January 12th, 2010
#936 – Sproing
I still have dreams of flying. I will be standing outside when it occurs to me that I have started to float up off the ground. I have a moment of panic until I suddenly remember that I know how to fly. I had never flown before but it feels like I could always have done it… somehow I just forgot.
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You can even see her work in person if you are luck enough to live in Charleston SC, Memphis TN, Santa Fe NM, or Austin TX.
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January 12th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Chris, is it harder to come up with the comic, or the post that goes with said comic?
January 12th, 2010 at 12:22 am
@Miles – The comic is harder. The posts are just a stream of conscious off the top of my head kind of thing.
January 12th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Risky week!
January 12th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Hey, I remember her! Nice to see your artist friend is still in business.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:02 am
@ MadDavid: I prefer to call it “Risky Biff-ness”.
The Duck Has Spoken.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:26 am
If it is getting harder, you could always do Monty Python week
If it hasn’t been done already
January 12th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Biff Biff and Away!
January 12th, 2010 at 1:52 am
I never have flying dreams but I occasionally have these dreams where I sort of surf a few feet off the ground. It’s way fun, I kick off walls and stuff.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:55 am
@Libraman
Ican just imagine the golden humor Chris could come up with if he had a week devoted to that series.
and Now Im Depressed because I dont Have the Holy Grail.
January 12th, 2010 at 2:58 am
Nice strip today! I love flying dreams, but, however, No-pants-at-public dreams are more frequent by me:-/
January 12th, 2010 at 3:36 am
“There is an art… or, rather, a knack, to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” — Life, the Universe, and Everything, Chapter 9
January 12th, 2010 at 5:00 am
@LazerWulf I was thinking the exact same thing.
I was also thinking of River’s line from Firefly about the cows that were waiting to be and forgot. Then they saw sky and remembered that they were cows.
Or something to that effect, I can’t remember the quote exactly.
January 12th, 2010 at 5:18 am
I wish I could have a flying dream, but they seem beyond my grasp, I do tend to have RPG dreams on occasion, which are always kind of fun, but they usually end up in a never-ending chase of some form or another, I’ve only ever had 1 really memorable lucid dream, clinton serving drinks in a bar in one corner of the living room, no idea why he was there, he just was… one of those things that fits so well you don’t question it…
January 12th, 2010 at 5:38 am
two questions: What is a pogo-stick routine and what about hurricane season would cause you to launch said stick a mile above the ground?
January 12th, 2010 at 5:51 am
what risk?! that looks like fun! AND you get free frequent flier miles! AND free vacation to somewhere random!
yay!!
January 12th, 2010 at 5:52 am
@Nighkali; Are you *sure* you want to know? This *is* Biff we’re talking about yanno…
Anyway – SAB: Surface-to-Air Biff. Or maybe Ballistic Biff. Or maybe even Unidentified Flying Biff…
January 12th, 2010 at 6:30 am
It’s been a long while since I last had a flying dream. Man that’s depressing! That’s it, I’m going back to my youth! Thanks Chris!
January 12th, 2010 at 7:15 am
There’s some sort of psychological meaning to flying or falling dreams. I read it in some magazine somewhere a long time ago. don’t remember a thing about it, honestly, except that I still have the falling dream on occasion. It’s always the same – I’m walking across a bridge over a giant canyon, then suddenly the bridge isn’t there and I’m free-falling. But it doesn’t terrify me – maybe for a moment – but then I’m merely anticipating what waits for me at the bottom.
I always woke up before I got down there, though…
January 12th, 2010 at 8:48 am
I don’t think Biff is in Kansas anymore…
January 12th, 2010 at 9:19 am
The dreams where I fly are my favourite kind. In the dream, it always feels so natural, like it’s the most normal thing in the world. But when I wake up, I remember basic physics and feel depressed…
January 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
My flying dreams are always awkward and have me flapping my arms like a mad chicken. It barely works though, and I get away from the angry villagers!
My birthday’s tomorrow, my gift will be reading Biff!
January 12th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Ive never actually had a flying dream myself. I only get those moments right before I fall asleep when I feel like Im falling and I catch myself, which in turn, erases the last 30 minutes of trying to fall asleep now that Im wide awake with the sudden motion.
January 12th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Only once I had a flying dream (that I remember anyway) it was fun. At least Biff won’t need his rocket this time
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January 12th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
I actually live in the Albuquerque area, an hour of so from santa fe…im gonna have to get more info on that to check out your friends work!
January 12th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
@ Lazerwolf: I was thinking that too. Infact today I used that refference.
January 12th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
@Dude Named Joey – The gallery info is here: http://www.alicavanaugh.com/?page_id=18
January 12th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Ziriath: “I love flying dreams(…)”
So do I! Paul Williams is *AWESOME!* (And so is Jerry Goldsmith’s music for “The Secret of NIMH!”)
Oh, wait! You meant the *other* kind…
January 12th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
I actually live pretty close to Charleston. Might have to go check out those paintings sometime.
January 12th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I just realized that my comment is almost exactly the same as Dude Named Joey’s…
January 12th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
I’d love to be the person in the plane peering out that window. I suspect that that aspect is also a possible reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Also, it’s too bad I live no where near those art shows.
January 12th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
@steve-o – I’m jealous, I would like to see them in person as well!
January 13th, 2010 at 12:32 am
this probably going through the pilots mind. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT houston we have whjat looks like a manned pogo stick flying past us
January 13th, 2010 at 2:34 am
All there is to flying is just falling and missing the ground.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
I’d always heard that with falling dreams that if you actually hit the ground at the end before waking up that you would die in real life…but after hearing that, I would always hit the ground, and then float up as a spirit above my body. Damn my stubborn sub-concious, always trying to prove urban legends wrong!
January 14th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
actually, all my flying/floating dreams freaked me out, then again, i am afraid of heights
January 25th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Oof. Hope he sticks the landing…
April 16th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
i had the same exact dream as my older brother once, godzilla attacked and we, my dad and grandpa killed him by attacking the bottom of his foor as he tried to stomp on us (we hid in a hole).