I swear I was cool once. Honest. I wouldn’t lie about something like that. I really was cool once. I’m not exactly sure what caused my eventual decline from “Joe Cool” to “Joe Shmoe,” but somewhere along the line I seem to have dropped a few levels on the veritable guitar amp of coolness. Maybe [...]
Ah, the new years resolution. That happy moment where we all collectively look at all of our failings and fool ourselves into believing that this year will be the year we get our acts together. THIS year will be different. THIS year I’ll get that fancy job. THIS year I’ll find true love. THIS year [...]
Happy 2012! It’s time once again for our “Who Wants to Be in a Comic Strip?” contest!! Are YOU ready to be internet-famous?!?! All month long Raccoon Toons will be updated FIVE days a week!! Let me reiterate that again for literary emphasis. All month long Raccoon Toons will be updated FIVE DAYS A WEEK! That [...]
Alright. I’m not even going to pretend anymore. I’m hereby stating it for the record: I really hate New Years. It is a stupid, stupid holiday and I think it’s the absolute epitome of lame causes for celebration. There are so many better days worth celebrating! Like…Leap Year Day, National Snowman Burning Day, Useless Fruit Smashing Day, [...]
Like many of you, I enjoy Christmas music. I like the adding it all to my playlist on Dec. 1st. I like rockin’ around the Christmas tree, and the sound of ringing silver bells. I enjoy singing various holiday numbers along with Mel Torme. I enjoy the choral arrangements of the more religious pieces, and [...]
Growing up my mother made these crafty Christmas stockings for everyone in the family.Each one was made of felt and appeared as a large sock with a shoe at the bottom made to take on the character and persona of the person whose stocking it was. My dad’s stocking had a shoe with laces and looked [...]
This one is for my mother, who it would seem has made it her personal mission in life to make all of her Christmas decorations as inaccessible as humanly possible. She sure is lucky that she has a son who lives in the area and who can drop everything to come over and crawl into [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! And a big “THANK YOU” to all of you readers around the world! Once again I thought it would be fun to include a comic strip recognizing all of you who have stopped by the website in the past year. Thank you for taking time from your busy lives to read a comic [...]
