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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Ghost: BS. Dead is dead. Dead people can’t walk or hurt anybody or eat “Brainnssss…” Dead tissues can’t function. Nobody could ever convince me of that. I believe in evil spirits and demons, and could on a stretch believe in werewolves (though mostly I just laugh myself sick) Sorry. i could even believe in a ghost that wanted for some reason to look like a skeleton, but I wouldn’t be afraid of them. I have seen real evil and it has no magic about it.
Nope, DM, these “zombies” aren’t dead. (That’s why I put “zombies” in quotation marks.) They are the victims of viruses (some weaponized, some naturally mutated) that cause various forms of deranged, zombie-like behavior.
NK, according to Variety, Fox has a script for “The Deep Blue Goodbye” and is in talks with Christian Bale to star as Travis McGee. I could never understand why someone had not ever developed those 21 John D. MacDonald novels into a blockbuster movie franchise. Perhaps that may now happen.
Not sure Bale would have been my first choice to portray Trav, but a movie set on the water would certainly provide plenty of opportunities for him to take off his shirt. Could help pull in movie viewers of the female persuasion, I suppose.
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NK/AZ: I was raised with aunt/ant being homonyms [ in NYCity ].
Where in KS were you raised – I was in Lawrence for 6 years a while back.
Yes, I believe we did the creek/Creek/crick thing some time ago; for my money, the reference is to the waterways of the region.
Lilyblack, although General Chamberlain was at Gettysburg, he was only a Colonel at the time, commanding the 20th Maine on Little Round Top. The man you’re quoting was General John Sedgwick who is reported to have said that just as he was killed at Spotsylvania Court House on May 9, 1864. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick#Death) Alas, it appears that the story is apocryphal; he actually finished the sentence and was killed moments later.
Good morning Villagers…
Llee, you’re right, Drudge is like a tabloid with only headlines. Other news sources (clicked on Yahoo news this morn for the first time) run videos and it only slows down my computer (yeah, I know, get a new laptop)
But, downsizing our military is not the strategy to be doing now (and this was not the first time I’d seen nor hear of it)….we were once a great military force in the world and I’m afraid that we’ve become weak.
Indy Mindy….what did you win? And I too say ‘soda’.
later……………..
Good morning Debbe and other early risers. The birds are chirping away outside my office and it is still dark. I need to get their feeders refilled so they will hang around today. Mom and I enjoy watching them and I have feeders out on edge of porch so the food stays dry and she can see them. Makes a mess but that isn’t important to anyone except the husband really, mom loves to go sweep the porch anyway.
We have I believe all the John MacDonald novels here in library/office with me or should be back in place soon. Husband is huge fan of Travis McGee. He gets onto certain authors and accumulates a lot of books, not to mention he has left his boating book collection to some institution and he’d better tell me who it is!
Husband is beginning to feel better. He yelled at me about all the stuff we had stashed in here while he was so ill, we immediately got most of it out so he could continue to catalog and replace his books. He has not put an additional book back yet but I am going to remind him, he needs to get back to some activity to make him feel “normal”.
Just noticed the 12# dog is sleeping on the pillow from my desk chair on floor. Neighbor and I seem to have acquired a rat terrier or something like a Chihuahua Jack Russell cross? Cute dog, no tags. Floor dog is my really badly bred Papillion/maybe? I have had a long time.
Everyone have a good day today where ever you are in life or America.
Love, Jackie Monies
Thanks Sideburns for the sharpshooter information! I love this bar and grill, lots of good and interesting history, theology, food and thought. We were supposed to be going to Philly and Gettysburg later this month but it has been changed to Wilmington, DE, the du Pont gardens and mansions and the only exhibit of “Downton Abbey” in America before it leaves town.
Oh, and at least one nautical museum and the new downstairs staff exhibit on how servants lived and worked during the du Pont homes I believe. I find out where we are going when we get there? But Longwood Gardens is on my bucket list since I was about 20, so need to get it seen.
Love, Jackie Monies
GR6, are you reading the new John Ringo series? If not, give them a try. Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope.
Funny to hear you were once in the skip trace business. I did some of that myself while working for ADT Remarketing Solutions. We didn’t do the repo ourselves, but were middlemen taking contracts from lenders and farming it out to the folks with the tow trucks. We had a few people who did the work on hard skips to get leads for the repo crews. Interesting work, to me.
My favorite squirrel cartoon from A and J. If I can link it, back from 2000.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/04/03#.U-DG1lVOw34
Actually was reading the simple fisherman and mermaid link/arc which I think is one of best Jimmy has ever done. Feeding the night crawlers to Janis is too funny on sexy eating scene.
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning, Villagers. Nine mile run done and nw ff to work. Cya
Not sure whether to be more impressed with Lily running 9 miles before breakfast or John Ringo writing 33 books in collaboration with a ton of writers? Whoa! Almost swallowed the wrong pill!
Love, Jackie Monies
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Jackie, I loved the Lovely Mermaid’s affectionate nickname for the Simple Fisherman…Simp Fish. And also, of course, that she didn’t know what to do with a bra. 😉
For those who haven’t seen it, Arlo gives her a bra to wear to meet his mother and Janis puts it on her head like a cap. And yes, I thought of Ghost!
Love, Jackie Monies
Aw, come on, even a hippie chick knows where to put a bra! I can remember getting taken by my gramma to the Playtex store and solemnly getting fitted for my training bra. Got to admit I go without one most days, except when dressing up to go to church or go out. Even in wintertime, when I wear a tee under my scrub top and a lab coat over that. It makes me feel dressed up when I wear one, and somehow cuter, especially when my underwear match
One day, one of my all-female staff was telling the others about some great lingerie bargains she’d found on sale at a local department store. (Yeah, they mostly treat me like I’m just one of the girls, and I hear it all.) Another of them is a very attractive older woman who is not at all what one would call well-endowed. The bargain-finder told her, deadpan, “And they have some lovely training bras, too.”
Har, har, I kicked the slats out of my cradle the last time I heard that one. 😛
I was at a slumber party in high school and was changing into a nightgown and one of my better-endowed friends said, “Wow, Susie, have you tried Clearasil?”
And speaking of “endowed”…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/05/09#.U-DaNfldWa8
Debbe – I won a galaxy tablet and some Coke brand goodies. Haven’t got it yet, probably a good thing because the cat refuses to help pack. Poor kitty is so confused…
I’m sure you don’t worry about it, DM, but I don’t think you have to worry about anyone mistaking you for a boy.
Should we ask how the Pepsi man helped you win a Coke contest, Lady Mindy?
Mark, I have read the first John Ringo dystopian novel you mentioned. (Not really a zombie story, Lily. 🙂 ). Just the other day I was checking the Kindle Budget to see how soon I could purchase novel #2 in the series. I had to set up the KinBud because of Amazon’s Kindle Store “Buy now with 1-Click” feature. (Talk about a kid in a candy store.) Whoever came up with that is an evil, evil person.
My boss did vehicle repo work as a sideline, and I both helped him and did some for him when he was busy and we had a hot one to grab. He was listed in the ARA directory, and most of our cases were for out-of-state banks and finance companies on cars, trucks, motorcycles and tractors (as in tractor-trailers). It wasn’t high volume, and I never had to “steal” one (which meant “confrontation” instead). As you’d guess, I do have a few interesting repo stories. (Bubba can get testy when you tell him he’s got to give up his shiny, almost-new 4WD, just because he’s three payments in arrears.) If it wasn’t cost effective for the lien holder to have someone come get the unit, we’d get local bids and sell it for them. I actually bid on and got a nice Kawasaki Z1 that way. Something of a crotch-rocket in its day, but I was a wild and crazy guy back then, and certainly nothing like the staid, upstanding citizen I am today.
Quote of the day: ” There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” -G.K. Chesterton
I can’t bring myself to buy a book by anybody named “John Ringo.” It reminds me of my grandpa playing that dumb Lorne Green song (or rather monologue) that doesn’t really make sense.
Ghost – We still have no Pepsi cooler. No one wants a warm soda, so Coke products are selling like crazy.
My former assistant’s boyfriend does repo work for a local car dealer. Lots of crazy stories.
Lily – Short recap of the Ringo song: Singer saves Ringo’s life. Ringo becomes outlaw, singer a law man. Ringo shows up to town, and singer is sent to kill Ringo. Ringo outdraws singer, but only shoots the gun out of singer’s hand in respect for singer saving Ringo’s life. The townspeople kill Ringo, and singer retires and puts his badge on Ringo’s grave as a symbol of mutual respect – Ringo ultimately kept a shred of humanity until he died.