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”
Jerry, I know many Malouf’s, all richer than sin. None of them were writers. i will google and see who you are asking about however.
Mark, I love the music you recommend. I am listening to Dire Straits right now, Ticket to Heaven. If I could link youtube better I’d link it here.
Love, Jackie
Jerry, Forrest J Ackerman used to claim that he’d read every last word in every book in his extensive library. I’ll leave it to you to work out how he managed it.
The same way that I don’t own a single gun I imagine.
Debbe 😉 Because shades of the past…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_6KqP7K0g
Enjoy your day off, hon.
My hair was never that long, but I was skinny and I wore weird clothes. I also sang much better. Nowadays he and I sing about the same.
I keep saying my only connection was my children’s baby sitter, Kelly Emberg, ended up living with him and having one of his children. I do wonder whose idea it was to hire Kelly, mine or my husband’s? I think it was mine, she was the life guard at our club’s swimming pool that summer.
Think of having a nanny, even part time that ended up as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
I know I have told Ghost this story because he is still a fan of Ms. Emberg, if not Rod Stewart but perhaps I misjudged him?
Jerry, I’m not sure what you mean, but there were thousands of books in the Ackermansion, and 4SJ could honestly claim that he’d read every last word in every book in the house.
Sideburns, was he saying he had read Websters Unabridged?
Perhaps he simply turned to the final page of each book and read its last word….
GR 😉 …..sshhh….listen to the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak
which then took me to……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyjBBcUO9k
then I got stuck in the seventies……….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQlkS6Hx-js
and then harmony comes together…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diNa5wq5vpY
…with all the young dudes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwVfEXJhQQ
…lucky Annie..love her ‘look’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildVYgYWPqc
Saw Bowie in concert in the late 70’s…I’d tell you the story in ‘prepping’ for that concert, but….TASFOD 🙂
…and who can forget this classic video…..loved Freddie Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildVYgYWPqc
Wake up Jackie….you have a lot of links to catch up on….I love my music too. The songs I listen and play are a special piece in my life. You name the tune, and I could tell you who, what and where I was….
When you come to Indiana…..we need to make a playlist for the road…….
Indiana wants me. Now I’m stuck with that line for the day. That’s ok. You start our day with a smile Debbe. Of course he meant that he had read the last word of every book. Question to the critic, “Have you seen his last play.?” Answer, “I certainly hope so.”
CEP that answer sounds a lot like what a famous rheumatologist said about my friend who was a a PA, Viet Nam medic who became a diagnostic whiZ. I asked how could a PA in a rural clinic correctly diagnose obscure autoimmune diseases after three major university teaching hospitals had not, in fact missed most everything with diagnoses?
He said he read all the way to the end of the book.
Why, Jerry, thank you….I love putting smiles on people….especially here in the Village…don’t see the smiles, but I read and feel them..
let’s see….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF91ul0ZR64
Jackie…I think we should pick up Timothy Schmidt along the way….he was such a pretty boy, and still is
GR 🙂 just for you..with a little bit of Clarence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AvY5HEidg
Debbe, feel free to pick anything you like. I’ve liked all your music so far. The Honda has a good sound system with all the tech stuff I don’t know how to operate, you can teach me, pick the music. It will blast you out of car at high volumes. I used to love driving at night, sing along with Garth Brooks “I’ve Got Friends in Low Places.” Or similar rowdy songs.
My late husband and I did not share musical tastes, in fact Rush Limbaugh was his idol, not Billy.I was a secret music lover which was a bit limiting.
Are you not the one who loves Sean Connery? Or is that Mindy from Indy? O course I don’t believe he can sing a note but who needs to?
Fun to go to bed to music and get up to it. You all are like having a private disc jockey to pick out the music, always a surprise I look forward to.
Ghost mentioned Kenny Chesney who I also like. I was listening to one of his albums yesterday in car, love the Road and the Radio and Hillybilly Rock Star Out of Control. I range from opera to symphonies to folk to country to rock and everything in between.
By the way, Garth lives a little north of me and he is looking pretty good again and back on road. He got kinda pudgy and nondescript there for awhile.
Slept really great in that elegant canopy bed of mine, lavendar soft sheets, big purple fluffy duvet and some lush blankets. Feeling great and had breakfast, need to take all those meds of mine and go walk. The neighborhood geezers will wake up eventually and stagger out for church and I’d like to miss that.
Love, Jackie
Debbe 😉 Ah, Girls in Their Summer Clothes…gotta be sundresses, right? Just like the Stones’ “I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes; I have to turn by head until my darkness goes,” only less dark. I still miss The Big Man.
Walk, Jackie, walk. Good girl.
It was probably a good thing your kids were girls.
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