If it's Brutus' break or lunch, he doesn't need to tell Veeblefester

October 20, 1967

Bulldogs aren't tough. They look tough, but you never hear about bulldogs being tough. When you go to a shelter and say "I want a tough dog", they don't normally point you in the direction of the bulldogs.

Kewpie is not only genderqueer/nonbinary, but is also interspecies(?).

I take a short walk at work during lunch. It helps reboot for the afternoon. But I'm in classrooms with up to 160 middle schoolers so I don't know why Brutus needs to clear his head.

A 25-Year Slump

October 19, 1967

I think that scale is more than broken. And probably even more so after Brutus hoisted himself onto it. I would've known it was broken with "in great demand at parties". Nobody's inviting me to parties.

I think Lawrence of Arabia is kind of an outdated reference. What other movies are set in deserts? Mad Max: Fury Road, English Patient? Maybe The Martian? Dune? I don't know. There should be a more contemporary movie for this metaphor.