Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 06, 2011

What a bad actor.

I wondered when RJ was going to bet around to doing that?

Err…get not bet…bloody laptop.

“Do not go silently into the night”“RAGE, RAGE against the dying of the light!”

If only thou wert a bird. O, tis nobler to suffer the outrageousslings of stature like Verne does than to bear odds bodkins and loose bare fardels. I swear, it is also in Shakespeare, in Up to the Point of the Fall . Look it up. I did.

From the riff wrapter ripping off a leaf from the masters.

Out out damn spot.

Reminds me of a poster I used to have. Two buzzards sitting on a tree limb looking down on the desert valley below. One says to the the other, “Patience my ass. I’m going to go kill something.”

R.J. “snapped.”

Next … ? Humpty Dumpty !!!

Leaf blower in the afternoon, snow blower the next a.m.. Ah, for the sweet bird of youth to run a rake or shovel.

If we shadows have offended,think but this and all is mended,That you have but slumbered here,While these visions did appear,And our weak and idle theme,No more yielding than a dream*Midsummer Night’s Dream

We are such stuff as dreams are made on,and our little life,is rounded in a sleep*The Tempest

So call the field to rest, and let’s away,to part the glories of this happy day*Julius Caesar

Surprises:1. Leaves apparently have reincarnation.2. R.J. knows an old classic well enough to quote it.

“You that look pale and tremble at this chance,That are but mutes or audience to this act,Had I but time—as this fell sergeant, Death,Is strict in his arrest—O, I could tell you—But let it be. R.J., I am dead,Thou livest. Report me and my cause arightTo the unsatisfied.O God, R.J., what a wounded name,Things standing thus unknown, shall I leave behind me.If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,Absent thee from felicity awhile,And in this harsh world draw thy breath in painTo tell my story.So tell them, with th’occurrents more or lessWhich have solicited—-the rest is silence.”

Beautiful, blessed, merciful silence.

Damn. I love the last leaf, it sure makes the strip more interesting than Glee references.