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The mind is like an umbrella. It functions best when open. Walter Gropius
Comics I Follow
Mother Goose and Grimm
By Mike Peters
Yaffle
By Jeffrey Caulfield and Brian Ponshock
Widdershins
By Kate Ashwin
M2Bulls
By Marty Two Bulls Sr.
The Middle Age
By Steve Conley
Two Party Opera
By Brian Carroll
Pibgorn
By Brooke McEldowney
9 Chickweed Lane
By Brooke McEldowney
Non Sequitur
By Wiley Miller
Frazz
By Jef Mallett
Bloom County 2019
By Berkeley Breathed
Dark Side of the Horse
By Samson
Luann
By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
C'est la Vie
By Jennifer Babcock
MythTickle
By Justin Thompson
Lio
By Mark Tatulli
Tarzan
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Over the Hedge
By T Lewis and Michael Fry
Doonesbury
By Garry Trudeau
Frank and Ernest
By Thaves
JumpStart
By Robb Armstrong
Shoe
By Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly
Garfield
By Jim Davis
Ink Pen
By Phil Dunlap
Pickles
By Brian Crane
Stone Soup
By Jan Eliot
Rose is Rose
By Don Wimmer and Pat Brady
Endtown
By Aaron Neathery
Brewster Rockit
By Tim Rickard
Overboard
By Chip Dunham
Dogs of C-Kennel
By Mick & Mason Mastroianni
Red and Rover
By Brian Basset
That is Priceless
By Steve Melcher
Frog Applause
By Teresa Burritt
Calvin and Hobbes
By Bill Watterson
For Better or For Worse
By Lynn Johnston
FoxTrot Classics
By Bill Amend
Bloom County
By Berkeley Breathed
Jane's World
By Paige Braddock
New Adventures of Queen Victoria
By Pab Sungenis
The Martian Confederacy
By Paige Braddock and Jason McNamara
Herman
By Jim Unger
Brevity
By Dan Thompson
Close to Home
By John McPherson
Last Kiss
By John Lustig
Compu-toon
By Charles Boyce
B.C.
By Mastroianni and Hart
Pibgorn Sketches
By Brooke McEldowney
The Argyle Sweater
By Scott Hilburn
Ballard Street
By Jerry Van Amerongen
F Minus
By Tony Carrillo
Strange Brew
By John Deering
WuMo
By Wulff & Morgenthaler
Kid Beowulf
By Alexis E. Fajardo
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
By Zach Weinersmith
Working Daze
By John Zakour and Scott Roberts
Little Nemo
By Winsor McCay
Jim Benton Cartoons
By Jim Benton
Nothing is Not Something
By Greg Wallace
Shortly before Christmas, 1995:
I am taking a plane from Monterey, CA to LAX where I will fly to Newark, and then onto Bangor, Maine.
Our flight from Monterey has to wait and wait and wait … before we can get to a spot to disembark. The attendants know that my flight is leaving real soon, and have contacted the flight I must catch. Finally, we can disembark and I must do my OJ Simpson dash to the departure gate. I board the plane, and am directed to the rear. Being eyed by most of the passengers who are wondering why this doofus is so late…
I am directed to the last row, where 3 empty seats await me! Woo hoo! I will be able to lay down! This lasts for a short time after we have reached altitude. Then one of the flight attendants asks me if this gentleman (standing behind her) can sit here because someone has been harassing him. He looks innocuous but I am thinking, “What did he do that prompted this?” Well, I agree, and he takes the aisle seat.
I basically ignore him for the entire flight. I do however, see him looking over at me from time to time. More reason to ignore him.
Toward the end of the flight he is chatting a lot with the attendants, and it seems maybe they know him. I continue to ignore him.
After I reached my destination, being on West Coast time, I was flpping through TV stations when I suddenly saw the guy from the plane.
It was Geraldo Rivera. I had a good chuckle, realizing I now knew why someone was harassing him, and why he had been looking over at me, who was ignoring the TV star. I thought that, though accidental through ignorance, my ignoring him was better than verbally harassing him.