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1. 2 days ago on The Buckets

   We had a local DJ who used to get all fired up at the time change and rail about how he didn’t want this new time. I used to be the one to have to call up and remind him that we were RETURNING to standard time, not changing from it. Six months later, he’d complain again.

   Anyhow, he (and I and the other folks walking their dogs with me and mine) are morning people. We’d prefer to stay on Daylight Saving all year ’round.

2. 7 days ago on The Buckets

   And remember, folks- There IS NO SUCH THING as “road rage”! They had to invent that name ‘cause bad drivers won’t admit to “Having a childish &^%$ing hissy fit while driving a car”

3. 12 days ago on The Buckets

   Yeah, I was using “you” in the broadest, general sense… kinda meaning “we”

4. 12 days ago on The Buckets

   “When Pigs are hurled and stay aloft more than 3.2 seconds”. That’s a new adynaton. I get partial credit for that one.

5. 12 days ago on The Buckets

   I was told that episode was loosely based on something they did at an Atlanta radio station.

6. 13 days ago on The Buckets

   They weren’t, then they decided they were, and did, then they had a spat, then they got over it, and ignored ever having had a spat. There were probably other things mixed in there. I lived through similar goofy stuff as a kid, and I’ve been writing these strips for twenty-odd years. …I’ve often said that writing comic strips and comic books is a lot more like writing soap operas than you’d think. Erica Kane, a character in my wife’s favorite old Soap, was married fifteen times in the course of the show. It’s okay though, nine of those times were to the same guy. And she played being roughly 35 old for roughly 35 years, I think.…So… For the past twelve or fifteen years, these fifteen year olds may or may not have been dating. I’m happy for you to conceive it and believe it any way you prefer.…All of the above “facts” are pulled from memory, and are just as fallible as that memory. Your memories may vary. “Erica” might have been spelled with a “K”. I dunno.

7. 15 days ago on The Buckets

   Also, it’s just a family comic strip. If you’re reading teenage sex into it… that’s on you, not the format, presentation, intended audience, or will of the cartoonist. Really. Family Cartoon.

8. 16 days ago on The Buckets

   I enjoy how many of these conversations run off the rails. I call it the “I have a dog” tangent, based on a cartoon by the amazing Richard Thompson in his “Cul De Sac” strip, and I love that it

   In my mind, this cartoon is about how people tend to think of their childhood selves are something different from their current selves. And Car2ner is absolutely right- the comic is set in her bedroom because that’s where people that age “are”. Just like I and my studio are the same personality. If I’d been more thoughtful about my core audience, I’d have drawn the door to one side, standing open. Though that would have meant fewer unicorns drawn, too.

   I’ve designed and produced a couple of games. Playtesting is the best part- you do your best to anticipate everything that can happen when the game is played, and then the first time it’s let loose in the wild, you have to re-write the rules because of how people see it and play it differently than you (or anyone just ‘thought experimenting’ on their own) could have pictured it.

   So, yeah- this cartoon turns out to be about two kids alone in a room, instead of loving unicorns no matter what age your are. Who’d have thought?

9. 18 days ago on The Buckets

   I still have one of those old foot-tall GIJoes with the airforce jumpsuit and fuzzy-wuzzy hair. Probably be worth something if it were in the box it came in.

10. 18 days ago on The Buckets

    In the early fifties, during the “Red Scare”, they added “Under God” to the pledge. Just to be sure.