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Boston, Home of the Bean and the Cod…

By Jimmy Johnson


(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.

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358 responses to “Boston, Home of the Bean and the Cod…”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    From Old NFO at Nobody Asked Me, something that Old Bear will probably enjoy…

    The Human Body

    It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
    One human hair can support 3kg (6.6 lb).
    The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
    Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
    A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
    There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
    Women blink twice as often as men.
    The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
    Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
    If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
    Women reading this will be finished now.
    Men are still busy checking their thumbs.

  2. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Still laughing. Chinese laundry is open again. Had insulin and a 100 calorie whole grain English muffin with sugar free apricot jam from orchard in Michigan. Next course is a multi grain oatmeal cup. The virtuous can fit in their stretch pants.

    Ghost nibbles but at 2 a.m. someone trying to eat the shiny things in your ears is disconcerting. He made a vertical leap from floor to my chest with me standing up and grabbed hold. That’s how I got one scratch. Did same thing on left thigh.

    Dickens is trying to sit in my lap and is claiming same territory. He has been the spoiled darling around here and is suffering jealous pains. He is draped on right thigh with his head on chest which is funny since I am eating breakfast.

  3. Villiage Loon Avatar
    Villiage Loon

    Man with a four inch thumb 😮

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Bragging or complaining, Loon? 😉

  5. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Debbe and all, re Captain Kirk, I don’t know if I have told all y’all this, but my husband “Jim” is in fact James. He’s James P, though, rather than James T. He tells people when they ask that James T is his great grandson. The best story, though, is that when Jim was teaching college math, he had a girl take calculus from him who did not need it for her major just so she could take a class from Captain Kirk!!

  6. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Nancy, that is funny.

    Ghost, I meant to ask, on that math calculation regarding thumbs, at what stage they are measuring?

    It reminds me of when I went to chocolate factory to place orders for my XXXX rated chocolates for my candy shop. I walked in to production section on my tour and there were hundreds and hundreds of erect penis sitting on table, dark chocolate, light milk chocolate and flesh colored. Rather disconcerting in truth.

    Trying to be cool, all I could think of was how they unmolded all those large suckers.. So I said, “How do you get them looking so real?” They replied it was the chocolate covered coconut they applied.

    Enroute back to Houston, all I thought of was “Don’t crash this plane Southwest aND me with $2000 worth of chocolate penis in my luggage.”

  7. emb Avatar
  8. emb Avatar

    Wiki: ‘penises or penes.’ Penes is the proper Latin. Pace,

  9. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Just looked at Jimmy on Twitter. First of all, he is young looking. Second of all, he looks tall. Third, I like the new black Arlo and Janis tee shirts we don’t know about.

    And most important, I love that life sized foam board cutout of the Bop til You Drop of Arlo and Janis dancing.

  10. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    “Ghost, I meant to ask, on that math calculation regarding thumbs, at what stage they are measuring?”

    How many stages do thumbs have?

  11. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Heard briefly from Mark who feels not so good today. They have him up and walking. He has a leak of some sort in lung and they put in drain.

    Y’all just keep on praying. Mark was very sick when all this was found and had been for a long time. He is too nice a person to lose. Pray away.

    I think this is not a major setback and will heal.

  12. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Not the thumb! You know what I meant, an erect thumb or a resting thumb?

  13. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Jackie, tell Mark to get better, else when the weather clears, I am driving over to give him the talk.

  14. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    I am hoping he is reading some of these posts sand. He has his phone with him but turned off. Not turned off for me, he texted me but he may have someone he doesn’t want to talk to.

    He sounded so much better yesterday, his voice was clear and stronger than it was right before surgery. He did not realize how ill he was. Sometimes when things have been that way for a long time, we accept it as normal because it has become so.

  15. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Fearless Olympic Prediction: You won’t see any competitors sporting big round bruises on their bodies at the 2020 games.

    Of course, I thought that about the kinesiotape many of them were wearing in 2012, and a few of them still are this year. If I’m wrong, feel free to point that out to me four years from now.

  16. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    What? No leeches?

  17. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Big Daddy goes away for a fun weekend in Boston: the Village interests turns to leeches and thumbs. 🙄

  18. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Just watched Michael Phelps take the podium, receive an Olympic gold medal, and listen to our National Anthem for the TWENTY-THIRD time. Amazing.

  19. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Well, since cupping and leeches were used together in past it seemed they were breaking with traditional healing practices.

    Why am I only one who doesn’t care if Michael Phelps wins more gold medals? Although he does have extraordinarily long limbs, including his fingers, as announcers have pointed out in commentary I have heard in past years. I imagine his thumbs are quite long.

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    His erect thumb or his resting thumb?

    Some of the women track contestants are wearing two-piece track suits that would give the women beach volleyball players a run for the money. (No pun intended) I guess they can’t take a chance on an extra couple of ounces of material slowing them down.

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Another good “Country” band. Oh, and if you haven’t heard this song, it’s not about what you may think at first.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZMT8otKdI

  22. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Dickens and I are shutting down kitchen and closing the Chinese laundry, heading for bed. He’s already asleep on kitchen table.

    Tonight was officially my 50th wedding anniversary and the days leading up have been hard ones. I loved one man, physically beautiful to the end. Even the nurse caring for him the day I took him off life support commented on it. Terminally ill and he looked like a movie star in a bad sad movie, not really dying.

    I held those long elegant hands as long as I could when they took the restraints off at the end. I have small hands, his were twice the size of mine, dwarfed mine. And yes, he had equally long thumbs.

    Funny the memories Ghost’s joke brought back.

  23. emb Avatar

    Jackie: Yes, that is a hard time. Peace,

  24. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    So, when a man says he’s all thumbs….what image do you get? 🙂

    Jerry, I was Sherry in my other life. 🙂 Get the CD, it’s a good one.

    Nancy, so you’re married to a man named James Kirk….that’s cool. And I know you have probably heard it all. Liked your story about the coed.

    Hello Miss Charlotte, pray you’re home soon.

    GR. Old Bear will definitely like your little ditty….I loved the last line.

    So tomorrow is the seventh day, I hope JJ returns soon and we’re not locked out and are orphaned.

    Jackie, tell Mark hello for me, and still sending prayers his way. He strikes me as a man of perseverance and he will come through this….besides, I miss his links to music.

    Tried to take the day off, but can’t get anyone to replace me…everyone is doing something. Working at the other hen house which is in worse shape than mine. With this rain, I hope the ceiling doesn’t come crashing down…got one bad section right over some cages. The Boss was going to work on the roof this summer…too hot I guess and not enough labor.

    Still working on that stinking rod conveyor. Some has been painted, the other part I still use a steel wool pad and lightly rub it then wipe it off with Scott paper towels.

    Hope all those in the south are surviving this deluge of rain.

    debbe