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”
I am gratified to find that my thinking has been shared by others of our community. I appreciate the respect that has been shown regarding this subject and I’m sure that we will continue to maintain a respectful and cautionary distance from your business, Lily. We appreciate your sharing, best regards, Jerry.
BTW, there was a man who lost the entire distal joint of his index finger in an accident and it grew back, all of it, including the nail.
Jerry: I’m not sure of the details, but if I remember, that works only if the wound is left alone as much as possible: no thorough cleaning, no antiseptics, and such.
Peace, emb, the ‘other poster’.
*shrug* No biggie. It was a definite turning point in my life. I was a pretty sad cookie when I first came to work for The Boss Of My Life and then moved in here. Now, I am able to put it behind me and just be free and happy. To take a drink or five if I want to, and boy, do I want to! The bar just opened! Evening, everyone, I am bound for a Vacation In A Bottle! 😀
Jerry, was his name Patrick Star, by any chance? 🙂
No, Jackie, you’re thinking of “mummies”. “Zombies” wear whatever clothing they die in or were buried in. Must keep your supernatural creatures straight, doncha know? 😉
Dear Ghost, thank you for the update, and may it keep on getting better. Will you be eligible some day for Veterans Administration medical care? All kidding aside, for they have been in the news lately, they can provide good care. My late husband, a WW 2 Army veteran, was well pleased with their low cost prescriptions, annual checkups and immunizations, and he LOVED the hearing aids they gave him, at no cost (he was a machine gunner; very noisy, as you must know).
Dear Ghost, thank you for the update, and may it keep on getting better. Will you be eligible some day for Veterans Administration medical care? All kidding aside, for they have been in the news lately, they can provide good care. My late husband, a WW 2 Army veteran, was well pleased with their low cost prescriptions, annual checkups and immunizations, and he LOVED the hearing aids they gave him, at no cost (he was a machine gunner; very noisy, as you must know).
I bet our southern Village knows what a meat and three plate is, especially those from Mississippi and Alabama, where I love to go eat these mainly veggie plates. We enjoyed our tremendously, especially the cornbread that I did to go along.
We could have considered the bacon in the beans and greens as the meat but I cut off most of the remaining ham off that big spiral ham and added it to the turnips and greens. Boy, you could not be Jewish around here, much less Kosher. In fact, I wonder how anyone in Oklahoma keeps Kosher?
The yellow squash was yummy. There are other varieties out there so we will see what turns up? I am hoping fall misses the reproduction schedule of whatever moth it is that crawls out of dirt in spring and lays eggs in my squash stems, rendering plant looking like a boiled squash plant overnight.
I am expecting an answer to that moth question from either a professor or a better gardener!
Looked at my ham package and I got that entire delish huge ham for $1.39 # and had a $2 off coupon. Why didn’t I buy more than one?
Still have the bone with a LOT of meat on it, so will make red beans and rice I think plus some Andouille sausage. Ghost, I laughed about John Folse’s 20# cookbook because on first reading I thought you meant his recipe produced 20# of red beans! I couldn’t lift the pot!
When I worked for Hibernia National Bank on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, our elderly porter always cooked lunch for us every day. Wonderful, wonderful man. He taught me to make red beans and rice, a Monday tradition in New Orleans.
Good night all, as soon as I put left overs away and rinse dishes.
Food night!! Love, Jackie
for those who might be interested
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Jackie, I believe the lead-in to Chef Folse’s Red Beans and Sausage recipe explained it was a staple Monday meal for Cajuns, as that was also their laundry day, much of which was done in large iron pots over wood fires in the backyard. Given the size of the average Cajun family, doing laundry took the better part of the day, and it only made sense to throw the ingredients into another iron pot and let it simmer until lunchtime. Also, given the size of the average Cajun family, they probably did make about 20 pounds of it.
Ah, a meat and three…reminds me of a local place from years back that served M&3 plate lunches (only). No choice of plates, either, but they rotated by the day of the week…meat loaf, pot roast, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, and (of course) fried catfish on Fridays. Wonderful home-style food, everyone from bank presidents to cab drivers ate there, and it was swamped. It changed ownership, and the new owner had the bright idea of renovating the old building it was in…redid the interior and exterior; replaced all the old wooden chairs and four-place tables with oil-cloth covers; put in a salad bar (a salad bar, for crikey’s sake!); etc. They went out of business within a year.
The delis at a couple of the local food markets have kept up the tradition by putting out actually pretty decent lunch plates now.
For my next Americana lesson… 🙂
Thanks, Mark. Who didn’t guess I’d have to check out the one called Ghostery? 🙂
I suppose I’ll have to go with AdBlock again. I tried it once but didn’t particularly like the way it made some pages look. But now intrusive pop-up ads have gotten just too bothersome. (I’m looking at you, gocomics.) I don’t object to advertising per se, but I cannot for the life of me understand why a company that needs your good will so you will buy its product destroys any chance of earning that good will by cover up what you are trying to read with annoying ads. Especially when the ads are inevitably for things I’ve already researched on Amazon or some other site. Hey, persons with insensitive gonads! I’ve already seen those products!
Wish we could cook red beans and rice, but The Man In mY LIfe has gout, so beans have joined ketchup and Frito-Lay products on the Forbidden Foods Index. Man, I am reeling, as we had friends over and I made Prairie Fires. But it’s too early for bed. Lasser le bon temps roulez!
Good evening….took a power nap after an early supper. What a day…teenagers left me a big mess…stinking eggs everywhere, egg blocks on the bottom. Packed 168 cases today. I was tuckered out when I got home.
GR 😉 you sure do type well for being handicapped. And yes, medical dramas are yet to be seen. I see nightmares in my future.
Received my paperwork from IU Medical Center for donating my cadaver….scanned over it, will look at it in the morning. With a little luck, and after a bowl of Cheerios, and a prayer, maybe I can go back to sleep. I hate sleep deprivation.
Thank you for your post Galiglo.
“insensitive gonads”? lol
Manana……
…and it all comes down to this
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Couldn’t sleep, so dog and I came back! I love places that are so funky and local that they don’t bother with signs, you can tell how good they are by the number of police cars in the parking lot, along with how many Lincolns and Crown Vic’s (well, that used to be my criteria)
Also really good indicator of food, a sign(s) on table saying “Reserved for Law”. Loved that one, plus that one usually had a saddle in middle of huge table along with the Law Reservation. You didn’t sit there, even if you waited for a table!
I have done laundry in a big black pot in back yard, boiling in one and punching it down with a big wooden stick, then dragging out and rinsing in another and finally in a galvanized tub of cold water.
Hang on line with wooden pens, starch was in another mixture you put through if sheets, that sort of stuff.
Another Americana lesson. Maybe I should teach Lily to do laundry?
Learned this from being raised poor in country by elderly grandmother. And yes, I did all the other weird stuff too, like being sent to a finishing school I think to better myself someday?
Who knows? Truman Capote had nothing on me!!
Grandmother was not Cajun but Southern Baptist, so totally different diet and cooking. That’s where I learned to can and make jams and jelly. Came in really handy for socialite fund raising events and gourmet groups!
Love, Jackie (who loves food and cooking and gardening)
Dear Ghost, I looked over those suggestions too; don’t think I need to go for them, but thanks anyway to Mark in TTown. I have subscribed to GoComics; it’s not that costly, and I get no ads at all; none, except for other comic strips. This may not work for you, but what do you think? I too fail to see the point of these advertisers annoying the heck out of potential customers.
I mean there are no ads on GoComics since I subscribed; only an ad at the top of the page for some new comic. They all are ugly and I ignore them.
Jackie, if you try and teach me laundry you are gonna have to catch me forst, and I am pretty fast! My notion of doing laundry is dumping it down the laundry chute and putting it away when it shows up on my bed when I get home from work.
Hum. Thanks, Miz Charlotte. I was vaguely aware of a membership or subscription or whatever being available at gocomics (that’s what the PRO by some Darksiders’ names means, right?) but I didn’t realize it also meant no ads. I’ll have to look into that.
Jackie, as you’re probably aware, there are (according to my bestest Cajun bud) land Cajuns and water Cajuns, depending on their primary means of making a living. His family was of the latter. At one time, a few years ago, he had his own (leased) oyster reef. Now that’s someone who is serious about their shellfish. And needless to say, he can throw one might fine crawfish boil.
Debbe 😉 Hope that cadaver donation form was stamped “Not Valid Until After 2045”, hon. 🙂
Oh, and Jackie. I’m sure you’ll be totally shocked to learn I drive a black 2011 (last of the breed) Crown Vic.
Munchkin, I have trying for years to find a place that comes with it own little tribe of laundry brownies in residence, but so far, nada.
Dear Ghost, GoComics didn’t *promise* no ads, but it just happened. I too suppose the “Pro” on the Dark Side must mean that, they didn’t say. I’m just thankful it turned out this way. And when I subsribed, they promised to send the comics every day by Email; but they didn’t, which is fine with me; I got to choose my favorite ones, then they come up on one page; don’t have to keep clicking as I did before. Let me know when you subscribe and I’ll tell you how I reach the page; they didn’t explain that either. It’s really a lot easier than I’ve made it look.
Please say hello to your mother for me. She and I probably are not too far apart in age; she is lucky to have such a caring son (and I can say the same thing.)
Wow. Weird. The 9-30-2014 cartoon is about on-line ads. For not the first time here, I find myself wondering whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life.
Okay, I am going to bed, darn it, don’t rush me! Gnight. Zzzzzz
I bought AdBlock more than a year ago for about $35, if memory serves. On GoComics.com I now get no ads and MUCH faster loading. Well worth the bucks. No doubt the elimination of ads also occurs for the other sites, but I never noticed much of same.
Mark/TT, thanks for the list of privacy protestors. I shall take the idea up with my son [who has been a computer pro for 25 years]. He’s our “go to” guy….
For those of you with medical concerns (your own or your kin’s), prayers are on the way.
Good morning Villagers….
Ahh…got some more sleep, pray you do too, Jackie. And Miss Charlotte, you appear to keep late or early hours too.
Clicked one more time to see if the cartoon strip had been updated…was midnight, my time when I tried. Too funny to see that today’s strip is about waiting….waiting…waiting…I have Adblock and it works for me. My son downloaded it for me and old Dell here.
Never had to stand outside and do laundry over a fire like Jackie, but I do remember the old wringer washer, two tubs of water……lugging it up the basement stairs and out the back door to hang on the clothes line….every Monday! In the winter, sheets and towels were still hung outside….freeze dried. Otherwise, they were strung up along clothes lines in the basement. I also remember learning how to iron….we even ironed my Dad’s boxers!! We thought it was fun!!! Now, I just fluff and fold 🙂
And Lily, you arrive home from work to ironed sheets……now that’s “rich”. 🙂
GR 😉 you know, 2045 will be some troubled times for my son’s generation. I’ll be in some ‘cigar’ box, probably in the bottom shelf of my son’s closet. 🙂
later….ya’ll have a blessed day
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