One assignment I give myself each day is to not simply open up the Mark Trail Snark Shop and rely on its inventory of popular insults, sarcasm, and memes for my content.  But some days are easier than others, especially when Jules Rivera does it, herself.  Case in point: It’s one thing for Cherry to magically pull out her “Vegas Baby!” shades (as reader Daniel Pellisier quipped) for her novelty joke on Friday (while indirectly paying homage to Harpo Marx’s pockets); but should Jules Rivera have carried the joke through today? Perhaps this is an in-strip snark by Rivera fixating on Cherry’s own fixation on visiting Las Vegas.

A Visitor Count Anecdote: I don’t talk much about this site’s visitor counts, because they haven’t been that much of a priority, and they are almost always abysmal. However, yesterday’s visitor count was at least five times my normal visitor count! What gives!? I have no idea, unless the title of yesterday’s blog showed up in Google searches for “Mediterranean-style end tables”, and people were curious. I might try something like that again some time to see if that hypothesis has merit.