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.
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…and TR…it was a tough decision on what link to post….I did like that one 🙂
…Jerry…I do remember that song…was it on their “Iron Butterfly” album?
Welcome back SF…..missed ya…how was the vacation with the grandkids?
No. That was Iron Butterfly. Remember the drum solo?
Introducing Ian, my son, to the movie “Good Morning Vietnam”….later
Off topic – cute kitty stretches http://youtu.be/CY0UnfEPjMo
Ok…who has watched Williams’ movie “Field of Dreams’?
Unfortunately, Netflex doesn’t have the movie “Good Morning Vietnam”…shame
Oh my gosh, Jerry…do I remember the drum solo from Iron Butterfly….I remember playing it on a simple turntable….now, ya got to remember we’re going back to the late 60’s. We. teenage girls ( 16 and up) played it on a simple Hi-Fidelty turntable….gosh…Jerry…thanks for the memories….needed those tonight
Indy Mindy…you’ll love this one….
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8278672896/h4DDAB557/
I thought “Field of Dreams” was Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan? But, then, I didn’t know that RW was in the “Night At the Museum” movies. I liked him in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Good Will Hunting,” though
GR :)…everything copacetic? How is your Mother? You’ve been too quiet today. Just two posts?
here you go, Debbe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEMuAnFH_lM
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
Debbe- I think the movie you’re looking for is “What Dreams May Come”. Hmmm, that does not look right, either. Someone else will know! 🙂
The drum solo starts at about 6:20
Llee, it was indeed “What Dreams May Come.”
Jim,
You got me thinking about technology in the comic strip. Let’s say you wanted to make a unique strip that would require us to fold the cartoon to see something that can’t be seen in it’s natural flat form. In the old days of newspaper, we could simply fold at the dotted line you laid out for us. Today we would have to print the comic into a paper form……then fold.
Have I given you any ideas?
Thanks,
Jay & Jeannie from Maryland
Debbe 😉 Yes, my Mom is doing well. She saw her pulmonologist and had a chest x-ray late yesterday afternoon. The pneumothorax has resolved itself, so no further problems expected from that. Now just waiting for the pathology report….
Busy day today, catching up on, well, pretty much everything.
Goodbye, Rooster.
Wow. Lauren Bacall too.
*edit – Lauren Bacall is gone now too. What a shame.
Ghost: Glad that your mom is doing well. Hope the path report is favorable.
I am making something new this evening for dinner. They were selling fresh-baked baguettes at the store, so I bought a bunch and dug out all these Delallo Bruschetta jars that The Man In My Life bought on sale (olive, artichoke, and sun-dried tomato), split the baguettes and cut them into 5 ” lengths, rubbed them with garlic, buttered them, and spread them with the bruschetta. They turned out great, so I am now making a bunch and am going to serve them with rigatoni with clam sauce. Wine is going to be a Chianti Classico we brought back from Italy.
Factoid: “What Dreams May Come” (a movie I will never watch again) was written by the same guy that wrote the Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner seeing a monster on the wing of the airliner. Mickey Rooney, Lauren Bacall, not many stars of the silver screen left.
There is, somewhere, a film similar in vein of “Big Fish” and “Secondhand Lions.” I have no idea what it is called and have hunted for it for years. A man and adult son are estranged due to father’s telling of tales. Dad sneaks of with his grandson to prove to the grandson the stories were real as his son tries, in vain, to catch the adventurers. One such tale is of a circus elephant who died carrying him to an island during a storm. It is this island the grandpa is trying to reach. He does, and his son sees the elephant and proof of the stories for himself. Every time I try to find this film, “What Dreams May Come” shows up instead.
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curmudgeonly ex-professor on 12 Aug 2014 at 2:37 pm #
For anyone travelling in the area, be aware that I-70 between Cambridge, OH, and Indianapolis has a host of construction areas, some of them only, say, 200 yds. apart. Drove it last Friday eastward and back yesterday. Yesterday was worse, as we had beaucoup rain – all too often enough that I couldn’t see the road and hoped to be following a vehicle with large taillights. When I lived in the Blue Ridge of VA, the locals referred to such as a “frog strangler”! I’ve since acquired more colorful descriptions, but youngsters may read this blog. The dense rain kept with us also on the interstate NW of Indianapolis for a while. Blinding rain plus construction changes-of-traffic-patterns can get absolutely hairy….
Event was the 200th anniversary of the founding of wife’s hometown, one which is now combined with its younger (but slightly larger) neighbor. I managed to buy a full wheel of Danish Blue Cheese at a very favorable price while there and, not incidentally, we both (plus our son) had a great time with my sister-in-law. There was a suitable ceremony and unveiling of a brick wall (carved with pictures indicative of the town history), memorials to past veterans of all wars (vets included no fewer than 9 close relatives just of my mother-in-law), and a non-denominational church service. During the ceremonies, 2 or 3 huge trucks came by bearing full loads of chickens [I thought of our people here]; so did many other trucks and bikers. The town’s sole intersection of note has become very popular, it would seem. OH 39 & OH 93, if you are curious.
I did that before reading the several posts above.