I realized this morning that I had inadvertently skipped one of the cartoons from the above sequence, the one about 10,000 comic-strip writers being out of work, which isn’t as funny as it once was. Anyway, here’s a bonus cartoon for today, two strips about Arlo up a tree.
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If a new child is forthcoming, the time of discussion has pasted.
Six to one Half-dozen to another.
Err, passed not pasted.
Dave Barry’s account is funny, but for a lot of people, the fear of prepping for a colonoscopy is real. I do believe humor is a great way to combat it, but some might read it and decide that it is not worth it. My wife hates the prep, but she did laugh her head off.
Personally, mine went extremely well. I drink an 8 oz fiber drink twice a day, so the prep was much easier for me. My family has a history of diverticulosis and I had it when I was younger, but the Doctor gave me a complete clean bill of health.
I now that this kind of a crappy topic…but colon cancer can be beaten with early detection.
Good morning, Villagers. Now is that time of doubt, woundering to cast my pearl-like reflections or see if today’s vintage strip is up. I see it is not, so I wish you all a pleasant good morning. It is raining cats and dogs, here, and I had to dry my hair and change scrubs when we first got to the hospital this morning. The Boss Of My Life more prudently used an umbrella.
Jim, I can’t. Not a member of your group yet.
Think Jimmy has worked a double on us, Arlo’s eating and Mary Lou expecting? It’d be like him.
Indy Mindy, when I rebuilt out my gift shop/candy shop/florist I hired an electrical engineer friend from NASA who moonlighted. He got up in ceilings and threw out piles of wiring while cursing the defective wiring. Brought both locations up to Houston codes, completely new wiring, fixtures, air, heat, panels, everything.
He accepted my payment and told me I would pass inspection without a problem, I did. He ended by saying “Of course, you will be burned down by the 7-11 that is between the two locations next door to you.”
Love, Jackie Monies
Maybe Lou is, and maybe she isn’t. Something I’ve learned over the years is to never assume I know what’s going on in A&J World. Jimmy has been known to throw the occasional curve.
I see some Darksiders are still beating up on Gus this morning. You know…Gus…the character who seems to most often be right about things.
Lily, you can send some of that rain my way, if you please! We might have had a wet Spring, but Summer is kind of dry.
It will be interesting to see exactly what Gene means with his “party of six”. And no, I’m not jumping in with The Dark Side.
Here’s my addition to the unplugged set today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc I’ve always loved this song, of course, but it became really special the night I was in a club in Sioux Falls, SD and a friend sang it to me. He knew I was feeling kind of homesick right then.
Rusty, here is link to Kelly McGuire’s opening at Sail Oklahoma 2012 in my back yard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14NjWZwNXbE
I put longer explanation on what this is and am caught in moderation. It is a not for profit “private” event in my yard and down on beach for four days on Lake Eufaula, OK, which means I include all of you as friends who could come.
Love, Jackie Monies
But, Jackie, that would mean I would have to drive to Oklahoma. By myself. I can only drive by myself an hour or so, and that is with my dog. Then I get the heebie-jeebies and start imagining things and worrying. I usually go places with either The Boss of My Life or The Man In My Life. Preferably both. Not to speak of spending the night someplace without either one of them. Too, too scary.
I have decided that the webcomics I like best were those whom I read through the whole archives to see what I missed while I was abroad. That would be A&J (of course), Candi, Peanuts, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Pluggers, the rest are just meh.
Party of six might mean Gus is on the way to make his explanations to all at once.
I still think it’s because Arlo is stuffing himself, but what do I know?
Think GR6 and Mark might be on the right track. We have to remember Jimmy’s can at times be misdirections, then bang, we are surprised.
Yesterday on way to Tulsa I was talking about cartoonists I love and respect, like Jimmy, Watterson, Walt Kelly who I consider genius at what they do. I asked Mike what he thought went on in their minds? How do they write and draw, strip after strip, after strip, consistently funny? Could he do it for even one week?
He said “NO WAY!” Not even for a day! He always says he would not live in my mind for even one day. I am in no way the writer nor anything like my “heroes” but perhaps we are wired differently?
I see the influences of Walt Kelly in Watterson and in Jimmy’s work, although JJ might not agree on that one. In Jimmy’s work, it is is subtle but I think there, as A and J is a subtle, sneakily funny and harder to “get” comic than brash strips like Garfield. I think A and J requires a thinking mind with a broader fund of knowledge.
But we probably all know this?
Love, Jackie Monies
Praying for the families of both Malaysian air disasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ymblafuwys
By the way, husband loved Pogo too and Calvin and Hobbes, read my A and J book, has bought me cartoon books all our lives because he knows I love them. For years I had Schulz cartoons framed in house, favorite was “The heaviest burden is a great potential.”
Just realized this week that I had owned a “I Go Pogo” political pin/button years ago. Gosh, I wish I knew what I did with that!
Love, Jackie Monies
The real news is just too sad to know. My new lawn lady was saying she didn’t have t.v. or computer and therefore never knew the news. I told her nothing had changed, she was better off without either most days.
Love, Jackie Monies
Did you notice what’s in front of Arlo today? He may not be on a paleo diet, but with all those bones on it, his plate looks like something that would interest a paleontologist.
I used to be a news junky. Now, not so much.
Maybe Gene smoked that dinosaur that Steven Spielberg shot? The one that caused all the uproar?
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie,
Sounds like fun! If only we still lived in Bartlesville (we kept our boat on Lake Oologah). Have a great time! He does a floating concert in Galveston Bay on Labor Day weekend, out at Redfish Island. We might try to make that this time, but not sure about braving the anchored masses in my boat…
Rusty, what do you sail? We used to go out to Redfish like everyone else when we lived in Houston. Mike was yacht broker in Kemah too.
We usually have people come here from east and west coasts, Great Lakes, Canada and Gulf Coast. I know that sounds crazy but we have a ton of fun, a very unserious but serious boating event, unlike any other I know of.
You would be most welcome. You gotta be in oil bidness somehow, with Bartlesville and Texas.
Love, Jackie Monies
The Boss Of My Life has a New Yorker cartoon framed in her office. Shows a king on his throne and he is thinking “I know I am paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?” Me, I’d have to think a long time to think of a cartoon I would frame and hang on my wall.
On my way home today, I noticed the blue sky and the puffy clouds…I was so caught up in it….absolutely beautiful here in S IN. Temps are in low 70’s, a serene drive home…looking forward to my husband’s chicken gumbo he fixed yesterday…taste buds were on alert….
Then my husband turned on the news when I got home….TR…I can’t think of anything else but to pray…that all victims are recovered…..and just where is our fearless ‘leader’? White house has yet to issue a comment…unless I’ve missed it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50p-XScreM
What has happened to the human race….that the only way one thinks to get their idealist insidious, injustice and ignorant ideas across is to….blow something up. I’m off my rant now.
Jackie, I thought of a couple of songs to add to your DVD playlist…I’ll post them later…remember Christopher Cross….’Ride with the wind”?
And Mark…started a new folder…Mark Knoepler (sorry if I misspelled it).
…later…………………..