Education Week

Yesterday started Education Week at BYU. I could never figure out why my folks would want to spend all those summer vacation days taking classes. Now I find myself wishing I could go every year.

Monday Sketchbook: Banned substances

One last visit to the Olympic games, thanks in part to my little padawans.

The time is ripe

The song "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen was written for parody -- it's catchy, exuberant and overplayed -- so of course I had to take advantage of that fact. I showed this to the elders serving in our ward, and that said that it's kind of the message of the Mormon.org cards: click us, maybe. Hmmm.

Editor's note: I know that I usually have the Mission President interviews on Saturdays. But yesterday I had to issue the reminder about the Persied meteor shower (as a public service announcement), so this got bumped to today.

Editor's other note: I find it somewhat coincidental that Ms. Jepsen was born in Mission, BC. Mission. Hmmm!

We won't get fooled again

Quick! Take a look outside! You may still be able to catch a glimpse of the Persied meteor shower. For real! NASA says that this is one of the best years for viewing it, and tonight/tomorrow morning is supposed to be the best time.

Look up!

P-Day prep, part II

I actually wouldn't be surprised if there was already one of these shirts on the market.

Down on the river

I was really torn on this one, trying to decide whether it was OK the way it is or if it needed a caption. A couple of captions I tried on were: "Death takes a fishing holiday;" "Bob wondered if there was a deeper reason this fishing hole was secret;" and "Hey! What are you using for bait?" That last one didn't work very well because Death is fly fishing.

So what do you think? Did I make the right choice? Should it be captionless? Aaargh! The struggles of cartooning!

Signs

I've seen the sign of Gandalf saying, "You shall not pass," but I wondered what other signs they might use in Middle Earth. Personally, I like the "no pedestrians" sign by the exit sign to Mordor. You can't just walk there!