- James is a life-size sculpture of a white guy wearing a big red "Cat in the Hat"-esque hat. It looked like it was made out of paper mache, and possibly made in the early 80's. The only reason I know what it's called is that I ran across an S&B article about the sculpture while doing some microfilm research. When I wrote the cartoon, James was standing in the Burling Library basement, just outside of the computer room near the men's bathroom. It was there for first semester of my freshman year and then it just disappeared. James reappeared several years later in the drawing room on the third floor of the Fine Arts Building, and I have no idea where he is now.
- The irony of this cartoon is that I didn't actually have any finals that semester. Zing!
- Johnny is on Burling 4th, in #440 -- my personal retreat in the corner next to the Congressional records.
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- I was taking Ken Short's mini-class on psychology and the brain, which probably influenced the script. Oh yeah, there's the reference in panel 6. I like Ken Short because I was reading "The Naked Ape" during a lab one day and he said something like "That's a great book." That was the only interaction we ever had.
- Paul Carlson's take on finals was this: If you haven't learned what you need to learn during the 3 months of a semester, then you're not going to learn it the weekend before the big test. I repeated this maxim to myself whenever I didn't want to study for a test. Nope, never did make that Dean's List.
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