Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 13, 2011
October 12, 2011
October 14, 2011
Transcript:
Alex: And it's such a great building - mostly grad students like me! Joanie: Mostly students? You sure you want me around, dear? Alex: Let me ask my new little iPhone buddy. Hey, Siri! Should my grams and I share a place in Boston? Joanie: Who are you... Voice: Time will tell. What part of Boston? Alex: Back Bay. Find bridge clubs.
Leo’s out in Seattle, vcpro—where Mike lives and where he raised Alex (that’s why she said “to come see Leo” yesterday).By finding her an apartment in Back Bay—-right across the Mass Ave bridge from M.I.T.—-GBT locates Alex with her Gram at the heart of Boston’s shabby genteel, student community.Either generation worries about the other. We may be getting a replay of Mike’s troubles with his radical mother—-who finally died last year, after she embarrassed Mike by publicly burning her Medicare card.