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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My problem with Sirius is I change stations constantly because I seldom like the next song after the one I DID like. It reminds me of my youth, dialing up the next station except faster and easier.
Up eating diabetic shake and no sugar or artificial sweetener oatmeal. Insulin, iced tea and meds. Going back to bed. Seen no sign of the hired hands.
Stellar’s sea lions? Close expl ore. Peace,
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Steve in Royal Oak, MI: maybe one of these will work for you. https://foursquare.com/top-places/atlanta/best-places-country-fried-steak
I don’t trust Cracker Barrel except in Tennessee. The one here in town would put the chain out of business if they set the tone for the rest.
Cracker barrels tend to overall be pretty awful. I agree with Mark. I have no idea why I was in a Texas Road House but was and heard waitress tell customer not to order the chicken fried steak because it was the item most complained about! Ironic.
Blackened Peas used to do go CF but chain is gone I think.
Good CF.
That’s the kind of food that’s better ordered at small family restaurants or non-chain places. They don’t use pre-made cuts of meat that is already battered, but make it fresh. Good one around here is called Blue Plate Diner. One owner, 3 restaurants in the state. Maybe I should run Jackie by there the next time she’s in town.
Right! That’s the kind of support I need to eat healthy! A meat and three family owned restaurant that is no doubt delicious, grandma food with lemon icebox pie for dessert.
I just had 15 grain bread toast with canola oil butter and sugar free apricot peach jam for lunch. Even cat didn’t like but I thought it was fine, I put away another bag of food and drink left over from travels.
It is cold outside. I am heading for jeans and a sweater if I can find. Guys say top of one of my oaks snapped off about forty feet up.
They have lots of vegetables and you can get an all vegetable plate if you like.
Here’s the menu: http://www.blueplaterestaurant.com/menu/
And they have varying daily specials.
Steve, ditto re SiriusXM. I haven’t had it long enough to decide for sure, but I normally won’t be in Bullet long enough at a time to get the full benefit of it. Also, what Jackie said about the song rotation. Also, I find the DJs can be a bit annoying. (I guess I was expecting more music and less gum-beating.) Also, like cable TV, if I subscribe to 80 music channels, I’ll likely end up listening to about a half dozen of them. Add to that the many other music options I have available on my smart phone which can be patched into Bullet’s audio system, and I’m a bit ambivalent. (About SiriusXM, not my sexuality, I hasten to add. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 🙂 )
Jackie, when you mentioned Oakley sunglasses recently, I mentioned I wore Wiley X Valor ballistic glasses. (Oakleys are great glasses but, I feel, a little pricey when compared to the WXs.)
In the fun and excitement of adopting Bullet and getting ready for my trip, I managed to lose mine. When I returned, I searched enough to conclude they were truly gone, and that very night I got an email ad from a purveyor of outdoor and tactical porn equipment…for a pair of black-frame, polarized grey lens Oakleys, at less than half the retail price. So guess who is expecting delivery sometime today of a pair of new sunglasses. This Ghost.
I’m also expecting delivery today of a good quality floor mat for Bullet’s cargo rear area. I swear, it’s just a matter of time until a UPS truck and a FedEx truck have a collision in my driveway.
You can do what I did and take out a post office box downtown and everything gets sent there. I need to get dressed and go downtown and pick up a month’s worth of packages and mail. Take them some cookies, I know how to be sweet. It’s bred into us.
Oakleys, black tee shirts, graying beard. Add a kilt and an eye patch and you’d be my ideal Mystery Man, especially with a holster somewhere. I’d probably bid any amount on that, especially with bike leathers. A one man fantasy trip.
Tactical shades and an eye patch…that’s a look I never considered. 🙂
Eye patch, huh?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2a/30/fa/2a30fa3770feb2d8c404a9ca70f8cf57.jpg
This fits the description better, Ghost: http://theredlist.com/media/database/films/cinema/1990/escape-from-new-york/014-escape-from-new-york-theredlist.jpg
Same person, same character, better movie.
Pretty close Mark. Not necessarily all at one time of course. I used to be huge fan of Brenda Starr Girl Reporter and her Mystery Man who wore a beard and an eye patch.
Little more sophisticated than Kurt Russell but Kurt’s not shabby except his ripped up clothes in some roles.
Found the Brenda Starr movie, Brooke Shields was Brenda and Timothy Dalton was Mystery Man. I tried to post here. Can’t seem to do it. Mark find one of Brooklyn in low cut dress with Timothy please.
Basil St. John was Mystery Man, bred black orchids and engaged in international espionage. I can’t seem to copy anything to post.
Found my Spyderco knives finally by beginning get to unpack suitcases. Glen loved his. Got two of three delivered.
Is Tenacious black blade?
Wow, Jackie! Brenda Starr and Basil St. John—that brings back memories!
Me too. Great fantasy comic for girls like me. Still looking for Mystery Man.
Dyes my hair the color and style of Brenda’s once in college. I kid you not. I always wanted to be the Girl Reporter, probably why I began writing for newspapers.
Try this one, Jackie: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/42Hm8w0OEnk/0.jpg
For some reason there were only relatively small images available.
Good one Mark. Although the Auburn hair isn’t clear in photo. Timothy Dalton has probably played a role in a kilt already.
Dont know about a kilt, but here he is as he appears in a current Victorian-era tv series: http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5126/63/16×9/960.jpg
Oh yeah, add an eye patch to that Timothy Dalton with gray beard and hair and you have a winner. In a kilt a double winner. Better than Sean Connery.
Eye candy definitely. I never watched zjames Bond for the female pulcritude.
I never really understood how this guy was supposed to sell shirts. Especially ugly shirts.
http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/magads2/mas1850.jpg
Perhaps that’s just me. Most of my long-sleeve dress shirts are white. If I want to go a little crazy, I wear a light blue one.
This (left) is a look I could get behind.
http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/265304/265304_full.jpg