Posts Tagged ‘News and Other highlights from around the web’

The alternative — that Dagwood has this relationship with just his boss — is even sadder

Blondie, 5/20/12 Since you are all comics scholars, probably you are well aware of the Blondie origin story: Blondie was a carefree flapper girl who fell in love with Dagwood, the aimless son of a wealthy industrialist, and when the two decided to get hitched, Dagwood’s snooty family disinherited him for marrying a commoner, forcing [...]

Clammy hands of paternal love

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/19/12 Uh-oh, in her sad and futile attempt to finally get ahead of Rex in their ongoing dickishness contest, June has gone a little off-script when it comes to her more immediate task, namely keeping Iris off the sauce. “Hey, Iris, you sure look pretty in that funeral dress! Good thing, too, [...]

Metapost: Springy sprangy comment of the week!

Let us waste no time in sending you off into your weekend, COTW-style! “Dawn Weston got dumped by e-mail? Is this 1998? The modern young person dumps a mate by pinning pics of dead flowers, rotting fish, and a lolcat saying ‘It’s over!’ to their Pinterist page.” –Ed Dravecky The runners up — also extremely [...]

Friday one-panelers

Family Circus, 5/18/12 “Every time Mommy leaves the Keane Kompound and interacts with non-family members, she briefly remembers that she once had social bonds with others, and even friendships! This is obviously unacceptable. I wish that, when we have to go on our once-a-month shopping trip buy the things we can’t make ourselves, there were [...]

National What Month?

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This was NOT covered in Tommie’s midwifery correspondence course

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/17/12 “Never mind June being left at home to manage a sexy, charismatic, half-naked drunk lady,” you’re saying to yourself. “This strip needs to focus on its core strengths. Has Rex been a dick about anything lately?” Well, good of you to ask! You might recall that, right after the sadly departed [...]

This was NOT covered in Tommie’s midwifery correspondence course

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/17/12 “Never mind June being left at home to manage a sexy, charismatic, half-naked drunk lady,” you’re saying to yourself. “This strip needs to focus on its core strengths. Has Rex been a dick about anything lately?” Well, good of you to ask! You might recall that, right after the sadly departed [...]

Gone Fishin’

See, who said the newspaper isn’t useful!

Slylock Fox, 5/16/12 Here is a sad story from Josh’s past: When I was in seventh grade I had a big crush on this girl in my class, but being a terrifically shy nerd I never actually tried talking to her or interacting with her in any way; I just looked at her all moon-eyed [...]

Ride of Silence

Ride of Silence

Two new Analytics webinars — for advanced and beginning users

Interested in learning how to use Analytics to make better decisions for your business? Here’s your chance; join us next week for two webinars.  We’re partnering with the Learn with Google team to present an introductory session on Getting sta…

Boxes

Westonia, ho!

Mary Worth, 5/15/12 Wow, so the “Mary is summoned to Gina and Bobby’s surprise wedding, which goes off without a hitch” storyline lasted only three weeks, which has to be some kind of Shortest Mary Worth Storyline record. What could the point of it have been? Was it entertaining in and of itself, even by [...]

Looking Ahead at Next Generation Measurement

Marketers today have no shortage of data. In fact, there are more than 40 million online touch points measured every minute by Google Analytics. Technology advancements are helping marketers understand their customers more across channels and devices,…

There’s a duck in my coffee

I added a new print of a duck in some coffee.View

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

An ode to the father of the electric age.View

Wedge some artifact smuggling in there and you’ve got pure gold

Hi and Lois, 5/14/12 An old standby in comics (or any other medium where corny jokes happen) is to have someone feign an inability to parse a completely standard turn of phrase any way but literally. Extremely minor kudos to Hi and Lois for at least portraying Lois reacting with wide-eyed bafflement and distress, exactly [...]

Cycle-ology 101