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Tue 11 Apr, 2006 01:02 pm
I've spent a good bit of my leisure time through the years living vicariously. For more than 50 years, I've read at least one daily newspaper, finishing up my wake-up dose of reality with the comics and the cryptogram.
I'm much fonder of some comic strips than others and within strips I find some characters much more appealing than others.
Alex Doonesbury got four fat envelopes. I'm delighted. Are you?
It kinda depends on what was in the envelopes....
The question is; Will she choose Walden?
What are the four fat envelopes?
Drew Dad, Chai--
This is the time of year when colleges notify candidates whether they have been selected or rejected as members of the class of 2010.
A thin envelope is inevitable a rejection--or at best a wait-list notice.
A fat envelope stuffed with forms and instructions means acceptance.
Tryagain--
I suspect the story line demands that Alex attend Walden. Family tradition, you know.
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
There are a number of comics that I love to follow. Besides Doonesbury; Gasoline Alley, Drabble, Boondocks, Tumbleweeds, La Cucharacha, and several others. The Chronicle dropped Boondocks, so I have to read it online now. I expect you are right that Alex will attend Waldon.
Littlek--
Bookmark the link. Doonsbury daily.
Edgar--
Gasoline Alley is still running?
Gasoline Alley - Mr Wallet, the one that found Skeezicks on the doorstep, is a widower now, and showing definite signs of alzheimer's. A woman that has been living with him as a caretaker had no sooner left to take care of some personal business than he told Skeezicks he didn't know who she was, one example. I read it online daily on the Houston Chronicle comic page.
Edgar--
I bet that Mr. Willet is older than either one of us.
Did you know that Popeye is still running?
Popeye--who'd thunk it.
Our local paper runs "Snuffy Smith".
The Chronicle here bought out the rival paper some years ago. At first, they combined both papers' comics. It was a fest rare in the modern age. They gradually whittled it down to mostly the insipid ones that I don't like. Sure, they kept Garfield and a couple of good ones. But, Boondocks, Gasoline Alley, and a lot more are gone now. The lead off comic has been reprints of Peanuts since Charles Schulz died. I love that strip, but why showcase reprints while dropping the good stuff? I know - Local and regional tastes prevail.
I enjoy Peanuts, but not when the comic strip is elevated to High Serious Comment on the Nature of Life.
Peanuts could carry a thread all on its own. It became too "institutionalized" after it went to television and had sermons built around it. I still liked the strip, but not as much as in the early days.
Skeezix and my mother were the same age, born in February 1921. Walt Wallet was a young adult at the time... so he must be over a hundred by now. Gasoline Alley was one of mom's favorite strips (he survives her) because Skeezix was always her age. He started school when she did, dated when she did, had a young family a little before she did (she and dad got a bit of a late start) -- they lived their lives in parallel. I think Gasoline Alley is the only comic that does that.
But I digress. I think Alex will agonize over a full ride scholarship to MIT vs. Walden...
Wy--
Full scholarship to MIT? MIT was her "reach" school.
I'm betting that Mama Joannie throws in her opinion--against Walden--and the Alex heads to Walden.
You're probly right. I don't know what a "reach" school even is (so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about?).
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