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”
Village, I have to at this point add that I have been blessed in life to know Howard Rice, an educator and sailor who is committed to a project of passion to save some of the waters of the world for mankind. It is so in tune with today’s A and J strip and Arlo’s remarks. I hope I can link this blog which is based on a Time magazine article about the World Park and Howard’s efforts to create it.
edelalon.com/blog/2010/02/world-park-micronesia
If that fails to link, Mark be a darling and find World Park, Micronesia with information on the projected park. It encompasses all 807 islands of the nation of Micronesia, to save the islands and the sea and the creatures who live there.
Howard is extraordinary man and I am blessed to have him enter my life. I will be staying with he and his wife Keiko this summer a great deal and Howard is going to see to it that I finally learn to sail. We all helped to create the Scamp sailboat and I am honored to have been part of that in a small way. Howard owns boat #2 and #3, we owned boat #4 and #5 and we all did that too out of shared passions.
So Ghost, no Captain Rons for me at all. Love, Jackie
Jackie – Getting together with you and Debbe would be doable! But… I could come west and meet with you two… around Cincinnati?
I am a miserable person at linking articles from the net. Mark I hope that gives you enough information or some other generous and smarter than Jackie person will get the right information on here. World Park is unique and wonderful and I truly hope Howard pulls this one off. His website is called I Look Far and that sort of describes Howard’s life.
Love, Jackie
Trying to imagine Debbe, Jackie, and Galliglo all together in one space. Would be the first intelligent life in Cincinnati since WKRP left town.
Gal and Debbe, that is certainly doable and I think we should grab Mindy from Indy as well. My trusty min-van Helen Wheels will seat six and still have some room for luggage. Not as much fun as the huge red Ford convertible (think Shag, the movie) and going to Myrtle Beach but I bet we could still have fun.
And just now Jethro Tull comes on with Too Old to Rock and Roll, but too young to die. Let the credits roll, guys, the movie is about to start!
Love, Jackie
Think I found my error.
edelalon.com/blog/2010/02/world-park-micronesia/
See it that works. Otherwise, Sand I know darn well you can find that!
Try this, http://edelalon.com/blog/2010/02/world-park-micronesia/
Jackie,
If you include the extra “http://” in front of the link text it will become a “hyper-link” and be directly clickable rather than requiring copying and pasting. Also, if you copy and paste the address shown in your browser’s address bar, it “should” include the extra to make the link clickable. Here’s your link with the “http://” added. (The prefix on the address is for protocol, the type of communication to be used. Other types are “https://” for secure browsing, “ftp://” for file transfer and some others.)
http://edelalon.com/blog/2010/02/world-park-micronesia/
David
PS– My spell check doesn’t like the adjective “clickable” but Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and the Free Dictionary all agree that it is a word and that I’m spelling it correctly.
Sand, faster than me… I always HAVE to take advantage of the teachable moment. It’s the “fish versus teach to fish approach.” 😀
David, I am a doer rather than a teacher. With Chrome on mobile devices: tap on site link, tap on popup sayinh “Copy URL.” Go where you want to paste, tap and paste.
To be clear (and defend teachers), the best teachers are “doers”. Sand, you’ll no doubt remember “performance oriented training.” “Crawl, Walk, Run.”
“Improvise, adapt, overcome!” Gunny Tom Highway (1986)
I learned very early that my fair skin did not tan…it blistered, and painfully. A friend in my college days did, however, and used the baby oil and iodine mix to acquire the darkest possible tan. One day she asked me to rub some on her back, and my hands were dyed yellow for several days.
Ghost Sweetie, 🙂 !
I think this song fits our little Village quite well, because no matter what happens in the real world, we all try to keep our chins up and make the best of things, don’t we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdEMERq8MA
Trapper Jean, I like this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24
Helps give you a sense of your place in the universe, you know?
This helps me keep the proper perspective on the size of my personal problems…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbfYsQfNWs
Here’s Janis’ cookie jar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LH8oOamCaM
Thanks Mark, but if you really want a sense of your place in the Universe, try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqzRKDlmEhI
Make the best of things? I prefer Phil Harris’s take on life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o
And this one is always a favorite. Truly our Village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RbFVRRtqI
“I don’t deserve it, but …” You do deserve it, because we are told to love one another. Besides, you are lovable.
Peace, emb
“sandcastler™ on 10 Apr 2015 at 11:11 pm #
emb, Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. Begs the question, is Jimmy channeling Douglas Adams through Arlo?
emb is out of the loop again. Heard of the 42 thing, but remember it not. And who is DA? I can look that up, maybe.
Peace, emb
Jean dear, all the music links I’ve posted lately have come straight from my favorite personal playlist. You’ll probably not be shocked to know that Mr. Armstrong’s paean to life in our world is on that list. And as Jackie has noted, Iz does another great version of it, which is also there.
emb, I will allow Wikipedia to explain: 42, towels, and Hitchbikers guide.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
Wow, what wonderful people live in our Village. The play, Our Town, by Thorton Wilder became one of the most significant influences on my attitude toward the theater, writing and life in general. I think Mr. Wilder would have fit into the Village and be happy here.
sand:
Thanks. I read the Wiki site, so am enlightened, I guess. A present task is to carefully read and annotate* Bart Ehrman’s ‘How Jesus became God’ before early June. I have more ‘must reads’ than I will likely live [or be able to see well enough] to read, so likely will not get to THGTTG. But I’ve learned something new, and confirmed some other notions I had. Gotta go buy groceries, then work out.
Peace, emb