Day 3, and ten more classic cartoons featuring young Gene, these from 1990. It seems most of you are enjoying this look back at the early days of Arlo & Janis, with emphasis on the family son. I’m glad of that, and I thank you for being here. If you’ve just arrived, we have been doing this since Monday, so scroll back a couple of days and catch up on the 20 old cartoons that have already been posted. For you regulars here at the Web site, Mike Peterson said some nice things about you recently in his impressive blog “Comic Strip of the Day.” 1n 1990, Gene’s appearance had stabilized, but the humor noticeably was taking on a more unique character, trending away from jokes that could be transplanted into the speech balloons of any comic strip child. If Gene wasn’t growing yet, the strip was.
90 responses to “Gene, Gene, Gene…”
OB, yes, that one’s easy for me. Poe, The Raven. I do love that poem. No good on any of the others after mine.
This is fun, Ruth Anne.
This one from my most favorite novels: “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”
Reticulated giraffe [male?], oxpeckers [stupid speelczech].
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-watering-hole-animal-camera
Peace,
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Short story, bonus for the title and author of the poem.
a Little House story. Nancy? Maybe Little House in the Big Woods?
The others sound so good, PLEASE tell me who/what/etc.
And one of my favorites:
“It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”
My first “From The Dust Returned” by Ray Bradbury.
Second “Who Fears the Devil?” by Manly Wade Wellman
Both excellent books. The Bradbury book is the story of a strange family and has a cover illustration by Charles Addams.
The Wellman book is a collection of stories about a wandering musician in the Appalachians who encounters a variety of supernatural things based on the folklore of the area.
Mark,
I really like the “John the Balladeer” stories. Wellman did a good job of capturing the Appalachian folklore. David Drake, who became a close friend of Manly Wade Wellman, wrote “Old Nathan” as somewhat of an homage to Wellman.
http://david-drake.com/2000/old-nathan/
Yep, I like those too. I believe Baen Books is releasing a new book of Old Nathan this year.
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2017win.html
Nixon’s biography: ” I was born in the house that I helped my father build.”
Ghost, sorry I did not finish, but you can read only so many of those at one sitting. Peace,
I sort of liked this entry.
“Major Thomas Von Steele, WW I flying ace and teen heart throb leaned into his control stick and dove past his rival, Capitain Pierre Longue, grateful for his twin synchronized Vickers, which in this case were not the machine guns pulsing through his twirling propeller like a Cuisinart, but Sasha and Susan Vickers, with whom he had a date later behind the Officer’s Club. — Gary Pomeroy, St. Louis, Missouri”
Perhaps it pushed all the right buttons for me. 😀
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Mark in TTown
on 13 Aug 2018 at 9:04 pm #
Old Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUeXkzUjM
Good one.
Ghost
on 14 Aug 2018 at 6:17 pm #
“It was a dark and stormy night.”——– Snoopy (on top of his house)
Part 2
Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more
flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. (1929)
And I like the last line in the movie better
than the book when asked what the Black Bird was
Sam says”The things that dreams are made of.”
Part 3
This is not Sci-Fi, just Fantasy. A LOT tougher.
Someone had written ‘godforsaken’ between ‘Welcome to’ and ‘Caithness’ on the
road sign. (1988)
one of my favorite authors.
King Hrolf Ketilsson And his men awaken after 1200 years into the late 20th Century-
in Scotland. Hilarity ensues.
Part 4
Heat, pain, and blinding light, burning through my skin and my eyelids. (1981)
“The Steel of Raithskar (1st of the Gandalara Cycle) Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron”
Where a 20th Century man awakens in a Sahara like world, in a different body.
To say more would be “Spoilers”
You got it, Lee. Little House In the Big Woods. I can quote whole passages of those.
You are too funny, Ghost. That’s great.
The auto editor took ot everything between
#2 is
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
#3 is
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf – Tom Holt
# 4 I caught
Old Bear, Tom Holt, “Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?” ?
It did it again:
The auto editor took out everything between “the greater than” & “less than signs”
I didn’t see your follow up post till I entered my answer and hit send, then there yours was.
Finally 🙂
My favorite Randall Garrett is the collection of Lord D’Arcy stories.
Mark – Yes
He tells the OLD stories with a modern twist –
Flying Dutch – It was an Elixir that got The Flying Dutchman in trouble
A list
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/9766.Tom_Holt
Some quotes – some actually make you want to go to page 2
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9766.Tom_Holt