I find something inherently funny about watching a toaster that you’ve forgotten to plug in. I think I even did a strip in Little Dee about it.
Of course, at the time it certainly isn’t funny. :)
On certain days, New England is like this in the summer. Sometimes 100 degrees and sticky sweaty awful hot. And then the mosquitoes come.
Solution? Wear as little as possible, move as little as possible, and have every part of you touching as little else of you as possible.
There’s a key link from Bruno to Jay, she desperately wanted some sort of higher meaning, while rationally being unable to believe there could be.
The good thing about keeping your enemies close is that you know where you stand. Or as Sun-tzu put it, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
Sometimes I feel this way when I’m in convenience stores, everything is made to last FOREVER, and often it’s been on the shelf for that long.
When you think about the last hundred years, and our eating largely being shaped by companies wanting food to last: both to ship it, let it sit on shelves longer, and so people will buy more of it… and if you’re critical of our modern diet for it’s highly processed foods and lack of nutrition, a convenience store really is the epitome of that.












