Saturday Comic

Our comic for the weekend is from the Archie comic strip. It is dated June 4, 1970.

Archie, June 4, 1970

[As always, click for a larger version.]

Yup. That pretty much nails it. Conform to what we want or we will assault you with a fake hazard.

 

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1,111

This is my 1,111^th blog entry. I was originally going to mark the 1,000^th, but that was right at the beginning of my trip to Easter Island and Chile. And then I was going to mark 1,100, but that was a Saturday and would have interfered with the Saturday Comic, so I decided to wait for this singular occasion.

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Oil’s Well That Ends Well

Over the Memorial Day weekend fellow barefooter Lee Parker was again in town for a Knap-In. As we’ve done before, after the Knap-In was over we headed out for a nice barefoot hike.

This time we met at Blackhand Gorge and did a 5.9 mile hike.

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Dual Survival — Journey’s End to a New Beginning

This episode should just have been called “Cody’s End”. And it’s also my end, and the end for an awful lot of viewers. The show is ostensibly a behind-the-scenes look about “who’s moving on”.

But we all knew all that going into the show, and we were able to see them pick and choose the story line they wanted to portray.

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The Barefoot Trail

Quite a while back I showed you a poem from 1907 by Edwin L. Sabin called The Barefoot Trail. There’s also a song with the same name (different words, completely different tune) from 1920, sung by the famous Irish Tenor, John McCormack.

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The Foot Film

I imagine most barefooters have heard about “The Foot Film”. It is project attempting to make an independent film documentary about humans’ relationship between shoes and going barefoot.

It’s Indiegogo campaign has only 10 days left, so this is a reminder to go there and donate to help this film become a reality.

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Saturday Comic

Today’s comic is from Bluebonnets, and is dated December 9, 2012.

Bluebonnets, December 9, 2012

I found it interesting that when the artist had to depict three runners, he chose to make one of the barefoot.

 

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11 Reasons Podiatrists Dislike Bare Feet

Maybe it’s time I did a listicle.

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Dr. Lieberman, I Presume?

Dr. Lieberman of Harvard University has yet another new study out, Strike type variation among Tarahumara Indians in minimal sandals versus conventional running shoes. As you can see from the study title, he visited the Tarahumara Indians, who were featured in Born to Run.

What he found is that conventional running shoes really do weird stuff to feet.

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Dual Survival — Glacial Downfall

The “Glacial Downfall” episode was the last “adventure” with Cody Lundin. Anybody who was hoping to see any reason for his firing was sorely disappointed. If anything, there was plenty there if you were looking for a reason to fire Joe Teti, but I guess that sort of idiocy was what the producers were looking to continue.

What I found most interesting was that Joe’s tirades against Cody were so typical of what we barefooters have to put up with.

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Feminism . . . Circa 1914

I had no idea that the words “feminism” and “feminist” first came into use in the early 1900s. (I was aware of suffragettes and such movements, I just didn’t know that the word itself was that old.)

But a newspaper column in 1914 related feminism to our favorite subject: barefooting.

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Dr. Lieberman Strikes Again

The barefooters’ friend, Dr. Lieberman of Harvard, is part of a team with a new study out on minimalist shoe running.

The study shows that running in minimalist shoes (and by implication running barefoot) really does strengthen the foot muscles.

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Saturday Comic

Here’s another comic featuring Dennis the Menace. It’s from October 9, 1975.

Dennis the Menace, October 9, 1975

 

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An Attitude

Here’s a story about busybodies. It’s an editorial from the Ada, Oklahoma newspaper in the summer of 1922.

It seems another town in Oklahoma decided it was improper for girls to go barefoot.

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Hippies Flying High

We’ve long suspected that one reason we barefooters have problems today is because there was a reaction to hippies going barefooted in the late-60s/early-70s.

I’ve found some old articles that suggest they also led to restrictions on flying barefoot.

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