We were speaking recently of technology and the cartoonist. Digital manipulation has made life much easier for folks like me. For example, the last two panels in the above classic A&J are identical, except for some wording. Did I draw the two panels twice? Of course not. In the old days, I’d have done that, or used some antediluvian device such as a copying machine to make a copy to cut and paste, with real scissors and real paste, mind you. Now, it’s a snap to duplicate work with virtual cut and paste. One must fight the temptation to overuse this power, out of laziness, but in the above example I can plead that the repetitive nature of the two panels is the joke. I try not to cut and paste for the sake of convenience, but I cannot say I’m totally innocent. When you do catch me, it almost always is a case of deadline pressure; I’m pulling out every trick in the book to get Arlo & Janis out the door for you.
69 responses to “Thermostatic”
best Robin Williams movie was The Final Cut, then Popeye. always loved Lauren Bacall, great voice, a strong commanding woman like Anne Bancroft, Lizabeth Scott or Blythe Danner
Bacall did a radio series with Bogart. “Bold Venture” they run a lot on SiriusXM ch82
Mindy from Indy, do you recall any of the actors in the film? Or anything of the title?
Good night, good night. Just six Margaritas tonight. I’ll see y’all tomorrow!
Buenas noches, Munchkin. I hope your Mediterranean-themed meal came out well.
I’m feeding my crew lunch tomorrow…slow-cooker beef brisket with onions, carrots and brown gravy; rice pilaf; green salad; and lemon ice box pie for dessert. Is it any wonder they love me? 🙂
Lady Mindy, if that movie is not to be found, you should write a screenplay based on that story. Sounds like a winner to me.
Arrgh! (Not “Arrr!”) I was so busy today I forgot to read the real-time cartoon.
Janis obviously doesn’t understand that a man does nothing in his man-cave with a big-screen HDTV, a stereo, a bookshelf and a refrigerator for adult beverages; while he does nothing in his workshop with power tools. It’s a man-thing.
I’ll miss Lauren Bacall; always loved the way she got into her roles opposite Bogart.
“Cut and paste”, eh? Sounds like something I once knew how to do. Never having been proficient at anything electronic, I suppose I lost that soon after learning it. Not often having any need would have been a contributing factor.
Uh-oh! Arlo, RUN! “The rest of the house?!” Run fast and long, and stop at the garden center to pick up supplies for a new garden (and your doghouse) before you come back.
Revised theory on 9CL: Bill is going to get Martine pregnant. (And it will end up being that nun who ran off and got married and had a baby – forget the name.) And when we DO get back to the present, Martine is going to show up again. This is going to play out for years!
About the film, sadly nothing on actors or possible title. It’s been over twenty years now
{sob!}, and it’s all gone. It’s basically “Big Fish,” but instead of a blend of fact and fiction – everything grandpa says was really true.
Good morning Villagers…
Thanks for the videos Mark and Nodak….. 🙂
,,,and Llee, that is the name of the movie, and as Jerry was right in his critique….weird movie, too hard to follow for me.
Was reading about Lauren Bacall and they quoted her infamous quote to Bogie “you know how to whistle…don’t you? You just put your lips together and … blow” what a classic line.
Loved her in “The Shootist”, John Wayne’s final film.
Not looking forward to going into work today. I was getting out the new paper work, and looking over it (79,200+ new hens coming in on the 25th). any way, I came across the instructions for operating the CO2 ‘kill’ boxes….I wept for the second time yesterday.
Got like 8 to 10 hour days coming plus dealing with the heat….woke up and started thinking about all that has to be done, I can’t recall the number of cages we have, but they all have to be scraped clean, curtain backs scraped, yada, yada, and I’ve got to have more help….so I had this panic attack this morning at 3:30.
GR 😉 glad your Mom’s doing fine…wish my Boss would feed us like that. I know he’ll feed us some pizza and lots of water and sodas….
Ya’ll have a blessed day
=^..^=
Best I can narrow it down is it came out some time between late 1990s and Nov. 2001. I watched it at my grandparent’s house on HBO(?), and it was sold by November 2001.
Jackie….are you ok?
c-xp: Sugarcreek! A great area. I am spending most of my time in Cambridge now, but I travel I-77. There is only one area (as of now!) of construction that I have to deal with, but it is mostly complete now. Have been traveling that road twice a week – almost a year now. Just thankful that “my guy” is still around and I have a reason to travel that road!
Lady Mindy, go to http://www.IMDb.com. At the top of the home screen, you will see “Movies, TV Shows”, etc. To the right of that, click the down arrow next to All. In the drop-down box, click “Advanced Search”. Under “Title Text Search”, select “Plot” and in the search box to its right type the word elephant and click Submit.
You should get the titles of something like 910 movies with an elephant as a character. (I think,) If you want to find your movie badly enough, you may scroll down through the summaries. Good luck.
Oh, and if you find that movie, be sure and let us know. I’m sure some here, including me, would be interested. (I’m gonna get around to watching “Big Fish” one day.”)
c x-p: Went back to your msg. above, put cursor at the left edge of the first word in your second paragraph, and held the cursor key down with left finger while dragging the cursor to the end of the paragraph with right finger. That ‘shaded’ what I wanted to copy. Released the cursor key, did ‘ctrl c’, came here, typed this paragraph, hit ‘enter’ to get it on a new line, then did ‘ctrl v’. Thus:
“Cut and paste”, eh? Sounds like something I once knew how to do. Never having been proficient at anything electronic, I suppose I lost that soon after learning it. Not often having any need would have been a contributing factor.
This is probably the only thing I knew about word processing that you didn’t. Now you are caught up.
Ha! Ghost – I had a similar incident happen for REAL concerning pets in a car. As Blacklight doesn’t travel well, and stress can be worse on a cat than some illnesses, my “local” vet is only three short blocks from my apartment (cousin the vet is two hours away and only for extreme situations; I do NOT like the local vet.) Anyhow, local vet unexpectedly stopped taking the only credit card I carry. My bank is literally a street over. Had Blacklight and another kitty in car. Ran to ATM and back again. 100+ degree day. Car on, windows up, A/C on high, doors locked. (Always have a spare.) Mind you, my car is a 1992 Dodge – it has a very distinctive idle. Impossible NOT to know its running without hearing issues. Come out of vet’s office to an irate lady about to call police. She started yelling at me; I yelled back. When I open the door, both cats were howling. She wanted to know why, if car was on, cats were so upset. To paraphrase my own response “They are CATS in a CAR at the VET. They just got their yearly shots, do you think they are *£#¥!* HAPPY right now!? Idiot lady: “oh.”
Wow. Everyone must have went to bed. What, 4am too early for everyone? 🙂
I was always hot – sweatshirt in 40F weather. Husband was always cold. Now we are reversed, I wear sweatshirts in 80F weather.