I am traveling this morning, on cartoon business. I’ll bet you didn’t think such a thing was possible. There won’t be a regular post today, but when I return I will begin showing you some of the old work I have chosen to submit to the Billy Ireland archive of comic art at THE Ohio State University. The old work goes all the way back to 1985 and includes something from every year since. Many we’ve seen here and some not. You probably can deduce, we’ll be talking a lot more about this. I hope your new year is going well so far. By the way, I am in Asheville, NC, today. Tonight, I will be attending a meeting of the southeastern chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. No, that is not the reason for my travels, just serendipity, but I’ll tell them all you said, Hello!
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157 responses to “Travel Alert”
OF just finishing a blow in the fog. Next due 1144-1204. Maybe the fog will lift or be blown off.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Mindy from Indy, I hope your aunt’s surgery went well and her recovery is smooth and speedy.
Jackie, that is a truly beautiful and fitting idea for Mike’s ashes. Kudos to whoever thought of it.
The funeral for my MIL went very well yesterday, even though I ended up being chosen by my wife and her sister to conduct it… one of the hazards of becoming a chaplain. How I made it through without breaking down emotionally I still don’t know; just further proof that prayer helps, I guess.
That anonymous person was I.
Good job, Trucker. I said a few words at my sister’s service, the hardest ones I’ve ever had to speak.
Trucker, I had asked two of Mike’s good friends to read Crossing the Bar and John Donne, No Man is An Island. Our good friend reading Donne just broke down in tears and I ended up having to go to altar and console him, other friend did second reading. It seemed so odd, me being the strong one for all the sobbing people. Both my mother and my husband were greatly loved and I am having trouble in the role of being strong for others.
Trucker, I do believe God or some infinite cosmic power gives us all strength to endure what we probably would never have believed we could.
Love, Jackie
We never really know what we can do until we have to do it.
Good to see that, following the slaughter in Paris, a crack team of US State Department functionaries sprang into action to decide whether the President should condemn the terrorist attack “strongly”, “in strong terms”, “in the strongest terms”, or “in the strongest possible terms”.
The President went with “strongly”. That’ll learn ’em.
Meanwhile in Frederick Maryland, newspapers are being put on notice not to print elected officals names without their direct consent. Yet this elected has a Facebook account. File under dumb and dumber
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/politics_and_government/delauter-to-the-news-post-don-t-use-my-name/article_e965025f-6c48-5a02-b162-600dfd2b5495.html?mode=jqm
Je suis Charlie
Technology for cats? http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150107/us–pets-apps_for_cats-444d5eafa2.html
OF due 1445-1505 CST. Fog has lifted.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Mark, we have one cat who loves to eject discs from the DVD player just to watch them reload. No need for a fancy tablet when he and Loon can be amused with an old DVD player and remote. 😉
sand, just another example of the “I personally don’t like it so there should be a law/law suit against it” mentality that is becoming all too common in our society.
Ghost/sandcastler, from reading the article looks like the “lawmaker” is in a p****ng contest with the paper because they don’t go out of their way to make him look good. Guess who will win that one?
I finally got to see Ol’ Faceful!
Trucker, your strength, faith, and love must have got you through. You folks are in my prayers.
It’s been pretty darn cold up here in Michigan, though I live in the warmest part of the state. I find cold easier to deal with than heat, blaming my discomfort in hot climes on my eastern European ancestry. I can always snuggle into another layer of clothes to warm up. It looks like emb, as usual, has the coldest spot in the Village right now, though Debbe and Mindy from Indy are not far behind.
Ghost and sandcastler ™ sorry, I can’t get the tm like you can. I looked around the newspaper site and found their response to the councilman’s demand not to be named: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/politics_and_government/kirby-delauter-kirby-delauter-kirby-delauter/article_da85d6f4-fa3c-524f-bbf6-8e5ddc0d1c0a.html
Wind chill tomorrow morning to be below 10 degrees. I remember reading in books about it being so cold that the people could hear nails popping out of the rafters. I have an older wood privacy fence around the backyard of this house and yesterday morning I saw two boards that had curled way up away from the fence. Yesterday afternoon I went out to nail them down and couldn’t find them. They had straightened themselves out. It is a good idea to cut the handles off of those bags unless you want to see the cats tearing around the house.
Several earthquakes around the world today between 5. and 6.6. The nails must be popping out.
And yet, many reporters, editors and newspapers will stand behind the protection of their First Amendment rights and support the government’s efforts to abrogate the Second Amendment, without batting an eye. Has it not occurred to them that’s like telling a hungry wolf, “Yes, eat my neighbor. Then you won’t eat me, right? Right?”
Governments are always hungry for more power.
Somehow I thought that when you choose to become a public figure you are inviting whatever comments may come your way, so long as they are not lies, malicious slandering, or whatever.
A politician to me should be prepared to get hit with mud more often than not. The cover ups that took place back in the days of 1950-1980’s are gone in my opinion and can stay gone.
Elected officials are like athletes who believe they are privileged and deserve special “treatment” not afforded to others who are “beneath” them.
One of my favorite soap boxes.
Love, Jackie
Denise/MI: Here in N. IL, we expect lows between -10 and -15F tonight, with considerable winds added. No doubt eMb has that beaten, but I expect to be colder than one IN friends.
Above was from me. “our”, not “one” near the end.
Ah, so that’s what happened to the previously forecast mid-teens temps…they will arrive early tomorrow morning rather than this morning. Wind chill forecast to be about 5 degrees. It will be, as my Granny used to say, “air-ish”.
Bayou City weather.
Current 50°
Overnight low forecast 28°
Life in the tropics. 😉