Yes, I know. It’s still unadulterated summer, but I was stuck for a title. Have I ever posted this? I honestly can’t remember. I drew it a few months back. It was inspired by a drawing I made back in the 90s, a design for a tee shirt. The shirt was to be the prize for a little contest I ran, and only 50 were every produced. Alas, that first drawing is long lost to me, but I thought it turned out well enough that it inspired this drawing. No one is more painfully aware than I that many of the plans I introduce here are, to put it charitably, slow to develop. However, I should have some concrete news next week about the tee shirts we discussed months ago. I will tell you now that there almost certainly will be A&J shirts available in plenty of time for holiday shopping. Details to follow.
Indian Summer
By Jimmy Johnson
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101 responses to “Indian Summer”
“…almost certainly…”
I may have used that phrase from time to time. 🙂
Pretty sure I’d have seen and remembered the above rendering had you posted it previously.
Jimmy. I LOVE IT! You know I forgot to pack my sales resistsnce, if I ever had any.
When is the art auction? I just bought a early oil by a good local painter here but I REALLY like his contemporary art which is acrylics in style of Blue Dog but boats and tractors and fields. They are related a tiny bit.
Want to buy some of yours but will settle for tees. Will you autograph? Love.
Lots of good, varied stuff in today’s “The Writer’s Almanac”: E.B. White, Roger Angell, Golding. etc. Comes in my email, no website, do a search. That first poem wouldn’t have survived censorship decades back. And now I know how Beelzebub translates into.
JJ: Neat art!
Peace, emb
All: Ghost answered my query / how he found “The supplicant,” and others may want to know:
“emb: If you access the TIP site through Google, you can right click on the image and get a dropdown box that includes “Search Google for this image”. Left clicking on that will usually yield a name for the painting and links to other sites with images of the painting.”
Ghost: Thanks much. That’s going to save me lots of time searching through offerings from outfits that sell reproductions, plus the distractions occurring in many of them [even reduced testosterone production is enough, thank God].
Peace, emb
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I too love the drawing. It reflects relaxation… love… trust… It just makes me feel good to look at it.
Wonderful, would make a great book cover.
And, in the meantime, I thought of “Indian Summer” on The Doors’ “Morrison Hotel/Hard Rock Cafe” album.
Debbe – if trying “define twig” does not work, try “idiom twig” to get non-standard definitions
Also – thanks Debbe for mentioning AdBlock. That’s one of the add-ons I have for Fire-Fox. Ghostery (thanks to the Villager who put me on to that one) is another one, and when I read your post I twigged that the little ghost up in the corner of the screen was missing! A quick check showed that the last time I updated Firefox, somehow I neglected to Enable the add-ons, hence all the junk ads that were showing up. Villagers make life nicer. Thanks again.
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JJ:
With all the Villagers here (and lurkers like me), I hope you can find some enterprise to print a couple gazrillion T’s. I’m sure many of us (at least them) have plenty of friends who would be happy to wear A & J.
S. A. Moore
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That is, indeed, a scene of domestic bliss – though I’d have figured them to be closer together.
If I were doing this, and I am not, I’d also lessen the size of Arlo’s feet.
Keep ’em comin’, JJ.
Wonderful drawing. Based on the few goodies you’ve shred with us, I would love to see your sketch book- it is probably full of gems.
In today’s comic, what am I missing? Who was Janis hearing that stimulated her to run faster, and why did the girl with earphones tackle Janis?
Peace[?], emb
I added this to RIP, Rufus Thomas
so here it is again
on 19 Sep 2015 at 4:12 pm #
GR6
Re: Joan Rivers Cook Book
My bride would eat the burnt roast and I the other. She does like “shoe leather”,
me not so much.
I have known “twig” forever, maybe it is a NE Yankeeism.
Like “trig” means put a block in front of (and behind) a wheel.
emb, she is listening to a football game. Otherwise, haven’t we gone done this road before and that neighbor has disappeared? Breaking news- Tippy is a rag doll and we couldn’t be happier. I’ve always thought that they were beautiful cats, but thousands for a kitten? Yeah right.
Actually she is watching a game. Why the girl tackled her I have no idea.
gone down! Where did I put the whiteout?
Or, has the girl been shouting at the radio in her earphones, and got carried away with this “pass receiver.” No, Janis is doing the shouting, something I associate more w/ Arlo. Maybe the girl is listening to the same game Janis is watching. People are nuts. The outdoors is for listening to birds. Or watching birds and “birds.”
Either could really happen. Could happen to the driver catching up to you going 70 in the 55 zone on 694 or 494. We live in strange times.
Peace, emb
Super drawing ! Had to study the perspective…I am allowed to wear tee shirts and jeans to work (if clean- in both senses of the term) so I’m afraid this one wouldn’t quite make the cut (more because of the “eyes of the beholder” than the actual picture), but I really like it.
That is not same neighbor that Janis collided with before.
Which reminds me. I picked up one if her old albums just because today. Because I love her gutsy voice.
Have been listening to a piano CD I bought to help a street.musician on a roll around piano of original music get to New Orleans. Actually enjoying it, evokes emotions I thought were dead, New Orleans was my soul once.
Now if the cello guy will just show up out in the Co op parking lot again. But it’s been drizzling, not good for cellos. Love.
My take on the real time, Janis was calling animated play-by-play and the other lady got caught up in it and went for the tackle.
Hung out with my old boss at her home town fair tonight. Italian sausage, over-catsuped crinkle fries, and homemade ice cream. Yum!
Before we left, JoAnne and I had to check out the antique tractors. I love antique tractors. Lots of red and green with a smattering of orange, and a couple yellows. (Yes, I know which brands those are.) I was telling Jo I disappointed not to see any Cockshutts (Just because the name amuses me. Don’t judge me.), when we found one at the end of the line next to an Oliver. The Oliver had a mason jar attached to it. Now what I know about tractors would fit on the head of a pin, with enough room left over for the lyrics to “She thinks my tractor’s sexy.” I puzzled out it had something to do with the oil, but not sure why or how. We debated going back to the herd of farmers holding court at the pavillon, but decided it would be too risky. (They didn’t seem too fond of “outsiders.”) Then we saw a pair of old timers in Case IH hats next to an International with a similar mason jar set up. Well, after the inital answer (Gets the dust out of the oil. How, I still don’t know.), the one started a sermon on parts, the importance of correct decals, and how he had the foot rest pattern for a TI-90, and another guy had the box pattern? for this incredibly rare tractor (Or maybe it was a T-90, I don’t remember. My brain instantly flashed to a graphing calculator on its side with tractor tires, and my brain went no further.) Once we discussed Jay Leno’s car collection, and the Corvette museum down south that lost several rarities to a sinkhole, we fianlly managed to wriggle away.
P.S. If anyone wants a mason jar thing for their tractor, there’s a guy in Iowa who makes and sells them, $99.95 with shipping
Are tractors sexy? Ages ago, “Playboy” ran a pseudo USSR issue. Playmate, “Olga”, was a plausibly Russian lass in the buff, posing this way and that with a [presumably Russian tractor on a presumable collective farm]. Foldout itself was Olga, the tractor.
I think it’s different now, somewhat.
Peace, emb
Mindy from Indy, I like these old steam traction engines. They are the stage between plow horses and mules, and the gasoline-powered tractor. The one from the circus with a calliope whistle is really something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oEpYFKHrc