The “Harvey” send-up has run here on the Web at least once, more I think. It was among the cartoons I had selected to include in Beaucoup Arlo & Janis, but as production progressed and push came to shove, the two-week series was shoved aside because of space considerations. Maybe Volume II, but this is the only place you’ll see it at present!
Hardly Harvey, cont.
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59 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”
What are you using to scan the old stuff. Everything seems to have great contrast.
About Ryan Gosling, sorry he doesn’t seem hetero enough for me, Ghost! I have two bad knees but still wouldn’t care if he were at ground level!
No reference to today’s strip on either Gocomics or Harvey either.
Since we have all avoided 9CL totally, I am lost in the plot. It just wanders and wanders aimlessly it seems, like a bad dream.
Talk about holes you could shoot a shot gun through!
Loved the Harvey series and Janis’ phobias on dirt and order.
I gotta run, I have to meet a lady at 9:30 about ordering biscuits and breakfasts for about 100-150 people per day for next weekend.
Love, Jackie
Ooo, a volume II!
Yeah, “Volume II”; I caught that, too. Just hope Jimmy is not being a cartoon teaser.
I finally got around to watching the new season opening (from last week) of The Blacklist on (free) Hulu last night. Red (James Spader) is still delightfully creepy, but they seem to be continuing a trend from last year to “humanize” him. I hope they don’t overdo that. Then he’ll be just like all the other characters in the drama that are weighed down with weighty personal issues. Oh, and I noticed that Megan Boone looks pretty darn good in a black bra and panties.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2005/04/25
Reportedly, there are up to 100 secondary contracts with that single Ebola patient in Dallas being tracked. The official line is that “there’s nothing to worry about”, but imagine how complicated that could get if a few more cases turn up.
Also, there was a report yesterday that the patient was sent home with antibiotics the first time she showed up at the hospital, even though he was symptomatic and told staff at the hospital he had just returned from Liberia. If true, I suspect someone will be (and should be) called on the carpet for that.
But no, Jackie, I’m still not headed to the basement to load ammo magazines while sitting on cases of MREs. 🙂
Good morning, Villagers. I don’t own any black underwear, the darkest being lilac. My grannie told me that you put on white for yourself and black for men, and I have no interest in that, nor ever did. The lilac if for me, too, so I feel pretty when I go out.
I am enjoying 9CWL. Pibgorn is the main Brooke work, but he has been loafing since finishing R&J, publishing old stuff.
Sorry, the Dallas Ebola patient is a “he”. Still typing with 9 fingers.
Volume ll? Sign me up!!
Ghost, I agree with you on Red’s character, and yes, James Spader does play him with that wonderful creepiness. I can’t say I’m as excited about Megan Boone in black undies as you are, though. 😉
Does anybody else in the Village watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? I do love Agent Coulson! And I wouldn’t mind being Agent Melinda May when I grow up.
Not sure why anyone would be ignoring 9CL, but I’ve been reading it along from the start of the current series which seems to have gone for an eternity, and I’m certainly not lost, just extremely bored with it.
Sorry, don’t watch anything on TV but Buffy, Angel, or Firefly reruns; Bones, and Fox news. My cooking and reading schedules are too full to watch anything else
I am getting old. See:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SPEEDY_CORVETTE
Once upon a time I would have lusted after one of those, now I can’t imagine why I’d want one.
Get an MG, TR. All the fun of a fast car without all the speeding tickets.
Nor would I expect you to be, Jean dear. But Megan did look cute in black lingerie, in a slightly chubby sort of way. I’ll bet you would, too, Munchkin. Though not in a chubby way, of course. 🙂
TR, the link didn’t work for me, but I assume from the URL it was about Corvettes. I agree. Who wants to pay that kind of $$ for a plastic car that doesn’t even have a trunk? I mean, where would I carry my bug out bag and shotgun? 🙂
Lily I still kick myself every time I think that I could have bought a running, in good shape 1960 MGA for $100.00 in 1969 and didn’t. It was being sold by someone who was desperate for money that was a family friend. One of lifes little regrets.
debbe, yes i am having to type right hand only, so no caps.
fyi; http://consumerist.com/2014/10/02/oops-cops-distributing-spyware-to-families-as-internet-safety-tool/
We will have biscuits, gravy, sausage and bacon and scrambled eggs for next weekend, so I just have to provide the cold stuff and utensils and get it all served.
There are not one but TWO fishing tournaments and a duck hunting group plus all our boaters next weekend. We might be on lookout for guys who look like professional bass tourney people eating with us. It may be crowded in town!
James Spader is on same level of creepiness as Kevin Bacon and a great actor in my opinion but I cannot watch the show. Mike loves it! Along with a lot of others I cannot bear to watch.
I used to answer the question of “What car would you be?” with “A red Corvette” which is what I thought I was. Closest I ever got was the baby Corvette and I owned the first one to make it to Mississippi, a silver one, bought over the telephone from an ad in the New Yorker magazine. Louisiana got none from that first shipment from Germany so I phone order to dealer and picked it up, drove it to Hawaii. Loved that car.
Cars owned and not owned!
Love, Jackie
The Man In My Life used to drive a Ferrari 328 GTS. Before my time :(. He still keeps a picture of it on the library table
Poem of the day: To a Fat Lady Seen From A Train
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering-sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much? -Frances Cornford
Evidence that the “foodie” movement may have gotten out of hand…the email I got offering a Swiss-made “Pumpkin Carving Knife.”
Sign on the back of an 18-wheeler trailer carrying cases of wine:
-In Case of Emergency-
Bring Cheese and Crackers
Lots and Lots of Cheese and Crackers
Ghost Sweetie, I thought that when I saw plastic lettuce knives!
The Man In My Life has a tomato knife, made in Sweden in the 1920s with a bone handle (not ivory) I use it all the time, and its curved mate for cutting up melons
emb, you might want to check back in over at TIP to see the painting the OCD art historian posted near the bottom of the comments.
My brother texted me yesterday that after 3 years of Liver disease ravaging her wife’s body, the day after her transplant, she was starting to look pink….He nearly cried as he never expected her to ever look like that again.
She was scheduled to receive the new kidney at 7:30 AM, but they delayed it as another Liver transplant had run into extra innings. She just went into surgery just before noon (Eastern) Hopefully there will be NO complications.
I visited the Dr. today as a follow-up to my virus. He liked the slow approach that I was taking in regards to introducing new foods. We also reviewed my blood work, which showed 5 or so levels that were in the “High” range. All were caused by the infection and inflammation that hit my body.They drew more blood but results should be good. The good news is that I have lost 8 lbs and have no interest in gaining them back!
Back in 1961 I had a chance to buy a Jag XKE really cheap. I could not reach the pedals with my feet to shift, no matter how close we put seats. That and fact the previous owner had been killed in the car.
And yet there was no obvious damage to the car whatsoever, not even denting. Since this was a current model, about a year old or less, and car could not have been repaired for what they were selling it for, I believed story that it had been driven beneath an 18 wheeler trailer bed.
Didn’t buy it but wish I had and kept it in a barn or something.
But the dead owner may have stayed with car?
Love, Jackie