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Sunday’s Best: Open for Interpretation?
A day late but rarely a dollar short with this Sunday’s best comic strip. Yesterday’s standout was a classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz that challenges our assumptions on what’s going on when a dog is barking. And here’s today’s … Continue reading
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The Taste and Feel of Summer
This is why corn-on-the-cob is better than creamed corn, all year long. It’s also a great one-liner from Calvin.
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25 Years of Movie Stunt Growth
The folks over at The Ringer recently gave us “The 25 Most Important Stunt Scenes of the 21st Century” (which video clips and anecdotes included). It’s such a great list for me in three ways: it reminds me of movies … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Sunscreen Options
Today was a solid day in the funny pages. Calvin compared bedtime fantasy with reality (and found reality wanting, of course), while Snoopy took Chuck’s newspaper request all-too-seriously. But it’s the sunscreen joke in FoxTrot that takes the top spot … Continue reading
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The Mid-Week’s Best?
I usually wait until Sunday to post links to some great comics, but I think yesterday’s comics call for an exception. First: it’s not every day that you get the word “ontological” in a comic strip. But Calvin does, and … Continue reading
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By the Book
Today’s post by Seth Godin is short and really sweet. I like the comparison/contrast he pulls off with both ends of a book: the table of contents and the index (and I’m kind of surprised I’ve not seen it before). … Continue reading
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Lifted
Many years ago,during the short window of time between college and seminary, I served as an interim at an area mission church. At the end of every service, which would often number three a week, we would make a circle … Continue reading
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A Study in Contrast?
First day of the new school year here. A couple of recent comics capture some real contrasts between vacation/school and students/adults well. Here’s a today’s classic Calvin and Hobbes. Such a great single-panel strip that moves wonderfully well from left … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Meaningful Moments
There’s some good summer humor in the funny pages today. FoxTrot has an interesting take on real pools and the heat index, while Frazz sees Caulfield and Dr. Spaetzle having a philosophical talk about July turning into August. But today’s … Continue reading
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A Tuesday Recap
Tuesday was a bit of an odd one for people in Hawaii. It started out normal enough for me: the final morning of our “spiritual emphasis” time before heading into more meetings and classroom prep for the new school year. … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 