I’m not much of a sketcher. I don’t have a lot of doodles or rough drafts lying around my office. So, what is all this junk lying around? But that’s another topic. I attribute this mainly to being a writer first and a graphic artist second. All my life I’ve had a knack for drawing, but it turned out to be a secondary talent. I marvel at the manic impulse to doodle that possesses so many of my cartooning peers. I wish I were more like that. However, every now and then, I turn out a sketch for the sake of warming up, or improving my chops, or—rarest of all—because I feel like drawing something. Anyway, I drew this one last week; I think it was a subliminal desire to be at the beach. I thought I would share it with you.
Sea Fever
By Jimmy Johnson
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290 responses to “Sea Fever”
I just read something kind of interesting. In 1950, 1,264.32 babies per 10 million were named Janis. In 2013, only 14.244 per 10 million were given the same name. More names here:
http://names.mooseroots.com/stories/3838/names-going-out-of-style?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=ao.cm.ob.dt.3838&utm_term=dt#18-janis
There’s another site that gives different results:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=janis&sw=f&exact=true
I believe the difference is the one I’ve cited is strictly using USA data; yours seems to through the UK into the mix.
I am a bit jealous Jackie. OTOH, I would have trouble getting the knives over the border.
Spydeco was phenomenon and love the owners, going to eat Italian with them in 7 minutes so I am late. No free knives but I bought a Japanese chef’s knife, a Salt and a kitchen knife guaranteed to chop off fingers. More later.
Italian sushi?
Here’s that dancing violinist again, performing with the MoTabs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbAmXyYTLBI
…. and I go to work today only to find my poor 3rd shift girl working in semi-darkness. She has no mobile phone, and the cordless was dead. There was only power to the register she was on, four or five sets of fluorescents, three freezers, our deli table, and just enough juice left over to keep the walk-in from completely dying. I’ve never seen such a courteous power outage. The electric company showed up around 10a and we finally “started” our day around 11a.
This is really starting to get old.
Indy Mindy, I love the way you can turn a misfortune into a funny story. The drama never ends in your life, does it! I am glad to hear that Blacklight is carrying on as usual, you hadn’t mentioned her for a while and you know, sometimes that’s not a good sign. She is a naughty kitty, to keep you awake when you need sleep so much. You sure are patient with her.
Debbe, wishing a good outcome for your father’s surgery. They can do such amazing things now, this will surely help him a lot. I have no sisters, so can’t help with that problem! You will tactfully get along with them; I have confidence in you. Just as Denise said, we Villagers think the world of you, and we have them outnumbered by an awful lot.
No Italian sushi I am afraid . I left my phone in motel and the directions, figured I’d find it with Garmin but road work and the freeway defeated me and Garmin got totally lost more than once. Backtracked using Garmin and the cracker crumbs. They have worse traffic than Houston and Dallas just not as many lanes of it!
Back to apologize for missing dinner. I ended up eating hummus pita chips, some chicken salad, cheese and an apple. From my food stash which will be handy if I slide into a snow bank or Garmin leads me into one.
Love Jackie
Left your phone at the motel, Jackie? I thought all modern humans are now joined at the hip with their phones. Oh, wait…you’re the oldfangled resident of the Village, aren’t you? 🙂
Jackie, sounds like you should have let them pick you up, you being a stranger in town and all. Get you one of those arm band phone cases and wear it on you. Then you won’t forget it. But GPS won’t help with the construction anyway. That’s why you need the hometown folks to help you.
Jackie, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Armband-Protective-Running-Jogging/dp/B00J2T1F4K
“Oh, wait…you’re the oldfangled resident of the Village, aren’t you?” Change “the” to “an”. There are others of us.
Ages ago, to the tune of a $5,000+ no-injury auto accident, we found Mrs. Garmin [ours has an elegant Brit accent] to be more distraction than help. I’ve mentioned here that [no accident involved], we were approaching a T-in from the left west of L. Harriet in Mpls., and Mrs. G. was saying, “Turn right, turn right.” We turned left and found the L.H. Bandshell parking lot. Full, it’s too small for the number who attend summer concerts there.
Peace, emb
Debbe 😉 This reminds me that back when I was flying for a living, two words I always loved to hear were “Radar contact”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY
I hope things went well for your Dad today.
Re your sisters, you nailed it, hon…it’s your life.
So, instead of joined at the hip I would be saddled at the arm?
I concur if old fangled means that I detest TV and can live without the phone in my hand, but not if it assumes I am ancient old biddy who is being left behind.
That arm band will leave tan marks and I have already acquired some of those.
Love Jackie
Hey, do we have any rodeo clowns or bullriders among us? I got to see Spydeco s newest project, a knife that will cut the toughest straps off a bull to save the riders. They had a duplication made of a famous never ridden bull’s harness made to test the blades.
My Spyderco Delica that always rides in my left hip pocket, no matter how I’m dressed, would cut a seat belt and possibly save another kind of rider. The bull-strap cutter is a great idea, though.
http://images.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/spyderco-knives/images/11psbbk.jpg
Actually I was most impressed with the engineering, testing, quality control and ethics of the Spydeco products. I can say that I am proud to have them as American made products and wish we had more companies like them
Indeed. I was gifted with a couple of very nice American-designed knives which, unfortunately, have the word “China” on them. I buy Spyderco knives for myself.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Good morning Villagers….
Thanks for all the well wishes regarding my father. Not sure what the surgery entails, spoke with one sister last night and she was telling me how Dad is getting rude in some of his comments. She had to ‘discipline’ him the other day in front of the nurse who was getting ready to draw blood. Oh, how the table turns as we age.
Denise, will let you know details later.
Indy Mindy, you’re funny…and you are right about the rain…80 percent chance down here today 🙂
later………
ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 Brenda Lee’s coming on strong….
well, that didn’t work…..was her “Sweet Nothings” song….vintage 1960
Have you ever checked out Golden Earring’s “Twilight Zone” video….??? First time I saw it, way back on MTV, my jaw dropped…..couldn’t believe they’d show that on TV…but look what kind of videos they show now….shocking, as you would say, just shocking 🙂
TIP BlogSpot
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
is cute today. That’s another URL to put in a storage spot in case I’m not available to alert you. Also, some if find unworthy you might think are the greatest.
Peace, emb
TruckerRon, she is remarkable! Thanks for sharing!
I hope, Mindy, that you are keeping notes for that book you are going to write. “I’ve never seen such a courteous power outage.” I would definitely read your books!
emb, oldfangled here, too, to the point that I prefer paper maps. (Though I have to admit, you can’t beat Google Maps for the close-in, fiddly bits.)
Jackie and Ghost, the pocket knife discussion reminds me that I’ve been meaning to acquire one for pocket or purse. Already have one for the backpack, but that one stays in there.
Hugs and prayers, Debbe. Just breathe.
Almost forgot: Ghost, I spell it with an “m” as “embiggen” and have also seen “embiggenate.”