Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This invention will change the course of man.

The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

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There’s so much wonderful humor and insightfulness and pop culture awareness in these cartoons, and looking back through them, I really just how much The Far Side is one of my humor and culture touchstones. There were plenty of brand new cartoons here that I either never read before or am reading for the first time in 30 years. But then there will a whole section where I recall in detail not only reading before but the contexts in which I read these as a […]

Over the edge for yonks (in the best possible way)

The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

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I’m about to date myself with some very specific references: when I was a kid, my parents clipped their favourite Far Side cartoons out of the Sunday newspaper and scotch-taped them to the wall next to the rotary phone.  Because my Dad is a farmer of mostly cattle, he shared Gary Larson’s love of all things bovine, so there was no shortage of Far Sides to ponder while tethered to the phone line.  I recently happened on the complete three volume Far Side set in […]

I was worried when I found this in the Little Free Library

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So I was both excited and scared when I saw this in the Little Free Library. I grew up LOVING the Far Side. I had t-shirts, I had wall calendars, I had a bunch of the books, and I used to basically just examine them to try to work out the jokes, try to catch the references, try to figure out what was going on both in terms of the jokes. So when I saw this, the problem was that this was potentially fraught: what […]



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