I’m running late today, but I am here! The above A&J from five years ago is a good example of something I mention here rather often. Regardless of what one thinks of the joke itself, it’s a good example of the essential comic strip, one where the words and the art are equally important. Take one away, and the other doesn’t work. No less than Charles Schulz said, it is what makes a comic strip a comic strip.
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Anyone use Comcast email? Problem with addresses: the drop down menu for addresses used to send a message does not match the set of addresses in my address book. I have 2 address book entries which do not appear on the drop down menu, and I cannot get rid of 3 wrong addresses on the drop down menu in spite of my having deleted them from the address book!
Irritating.
Prof, I spend a GOOD part of every day saying rude things to Yahoo who I blame for everything on computer but may actually not be at fault.
Ghost, few people end up looking like Colonel Sanders or Santa unless they favor white and red suits and are overweight. Neither of which I am sure applies to you. Keep the beard!
I want to know what kind of bread that bacon marmalade and brie sandwich is toasted on? Like I have made homemade bread lately? I keep finding reasons not to go to the grocery, would I bake bread?
Furthermore, where/how did you acquire your fluency in English?
Much better than your average Southern boy would have and you write equally well!
Lily, Waxahachie gays would probably keep a low profile? Small towns are like that but they are indeed everywhere and what’s wrong with that?
I went to boarding school with a high percentage of lesbian friends. I graduated from a southern small town school with 22 in my senior class. We had gay and lesbians in that tiny high school.
What’s wrong with that? (Not all 22 of us!)
Worked in theater arts off and on for years, full of said gays, as is the music world, the interior design field, floral arts, university professors. Heck, I have gay and lesbian cowboy friends/acquaintances right here in Oklahoma.
It’s nothing you’d sit around and ask about but they are probably going to your church, working in your hospital, living down the street. Since they don’t have to wear a brand on their forehead anymore, it’s hard to spot them!
Love, Jackie Monies
Two local couples come to mind, two men of an age [and of > 25 yr. together], two youngish women of scholarly bent who will, unfortunately from my selfish perspective, be leaving here in a year or so because of potential grad school elsewhere. They will be an asset to whatever community they settle in and are welcomed in. Others I know of here and yon, and of course others I don’t know about. Actually another, male, but I’ve not met his partner. All are churched, at least in part. Alphabetically: ELCA, UMC, U-U. I personally know parents of 1 individual, and know of the parents of another, both totally supportive.
Thinking along those lines, I know of two other young men, but not their partners, at least one set of parents of each being supportive, and of one successful businessman in town [whose partner I met once but don’t remember] whose parents have disowned him. He seems to be doing well. He gave a courageous and informative talk to our UMC adult Sun. school group some years back. Three [at least] local profs, retired and one now deceased at our Univ. One, at least did not come out until after his mom died. Another very capable former student, now mid 50s, who has had a successful media career in the Twin Cities, and is now in business with another woman, but I don’t know if they are partners. She is RC, with a supportive family. I don’t know if she is a practicing RC.
Looking back, I’m pretty sure I knew others. My mom was good friends w/ a man who worked for the same NYC business she did, and she, my dad, and I visited him and his partner in their unkempt Greenwich Village apt. several times, late ’30s and early ’40s. Sexual orientation never came up, but I’ve since put two and two together. Same man was a good friend of one of the editors of Reader’s Digest, the only [hetero] couple I’ve ever stayed in the exurb residence of who had a live-in cook. He and I slept in separate beds in the same room there once. Apparently nobody was worried. He snored. Reader’s Digest HQ were in Pleasantville; they lived in nearby Chappaqua. I could maybe think of more, but other tasks beckon. Peace, emb
Jackie: ‘brand on their forehead’. You know about Hester Prynne, who had to wear an A, for adulteress, on her blouse, and the resultant cartoons about a generation apart, first in Playboy and later in The New Yorker?
If you can pull off the southern chic linen suit look or seersucker, Ghost, you won’t look like Colonel Sanders either. My husband used to do both and only got in trouble when he accessorized it with pink tones!
I might mention he was/is quite good looking when he grows his hair back from the chemo. We wonder what colors or texture it will be? I am asking for beard again.
Love, Jackie Monies
EMB- I know about Hester but I seem to have forgotten the cartoons? I miss the New Yorker, not so much Playboy.
Love, Jackie Monies
I once papered a wall with New Yorker covers, by the way.
I have a large bulletin board which was being discarded at school, papered w/ NY covers, and lots of others filed.
The Playboy cartoon, full page [I think], color pictured some pilgrim women, at least 2 with an A, and one with a demure look, and an A+. All, of course, were relatively pretty. The New Yorker cartoon, yrs. 2-3 decades later, small, b&w, pictured some women, not particularly attractive, at least 2 with an A, and one with an A+. I gave Playboy up ages ago, but still get TNY. The ‘spots’ have not improved it any. The older, occasionally repeated sketches were far superior.
Why, shucks, ma’am, thankee kindly. I’ll get to my CV later. 🙂
A Recipe for Jackie from Ghost’s Kitchen
Bacon Marmalade and Brie Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive or grape seed oil for cooking
2 tablespoons butter, softened
2 fairly thin slices French bread
2 to 4 tablespoons Bacon Marmalade
About 2 ounces Brie cheese, cut into thin slices
A few leaves of the greens of your choice (arugula, chicory, etc.)
Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste
Directions
Heat oil in a frying pan over low heat.
Spread the outside of both slices of bread with softened butter. On the “inside” of one slice of bread, carefully arrange the slices of Brie cheese. Spread the “inside” of the other slice of bread with bacon marmalade. Place the slices of bread buttered-sides down in the oil in the pan. Cook until bread is toasted and cheese has melted but not runny.
Remove the grilled bread with cheese to a plate or cutting board. Sprinkle the Brie with a little bit of salt and fresh cracked pepper. Add a few leaves of bitter greens.
Close the sandwich with the other slice of grilled bread with the bacon marmalade. Press together firmly. Makes one sandwich.
cxp, I stopped relying on Comcast email when we had to move 3 times in less than a year. Our house was undergoing a teardown and rebuild. Comcast had this big deal about call ahead of time and give new address and they would switch everything by the date you moved. That was a total SNAFU, with them deleting my email address and losing every email I was saving on their server. When we moved the second time, I did not do the pre-call, but they would not let me keep the new email so lost everything I had gotten in that span of time. After that I set up an email address with someone else. Anything that might generate junk email I give the comcast email, everything else goes to the other one.
I have to say that It is amazing that we don’t get the foul mouth brain damaged comments here that are so common elsewhere. For a resident of the Redneck Riviera that is great to have a place to go where the intelligence level is high and people know what you’re talking about. Whoops, who am I to call someone brain damaged?
Linen or seersucker suits, Jackie? Probably not for me…always seemed a bit foppish to me. And by “foppish”, I do not mean “gay”.
I had an uncle I’m quite sure took to his grave his belief in his later years that I was gay, simply because in his mind “lifelong bachelor” was equated to “homosexual”. Even though “them would have been fightin’ words” when he was my age, I no more cared that he thought I was gay than I would have cared if he’d been right. To some degree, we are all a product of our time, and this is a much different world from his in that respect.
And while “SNAFU” is still a perfectly useful and descriptive term, do you know that it’s been replaced by the new military term “the Suck”? As in “Embrace the Suck, ’cause you can’t do nothin’ about it anyhow.”
Jackie, I do not live in Waxahachie or within a hundred miles of it, though I am fond of it. There are lesbians and gays a-plenty there (visit Getzendaner Park!) but I don’t know any of them and none of them are my friends, not by a long shot! Here in my adopted home town, we don’t see them, and that is fine with me. I don’t have many friends but they are good friends.
There is no doubt that I’ve met – known quite well, in a few cases – those of a homosexual bent. No telling how many, total, since none of us wear signs of our tendencies. While I truly support equal civil rights for hs folks just as for straight folks, the fact remains that hs is a sinful situation, no matter how one became hs. In the Old Testament, it may even have been a capital offense (cannot recall now). In the New Testament, the main author, Paul – with the imprimatur of God – condemns the practice, especially near the end of Romans’ first chapter.
Well, every human is a sinner, none excepted. Various people sin in various ways, of course, and hs is merely one of those ways. Thus, in that way, we are all equally guilty and none of us can employ any petrous projectiles on that account. Neither shall I, at persons.
However, what is incorrect in today’s world is the apparent approval of this sin by several churches, such as those eMb mentioned. Would a church approve of, say, the sin of theft or of arson or of murder? Hardly. Yet, several approve of the sin of hs. That is inconsistent with the churchs’ own aims. Churches must accept hs members, without a doubt, but to approve – officially – of any particular sin in their clergy is rather oxymoronic. Without formal approval by the ruling body of a national church, would there still be hs clergy? Yes, certainly – but then, that hs would just be a personal sin of that clergyperson, no worse than any sin of yours or of mine.
I felt compelled to state this out of firmly-held convictions supported by the Bible’s teachings and hope no one is offended.
Good morning Villagers…..
Lots of subjects above…..hmmmm, I have had two roommates who were gay, and one was my dance partner. My supervisor where I worked at the Marriott in Corpus was gay, and we were good friends….he made me mad one day, and I asked him who died and made him queen….we both had a good laugh on that one.
A sister and her husband are both HIV positive and was diagnosed 15 years ago….still thriving, but on a strict regimen of prescriptions.
I personally was diagnosed with Hep C 15 years ago……then learned I had passed it on to my son when I was pregnant 26 years ago. We both went through the Interferon and Ribovarin treatment…successfully. My son’s father died from liver failure as a result of his Hep C.
So, I hold no inhibitions against anyone who chooses to live what and how…..I only know there is a Higher Power that we all will answer to one day.
Ya’ll have a blessed day
It’s going to be another clucking day at the hen house 🙂
GR 😉 did you see the cat pic with the beard?
…and Jackie….the ebola epidemic in Africa scares me too…especially since we have such “open” borders.
What make me mad….you have to have more health papers on animals when you even cross state lines…..
Just read some of the headlines on the Drudge Report….they are now forcing 550 Majors to retire….and some are still in Afghanistan. I can’t understand how he got elected twice, IMO.
Geesh…got on a rant this am….hope JJ changes the cartoon this morning.
May God have mercy on these volunteers:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-virus-british-aid-workers-3956692
On a lighter note, today’s TIP is neat:
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c x-p: One can find more sins than you can shake a stick at in the Bible and the New Testament. My favorite pair of cargo pants is made of two different fabrics. One can also find specific punishments, e.g. stoning. If the ‘sin’ is to be regarded as proscribed, shouldn’t the punishment be regarded as prescribed? I decline to cast the first stone.
Paul perhaps protests too much. Bishop Spong thinks the thorn in his side was suppressed gayness. I’m inclined to agree. The Bible also contains numerous examples of illness being regarded as Elohim’s punishment for sin, either of the victim or his folks, through the 4th generation, no less. I go to the doctor or the ER.
Most importantly, world society as a whole does little / the sin most often mentioned in Scripture, neglect of the poor. The evidence to me seems to indicate that same-sex orientation is rarely a matter of choice; I knew one lesbian, a single mother who had been abused, who said she chose it, and I don’t blame her, nor am I worried about her salvation. If there is a hereafter [and only Elohim knows if that would be a good idea], I think gays as such have little to fear. [The Rastafarians misuse of Elohim is illegitimate; it is the first name of God used in Genesis 1, and I prefer it, for several reasons.] Elohim be merciful to them, who have taken the name of the Lord in vain. Peace, emb
c e-p all true but “none of us wear signs of our tendencies” I take it you’ve never seen a “pride” parade
P.S. “. . . firmly-held convictions supported by the Bible’s teachings and hope no one is offended.” I’m not offended, certainly not by a calmly stated and well put defense of sincerely held convictions. But I thought it well to offer an alternative viewpoint. Peace, emb
Debbe, your mention of the Drudge report made me curious. I’ve heard of it but never seen it. A draw down of servicemen always happens after a withdrawal from conflict, doesn’t it? And Congress has been cutting budgets and demanding smaller services for years. So I wanted to see what they said. But I couldn’t find the article you mentioned. I did find a lot of (what looked to me) hyperbole. It made me think of tabloids in the checkout aisle. Probably there is more to the story, on both sides!
On the “embrace the suck” theme, one of my good friends, retired Army, finally got to sail on the Texas 200 challenge, a small boating event known as the “rodeo on the water”, so that gives you some idea it is no beer cruise. We thought he’d love the mud, heat and punishment.
He DID NOT like it and said he’d embraced the suck so hard he had bruises on both arm pits. Another of Mike’s sailing partners wrote one of his typical humor columns on this theme, which I will link here when I find it.
Help is here taking my trash bags out to the containers by street thru the construction zone, so I need to get going!
Love, Jackie Monies