Has it been almost a week? Wow! Well, the door’s been unlocked and the shutters thrown open. Come on in. I’m a little tardy with it, but here’s the continuation of the “Sondra” strips I promised. Preparing this double-comic post, it occurred to me—not for the first time—that sometimes several consecutive days of Arlo and Janis involve an extended conversation or situation which, strung together, resembles something like a comic book.
209 responses to “Girlz II Women II”
I have seen claims on FB that certain tats are actually “brands” put on enslaved girls and women by their masters. Is that true?
And I’m not one who’s been impressed by tattoos in general. As the recipient ages the bright colors fade and blur… they end up with purple blotches. I don’t want to think about the effort it would take to keep them “pretty.”
And do folks with excessive piercings (say over 10) have any trouble with airport security?
Believe me, I have two pierced ears, one each ear! They were pierced when I was six or seven.
I even quit wearing earrings for a long time. I had decided they were tacky I think.
Actually dated a man with pierced nipples and Ghost had to explain it wasn’t an ethnic ritual as I had thought.
Ghost said yes on airport security for piercings. Of course lots of people have trouble with airport security even without piercings.
Ghost said he never used a tattoo or brand, he used a rubber stamp with fluorescent ink only visible under black Light.
And piercings can lead to nasty infections, sometimes involving the whole body in massive sepsis. No thanks. Some parts of the body are prone to infections anyway, and you want to put a piercing there? Are you nuts?
Speaking of airport security, when I got my heart bypass last year one of the nurses joked that now I would have to tell TSA I had metal implants now. When I looked at her funny, she told me about the wires they use to fasten your sternum so the bone will heal.
Another reason for guys not to sunbathe nude! http://www.foreignjournal.com/nude-sunbather-injured-townsville-eagle-mistakes-testicles-turtle-eggs/
No idea how the girl slipped out of the gondola, but heroes were on the scene:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=44778543&nid=157&title=man-catches-teen-falling-from-park-ride-its-ok-to-let-go
Good morning. I keep saying I need to sort my drawer full of leggings and jeggings every time I open it to put a pair on. Ghost and Dickens are still asleep and I don’t want to wake them.
Seems like an appropriate time to do so. They are appropriate attire for my knee and physical therapy. Well, as much as anything bought in the teenaged junior department at Wal-Mart can be when you are seventy three years old.
Never made any claims to be politically correct or age appropriate!
How are the two new dogs getting along, Jackie? Neither you nor Ghost has mentioned them lately.
Gypsy and Tramp are doing fine. We are taking them to Docs this week for more shots and have him check them. They are living out in dog yard with Charlie and Voodoo.
I am calling vet and groomer this morning for those ywo.
It’s quiet. Too quiet, kemasabe.
Nothing stirs in the jungle.
Must be that d–n wagon train went through a while ago. Need a hand up, Scout?
Cheers Jackie/Debbe for the set-up to the call back. Thought I’d toss a third reference into the mixed metaphor. Shaken not stirred. OK, four.
Jantze takes the easy way out. His characters only count to eight.
http://www.gocomics.com/the-norm-4-0
Here he points it out, then waves them around in front of you.
Morphy, that’s as bad as Harryhausen’s 5-armed octopus in “It Came From Beneath the Sea”. That was budget-driven, the same as old animation. Wonder what Jantze’s reason is?
Mark, respect for the Harryhausen reference. When stopmotion was state-of-art he was king. But Gosh, we’re pampered now aren’t we. I actually had to look him up to remember how long, far, and wide his influence went. And such a fun name to say. I’ve gotten so that most CGI is not perceptible anymore. But I wonder what my grandkids might think of it.
On Jantze, he’s more an idea guy than a realist in art. And fingers, hands, and ears are just haaaaaaaard, ya know? When you say it like that though, I’m not always the most astute. He really did go out of his way to showcase it didn’t he? Same thought didn’t really need to be drawn on the hand. Wait a minute, if Jantze is Italian, strong hand gestures while speaking would be a very normal thing. Hope that’s not Nationalist/Linguist prejudices sprouting out. Sounds Nordic though. There I go again, profiling.
Afterthought on read through, I may not know CGI when I see it. But the other way around, when a director decides to get a shot ‘live’ instead, those are starting to stand out. Kind of like that Jake Mosher website. How do those pictures look so more real than other pictures that are also real? And that is one kind of good art.
Please directors, keep using humans in your films.
Morphy:
Stop it! You’re killing me here!
You are doing the best imitation I’ve ever seen of Leonard’s mother.
Wait.
Don’t stop.
I’m enjoying your comments and laughing like mad.
Cohen? Help please. Mad, I get.
But I still don’t understand why, when my very first lines in response to you agreed with you. Before I offered that Ghost was in fact, joking. You may have noticed, the rest of us moved on. But I will continue. As long as you have a will for it.
Sorry, recognise my comment lacks frame as much as Rick’s does to me. I had just read a short article on Bono giving tribute to Leonard Cohen in concert last night. That is the frame I found Rick’s comment in.
It has been guessed at, that The Big Bang Theory is meant. In that case I’d say Rick began the internet based psychology session with the insult on filters. But leave to others to judge.
How’m I doinit now, Rick? Still good for ya?
Morphy, why would you get upset at a reference to your filters? We all have them. Some are learned as we grow and some are self-determined based on our experiences.
Being born during the early years of the tv age, I had the privilege to watch old horror movies on the tube as I was growing up. So at the top of my list of favorites are King Kong (Willis O’Brien version) and Ray Harryhausen’s works. I’m also heavily into Buster Keaton.
Morphy, I like the stop motion because it has a real 3 dimension effect I don’t really find in CGI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvD3X3RcK3Y
And here’s Ray discussing his work on Jason and the Argonauts, with the models and film clips : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1z7n3yoKs
Mark, yes, I had a similar point on everyone not only having, but requiring filters in the original response yesterday. So glad I did not include it. Fearful of whom I would be compared to then. I am not defensive on having filters, as I listed I feel mine are operating well. But they also work well enough to acknowledge the intention was insulting, from one who’s filters are temporarily not functioning as well.
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Real modeling gives images that CGI does not yet calculate well enough. Full scale, or ‘live’, even better. And Harryhausen was the go to guy. I find my senses are capable of being dazzled. That is the crutch of a few directors today. Story, scene, dialog are less important if you can mesmerize the eyes and blow their hair back with sound. And silicon works below scale.
What I mean is, I now rarely notice the memorex, until I hear Ella herself belt it out. If you catch the old ad slogan for a dead format.
Missed adding the Keaton comment. I was disapp, wait needs groundwork first. I was and try still to be a huge fan of so many styles of comedy from long before I was around. I have a strong feeling some of these greats may not have invented their styles, as much as been fortunate enough to be the first to have them immortalized on celluloid. For ever after all new comics had to invent a lesser form, or be labeled derivative. Unless you were good enough to be called a tribute.
For years I felt the us v. them of who ‘gets’ it and who thinks we’re all really weird for geeking on The Stooges. But I was disappointed some time ago when I would catch these offerings on a rare occasion at Turner Classic Movies. And it felt … tedious. I was ashamed. How could I be such a turncoat? I try to recapture from time to time, with various levels of success. But I feel like I dropped something, cannot find it, and now have a hard time describing it.
But you still gotta work real hard to beat an original copy of ‘Who’s on first…’