Excellent. I have no clue about the school board in that city, but corruption and self-interest runs rampant in many education systems. (My wife is a retired school teacher and saw first hand...) It's pathetic.
Peezeheads? Are we getting pizza-shaped baseball caps with Pizza Rat "hang-ten"-ing on top (like in your most recent ICE Barbie cartoon on the Texas floods)? I need to know so that I can start planning my outfits for when you show up at Comic-Con.😁
For me, Peezeheads evokes either Cheeseheads or Golden Showers. As a Vikings fan, I'm not sure which is worse. 😉 But I'll get used to it. I'm glad the official nickname invokes Pizza Rat.
I will still consider myself a Claytoonzer who escapes to Claytoonzia to keep my sanity and sense of humor with the ongoing debacles of this regime. I'm happy that Pizza Rat is our mascot because it (he/she/they?) represents the survival and tenacity of one of our mammal cousins in the dystopian political climate that we find ourselves. Better for us humans to have Peezy than having a cockroach as the key recurring observer of human foibles and insanity in Claytoonzia, because I would have a hard time feeling warm and fuzzy about cockroaches, even though they were hilarious in the generally panned movie "Joe's Apartment". (As a biology teacher, I always had a wierd sense of humor and love/hate relationship with cockroaches and snakes, but not rats ... maybe because I had a couple of them as pets, one of whom exhibited vicious bipolar behavior and the other who was the sweetest companion to carry in the upper pocket of my lab coat to freak out my colleagues at weekly staff meetings. 😁) I won't get into the diet of rats who are opportunistic feeders (including cockroaches). I hope that there will always be a plethora of pizza available for Peezy. But I'm with you Karen, I don't want people having thoughts of golden showers when they hear or see us described as Peezeheads. Eeeeww. That's definitely not a thing for me.
Sorry Karyn. The damn auto-correct mangled your name and I didn't catch it before I hit the upload arrow. I wish Substack would give us readers editing and grammar correction options before a finalized upload/posting like they do for Authors.
We just had a 'semi-local' (Valley area, but not my city) school board fail their audit so badly that the whole Board quit in shame, except for 3 people who had to stay on it so the schools could stay open. There will be new elections to replace everyone, including the remaining 3, at the next election. Or maybe they'll have a special election, I can't remember. THE WHOLE DAMN BOARD was incompetent! And they knew they were doing things wrong, they just kept telling each other not to tell anyone. SMDH. Peezeheads. I can live with that, mainly because I'm too sweet and innocent to have ever thought about 'golden showers'. But Gawd almighty, you perverts are gonna ruin me!!! ;)
Oh my. Having just retired from 50 years of planning meetings, negotiating hotel and related contracts, and friends with a long ago meeting planner for the natl school boards assn, I’d like now to do a breakout on ALL the considerations of destination, site selection, buses v public transit (for meetings and personal travel) and related issues. I’ll spare you all tho I’m tempted because the variables are great.
Because it IS Disability Pride Month, I’ll only do one aspect of cabs v public transit: access. Your legs work; mine don’t now. If escalators or elevators are out on either end, it’s impossible. If one has hearing or sight loss and no one is available to help, disaster.
The breakout may continue at a later time.
About knowing bupkis about the budget or using the ccs, that’s the worst part.
That is another factor to consider. Many subway stations do have elevators, but I don't know if they all do. It's probably a lot better to take a cab/Uber/Lyft.
Thanks. The “excitement” of not knowing if an elevator’s working makes travel even more fun! Sorry to have been so serious. Really. The toon is spot on as is what you wrote. It’s that outside our [i’m still involved] profession few know all that goes into planning a conference. What may look glamorous (HI) may have the better all over deal, & for West Coast & Alaska & HI folks, more convenient. About access: until you don’t have it, it’s tough to imagine.
I'm the opposite of most people, it seems: Totally comfortable with navigating public transit, but out of my element when it comes to getting a taxi. I've never tried Uber, and have been a little leery of it, hearing tales of how the rates can fluctuate wildly. Some of us actually have to budget, dontcha know.
Anyhoot, transit can certainly host some interesting characters, but so does the world at large, unless you choose to live in an isolation tank. As for SFO, BART is ridiculously easy and will take you right into the heart of downtown, with a number of stops along the way. I still have a Clipper card from my pre-pandemic travels; if I ever decide to travel again, I'll see if it's still active. Definitely recommended for getting around the city while on vacation!
I run into plenty of freaks on the buses and trains, but they mostly leave you alone. Uber and Lyft rates fluctuate throughout the day, but not after you order your ride. If it says $9, it will be $9.
When we lived in Germany it was months before we got a car. Back then to buy a new car it had to be shipped into Bremerhaven and then brought down. We ordered the car in October. We finally received it in May. I had arrived in Nürnberg in August and had the u-bahn (subway) memorized in 3 days. The test to get a driver’s license was insane. Since I hadn’t even gotten a US one, I never attempted it. My husband was master driver at a few of the units, so he had no issue. The man can drive anything, anywhere. We lived on the economy. We timed two things, going to the PX and going to the hospital. Taking public transportation, I beat him to both locations. With the amount of walking involved (the nearest bus stop was a seven walk to the PX), I wouldn’t be able to do it today. But back then I walked everywhere. Between the buses, streetcars, u-bahn, and trains there was no real need for a car, except on shopping days. Then I took a taxi home. They had one that was a Jaguar! That was when I fell in love with the car. Never owed one, but my Kia Amante was pretty close. Oh, how I miss that car. My 9 year-old Fiat doesn’t even have 11,000 miles on it. Getting sick sucks.
Excellent. I have no clue about the school board in that city, but corruption and self-interest runs rampant in many education systems. (My wife is a retired school teacher and saw first hand...) It's pathetic.
"Don’t listen to Fox News." << Words to live by.
Perfection.
Peezeheads? Are we getting pizza-shaped baseball caps with Pizza Rat "hang-ten"-ing on top (like in your most recent ICE Barbie cartoon on the Texas floods)? I need to know so that I can start planning my outfits for when you show up at Comic-Con.😁
Puh-leeze not.
C'mon. Can't you picture yourself in a Peezehead baseball cap, camp shirt and surfer board shorts? You gotta have a little fun in your life David.😀
I was thinking we'd see big, foam, pizza hats (like the Green Bay Packers wear) in the merch department! LOL!
That could work too. So Clay, are you ready to unleash Peezeheads on the world?
A slice of pizza with Pizza Rat surfing on top would be pretty cool. 😎
For me, Peezeheads evokes either Cheeseheads or Golden Showers. As a Vikings fan, I'm not sure which is worse. 😉 But I'll get used to it. I'm glad the official nickname invokes Pizza Rat.
You left out Deadheads. Evoking golden showers in your head is your issue. What's up with that?
LOL. I'm as vanilla as it gets. My only issue is the unfortunate gift of speaking (and thinking) in puns.
I will still consider myself a Claytoonzer who escapes to Claytoonzia to keep my sanity and sense of humor with the ongoing debacles of this regime. I'm happy that Pizza Rat is our mascot because it (he/she/they?) represents the survival and tenacity of one of our mammal cousins in the dystopian political climate that we find ourselves. Better for us humans to have Peezy than having a cockroach as the key recurring observer of human foibles and insanity in Claytoonzia, because I would have a hard time feeling warm and fuzzy about cockroaches, even though they were hilarious in the generally panned movie "Joe's Apartment". (As a biology teacher, I always had a wierd sense of humor and love/hate relationship with cockroaches and snakes, but not rats ... maybe because I had a couple of them as pets, one of whom exhibited vicious bipolar behavior and the other who was the sweetest companion to carry in the upper pocket of my lab coat to freak out my colleagues at weekly staff meetings. 😁) I won't get into the diet of rats who are opportunistic feeders (including cockroaches). I hope that there will always be a plethora of pizza available for Peezy. But I'm with you Karen, I don't want people having thoughts of golden showers when they hear or see us described as Peezeheads. Eeeeww. That's definitely not a thing for me.
Sorry Karyn. The damn auto-correct mangled your name and I didn't catch it before I hit the upload arrow. I wish Substack would give us readers editing and grammar correction options before a finalized upload/posting like they do for Authors.
You can edit your post after uploading by hitting the three little dots over to the right of your name and the first option is edit.
I don't have that option on Substack on my phone app. Only to mute, block or report. Sigh.
Bummer. You piqued my interest and I found that I can edit my Substack comments from my laptop but not my phone. Darn.
We just had a 'semi-local' (Valley area, but not my city) school board fail their audit so badly that the whole Board quit in shame, except for 3 people who had to stay on it so the schools could stay open. There will be new elections to replace everyone, including the remaining 3, at the next election. Or maybe they'll have a special election, I can't remember. THE WHOLE DAMN BOARD was incompetent! And they knew they were doing things wrong, they just kept telling each other not to tell anyone. SMDH. Peezeheads. I can live with that, mainly because I'm too sweet and innocent to have ever thought about 'golden showers'. But Gawd almighty, you perverts are gonna ruin me!!! ;)
Oh my. Having just retired from 50 years of planning meetings, negotiating hotel and related contracts, and friends with a long ago meeting planner for the natl school boards assn, I’d like now to do a breakout on ALL the considerations of destination, site selection, buses v public transit (for meetings and personal travel) and related issues. I’ll spare you all tho I’m tempted because the variables are great.
Because it IS Disability Pride Month, I’ll only do one aspect of cabs v public transit: access. Your legs work; mine don’t now. If escalators or elevators are out on either end, it’s impossible. If one has hearing or sight loss and no one is available to help, disaster.
The breakout may continue at a later time.
About knowing bupkis about the budget or using the ccs, that’s the worst part.
That is another factor to consider. Many subway stations do have elevators, but I don't know if they all do. It's probably a lot better to take a cab/Uber/Lyft.
Thanks. The “excitement” of not knowing if an elevator’s working makes travel even more fun! Sorry to have been so serious. Really. The toon is spot on as is what you wrote. It’s that outside our [i’m still involved] profession few know all that goes into planning a conference. What may look glamorous (HI) may have the better all over deal, & for West Coast & Alaska & HI folks, more convenient. About access: until you don’t have it, it’s tough to imagine.
I'm the opposite of most people, it seems: Totally comfortable with navigating public transit, but out of my element when it comes to getting a taxi. I've never tried Uber, and have been a little leery of it, hearing tales of how the rates can fluctuate wildly. Some of us actually have to budget, dontcha know.
Anyhoot, transit can certainly host some interesting characters, but so does the world at large, unless you choose to live in an isolation tank. As for SFO, BART is ridiculously easy and will take you right into the heart of downtown, with a number of stops along the way. I still have a Clipper card from my pre-pandemic travels; if I ever decide to travel again, I'll see if it's still active. Definitely recommended for getting around the city while on vacation!
I run into plenty of freaks on the buses and trains, but they mostly leave you alone. Uber and Lyft rates fluctuate throughout the day, but not after you order your ride. If it says $9, it will be $9.
Good to know, thanks.
When we lived in Germany it was months before we got a car. Back then to buy a new car it had to be shipped into Bremerhaven and then brought down. We ordered the car in October. We finally received it in May. I had arrived in Nürnberg in August and had the u-bahn (subway) memorized in 3 days. The test to get a driver’s license was insane. Since I hadn’t even gotten a US one, I never attempted it. My husband was master driver at a few of the units, so he had no issue. The man can drive anything, anywhere. We lived on the economy. We timed two things, going to the PX and going to the hospital. Taking public transportation, I beat him to both locations. With the amount of walking involved (the nearest bus stop was a seven walk to the PX), I wouldn’t be able to do it today. But back then I walked everywhere. Between the buses, streetcars, u-bahn, and trains there was no real need for a car, except on shopping days. Then I took a taxi home. They had one that was a Jaguar! That was when I fell in love with the car. Never owed one, but my Kia Amante was pretty close. Oh, how I miss that car. My 9 year-old Fiat doesn’t even have 11,000 miles on it. Getting sick sucks.
I love your comment, except the getting sick part. Hang in there.
I love the Peezehead caps but I stop there and will wear it with my shirt. As a retired teacher I agree with you 100%
Peezeheads...LOL can we get some cheeseheads with that??? Okay, I do love it.
Shame on the school board association for
1) convention in Hawaii
2) blowing their budget
3) that one member voting against pre-approved travel spending
Actually, two voted against it.