I was going to title this one "Dad, I'm Dating a Negro!", but I figured some of you are sensitive, since I can't even called Bernanke "Shalom" anymore, so I decided against it. Anyway………..
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Good Grief
Yesterday I drove the family up to Santa Rosa for a fencing tournament, and since it was going to be a long day, I decided to take my daughter ice skating and to the nearby Charles Schulz museum (I took a couple of photos, shown below). I had been there years before, and I really enjoyed it, but she had never been.
Comics have always been a big part of my life, and I've got many thick volumes of comics that I enjoy. They tend to be more out of the ordinary stuff, such as Zippy and This Modern World, but I've also got my fair share of Dilberts and the like. I've never had any Peanuts, pretty much because they're all stored in my head anyway and I don't need a book.
Indeed, comics are such a big share of my cultural touchpoints that, before Slope, I was seriously going to focus my blog on bitching about comics. I was going to call it The Comics Curmudgeon, and I already had my sights set on inexcusable crap like Garfield, Cathy, and Family Circus. Of course, that blog would have starved itself of material pretty fast, so I never really bothered. The world will never know of Barfy's Theorem and other pontifications I planned.
The Rumble in the Concrete Jungle (from BDI)
Watch! Me! Slopers!
God Bless Us, Every One!
Over the years, there have been many, many adaptations of the Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, but the one starring Alastair Sim has always been my favorite. After all these years, I still find it terribly moving, and so, as I focus on family and food (hopefully in that order), I offer you the full film with the hope that Slopers the world over have a safe, relaxing, and enjoyable Christmas.
– Tiny Tim
