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Arting Around

By Jimmy Johnson




At the spring arts festival, exploring the recesses of the artistic mind in a special threefer. This sequence of comic strips was based on an arts festival once held in April in the small town where I was living at the time it was drawn. Pursuant to our conversation yesterday, the festival set a standard for entry, perhaps a subjective standard but a standard nevertheless. That show was terminated, however, and replaced with another spring festival with—I guess—a broader appeal. Speaking of questionable art, we’re going to get to our own A&J art sale soon, and for a good cause, too.

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51 responses to “Arting Around”

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Indiana Jones (the first one). Jackie, there are shoplifting rings who specialize in stealing thousands of dollars worth of Victoria’s Secret panties at a time. They are going on the resale market, probably online sales or flea markets.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=victoria%27s+secret+shoplifters&oq=victoria%27s+secret+shoplifters&aqs=chrome..69i57.9358j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    Pick a story.

  2. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Debbe: If you ever wanted a preview of the colors, Northern Michigan in the Fall is fantastic. Michigan has more than 100 different species of trees, such as oak, ash, birch, maple and sycamore. Between the trees and the lakes there is a lot to see. Of course the roads to get up there sometimes resemble a war zone….And the crazy drivers! But if you get off the highways and explore the National Forests, it’s worth it. I suppose I should collect some money from the Pure Michigan folks.

  3. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown
  4. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    More than once I’ve read that the most commonly shoplifted item in drugstores is hemorrhoid treatment.

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    General friends say incontinence products are popular and I want to know how they hide the giant packages?

  6. emb Avatar
    emb

    Two poor eaglets all exposed in the nest! Not to worry: a parent is out on a limb of the nest tree.

    Search ‘Decorah-eagles-north-nest’. Peace,

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers……

    Arrgghhh…..washing machine broke down just as it was getting ready to drain the rinse water…..but I did find my driver’s license 🙂 Still smiling, Steve.

    I would love to see the fall view of northern MI….fall is my favorite season. The smell, the color, the crispness of the morning.

    Old Bear….the Boss is going to relay that info to The Corp man who came out and did a walk around looking for external sources for the egg drop…heh, got another 192 cases yesterday.

    Emb, I used the word Calvary rather loosely…would that be an analogy? Peace

    Going in to work today and tomorrow. Boss understands I don’t need to be home…busy hands are happy hands.

    Ya’ll have a happy Caturday…..

    Indy Mindy….you have my empathy and sympathy….let’s move to OK, I hear there’s a very kind lady that lives there and takes in strays!!!!

  8. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 they do have some interesting videos……

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

  9. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Ran across this link….thought it was funny

    http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2015/05/18/this-is-not-my-cat-24-pics/

    ….and we all know that we don’t own cats, they own us 🙂

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Mark, in that one scene where Indiana Jones is face to face with a snake, I had read somewhere that the glass that separated them shows a slight lighting on the glass. I think I tried looking for it, but I can’t remember if I saw it. I own it on VHS…and who has VHS players any more?

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