John Hambrock is a fellow cartoonist who creates The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. I checked in on John’s site this morning, and he was doing some bragging in his blog. His fine comic strip launched in November of 2006, which led John to calculate that he has drawn over 3,000 daily and Sunday strips that, if laid end to end, would equal the height of three Sears Towers stacked on top of one another (about 4,500 ft.). Well, John’s calculations led me to some of my own. I have drawn over 10,700 A&J strips since 1985, not accounting for leap years, which if laid end to end would extend for 2.5 miles and closely resemble my office floor. Hey, Junior! Come back in a few years, and we’ll talk some more! I must say, I do admire the way he has copies of all his strips arranged in ring binders. And if you read John’s bio, you’ll learn he spent years developing his characters before Brilliant Mind was launched by King Features Syndicate. As evidenced by the above cartoon from the first month of A&J, it wouldn’t have hurt if I’d done a little of that.
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100 years ago today the first transcontinental phone call was made. Participants included: President Wilson, Alexander Graham Bell, and Mr. Watson. Will the wonders ever cease?
Debbe, you know I thought I had seen “Risky Business” but obviously I had not. That is just incredible scene and music. And cruise, my favorite cruise.
Nice morning start.
Who being from Texas besides me remembers the chicken fried bacon they used to serve in the little country restaurant whose name escapes me that was north of Houston? Well, most of the little towns north of Houston are now IN Houston and had Dallas developed more to south than north the two towns would just meet out there on Interstate 45 somewhere.
Does anyone here do bacon in oven coated in ether maple syrup or brown sugar? That seemed to be on some trendy menus I saw on some of last trips we made. Not that I got to eat any.
Brown sugar. That has a nice sound to it after the cruise. Good morning Ghost wherever you are!
Love, Jackie
Sand, Siri has gotten you again. You have someone to blame other than your fingers and mind, I need to get one besides mine. See, that would confuse her no end!
Jackie, being a Googly one I naturally blame Siri/Apple. 😉 <emoji
Look what’s heading to Bawston……
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php
and I got my hug…..
Jackie…you’re welcome. Think I’ll go back to watch again…voyeurism 🙂
OF due 1521-1541 CST. Peace, emb
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Thought the Village was already snowed in, it is so quiet. Perhaps the other half of the country is having beautiful weather and they are out frolicking. I am listening to baroque music and wasting time, if baroque music can be considered a waste of time. It makes me find peace.
Baroque music brings me happiness and peace, too, Jackie. I’m glad it’s out there and we can listen as much as we want!
Near 70° here. Loon is doing spring garden cleanup. Cats are asleep. I am reading and composing thoughts on a current project. Harmony prevails in our some patch of the quilt work.
Do you like harpsichord also? I always wanted to learn to play one and Mike almost bought me one, he was going to build the wooden case for the keyboard. One of those impulses from when we are young! Wonder why baroque? I love all music but baroque is my go to music, all my life.
Around 60 F here in West Alabama, but tomorrow high predicted in upper 40’s with lows near freezing. I like roller coasters, but not in my weather forecast!
Ok…now I have to look up baroque…
Gal…remember the Bugs Bunny tune where he is fighting the bull….what a gullabull 🙂 Whant an ultramaroon….. 🙂
Baroque: in need of repair. Our car baroque down on vacation and had to be towed to the repair shop. 😉 At least they played soothing music in the waiting area, lots of Bach and Vivaldi.
Is there anybody out there?-Pink Floyd
More baroque music.
Sandcastler: That’s a good one, funny. (Wish they would play Bach and Vivaldi in waiting rooms!)
Jackie: Wouldn’t that be something, to have your husband build your very own harpsichord! You would have been good on the keyboard. I have no talent for playing an instrument but I do have a talent for listening! Harpsichord is okay but my real favorites are the woodwinds — I adore them; along with orchestral music. Mozart, Beethoven — Chris and I listened together all our married life, and now I listen and am reminded of him; it’s nice.
When we first came to N MN, in ’58, and on into the ’60s, I used to tell people that our January Thaw came in March. Actually, it was often in Feb. We’ve had at least two so far in ’15, and another is due later this week. 1 Feb. is next Sun.
While we’re on the subject of the great outdoors, here’s a different youtube, no doubt a minor local disturbance.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0
Peace, emb
Well, that was fun to wake up to! Watching a glacier calf while listening to baroque music and eating guacamole with pita chips while drinking a Diet Coke!
That would pretty much describe this group I think!
Jerry, I actually like Pink Floyd too although I tend to associate that with galactic and cosmic explosions, either man made or celestial.Like fireworks and the observatory shows. I have heard Fink Floyd played by symphonic orchestras, pretty impressively too.
The calving glaciers reminded me I have one group of friends/acquaintances heading for Alaska in man powered (no motors) sailing craft and another one sailing solo, same way, for Terra Del Fuego in smallest boat to ever sail around Cape Horn. Or at least that is what I am guessing.
Spell check thinks that is “fugue” so the cookies must follow us!
Love, Jackie
Jerry…just nod if you can hear me…..
I did not want to make light of the winter storm about to hit the east coast…..I pray all Villagers..will not be in harm’s way….
Miss Charlotte…are you under warnings?????
It’s that the whether channel on the boob 🙂 is drowning in this ‘epic’ storm…….they have already put Juno in in the top ten storms…..go figure….
By the way, was that a LARGE whale about 2 something into video?
thank you Sandcastler…….have you ever seen Lorraine?
enjoy Jackie……….and Jerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPxKq-gMDo
Miss Debbe, really great. What a collection of keyboards! Used to listen to Pink Floyd on the PBS/classical station in Houston who would play them endlessly without interruptions of commercials of course. Confession time, I consider their music both symphonic and operatic of our time. They are awesome musicians. Mike did not share my enthusiasm for Pink Floyd so he never wanted to listen to them except during fireworks displays out on the lake in our sailboat.
Finally the lightning storm is over. Thought we were headed for a tornado! it went from partly cloudy to 9pm dark in about 15 minutes this afternoon. And big difference in temperature behind it. Forecast was for it to happen tomorrow.
Jackie and Debbe: try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D62l3HXb4QQ
Jackie, fugue can be either a musical term or for loss of brain function. Don’t know why they use it for both.
Noreasters cuddle up. It’s going to be cold out there. If we have any chance of snowflakes it will not be until next weekend. The winter of ’92-’93 was the warmest ever until suddenly on March 15 it snowed all night and there was snow on the ground all the next day. Unfortunately I was newly divorced and living alone so there were no benefits to be enjoyed from our blizzard.