I ask for daily desk calendars usually for Xmas. The old Far Side ones are great and had me chuckling this morning. Anything that makes me laugh each day is great. I enjoy political cartoons and some of the older comic strips.
I’ll look at the daily comics occasionally and follow a few cartoonists online but it’s for the laugh. You have to laugh. And late in life, I’ve learned the more you know the more you can laugh at.
I loved watching Looney Tunes and Warner Brothers cartoons and still load the occasional YouTube clip to just sit in mindless enjoyment for a few minutes.
Sometimes I think someone could make a cartoon of some of my friends and my life. Just ask our wives, our logic is impeccable. Well maybe impeccably flawed most of the time but we make them laugh. And I mean we make them laugh hard sometimes. We are often called a bunch of characters by many. It’s certainly an animated group. Of course, the dialog boxes about the characters might not have enough room for all our banter.
But the important piece here is that you find something yourself, to help you smile, to elicit a laugh, to make you feel better.
I wrote this piece well before I took these photos, but I couldn’t resist combining two of my passions here.
Oh yeah, Coyote
And the winner is Road Runner
Watch your doors with this guy.




March 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
The Far Side is brill
March 9, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Great post, Mike My desktop calendar is Pearls Before Swine. Loony Tunes are the best. I love that car and the other photos that go with it.
March 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Thank you, Dan,