Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In case you’re wondering, there really is such a thing as a “clurichaun.” I mean, there’s such a thing as a mythical Irish fairy called a “clurichaun.” I tell you: the things you have to know to be a cartoonist! Mostly, you have to know how to get to the Google search page. If it seems I’m chronically nostalgic for all things pre-digital, let me tell you how cartoonists used to do things. They actually kept catalogs and files of clippings at hand, just so they’d know how to draw, say, a lawn mower. Now? Pffft! Google “lawn mower” and instantly see images of just about every type of lawn mower ever invented or imagined. Also back then, every good cartoonist’s shelves groaned with dictionaries and thesauruses and encyclopedias! Now, it’s dust and old Beanie Babies.
180 responses to “Leprechauns Gone Wild”
Covered on fish sauce now from vegetarian tofu bun I had for dinner.
I live about 260 miles from the totality area for this August’s solar eclipse. We’ll be out about $500 for our room for 3 nights plus fuel and food. We hope to find a good spot near I-15 to watch it, hopefully in a state park. Much cheaper than traveling to Hawaii, though probably not nearly as much fun.
I think that Arlo and Arlo’s dad would like this 13-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvcjDe1Jq4
It’s a series of stills entitled “MOST POWERFUL, RARE AND INTOXICATING IMAGES FROM THE PAST.”
According to the news more Republicans are “jumping the fence”. It seems that we have a new catch phrase.
Jackie, everyone should own a convertible at least once in life. Or twice. Or three times…
Does kind of get the youthful juices flowing again, doesn’t it? 🙂
Why wasn’t I informed about the total solar eclipse this August? Well, I suppose that’s what happens when one quits following the news to protect one’s sanity.
It’s not coming anywhere near my part of the Deep South, but I note that the path of totality will pass very close to my original home town. Where I have relatives. Humm.
We’ll be staying in Blairsville. Our plan is watch the eclipse from Brasstown Bald, assuming everyone else in Georgia doesn’t have the same idea. Maybe Jean can keep us posted on area “watch parties”.
GR 😉 hummmm…..
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry…how is Tipper???
Two eggs, F not on nest [only F incubates], maybe M brings her food. Peace,
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/great-horned-owl-cam
You are not supposed to watch with the naked eye anyway so I will watch on TV.
Or U Tube
Ghost
While in Hawaii co-worker stayed across road from where early survival show was
filmed/recorded, It was no more than 1/2 mile from main road.
Debbe
You sure your computer is not hooked to TV?
Rick
They and you might like this – a most underrated under appreciated war movie
The intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRrsLU0r8Y
Kenneth Lee Spencer – a very under appreciated singer.
A few people have, over the years. I hope I never disappointed them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzEG_vgato
And yet, Arlo is sitting on the sofa at home when he could be sitting on the deck of “The Flying Dutchman” at the marina.
Which of course brings up Jackie and her beautiful hole in the water of marina up in Washington that I need to visit.
My friends in Colorado dropped very broad hints they wanted to buy her. Anyone want to visit Spydco? And the beer company tour or train museum or Rocky Mountains?
Jackie, you will have more company than you ever thought possible. Nixon shoplifted a pack of bubblegum.
Old Bear:
It looks interesting, and I will need to find it.
Thanks for the tip.
Good morning Villages…..
Well, we’ve had breakfast, Dad’s napping….temps are going to drop from 60ish down to 30 degrees tonight. No one mentioned it, but yesterday was the 1st day of Spring.
Jackie, you still running around with your top down?
Think i’ll nap too……
……..later
GR 😉 and yes, he does look like the Mad Hatter here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
…saw this on the news this morning, one big giant ‘cluck’ 🙂
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/03/20/giant-chicken-looks-like-grown-man-in-costume-according-to-internet.html
…Dad’s up, the nap didn’t last long….he is so bored, just paces. Ian and I took him outside yesterday for a half block walk…..twice. It was nice out yesterday….gloomy today.
Going to Illinois this weekend for Jack, my grandsons birthday party, Paw Patrol, just a day or so. I miss him. A good friend is driving with me in Black Jack, maybe top down?
Hope all my running around will be in company and no longer alone. Alone was just running away.
Video is New Orleans and Raul Malo singing one of his very introspective songs. It has nothing to do with previous comment. New song I’d not heard.
https://youtu.be/ZShm-MBwO40
I was on the path of the 1994 solar eclipse. My coworkers (a group of several hundred people) and I watched from the parking lot, growing quieter and quieter as the eclipse progressed. It seemed to grow dark so quickly, the air still and cool. So many people watching together something many of us had never before seen. I could—just a bit—understand how earlier men had been impacted by this experience. Awesome and eerie.