Here are the first two strips in the second week of the “Harvey” series that ran in 1997; I’m going to try to finish it all up on Friday. Did you see the eclipse this morning? Me, either. I’m running behind today, so I’ll leave you with it, but I do hope to have concrete news about the t-shirt project by the end of the week.
Hardly Harvey, cont.
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76 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”
OF next due 1718-1738 CDT. They still need to clean that speck off the front of the webcam. Peace, emb
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Ghost: Told you so 😛
Sideburns: No comic conventions (or gamer conventions) for me. I love to dress up in costume, like my costume this year is a two-color blue Harlequin costume I got at a thrift shop. In fact, The Boss Of My Life painted a really nice picture of me in it and I had it made into the invitations to my annual Birthday/Halloween bash. But, I have never worn a superhero or scary costume. I don’t like comic books and I don’t like scary books or movies. The Boss Of My Life goes to medical meetings, and sometimes I go with her, but those are dull, uncostumed affairs. I like to make up outrageous names for my stick-on nametag. Like I say, I like parties where I already know most of the people there, though I will bend the rules if there is an open bar. There is a mirror by every outer door in our casa and I look at myself *very* carefully before I go out that door. Like my grandmother always used to say. “Look at your butt. Everybody else will.”
I have always loved costumes and actually believe I have a three hour course credit from college for theater arts, costume and makeup. If you have seen the musical “Chicago” you know how important acting is to a lawyer. I was in prelaw at that time, so????
I could enjoy a Comic Con convention, especially the costumes. And Mardi Gras— that is one big costume party and floats. One year I saw every parade and every ball. For the pageantry and costumes.
Jimmy loves costumes, he does them all the time on A and J.
Love, Jackie
I learn a lot here, some of it worth knowing. E.g., /Wiki, ‘ A Fluffernutter is a yummy sandwich made with bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff.’ Yummy? I find that marshmallow spoils almost anything it’s added to. Now I know to avoid fluffnutters. Some other Natl. Days to avoid, if they exist: parsnips, creamed corn, succotash, frankfurter/ wiener/hot dog/baloney, Harvard beets, ‘frosted’ cold cereals. But, De gustibus, etc. Peace, emb
Well, if you want a comic.con there is gonna be one just up the road in Tyler, October 25 and 26. http://toursoftyler.com/tyler_rose_city_comic_con. I plan on avoiding it like the plague. That is the weekend for our Food Ministry and our Potluck, anyway
UFO still hovering over OF. Plenty of seats available.
Thank you, Dr. Lily. Now can you tell me when I might expect to regain normal use of my finger? 🙂
Several years ago, I attended a business conference that opened with an open-bar mixer. (What are the odds of that?) A female attendee of my acquaintance registering ahead of me wrote on her stick-on “HELLO, MY NAME IS” name tag “Mrs. Tom Selleck”.
Yes, Ruth Ann, somehow reportage has become an inexact art. And no, inanimate object do not have agency and the ability to act autonomously.
Our Villagers have firm, decided opinions on most things; no wimps here. Except for me, I mostly go with the flow. Jackie, I love the way you embrace life and throw yourself wholeheartedly into whatever is going on! No wonder your friends love you dearly.
Dear Debbe, so sad for the awful accident. Please take great care to not get an infection, listen to Ghost’s words of wisdom.
Ruth Anne, I agree with you SO much. Careless and misleading usage is just plain wrong.
Personally, I’m not philosophically opposed to cosplay at Con’s.
http://costumei.com/pictures/2013/03/Girls-In-Princess-Leia-Costumes.jpg
🙂
It used to be I thought I embraced life because I wasn’t sure how long mine would last. I was thinking about that today on drive to Tulsa to pick up lawyer friend who is also doing a program for us on canoe trip through France in canoes they built there in a few days. We signed for trip but they changed it to conflict with this, so we didn’t go, or I’d have been along!
Anyway, I decided I have ALWAYS been this way from birth. I was Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and when the gang wanted to put on a rodeo/play/dance/festival/egg hunt I started making the costumes and painting the sets and dying the eggs to hide.
It has been a whirl wind ride sometimes for husband but he knew what I was! He says it was the aliens going down the Mississippi River and dropping off the pods that night. Three of us that were friends in Houston were born on same night, same day, same year about 100 miles apart on the Delta.
All of us weirder than weird and totally theatrically drama queens.
Love, Jackie
Woosh, I am home later than usual, we had an emergency. Now I have to feed my dog, take her out, wheedle The Man In My Life for a snack, change clothes and get to choir practice by 7:30.
I love my life 😀
Lillyblack, at LosCon, I dress up as a vampiric techno-mage. For a number of years, there was a fan who came as the Centauri Ambassador and kept in character, including accent, all weekend. Most of the costumes aren’t scary, but there’s a lot of steampunk. At Gallifrey One, many of the costumes are Dr. Who related, for obvious reasons.
Go after it, sideburns and good luck to those of you who enjoy it. I’d personally just as soon go to a NASCAR race
Ghost: In six weeks. In surgery, everything is six weeks. 😀
OF due 1856-1916 CDT. Maybe rosy / setting Sol? emb
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background geyser wing down now
That’s funny, Lily; when we ask Plant Ops when a project they are working on, no matter how complicated, will be complete, the answer is always “in two weeks”. Of course, when you ask them two weeks later, it’s still “in two weeks”.
Have you noticed how carry-out food orders are almost always promised in “twenty minutes”.
Most everyone was fairly civil over on The Dark Side today.
I’ve never been to a ComicCon and like it that way. LosCon is a general SF/Fantasy convention and a fund raiser for LASFS. Gallifrey One is much more media oriented; neither one tends to attract people who dress up as super heroes.
gr6, and if you ever watched cops you know the drunk driver only had 2 beers.
Limbaugh has got a lot of mileage out of the packs of SUVs out there killing innocent people, according to the headlines.
We are so behind or I am! Tomorrow I have no one to help with any food service OR prep because lady I thought would help for pay can’t/isn’t and no time to find anyone else. If I can get enough food out to pass for a cold breakfast I will be happy.
Fortunately I bought $50 worth of Krispy Kremes in Tulsa while I was there.
We ended up going to downtown here and enriched a small local restaurant where I totally ordered the wrong thing! Yuck! But the hard working waitress made some good tips which she earned and we probably made her day income wise. I called to see when they closed tonight and she was working alone with one bus man and one cook, but she recognized my voice and said to come.
Good night, I have a huge bag of green beans to put in fridge! A guest and my mama picked them this afternoon.
Love, Jackie
‘. . . wing down’! ‘winding’, of course. Not that it matters now. ‘Nite.
Cars are killing people? Trucks are killing people? SUVs are killing people?
Wasn’t that a Stephen King novel?
About Krispy Kremes, the only shop in Tulsa is not far off the expressway to airport, so I detoured thru, hadn’t had any lunch so I ate KK’s while waiting for my friend’s plane to land. You are only supposed to sit for 3 minutes (probably to prevent me blowing up Tulsa airport?) but I sat and ate doughnuts and a diet Coke. When policeman came I intended to offer him doughnuts but he was talking to his wife just by me and I must not have looked suspicious.
So, I offered my friend KK’s and it turned out he’d just lost 20# since retiring at age 50. But real reason he turned them down was the Navy had a contract with KK and when ships were in port the doughnuts were delivered to each ship by the cases! He swore he’d never eat another!
Worse than cops.