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Cake day: May 16th, 2026

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  • I greatly enjoyed Dysfunctional Family Circus, and there’s always Gorefield, aka Garfield written by Lovecraft. Garfield was always a little boring, though–I think I was in second-grade at the time.

    Have you delved back into the old classics? There’s a lot there. Sometimes it just takes a little while to learn what the comic is about–is enough to do when you’re exposed to it every day in the paper, but harder if you’re going in blind. I don’t really think of comics as greatly in need of innovation, though phone accessibility is a factor, I can´t think of anything that is better for being on a phone.


  • I used to read French comic books on Hoopla, my library’s online service. Their reader could advance panel-by-panel through the comic book page. Pretty neato. Don´t know if it was entered manually, automatically, or a mix of the two.

    Variety is nice, but I consumed most of my comics via books, starting with Garfield.












  • That’s basically my dad. He’s ALWAYS been a “dial-a-lecture” type of guy, where your only input into the conversation is to tune his dials.

    Not surprisingly, he complains of having no friends because he lives in a conservative area and he was always insufferably trying to convince them they are wrong.

    He is spending his final years in communion with ChatGPT.



  • If you want a compassionate grounding in living life without society-provided anchors, I can’t think of nobody better to guide you that Britt Hartley of the No Nonsense Spirituality Channel on YouTube. Though she’s primarily about religious deconstruction, she’s aware that humans survive by creating ANCHORS. “This thing is true and I can build my life around it.” Religion is one of our biggest anchors, but it can be anything–love of a child (who might have died), belief that work is the most important part of your life (but it might make you miserable), etc.

    From your other post, it might be that one of your anchors, work, is actually making you quite unhappy but you’re having trouble letting go of it? This is the sort of thing that therapy would be great for theoretically, but either you find the right one or become your own therapist. “It is easier to become a good therapist than to find one.”"-- Daniel Mackler