I'm sure we live near SOME Mad-Max-like scavenger living his or her life desperate to wring out my cast-off possessions for some hypothetical remnant-dregs of possible usefulness -- BUT WE *HAD* TO SCHEDULE OUR SALE DURING BURNING MAN

A note on the images that were used to make today’s comic — many came from Flickr via the Internet Archive! More info here.

Here’s more on the yard sale conundrum.

A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

Over on Bluesky, Ryan Estrada has done a deep dive on the 22 (!) Christmas stories that Dickens wrote in the aftermath of the success of A Christmas Carol.

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM


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