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

[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.