*LIFE PRESERVE* (in progress) mural design by Ben Harubin with artists Nick Anvil, WCool, Pepe Paban, MattG, JohnM, Worth

One guy says
he can see all his favorite cartoons without turning on his
TV or going to the movies.

There was this one reality in which the creatures themselves
made up only three of the words in their vocabulary.
(And curious to note, they all began with the letter “F.”)

Part of the trick is learning how to be a hermit…
in your own home town…
in your own back yard.

While relaxing on the upper veranda the King asked a Duke in an
adjoining lounger, “Who says that a ruler can’t be both tyrannical
AND intelligent?”
And the noble replied, “Everybody.”
His grace looked off for a moment and added, “I mean besides them?”

An elder city chap says he knew life was really running downhill
once people began to always buy new tires instead of having their old
ones recapped. (He says the only hopeful sign in all this is that people
have yet to apply this approach to their thinking.)