Saturday, May 23, 2020

Guilty Pleasures

I have a few guilty pleasures in life. One is the daily Los Angeles Times.  I grew up reading the paper and judged all others in comparison.  It is not that I am in agreement with it's political slant, but again, it is what I grew up with.  And it needs to be the paper version, so I can sit under the tree with my coffee to read while the gardner next door uses his leaf blower.

         
The paper version of the LA Times, tied up with polyester string and bagged in yellow plastic
The daily comics in the LA Times.  Can't live without it.
       Pearls before Swine, Dilbert, Zits and of course Peanuts.
LA.  Affairs in the Sat. edition. Don't ask why, but in some ways, things don't always work out, but      
       human attraction is universal.
The Sat. Sports Cartoon by Jim Thompson
Carl Eskine, his offbeat look on life and his vulnerability that he exposes with each column.  He will
       soon enter the I miss section.
The return of the FOOD section, though Im only a casual reader of the section.

I miss
Paul Conrad, the Pulitzer Prize winning Political Cartoonist that drove my formative years along with      MAD magazine.

Rex Morgan MD, Brenda Starr and Apartment 5G

Rick O'Shay, Tumbleweeds and the original BC

Morning Briefing in the sports section.  It had returned returned recently for a brief run.

Sports Page 2: TJ Simers.  yes he was a jerk, but I loved it.

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