Two Lines from a Future Comic Taken Totally out of Context
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How to Deal with Miscommunications
I want to be clear. In my opinion, Zardoz is not a good movie.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it.
The first time I saw it, I listened in silence to Arthur Frayn’s weird preamble. I watched the floating stone head lecturing men in masks, gun belts, and speedos about how the pen...
2023-11-06 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Talk a Friend Through a Crisis
Ask people to name a cool jazz trombonist, and 99.99999% of them will only come up with one name: “William Riker.” A fictional character, from Star Trek: the Next Generation. That series featured a lifelike superhuman robot, a space alien, a telepath, a blind man given sight by a futuristic b...
2023-10-30 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How to React to New Information about a Subject You Thought You Knew Well
Phil was the man.
It’s hard to make the extent to which he was “the man” clear to people who weren’t there, in the 1980’s, in America, and who were not me.
I took to wearing ill-fitting suit jackets.
I wore out my copies of ‘No Jacket Required,’ and ‘Invisible To...
2023-10-23 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Express Dissatisfaction
Those of you who have watched the TV show, Foundation, but not read the books may be surprised to hear that in said books the emperor is barely ever shown in person.
Those who read the books but haven’t watched the show will be equally surprised to hear that the emperor probably ...
2023-10-16 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Understand Another Person's Point of View
Fifty-four days in a row, over 110 degrees! People were going into the emergency rooms with severe burns from falling in parking lots and touching the pavement.
Humans were not meant to live in Phoenix.
Peggy Hill knew it!
How to Better Yourself
Missy looks my comics over before I publish them. Usually, she just finds spelling and punctuation errors.
Notice, I didn’t say, “she usually looks for,” them, I said, “she usually finds them.”
Also, notice that I didn’t say she finds spelling “or” punctuation errors. ...
2023-09-25 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Begrudgingly Admit Somebody Might Be Right
Charles Lindbergh has a ... complicated legacy.
That said, one has to admit that his achievement of being the first person to fly solo, non-stop, from New York to Paris is impressive. It is made more impressive by the fact that, as I say in this comic, he did it in a plane with no front win...
2023-09-18 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOne Line from a Future Comic Taken Totally out of Context
There is a new, much better (because Missy designed it) version of the Smarter than a Monkey, Cheaper than a Robot graphic. It is available on shirts for him, 2023-09-14 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Get to the Root of the Problem
It’s a handheld vacuum, a Dust Buster, to be specific. I don’t know where the offending bit of “dirt” came from.
…
Let me rephrase that. I know all too well where it came from. I don’t know where the vacuum picked it up. I don’t think it’s anything either of the cats d...
2023-09-11 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Process a Disturbing Occurence
It’s possible that the doctor used some other term, but my father interpreted it as his “tenderloin.” Frankly, that would not make the situation less disturbing for me.
If I remember my Good Eats properly, the tenderloins are two pointy cylinders of meat that run along the sides of th...
2023-09-04 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Reflect Fondly on Days Gone By
For those who are unfamiliar with Hanford, the Wikipedia page might make for interesting reading.
Part of that article talks about the decommissioning of one of the reactors, and includes the following juicy ...
2023-08-28 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Contemplate Other People's Choices That You Do Not Understand
I am not against nudity in films. Far from it.
There are, of course, movies where nudity is the entire point. Aside form those, there are some stories that can’t be told in a straight forward, or visceral manner without a certain amount of nudity. One obvious example is Boogie Nights.
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How to Express Your Positive Vision for the Future of Humanity
Short commentary today. I like to keep my vision for the future more positive, and less apocalyptically bleak.
I got the idea for this comic when the real Ric complained that he made a social media post about the rise of AI in creative fields, and few of his friends/followers liked it. I to...
2023-08-14 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Impart Wisdom
This is based, with precious little embellishment, on an actual conversation Ric and I had. He is truly lucky to have me for a friend. Imagine the awful things I’d say about him if I was his enemy!
Reportedly, Jerry Garcia said, “Style is the stuff you get wrong.” If that’s the case...
2023-08-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOne Line from a Future Comic Taken Totally out of Context
Hey, Ric has written another song. This one is a hypothetical theme song for a 1970's TV series based on my novel, The Authorities. If that sounds like your kind of thing, please go check it out!
2023-08-03 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHow to Take an Interest in History
The Musical Instrument Museum is real, and it is really good! If you’re ever in Phoenix, I strongly suggest you go.
The only thing I can only compare it to the Experience Music Project, which no longer exists. It is now part of the ...
2023-07-31 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Proclaim Your Beliefs
The “Room Where it Happens” joke was specifically designed just to amuse Missy. I hope at least some of you enjoy it as well.
Back during that portion of our lives when it felt like Missy and I were attending at least two weddings a year, our big go-to wedding gift was matched sets of N...
2023-07-24 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post