I’m sorry I missed updating yesterday. I’m trying to do better about that. Actually, I was away from my lair yesterday and am again today, but Gene and Ruth resume their 1996 conversation. To be a stickler about it, it is their second conversation, and Gene’s confidence grows. However, I am going to interrupt our own conversation about adult Gene and the other coast people—and the boat—for at least a day. Thank you for coming by!
149 responses to “Ruthmore”
Maybe it’s something about that URL. Try another: http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/ Peace,
It posted two words and rejected remainder and then would not connect.
worked for me
I have moved on to styling my hair and leaving!
Debbe 😉 I was up late cramming for a final. Not really, but I was burning the midnight oil for a good purpose, saw the real-time cartoon, and couldn’t resist. I used to do early drive-by posts like that occasionally, but it’s been a while. Probably won’t make a habit of that.
My first thought was of another “colorist failure”, as I suspect Jimmy may have pictured the cups to be red in color, making them examples of the world famous (well, Southern famous) Red Solo Cup™. So I went with Dixie Cup™ instead.
Miss your wicked humor, Ghost. You have not been up to snuff lately. Stress does that. I will refrain from posting some of my worst ideas for names for the veggie stop.
On the road again, among the blue bonnets as soon as I find my plastic maps to overwhelm my gps.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1996/10/09
Ghost, I personally found the “head-on” shot of Ruth in the 3rd panel to be both endearing and a fascinating exercise in perspective by Our Humble Author. (He also has an excellent recall of being in “the love cloud” with someone.) It made me wonder what Arlo and Janis would look like from “head-on” in a 3-D rendering.
In the sixth grade, I endeavored to make 3-D likenesses of much of the cast of “Peanuts” that would also correspond to the drawings from Mr. Schulz’ preferred angles. Lucy’s hair was a major challenge, as was the shape of Linus’ head, but I was actually able to pull it off in each instance. I don’t know if it would be possible to do in exactly the same way with this cast, due to the measures of whimsy, artistic license and personal style that Our Humble Author uses (see “Ears, Ludwig’s” among other examples. ) It is an interesting visualization that accompanies such a challenge and speaks to the craftsmanship in the medium that one can easily overlook each day in the “funnies.”
Evan, “endearing” is perhaps not the word I’d apply to the full-frontal view of Ruth’s head. But as someone here is wont to say, “De gustibus non est disputandum”. 🙂
Below is the first example I can recall of the head of a major character here pictured in other than some degree of profile. And yes, it makes me wonder how Janis would look in a “full-frontal” 3-D rendering. Now *that* would be fascinating!
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/08/16
Ghost, might just be Styrofoam ™, not paper. And I think that the Garden of Eatin’ is a name already used by an organic snack maker.
Yep. http://www.gardenofeatin.com/
The “full face” drawing of Ruth — my feeling is, maybe not a realistic picture of her features. More what she looks like to Gene as she moves toward him! He feels like a cornered animal!
Full face view better for reflecting her thought processes as she amends her statement, trying not to spook Gene. First she says what she really feels, then adds Guys, so Gene won’t think she only wants to be with him, even though it’s what she means.
Ghost, well met, and indeed, the eye of the beholder is always right. 🙂 In fact, it is Ruth’s shining eyes that caught my attention. It is always a good thing to be looked at with shining eyes.
As for the 3-D rendering YOU were mentioning, I am not proficient in Latin at all, but the phrase that comes to mind is “Age quod agis,” which I heard in “Tombstone” and purportedly means, “Do what you do.” And you certainly do. 😉
I believe I previously mentioned that when Millionaire Widow Lady and I had been apart for a while, I would always greet her with an embrace and kiss lasting for several minutes. When she came up for air, she would invariably comment that her eyes were “watering”. I never told her that glistening eyes are a sign of female sexual arousal.*
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Instead of guessing what the kids will name the stand, we should be speculating on what happened to “the boat”.
Yes, what happened to the boat?
That portrait of Ruth is a little scary, like doll in the movie?
Here I am on Lake Texoma just inside Oklahoma state line driving alongside border. Potty break time. Realized I hadn’t stopped!
Been in remote ranch area. Where’d all the swanky ranch houses come from? Huge mansions. Wells are shut down and not pumping.
So, oil prices are so low, they won’t pay the electric bill to pump it? Doubt it. Why sell it at $37 a barrel now when it can stay in the ground a while and perhaps bring $60 or more a barrel when the next Middle East crisis inevitably occurs?
Evan, I’m sure your rendering of classic comic strip characters were closer to the mark than this one of Lucille Ball:
http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2015/10/this_will_be_no_ugly_lucy_former_syracuse_sculptor_creating_new_statue_of_lucill.html
GR6, my speculation on the boat. The kids swapped it for a patch of land with an old house and an abandoned roadside filling station. What I call a plot thickener.
Why they still are pumping oil, from my industry sources. Pumping at a loss is cheaper than shutting down a field, which then has to be injected to get the flow going later. What the accountant would say is the marginal cost of pumping is cheaper in the long run than reopening the field later.
Good Lord, TR, did Willem Dafoe model for that statue?!?
https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2009/11/18/1258545958943/Willem-Dafoe-2005-001.jpg
Evan, fair warning on Mr. Dafoe. He was Sgt. Elias in Vietnam and after a CIA sheep dipping was known as John Clark. Not sure I would miss with him. 😉
“trying not to spook Gene.” I thought she, in that 3/4 view in the 4th panel, with the look that says to herself “Be careful!”, is making sure her mother, not far off, is hearing that final “s”. Peace,
By the way, people of a certain age will recognize this lady’s name and those of her creations: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2016/04/08/1-childrens-author-beverly-cleary-feisty-as-she-nears-100.html
I hadn’t realized she was still with us, but I recall reading her books when in elementary school.
What Lucy really looked like in that episode: http://static.hypable.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/vitameatavegamin.jpg
Debbe 😉 Wow, betcha didn’t see this one coming, did you, hon? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68
What did I miss on red cups? We use for mixing epoxy and drinking tea.
Saw some kind of touring Mexican band from Monterrey or else some rico touristas de Mejico? Coming to Merles services?