Today's Sunday strip has John flat on his back on the couch explaining that he'd rather rest up that spend a nice day out with the family.

(Strip Number 6133, Original Publication Date, 27 May 1984)

Panel 1: We start things off with Mike, who's wearing a jacket, watching John take a nap on the couch.

Panel 2: He gives Daddy a rude awakening by yelling "BOY, SOME PEOPLE SURE ARE LAZY!!"

Panel 3: He then tells John that he, Lizzie and Elly are going to bicycle up to the ski hill and asks Daddy if he wants to join them.

Panel 4: Since John doesn't immediately say yes, Mike then tries to pull him up off the couch as he pleads with him to join them.

Panel 5: Elly backs Mike up by saying that it's beautiful up on the hill as a means of coaxing him off the couch.

Panel 6: She then reminds him that they say that a change is as good as a rest.

Panel 7: He considers this for a moment.

Panel 8: Since the bike trip would further irritate his aching back, he tells her that if it's all the same with her, he'll take the rest.

Summary: My guess is that John is supposed to be Lynn's alter ego in this one; that's because the Lynnsight is a long-form rant about sofas she has loved.

I am amused by the fact that Hannibal is building a family for himself.

And that family has 2 daddies*, one of whom is nearly insane, the other of whom "prepares a face to meet the people that he meets."


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It's Memorial Day weekend this weekend, and it's probably going to be crazy. We are celebrating all the May birthdays. We are doing construction on the old Mobile home, out at the ranch. We are all piling in to visit, so we have over twenty bodies that need beds. At this rate, we're going to need another mobile home. You could say, 'mobile homes? How redneck. Never said it wasn't. :)

I've got to make a bracelet for my sister-in-law, and a necklace for one of my nieces. At least for the boys, I could just go shopping. (Never thought I'd say that...) At least now, I can have two days, and NOT panic. I've made one custom bezel already, and I'm probably going to knock out the pendant rather quickly. (later) Spoke too soon. These were giving me fits, but I think I can finish them.

Quickie stories from work:

"I paid NINE dollars for this watch and it broke while I was on my vacation! Can you believe it?"
Yeah, lady, I can totally believe it. What I can't believe is your outrage about this fact. But then, maybe you were looking forward to going wild with the Taco Bell dollar menu.

"I don't understand you, why do you even get out of bed in the morning?"

Lady, is that anyway to say 'thank you' for a free jewelry cleaning?

"I need a watch battery."
"Okay."
"How much is battery?"
"It's ten dollars."
"I have seven dollars."
"I'm sorry, but the cost is ten."
"I have hundred dollars."
"....I don't think I have enough change for that."
"You take seven dollars!"
"You go get change."

*sigh* I was all revved to do construction out at the ranch. We'll see if the will comes back. As it stands right now...I doubt it.

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Still stuck with phone only.

Memorial Day weekend. The smell of smoke and meat, the firecrackers and occaisional gunshots. The guy who was arrested by tge cops a while back from next door is back----and had a showdown in the street with four extremely loud women who coukd be heard at least a block away. My neighbors next door do not have inside voices. They also seem to think that claiming it's....simething something day means it's get out of jail free and they can do whatever they want----including parking a vehicle ten feet from my front door and turning the stereo up so loud it ceases to be a sound and becomes instead something like the blast wave of ...something.

The neihhbors on the other side, by contrast, let me know they were having an engagement party. I missed it. Their idea of talking does not involve doing so so loudly that it blasts through my house. A group of guys gsthered in front of the house, passed a bottle or can discreetly, and.....their voices could not be heard at all. Not one syllable. There were was no garbage ir litter the next morning either.

I'd like to clone them.

Got out one of my swords last night and sharpened it, then put it back beneath my pillow. Very therapeutic.

Someone lijes to burn leaves around here, even though it's been illegal forever. There's going to be an awful lot of drinking this weekend, and nothing memorial about it, except perhaps by my neighbors on the one side. They obviously care about their behavior.

Maybe I can get stuff done. Back hadn't been hurting too bad. I have laundry to do, maybe I'll plant some stuff. When the neighbors aren't around. Loud Stereo People will adk you if it's too loud, and even tell you gaily to just ask, but strangely enough, they apparently never notice the volume at which the cops get called. They do, however, get offended when you shout to be heard over the bass, because that is SO rude. They're very sensitive like that....but they think that their music is somehow contained inside the flimsy drywall that makes up the badly-renovated walls of this latest rental. I've had some neighbors that let slip they'd been booted from two places already that year. They always leave holes in walks and huge piles of garbage. One neighbor set fire to what looked like a couple of rooms of the stuff----which she had dumped on someone else's property, so the city could fine them and not her.

I need to get out of here.

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I finished Kate Bornstein's memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, today.

It was definitely good and worth reading (although to be honest I liked My Gender Workbook and Hello Cruel World way better) but there is a BUT.

Things that Kate warns for:

- BDSM. (Not for BDSM in general, but for a chapter where there's a detailed description of a scene involving permanent marking and breathplay, both without prior negotiation. Note that she doesn't say that in the warning, just that the passage really disturbed the editor, and if BDSM disturbs you too, here's where to skip to.)

Things that Kate does not warn for:

- eating disorder triggers, in particular anorexia. All through the book, either Kate is actively starving herself or is hating her size. There is unexamined stuff about obesity that made me feel, well, not good. There is stuff about how to starve oneself.

- self-injury triggers, in particular cutting. Again: detailed, almost a how-to.

- child abuse (physical), suicide attempts, cults, drug and alcohol addiction. In all three cases, less HOLY FUCK than the things I listed above, and in the case of the suicide and the cult probably something you'd expect going in if you knew who Kate is when you picked up the book, but since I'm listing trigger warnings, well, those are major triggers to list.

- rape. Described in detail, and the reader doesn't get any more warning than Kate did.

None of these are deal-breakers for me in a book I'm reading. I still would have read A Queer and Pleasant Danger if I'd known in advance. But I'd have gone in prepared, and I think that would have made my reading experience better (it was still a good book.) So I'm posting this, in the hope that it'll make someone else's reading experience better.

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