OK, this one is a bit out of sequence. It first ran in 2003, immediately following the strip I showed you two posts back. I like this particular strip, however, and I’m returning to it regardless. The original of this A&J hangs in the home of a friend, who experienced his own share of hallucinations back in the day. It hangs in his bathroom, actually. I have noticed that often is where my originals end up.
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Mark: Seems entertainers die younger, on average, than others. Tobacco? Booze? Maybe others. Composers used to, often courtesy of syphilis, I think. Peace,
JJ – your originals in the bathroom, never! One of your originals is hanging in our downstairs hallway.
Yes, ENB, I agree that many of the artists are victims of excess and in some cases, it is a wonder that they make it to their 60’s or 70’s. 36 years ago John Lennon was shot to death, but many of the other artists that died too soon were either a result of drugs/booze or a few died in airplane crashes, which they were more apt to take private planes in order to get to the next gig. Of course I have no statistics to back this up, but it seems more smaller planes crash than commercial airlines.
R.A., my deepest condolences for your loss. Many years bring us good things; 2016 seems to continue to take away good things.
Ah, Swedish meatballs. My late husband continued to like those served as an entree but I seldom cooked them, can’t remember last I made. He also liked one called porcupine meatballs I may have made occasionally.
Remember the sweet and sour meatballs on a toothpick? I have a pound of ground round I need to use up. I think I will make some meatballs. Thanks Jimmy.
You are going in kitchen in a row. You’d like my kitchen. I saw one of your strips in a restaurant I like, a small charming one the kids would like to own.
Lutefisk is interesting, and I eat it 3x / yr., but it’s the Swedish meatballs I take seconds on. Also, of course love the rutabaga and lefse, especially if there’s cranberry sauce for the lefse.
As to hate, I expect the rioting would have been similar or worse if the other candidate had won, so that at least cancels out. Who spewed the most hate, and was backed by which sects spew the most hate? Peace, one would hope.
Mindy, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I’m so sorry for your uncle’s passing. As Ghost noted above, this has truly been a year with more shadows than light.
TruckerRon, thank you for that link to Eleanor Roosevelt’s radio address on December 7 of ’41. I had never heard it, either, and found it moving in it’s message of acceptance and strength.
Lady Mindy, my deepest condolences to you also for your loss. I was out of pocket yesterday, and I missed your post on my first quick catch-up pass through the comments on a tiny phone screen.
Then, of course, there are always the exceptions that prove the rule.
http://s1.lemde.fr/image/2013/07/11/534×0/3446604_7_703a_keith-richards-et-mick-jagger-a-la-une-du_e9a027d80d3e27be733398eaa7a91e48.jpg
Since Ghost is back, I will inject some holiday cheer here.
My ongoing pet peeve about lingerie, Victoria Secret and now Heidi Krum bra lines do not have a single bra I can wear. I get sale promotions, go to website and no joy. Nothing in my size.
Good news is I have found two women’s lingerie lines that have in store and online shopping that fit. Both lines go only to 40DDD or 42DDD usually but that works.
And exactly why would anyone requiring that size want a bra that guarantees you will be two sizes bigger? And why would they add padding to said lingerie items?
Hope this brightened your lunch hour Ghost.
emb, perhaps we can get peace if the disaffected will quit stirring the pot and publishing inflammatory material based on feelings rather than facts.
Well, at least Greg Lake almost made it to age 70.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/12/08/greg-lake-emerson-lake-and-palmer-dies-at-age-69.html
Jackie, if you book that face lift you were apparently considering awhile back, perhaps you could look into a breast reduction procedure as well. Of course, I realize that may be an extreme solution for the problem of finding bras that fit you.
One of my lady friends had that done a few years back, and she was very pleased with the results. And I couldn’t complain about them, either. 😉
My lunch hour could certainly use some cheering up. Just got off phone with my cousin who is one of my guardians. He says Allstate has screwed up on my truck, have done nothing. What they are telling him isn’t what they told me.
Yet to even get a form letter from Allstate. I have to call them and try to get it in shop.
Jackie, you might try reporting you concern to Allstate at 1-877-810-2920. (And have you set up access to Allstate’s “My Account” site?)
Or you might just want to cut to the chase:
https://www.ok.gov/oid/Consumers/Consumer_Assistance/File_a_Complaint.html
Saddened to hear about Greg Lake’s passing but even more shocked to discover that Keith Everson died by his own hand this past March. 2016 certainly had not been a goo year for the giants of Rock.
Blinky, what makes Emerson’s passing even more tragic is that, according to his girlfriend, he did it out of despair because his skills had declined to the point that people were trolling him about it on the internet. He had gotten nerve damage through his playing style and was having trouble playing up to his previous levels and some people were starting to complain that he didn’t sound like his old self.
At risk of censure:
TruckerRon, I laud and applaud your efforts at reality. The problem I continuously fail to resolve is the response received. Pointing out hypocrisy tends to blind the subject further, entrenching them deeper in their position; enlightenment, if it ever comes, comes too late for the current interaction.
Yet the solution I’ve been told to implement, just let them vent, they want to be heard, does nothing to counter beliefs that are actually destructive to the community that includes the vent-or.
There must be a balance point. It continues to elude me. It is a pattern observed in childhood (receiving instruction), dating, employment that becomes unemployment, parenting (giving the instruction), marriage that becomes divorce, medical interactions, end-of-life concerns. Really, all facets of life experience.
Experiencing it is often confusing and painful. Observing it remotely does not lessen the feeling.
further on, read after above:
emb feels the need to claim,” well, yeah, but.. but.. YOUR SIDE WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE!” I realize the fallacy of putting words into someone’s mouth. But that really is how it appears.
Mark, you found better words than I, also, well done.
To our other theme, I will not miss 2016. Sincerely looking forward to new experiences next year. The fact that a sheet of paper turning over allows us the construct of ‘last year’ can be wonderfully freeing.
Today’s TIP comic: http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/ The title is actually “Home bright hearth light.” The artist is as good as her much better known and better paid male contemporaries, and, not a surprise, was active in suffrage work and schooling female artists. Today’s TIP BlogSpot, same as yesterday’s, is gross. Back shortly.
huh, ‘to read’ the imperative
and, ‘had read’ the explanation of past behavior
read exactly the same when in a hurry.
I meant I posted before reading further. I’ll try to be more careful.
Morphy, I saw a funny tee shirt. “You are entitled to your opinion. I can’t force you to be right.”
Think a lot of us could wear that tee.
On balance, I’ve found my sense of humor doesn’t match ‘That is Priceless’. Rediscovering art is great, but the comic interpretations can be offensive.
Not calling for censorship or worse, just stopped looking at what I don’t appreciate
Jackie, I like it. Especially because it comes in sizes to fit both emb and I!
John H. Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016)
“Godspeed, John Glenn.”
emb and me.
fingers faster than brain