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‘Oft Go Awry’

By Jimmy Johnson

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I’m working on the new book, tentatively entitled “Arlo & Janis after Dark,” and here I am giving away the merchandise. Yes, production of the new book is behind schedule, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. And yes, it’s mostly old material, but if you’re worried that you’ve seen a lot of it already, think how I feel.

Buy the new book, "Beaucoup Arlo & Janis!"Today's "Arlo & Janis!"

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387 responses to “‘Oft Go Awry’”

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Morphy, I can’t claim first run reading either. I didn’t start reading on my own until I was between 3 and 4, I think. My memory of these things probably dates from around 1959 upwards, and all I can say is that I was reading the comics. I had several of the later collections I bought during my time in the Navy, though, and developed an even greater liking for many comic artists during that period.

  2. Jacqueline Monies Avatar
    Jacqueline Monies

    I am going to call Debbe and talk to her and if ok with Debbe I will post here for her. I know it won’t be the same but could you settle for me?

    Also I kept my food intake to around 1200 or less calories today. Had a weak moment and reached for an open can of pralines mixed nuts. A Ghostly hand hit mine and flung the entire can onto floor upside down and open. I was saved. Swept them up and threw in garbage. Now who did that?

  3. Jacqueline Monies Avatar
    Jacqueline Monies

    I started reading Pogo around 1949-50 when I was five or six. Don’t think I got the jokes until I was much older. In college Pogo was much read, like Bloom County is loved now. By then we got the satire and jokes.

  4. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    Didn’t Pogo run into the mid 70’s? My family didn’t rate it as children’s fare like Peanuts. But I thought it was still around.

  5. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    Sorry, realized this magic machine could give the answer.

  6. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    I might have known Walla Walla and Kalamazoo was supposed to be funny, without the geography lesson. Looney tunes and Bugs Bunny used the same humor.

  7. emb Avatar

    Hippos coming back into the river after a night’s grazing/browsing.

    http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera

    Peace,

  8. Jacqueline Monies Avatar
    Jacqueline Monies

    Pogo ended in 1970s. I think 73 or 75.

  9. emb Avatar

    Wikipedia:

    Kelly died in 1973 in Woodland Hills, California, from diabetes complications, following a long and debilitating illness that had cost him a leg. During his final illness, work on the strip had fallen to various assistants (and occasionally reprints), and Kelly characteristically joked about returning to work as soon as he regrew the leg. He is sometimes listed as having been interred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn, New York, but there is no grave for him there. He is believed to have been cremated.[10]

    Pax,

  10. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    If you can give us Debbe news, that will be great, Jacquie. And thanks to all of you for the Deck Us All With Boston Charlie memories. I just put your link up on FB, Jacquie.

  11. Jacqueline Monies Avatar
    Jacqueline Monies

    Tomorrow I have to get someone to look at why dash lights for anti-skid/stability and ABS brakes came on and won’t go away. Other than that I have to coordinate about 10 days of warm clothes for Illinois.

    And pack some healthy food stuff to take along. My daughter has never been good at providing healthy. She also said to bring Jack’s gifts in sealed boxes or black garbage bags.

  12. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    Hi all, refreshed again before rest.

    emb, do you know anon’s three word reference from earlier? I’d caught your Order of the Garter motto some time back, but don’t get this one.

    Thought it might have to do with today’s electoral developments because of timing. Can’t quite decide if Romam is the city of Rome as a unit, or people of Rome as a body, or if it’s a distinction without a difference. Couldn’t recall it from Shakespeare. Not a lot of experience in Italian opera. Not even enough to say it has much Latin in it.

    Didn’t plan on staying up so may catch answer tomorrow.

  13.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    As Rome went, so we follow.

  14. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Don’t think I am getting up this early! Having nightmares again and only Dickens.

  15. Steve from Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    So we are starting the shortest day of the year…which might get even shorter if Jimmy doesn’t post anything today!

  16. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    It is an hour later Steve and Brigadoon is still here. Jimmy, wake up! The magic is fading. And I am going back to sleep.

    Don’t you hate it whn people call before 8 a.m.?

  17. Steve from Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    ELO is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! A personal favorite LONG overdue.

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