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1. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I was actually speaking of John Wayne. Whatever.

2. about 5 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   My mother never let her kids believe in Santa. These days with TV and the Internet I wonder how kids can believe it. It didn’t matter what we put on our wish lists, we could be pretty sure not to get anything we actually asked for. Even after we were all grown and gone, she had the incredible ability to get you just what you didn’t ask for.

3. about 5 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   There’s famous, legendary and infamous. Saw a few things about the fuss with one Johnny Somali, a Youtuber who got banned from Japan and is now being held in Korea. Sounds like a toddler who never grew up, but SK may teach him a little about the consequences of one’s actions. He’s no kid, he’s 24.

4. about 5 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Like when a little old grandma says, “I’ll pray for you.” Depends on her facial expression whether that’s a promise or a threat.

5. about 5 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Of course I can. I can even imitate some 17th century “procesado” script, used by scribes in Mexico in the court system. Spent 3 years working in Archivo de Indias and learned to recognise the hand of certain scribes.

6. about 5 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I need more coffee. I had a mental image of you riding on a literal stick, like a Halloween witch…and thinking, “What???”

7. about 19 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Yup. I remember in London seeing painted on the street in great big old letters: LOOK RIGHT FIRST. There’s a reason for that. I’d also consistently get into the car on the wrong side; my friend Derek finally just handed me the keys. And I can’t even drive.

8. about 19 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   He just ignored it, like he ignored anything that might make him look bad. Which was a lot of things.

9. about 19 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   First time I saw that was here in Spain. l lived with a Spanish family and 2 other foreign girls. They had a tiny padlock through the dial of their phone. After I had lived with the other 2 students for a few weeks, I saw the point. They thought the world was made for them to live in.

10. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

    In the late 60s some people in my small rural Iowa town still had party lines. We lived in the county seat, population 8000. Apparently the town has gotten smaller over the years.