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”
Whatever. I barely got past the blonde he had armed up in the photo. 🙂
I’ll just note in passing that I have fewer tattoos and more hair than Sir Sean.
That is a good thing as Martha Stewart used to say. And you are taller. And better built.
See, I read his biography and remembered yours.
You are also better educated and did not wash out of military with duodenal ulcers.
Not sure how you look in a kilt or less?
By the way, one of my Australian friends just said Ghost Kitty was a handsome tuxedo. I forgot they had a class. He said tuxedos had amiable personalities. Ghost does.
My Australian friend sent photos of his tuxedo. The cat. In a kayak.
Wearing a hat. And a speedo. Upside down. In the outback.
How the cat got into his tuxedo we’ll never know.
Local weather: -5F now, pred. to soar to +11F today, +13 tomorrow. Here’s a short look at antipodal ice.
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/giant-iceberg-will-break-off-in-antarctica
Peace,
I’m not exactly sure how this rates in The Scheme of Things™, but I doubt anyone would consider it A Good Thing™.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/508919216/iconic-sequoia-tunnel-tree-brought-down-by-california-storm
My mama always wanted to go drive through the trees. She could never remember it was no longer allowed or understand why cutting tunnels through was not a good thing to begin with. She wasn’t exactly an environmentalist .
Last time we were at Yosemite we were allowed to drive through the park which few are, having two 80 and 90 years old handicapped ladies on board. Most must board buses and bus in now. Mama was still disappointed to not be able to drive through the trees nor could she understand the impact tourism played on the trees.
There are photos somewhere of that huge red Ford convertible driving through a tree but I don’t own them.
Today’s TIP BlogSpot: http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Some w/b offended by it. Artist listed as ‘Unknown’, pronounced ‘Hack.’ Looks like an illustration from an illustrated ed. of the N.T., or a run of the mill Sunday school book.
Peace,
Jackie, I totally understand!
I thought there was just one such tree. The tunneling cannot help but make the tree more vulnerable. Peace,
Ruth Anne, I do use a mixture of fresh and dried. The fresh are sautéed first, the dried rehydrated in hot water.
Gary, thanks for sharing the beet and road salt article. That is fascinating! The swineapple sounds really good. The smoke and pineapple together sounds intriguing.
Morphy, the scary-looking Canadian roads are in Leamington, the city that grows and processes tons of tomatoes. Some tomatoes fall off the trucks, get smooshed on the roads, and stain them catsup red!
emb, I am reading (not very far into) “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Rebecca Stott, about Darwin’s search of the historical record for others who had formulated theories similar to his.
Jerry, you’ve got me laughing this morning! I really miss a neighbor I used to have who looked like a young Groucho Marx, right down to the cigar he smoked (only while cutting grass).
Ghost, “Any man’s death diminishes me…”
I know I’d certainly object, vigorously, if someone wished to cut a huge hole through my middle so tourists could travel through me.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
for folks wishing to improve their diets: http://www.consumerreports.org/diet-nutrition/healthiest-food-trends-for-2017/
emb there were several such trees, some on federal land, some state, some private. Some of my earliest memories of California involve those big trees. And driving through them unfortunately.
On that last joint trip to California I think we ended up going to one of the privately owned trees so they could drive through because they had told everyone at home in Louisiana that was what they were going to do. And nothing I said was going to dissuade them, that was what you did with a redwood, you drove through.
It was like the trip to Canada when they told everyone they were going to Niagara Falls because that was only thing in Canada they could identify. Forget we were in the end of Canada north of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakota!
We ended up driving an additional 800 miles so they could see Niagara Falls and they wanted to look at it as they drove past from back seat of a mini-van.
Perhaps we’ll have the chance to view whatever we choose later. Most earthlings live their entire lives in one county or so. [Not a good comparison; St. Louis Co. in MN is bigger than CT.]
Later, perhaps we can also go back in time. Be great to see the waterfall when the Mediterranean broke through into the below sea level lake that thereby became the Black Sea some thousands of years ago. That flooding is probably the source of various ‘worldwide’ flood stories.
Peace,
One is assuming knowledge that anything exists beyond that one County.
I am reminded of me turning from paying a store owner in a small gas station. I looked before me at the mountains and forests stretching endlessly before me. “How glorious this must be in the fall when they all change color!” I gushed.
“W’al ” He replied dryly, “It ain’t near so glorious when ya’ been lookin’ out tha same door nigh on seventy y’ars. ”
Never forgot his words but I can’t tell you what state I was in. Probably Maine or New Hampshire, Vermont?
Re Mark’s link: The “Chocolate for Breakfast” section
Perhaps someone needs to market Calvin’s Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs.
Nah! Just go straight for the Godiva dark truffles with a good sweet desert wine.
Oconee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office strikes again:
“We didn’t get much snow, but it is so cold that folks shopping at Walmart this morning are wearing two pairs of pajama pants.” (Jan. 7 Facebook post)
I love your sheriff! Here’s my billboard contribution.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1718787945099606&id=100009052528502
Sorry guys I get my Garlic in a little jar. Lasts longer, minced finer, and no cuts.
Of course get a hernia getting the lid off.
emb
CT fits in MN 13X – 11X on the dry land – so the lakes in MN = 2 CT (IIR)
Thanks, Jerry, for the feline dressed for dinner conundrum. It was a laugh out loud. Snuck up on me you might say.
Old Bear, I’m for that form of garlic too. Almost always going right in the fry/sautĂ© pan any way, so being steeped in oil actually helps the whole process along.
Ruth Anne, are your sheriffs elected? This one is probably very popular.
Morphy: Our sheriff is elected but I’m in Orange County, Florida 🙂 I don’t know about those in Georgia but that one’s a keeper either way.