Friday morning: Part The Second . . .

[liamstliam]

1. I guess I *am* addicted to coffee. I could hear the coffee maker *click* as it kept the coffee hot, and, in a rather Pavlovian way," I got up and filled by cup. I am still drinking Foglifter from Cool Beans.

2. I wonder how many other folks follows "Doonesbury" and "For Better, For Worse." Interesting story lines going on with each of those. I hate to admit it, but I really cannot deal with "Get Fuzzy" any more. It has lost its edge,

3. On the sportswriters' board, someone asked: "What five things do you wish you had written?"

One list included two gems that I highly recommend. One is an amusing series of "guy answers" from Reick Reilly, to the question, "Why are we here>" and the other is Jim Murray's piece after he returned to work after losing his "good" eye.

"Funny You Should Ask"

"If You're Expecting One-Liners"

Comments

[camilla-anna.livejournal.com]

Re (1), actually that's clicker training, which is the hot new version of Pavlovian training. *Wonders what else we can get Liam to do with clicking*...

Re (2) Doonesbury and For Better or Worse are the only comics I read with interest these days. :D

[evilnicola.livejournal.com]

Gramma has caffienated coffee. Life is ok

[campagnella.livejournal.com]

I have a new pot tha beeps at me when it's done... I don't even realise I hear it anymore, i am just there with cup.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I hate to admit it, but I really cannot deal with "Get Fuzzy" any more. It has lost its edge.

I hate to admit it, but I think you're right. Still, it's better than many other entries on the funnies page.

[ostgardraine.livejournal.com]

Two of my favorite commics as well, I also like Funky Winkerbean, another comic that deals with real stuff. A little dissapointed that FBFW is going into reruns in a few months.

[elasait.livejournal.com]

I love FBoFW! And I also follow Doonesbury and Funky Winkerbean. I can understand Lynn Johnston's desire to retire, but it bites that the comic is ending. At least she kept it going longer than she had originally planned.

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

I'm a long-term FBorFW fan (and I love it that she knows about the SCA and had two of the support characters involved, although you never saw it in the strip.)

From what I understand, it's not ending - it's freezing in time. She's wrapping up the current storylines but afterwards the characters will stop aging and the strip will be a mix of old strips and new ones.

I've not been a fan of Liz ending up with Anthony--she did the same thing with Michael and Deanna (highschool sweethearts who parted ways for a few years and then ended up together) but at least she's made handling the fact that he has a daughter and it would be a blended family in an intelligent way.

[elasait.livejournal.com]

I'm okay that Liz ended up with Anthony, because I've always really liked Anthony. :) But yeah, the high school sweethearts always ending up together is not totally realistic when the characters are college-educated urban dwellers.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Natallia and I were high school sweethearts.

I always, from years ago, expected them to wind up together.

My understanding, I think, is that she's gonna start from the beginning again, but make some changes, redraw some strips and ro-do some where the original was lost.

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

She's talked about doing what she's calling a "hybrid" strip. If you've been following the last few months, you've been seeing it. There are old strips running, often tied into newer strips where the characters are looking back on the past. She's also said she would resolve any of the current storylines. She's kept them going a little longer than I suspect she thought she would - because instead of starting to retire with her husband, her husband left her and she's going through a divorce.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

hey hon, pop online?

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I wrote and took off before I saw this.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

Do you know about the FOOBiverse?

It's kind of like group therapy for people who can't stop watching car crashes. I enjoy it.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

That's brutal.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

However, I find that I quite often agree with them.

[othniel77.livejournal.com]

You are a bonafide "caffeind". Ah well, there are worse vices to have, I suppose. A scientific study has recently shown that coffee consumption cuts down on the risk of bladder cancer.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you saw it, but my younger daughter got a tattoo Monday -- a caffeine molecule on her back.

[tinocherubini.livejournal.com]

I've a friend that does a video blog and he did one entry called 'What men talk about on the way to a wild-weekend in Montreal' - and it was video of us in the car on the way to said weekend talking about the story arc in For Better of For Worse.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I saw on AMC today that this weekend is the 20th anniversary of Bull Durham (or at least, their 20th anniversary showing).