I’m not too sure about parchment paper, but bulldog clips — as seen in this Barney & Clyde – are the greatest. For the cost of one of those plastic bag clips that will break the first time it is dropped, you can get a whole jar of bulldog clips that will hold bags closed and will […]
Editorial cartoonists struggled to say much of anything witty or insightful about the Trump/Kim Summit, though perhaps they’ll do better once there is more indication of what actually happened.Meanwhile, I like Mac’s take, if for no other reason than that I’ve seen some “Kim is crazy” cartoons, which makes me wonder who they think he’s […]
Bizarro gets lead position the day after April Fool’s Day because the only connection I have to the horror of bulk glitter is that moment, I think now passed, when greeting cards would disgorge a shot of little foil/plastic crap into your lap, which came across as a practical joke.It’s possible that girls thought it […]
Every time I feature “Existential Comics,” I end up putting in a disclaimer about whether you have to be a philosophy major to get the joke. So, to keep up that tradition, let me say that you don’t have to have had more than a faint brush with existentialism to find “Existential Werewolves” — of […]
Sally Forth is hardly the only comic strip riffing on middle-aged people trying to stay up for New Year’s, but it may be the only one riffing on the pointlessness of even bothering. The last time I made midnight I was in my 50s and it was only by happenstance: I’d been working on something and […]
No, Carmen, you didn’t.And be careful what you wish for anyway.It seems odd to be coming back from a day that was not only full of three-dimensional real-world distractions but in which even Facebook, that repository of confrontational misinformation, had turned for the moment into family photos and warmth.It was a pleasant respite, but coffee break’s […]
I was going to open with all the reasons we might better put the heaving mess aside for the day, but decided instead to simply put the heaving mess aside for the day, and rise, instead, on a point of personal privilege, because …Johanna Draper Carlson reports that “Dennis the Menace in Hawaii” is being […]
At Between Friends, while Maeve ponders quitting her job to gallivant off with her wealthy boyfriend, her assistant Helen contemplates what would happen to her then, and wonders if it’s time to retire.I’m sympathetic. Having “retired” at the start of my career in order to try being a novelist, I’m now in a position where […]
Tjeerd Royaards offers this thoughtful take on one of the more interesting stories of the week, the reversal of Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers.Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world that didn’t allow women to drive, but Royaards nails the fact that the change is only incremental.The turn signal is a bit […]
Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]