A pithy comic strip about life, love, lust and puthy cats.

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. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Sideburns, isn’t that what I wrote at 3:57 a.m.?

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Thought for the Day: If you look like food, you will most likely be eaten.

    Jackie, If you are going to walk deserted or near deserted streets or roads (anywhere), four words…Oklahoma Concealed Weapon License.

  3. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Glenn my deputy sheriff brought me the application process papers and I will fill them out, he forgot to give them to me. He is detailing my van for me, it had 5000 miles of bugs and road debris, got outside, tonight is doing inside.

    Met his fiance and inlaws, all law enforcement, got a nice thank you from his mom. I told him not to tell her about Playboy. I was joking about the bra holster, everyone agreed it was going to be pretty obvious and hardly concealed.

    OK, Ghost I have a dirty mind and that statement above can be interpreted in more than one way.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    More than one way? Really?

    On a more pleasant food-related topic: Dinner last night was homemade Pepper Beef…thin-sliced flat iron steak, diced sweet onion and diced red bell pepper, stir fried with garlic, fresh ginger and fresh-ground black pepper. An excellent “low-point” meal.

    Re ad on TV seen while watching Braves play: I believe Columbia Pictures may have missed a bet for a slapstick comedy plot…instead of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, they perhaps should have made Paul Blart: TSA Agent.

  5. nodakwayne Avatar
    nodakwayne

    Debbe, Bobby Vee got his start as a fill in for the show that crashed the “day the music died” His garage band got the gig at the Moorhead MN armory because of the plane crash. Both Moorhead and Fargo claim him as theirs.

  6. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Just listened to that NodakWayne and thought about that. Bobby Vee is also the pop singer satirized in my favorite “Shag” which was part of the Dirty Dancing Trilogy and which I prefer but no one else did. This is my generation.

  7. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    And then here popped up another contender for that honor in “Shag”, Jimmy Clanton, who is from Baton Rouge, LA and just came on singing “Just A Dream”. Jimmy played at many a dance and club in my youth and college days, one of my old classmates dated him steadily. The song of his that sticks in my mind so vividly is Willie Nelson’s song, “Funny How Time Slips Away” which Willie wrote for Jimmy and he recorded, made a hit, the first time I had ever heard of Willie Nelson, who in those days had a flat top buzz hair cut and wore jackets and dress shirts, tie.

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    And Jackie has a senior moment. Googled that and it was Jimmy Elledge, a one hit wonder, from Dallas, TX who recorded that! Too many Jimmy’s. This one also played college dances and clubs at same time including where I was from. We had a lot of regional recording artists back in the day who toured heavily around their home locals.

    Heck the great Tejano musician Freddie Fender of the Texas Tornados played and toured as an Anglo named Freddy and played pop, also a teen idol kind of singer, played for a ton of dances in my area. “Until the Next Teardrop Falls”.

    So did all the Nevilles. The South in those days was fueled by fraternity parties, school dances, night clubs with dance floors. Everyone polished belt buckles.

  9. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Jackie, what is a moon hoe?

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Denise…I am quizzing myself the same thing…”moon hoe”. Don’t even urban dictionary it…’cause I’m not. 🙂

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, what does polished belt buckles mean?

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    …and nodakwayne, I thank you for the background check…..don’t know why that particular song has become an earworm.

  13. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Bad times in the making, blackhawks over the ranch.

  14. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Maybe I’ve heard of “moon hoe” and am thinking it’s semi-circular like a crescent moon. For specialised garden work (what kind?)

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Miss Charlotte….you win!!!! You convinced me 🙂

  16. NAncy Avatar
    NAncy

    I think maybe “polishing belt buckles” refers to how closely they danced?

  17. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Just fixing my sign-in here and hit a button too soon….

  18. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    AND we have another winner…Nancy from AZ……

  19. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    I don’t get in these ‘moods’ too often, but when I do….the rifles/shot guns are not loaded…got my ‘panties in a twist’ one night 🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FStB5_yT9o4

  20. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    I am laughing out loud at you guys. A moon hoe is exactly that, a crescent moon shaped and thin hoe, sharpened razor sharp they are fabulous weeders, there is another one in the same category that has a flat blade across bottom, the moon hoe is curved. The points on the two sides are superb also on cracks in side walk, similar to the weeding tools they sell on short handles but with these you stand up, not bend.

    And Nancy is correct on the belt buckles answer, very close slow dancing with little movement actually and most of that from waist, hence the term. And Ghost did not know that one? Had Southern men quit having sex on the dance floor by the time you came along?

  21. emb Avatar
    emb

    Webcam was looking across the valley, now aimed @ OF. emb

    http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html

  22. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, as Benny Hill put it on one of his early songs: “she’s looking so desirable, with lips made to be kissed, so you stand 8 feet apart and do the Twist!”. Change in dance styles probably put an end to “polishing belt buckles” for a time.

  23. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Yeah, I really wondered if Ghost was just putting us on with that question….

  24. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    😀