Spaceman Stiff and Very Grand Kids

To Mars and back — with a diaper stop

New Sacktoon—SpaceHex

Elon Musk just notched another record-breaking SpaceX launch and is once again talking about putting a million people on Mars within ten years. It’s a classic Musk promise: equal parts breathtaking ambition and science-fiction fan fiction. Getting a handful of astronauts to Mars would be one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. Getting a million people there would require thousands of launches, vast supplies of food, water, housing, power, medical care, and the small detail of surviving on a frozen, radiation-blasted planet with no breathable air. At this point, colonizing Mars seems less challenging than getting Musk to stop wildly overpromising. Mars may someday have a thriving human settlement. A million residents by 2036? That’s not a plan—it’s a TED Talk with a rocket attached.

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Fun Art—Babysittin’ Foto Fun

I don’t know if these qualify as “art”, but I did create them on my iPad.

Whenever I babysat my grandsons during their parents’ date nights, I’d send Mom and Dad a goofy picture to reassure them that everything was hunky-dory on the home front. I don’t remember the exact circumstances behind these images, but I’m confident they made perfect sense at the time—and were, no doubt, hilarious.

I’ve always been a visual thinker, constantly looking for a funny angle. When it comes to my grandsons, though, I rarely have to look very far. Their next bit of inspiration is usually just around the corner.

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