Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 11, 2009

I am sad to see it go.

Amen, Calvin, amen.

It’s just like being retired.

Of course the problem of being retired is that you are never sure when you are supposed to be on vacation.

my Dad claims he hasn’t had a vacation in 20 years - which is how long he’s been retired.

This is exactly one would like to spend day away from work and family. These are precious moments which we grown ups miss!

Summer is soo over in Beijing, Autumn is officially here! Yay for it!

oddly apt—-all things considered

Go, baslim! “Summertime, and the living is easy.” Calvin and Hobbes don’t have the “Summertime Blues” “V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N…in the summertime!”

Vacation were wonderful, but they ended already, work waits again!

No time to play Calvinball or to play house with Suzy and mr. Bun ??

“and the Red Bird sang” Coloratura soprano I think .

There is nothing more pleasurable than doing nothing eh?

Really miss those summer hols… long, hot, lazy days stretching out forever.

Wish I knew where that great tree is. Watterson sure knew how to draw moods.

No Worries,Life at it’s Best. Ahhhhh!

cryptomaniac, “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” - Nat King Cole

The trunk of a tree doesn’t make the best pillow, but its ‘bark’ is worse than its bite.

Amen, Carpetinwater9, amen!!

Ahhhh, but just think, time to torture Miss Wormword.

Is there room under the tree for me too?

It’s nice to get paid to stay home!

I know exactly what day it is 9/11 anyone remember that…uncool comic for this day!!

Ahhh, summertime was and is the best! Except when mom made me go to vacation bible school. You have a vacation from school only to go to bible school???

I’m looking forward to the crisp cool evenings and the beautiful folage colors of autumn.

I loved summer vacation too as a kid and in those days we did a lot of playing outside. I always wished summer vacation would go on forever.

I absolutely LOVE the irony (or was it intentional?) that this was today’s post. The press is crazy with September 11th madness and Calvin and Hobbes get what’s important.

That may be true, Susan001, but the editors either made an unfortunate mistake or are being inappropriately ironic.

Doing nothing is nice but having the freedom to do anything is better. The ability to choose is what makes it all worthwhile.

I still get depressed about laboor day time, because geez I hataed going back to school.

baslimthebegger said, “Those were the days my friend, We thought they’d never end!”

We’d sing and dance forever and a day We’d live the life we choose We’d fight and never lose Those were the days oh yes, those were the days.

C&H is perfect for today. A minute of silence.

And to think we were once in a hurry to grow up, so we could do whatever we wanted to…

Yes, Puddleglum2, i can just hear Janis belting out Gershwin’s lyrics to “Summertime”. What a classic blues version of a great broadway tune.

A great song to be intraspective to as we remember the events of 8 years ago.

Though Calvin & Hobbes wasn’t in production during 9/11, I agree that this is is as appropriate as you can get for C&H. A quiet moment to reflect.

I remember exactly where I was when I heard what was going on.

Without being nationalistic, the world did change 8 years ago. I find myself watching for the NYC skyline in old movies just to get a glimpse of the twin towers again. Hobbes always ‘gets it’ and every once in a great while, like in this strip, Calvin catches up with Hobbes and just enjoys the moment. I hope your moments are wonderful today.

I’ve been on summer vacation for 2 years and 11 days now., but who’s counting

ahh i like retirement

vacation being laid off what is the difference? who cares at least c & h is still a bright spot!

Lucky Calvin. The strip is running a little over a month behind real time so he’s got another month or more of vacation. Of course that means he stays in school next spring longer than anyone else…..

As a mother of two, my vacation begins when their summer vacation ends. I think I’ll go sit under a tree and do nothing for a while today.

“The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that it’s hard to tell when you’re finished.” – Ron Shandler

“Half a loaf is better than no rest at all.” – The Grizwells [cartoon]

musicnut1986, Your name and posts imply your liking for music. Duh! I just listened to the versions of “Summertime” by Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Fantasia Barrino, Leona Lewis, and Janis. Numerous other artists have done it over the years since ‘Porgy and Bess’ in 1935. I’m sure almost everyone can find a version he/she likes, unless the person doesn’t like the song, itself.

I hadn’t connected the cartoon with 9/ll until it was brought up. Many of the comments are pertinent in one way or another.

Puddle, have you ever heard Summertime by Cleo Laine with Ray Charles on piano? It is most exquisite.

Life is good

I think I remember that tree near Chicago, and in Indiana out by Fort Wayne, and in Wisconsin, and…

C&H and DT are the only sites who remember today. I viewed some of the other strips and commented on some. I have to agree with C&H relaxing at the tree timing can only interpet reflection of today that happend 8 years ago. What a sad day to remember:(.

What a shocking day. As I watched what was happening on TV that morning I thought I would wake up and it would be a nightmare. Never, never, never forget!

Relaxing under that tree With his friend oh how nice Enjoy Calvin you will most certainly need the rest for trying times to come

i take it that Dad found Calvin at the Zoo?

MisngNOLA, Thank you… I just heard it as part of a medley. I also listened to her singing “Send in the Clowns”. I hadn’t heard Cleo Laine for many years. She was born in 1927. I also just heard Leontyne Price and Renee Fleming singing “Summertime”. Then I moved to Ruthie Henshall singing “Send in the Clowns” and “I Dreamed a Dream”. The internationally acclaimed singer Hayley Westenra from Christchurch, New Zealand was next with “I Dreamed a Dream” and others. By the way, I really like hearing Hayley sing “River of Dreams” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons “Winter”. It’s easy to get carried away with all the great music…

What a wonderful summerday!

kab2rb, did you look at Annie and Nancy? They also remeber 9/11. Thought you would like to know.

TrapperJohn Since this strip is in reruns, it is running approximately 2 months beind our calendar. When school’s out next June, Calvin will still be in school.

How is it inappropiatly ironic? My oldest daughter was only one year old on this day so she doesn’t truly understand what really happened on this day eight years ago. Calvin being a young child he would only really reflect on it being a quiet peaceful day but would still understand somewhat the somberness of the day if the schools and parents educate them in History. Just like we wouldn’t understand Vietnam or something of the sort in History unless we had lived through it. So it’s really not that inappropiate if you really think about it. We need to be the ones to stand up and teach our children what this day means in history as we were the ones that were there and we where the ones who lived through the pain in tragedy of that day.

It’s a day to remember the ones we lost on a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Wow, a lot of comments both on summer vacation and on 9/11. I remember where I was too. It was my first day as a substitute teacher, and I had the challenge right off of watching the events live and then trying to help explain to distraught middle-schoolers what happened and why.

My first thought on this peaceful strip was a memory of Crocodile Dundee asking what day it was. His friend said to himself cheerfully, “Doesn’t know…doesn’t care.”

Puddleglum2,

You seem to appreciate an extremely varied variety of music. I have heard various versions of :Summertime” over the years, but being a fan of the Haight Ashbury sound, I find myself returning to the blues-driven version by Janis and Big Brother.

Enjoy the music.

musicnut1986, You probably know that “San Francisco” was Scott McKensie’s only hit because he didn’t want to be famous. “The Mamas and the Papas” might be my second favorite singing group next to “ABBA”.

bandz said, “Half a loaf is better than no rest at all.” - The Grizwells [cartoon] I like some of the mixed metaphors. Ed Crankshaft is good at it, sometimes. It’s not mixed metaphor, but “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” If you’re ‘well-bred’, you won’t ‘loaf’ too much. I guess that’s just a ‘run-of-the-mill’ pun. I’ll take responsibility for that one,

You know that you have spent your summer vacation well when you forget what day it is!

Like George said, All things must pass All things must pass away All things must pass None of lifes strings can last So, I must be on my way And face another day

You know, summer vacation was summer vacation. As a kid, I don’t remember EVER knowing what day it was……until mom said tomorrow was the first day back at school.

(Then, she’d walk away chuckling…go figure…)

This reminds me of sitting under the huge oak tree in our back yard. I used to love being there in the pouring rain because you’d never get wet and I loved the sound the rain made on the leaves. It was the same when the wind would blow fiercely, you could hear it and see the leaves moving, but you never felt it blowing on you. I used to bring a couple blankets out there to eat my lunch on and after cover up and take a nap. I used to sleepwalk when I was a little kid and Mom would find me out back asleep under the great tree. I like the song, “Summertime”, we sang it in choir but I’d have to say I prefer Will Smith’s Summertime now!

Of course they know what day it is. See third frame, they’re making a minute of silence… or something like that. It’s a kid and his ego trip tiger. Yet, Bill pays a homenage… Simply beautiful!

I am SOO like this right now