Several of you expressed interest in my remarks about drawing with a felt-tip pen versus drawing with a pen point dipped in ink. More specifically, a lot of you wanted to see what I meant. This made me think further on the matter, and I will share some of those thoughts next week. Today, unfortunately, there isn’t time to do justice. So, I am posting two cartoons, one from 2010 and one from earlier this year. The first cartoon, the former, was drawn with a not-inexpensive high quality felt pen. The other was drawn old-school. The difference is subtle, but there is a difference. Look over them, if you’re interested, and we’ll talk about it next week.
247 responses to “Draggin’ th’ Line”
Tell you what, I will send you lingerie photos when you send me one of you in a tux. I have been entertaining myself buying risqué lingerie for my hope chest, along with European bras.Ghost Kitty was sleeping in some lace teddies down on the fainting couch at foot of bed when I woke up this morning.
If he does it again I’ll take a photo.
Smigz, I know people who just love stevia. My sister and I hate it because it has a bitter after taste for us. That’s why there are so many artificial sweeteners out there: different people have different reactions to them.
Whatever I used on that cobbler definitely doesn’t taste sweet. When snow and ice melt I will look for others.
Sideburns, that’s so true about the different reactions! My Mom drank a number of beverages with artificial sweeteners. I discovered that at least some of them made me feel more thirsty than I was before I drank them.
My late husband said he’d rather lick a rock than drink a Diet beverage.
Where is everyone?
Hi Jackie, I was just catching up. Maybe others watching Lion’s game?
Old Bear, last night’s response I’ve just read. You’ve given me a thunker that I don’t recall from high school.
In the opening line the character/narrator requests, “Call me Ishmael.” I never considered until reading your post: Is his right name not shared, and it is the biblical reference; or is he in fact one of the other described characters, leaving possibilities open to the ‘listener’ of his tale? I’m thinking of the central question made evident before the story begins in Life of Pi. In that story the narrator challenges you to decide if you like the lie better than the awful truth, that it hides his real experience, and allows him to live a ‘normal’ life.
I like to make up my own mind before investigating other opinions, as an exercise. I may have to :deep cleansing breath: re-read my Melville. As I recall, the action moves along OK, once you get past three(?) chapters describing whales in general. One complete chapter devoted to the Narwhal?
Maybe, I’ll just pick up Spider Robinson instead.
Sideburns, wanted to acknowledge yours as well. That made me think of the Bogart/Bacall movie where we never see his face before he becomes Bogart.
One of my boating friends is taking part in a marathon reading aloud of Moby Dick right now. He reads one chapter, I forget which.
I always assumed it was the Biblical reference, not his name.
My college professor and I were at odds on this book, his final exam had a couple of errors in it. I won by proving hint wrong. He did not take it well.
Yeah, pet opinions can die hard. I actually read Moby-Dick later. My high school Lit teacher was a transplanted Southerner with a passion for Faulkner.
Jackie, I was busy trying to catch up on Village news. Working for a living gets in the way of staying current. 🙂
I was planning on cooking something for supper tomorrow but my wife has decided we are going to have breakfast sausages and pancakes for supper. Who am I to say no to that.
Jackie: Where is everyone? When you wrote that, I was 45 min. into a 7:30 recital by an outstanding young cellist whom I first encountered when he was 11, playing a downsized cello for those waiting for their ## to be called to proceed to the trough at a supper at FLC in Bemidji. After graduating in music from U.Mich., Ann Arbor, and doing gigs for 2-3 yr, he is now in his first yr of grad school at U. Colorado, in a newly formed quartet, and a TA, and loves that.
Did Bach, Hindemith, and Haydn [w/ piano accompaniment, + some ‘folk’ music, and a hilarious comedy routine that he and a local buddy used to do when in H.S. Free will offering, and too wide a choice of bars and goodies. His mom thinks I’m wonderful bcs. I fwd. his/her notices to my b.c. online music grp. Maybe I am. He played w/ the BSO for years, and has soloed with them. He’s a topnotch soloist who doesn’t make faces and dramatic gestures.
Y’all should know one of the advantages of its being 0 F or below is that the stuff is too cold to pile up in the wheel wells and otherwise, and there’s little to melt off in the attached, slightly heated garage. Otherwise, cold weather sucks.
Peace,
The story is good, the ad made by the students is wonderful:
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My post disappeared. It was inane.
I can personally verify the auto-bot moderator for this blog does not send posts into the fiery reaches for inanities. I prove it daily.
But I did have one recently [days?] not come up, first time I can remember it happening. It was a nice reply, too. Thought it might show up eventually, but I guess it doesn’t work that way. By the time I knew it was gone, I couldn’t remember it well enough to try again.
So If I left anyone hanging, ask me about it. Tomorrow.
Are rules tighter for Anonymous posts? Some moderators do that.
The rest of you must have the power out. Either that or you’re busy trying to warm up. It’s a sunny 20 degrees here this morning.
23 degrees and cloudy here. Not even the cats are stirring.
Not even a mous?.
It’s 31F and raining on top of the 10 inches of snow we’ve had this past week. Our “January thaw” usually comes about 2 weeks later than this.
JJ, I’m definitely interested in the pens! As an amateur/wannabe cartoonist, I spent half my youth in quest of the perfect dip-pen, but I never did truly master them. I finally discovered that fountain pens can give you that “flex” without the scratchiness and hassle, and only more recently I gave myself permission to doodle with the pigment markers. I have noticed the trend toward even the best cartoonists going to felt-tip (or tablet), but the flex in the line, to me, is still what says “pro”. Let’s hear about nibs, and please, name the names!
Hi Ghost Sweetie! So far we’ve done pretty good on the Mountain. The power is still on and we have heat. I made a pot of pork and butternut squash stew yesterday, and today I’m trying to decide between chili and Brunswick stew. It looks like we’ll be back to normal tomorrow, just in time for everybody to go back to work and school. Ain’t that always the way!
It has warmed to a riotous 32 and sunny. Ashes has the shutters open and sitting in window, Skipper is up against my shoulder,Orange Cat curled down at foot and Dickens is joined at my hip. Someone is down on floor?
Drama in an old ladies life. Is it necessary to get up yet?
I keep reloading my name here and it keeps vanishing. I own several phones.
Sideburns, I’m with you. To me, both aspartame and stevia have an awful aftertaste. I prefer products made with Splenda, as it has no aftertaste (to me), and tastes more like actual sugar in things. It also dissolves in cold iced tea, something granulated sugar never learned to do!
Jean dear, I love Brunswick stew. I hadn’t made Cowboy Stew in a while, so I did that yesterday in place of the Lawdog Stew. I’ll probably haul out the slow cooker and do that this afternoon. I’ve been needing to replenish my freezer/larder anyway. I may perhaps put on a pot of marinara sauce, also.
We just cracked the freezing point, likely for the first time since mid-afternoon Friday. Well, that’s cold for us, anyway.
Drinking a nice icy Diet Coke that has been out in van. Not frozen but icy. Realized I have been without more than 36 hours, no tea after last night, forced to drink water with the English muffins. Wondering where to put them in fridge? Silly woman put them out on patio behind kitchen!
Reading about Bemidji, MN because in reading some of my friends’ weather posts I noticed two different ones came from there. One named Thibodaux I guarantee is a Cajun scientist.
So I read and realized I have been there more than once! Several times. And it sounds like a wonderful small town until you get to part where lake freezes Nov. 26 and thaws on April 26.