Note Arlo’s hands in the last two panels of the 2011 comic above. It is very easy, when drawing hands, to get it all backwards, especially when the hands are in dynamic positions. Because of this, I often sit at my drawing board and flail my arms about my head and back, envisioning where my fingers end up. It’s a very good thing cartooning is a solitary art. Well, spring as arrived, although it might come as a surprise to our friends in the Midwest and the Northeast. Spring arrived in parts of the South in typical fashion: accompanied by hail and tornadoes. I apologize for not posting much lately, but I hope you’ll take my word for it that it was an exceptionally busy winter around here. I’ve been pulled in many directions the past couple of months, and I don’t take that well. I’m a tunnel-vision kind of guy who focuses on one task to the detriment of others. And don’t we all have more than one task? Anyway, we’re not going out of business here, evidence to the contrary.
177 responses to “‘A little bird rolled me.’”
35 degrees F in Baja Tulsa (aka Broken Arrow) now, wind from north at 13 mph, feels like 26 degrees. Freeze warning for tonight. Spring may have arrived on the calendar, but not necessarily in OK and, I suspect, many other areas.
FWIW, it’s 80 degrees in my part of the Deep South.
Lovely use of an anagram, from Anu Garg’s weekly AWAD mail
“Some contend that those who spend their hard-earned money on Evian are naive.”
Peace,
Some things never change: https://me.me/i/cats-hstorey-walking-all-over-our-sh-for-4-000-years-20759124
Not merely an anagram, eMb, but also a palindrome.
Anyone else having difficulty getting into hotmail? I am getting messages which state that I am signed in as [correct address] but that I need to sign out and re-sign in using the address for “my organization’s email”. I have no such organization and only one hotmail address.
c x-p:
Your Hotmail problem helps me worry less about intelligent machines taking over. They are, however, a royal pain in the butt.
Peace,
I googled the terms 2018, hotmail, problem – all three – and found that this is a widespread problem of which the company is aware. There are several thousand complaints listed in some of the google hits.
emb:
At least seven years ago, I switched from Yahoo mail to Microsoft’s free version of Outlook, the program they designed to replace Hotmail.
I have never had one problem with it. Outlook might work well for you, too.
Herd of zebra [Grevy, I think], afternoon rain. River has been high for a fortnight.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Peace,
Bottom of this is blanked out, no? First instance of Pib having gone too far. Peace?
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2018/04/02
Contested MT nestsite now snow-covered, no obvious footprints. We’ll see.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
Peace,
Judy,
What I’ve heard is that chicken-fried steak descends from the breaded and fried schnitzel of German immigrants in the 1800’s. The availability of beef rather than the more common (in Germany) pork yielded our current chicken-fried steak!
David: Sounds reasonable.
Now 2 eggs in the GSB nestbox. First has been incubated some for 3 days; don’t know when the 2nd was laid, because there was always an adult incubating.
https://explore.org/livecams/falcons/peregrine-falcon-cam
Worked out, now lunch & nap.
Peace,
That can’t be a palindrome, cep, because it doesn’t start and end with the same letter.
“Evian + naïve” = a palindrome, but that “are” queers the do. Peace,
emb: The Pibgorn has been fixed.
And as for Evian…
https://hugelolcdn.com/i/177304.jpg
emb
Your link showed the bottom of page. I too had problem earlier –
I just looked at Pib Skeches.
Mom & Grandmother used “pill’ and they were NYCers
2 inches Sat
The Easter Bonnets around here are stocking hats.
6 to 8 inches snow by Wed. Morning
Ghost was that first line of 10:28 03/31 a deliberate PUN?
Had a friend that was saved because back of helmet slid on road not his head.
David – I ate some shnitzel in Fredricksburg, TX (an area of TX heavily settled with Germans) while my husband and I were visiting, and really loved it. Now that you mention it, I see the similarity to chicken-fried steak.
Old Bear – headgear can be very helpful! When my son was 12, he had a bike accident in which he incurred a broken arm ( just one bone, near the wrist, not displaced). He healed quickly from that injury but it could have been a lot worse. He was wearing a baseball-style cap, which slid down over his face and ended up protecting most of his face from its sliding contact with the concrete. The bill of the cap was almost torn off, but he only got a few scrapes on his cheek and chin. I was very grateful!
I see we only have one more day of comments before the 2 week limit is hit. I wonder if JJ has an alarm set on his phone to warn him of impending lock-up?
My oldest girl lost control of her bike going through a concrete tunnel on the local bike path under a road about 28 years ago. Her helmet cracked, not her head.
There is some legitimate debate regarding helmets’ effectiveness for adults given that drivers often steer closer to bicyclists wearing helmets… it’s supposed to be an unconscious response to perceived safety.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-helmets-attract-cars-to-cyclists/
The NIH disagrees, but what do they know?
Well, alright then!
https://news.usni.org/2018/03/30/always-1700-somewhere-secnav-spencer-presents-navys-top-civilian-award-jimmy-buffett
Where’s Jimmy? It’s been two weeks!???
Send more Chuck Berry!
https://techstartups.com/2018/03/22/nasa-receives-response-from-voyager-1-spacecraft-13-billion-miles-away-after-37-years-of-inactivity/
Send more Pink Floyd!
Send this:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bizet+carmen+habanera&qpvt=bizet+carmen+habanera&view=detail&mid=7EAE08573151B791CE777EAE08573151B791CE77&&FORM=VRDGAR
Peace,
Or this:
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2018/04/02
SHB tomorrow; bedtime.
Peace,
Jerry:
Jimmy’s not needed. As long as the comments don’t fill up, we can just keep talking.