I don’t think i was trying to express that dieting is flat-out bad (I’ve been on diets myself), only that there’s a certain level of hedonism which should be considered and allowed. Or else what’s the point?
Ah, pot. Whenever someone would talk about the numerous lovely benefits, I couldn’t help but begin to feel that this was someone justifying something which just kinda made them silly and stupid. I’d be all cool about it, until I would hear these kinds of strong assertions which would make my skeptical side emerge.
But, in the end, I think it has it’s pluses and minuses, and I just don’t care, and I don’t really understand why it’s not legal, when cigarettes and alcohol are.
Anyhow, don’t like the stuff. Just makes my brain stop working in a not-very-pleasant way.
Not that I’ve ever smoked any. Perhaps one time at a party, but I didn’t inhale.
My friend Cailin used to swim as soon as she could justify it, even when it was still far too cold. I always admired that. :)
Actually, I think it comes from “icicle” and not “suckle.” Ah well.
Notice it is “Deadalus” cooler, Deadalus being the father of icarus. Just being literarily silly there.
I have always loved confidence in the face of mockery. Of pride in the face of humiliation. Of toys that go buzz.
Part two of “Lawrence of Arabia” mayyyy be more interesting politically and about character, but part one is the one which gets the adrenaline going. It totally made me want to storm some castles. And to try to express that in a strip.
My birthdays back then were kinda sad and lonely. I was never very good at organizing a party. And I expressed the isolation in the strip, but I don’t believe I was drunk and half-passed out on the floor. Well, not on my brithday anyway.
It’s a tough line to walk. It’s far to easy to sleepwalk through life, but I’ve never known over-intellectualizing to make anyone happy. But, at the time, I was going the over-intellectualizing route. Now, balance perhaps.
Cat’s mug reads, “Newt For President. Awake now?
This is one of those tough strips, where Bruno is frowning at her dad, but she is actually genuinely appreciative of her mother’s comment. Not sure that it reads as such. Ah well, difficulties of a single-panel strip with multiple word balloons.












