A short poem today, for a short post. This is from 1996, 20 years ago this month. Someone asked me about this strip in an email the other day, wanting help finding it. At the time, I wasn’t sure where to look, and it was just as well. I would have sworn I drew it no more than 10 years ago. Yeek.
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I got Brenda Starr on my computer every day until it finally went swabs few years ago. Sigh. Loved that strip.
Just heard that they had a tornado in SE Kansas where we were last week. Tree and window damage. Fine with me to miss that excitement.
Re Brenda comment. Went AWAY not swabs. On phone, not watching Hal Autocorrect.
Rice paddies, not patties – and that was me, not Hal! The yard is still soggy and we’re still getting some gusts. The birds (and a squirrel, of course) have found the seed I put out in a saucer on the ground. Coolest temperatures in a while will make cleanup a lot easier; se don’t have much to do anyway.
As our neighbor said, sitting out a hurricane isn’t that bad when the power stays on!
Brooke as Brenda: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f1/e2/8b/f1e28bae86f198b697e3338cb369246b.jpg
Okay, Ghost I agree on the ugly shirt and ugly model. Definitely.
So, you are telling me you look like a really clean cut Texas Ranger in a white shirt, tie, suit and hat?
Not a thing like a Federal Marshall aka Rooster Cogburn?
Good one Trucker! I cannot believe Ghost did not know about this literary heroine? Can anyone blame a young Southern girl child for wanting to grow up to be her?
Able to write a lead paragraph with the five W’s in a single bound and file it from the middle of the Amazon?
Don’t have the hat yet, but yeah, working on that image.
A female reporter that showed up to interview me dressed like that would get a scoop…even if I had to make up something.
To look like Rooster Cogburn, I’d have to grow a full beard and grow out my hair to shoulder-length…which according to P&PHS would take at least a month.
Did anyone else notice that John Wayne Rooster Cogburn wore a patch over his left eye, and Jeff Bridges Rooster Cogburn wore it over his right eye?
What will happen to beard?
Not that I don’t like federal Marshall’s, Texas or other state’s law enforcement officers including Rangers, Secret Service, FBI, Treasury and other gun carrying officials. Or do you just want to look like one?
No soup fairies came and cooked for me. I had to open a can of Tuscan white bean soup with kale. Decent. I made a shopping list for vegetables.
“A priest from California was charged in Dakota County District Court with criminal sexual conduct for allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a woman while he was conducting mass in Mendota Heights.” / Strib.
While?
What I aspired to be as a glamorous reporter. I did write for newspapers all over country, actually looked a lot like Brenda, never found the Mystery Man, quit dying hair red but being red headed was fun.
What comic strip character did you identify with and want to be?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1672163043095430&id=100009052528502
Discovered a new weather-related website that’s kind of fun – https://www.windytv.com/
How about this, Ghost?
http://thoughtpollution.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/JEff-Bridges-Ripd.jpg
emb, maybe they meant while he was assigned to perform mass there, rather than during the mass itself? Looks like bad writing to me. Or a priest with a scary ability to multitask.
Thanks, Ruth Anne. It looks neat, and I have saved the site.
eMb, Mark/TT: We need a word for someone doing two things simultaneously, only one thing of which is an actual task. Herein, the other may be presumed to have been a pleasure for the perpetrator. I offer:
“The jobjoyer is thought to have….”
“It’s a real jobjoy case.”
You have anything better?
Thanks, R.A. The radar app on my phone showing prevailing winds like that, but it looks neater on a larger screen.
I always kinda wanted to Aunt Fritzi’s boyfriend.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qhaZyT4RxW0/Ty_ob0mNJ5I/AAAAAAAAAzY/cAKU4ajsWMo/s1600/328348_full.gif
I’m trying to find an example of my beard and mustache combination and, oddly, am having trouble doing so. The nearest I can describe it would be if this one were shaved straight downwards from the widest part of the mustache, leaving my cheeks clean-shaven with fairly short sideburns. I also keep my beard and mustache shorter and more neatly groomed than this one.
http://www.beard.tips/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/beard_style_11-1024×1024.jpg
Of course, I look nothing at all like Clooney…my eyes are green and his are brown or hazel or whatever that color is. 🙂
Debbe 😉 And now for something almost entirely different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forqmom3YuY
Well, I said I like all kinds of music. 🙂
You OK, hon?
Hey, just noticed; my beard/mustache is a lot like the one the musician on the left has in that video. Except mine is less bushy.
Got a lot more hair than that, too. 🙂
Thick flat slabs with rough-hewn edges and polished top surfaces at heads of parents and sister/brother-in-law lots; two low headstones on each with angled fronts where the inscriptions are. (The cemetery has a height restriction for headstones.) Between the headstones, a small urn engraved with entwined wedding rings and their anniversary dates.
Jackie, the above is a revised version of the answer to your question last night about my family’s headstones. I deleted the second paragraph and it didn’t fall into Moderation.
BTW, I noticed again today that the dates, reading the markers from left to right, are August 17 (sister and BIL’s anniversary), August 18 (Ghostdad’s date of death), and August 19 (Ghostmom’s date of death. I suppose that, in the interest of continuity, I should die on August 16th (one of these years).
And that was the second paragraph that went into moderation last night, and also just now until I split the post into two parts. Curioser and curioser.