Did you draw a cartoon lover’s name this year? Are you chafing because your plan to give everyone on your list an Arlo & Janis t-shirt fell through? Well, I have a suggestion for you. Check out “Team Cul de Sac.” Cul de Sac is the engaging comic strip drawn by Richard Thompson, the talented artist and illustrator whose blossoming career as a comic strip creator was cut off by the progression of Parkinson’s disease in 2012. The TCDS web site has for sale two books, and a portion of the money goes to The Michael J. Fox Foundation and to TCDS, both of which are dedicated to publicizing and funding the fight against Parkinson’s disease. One of the volumes is a collection of the work of various cartoonists—giants in the trade—assembled especially to benefit Thompson and the TCDS effort. Another is a beautiful collection of the work of Richard Thompson himself. Either would make a great gift for anyone who loves cartoons. It would make me feel better if you took some of that money you had set aside for A&J t-shirts and spent it one of these great books.
Santa’s Little Helper
By Jimmy Johnson
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55 responses to “Santa’s Little Helper”
Charlotte,
By contractual obligation with Google™ I am not permitted to use my magic wand for evil purposes.
The recent mention of the Southern Breakfast of Champions (salted peanuts poured into a bottle of Coke) reminded me of what some of my USAF buddies from the Left Coast claimed was the California Breakfast of Champions…a Ding Dong and an Oly, purchased and consumed at a convenience store on the way to work.
Of course, that was some years ago. There is probably now a state law that codifies the CA BoC as “tofu and kale juice.” 🙂
Mark inTTown, I remember Teaberry gum! I preferred it to Juicy Fruit. And I was pretty good at the Teaberry Shuffle, too- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk11Acjofu8 (and I still listen to my Herb Alpert records, though now on cd)
Jackie, I don’t remember Peanut Patties. I do still like Turtles, though. 🙂
Ghost, flirting with another redhead? Shame on you, philanderer that you are!
And yes, peanuts DO go with milk-on a PBJ with grape jam. I do love boiled peanuts in the summer, and boiled okra.
I’m not quite up to eMb’s quart a day, but I do drink a lot of milk. I tend to stay with whole sweet milk, but my Dad loved buttermilk. His favorite thing was to crumble cornbread in a bowl and pour buttermilk over it and eat it with a slice of Vidalia onion.
My entire family seemed to have eaten the cornbread and buttermilk, minus the onions. Even today after 70 years my mama still tells me “I can’t eat onions” every day at least once!
I just laughed at the Teaberry Shuffle commercials and stumbled over a Jeanne Robertson routine about “Don’t Go to Vegas Without A Baptist” which made me laugh out loud. She is so funny and I knew of her comedy routines thanks to my good friend the chicken farming Baptist from Louisiana.
Try to find something each day that makes you laugh out loud. Or at least smile. That is why I come here.
Love, Jackie
Longest twelve-hour work day I’ve had in a long time. Get to back in at 5am. Will be hating that alarm clock at 4am.
Decided to aggravate my annoyingly unhelpful, pregnant, assistant by giving her pending baby girl an “inspired” name. The father has already promised my assistant’a mom the baby would have her middle name – Joelle. (Which my assistant hates, btw.) I came up with Rutabaga Harlequin Joelle P*****. The joke was on me, as it turns out, my assistant had no idea what either a rutabaga or a harlequin was – she thought a rutabaga was a car (Studebaker) and harlequin a made-up word. She actually was more annoyed with harlequin than rutabaga – which would be even funnier to you all if you ever saw my assistant – she wears heavy, bright, glittery, makeup, and looks like a harlequin most of the time herself. If I hadn’t explained either one, I might have almost convinced her on Rutabaga. Ha!
Early wake-up, off to bed. Night all.