Well, here we are advancing the plot again.
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There was a podcast a while back where the hosts talked about Hubriscomics.com. One of the things they said was that I was still kinda trying to do a gag-a-day feature, but that’d make it hard to put the whole thing together into a book later.
And the practical upshot is that sometimes, the cartoons advance the story without having a punchline.
I try to minimize that, of course, but here we are again.
For those of you who like that little storytelling, human spark… you’re welcome. For those of you who wanted to see Paste electrocute himself with an RV’s hydrogen cell and poo his pants… I’ll try to work that in later sometime. Or not. It sounds nasty.
Sliders. Fine television show. Never achieved that sci-fi-fi notoriety that would make it the focus of, say, a nerd convention or anything, but not bad. Sorta the ‘Quantum Leap’ of its day.
Standing in a kayak is a pain in the butt. I’ve tried, and it doesn’t usually work.
There was a guy back in the 90’s who used to stand-up kayak down the Ocoee river. He also used to wear a wooden helmet and PFD that said, “The Next Big Thing” on it. It was very cool. I’m sure he’s a Stand Up Paddle Boarder now- and possibly invented the activity.
Doing Kayak Fu standing in a kayak… now THAT’s the next big thing.
My apologies to the Patrons. I’m on the last lap of a giant job and I’m not keeping up with my Patron Posts (and a few other things.)
Closing in on it, though!
Helmets are safety devices. In case you hit your head, right?
Seatbelts are safety devices. In case you crash your vehicle.
But parachutes… those are safety devices up until the point they become the reason you’re up in the plane. I mean, if you’re an air force test pilot- your parachute is a safety device. But if you’re a skydiver, isn’t it your vehicle? It’s your tool, your equipment… it’s your ride.
Parachutes are interesting.
It sounds like a Facebook thing, but really- how much can you change by taking one word out of any random sentence?
Or what can you change by adding a word? Especially nouns. Man, nouns are a mess. One noun, more or less, can cause fights.
Of course, we’re people living in the 21st century. We’ll fight over nouns, verbs, even pronouns.
If you stop to consider both sides (do they even allow that any more?) it’s not really the nouns and verbs and all, it’s the meanings (or multiple possible meanings) behind the words and how we choose to accept or deflect them.
And now that we’re getting back to the gag at hand, the critical word was ‘feelings’. In today’s world, feelings are very important to consider. Things do get started and get stopped because of Feelings.
But if you leave out the ‘feelings’ and stop that sentence at ‘hurt’… it takes on a bodily injury tone that puts feelings into another context
I was posting a comment to a friend when Facebook went Flooey. Figuring that it probably happened more often than I would know about, I shut it off and went back to work.
It was a couple of days later that I saw all the “Using Twitter To Find Out About Facebook Being Down” posts.
I’m not very good at this social media stuff.
Look, it’s Mr. Ziggy Foote, from The Wukilars. He’s so helpful. If he were any more helpful, he might have noticed that Mal was around and let him keep his feet on the ground.
Isn’t psychology fun?
