KEN LAYNE

Has Achewood really been doing this strange & beautiful art work for six+ years? Yes, Yes It Can. I'm about to disconnect the Internet forever (three days) so instead of writing my AOL column (I'M TRYING), I was catching up with Achewood because I like to read a week at a time, sort of like how if I watch a TV show, I watch the entire three or four years on DVD in three nights. Or at least I used to do that, when the adults were occasionally allowed to watch the TV now and again, at night, after dinner, maybe to see a Netflix everyone was talking about in November.

I mean, start here with the beginning of the Roast Beef Greeting Card Story. Then follow the very basic arrow things atop the comic: "->" means "go forward," etc.

This is one of two Desert Tortoises that I found eating wildflowers last weekend while I wandered around Mojave National Preserve for a couple of fine days. Despite traveling and camping and hiking through the North American deserts for 25 years -- and in this particular part of the East Mojave long before it became a "National Preserve" -- this was the first time I'd seen the Desert Tortoise in the wild. (Other than squished on the roadside.) I had some Inside Information from the enviro-socialists.

You know that exclusive private wedding at the Bush Junior Family's fake ranch in Texas? It healed America! And Jenna did look very pretty, and it was one of the least vulgar things produced by the White House since ... oh Jesus Christ, who knows, maybe Harry Truman's retirement?