OK, I promised you more “wild art.” How’s this? I drew this to be the cover of my book. Beaucoup Arlo & Janis, but I chickened out. I didn’t want to have to listen to all the juvenile giggling and hooting which I knew would ensue (No, not you!) or to that annoying tut-tutting about children reading the comics. I told you: I chickened out. Instead, I went with a more staid version of a Rodin theme which I thought turned out well enough.
Modely Crew
By Jimmy Johnson
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208 responses to “Modely Crew”
Ha, an excellent version! Although the one that ended up on Beaucoup was great too. Thanks, Jimmy, for sharing these with us.
JJ: This one is naughtier, but the one you used as the cover is better. Janis’s legs don’t measure up, here. I wonder if Mike ever did have this problem. My last post, # 47 in the ‘next’ batch, was:
emeritus minnesota biologist on 24 Oct 2014 at 10:08 am # 47.
OF due soon: 1011-1031 CDT. *
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
*It was slow coming [!] but pretty good when it finally blew. Videocam person panned NW for a really spectacular view of a bigger geyser near the edge of the geyser basin. A lone slim couple showed up in time to be the [apparently] only people to watch and photo OF live.
Now just one man, staring at the ufo. Abduction scheduled for 11:18.
I am willing to bet this one does not make the t-shirt either
The cover is better JJ, even if it was a chicken drawn version!
Not that this one wasn’t funny. I am enjoying the outtakes.
Trapper Jean, I think I have several friends near you who also go out on Lake Lanier. Was one of the times it flooded downstream in 2009? I think we were there, downstream, where Atlanta flooded.
We are talking about doing a trip to NC, VA and then down to Florida perhaps before winter gets there. Not a problem in Florida, of course.
Mike is having some surgery next Tuesday which messed us up from going to NC this week but we still want to go and meet up with our boat designer there and Mike’s sailing partner who is also a boat designer. We have a lot of boats to borrow and go out in, so no need to haul a boat along.
Aren’t friends wonderful people?
Love, Jackie Monies
JJ
Love it!
Thank you Jean for the link to sustainable seed. Boy, I am in trouble. I am already ordering seed from them. I love the heirloom varieties and weird colors and they have some I have not seen. I will end up plowing up the back forty and planting it!
Love, Jackie
My In-laws got a copy of the statue “The Kiss” for their 40th wedding anniversary years ago. My kids were still young and they certainly got their eyes opened.
I do like the version that you used. Had you used this one, I would have had to explain to my Mother-In-Law that this was not a dirty comic book.
Then again…..
It is true that much that happens in the bedroom is or appears awkward and ridiculous…
Only thing awkward that happens in my bedroom is when Neeshka opens the bathroom door when I take a shower. Ridiculous I am not going into. 😛
I too prefer the “tamer” version, but this outtake also captures the spirit of A&J very well- two mature adults in a solid, comfortable relationship. Bravissimo, JJ!
JJ, we just returned from New Orleans to find this delightful treat. Not unlike what one see on Burbon Street or in the French Quarter. I will leave to Loons discretion if she wants to talk about our ticket; was not a traffic offense.
Love this drawing! Maybe on the cover of the next book?
Quote from MPR’s daily news email, this item concerning the gasses emitted by a comet that has a probe closing in on it:
” ‘It’s quite a smelly mixture,’ she says.
‘Why didn’t we know comets smelled so bad before?’
‘That’s mostly because we’ve never been that close to a comet,’ says Altwegg. [The Rosetta mission is now just 5 miles from the comet’s surface.]
‘It’s just like a person: You can’t really get a good sense of a person’s body odor until you’re right up next to him.’ ”
Any problems with this quote?
As a health care professional, I can testify that when a patient has been drinking, smoking, or their deodorant has let them down, you can tell the minute you walk into a room!
Of course, everyone is a critic, but I agree with EMB. The artistry of Janis’ legs and feet in ‘Lost at Sea’ is in a different class. I do love the perfectly captured chagrin and frustration of the sculptor. Imagine the difficulty of using Arlo with Janis in flagrante delicto!
So, Sand did you get a ticket for “street walking” across Canal Street as I once did?
Love, Jackie
It is that time of year, when Walmart and the box stores have to dump merchandise to make room for Christmas. A time of year that is like having Christmas early for me, because I go buy myself gifts!
Walked into Walmart garden center just as they marked all the mums down to $1.98 and I mean nice ones! Picked out a dozen for my curbside area and hoped the stone masons are through stomping on it. Purples and bright yellows.
Asked if the bulbs were on sale, since they were piled on a rack helter skelter. They said no, still full price. I said what a shame, I needed a lot. Before I got my mums picked out, they put a very small 50% off sign about two inches long on side of rack!
Ha! Gardeners can smell when they are going to do this, at least I can because I went there deliberately to help them with this very problem of theirs. I tell you, I am Janis. Mike is poor Arlo.
Love, Jackie
OF due 1918-1938 CDT. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Forgot to say but I am going to do masses of orangish-apricot tulips, that shade to yellows, bright yellow tulips and daffodils in yellows, some with more orange centers.
Hopefully the ground is not compacted like concrete!
I am going to over sow with spring flower seeds planted in fall. My gardening guides for fall planting assure me this is better than spring, they will go dormant and sprout in spring with the weeds!
My gardening preferences lean to Disney World style, meaning mass plantings in dramatic colors. We will see if the voles and moles leave any for spring?
Love, Jackie
Our roses still look good, and the asters. We have a pot of orange chrysanthemums on either side of the front door, but that is about all the display we do. If I want pretty flowers I can go admire the flowers in the front hall which change every week and I rescue the ones that still look good and put them in my little vases. My idea of beauty is the new sunrise I see every morning and the open road.
Of course our yard is all decorated for Hallowe’en, with the newest thing a sign that I made for our “wacky witch” that looks like she ran into the big pecan tree out front: “Do not text while flying!”. 😀 We have a skeleton coming out of the ground, the swing drive in front is lined with orange lights, there are bats around the second story and a ghost that shrieks when people come up to the front door. There is a partially skeletal corpse that hangs in the live oak in front, and the dying hackberry has a ghost coming out of its rotting hole.
Put this in the next book Jimmy!
Like the kids question: http://www.gocomics.com/herman
Last time I put up elaborate Halloween decorations in Oklahoma was quite a few years ago. Which is not to say I don’t love it, my favorite holiday actually. But the little boy across the street came over with an open Bible and told me I was practicing witchcraft and worship of voodoo religions. He told me he was praying for me.
Now I mostly do “fall” or scarecrows, pumpkins, sunflowers. Which for a lady who used to do story hour at the library in Houston as a green witch with a wart on her long nose is a pretty conservative display!
My Catahoula Cur tri-color is named “Voodoo Queen” for her blue eyes and black mask she wears.
I am giving out creepy light up toys that feel totally squishy and weird, with urchin like protrusions all over.
Love, Jackie
If that kid had come over to our house, Jackie, I would have set him down to tell him that all those things are symbols of the forces of evil that Christ defeated and that tomorrow we would be praying for the souls of the faithful departed. I myself never wear scary costumes (this year I am Harlequin), last year a cheerleader. No blood or knives around.