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.
434 responses to “A Long Long Time Ago”
In memory of Edgar Froese, from the first album of Tangerine Dream I ever heard/bought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8VsvJ40sM
Debbe,
Refer ye to the region in France? Yes.
Debbe, check out the video here. Early Pink Floyd: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/pink_floyds_earliest_post-syd_barrett_tv_appearance_1968
Enjoying the Pink Floyd, all.
Jackie: “LARGE whale”? Don’t think so. 1. Whales would probably swim away to avoid ice behaving like that. 2. I think that was bigger than any whale at what I presume was the scale of things out there. 3. I watched twice and concluded it was a large, rounded mass of clear [and therefore black] ice that had formed under special conditions of some sort, and later rounded off by water currents. It was the only piece of ice I saw of that sort. Good question. I know little / the mechanics of glacial ice formation and breakdown, but there’s a bit less Antarctic shelf ice now than there was earlier.
BTW, the verb is to calve, not to calf. I don’t know why, but it is. To calf, perhaps, is to give birth to a baby cow. For some reason, perhaps prudery of a sort, the expression in rural NY state [I learned this at the NY State Coll. of Agriculture at Cornell, from farm boy classmates] is “to freshen.” [I’ll do a search on that.]
Peace, emb
Close, but no cigar. Cows calve, so the ice sheet people have just borrowed the term. To freshen (of cows) = to commence giving milk after calving. One learns. emb
Only watched once but saw that big black “Thing” in water which looked like no ice I’d ever seen. We have black ice on highways in Oklahoma where all the cars and trucks spin out. Did not know black ice would form in oceans like that.
Learn many things here daily, one of reasons I love the Village.
I bet the farm boys used it because women freshened also in the “old days”. I knew that one but didn’t say so, although it has been 50 years since I heard that one! I did not learn much about dairy cattle by choice. Milking hours came early.
I appreciate the good thoughts you guys are sending. A huge blizzard is heading toward us in New England, and what I’m reading about it is scary! It will hit some time Monday night and can bring high winds and lots of snow. I don’t watch the TV weather, don’t need the anxiety and excitement. I can read all about it on the Net.
It could be a three cat night tonight so I had better go see if there’s a spot left.
Personal reply to Jackie: I’m glad you discovered Mike’s cup and chain. Even though I’m sure it gave you a pang when you found it, I can promise you it will be more comforting later to have it. My sister was a great bargain shopper, and my place is full of small items and little nick-knacks she picked up on shopping expeditions and gave to me. Every one of them is a warm and treasured reminder that she was thinking of me in life, as I think of her in death.
I was, as they say, out of pocket today, having had to make a quick trip to Lower Alabama, and I have just returned. Even though they won’t have any snow there, the wind was hollowing and the temperature dropping at about sunset, a feature of the winter storm, I would imagine.
It’s beginning to seem that your taste in music is a least as catholic as mine. Remember, if it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it.
Who me? Catholic tastes? I was raised by that good Southern Baptist grandmother who drew the line at foot washing and snake handling but lots of Bible thumping and damnation. Now that has led to a dictionary of contradictory tastes and interesting life!
Glad you are back, Ghost. I did something I have never done tonight, I got curious enough to read about the Ghostrider reference in Top Gun and the fly by. Did not know about the Ghostrider bike connection and the comic books. Now that is interesting!
The trail began with Mark and Debbe and Tangerine Dreams clip from Risky Business which led to cruising Cruise and found that clip on youtube and then started reading on net. My my!
Love, Jackie
Jackie, did you make it to the song? This one is the version by Johnny Cash. I think the original song (Stan Jones, 1948) is the origin for all the modern usages of Ghostrider.
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/johnny_cash/ghost_riders_in_the_sky.html
I did know about the song and in fact was born long enough ago to have heard it when I was a kid but did not associate the song with the movie quote, with pilots or with our Ghost Rider 6.
Did see the video for the biker ghost rider and the movie and comics. Since Ghost has said he is a bike rider (or was) plus a pilot for military, it may be a reference to these and I am just not smart enough to have figured the connection. He has also mentioned gaming in passing although I am not certain he said he was now or in past, but there is also a Ghost Rider video game.
See, still learning stuff here?
Love, Jackie
Regarding today’s real time comic, how many remember the “Magic Eight Ball?” I used to keep one on my office desk. I don’t know what became of it. It seems to have been replaced by Siri or Google Now. My guess is JJ’s opinion of either is that they are about as accurate as the old magic eightball. My experience is that if one frames the question clearly and ennuciates that the results are possibly a bit better. I wonder if there is an app for an Ouiji Board?
EMB,
I think a good alternative title for today’s That is Priceless (http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless) would be “Androcles wonder what the hades he did with his sandals.”
Good morning Villagers….
Glad you are back, GR 😉
David, never heard of the “Magic Eight Ball”, but I will google it…
Miss Charlotte, please keep us posted…
Ahhh, Monday morning, no sleep…and back to work. Got much accomplished Saturday with the two teenagers….blew out the whole house, then they had to clean fan louvers…dust was thick….bring on the monthly inspection.
Husband is sitting with Little Red Chief today and tomorrow…Kyler has become the grandson my husband will ever have.
ya’ll be safe.
today’s grin: https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8327488768/hAC3F4B9A/
Androcles *wonders* …
Jimmy, we REALLY need an edit option on the new blog website!
Heh, Indy Mindy….Kokomo made the Drudge Report….
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/free/article_b6901d96-a38f-11e4-87c8-f3e71fd57ca1.html
I love happy endings….
I do empathise with Arlo’s ambivalence over cell phones, but oh golly, the Newspad is here and it’s cooler than we thought it would be.
I draw the line at my folding cell phone and the HP pc until they get those right. I know, I know. The new ones are much better. Fool me twice.
Love the Sunday real time.
And if Martine *does* finally lose on 9CL, there will likely be another six months of Bill losing is mind BEFORE anyone finds him to put him in the hospital where Edie ends up finding him. I forcast another year of this storyline.
Debbe – Our local police scanner has a Facebook page. A large chunk of the local population follows it. The Texas dog story broke locally just after a rash of missing dogs found their way home with power of Facebook. I couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about at first because there is a small town, Galveston, but pronounced phonetically, only twenty minutes away.
Hey! I already posted that top bit. Where did that come from?
The Magic 8 Ball was a pool ball with a “answer” floating inside, black and had a see thru window for viewing. You’d ask it a question and it would give you an answer. You had to shake it up, of course, for the answer. We were easily entertained in the dark ages.
Ouija was even older and consisted of two people touching a moving playing chip that was supposed to be moving on its’ own power, spelling out words, names, answers. As I said, we were easily entertained and gullible long ago.
Things are different now, right?
Love, Jackie
OF due 1028-1048 CST. Peace, emb
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