From the May 22nd Chicago Tribune Comics.
Thatababy by Paul Trip.
On hitting 60, this strip kind of hit home, to an extent.
FIRST FRAME: Man and his kid at a playground. Man does all the talking in all frames.
"I feel bad for your ilk and your plastic play structures."
FRAME 2: Kids playing on monkey bars. "Our playgrounds were made out of cold hard steel. It wasn't officially summer 'til someone broke their arm on the monkey bars."
FRAME 3: Merry-go-round. "And each year the fifth graders used the merry-go-round to teach the first graders all about centrifugal force!"
FRAME 4: On the slide. "And the slide wasn't enclosed in a safety tube! Your coordination alone kept you from flying off into space!"
FRAME 5: Still on the slide. "The brave would run up the slide, and the bold would scale the underbelly."
FRAME 6: Still at the slide, only now it's red hot. "And those slides would get RED HOT baking in the sun."
FRAME 7: "You can have your crummy Internet! I want a metal slide!!"
Maybe the good ol' days weren't so good after all. AND, I LIKE MY INTERNET!!!
Right now, I am not happy that I can't get back onto my other two blogs, Saw the Elephant and RoadDog's Roadlog.
EVER WONDER...Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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