Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 12, 2022

Houston, we have a failure to communicate here.

Magical thinking vs information

Arlo is talking about a lunar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs just before a new moon.

Janis has googly eyes. Did I spell that correctly?

It’s not too late to get things lined up.

The principal psychological difference between men and women.

Who doesn’t enjoy a full moon on a crystal clear night? Just be careful and remember to wear moon block. ;-)

It’s a marvelous night for a moon dance…a fantabulous night to make romance…

Buzz kill!

I have been seeing the harvest moon out my window for the last 3 days and it is nice to see.

Did he just mansplain the phases of the moon when she just wanted to admire the beauty and appreciate the romance? Way to ruin the mood, there, dude.

It’s time to be romantic, Arlo. Not give a science lesson! Who cares about rotations and shadow curves?? SMH!

sometimes, silence is the best non-communicative communication when communicating

The full moon at dawn a little while ago was pretty neat. Just going down as sun comes up.

Ah-h-h, science…

I like the shading done on A&J’s faces. Brings an added element to the drawing.

“Drive-by pedantry is so hot!”

ᔑ⚆ ⌣ ⚆ᔐ ☝️(˘o˘)

Wake up Arlo! You’re missing an opportunity!

Arlo…you missed a golden opportunity…again!

I think this describes the moment……..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs

“Just the nearness of You”

Glad Janis was able to keep her train of thought while Arlo took the romanticism out of the moment.

The moon doesn’t rotate…

At this point for some reason I feel compelled to point out that men cannot birth children. This is the most significant difference between the sexes. And also why no man should have any say in whether a woman chooses to birth children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaR-s5N9wM

Worse than “mansplaining” is “Arlosplaining”.

I used to have a key to the telescope up on top of the physics building and I can tell you when you let a girl look thru the eyepiece and see the ring around Saturn they are yours to do with as you wish.

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!”

If he doesn’t kiss her in the fifth panel then he’s a lunatic.

You may remember this famous quote from Marx in his A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right:

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

But this recognition should always be followed with another quote from Marx, from Theses on Feuerbach:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”

That quote is inscribed at the bottom of Marx’s gravestone in London’s Highgate Cemetery.

Just the opposite for me. My wife would do the unromantic talking points.

Beauty is not lessened by knowledge of the background.