Once again, Rivera parodies her own strip by presenting a pigeon and foliage in panel 1 as if they have been pasted from another source. Maybe, maybe not. But reality is not the point, I think. It’s just to make sport of Trail fans. I think the expression would be “Own the Tailheads.” Sounds a bit clumsy, doesn’t it? Perhaps we should shorten “Trailhead” to a simpler contraction, “Tread”, as in “Own the Treads.” Nice!

It’s interesting to see Mark stress over writing HTML, when in his early stories, he seemed to be somewhat ignorant of the Internet. Even Mark can learn, I reckon. So is Mark coding his own web pages for his blogs, rather than taking advantage of the many platforms and blog sites already available? That might help explain his low number of followers. Certainly, he must have enough wits about him to cross-post his articles and blogs across multiple sites, right?

I wonder if, in his talk, he’ll bring up that Salt Lake City adventure (“Horsin’ Around”, 2024) involving a secretive data center run by grifter Tad Crass and a bunch of mustangs that may or may not have gotten disturbed by Crass’s desert complex. Maybe he’ll bring up the NFT grift of Cricket Bro and his brother out in Oregon.