The blog of Richard Thompson, caricaturist, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Today's Cul de Sac, November 12 & 13 2010

 Here are two of Petey's notable pastimes in collision- picky eating and chewing his arm off. Somebody said that the ability to hold two contradictory ideas is the mark of a first-rate mind (F. Scott Fitzgerald, I googled it), which makes sense to me although it obviously doesn't at all.

4 comments:

Luna said...

For a second there I was afraid that arm really might come off...
...thank goodness mom stepped in with her witty remarks.

paul bowman said...

What a woman! — I remain smitten.

paul bowman said...

Holding two opposed ideas in the mind at once is just a matter of getting through the day for most of us — please. Why FSF thought he should bring intelligence into it escapes me.

Mike said...

Fitzgerald's notebooks are a collection of thoughts that weren't well-formed enough to belong in a book. As were some of his aphorisms that found their way into books just the same. Poor old sod held two opposing thoughts constantly: "I want to write a great novel" and "I'm running out of money." Granted, he eventually managed to do both ...