Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 16, 2023

Well, plastic-lined bags, anyway.

Not adventurous?

Splitting headache? That’s what the focus knob is for.

Reminds me of why Nintendo’s Virtual Boy failed.

Frazz should recite High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—

And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

I had to think awhile because I was still thinking about hawks flying. Upchuck bags on commercial aircraft. Ah.

Caulfield is right. Binoculars add a totally different perspective to one’s thinking. Began using binoculars decades ago for birds and wildlife. Still enjoy closeups of the birds at the feeders, but wildlife has been reduced to squirrels, chipmunks, and the occasional opossum or stray cat.

Will add another use for homeowners whose homes are two stories or more. For an easy maintenance check on the condition of roofing, try binoculars 2 or 3 times annually. See a problem? Call a guy. Saves a lot of worry.

I have no problem with heights, but I do not react well to being inverted. Found that out on a flight simulator.

Upchuckingly funny.

No mention of the headaches? Get used to modern marketing, kid. They’ll sing the praises of the product’s virtues to the heavens, accompanied by pictures of smiling people engaging in fun activities under cloudless skies, accompanied by cheerful, uplifting music, then cram 50 awful side effects into tiny print read in 5 seconds by someone with a post-doc from Evelyn Wood and an apprenticeship under John Moschitta.