With this rare Friday post, we’re already a quarter of the way through the “Harvey” sequence, and, if I may say so, the best is yet to come. I’ve been playing around with some tee shirt designs that I hope will be out “just in time for Christmas.” I’ve been saying I was going to do that for 25 years. Maybe finally. I’ve been wracking my brain about what you’d like. Then it occurred to me: I’ll just ask. That is the way we do things around here. Any suggestions? (Sorry, no guarantees!) There’ll be a lot more said about this in the near future.
Hardly Harvey, cont.
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249 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”
Oops, tripped up by the 4 and 9. “MY fault?!” is actually 4/28/04, not 4/28/09. Sorry.
This has nothing to do with the t-shirt conversation, and very little to do with anything else, but for those who go watch Old Faithful erupt, did you know that this was close by?
http://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/29/wyomings-mysterious-smith-mansion
Don’t forget to watch the video at the bottom of the article. It’s really cool!
Sorry to butt in again, but I would be seriously remiss if I did not include a strip that absolutely makes me marvel at Jimmy’s ability to script Janis so accurately; again, you could get by with just the last two frames:
6/9/06 Except that one time
A special hat tip to Brother Johnson for that gem.
I guess my archive isn’t working. I clicked on “April 2009” and got 4-30-09 and no way to move backward. Still, that one seems pretty a propos
First snowflakes of the season in the Chicago area.
Got up late, and no snow on the ground. Low of 33F wasn’t enough. Precip. unlikely today, predicted low 32.
The car logo is wonderful for us, but we know A&J overall. To a stranger, here’s this cool dude and his flivver, and that’s probably his girlfriend with her back to us. And the shades are no substitute for JJ’s eyes. We do want others to see our tees, no?
A&J are a couple and she should get equal billing. ‘The Kiss’ is splendid, and the savvy will get the allusion, even if they don’t know Janis or Arlo.
Peace, emb.
I should check the geyser.
That was neat. Thanks, Jean!
I’m not sure how a whole strip would work on a shirt, but if it did, surely the one of Arlo reading t-shirts would be absolutely perfect.
In my experience, getting a whole strip on a tee gives men an excuse to stare at your chest. I bought a “Mother Goose and Grimm” tee back when I was in high school, and the experience was not pleasant. I got a lot of half-witty comments. Even my “Han Shot First” tee had some effect like this, but the comments were much nicer. I would go for a single panel, like “Bop Till You Drop” or the car masthead, but not “The Kiss” or a two or three panel strip. In size XS only. I have had some bad experiences with size small, and they ended up as dustrags.
Granny Carol, what you wrote about why we love A&J is so right!
“…gives men an excuse to stare at your chest.” Hahahahahahaha!
Sorry, Munchkin; I couldn’t resist. 🙂
I meant it was funny that men needed an excuse for staring, not that there would be anything funny about staring at your chest.
OK, I’ll stop digging this hole any deeper.
Don’t worry, Ghost, I took it in both senses 😛
The green beans are prolific, mama brought in a big basketful.
The squash are blooming madly but not much squash. The squash gods are angry!
I need to cook green beans and a lot of greens tonight to make room for refrigerated stuff for the boat meals. Even though we are having catered, I still have to do stuff.
By the way, Dollar General has better prices than both Walmart and Sam’s Club, so I support my local small market a mile down the road and my two local grocery stores who are small independent chains. All have better prices than Wally World. Isn’t that interesting.
I am a locavore for sure. Spell check doesn’t know what I am either.
Love, Jackie
if jimmy can get permission from jimmy buffett, how about the car logo with caption : “Wasting away in Arlo and Janisville”
I vote for the car-toon. Airliner with possible ebola on board at Newark airport. Don’t panic. We have everything under control.
Jackie: Me, I go to Brookshire’s and we get veggies from our local truck farmer. We have a “Walmart List” that is a permanent fixture on our household bulletin board {which is not corkboard but Bulldog clamps attached to bolts and was started for Carson (My Adopted Twin Brother) and Will (The Boy In My Life) to display their artwork}. Other things there: Will’s report card for last six weeks if it was bad, household chores regular and special assigned, cartoons that somebody thought was funny, the menu for that night and the next night and coupons.
Poetry excerpt of the day:
“Yon rising Moon that looks for us again–
How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden–and for one in vain!
And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass
Among the Guests Star-scatter’d on the Grass,
And in your joyous errand reach the spot
Where I made One–turn down an empty Glass! ”
-The Rubaiyat
By Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Lily, New Orleans ruined me for Paradise with a fresh fruit and veggie truck who came to my house three times a week to deliver.
My diapers and laundry were picked up and delivered. My dairy products and milks came daily in real glass if I wanted. My meats came from a real butcher who delivered, along with wines and cheeses delivered.
Only cleaning products and canned goods were not delivered and I usually drove out of Garden District once a month to a supermarket out in lakefront area to stock up.
Don’t know if you can get that now in N.O. or not. I forgot about bread but yeah, that fresh too.
I like my small town markets, everyone knows me by name, they help me out to car/truck/load/bag get me stuff special if I ask. Their prices are competitive and believe me, I know if they are competitive or not. All my family members either worked for supermarkets, both daughters, or sold to them, me, Mike and my daughters, as salesmen. We sold chains and we sold indie’s but I like the indie’s and local people far, far better.
It is just they are easier to shop and more personal, they actually care.
Love, Jackie
Our truck gardener cares. He brings me pretty things nobody else will buy like purple carrots and baby eggplants and lettuces. His name ends in -moto, so I call him “Mr. Moto.” He always grins, puts his hands together and bows to me when I say that!
Besides Brookshire’s (which is locally owned, based in Tyler, my old stomping ground) is full of our patients and friends as employees, not to speak of customers, so it is fun going there. “Hi, Susie, how are you?” “Hi, Susie, how far did you run this week?” “I saw you at ‘The Silver Fox’ last weekend. You were dancing like a maniac”.
There used to be and may still be, a small grocery store from a small chain “Jerry’s” one town over. I never went there but went to a Farmer’s Market on the other side of the highway. I was buying some fruit there once and said something to the woman behind the counter and she said, darkly, “YOu ever go in there?” “Nope” “Well, don’t. They sell green meat.” 😀
Oh, my. The Mississippi Aggies has posted a rather convincing win over the Texas Aggies. I love SEC football.
My sister loved Dollar General. She called the one she shopped her “Country Galleria.” I use DG for pretty much anything other than groceries and fresh produce. When our local Farmer’s Market isn’t operating, there is a good standalone “produce stand” not far away, owned by a friend’s mom. No small locally-owned food markets here anymore (although there used to be some good ones, back in the day when A&P and Delchamps were the only chain stores in town), so I shop Kroger for groceries, based on a combination of price, selection and convenience. They suit my needs.
Well, Lily, at least it was just “green” meat and not the “rainbow” meat.
OF 323-343 [= now]:
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
OK, if I have not admitted it before I will now. When I was in floral wholesale/supplies/Christmas/Silk flowers I sold them all, including Brookshires and all the Texas chains and all the southern ones and a lot of the Yankees as well! I was honored to have attended the Cornell University’s conference on national supermarkets and didn’t sell a thing you could eat or that lived!
I will seldom say anything bad about a grocery company, they have paid a lot of bills for Mike and I since 1970 when we began to sell to them. So have gourmet shops, wine and cheese shops, Christmas stores and a host of others.
But I personally like small town stores because if we do not support them, soon we will have nothing but empty streets which we already have in many small towns.
Ghost, Dollar General has added full small groceries in some states, I have seen them, produce, frozen, fresh, canned, entire lines. My new one out here does not have the produce but has everything else including same national brands as a chain grocer and competitive with anyone.
I know they are no longer southern owned but I still consider them as such.
Love, Jackie
Husband is in having fits over SEC football I guess. They were talking about Johnny Manziel, so probably Texas A and M. He is on Oklahoma now and not cursing?