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Rearranged Marriage

By Jimmy Johnson



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Today I’m posting a two-fer from 10 years ago. I’ve been doing a lot of this sort of thing myself lately, thinking of ways to expand my studio, which is a small downstairs room in my house that is overflowing with, well… I’m not sure what all this crap is, but suffice to say it’s “overflowing.” In 30 years of drawing Arlo & Janis I have had only one perfect studio space, the entire upstairs of a small Tudor-style house I lived in briefly in the 90s. Of course, this situation is my own doing. My lack of organizational skills and my relative indifference to clutter have turned many an adequate room into a dysfunctional fire trap. Well, if I say so myself, this year’s resolutions are holding strong, and I’m determined to transform my current workspace, albeit small. Maybe I’ll post pictures as I go!

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141 responses to “Rearranged Marriage”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    March winds have arrived before schedule. When I went to the Post Office at noon, I had to make a crosswind approach to get my car into the parking slot.

    One of the things I picked up at the Post Office…a Gerber Artifact pocket keychain tool. Because I needed my cargo pants to be an ounce and a half heavier. 🙂

    http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/th/content_26/Q2_2009/Gerber-B001349MD8-3-lg.jpg

  2. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    GR6, keep purchasing doo dads, you’ll need to upgrade your pants. Next trip to post office should be for these, https://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/workwear/fire-hose/fh-work-clothes.aspx?all&processor=content&src=G001099&admkt=&gclid=Cj0KEQiAjZGnBRCOuJOUo9Xd0sUBEiQAPbicNxfxdsN-_mYb6iarM4OVD3Rw9UXTT_QBSpB0EKeOmFIaAp308P8HAQ

    Add a couple pairs of the Buck Naked undies to complete the ensemble. ????

  3. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Damn, Emoji don’t work in here, keep forgetting.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Actually, sand, I’m saving up for a pair of their Ballroom Jeans.

  5. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    OF due 1757-1817 CST. Just now, webcam is/was focused in a background geyser. emb

  6. Village Loon Avatar
    Village Loon

    Feeling a little cramp in manland Mr. Ghost? A nice long hot shower could ease your discomfort, if you get the hint. Hehehe!

  7. Mindy from Indy Avatar
    Mindy from Indy

    Drat! Take two –

    Still here. Slowly battling all of the germs, viruses, and general yuck going around. Funny how life works. My pregnant assistant called off Monday, very sick, and on her way to the hospital. The baby is okay, but mom is not so much. She has pneumonia, and they are keeping her until she has the baby. Monday was *supposed* to be my day off, and I was thinking I wasn’t getting on this week. However, twist of events got me today off – which is awesome, because I feel like crap today. Which in turn allowed me to dig through my digital archives, for my cousins, for photos of my aunt’s sister-in-law, who died of a massive heart attack in her home last night.
    Concerning 9CL, when does Juliette do when she finds out the story-teller is also the killer?

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    All in my mail today was a 2# Defender catalog (which is actually a marine catalog) not what it sounds like. I get all the ones like LL Bean, Lands End, Duluth Trading and as an extra bonus all the ones selling more tech stuff than anyone could imagine, except it is for boats and outdoors, like REI and West Marine.

    When I get back skinny, which I am, I will go back to wearing well tailored women’s sportswear again. I miss looking like a Land’s End photo shoot I guess?

    Healthy eating going well and I am resisting the Diet Cokes, despite great provocation today with insurance companies and Walmart Pharmacy. Three hours over prescriptions that were all called or faxed in! I wanted some caffeine so badly I could have just injected it in my veins!

  9. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Someone may have posted this already, but I like the comment that someone made when a friend put it on Book of Faces: “I can’t think of a single response that would not be inappropriate.”
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/michigan-republican-official-fatally-shoots-self-in-eye-while-adjusting-gun-in-her-bra-holster/

  10. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Ruth Anne, you beat me to it! I was just going to post a link to that story!

  11. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    In other words, I should get a waist holster and stick my gun in my pants under a loose shirt?
    And shoot myself in the butt being less suicidal in appearance?

  12. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    sand, the Duluth Trading Company television ads are gems.

    Mindy from Indy, you have officially been nominated for sainthood for your general above-and-beyondness. And wonderfulness. And your attention to kitties. And I hope you feel better soon.

  13. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Jackie, get the holster you like, but be careful adjusting it. 😉

  14. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    No, Jackie, just follow the Four Rules and don’t be negligent and you’ll be fine.

    And celebrating the death of someone because you don’t agree with their beliefs is such a lovely ISIS-like thing to do, isn’t it?

  15. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Denise, they are memorable. Just down here in Dixie we seldom have giant angry beaver attacks. 😉

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Mosquitoes, bees, wasps, horseflies, snakes,etc but not giant beavers. How about calling them cat-proof pants? Ever had a cat decide to climb your pants leg? That would get them a whole new demographic.

    Ghost, those bra holsters require a new rule. I will leave it to you and sandcastler ™ to come up with it.

  17. David in Austin Avatar
    David in Austin

    Hopefully not TMI for a family forum… two key body function requirements post surgery have been satisfied. Both were essential before I can be released to go home.
    ~
    I am still experiencing ATN (acute tubular necrosis) or sleepy kidney. That means that the kidney was damaged by the waiting time on ice after donation. It is a normal, expected, part of transplant, especially cases like mine. The kidney was on ice for 22 hours! As a result of the damage, the function has not been what we had hoped for now. It is at least producing some urine, see #1 above.
    ~
    Still not feeling well, very tired and sore from surgery.
    ~
    However, with all that said, it is possible that I will go home tomorrow. The surgery is healing well enough and I’ve passed all the training tests. I will be doing dialysis at home until the kidney starts.
    ~

  18. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Mark, unsure about the rule. Do think a bra holster accident could be classified a blunder bust.

  19. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Pretty good report, David. Although the results were not (so far) as optimal as might have been hoped, that still sounds encouraging.

    Happy body functioning. 🙂

  20. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Okay, bra holster story is old news. The video is 🙂

    http://boingboing.net/2015/02/18/bra-holster-misfire-kills-mich.html

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    She violated rules 1 and 2 (and likely 3), and it cost her her life. Another rule wouldn’t help. And no, it wasn’t an “accidental shooting” or a “misfire”, it was negligence.

    Jackie, you didn’t mention if yours has ever been utilized as a kitten transport device.

  22. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    First, about southern beavers, we do have them. Oklahoma is more southern than midwest and our lake here has beavers. But Louisiana definitely has beavers. In fact, I am going to visit a friend in Dubach, LA (near Shreveport) and he has a private lake on his property. The last time I was there we got a tour of the beaver chewed dogwoods and other ornamental trees he had placed around lake, now eaten by beavers. One even came up into his front yard and got a tree there. Aggressive beavers?

    But one of the times I got angry at my mother was when she had the beavers killed on our farm in the Mississippi Delta of Tensas, LA which is just off the Missisissippi or in the river in some circumstances. They had built a dam and were flooding some farmland so she had them killed.
    I am surprised Mississippi and Alabama don’t have them.

    Love, Jackie

  23. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    No, but the 10# dog was raised between my two frontal mounds because he was so tiny when I got him and I would work in office on phones and computer and he’d snooze inside a pajama top or sweat shirt and poke his head out occasionally. He looked like a furry earmuff actually.

    Then he’d sleep on one ear at night, mine, which was weird and if I turned over he’d switch sides. He may weigh more than 10# now but he still wants to try to balance on my chest and he usually slides off now.

    OK, Ghost, you can visualize a fur ball between …………