(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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OK, that didn’t work. Let me go play with it some more.
This should work –
As Charlie Brown would say, Aarrghhh!
I give up! Maybe she did something to prevent its being shared other than on FB – she’s clever that way. If anyone else wants to give it at try, the FB page is “Parker’s” and the image is an otter.
I have seen that otter saying “when you think you got a chocolate chip and it turns out to be raisin cookie”
Mark is in good spirits. Just got off phone. Y’all all pray for him please, this is major.
Steve from RO, my SIL calls that sign “Freeway Jesus.”
I’m late to the discussion of Arlo’s or Janis’ parents and sibs. I recall Jimmy’s parallels between the military service of his own Dad and Arlo’s Dad, and also how Ludwig got his name. I don’t have Ghost’s total recall, gosh darn it, so I can’t post links to those. 😉
Interesting – if I copy the URL from the webpage, it doesn’t work, but copied from the app does.
https://www.facebook.com/ParkerSav/posts/1099684670074780:0
I’m taking a stab at that link, Ruth Anne.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1099684670074780&substory_index=0&id=150333215009935
Thinking of Markn too.
Should have been “…Mark,”
Yep, that’s the raisin cookie otter. Obviously we Southerners are more emotional about our sweet tea. I drink unsweetened with lots of lime or lemon. I tip well if you take care of my tea!
Hate going up Nawth to be told it “isn’t the season”. How can there be a season for iced tea?
Smigz:
Yes we’ve called it Freeway Jesus too. Ironically there is another Freeway Jesus that is in Monroe Ohio, which was directly across from the plant that our company has and that I visited often. A few years ago lightning struck it and they put up a new statute. (Believe me, many people have commented on that!) Today I am in our company’s newer facility about 10 miles south of the famous statute.
Jackie, when it’s 12 degrees and The Hawk is blowing down Michigan Avenue, it’s probably not “ice tea season”.
At my house when I am iced in, running out of limes is a crisis with roads closed. I only do fresh.
During my British invasion period I tried to learn to drink hot. Can tolerate it but I want my cubes!
Good morning, all. Best of luck, Mark. This one’s particularly for you, Ghost (providing I can do this right). For those not familiar with Tank McNamara, he’s a retired NFL player now doing TV commentary. Being a sports nut, I often find him VERY funny. The whole Rio story line has been good, if you want to scroll back several days from today’s. –Okay. I just spent 10 or 15 minutes trying to get this to work and it doesn’t. Here’s what I got when I told it to copy the link, but it’s not “live.” Smigz, obviously Mark, our usual go-to guy on link problems, is unavailable today, but I think you are also good at it. Welcome to The Village, and help!
http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2016/08/10#mutable_1476001
Aargh, computers! When I submitted the comment, it came through fine!
That head and shoulders painting is known by some of the less reverent as ‘The bearded lady.’ Doesn’t look like a prophet who would overturn moneychangers’ tables. Actually, we’ve no idea what he looked like, though we’ve all met his siblings.
BUMC has a mural by artist and former BSC student Michael Dewitt; actually a group of several painted panels on the S. wall of the sanctuary completed several years ago. No people depicted in it, but you can tell which panel portrays the encounter at the well at midday in Samaria.
By the way, what had she done in violation of the Law?
Peace,
Just checked on Llee our artist friend in Missouri. She is ok but can always use extra goodwill and prayer and love. She just never complains.
By the way, my Houston acquaintance that originated Tank and friends in his daily column for Houston Chronicle passed away of cancer a couple of years ago. His partner Bill Hinds continues the strip. A very good strip, sometimes carried in sports sections.
emb, the lady in question had had 5 husbands and wasn’t legally married to her current one?
Jackie, my favorite Tank strip from many years ago involved Howard Cosell. Do you recall that one?
emb, regarding the table with pretty colors, see Thomas Sowell for an honest assessment of the situation:
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell080916.php3
True that, Nancy! In fact, my “Percent Naked” calculator may not go high enough to categorize the average Brazilian string bikini. Or in some cases, monokini.
Heard you had some rain in your area. Hope your backyard stayed relatively dry.
Some people choose to go places most of us wouldn’t… like near an active volcano… on a surfboard… wearing a pink bikini:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3733022/
That’s hot.
Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day was a new one for me.
titivate
\TIT-uh-veyt\
verb
1. to make smart or spruce: She titivated her old dress with a new belt.
Trying to imagine how one would titivate an old Brazilian string bikini.
BTW, Jerry’s joke came true.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/olympic_diving_pool_turns_neon_green_overnight_due_to_proliferation_of_algae/59363697