We are planning a special surprise to celebrate sludgo’s 200th installment of Mile Markers. Because of this, publication is delayed by one week—you’ll see #200 next Friday, August 29. Stay tuned!

We noted that Mile Marker 200 would come with a special surprise, and here it is! This week marks the 200th installment of sludgo’s Mile Markers, and to celebrate we’re issuing a limited run of 200 commemorative posters, each signed and numbered by sludgo himself. Posters are now available in the BaT gear store, and all proceeds from the sales will be donated to the American Diabetes Association in honor of sludgo’s father, the Oldsmobile Man.
I love the old Andy Griffith Show. Have since I was a little kid and would catch reruns of it after school on my Grandma Lettie’s black-and-white Philco. I’ve nothing but fond memories of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney and ‘Aint’ Bea. Opie and Helen and Thelma Lou. Floyd the barber. Otis the drunk. Gomer the grease-monkey and his cousin Goober. Emmett the fix-it shop owner and even Howard Sprague the Howard Sprague. One of my favorite episodes is where Barney buys a used car from a sweet little old lady who turns out to have swindled him in the deal by passing him a lemon. There’s the famous scene where Andy and Barney are commiserating in the courthouse after he’d had the car towed to Gomer’s service station to have Gomer’s always unseen boss ‘Wally’ take a look at it and Gomer returns with the results—a mile-long laundry-list of repairs he reads off as Barney sinks miserably and hilariously down into his chair. That’s exactly the way I felt about a month ago when my new mechanic Tyrone called to talk to me about the ‘B.