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1. 23 days ago on Doonesbury

   I’m wondering how the “we were blond and pretty” fits into the overall scheme of things.

2. 24 days ago on B.C.

   When I grew up in Bellevue, Washington in the ’60s, Tacoma had a vibrant wood pulp/paper industry. We would encounter it on long family drives, and called it “the aroma of Tacoma.”

   I haven’t been back to my beloved Pacific Northwest since ’74, and don’t know what Tacoma is like today. (Though I imagine Bellevue is like the town square in the second Back To The Future movie … all holograms and hoverboards.)

3. 24 days ago on Kliban

   What I really like is when the book pokes you back. I’ve made some friends for life that way.

4. about 2 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   We had a Zenith Space Command black & white console – the first to have a remote control. The remote had buttons that vibrated aluminum rods, producing ultrasonic tones that controlled the TV.

   That console got us through the Kennedy assassination and the lunar landings. I never saw programs in color until I left home for school in the ’70s … it was a treat to finally see Star Trek in color.

5. about 2 months ago on Too Much Coffee Man

   I wonder if the light bulbs indicating “IDEA!” will evolve to more efficient LEDs, or remain incandescent.

6. about 2 months ago on Monty

   “Help meee! HEEEEELLP MEEEE!!”

7. 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   The swastika treatment of “45” is extremely clever … that had never occurred to me.

8. 3 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Fantastic music!

9. 3 months ago on Nancy

   Welcome back! We missed you.

10. 3 months ago on Monty

    When I first encountered “The Charge of the Light Brigade” at a very early age, I edited the refrain to “… stupid six hundred.”

    Pointless, suicidal self-sacrifice in the name of imperialism made no sense to me when I was eight, and even less now that I’m seventy. Stupid six hundred, indeed.