Recent Comments

1. about 2 hours ago on Big Nate

   My elementary and high schools had student-teacher basketball games. I did play-by-play every year from second grade on. (I don’t remember the first year I swiped the microphone.) In twelfth grade, I was offered to be the announcer for the junior and varsity teams but I turned it down because I didn’t want to have anything to do with school outside school hours. I’ve often wondered about it, though.

2. 1 day ago on Wannabe

   Sounds like Mackenzie has a drinking problem. The first time I heard about Airplane! was in sixth grade, when I took a drink in class and missed my mouth. This, of course, reminded my teacher of the movie. Honestly, it was probably less embarrassing than Mackenzie’s video (though she has one up on me by having no sense of shame anyway.)

3. 4 days ago on Ziggy

   All you needed was the mouse taking the pizza from Ziggy and saying “we need a new table.”

4. 7 days ago on Big Nate

   Wait, if he and Trudy were a couple “last year,” doesn’t that mean Nate’s in seventh grade this year? Like that Sunday strip from the beginning of the spring. Don’t you love comic strip time?

5. 9 days ago on Heart of the City

   No; Steenz in conflating him with the narrator, who’s a parody of Jacques Cousteau.

6. 9 days ago on Heart of the City

   Patchy doesn’t have an accent-that’s the Custaeu-like narrator

7. 10 days ago on Heart of the City

   Just PBS and the Weather Channel, eh?

8. 10 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   The intelligent ones, at least, do complain about Shakespeare as much as they do about Judy Blume.

9. 11 days ago on Wannabe

   Do you mean Pyrotechnics, i.e. fireworks? Pyrography is woodburning, as in the design work. Which is probably dangerous in Mackenzie’s hands.

10. 11 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Cowboy Cal represents the romanticization and whitewashing of “The Wild West”. You must be eating Mexican food, since a quarter of actual “cowboys” were Mexican-American (remember that the US conquered half of Mexico in the 1840s).