(UPDATE: It is Sunday, the last day of the Boston Comic Con. I hadn’t meant to go dark the past few days, but I’ve hardly had a spare moment. In fact, I think the past month or so possibly has been the busiest of my life! That’s not a bad thing, and I’m not complaining, but I’m ready to slow down. As for BCC, I know you expected more in thee way of live coverage, but I will at least recap it for you in the coming days. I do want to say, I have met some wonderful fans from the Boston area, and I thank each of them for coming out. The Comic Con isn’t necessarily the easiest ground to navigate!)
Things are about to get a little crazy around here. Delta permitting, I will leave for Beantown tomorrow morning, where I will be on exhibit at Boston Comic Con Friday-Sunday. I know it costs to get in (I don’t get a cut of that; I’d let my readers in free if I could.), but I hope some of you in the Boston area will come by and see me at table D915. Autographs and handshakes will be free. I ship more books to Massachusetts than any other state, and I’m looking forward to meeting some of you. Also, I will be in Burlington, VT, two weekends later for the Vermont Comic Con. This is an experiment for me. I expect to be the old geezer in the corner fielding questions such as, “Is that strip still around?” It’s true, I’m in the corner, the southeast corner. I don’t know how much time I’ll have, but I definitely plan to send you updates here.
358 responses to “Boston, Home of the Bean and the Cod…”
So, is Uncle Joe Arlo’s brother?
First, if I’m not longwinded. Sitting in younger son’s AUD atop their new garage, w/ the AC on. Mpls. pred. to reached 89F today. Both w/b working today; may go out for supper tonight at The Bad Waitress. Only a year or two old, have heard good things. Have the second half of a smoked goldie, from Morey’s Fish House in Motley, to gnaw on for lunch.
Peace,
Good luck at the convention. I’m sure all of the A&J fans will be the normal looking, but not the normal acting ones!
Well, if “Old Geezers” = “Baby Boomers”, just think of the size of your potential audience.
Prominent “news” articles on my AT&T/Yahoo home page this morning: “Leo’s Olympic Lookalike” and “Brazilian Super Models’ Favorite Rio Foods”. Thanks for the click-bait passed off as “news”, “Yahoo News”.
Gotta find a way to get to my email without wading through crap. Think there’s a way to do that with Windows 10, when I have time to figure it out.
Since I have only seen comic conventions third hand, unless you count those Startrekkers in Vegas that time, I cannot imagine what you will find. Knowing you it will be a good experience, reflected in your work with humor.
My late husband was wont to complain about his bad booth location. The trade show chairman told him that he could be in the elevator, he had Jackie, people would find him. I assume you have no Jackie pushing them down the aisle your way?
Good luck JJ. Have a good show and enjoy the experience.
Ghost go Gee Mail. Ditch Yahoo.
Bless you, Mark. Glad your guardian angel was on duty.
My family has a number of aunts and uncles unrelated by blood, but tied by experience and time. Uncle Ferret (we go in for nicknames, too) put worms on my hooks, fell asleep with me in the backs of cars after family weddings, and cried with me when my Dad died young. Maybe Uncle Joe is one of these uncles.
Yes, every family needs an Uncle Joe, or maybe an Aunt Jo too! Which now begs the question, do Arlo or Janis have siblings? I don’t recall them ever being mentioned. In fact, have their parents ever been mentioned? This family seems to operate in a relative vacuum (pun intended).
D915 is my new favorite number. Will hopefully see JJ at Comic Con on Saturday. Delta better get its act together.
Off the top of my head, both Arlo’s and Janis’s parents have appeared and been referenced in the cartoon. Janis has a sister (who at one point was going to leave her husband and move her kids and herself in with A&J, but didn’t). I seem to vaguely recall mention of a brother by Arlo, but perhaps that was actually by Jimmy.
The Musée d’Orsay is definitely a must-visit if you get the chance. The Art Institute of Chicago, however, has a more impressive collection of the Impressionists.
Y’all stay around and visit more often as we say in the south. You Yankees are interesting good people, I got a lot of my education from far, far from Louisiana. Never eradicated the accent nor gave me the proper speech but they tried.
Wish I were in Boston about now.
Best of luck with the flight. Becky returned from Seattle yesterday, every spare seat was filled with Delta rejects. She flies to Tampa today, likely the same story. Glad we have our London and DC tickets purchased in advance; United better not let us down.
Any plans on attending Louisiana Comic Con?
Hey! I could make that one!
‘Well, if “Old Geezers” = “Baby Boomers”, just think of the size of your potential audience.’
IMO, no. Boomers are retiring or getting close, but middle 60s don’t rate as geezers anymore. With sanitation and better meds [in this and other nations, except for those who cannot afford them], 100+ is predicted for those of us in good health in the ‘Great Generation.’ Likely have to be 80+, now, to be a geezer.
Dad was a geezer by the time he reached 70, maybe earlier, but he was born in ’78, and a Spanish-Amer. veteran [3rd Engineers, Corporal, Cuba, malaria], rickets as a child.
We have it pretty good.
Peace,
I believe “geezer” has more to do with attitude that actual age.
Ghost: I think you’re right about being able to set up your email on Windows 10 to go there directly. Meanwhile, I have https://login.yahoo.com/ as one of my favorites which lets me skip the other stuff on my way there. (Still get it most of the time when I exit my email but it’s easy to ignore.)
What is wrong with Delta, by the way?
Mark says to tell all you he has found where all the good looking nurses are who like tall men. They are in the cardiology unit. He said the one who prepped him yesterday was really cute.
This is a good sign. I told him to make sure he knows how to follow up for dates after he recovers.
Best of luck in your new venture, JJ. And travel uneventfully!
Mark is in DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I have address and phone umber should anyone else want to contact him.
I agree with Ruth Anne, geezer is more a state of being than of age. I can switch into geezer mode when it benefits me an advantageous outcome. 😉
Delta airlines news. Main cause of the problem was a switching gear that failed to cut over during a power failure. This lead to backup generators not coming up online. News stories also say Delta was still using 90’a era computers which were slow to reboot after reconnected to power.
Forgive me but I seldom feel old, much less geezerly. I agree, it is attitude, not age. I never wear “age appropriate” clothing, hair or makeup. Which means actually I don’t wear makeup or wear my “hair in a do” and younger people laugh with me, not at me.
We age ourselves when we cannot change or learn something new daily. I enjoy this group, we often seem ageless, because most of us adopt that attitude.
Laughter reverses the aging process, as does challenging thought.
sand, I do the same thing, like when I’m in line and need help expediting something, but I call it “kindly-but-slightly-befuddled-grandpa” mode. Works like a charm with the right (young) demographic female. The older ones I just flirt with.
I can’t define “geezer”, but I know one when I see one. 🙂
Thanks, R.A.! That direct log-in screen for my bellsouth.com account is (like Janis’s lederhosen) exactly what I’ve been needing. I have gmail and MS email accounts as well, but the AT&T one is my oldest and primary account, and I’ve always had to go through Yahoo to get to it.