling, had a heart attack and died.

Twenty-nine years later, Dave Barry, a humor-writing juggernaut, wrote a book called Stay Fit and Healthy Until You’re Dead. It was published by Rodale.

You don’t usually see giant corporations being such a sport about these things. You do, however, hear a lot of people loudly proclaiming that Barry got it right. These people will die, too. Though probably not after happily celebrating how good they feel on national television. And if Dave Barry ever writes a book called Play It Super Safe and Die Anyway, no one will publish it.

As the old saying goes…Nobody get’s out of life alive. So I go with “Auntie Mame’s” famous dictum…“Live! Live! Live! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”

Auntie Mame: a great performance by Ms. Russell

To be fair to Frazz I think he means the Jeff Foxworth and Bill Engvall sort of stupid stunt you come up with when your bored and not to smart yet.