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Est. 1985

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Cookie Mobster

By Jimmy Johnson


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I’m sorry! It’s been a very busy few days. I have not abandoned you here. In fact, the new Web site of which we spoke earlier this year is going into production finally. We’ll see. I actually have a cookie jar such as the one above. It’s battery operated and plays a recording of a chattering dolphin when opened. I’ve had it for years, and I love it. Unfortunately, I don’t keep many cookies in it anymore. It has occurred to me that much of the furniture in Arlo & Janis is similar to pieces in my own household: the sofa, the orange table with the Queen Anne legs, the simple mannish bedroom furniture, all exist in my real world. I guess that makes sense. The sofa I don’t actually have any longer, but I did have one very similar when I began to draw the strip. It turned out to be such a good comic-strip settee—low, simple, easy to render—that I’ve kept it all these years. It probably could use re-upholstering by now!

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327 responses to “Cookie Mobster”

  1. Steve from Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    Denise a LOT of people were getting worried last night as the rains kept coming. But yes I had very little leakage on August 11th. Getting home as an adventure as all of the RR underpasses were flooded and I was stranded for 2 hours just 3 blocks from home.

    But today the sun is out and wind is gusting at 40-50 MPH. I have several big trees on my property and wet ground and high winds are not a good mix.

  2. hc Avatar
    hc

    back to upholstery – I’ve had many pieces re-upholstered and am very fortunate to have an excellent craftsman in our area who still does it – and I hope he will for a few more years!
    The new furniture available today doesn’t last and isn’t worth spending money for new fabrics – the framework won’t hold up

  3. Debbie in Alabama Avatar
    Debbie in Alabama

    It was a few days ago but thank you for the strip about tanning on the dorm roof. Spent many hours on the sun deck at Dorm J on the Hill at AU. Baby oil and iodine smells bring it all back.

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Heavy thunderstorm this morning in Tuscaloosa. One power surge about 6am. When I tried to get online I couldn’t. Called cable company and their modem was working. Storm fried another WiFi router. Guess which item I own and which I rent. $70 plus unexpected expense, and this is Not payday.:(

  5. emb Avatar
    emb

    Denise: There are pockets of T. hudsonicus across the Midwest S of their primary coniferous habitat. There obviously must be larger numbers than we see in order to maintain populations over time. In a Univ. MN Press book, The mammals of MN [1982], a map shows many township records in the N half of MN, but several records in the S tiers of counties, and 2 in N IA. I saw one once at the hillside entrance of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.

    The inset range map of N Am. shows them in all the NE and Mid-Atl. states, in the Appalachians S to GA, and in the Rockies S to the Mex. border. Like other spp., they likely are less common at the edges of their range [except where it abruptly ends at the Atlantic or Hudson’s Bay], and enclaves there are apt to come and go. There may be special aspects of suburbs that provide suitable habitat.

    Esthetics: as diurnal squirrels go, they are the most fun to watch.

    Peace, emb

  6. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Oh, and 2 1/2 hours late starting work.

    Steve in Royal Oak, MI, I was the same way about dating. Unfortunately, I asked the wrong person to marry me after waiting till I was over 40.

  7. emb Avatar
    emb

    Debbie in AL: Iodine? Is that because it gives a tan look?

    LIFE, back in the ’40s or early ’50s, discretely showed some models tanning in the altogether on roofs in midtown Manhattan, maybe along Madison Ave. They were surely visible from other, taller bldgs. Young minds!

    emb

  8. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    This afternoon is cool and rain soaked in Bayou Bend. I am sure the one apartment tower that advertises an au natural tanning deck has no tanners today. The weather Service forecast is calling for a week of this weather.

  9. Mary in Ohio Avatar
    Mary in Ohio

    Glad you explained the cookie jar. I thought it was a shark.

  10. emb Avatar
    emb

    Does it have TWO such decks, is it girls only [UNFAIR], or is come one and all?

    Today’s “Herman” is difficult, until you realize that’s a shaving brush, he’s a barber, and the bib is on the customer’s knee. Weird.

    emb

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Somehow, I always thought the “salmon-colored sofa” would end up in the National Museum of American History, along with Kermit the Frog, Archie Bunker’s chair and Fonzie’s jacket.

    I’m fine, my Mom is fine; I had a cataract procedure done on my left eye yesterday. The first one turned out to be so anticlimactic that I didn’t bother to mention I was having this one done. I just returned from my one-day follow-up visit with my eye doc. She says everything looks good. My vision in the left eye seems to be improving even more quickly than did the right one.

    Loon, I heard the guy who fell into the upholstery machine got the stuffing knocked out of him.

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    My Dad’s friend owned a nice motel with a pool, and I got permission to take my HS girlfriend swimming there in the afternoons during the summer. The smell of baby oil and iodine still, well, never mind.

    Sail it across the Atlantic, Jackie? Sure; what could go wrong?

    http://cdn.bluewaterboats.org/gallery/dana-24/dana24-layout.png

  13. Steve from Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    Ghost: When having surgery on the eyes, the key phrase is “Looks good”.

  14. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Wonder if the doc was talking about me or my eyes? 🙂

    Remember, Jackie….”trailerable” is a relative term.

    http://pics.imcdb.org/0is148/151fb4.7421.jpg

  15. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    emb, my understanding is that it is a single tier, coed, facility.

    GR6, good eye news. All the remains is getting FAA recertified. Please, don’t try telling jokes to Loon, she takes life very literal.

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    emb, Herman today is a perfect example of a panel which needs both the words and the art to understand. http://www.gocomics.com/herman

    The barber is so near blind he thinks Herman is standing, and that Herman’s knee is a customer sitting in the chair.

  17. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Never trust a young doctor or an old barber ~ Benjamin Franklin

  18. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    At the time Ben said that, I don’t think there was much difference in doctors and barbers.

  19. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Never ask a barber if you need a haircut ~ Warren Buffett

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Because Stevie Nicks…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dsh9M6qnhE

  21. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    O ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road,
    And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye.