First of all, an early Happy Labor Day to everyone. We pictured a typical Labor Day cookout, 2020 style. So what if Al mistakenly squirts some hand sanitizer on his hot dog. At least it’s sanitized. As summer turns into fall, the virus still hasn’t gone away, people (for the most part) are still not going back to offices and schools are trying to figure out what to do. And sports! We’ve gone from having none at all to having everything at once (yep, football is a week away). So enjoy this long weekend away before work and school should be starting and then get back to whatever it was you were doing before Labor Day. And one more thing, just use the hand sanitizer on your hands.

Next up was a subject for the kind of disagreement comic creators have with each other. I used to think advertising conversations were silly (this beer is made for weekends, this one is for weeknights, but with this positioning, we can own Friday nights), but this one may have taken the proverbial cake. A couple weeks ago I went into the ocean on an East Hampton beach with a friend of mine. Hot day, cold water. He said, “This is refreshing,” and I said, “I gotta pee,” to which he replied, “Let me stand upstream.” I thought that was so funny I wrote it down when I got out of the ocean. I called John and pitched the idea and this is what followed (with allowances for my memory, which at 67 years old is not getting sharper). Me: So the guy says, Wait till I get upstream. John: There is no upstream in an ocean. Me: Nobody will think of that. John: I just did. Remember how many letters we got correcting us on the difference between Medicare and Medicaid? Me: True. John: So we’ll just have the scene play out in the river. Me: But, I wrote in last week’s newsletter that we would have a comic at the beach this weekend. John: Oceans have tides, not streams. Me: Fine, let ‘em pee in the damn river.

Note: outside of that, we never disagree about anything.

Well, maybe not anything.

One thing we do agree on is to thank you all for being such ardent and loyal readers of the New 60. And we will be back to you next week with two new ones hot off the press.

Andy and John