This one is from 20 years ago this month. Remember where you heard it first. Often, when I’m addressing a group, I am asked if I ever get political in the strip. My immediate reaction is, “Well, don’t you read the strip?” But I don’t say that out loud. What I say is, I don’t produce overtly political material, but I do a lot of “social commentary.” I believe that if I take sides politically, 40 to 50 percent of readers will be angry whether my stance is justified or not. However, if I comment on underlying problems we all face in society, I find that almost 100 percent of readers agree.
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Twenty years ago?!!
Sounds like the conversation I had with my new neighbor last week.
Exactly. I could name a broadcast TV “comedy” show that is tanking because its new host is taking strident political stances that alienate a large percentage of its potential audience. Plus, of course, the fact he isn’t that funny to begin with.
I guess that’s my “social commentary” for the day.
“high-tech service jobs” (http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/12/28)
Male house sparrow singing outside ‘the apt. downstairs,’ female Chesapeake osprey craning her neck in that direction, perhaps looking for source of sound.
http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam
On the way here, stopped at the Decorah north eagle nest [cannot post two URLs and cannot post that brand anyway], and saw a female h.s. hop right across the huge nest, past the two older nestlings. Don’t know if ‘little bit’ is still with us. Peace,
Ghost Sweetie, I was just catching up a bit from yesterday, and I can agree with others that if you haven’t seen the Star Wars Holiday Special you have saved an hour of your life and lost nothing. 🙂 Even my sister, who loves ALL things Star Wars, admits the special was pretty bad. As to the movies, the original three, numbered 4, 5, and 6 because they are the middle of the story, are the best of the bunch. The next three-1, 2, and 3 because they are the beginning-aren’t great. For one thing, they have the child Anakin, who is a whiny git, and secondly there is Jar Jar Binks. Enough said about him. The new movie, The Force Awaken (7), is worth seeing, and not only for the new ‘droid, BB8. Unfortunately we do have a new whiny git, Kylo Ren.
Thanks, Jean dear. I’ve read that Harrison Ford does a creditable job of acting in the last one.
JJ,Mark & Ghost:
Congratulations on hitting the nail squarely on the head. All three of you are indeed philosophers and gentlemen. Thanks for your comments. They are right on the mark.
God bless us every one.
well said Jimmy
Awkward questions time. Jimmy, what happened to comiccon appearances? Or personal appeatances? I would love to meet you and buy more tee shirts.
Also, what happened to the auction of strips you mentioned? Of course I need to locate my last one and haul to frame shop but still?
Awkward question and answer, I am the kind of friend who really will have your back if you need someone to bury a body, catch cats, build a boat or just make you laugh. Friends for real, the old fashion kinds.
Jean, I would agree with your assessment of Episodes 1,2 and 3 in the Star Wars franchise overall, but I would say that in Episode 1, The Phantom Menace, there is a HUGE positive in the form of Darth Maul… a terrifying-looking Sith with a double-bladed light saber who provided the best fighting scenes in the franchise. And since he hardly said anything, he was most definitely not whiny. 🙂
He is still so popular that a group of fans just released an AMAZING short film chock-full of Darth Maul being evil with said light saber entitled, “Darth Maul-Apprentice.” Production values are simply stunning and the action is quite intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djo_91jN3Pk Probably not your cup of tea if you are a fan of happy endings for Jedi-types…
Speaking of old jobs that have disappeared, even if it was “high tech”:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/12/30
One of my favorite strips, probably because I was on our company’s Y2K compliance team and realized early into the project that the “problem” was really a bunch of nonsense.
Jackie: “A good friend will help you move; a great friend will help you move a body.”
BtWW: Another way one could put the Y2K problem into prospective is the same as for many “problems” requiring expensive “fixes”…follow the money.
Wait! This is 2016, no one any longer has a real position, we are all working gigs. Truth, twenty years ago I was just stringing together various tech jobs.
Both m and f house sparrows hopping around edge of nest. ‘Explorer’ URLs won’t cc. here. Search ‘Decorah-eagles-north-nest.’ ‘Little Bit’ seems to be gone. Peace,
It’s Limerick Day!
Here’s the text from the reverse of my Shakespearean Insult-a-Day Calendar:
Bizarre Holiday: Limerick Day
Edward Lear popularized the limerick in his “Book of Nonsense” in 1846. … Make someone chuckle (or blush) by writing a limerick of your own.
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I once tried to write a limerick
But was better off whittling a stick
Cause Jimmy’s the king
Of this writing thing
While I am just thick as a brick.
Some things are worth doing, no matter how long it takes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579731/First-World-War-soldier-branded-coward-exonerated-hero-100-years-thanks-great-niece-s-dogged-sleuthing.html
h/t Hognose
I am planning to write in my own name for President. I have basically voted (or wanted to vote pre-18) a straight ticket in every election, but this year I thought I would vote for the lessor if two evils and concluded BOTH are evil. Subject to change.
Steve, vote for the least evil. Debbe, it was a bit stormy in Indiana today, but at least we were only in the heavy rain for a short time north of Indianapolis. I only saw one chicken house today and it was way back off the road and we were never in sw Indiana. Tonight we are in Amish Acres. I don’t think that we’ve seen any real Amish except a few buggies from a distance. I think that mostly we’ve seen partly Amish, kind of Amish-ish. Later.
Hint: Always chose the lesser of the two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=440l8poSQiA
Debbe 😉 Need I say more, hon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrlyX6XbTU
from TDS
A weed is just a missed placed flower –
Corn is a weed in a bean field.
GM Debbe
What it boils down to is voting for the cleaner of two dirty shirts.
Good morning Villagers….
Ya’ll have a blessed day.
GR 😉 trolling 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eByMZJ9ueA
I always enjoy the thirteenth when it falls on a Friday.