Today’s oldie A&J isn’t so moldy; it’s from 2014. I recently turned in a week of Arlo & Janis that included only one cartoon with more than a few words. I really didn’t notice this until I’d almost finished the batch of six. You’ll know that week when you see it. Most of the strips were like the one above, with only one panel of dialog, if any. I do this more often the longer I’m at this game. I take a bit of pride, because it’s an old saw in the biz that a cartoon which can be understood without words is a “pure” cartoon, while a cartoon which can be understood without the drawing isn’t really a cartoon at all. Perhaps that is a bit extreme. If it literally were true, “Henry” and “The Little King” would be the greatest comic strips ever. However, I get it, but as usual there’s a happy medium. That is one thing that sets a comic strip apart from other forms of cartooning. It is a happy marriage of image and word, a little play within which the two components reinforce one another. I must remember that.
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Trapper, I like you! Always have. I like everyone you mention. I liked country when country wasn’t cool.
As to rock and roll I joke I have been sweated on by Jerry Lee, Fats Domino and Ray Charles playing the piano because before air conditioning there was a whole lot of sweating going on, both by dancers and musicians and there were no stages, just Dance and bar room floors.
GR6, Whacko Waco!
Ghost, that article also has an example of bad writing: with a round chambered in her vagina.
Trapper Jean, if you like old time music, go to the Uncle Dave Macon Days in Murfreesboro, TN.
Noticed that, too. But as I said, “posted without comment”. That didn’t mean I couldn’t have made some, though. A lot of them, in fact.
I like pretty much all genres of music (just not all the performers), but I don’t listen to rap music, with the exception of its 10th Century version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5AohCMX0U
Anyone besides me with a compulsion to visit suitable cathedrals to hear this music?
I have invitations to both Australia and England this year after my boat show season ends. Australia will be warm and sunny, England damp and cold probably. I’d like to do both because I want to go to pubs, cadtles, churches.
Castles, cathedrals, churches, villages. Not a tour.
Jackie, I have not traveled abroad a great deal, but most of it that I have done has been with Master Chorale of Flagstaff. That means that I have had the enormous privilege of SINGING in cathedrals in both England and Australia (also New Zealand), along with other places in Europe. GO!!!!!!! (Also visiting pubs et al….)
Nancy Kirk you are indeed privileged to have done that and I envy you so much. I cannot sing a note although when I was young I apparently had musical talent on piano and instruments that was not encouraged. I grew up without music in the home so my love of music comes from elsewhere.
I know you have all heard my jokes about being in musicals and operas as a “crowd” and forbidden to open my mouth! Except in Bye Bye Birdie where I got to sing “We love you Conrad, oh yes we do” off key and nasal.
Yes, I love chorale and what a privilege you have had! God gave you a gift of immeasurable worth.
Did you song in Christ Church Cathedral? Where in Australia and England?
This is another classical guitar piece that just overwhelms my soul and senses.
https://youtu.be/2rb477dcfXA
Memories of Alhambra
I know when I discovered classical guitar, freshman year in college and Andres Segovia who I continue to love but thanks to YouTube and Pandora I have heard so many others now.
I’ll have to do some checking back about where we sang, Jackie. I’ll post after I have a chance to do that.
Lucky guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKusTj2LiPE
Only 10 minutes? Damned little foreplay! Peace,
emb: Yeah, I must admit that the word “quickie” came to my mind…. I do love the ones that certainly shouldn’t offend anyone who gets it.
Beautiful. She could have used the guitar as her costume you realize?
One I was listening to earlier today cut to the chase, blonde guitarist with guitar on white horse with guitar in field of flowers.
She could play beautifully.
I did realize that…perhaps the first time I have ever undressed with my eyes a woman playing a guitar.
debbe 😉 Because sometimes only The Stones will do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwwCWkmYoc
Good morning Villagers…..
…goodness, gracious, great balls of fire….where’d the time go 🙂
back at you GR 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LP5uuLcwCs
🙂
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Good morning. It has been good morning about six times so far today. Maybe this time will keep? Dickens is hopeful.
Mark, thanks! I’ll have to check that one out.
Jackie, 🙂 I had very little choice in the matter. My Dad liked country music, and my Mom listened to Big Band, so I also listened to-and liked-Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Louie Armstrong, and Glen Miller.
For those who like acapella try this group. They have become quite famous of late just through their YouTube videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8
Wow! Diversity and all so cute! And voices. Millions of watches.
It’s a beautiful spring morning and we fed cats outside, took insulin and a diet Coke, whole wheat fig bar, some meds and went back to bed.
I grew up listening to big band with my mom’s friends when she lived in Venezuela. Gulf Oil always hired Big Bands for dances at the country club and so did the boarding schools in the 1950s. Think Dirty Dancng without the dirty. So I too grew up with classic big band and actually danced to Glenn Miller without Glenn.
They cannot put too much twang in country for me. I’ve got this thang about twang.
Happy daylight saving time to all. Spring (& Summer here in S. LA) is just around the corner. (I’ve already cut grass twice since Jan1,2016) This has been one of the warmest Winters I can recall. The mosquitoes will be huge, but, it’s better than several inches or feet of snow. Prayers for all who need them.
God bless us every one.