So my car doesn’t like the cold, it seems. For a couple of days now, the “Check Gages” light flashes on when I first start it in the morning, for a fraction of a second, and then it goes away again. Just to be on the safe side, I check the gages. They tell me that A) I have about as much gas as I expect; B) It’s cold; and C) I’m not moving. As all of these things gel with my personal judgment, I proceed on my daily business. The other day, the car made its protests more emphatically – starting okay, but without operational radio or heat. (Headlights were fine.) And when I turned the heater off, the brake light started flashing. Until I turned it back on again. This all makes so little sense to me that, the next time I get in the car, it could very easily start sinking into the earth, without surprising me a great deal.
So anyway, cartoon!
And annotations for that cartoon below!
- Where does Randy the Cowpoke come from? Do you know? Do you? How about…YOU?
- In the third panel, our hero is watching The Dark Crystal. The Skeksis Scientist is speaking.
- Yeah, uh, that thing in the sixth panel, it’s a centipede wearing a great big suit. Yeah, it doesn’t really work.
- My Best Man, Mr. Nicholas Cyr, appears in the seventh panel. In the world of the actual, where I am decidedly not a kangaroo, neither is Mr. Cyr a peddler of “smack.”