Obesity has become a real problem in this country; we all know that. I’ve heard a lot of theories about why that is. Some of them make sense, but I have my own theory that I haven’t heard voiced elsewhere. I believe people began getting fatter in direct proportion to the length of commercial breaks on television. Think about it! We all have to do something to fill the one-third of airtime that is now devoted to advertisements. Makes sense to me.
I didn’t say anything about the passing of Robin Williams yesterday, because it was news to me when I was updating this page. I just didn’t know much. Plus, I knew there’d be a lot said by others, and I was right. There was a third reason, maybe. I didn’t want to make any comment that might be construed as negative at such a time. That comment would have been: I have always thought Robin Williams was best as a dramatic actor. Of course, that isn’t a negative thing to say, but with so many emphasizing his original and frenetic approach to comedy, I just didn’t see going into it. Also, let us remember Betty Bacall, who left us yesterday.
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GR6: It strikes me as being akin to a snake and its prey.
On 9CL, I think today’so strip is a flashback during the flashback. Ugh! Okay, enlighten me, I get today’so real time Arlo and Janis is referencing sports, but could someone please explain the rivalry?
Sports?
That and the gunman who was directly over her and Bill is now some distance away and she walks to him.
I just figured that Brooke, like everyone else, had lost track of the plot and hadn’t kept a copy of the strip or a story board?
I have always thought the strip to be sexist and portraying women that way. Look at the occupations, clothing, poses.
Lately anyway. I miss the nuns and the veterinarian, who at least kept their clothes on. Laughs here.
Love, Jackie
I thought real time was the Attica riots whose anniversary is now approaching. If so, given situation in St. Louis, not good timing JJ for a riot joke.
Love, Jackie
Good morning, all. Rough day at the hospital as Mondays tend to be. We had to do a tracheostomy on an 18- year old boy with some kind of cerebral vasculitis that is slowly killing him. Made me think of my friend Tiffany who has something similar but is in remission, thank the Lord! I got to bustle about with trays form the OR and do the prep. All my job so that The Boss Of My Life can step in and do the hard part without having to worry about mundane things. Afterwards, his mom showed me pictures of how he looked before he was stricken. Kind of a surfer dude look, really cute. I promised to bring some before and after pics of my friend Tiffany, who was a cheerleader when I was in High School and of whom I have a picture framed in my room of her doing a perfect jump-twist with her blonde hair blowing in the breeze.
I was thinking of Athens, Georgia. Football season is around the corner, so I assume fit was a football reference. If it is a riot reference, remember, these are several weeks ahead. Howevrr, I am surprised there wasn’t a last second switch out with a rerun.
Folks! The movie, Dog Day Afternoon!
But in any case…watching Janis trying to get away from the scene Arlo is making is funny….
Lady Mindy, per Google: “In the film Dog Day Afternoon, (1975), Al Pacino’s character, Sonny, who is holding eight bank employees hostage, starts the chant, “Attica! Attica!”, at the massed police outside, evoking the excessive police force used in response to the Attica (prison) riot.”
Arlo, being Arlo, seizes on Janis’s comment in panel #1 to do his Pacino impression in front of bystanders, so embarrassing her that she runs away.
Debbe – Why does a chicken coop have two doors? Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan. (Thank you Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs.) Going to actually work on moving stuff now.
So does a chicken “fly the coop” if it lives in a Chicken
Convertible?
You are a better person than I, Lady Mindy. Or at least more motivated. After I made my last move to my present domicile, I decided it would indeed be my last move. I can only hope another Katrina does not come along and smash it, as I fear in the aftermath I would be like one of the pitiful wretches in some of the dystopian novels I’ve been reading lately, scurrying around in the wreckage and trying to survive.
And that chicken sedan joke is almost as bad as the one about the giant snail driving the fast car with a big letter “S” painted on its sides. 🙂
Good one Mindy. Jackie, I was telling you about Elvis when the lightning started, but the point was he will come into the bedroom during the night and I will wake up with his head on my pillow and he will be snoring away. Yes, cats do snore.
Okay, I am back from the hospital, showing that poor distracted mother pictures of Tiffany and I in our cheerleader outfits and Tiffany as she looks today. In return I got to look at the album of that poor boy’s babyhood and childhood. At the end, we were both bawling. Funny how families will always open up more to we paramedicals (so to speak) than the real docs and nurses.
Oh, and, Ghost, I watched “Dog Day Afternoon” once and kept wishing somebody would just shoot Al Pacino’s character. Horrible movie
Lily, it struck me more as someone making a movie that attempted to gin up sympathy for some horrible people, under the guise of them being “anti-heroes” and “anti-establishment”.
Ref putting cameras on police officers to record their actions on the job…good idea. Putting cameras on elected officials and politicians to record their actions on the job…wonderful idea.
Attica riots were in my home state, so I knew / them, but didn’t know the usage. Searched “Attica, Attica, Attica,” learned all about it. I’d heard of Al Pacino and maybe heard of the movie, but I’m way out of that loop.
Arlo is a ham. I don’t know about Brooke.
Brooke? McEldowney? He is a master cartoonist but is far from being a ham. He is one of the few that does not allow Comments on either 9CWL or Pibgorn. In fact, you cannot view the previous page on Pibgorn. Makes sense since Pib Press will issue in book form. Which I will buy, just like I bought “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shut up, Brooke, and take my money. And do “Much Ado About Nothing” or “As You Like It” next. Please. I’m begging. Or at least “The Winter’s Tale”. 🙁
Yeah, obviously one can spend a lot more time on art work when one doesn’t have to waste one’s time on story or plot.
You spend your time listening to old music on YouTube, Ghost. 😛 I will read (and re-read) Pibgorn
I did not imply Brooke is a ham. “I don’t know about so & so” = this person is a puzzle. We all are, but some stand out. I think that Brooke’s take on Shakespeare will work better with the comedies than the tragedies.
“Looka me, looka me” is > obvious in some folks > others, even though they may be worth the attention.
Lily, I’m curious. Do you listen to Rush while reading Shakespeare?
Nope, Jerry, I never listen to Rush or anybody else on radio. I read his column on Facebook when it comes up in my feed, just like I read the Journal of Anthropology or Glamour or Star Wars or whatever else I am interested in. I read Shakespeare in my quiet time in the evening.
Actually, I do spend a lot of time listening to old music (Mozart is old music, too, right?), but on Spotify. I just can’t share it here as easily as I can on YouTube. And classics are classics, no matter the genre.