I missed yesterday, so here are the next two comics from the 1996 Thanksgiving series. In my mind, this series is significant, because it represents a departure from my previous writing and humor. The top strip, an allusion to a scene from the movie “Jaws,” and even the silliness of the next strip were outside the norm for the body of Arlo & Janis that had gone before. Until about this time, A&J mostly had been an unvarnished “slice of life” strip, concerned with the literal if hopefully humorous doings of a young family. About this time, I occasionally became more whimisical and absurd with the writing and have continued to this day. While still a “slice of life” strip (That’s what they’re called in the trade.), I like to think such stretching of the boundaries helps to set A&J apart a bit.
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GR 😉 I never could either…..talk about seventies….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRVSSwJYqh0
Jackie, thought of you when I saw this one 🙂
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http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/composers-datebook/episodes
Saw ‘Fantasia’ probably in 1941, I believe at the Radio City Music Hall, Rockettes and all. Hooked me on classical. I was 11. Within a few years, WQXR, ‘The radio station of the New York Times’ reeled me in. [Rockettes is now in this blog’s dictionary. WQXR already was or it’s programmed to recognize W and K radio stations.]
That website looks like it will do a new topic after today, F 13 Nov., but it may allow backtracking.
Peace, emb
Thanksgiving does bring out this sort of behavior in people.
Trucker, my Mom made the fudge recipe that’s on the can of Hershey’s cocoa. It was delicious, but always just slightly grainy. My sister and I agreed that we don’t really enjoy perfectly smooth fudge because of Mom’s grainy fudge. The one time it turned out smooth my Uncle Bill told her that he and my Dad had poured beer in it when she left the kitchen for a minute to see what I (a toddler at the time) was doing. Knowing those two they might have.
I was reading Facebook before I came here today and LOVED the pictures, Anonie! And I totally recognized the smile from more current pictures. Of course I loved the Texas big hair!!!!