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WIZARD OF ID

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by RICK ELLIS

This week, Colorado is experiencing record heat, sustained drought, and it seems like the entire state is aflame with forest fires. My job is to find something funny in that. Here in the mountains, we’re spoiled when it comes to weather. It’s sunny 300 days a year and it rarely gets above 80 degrees in the summer. A few years ago, a glorious fall day during a visit to Vancouver had me wondering why I didn’t live there. It was raining buckets the next morning on my way to the airport and, out of curiosity, I kept track. It rained the next 27 days straight. In Colorado, the Mental Health Hotlines get overloaded if we have two cloudy days in a row. My home is just not equipped to handle the heat. Like 99% of our neighbors, we don’t have air conditioning. I’ve tried to come up with creative ways to stay cool. Last time we went to Disneyland on a hot day, I bought each kid one of those water bottles with a battery operated fan on the top. Whenever they’d get overheated they’d just spray a curtain of mist in the air and walk through it. Yesterday, I tried to recreate that exhilarating sensation by setting up a perimeter of fans in my home office and squirting water at them with a spray bottle while I worked but the worrywart in me suggested that might be like using a hair dryer while taking a bath. The heat wave has reached such severity that my friends have started posting ski and winter storm photos on Facebook. It’s only June. Usually we wait until August to do that. Last night I went out to the garage and tuned my skis while sipping on a cup of hot cocoa with the door of the beer frig open. Heat affects me like altitude affects flatlanders. The common symptoms include headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness, and sleep disruption. The heat is also making me pretty cranky so I’m trying to confine my interactions with other humans to air conditioned spaces such as the supermarket. I’ve found myself lingering in the dairy section of Safeway and wishing I was that guy that tidies up the yogurt section every morning. Yesterday I caught myself gazing

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jealously at the route driver pushing a cart of ice into the store. Next door, the owner of the liquor store chased me out because I kept nagging him to let me restock the beer coolers. At home, if things are getting feisty amongst family members I escort the combatants out to the driveway and lock them in the idling Subaru with the thermostat set at sixty-two until they hash things out. Pet lethargy is a serious consequence of a heat wave. Think about it—you don’t go to the zoo on a hot day. When you go to all the best exhibits—the lions, tigers, and bears— all you see is a tail or two sticking out from behind a tree trunk back in the shadiest corner. You know it’s hot when the monkeys barricade themselves in the polar bear enclosure. Here at home, the pets are really struggling. Usually they stampede to the kitchen the second I roll out of bed. Today it was so hot that I had to pick each of them up, one by one, carry them to the kitchen, and lay them down next to their dishes. Skitty, the ornery cat, has a pink bowl with ‘Killer’ printed on it. I’ve temporarily taped a piece of paper over it that says ‘Do Not Disturb’. The dogs are peeing into empty Coke bottles instead of going outside. If you put GPS tracking devices on each of my five pets their combined movement for the day would total about seventeen feet. The sun is going down now so I sequestered the cats in the bedroom and flung open all the windows in the rest of the house. As the breeze blows through and desperately seeks to cool down the house I’m recalling those wonderful summer evenings growing up in rural Minnesota. I imagine that the scent of distant forest fires carried by the wind is actually the aroma of fresh cut hay. Back then, we had heat AND humidity and never had air conditioning and wouldn’t dreamed of complaining. My daughter just turned on the oven to bake a potato. I was just about to chew her out—chastising her to cook it in the microwave instead—but I caught myself. After all, the heat does make me cranky. I’m headed down the hall to join the cats in the bedroom, remembering that if you can’t stand the heat…get out of the kitchen.

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A Message from the Publisher Guy Chris Quimby is a husband, father, and publisher of Funnies Extra in Maine. A graphic designer and standup comedian, Chris has over ten years experience in the print industry. Chris and his wife, Heather, are excited to offer Funnies Extra to Maine, offering a fun and attractive departure from the norm. Chris can be reached at chris@chrisQuimby.com or facebook.com/ChrisQuimby

Playing Second Fiddle to Someone Who Does Not Exist by Chris Quimby I find myself often competing with someone I’ve never met. There are very few things I do in my life during which I don’t imagine how this gentleman might do them better. For example, if he published Funnies Extra, his humor columns would be so funny that reader tears and mucus would be spread across the page. The paper would break records for popularity, becoming more widely consumed than television, the internet or chocolate. He probably would not drive a car like mine, but if he did, when it broke down he wouldn’t take it to the garage. He would rightly suggest that the problem is because of the timing belt. Then, after searching through the trunk, he would emerge with a fresh one that he had brought along just in case. And it would smell like lemon, because he would marinate it in lemon juice the night before so he could enjoy the pleasing aroma while repairing the car, if such a need arose. His mind would be full of useful information. He would always be able to spell a word when asked, and offer its etymology and French, Latin

and Klingon translations. His body would be remarkable. He would sometimes have up to 1% body fat, but only when holding a package of bacon in his hand. He could dunk a basketball blindfolded without a running start. He could somehow run a 5-minute mile in only three minutes and would never smell stinky when he sweats. You see, he marinates his headband in lemon the night before. Morally, he would be completely unselfish, opening doors for people, then carrying them through with his mighty arms. He would donate to charities without telling anyone. He would not only visit people in hospitals, but also in laundromats and libraries. Honestly, this probably would freak people out, but he wouldn’t let that bother him, as he waited until they needed him to carry them out of the building with his powerful, lemon-scented arms. Nobody would ever be sure why they smelled that way, but they all would agree that the scent is delightful. He would be a much better father to my children than I am, taking my son hunting and gently instructing him in car repair and teaching him Latin. My daughter would adore him, one day looking forward to marrying a man so similarly blessed in the skills of publishing free newspapers that she would always feel secure. And he would always know what my wife was thinking. Mostly, it would just be about the disappointment she feels for all of the other

women who must be married to lesser men - men who know nothing of his charm and who smell very little like lemon. He would approach his home romantically after returning from work, always rain-soaked like Mr. Darcy, regardless of the weather. He would then enter the dwelling, rubbing his wife’s feet with one hand and using the other to prepare a sensibly healthy, yet exotic meal to eat by candlelight. The possible existence of this man is a concern of mine. If he was to enter my world, I would live in constant fear of him taking my wife, adopting my children and possibly eating the rest of my Cocoa Krispies. It is not healthy for me to live with such fear. The easiest thing I can do is just put it out of my mind. However, that is not t h e only weapon in my arsenal. As a devoted consumer of Funnies Extra, one with perseverance enough to have endured almost to the end of this ridiculous piece of writing, might I ask you a favor? If you smell this gentleman ap-

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CHUCK DOWNS Cartoonist

I always find random things in my pockets at the end of the day: paper clips, gum wrappers, dry cleaning receipts and the ever-present lint. These drawings are what’s left in my head when the day is done: the random “pocket lint” of my brain. Chuck Downs is a carbon-based form of cartoonist who lives in Florida with his wife and two children. By day, he is vice president of marketing for a company that clearly does not conduct very thorough background checks. By night, he fights crime. Now that he is older, his experience only walks the gamut for fear of pulling a hamstring. He often “misuses” quotation marks, and likes to frequently split his infinitives.

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