Frazz

Frazz Frazz is the janitor at Bryson Elementary. He tours halls with a broom and fills heads with ideas.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/18There’s also the issue that if you’re going to be a fall person, you’d better b...
18/10/2025

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There’s also the issue that if you’re going to be a fall person, you’d better be good at living in the moment, because the part of fall we rave about most comes and goes in not much more than a moment. But oh, what a moment.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/17There’s not one, but two terrific marathons taking place near me Sunday: The De...
17/10/2025

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There’s not one, but two terrific marathons taking place near me Sunday: The Detroit Free Press Marathon and the Grand Rapids Marathon. I’ve got great memories from both, and I may have to be satisfied with that. It’s early to say if I’ll ever get to run another marathon, but I’ve been given odds and they’re not pretty. If I healed like a 10-year-old, I might. Then again, if I’d broken my leg like that when I WAS ten, the medicine of the era might not have been able to patch me up such that I ever could have run any marathon. So there’s that.

And while I’m curiously — some say pathologically — non-nostalgic (I figure the past is for learning from and for story material), I will cop to thanking myself for things I did when I had the chance when I’m faced with the likelihood that I’m done doing them. So there’s THAT. If gratitude and nostalgia share some properties, then maybe I’m a little bit nostalgic after all.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/16There must be ViewTube videos out there that teach you how to do something very...
16/10/2025

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There must be ViewTube videos out there that teach you how to do something very Old World, traditional or even primitive while delivering that lesson via a very modern hand-held computer that gets its information bounced off space-age satellites, and I find the notion charming. Kind of like Leonardo da Vinci sketching out a workable aircraft with a stick of burnt charcoal, only completely backward. But, depending on the end user, just about as safely.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/15I have to admit I’m not entirely comfortable ranting about paying for a streami...
15/10/2025

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I have to admit I’m not entirely comfortable ranting about paying for a streaming service and still having to watch commercials when I work in a medium where, traditionally, people would enjoy it by buying a subscription to a newspaper full of advertisements. Life is complicated.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/14Because I am human and therefore project my personality onto other living thing...
14/10/2025

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Because I am human and therefore project my personality onto other living things, my cats — four of them, who have just enough discipline to self-feed — get two kinds of dry cat food. I like variety, so of course they must. But it turns out not only are they indifferent to variety, they are curiously, precisely loyal to one particular food even when the other option is virtually identical. By now it’s been winnowed down to two different brands of Sensitive Skin and Stomach food. The pellets are the same size and shape, and only a slightly different shade of cat-food brown. They chow down on one and let the other languish. When the two bowls with the “good” food are empty, the nagging begins, even if the other two bowls are full of the “bad” food. Swapping bowls doesn’t fool them for one second, and I don’t have the heart to wait until the “bad” food runs low to top off the “good” food. It’s all very curious until I imagine some god (isn’t that what we are to cats?*) watching me sit in front of a perfectly good bowl of mixed nuts and pick around the walnuts.
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* I crack myself up. We are not their gods, we are their employees. Though it’s not like we’re above asking our own gods for favors.

You’d think by now she’d be inured, lest her patience be injured.
12/10/2025

You’d think by now she’d be inured, lest her patience be injured.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/12Zoey, my most recent dog, would chase not just sticks, but would chase anything...
12/10/2025

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Zoey, my most recent dog, would chase not just sticks, but would chase anything, vigorously. Sticks, balls, squirrels. Seagulls, even.* But whatever she chased, and she almost always caught up with it fast, she never picked it up.** I guess she was a journey-not-the-destination dog. Border collies are smart, and she was part border collie. I guess whatever else he had in the mix was kind of wise.
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* though only once and not very far, quite surprised to learn that Lake Michigan looked a lot more solid under a bird than it felt under a dog
** the one exception: water from a hose. She was like Ahab to that particular waterspout.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/11Oops! Error alert! I probably shouldn’t have Frazz running this soon. I mean, I...
11/10/2025

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Oops! Error alert! I probably shouldn’t have Frazz running this soon. I mean, I broke my leg two months before he broke his, and I’m only now allowed to ease back into it, very cautiously, for short intervals and with the use of my physical therapist’s AlterG, a (no joke) gravity-altering treadmill that has me running at a fraction of my body weight. I’m certainly not going for long runs among the falling leaves. Then again, maybe Frazz didn’t break his leg as badly. Or maybe he’s a fictional character. Look at how fast Ethan hunt bounces back after getting the living s**t kicked out of him. Or maybe he’s a cartoon. I mean, Wile E. Coyote makes Ethan Hunt look like a wimp.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/10Now I want to do a survey of people who have the kind of scarcity mindset that ...
10/10/2025

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Now I want to do a survey of people who have the kind of scarcity mindset that has their phone plugged into a charger constantly and see how much sleep they get. I don’t think I’m at either extreme in either category, but as I think about it, I’m a little sheepish that I do a better job of making sure my phone is recharged than I am making sure I myself am.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/09It’s funny how people want answers, right away, when some of the best answers a...
09/10/2025

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It’s funny how people want answers, right away, when some of the best answers are the ones that take a while. And it’s funny how we want answers so desperately when they’re only going to be followed — or preceded — by more questions. None of which is a problem, as far as I can tell. Desperately craving the answers we want, though, that’s a problem. And getting them is even worse, because then we quit looking.

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/10/08There was a tragedy in Yosemite this past week when an elite climber topped out...
08/10/2025

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There was a tragedy in Yosemite this past week when an elite climber topped out after a roped solo up a difficult route on El Capitan, then rappelled back down to retrieve a gear bag that had gotten hung up. And misjudged the distance and rappelled past the end of his rope, on which he had not tied a safety knot. If I calculated right, he had about 12 seconds to think about not tying that safety knot. I feel for him, in theory if not in magnitude. I’ve crashed a bike at high speed and spend significant skidding time waiting to see just how much skin I was fixing to lose. I’ve seen the X-ray that didn’t require a radiologist to tell me I was screwed. I’ve said something regrettable and could only watch someone’s facial contortions as the hurt feelings revealed themselves in real time. And I have indeed teetered just a little past the point of no return.

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