I continue today with old A&J Sunday strips you won’t see anywhere but here, although I think maybe this particular strip has been shown before at arloandjanis.com. I’m not sure. This one is from 1993 and was drawn shortly after the first meeting at the seashore between son Gene and Mary Lou. No one suspected, least of all myself, how momentous that little storyline would prove.
Arlo and Janis has a lot of followers in the upper Midwest. I want to remind you that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning gets underway today in Wisconsin. You might want to check it out if you do, indeed, live in the area. In the past, I would have posted a link for you, but unless there is something specific I want to show you it’s so much easier for everyone if I simply encourage you to “Google it.” You know what to do. If you do make it to the festival, tell ’em Arlo and Janis sent you.
211 responses to “Variations on a Theme”
Wow, a Friday post. Uh, it is Friday, isn’t it?
Ghost, I *think* it’s Friday. I certainly hope so, as that means tomorrow is Saturday, and a friend of mine has her first book released then!
On the subject of what to put on french fries, I rather like a mixture of sour cream and A1 Sauce. I am also learning to like mayonnaise and pepper. I’ve never tried tartar sauce, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t be good. As to ketchup, it depends on the brand. I like one that’s a bit on the sweet side, and not too acidic. And yes, malt vinegar is good, too. I understand that’s what the Brits put on fish and chips.
Oh, and Ghost, for slightly spooky songs you really can’t beat this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg9U-jQjYlU
Mike Peterson is posting pictures and commentary about the Kenosha festival over on http://www.comicstripoftheday.com
Yes, you definitely have posted this cartoon. It was ironic now, but I don’t think that they had gotten back together when you posted it on this site.
I have done a similar thing in that I will write something and quickly realize that I either should not post it on social media or send it as an email. I think a lot of people need to stop an think before making a permanent statement that they will regret…
Wow, a Friday post. Great one, too. Thanks, JJ. Interesting take on “Oversharing”
Yes, but it’s neat to be reminded of insightful strips.
French fies and malt vinegar, is there any other way? It is Friday here and Saturday on the otherside of the IDL. Did I mention malt vinegar and french fries? Yes it is Friday. Now what was the topic?
Good morning Village, it is not quite noon here, so I can still say that. Husband is out building a bridge for infamous ditch but his saw seems to have stopped running somehow in last year since he used it. The cancer has kept him out of shop. We will see if he wears the helmet dust and fumes filter we bought him?
Gardener is moving dirt and planting mums. Mom got breakfast.
Sometimes a little is all you can hope for.
I am out of insulin (bad Jackie! Bad!) and testing strips and my blood sugars ran so low yesterday I didn’t even miss the missing insulin but I will miss those strips! Diabetes is by-product of lupus. late in life pancreatic failure I suspect. I feel like an old car sometimes, just being patched together, like those cars down in Cuba from the 1950’s but still running out of necessity.
In case no one has noticed, I am actually a pretty extreme feminist in that I believe women can and usually do what others may not be willing or able to do. So yes, I am a respecter of those who do hard physical labor, dirty jobs and even surgeons and nurses and techs, Lilyblack!
Share this same opinion of men as well. Dirt, blood, sweat, mud, grime shows me how hard people work and care. This is no putdown of academics profs. It is a different kind of heavy lifting!
If I ever offend anyone, please forgive me and tell me I hurt you.
My real name is on every statement I make and always is. I will state the obvious, I am easy to find including a map to my house on internet but try e-mail first, I answer them!
Love, Jackie Monies
Short thought: I have had friends send out “inappropriate” political or sexist jokes to entire e-mail list. No one has sent me any photos of body parts, thank the Lord. I see celebrities tweeting and face booking and sharing stuff I would not care to view.
This accidental sharing seems to be common. That is what internet moderators are on look out for, besides trolls and profanity.
Worse I did was send an innocuous e-mail questionnaire to a world famous boat designer accidently who answered it politely and caused me to nearly faint from embarrassment that I had wasted his time. He is now one of my best friends and will be here in two weeks for my boat festival.
But most accidental “stuff” doesn’t end well.
Love, Jackie
Debbe 😉 Because, you know, Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45GTRrz2L6s
Sour cream and A1 Sauce, Jean? I’ll have to try that. The sour cream should nicely mellow out the rather overpowering flavor of the A1. One of my pet peeves is to see someone served a wonderfully favorable, beautifully seared, and perfectly cooked (medium-rare) steak and dump bottled steak sauce all over it. I use A1 and Heinz 57 for seasoning some dishes, but if a steak is good enough to eat at all, it should be good enough to eat without drowning it in an overly savory steak sauce. My theory is that most sauces were invented back in the day to cover the taste of half-spoiled foods.
Jackie, as jaded and open-minded as I am, I cannot fathom some of the things some people put out on the InterWebNet about themselves.
GR6-
It took several years but I have finally, mostly, convinced my wife that a properly prepared steak need no sauce. She still uses it, even on the best steaks, but now just as an accent, not as a drench. I can only wonder about how bad were her steaks before we met that she felt she had to bury them in A1.
Ghost, after reading your post, I phoned The Man In My Life (he doesn’t answer texts) and he says that steak sauces started to flavor meat that was cooked well-done and therefore tasteless. I learned a long time ago how restaurant chefs “save for well,” holding back skanky end cuts from sirloins etc. on the theory that people who order well-done have no taste anyway. He keeps Worcestershire sauce around for steak au poivre and ketchup for dinner guests, who, when they request it, receive it spooned onto a saucer.
On steaks, in college I was on the intercollegiate national meat judging team for my ag school. I also got to lecture/judge for high school ag classes and have old dudes who taught it spit tobacco at my feet.
I feel that steak sauces, even Béarnaise or other good ones, are NOT needed on a great steak. In fact, I won’t even eat bottled sauces on a bad steak. I just like steak rare and warm through.
Husband is product of a 1950’s set of parents who ate steak sauce on everything I think.
Ghost, I hope I have not offended you too much. I am hard to live with if you are easily embarrassed!
Love, Jackie Monies
Gene’s a poet. As long as no one is looking 🙂
Old Faithful has a different camera angle at the moment, pleasant.
Lily…left you a message on yesterday’s post….
somebody, please remind me why I tolerate teenagers….deer season….told Dakota, better be there as there will be another deer season next year….and I was not endearing about it either……………………
158 cases in 3.5 hours…I am one lean, mean packing machine at 44 cases per hour…..don’t call me and tell me it’s deer season….
I love to melt two sticks of butter with A-1 sauce and pour it over white chicken meat and slowly simmer it for about an hour…..yum…..
Husband has supper ready……it’s a surprise…just for me….later
Hi, Jean………………………
Was it the reference to “Spent Chicken,” Debbe? Otherwise I missed it.
Heh, got in trouble for, get this, “smiling meanly” when I weighed in a weight-control patient who had gained seven pounds. Not near the trouble she got into when The Boss Of My Life got through with her, though 😛
Lily, your priest is right to pray for you to learn compassion and forgiveness for sins.
The medical profession is supposed to be compassionate, not vindictive. Those who eat too much and gain weight are to be understood as an illness/addiction as bad as those who starve themselves and exercise to excess to remain bone thin.
Don’t throw any rocks and you won’t be in trouble so much.
Sister Jacoba. Assistant and sponsor of St. Francis of Assisi.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I cannot imagine a circumstance in which you could offend me. And as for embarrassment, I literally don’t recall the last time something embarrassed me.
Yeah, seasoning chicken is a lot different from beef, as chicken has little flavor of its own. A friend told me she ate at a steak house in AZ (Temp, I believe) where, if you order your steak well-done, they bring you an old cowboy boot on a platter.
The best use I’ve found for Heinz 57 is to spread it over the cut side of large, firm halved ripe tomatoes; then sprinkle them with bread crumbs and grill until tender but not mushy.
When I was younger and healthier, I preferred my steaks cooked rare! Today though, with all the medications I’m taking, I have to have it cooked through—not burned, mind you, simply cooked through. If the staff of a steakhouse is offended by that, I will take my business someplace else.
Good job, Gene! While “you should write what you know,” sometimes you also need to write for the audience!
And you can check out “Comic Strip of the Day” for dispatches from Kenosha.
Jackie, I’m not the one that told her “If you don’t quit eating like a pig and ruining your diet, you are going to have to find another doctor because I am sick of it!” 😀
I keep remembering the lady at the famous (read quacky) diet hypnosis clinic I used to go to in Houston. When she asked the now deceased Dr. Glover if she’d need breast surgery after she lost weight, he replied, “Either that honey or you can throw one over each shoulder and tie them in a bow in the back!”
Sometimes doctors get away with great rudeness. After Mike’s lung removal I found out his surgeon was my favorite cardiologist’s ex-partner. Yes, I have more than one cardiologist!
Mike said he hoped it wasn’t the one who won the $7 million suit!
Anyway, he was bluntly rude and a surgical nurse at hospital said he had reputation as a rude, anal perfectionist.
My favorite cardio-surgeon said when you need a good chest cracker, rude, anal perfectionist is what you want.
Maybe not in a diet doctor however!
Love, Jackie Monies