Sunday multi-quickies
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/28/09
I find it kind of strange that Loweezy doesn’t specify what the “big, round number” in question is. Given the poor state of health care in this isolated, rural hamlet, I’m guessing it’s 15, which is approximately middle age for the average denizen of Hootin’ Holler.
Dennis the Menace, 6/28/09
Usually saying his prayers is among the least threatening things Dennis does, but in today’s strip he appears for the most part to be praying for evil things. Presumably he’s beseeching not our loving God but his Dark Lord, Satan himself.
Family Circus, 6/28/09
Fun fact! According to the never-wrong Wikipedia, “if a film uses ‘one of the harsher sexually derived words’ (such as ‘fuck’) one to four times, it is routine today for the film to receive a PG-13 rating, provided that the word is used as an expletive and not with a sexual meaning.” In other words, Dolly, you can go ahead and drop that F-bomb on your little brother, as long as you only want to use it three more times over the remainder of your life.
Marvin, 6/28/09
We all knew that Marvin was a repugnant fountain of excrement, but who knew that he was a record-breaking fountain of excrement? I don’t usually praise the art in Marvin, but I do think Jenny’s expression has been skillfully done here. It wordlessly conveys the sense of “Huh, so it’s come to this. I thought I’d feel more pain at reaching this point, but it seems that I’m not feeling … anything at all. Probably for the best, really.”
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/28/09
I’m not really sure what June means by “more than try” here, nor am I sure that I want to know. “I HAVE DETERMINED THAT I HAVE REACHED THE FERTILITY OPTIMUM FOR BOY-CHILD CREATION! GIVE ME YOUR SEED AT ONCE, DR. MORGAN!”
Spider-Man, 6/28/09
Despite the implication in this week’s NEXT box, I’m hoping we follow Spidey’s path in this branching storyline, and get to see the relative money-returning skills … of a spider! “Wow, who knew there’d be so much paperwork involved?” (NEXT! Black or blue ink only!)
June 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am
RMMD: I don’t get the jump in the conversation: “I’ll miss him he’s sweet boy” then Rex: “maybe we should try to..” (Try to what? Adopt Willie? ) Then June “oh, I think we can do better than try, doc!” (implying hanky panky is about to commence. I don’t care if Rex and June bemoan the fate of Fat Li’l Willie OR get it on in the strip, but this is an odd abrupt mixture of both, with no transition.
Snuffy Smith: Yes, Babushka-head probably is a lot younger than we can imagine, but she still looks like her own grandma.
Spider man: I do love the great big $ sign on the bag o’ cash. So that we the readers don’t assume it’s a bag of groceries, or trash to be taken out to the curb, or Wolverine’s luggage containing his dirty underwear.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I’m surprised Dolly even KNOWS a PG-13 word. Who do you suppose taught it to her? Maybe it was “Daddy” in the past week he spent being very angry about bills, vending machines, etc.
I suspect Mommy is the one who makes up all the Keane Kompound rules, anyway, and that sometimes Daddy gets in trouble, too. (Maybe that’s why he had to stay home last week. He’s been picking up bad words at work.)
June 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am
“Who do you suppose taught it to her?”
NOT ME!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:05 am
This Snuffy Smith plays like a restaging of the walk-and-talk scenes from Annie Hall, with Elviney as Tony Roberts and Loweezy as Woody Allen.
Meanwhile, I completely misread the narration box in this Spider Man. I took it to say that a radioactive spider had turned Peter Parker into Stan Lee, which would have been a great, Chalie-Kaufsman-esque twist for this blighted strip. Also loved: “I must remake my tentancles out of ADAMANTIUM.” He once said almost the same thing after being nailed in the crotch by an errant kickball in gym class. By the way, Doc, might I also suggest Boygeorgeium or Kajagoogooium? Stay away from Flockofseagullsium, though, as Wolverine is clearly invulnerable to that.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Snuffy Smith: …Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play?
June 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
RMMD: Check out what June is wearing! Looks like a little black dress from Bloomies, combined with the transparent wrap she’s been wearing over her swimsuit throughout this boat ride from hell, plus a necklace borrowed from Wilma Flintstone. Girlfriend’s pulling out all the stops to pull Rex’s eye away from the hunky-but-disgraced second officer.
DtM: Good call on the prayers to Satan. Guess that’s why Mrs Wilson has been baking tannis root cookies all these years.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Marvin: Who buys cloth diapers and hangs them out to dry anymore?
June 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Spider-man: It’s not “SWIKKT”, it’s “SNIKKT”!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
FC: Dolly hates to be interrupted when she’s busy restaging the Jonestown Massacre.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Today we learn that not even Hootin’ Holler is immune to the influence of goth culture. But I suspect Loweezy is just a pop-culture poser who shops at Hootin’ Hot Topic. (Side note: Loweezy with a Legend of Zelda heart container shirt reading “Life: Is this all there is?” = automatic 5000x increase in awesomeness of Snuffy Smith.)
June 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I wish I had time for this today, but knowing that Snuffy Smith and Apartment 3G are written by the same gal… anyone want to cut and paste some Margo and Tommy heads over Elvina and Loweezy?
June 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Wow, today’s title panel of the Amazing Spiderman reveals that the lab where Peter was bitten by a radioactive spider also doubled as a movie theater. Which means the really amazing thing is that he didn’t get his superpowers from the radioactive yellow popcorn topping.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
What the hell is that wide-eyed, demon-grinning THING that Dennis is praying near (to) in his final prayer? Is that the god of not-so-menacing children? Is it whatever allows Dennis the Menace to stay in syndication long after it’s stopped being relevant? Is it something ONLY I CAN SEE?
I’m scared.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:40 am
RMMD – The quick-action change of poses between panels 5 and 6 makes me think Rex is trying something, alright. The “Wow, you look beautiful!” accented by Rex’s clawing hand in panel 3 is a clear indication that he can’t wait to try…anything, is my guess. And, when we’re talking about Rex, “try” is the operative word.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Curtis true story: last night I dreamed of a better Curtis, that, for some reason, revolved around “Onion” being some sort of memetic badass. Needless to say, I ended up quite disappointed.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:42 am
So I’ve never ever read Rex Morgan, even when it’s featured here. So now I’m curious. First, is it always this weirdly stylized? And second, how did Rex ever become a doctor without any eyes?
June 28th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Armstrong, more influenced by Comics Curmudgeon than many are aware, after having made the decision to toilet train Marvin, now experiences a kind of “buyer’s remorse” realizing that, like booze to an alcoholic, giving up poo gags is going to be more difficult than at first blush.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
FC: Actually, I suspect the Keanes are one of those families who don’t even like their children to hear mild insults for fear of imitative behavior. Dolly’s “PG-13″ word is more likely something like “stupid,” “jerk,” or “big fat meanie.”
FW: So, failure and despair were an intrinsic part of Funkytown from the very beginning. Makes sense to me, too..
MW: Please let that be a copy of Carousel, the only major Rogers and Hammerstein musical I actively dislike. I shudder to contemplate the possibility that Mary and I might actually share an appreciation for Oklahoma! or The King and I.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
FC: 4/19/1970. Only they didn’t have PG-13 back then so she had to scream “NAUGHTY” instead.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Another way to look at the PG-13 policy is that you can scream “Fuck you!” but you can’t whisper “Fuck me.”
June 28th, 2009 at 11:55 am
S-M: Let nobody say there’s no continuity in Spidey. Haven’t we spent sleepless nights worrying over the fate of those “$” bags that bailed out the back of the hijacked armored car during Electro’s slapstick escape months ago?
At last the mystery’s revealed. Doc Ock found them in the gutter while working off the community-service hours of his most recent sentence.
Now Spidey sanctimoniously scampers off to return them, and coincidentally claim credit for this twofer in which he actually played only his usual hapless-witness role — for Electro did make his getaway from the scene (albeit sans “$”), and it was Wolvie who snagged Ock’s “$” bag with his snickersnees.
RMMRSA: June looks mighty buff and mighty butch in that second-to-last panel. And she might be contemplatin’ that if they want a boy-child, Rex is just the guy to bear it. And when June makes up her mind, ain’t no “try” about it.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
A Murderous Masked Menace or a Modern-Day Crusader? I’m thinking more along the lines of Mundane Maven of Made for TV Movies and Malaise.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Dolly’s just been reading too much Prickly City. Gotta keep those oval-headed kids away from Satan’s Page.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
And speaking of purloined “$”, MT is into its second post-Post-Office-Wanted-Bhoys storyline, but no news that Mark ever returned that $600 of bank loot thrown at Rusty by the miscreants in that fair-deal exchange for his camera. Harboring stolen property! Malicious conversion! They take away your wildlife magazine press pass for that, son.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I gotta say, there’s something quite striking about the art in FC today… some combination of pose and perspective gives the comic a surreal edge.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
In a typical display of the pointlessness that is Spider Man; Wolverine shows his claws, poses with them, then hides them again. Which goes to show that even the toughest superhero in that strip is as vapid as a Milan fashion model.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
What force caused Marvin’s parents to have their eyeballs switch from orbicular to elliptical within a single throw-away panel?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I suppose we should thank the Marvin artist for restraining the impulse showing the permanent stains in the cloth diapers.
Baby steps, Armstrong.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Luann: Congratulations Evans…you have actually suceeded in making your titular character a cocktease not only for male boys, but dogs as well.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Speaking of restraint, anytime they want to truss up Loweezy’s dangling bosoms is fine by me.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
A3G – “Tim Mills? I know that name…the former guitarist for Iced Earth, right?”
BB – Gave him…kneepads…good God, when are they going to just come out and say it?
BrS – Morena Baccarin? Rock on.
Crankshaft – Grandma Rose has disowned the entire world. Sometime soon, in the middle of the night, she’ll leave on a vision quest. Some years later, she’ll turn up in a monastery in Tibet, dying, but finally happy; maybe there are some places in the world where the misery can’t reach her.
DT – “You cheated!” “A cheater would know!” “Yeah, well you’re the cheater, cheater!” “Nuh-uh! You’re the cheater times infinity!”
FC – “Fuck?”
FW – So the town was founded on broken dreams. Makes sense.
JP – “Hey, look…there’s your mom and dad down there! Also, someone just dropped an atomic bomb! Duck and cover, sweetie!”
Lio – Tatulli draws a better four Horsemen than many metal album covers.
MW – So she’s giving Mary the thing that used to be her and her husband’s “thing?” I know we’ve been making with the Sappho jokes, but I’m starting to wonder if that wasn’t closer to the mark than we thought…
MC – So very, very true.
Pickles – Earl, you rock.
PV – I don’t think my first move in wooing would be to provide a visual reminder that doing the horizontal mambo could result in her ejecting a large, awkwardly-shaped object from her nethers after months of inconvenience, but then what do I know, I’m not Gawain.
RMMD – I don’t think they’re talking about the same “try.”
Shoe – The economy: another perfect excuse for fart jokes!
SM – SQUID ARE NOT OCTOPI AND OCTOPI ARE NOT SQUID. ARGH.
Edison Lee – Pluggers hate automation.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Is it just me or does Wolverine look morbidly obese in that last panel?
I do like his high school-girlish “puh-leeeze, talk to the hand” pose in the fifth panel.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
#4 Joe Blevins for COTW and New Wave Comic Genius award.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
13. Patrick–
No…no…I see it too. Let us huddle together in terror.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Y#75 Charterstoned…BRAVO!!!! I’d YouTube the HELL out of that if this wasn’t the busiest week ever. Sigh…
Y#81 Joe Blevins: I would love to see that. In high school I was in a production of “Evita” (played Peron’s mistress! woo!) and my friend and I wrote a parody song called “Don’t Cry For My Genitalia”. I guess that would be more appropriate for Rex Morgan, though. ;)
June 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
RMMD: “Maybe we should try to….get to dinner early, so we get the best seats at the Captains table”
June 28th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
FC – My God, it’s not the F-Bomb I’m concerned about, but rather Dolly looking like she’s going to beat the crap out of PJ at any moment. Poor little numbnut is trying to defend himseld with his puny, grubby little baby-hands.
Dolly, repeat after me:
“Military School”
June 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Snuffy Smith: up until the last panel, I was sure she was going to say that she should have committed suicide years ago. But then I remembered that I wasn’t reading Funky Winkerbean.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Spider-Man: Wow. In the Marvel universe, adamantium, while valuable, isn’t totally impossible to find. It’s surprising that Doc Ock is choosing ignore the possibility of stealing some from a lab or making some of his own with his super science skills, and is instead opting to just try and tear it right off the bones of an excessively-grumpy mutant with a healing factor. This shows unprecedented enterprise for the Spider-Man comic, where you’d think the strips overarching theme of indolence would demand that Doc Ock stare listlessly at a TV screen, finally deciding to buy a cheap knock-off of adamantium straight from the Home Shopping Network. “Adabantium? I’m sure it’s just as good as the real thing!”
June 28th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Rex:
…and with that, June finally gets the sweet, sweet lovin’ she so deserves.
Marvin:
Marvin’s given his mom a new reason to hate her seed – with the recent economic downturn, she’s been forced to be in more contact with baby dung than anyone in 200 years.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
“Maybe we should try to…” To what? Make your own little Willy?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
They are still using cloth diapers? what kind of hell are they putting themselves through in 2009?
And what do they feed the kid that he is so incontinent? and what are the quantities? No wonder he so circular.
Maybe they are really cannibals, and the whole point of feeding him so much is so they can get pate de foi Marvin?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
P.S. Speaking of YouTube, I made a playlist of the Curmudgeon parodies I’ve posted so far (only three! I gotta get busy!) I’ve got it as my name link now. :)
June 28th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
23 diapers in 48 hours? My 8-day old went through 26 over Friday and Saturday. Marvin must not be trying very hard… either that or I’ve birthed a monster!
June 28th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
In Wrecks M’organ, MD, Rex is alluding to adoption, not babymaking.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
This is a little OT for the blog, but Billy Mays of infomercial fame has died, apparently.
The reason I bring it up here is that Billy had a role recently in Secret Asian Man, helping Charlie hawk “Lunchkins” [lunch bags made of paper towels] – see June 12 strip.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Sharing a birthday with a Snuffy Smith character is truely…
Mortifying.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
#46: Anonymous: So that makes four celebrities dead so far this week: Billy Mays, Farrah, Ed McMahon and the Gloved One. Of the four, I miss Ed the most.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
FC: I like that PJ is assuming a Kung Fu pose. If he could talk, he would be saying: “Use whatever words you want, B*&^. I have had it up to hear and am about to rip your throat out, Roadhouse sytle!”
June 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Just thought you might like to know; at the moment, your RSS feed is displaying insane ‘Don’t pay for electricity, you can make it at home’ ads. :)
June 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
More happy happy people in Marvin’s throw-away panels. Balloon-headed feces machine tilts head back to show half-circle mouth of joy. Poop-poop-a-poo, what a happy strip.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
They’re dropping like flies.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2009/6/28/490127.html?title=TV+pitchman+Billy+Mays+has+died
Or maybe I should say THEY”RE DROPPING LIKE FLIES (shouted, of course)
June 28th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
#50, 51 – If Marvin’s endless stream of babyshit could be turned into energy, maybe I wouldn’t hate him so much.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
#46 – So sorry- I did not read back. My apologies.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
re #13. It took me a while to parse it via context – it’s a TV showing an eldritch version of Howdy Doody.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
That’s it! I want to be glamorous like June! I’m investing in a HUGE FARKIN’ ROLL of Saran-Wrap!
June 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The fact that Marvin’s mother is even USING cloth diapers, since we know the only pastime little Marvin enjoys is shitting in said diapers, either speaks to her extreme masochism or poverty. I can only imagine the cost of covering Marvin’s shameful little butt in Huggies.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Funky
The guy had a trendy Old Testament name: Imscrewd Abandun Allhope
His wife: Pinprik “Pinky” Selphabuse
June 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
What is wrong with Elviney’s tongue?
June 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
53 Calico says: “#50, 51 – If Marvin’s endless stream of babyshit could be turned into energy, maybe I wouldn’t hate him so much.”
I call foul, you clicked the ad.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
#7 Harold–
Actually, an astonishing number of moms use cloth diapers even these days. A lot of them are fancied up, different colors, and with snaps, not pins. I used them myself for a while with kid #2. Then #3 came along and I smacked myself in the face and woke the hell up.
But Marvin’s mom doesn’t even seem to have the cute, adorable, patterned and colored diapers, just the plain old fashioned kind our grannies used, and so no wonder she looks so damn depressed. She’s never gonna be able to sell those on Ebay when Marvin finally potty trains, the little shit.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Judging by the dolls sprawled across the floor face down next to overturned cups, I would guess that PJ was spiking the tea.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Good thing the second panel of Marvin shows a photo of Jenny and Jeff labeled “Marvin’s Mom + Dad.” Otherwise I would have thought the two white-haired people were the baby’s parents.
FC: I like the way Thel is angrily lurking in the kitchen, just waiting to roll up that dish towel and snap it at Dolly’s ass.
Here’s a sneak preview of tomorrow’s Rex Morgan: “June, what are you doing? I meant maybe we should try to get in a quick game of shuffleboard before dinner.”
June 28th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I like the way Rex and June’s sex plans correspond with the ship moving through a tunnel created by the sunset. As metaphors go, it’s not exactly a hot dog entering a donut, but it’ll do.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
FW: If you wanted to travel to California by wagon in the 1850s, good timing was critical. You needed to leave as soon as the rivers were low enough to ford. If you waited too long you wouldn’t get good fodder for your oxen.
Thus your starting point should be as far west as possible, say St. Joseph, Missouri, or at least St. Louis. Spring should find you there, fully provisioned and ready to go.
So what does the story of the ancestral Winkerbean show?
Didn’t even make it to square one before giving up.
Ignorant of the basic concepts of the task in hand.
Ohio was fairly well settled by this time, so any unclaimed land would have been not very desirable.
It makes you wonder if Batiuk thinks this stuff through or if it’s unconscious.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
A3G: I love the fact that Tim Mills’ Journal has “Tim Mills’ Journal” emblazoned so boldly across the cover. I think it would look even nicer with an STP sticker on it, too, and maybe a big heart with “M.M. + E.M.” scrawled within it.
Phantom: I used to think this was a well-drawn comic, but WTF with EVERYONE with substantial six-pack abs? I’ll be the captain’s mum and dad are toothless, but are still sportin’ abs of steel!
Then again, maybe this is to make up for the fact that the artist can’t draw a baby to save his soul. Or that the foundling has progeria.
31. commodorejohn re SM: I suspect Logan knows the difference between octopus and squid, and that he’s just using “squid” as a perjorative term for Doc Ock. Considering that the only other multi-legged animal that quickly leaps to mind is spider, I think Logan’s is being uncommonly sensitive to Peter’s mascot-theme…
52. Calico: considering some of these folks are younger than I am (only by a year or two, but still!), I’m not feeling too well myself…coff.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
#60 – I swear I didn’t! : )
I guess I’m just in Marvin-mode today.
Now that’s a scary thing.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Spider-Man: I’m fascinated to see where this “Mine his skeleton!” idea takes us.
Oh, and gotta love that “SWIKKT” sound there. Wolverine is as two-dimensional as they come and the writer still manages to get something wrong.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Snuffy Smith: AAH! AAAH! That cake-shaped pile of shit is on fire!
June 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
didn’t we start this storyline with wolverine stealing money? i’m confused.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Whups, I was anonymous #46. Didn’t realize I didn’t put my handle in [very infrequent commenter in any case]
Of the celebs deaths recently, Billy Mays is the most surprising. But I’m an actuary, and I can give you odds by age, sex, smoking status, and other underwriting variables [ok, no - that would be compromising proprietary info - but the first three I can do, as there are generic tables for that]. I can tell you for sure that the probability of death is not zero for any age….
June 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
#66 – This entire week has been brought to us by Tom Batuik.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
FC: And according to the United States Supreme Court (FCC v Fox Television) it is impossible to use the word “Fuck” or “Shit” without those words having a sexual or excretory meaning – at least on TV – and one use of those words, even in the heat of the moment (as in a live event or when Dick Cheney is speaking to the Senate) is grounds for a TV network to be fined $235,000 per station. Thank you Justice Scalia for proving that the law is a ass.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
DtM
What if that isn’t a picture Dennis is praying to in panel 8, but a mirror? We’re seeing his true self reflected there, a terrifying demon-puppet!
June 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
1. Snuffy Smith does Twilight.
2. A quick, absurdist Funky rewrite.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
The throwaway panel in today’s “Marvin” has got to be the most irritating I’ve ever seen. He didn’t even try! Watch as he uses it every Sunday.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
#4 Joe Blevins – Yeah, a metal discovered by the guy that recorded “Kings of the Wild Frontier.” That’s got me shaking in my Goody Two Shoes.
# 13, 34, 55 & 74 – Are you guys sure he’s not praying to Charlie-in-the-Box? There’s definitely a scary Rankin-Bass vibe going on there.
#75 Joe again – Ooh! Now do one in the sunlight so we can see Elviney all sparkly!
June 28th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
“Oh, I think we can do better than try, Doc! I really believe that this time, you are actually capable of completing an act of sexual intercourse! That’s why I threw away the turkey baster. I have that much faith in you.”
Meanwhile, over in Funky Winkerblues, even the name of the town is based on somebody’s personal catastrophe.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Incidentally, when June was talking on the phone from the balcony of their suite aboard the cruise ship, she slipped a see-through bathrobe over her bikini. Now she’s dressed for a fancy dinner with Rex and the kidlets, and she has a see-through evening wrap. How much cellophane can one woman have in her wardrobe?
June 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m going to set a best personal record throwing up after reading that Marvin comic.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
#72 annnnnnd Calico wins the Internet!
June 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
#81 – Hell, I’d rather win a year’s worth of Lipton soup or Kraft Dinner.
(Yes, that’s how the latter is called in Canada)
: D
June 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
#35 – Mollificent, high praise, indeed! Thanks for the kudos–and I would be thrilled to hear your performance of my humble ditty. I followed your link to YouTube–terrific!
June 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I think most people who use cloth diapers do so for environmental reasons, yes? I mean, I’m sure there’s some complicated caculus you can do about the energy/water used for washing vs. landfill space, but I can see be horrified by how much presumably eternal plastic you send off to landfill land using disposible diapers. I can also see that horror being quickly eclipsed by the horror of doing diaper-laundry every day for two years, though. My point is, I don’t have to deal with any of this, neener neener.
Josh
June 28th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
42 Steven: Cloth diapers are still available and used these days–whether or not they’re worth the time and effort is a debate I won’t bore you with, but they are out there.
I do agree that any baby producing that much excrement should have been taken to a pediatrician long ago, however.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
There were more than a few comments at my mother’s funeral that my mother, the ever-fashionable, set a trend that even celebrities couldn’t help following.
My husband’s comment at reading of Billy’s Mays death: Celebrity deaths happen in threes, but Billy Mays’ is the “But wait! There’s more!…”
June 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
75. Joe Blevins: funny stuff! And the FW mashup pretty much sums it all up.
Finally! More dining excitement on the S.S. Surly! Club sandwiches? Donuts? Soft-serve ice cream? What next?!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3669463592/sizes/o/
June 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
#86 – Hope you are doing ok, Sister Sestina.
Take good care.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Yeah, the whole cloth diaper thing isn’t that unusual, at least with the folks I know. However, it’s usually something practiced by eco-conscious hippie types, with big concerns about the fate of humanity, etc. I wouldn’t think Marvin’s parents fit the bill, though, considering they doomed humanity when they failed to mercy kill Marvin on his first day out of the womb.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I like the expression on Thel’s face. Either she’s scheming to gag Dolly with that towel, or she’s hoping to learn some good pillow talk.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Monday FOOB Advisory: We start the summer with Lynn’s favorite disturbing image: Lizzie clinging to Elly like a frakking barnacle because the world scares her soooooo much. That would also explain why she loves her crib; the confinement and isolation from the real world comfort her.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Marvin — The way Marvin’s shorts are drawn in the last panel, it looks like his butt with a little ass-crack showing at the waistline. Meaning he’s horribly turned his head around a full 180 so he can directly see the crap flying out of his pants as he extends his diaper record to even greater heights.
Snuffy — If she’s a 15 year old, Loweezy’s breasts sure are hanging low. Proof life is hard in Appalachia.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
86: Sister Sestina’s husband for CotW! (that was funny!)
June 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
If I was PJ, I would be more worried about Dolly’s fat little fist, probably R rated for graphic violence.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
flodnak: How much cellophane can one woman have in her wardrobe?
June Morgan, RN can never have enough cellophane in her wardrobe.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
So what happened to potty training Marvin? Did the concept just get dropped? Is Jenny so lazy she would rather change 10000000000 poopy diapers (per week) than train her child? Or does she just hate herself so much she has decided her life is worth nothing more than constantly changing Marvin’s poopy diapers?
June 28th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Help! I need a new source for my sunday comics. My google gadget has been taken down and the houston chronical either doesn’t post sunday or posts them a day late. Any help or recomendations much appreciated. Thanks in advance
June 28th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
97. Try the Sunday comics time tunnel brought to you by Dean Booth- http://comicbooth.com/comicbooth_sundays.htm
June 28th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
thanks Kajjansiblackmamba,
you never know how much the little things mean until they vanish … now if I could just find a source for all the dailies I like too w/o having to go to 3 different pages.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I’m concerned about the coloring in panel 5 of Dennis. My theory is that Dennis is capable of manipulating space to suck a degree that he appears to have unbroken Mr. Wilson’s window. That, or the Wilsons paint their windowpanes black, to presumably hide the satanic murders/S&M orgies that undoubtedly go on in their domestic lair. I think we know who the true “menace” is.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Also, I meant to say “such a degree”, not “suck a degree”…but it’s Dennis the Menace, so probably both are correct.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
MW: “Jeff and I have our own little misunderstandings, too.”
“OUR OWN LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS?!?” Just what the hell does that mean? Did Mary Worth just admit to making mistakes?
June 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Just what is PJ doing that bugs Dolly so much? From the pose, it looks like he’s either trying to propose or sing “Mammy.”
June 28th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
SS — I just realized that a lock of Loweezy’s hair is showing, so now I know what color it is. Scary. If she ever actually takes off that black thing, the world will end.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
GF — I hope Satchel’s book was written by a human being, rather than a dog. Having one species in the world that doesn’t understand sentence structure is bad enough.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
#2 Carly Who do you suppose taught it to her?
Probably that no-good bitch Ida Know!
I know the term “dressing for dinner” is a ritzy way of implying that you are dressing UP for dinner, but since this is Rex Morgan, I like to imagine that throughout this neverending cruise, everybody shows up to dine in the nude. “Pass the sausage, Rex.” “My pleasure, June!” Except this is Rex Morgan. So that would not be his pleasure at all.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Bailey: I can tell without looking that the “kneepads” have already been gagged to death here. But we’ll have to check in on Beetle and Sarge later for some real gagging.
Marvin: Reusable diapers meet disposable baby in execrable comic.
FC: “You little bald mute fuck”? Am I close?
9CL: And most horrifying of all today, Edda is spewing dry leaves and scrap paper from her cooch.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
# 65 Mr. O’Malley — Well put. Thank you.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
JP — “And there’s Santa Claus! And Abe Lincoln! And Elvis! And God!”
June 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
#27 Izzy: “What force caused Marvin’s parents to have their eyeballs switch from orbicular to elliptical within a single throw-away panel?”
My guess would be massive hits on the family bong. . .
June 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
#91 dreadedcandiru2,
Seen in that light, Granthony was somewhat inevitable, no?
June 28th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
SF — Where I live, Hillary would be this close to achieving several dozen chigger bites.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
# 107 artist — Thank you for explaining 9CL to me. I did wonder.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I aim to serve, Poteet.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Last year, alittle more than a year ago, we seemed to be having a Celebrity Death-a-Thon ‘08 going on, where we lost, in quick succession, Will Elder, Dick Martin, Harvey Korman, Sydney Pollock, Bo Diddley, Paul Sills (2nd City co-creator), Rory Root (legendary comic shop owner), Jim McKay, Thelma Keane, Tim Russert, George Carlin, and Tony Snow, if not more.
Feels too much like Celebrity Death-a-Thon ‘09 to me now. Hope not; we lose too many cool people that way.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
(BG&)SS: Loweezy is, essentially, a famous person, and if her Herb & Jamaalesque age is 50, then it’s no wonder she’s concerned.
DtM: Dennis’s “Please get me outta this” isn’t because he broke the Wilsons’ window — note the obvious window part is above, and the cartoon-broken-glass shape is below in a dark void. That shape is really a magic cartoon spark, here signifying the instant disappearance of two of Mr. Wilson’s fingers, unseen in that panel. Dennis is worried that he made those fingers vanish — because just before the events shown, Dennis prayed for Wilson to lose body parts.
FC: Dolly’s “PG-13 word” means:
Pugilistic Grinding — 13 times.
Marvin: Thank God for the throwaway panel #2, otherwise we’d never know who the hell those people are!
S-M: Doc Crock’s tentacle is severed, and it’s still holding
on to the money sack?? Now, that’s greed!
S-M “Next” box: “A Mutant in Manhattan”? You’re going to have to narrow that down a bit, box.*
*(all due apologies to anyone here from there)
June 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
<—waiting for somebody to create one of those Clay-Mation Wrestle-Mania inspired Death Matches for the latest round of celebrity deaths.
“King of Pop” MJ vs. “Wingman” McMahon, anyone?
I’d lay serious moolah on The Publisher’s Clearinghouse Pitchman, myself…
June 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
#116 (me): A Correction:
S-M: Doc Crock’s tentacle is severed, and it’s still
holding on to the money sack?? Now, that’s greed!
(Well, Manhattanite ‘Mudges, looks like the #116 “Next” box comment has already been avenged)
June 28th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I don’t consider Billy Mays a celebrity as I’ve never actually seen him on TV. I mean, I know who he WAS, but that’s about it.
And I was going to say let’s not forget David Carradine – wait, let’s forget him :p (and he didn’t die this week anyway). Who will be the next to go? I fear Patrick Swayze is next.
And in case anyone is interested, I used diapers from a diaper service for my kid, with a few disposables as needed. The price worked out to be about the same but I thought (maybe erroneously) it was environmentally better. I never washed and hung diapers on the line. I’m told that washing your own diapers isn’t all that horrible and does save money, etc., but you do have to want to commit to it. All this is leading up to: when you eliminate strained peas, learning to walk, scribbling on walls, lugging around a mountain of baby stuff, well, what else can you say about babies (Marvin) and his long-suffering parents. One must fall back on diapers and poop jokes.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
#115, it’s just been announced that old-time TV star Gale Storm died today.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
After serious (hee hoo) consideration, and a bit of watching Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’, I posit that a tag team of “EZ Ed” and “Bombastic Billy” would certainly be victorious over “Fab-o Farrah” and “Mighty Mouse Michael”, due to sheer weight.
Not celebrity weight, mind you, but real poundage.
Semper Fi, boys and gurls.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Okay, party was a blast of megaton proportions, I haven’t slept much, but the hotel had a wave pool and jacuzzi and I took a room (no fool I) and oh yeah, oh yeah that was nice.
Thank you SO much everyone for the well-wishes!! It made me smile to see so many!
Muffaroo, I’m in Ottawa, Ontario.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
The entire Marvin strip today is one throwaway panel after another. The top two are uber-throwaways, and then the only part of the rest of it that’s needed for the entire “joke,” such as it is, are the last two panels. What an unbelievable waste of Sunday comics space. I find this more offensive than the strip’s unrelenting obsession with effluvium.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Marvin: I’m disturbed that Marvin learned to count before he learned to use the toilet. The only other person for whom this might be possible is Albert Einstein, but at least Einstein had the decency not to publicize this fact in papers nationwide.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Ah, June’s ovaries have been bombarded with another dose of hopium. June, no matter where you are, no matter what you do, whether you’re caught between the moon and New York City or in a tender embrace, it’s still Rex.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
$10 1950-era dollars says Dolly will mess up and use her F-bomb in a sexual context with poor PJ, rendering her NC-13 for life.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I like how Mama Keane is standing in the kitchen with a nice wet towel. Will she snap it at her daughter’s face or her dainty bits while holding her young’n upside down in a naked knees akimbo? Schlechtes, Dolly! Freches Mädchen! Ihre Vagina wird mit Schlamm und Bier gefüllt!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I like how two of Dolly’s dolls (now that’s a weird phrase) have fallen over in shock.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Dennis’s Menacing is very subtle, far more ingenious and trickerish than we are accustomed. His goal is not to menace Mr. Wilson, nor to destroy Margaret’s sense of self-worth one tiny wasted afternoon at a time.
Nay, Dennis aims his attack at the very foundation of our comics pages! By taking up far more space than is necessary in the top left corner, he blurs the line between throwaway panel and main strip! These dastardly acts must be stopped! What’s next? Sneaking into Blondie and stealing sandwiches? Stretching out panel frames until he covers up Ziggy?
…wait, that’s a service to humanity.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
#127 Schlamm und Bier? Wie ungewöhnlich! Aber natürlich, es wurde von Dingo doch geschrieben!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Better for us that Marvin count them on the clothesline than (if they were disposable) rummage through the trash for his dirty diapers to count them up one by one.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Johnny Q @ 23 (yesterthread)
Alright, even though this is more than a day late, I can’t resist: some style guides still insist on the distinction between “nauseous” and “nauseated”, but any modern dictionary will recognize that the use of “nauseous” in the sense of “afflicted with nausea” has become so ubiquitous that it is de facto correct.
The best summary I’ve found of the history of the words is here: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nau1.htm
June 28th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Nekrotzar, I like to imagine that Thel Keane is a dominatrix wearing a leather merkin and a harness in the bedroom. She flogs her husband and lets the children hear his screams of torment. Then, after cursing him in German and bringing him to use the safe word, she makes vicious sweet love to him and they collapse upon the bed. The next morning at the breakfast table, she allows a nipple to become half exposed in her robe, but no child dare say anything. When Dolly comes home from school, she always finds her dollies in bizarre sexual poses with white chalk rubbed on their faces and buttocks. Thel then says, “Someday I teach you the ways of the world, the way that Grandmama taught me.” and the air fills with the smell of patchoulie and sticky pussy.
(Why I didn’t get that job at Hallmark, I’ll never understand.)
June 28th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Seems fitting Loweezy’s birthday should be a big, round number. She’s something of a big, round number herself.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Family Circus: Given angry-drunk Dolly and her to passed out friends, by guess is its not tea in those cups, but rather daddy’s “headache medicine”, i.e. Maker’s Mark.
Marvin: We learn that Jenny is not actually a heavy-lidded fed-up mom, but rather a heavy-lidded twisted sadist, opting to keep her little excrement machine in cloth diapers rather than the disposable ones that everyone uses. Why throw out 23 diapers when you can wash each one by hand and and hang dry them?
Spider-Man: Though Wolverine got himself a tentacle souvenir, the Doc is still at large. Soon the web slinger will again have to face Dr. Septapus.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 am
#100 – Is it sad that I registered “suck a degree” without batting an eye?
#110 – Who, Marvin’s parents or Tom Armstrong?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Before I get started on some early Monday commentary, can anyone tell me WHY I started reading Between Friends and Edge City? Thank you.
FC: something is terribly, terribly wrong here. It seems Jeffy’s head, arms and arms have been attached backwards to his body.
Still, I should withhold judgment — it could work out for the best.
MW: Rodgers and Hammerstein — otherworldly? While I like some of their stuff, “kitschy” springs to mind, and “people-pleasin’,” nothing more. Unless Dingo reworks the lyrics. (Then it’s likely to the filthy.)
SM: okay, my vast knowledge of Wolverine is pretty much limited to the X-Men movies. In the first one, he’s asked, when his claws come out, if it hurts. “Every time,” Logan replies.
So have things changed? Is Logan a masochist? I mean, he’s snikkkkting these things out every chance he gets.
(Jealous much, Peter?)
RMMD: NO! No no no no no! I started reading RMMD only a couple of years ago, and there’s always been a Morgan prominently featured! I will NOT tolerate a story-arc with a bunch of second-stringer characters! (Well, okay, if it’s Andy Reed, I’ll rethink this, but this strip without Rex is like a strip without Mary Worth, and we all know how empty that is.)
FW: yeah, yeah. We all know who it’s going to be. Why expect a deus ex machina when we’re in the Funkiverse?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3670993106/sizes/o/
June 29th, 2009 at 1:08 am
But how did you KNOW, Margo?
My little Margo has her ways …
*cough* is that a human finger in her reticule, sir?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:27 am
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/26/bc-marmaduke-movie-dog-warehouse-noise-burnaby.html
News from the Vancouver, where they’re shooting the Marmaduke movie: Loud barking from the dozens of dogs being employed in the movie’s production has led to complaints from nearby condo dwellers.
This may be the best movie ever.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 am
As captivating as Wolverine is and as forgettable as Peter Parker and his band of dime store villains are, mutants in Manhattan is… you know… kinda most of premise of Spiderman.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:39 am
I don’t know what I’m happier about, the fact that there’s going to be a marmaduke movie, or the idea that the long mystery of those severed human feet found encased in running shoes is easily solved considering Marmaduke’s dining habits and proximity to the findings.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:47 am
MW Does any one know if Karen Moy actually speaks English? MW’s dialogue always sounds so stilted and mildly hungover.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:21 am
New, color-only Chron strips:
A3G: The word “diplomacy” is not in Margo’s vocabulary.
BBlues: I know, another repetitive gimmick week. But at least it’s visually interesting this time. Hey, if the jokes won’t be creative, at least the “titles” will be.
Curtis: Ha, ha, Curtis is a (contrived) hypocrite. Ha, ha, also… that’s an outmoded Italian stereotype, ha, ha.
FW: Okay, which Peanuts character is it? They’re happy, so it’s either Peppermint Patty or Snoopy.
JP: Nobody organized it, it just happened. Call it “spontaneous privilege”.
MW, p.1: She is the very med-dle of a modern major medd-l-er… Nah, I’ll let someone who actually listens to R&H do that one.
MW, p.2: Delilah, Jack Benny poses don’t count as melodramatic overacting. You know better than that!
MW, p.2: Mary, I don’t have any bond with Lawrence! I’ve never even seen the guy, he hasn’t even been drawn yet. Stop that!
MC: Nah, still tastes better than Mary Worth’s cooking.
Popeye: The new storyline: The Death of Wimpy.
RMMD: Oh, no — it’s one of those episodes starring Agnes Dipesto and that dumpy, unshaven little guy instead of David and Maddie! Or like when Carroll O’Connor or Redd Foxx were holding out for more money. Nobody wants Grady staying over until Fred gets back.
6C: Turns out, it’s an actual ice cream flavor! EEEWWW!! …. Still tastes better than Mary Worth’s cooking, though.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:28 am
#143 (me): The idea that napkin is an actual ice cream flavor is pure snarkery on my part. There is no napkin-flavored ice cream……. is there?
June 29th, 2009 at 3:12 am
@Mibbitmaker #143: BTW, “Modern Major-General” is Gilbert & Sullivan, not R&H. From The Pirates of Penzance.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Interesting juxtaposition in local Sunday comics section: Peanuts, about Snoopy trying to get rid of too-tall grass around his doghouse by eating it (”Grazing will never do it!” says the bloated dog) over Garfield, about the effects of getting heavily caffeinated (”And I’ll go mow the lawn with my teeth”). The solution is obvious, but try not to think of the consequences; i.e., the urgent need to borrow some of those diapers from Marvin’s Mmom.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Once again the final line in Spiderman and the Family Circus caption would both be improved if they switched places.
Wolverine acknowledges both of their box office celebrity by saying “If you don’t stop buggin’ me I’m gonna use my PG-13 word” with the wry understanding that the MPAA tames his tough guy image perhaps even more than the Comics Code Authority.
Meanwhile, Dolly vows “I’ll find that squid and finish what I started” meaning she plans to make the final incantation and sacrifice her brother as part of the summoning ritual of a Chthonian god.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:41 am
#145 (KarMann): Exactly why someone more familiar should do it (meaning an appropriate song parody).
I should just stick with classic rock and oldies.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Perhaps you can say that F-word more times if you grow freakishly giant, as dolly appears to have done. Next she will PG-13 stomp on her mother.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:19 am
I’m personally more interested in seeing the caption in the throw-away panel developed upon- THRILL as Spidey restores the Holy Land to Christiandom, and asserts the supremacy of the papacy! Be AMAZED as our Hero is diverted to Byzantium, sacks Constantinople single-handed, and seats a harlot upon the patriarch’s throne!
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/choniates1.html
June 29th, 2009 at 4:33 am
6/29 FOOB:
“Mamamam! Nizzie want in Mtiguffin!”
“Mummymummy! Nizzie want out fum Mtiguffin!”
“Nizzie want Anf-knee! Want Anf-knee!”
“Mimimimimiiiii! Nizzie no want Anf-knee! No Anf-knee!”
“Anf-knee’s wife! Nizzie want Anf-knee again!”
“Nizzie want Pawl! Nizzie want Puh-leese guy! No Anf-knee!”
“Nizzie want Anf-Knee! PEEEEEZE, Mamamama!”
Etc., etc…..
June 29th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Spider-Man, you’re pretty dumb for a Spider-Man. “Oh, hey, here’s this bag of money, which I totally did not steal. Don’t try to arrest me, please?”
June 29th, 2009 at 5:54 am
C’ville: Other content aside, in the third panel, the fat guy is reading the news on some sort of gadget. Thus this is just a NEWSPAPERS strip.
‘bean: You see, this is supposed to make me wonder who this new player is, but sadly, it doesn’t. Batiuk’s attempt at suspense has failed. It could be Shep Trumbo for all I care.
Phantom: Bad intruder alarm. Intrusive.
Slylock: Having three balls is unfortunate, but juggling them in public is exhibitionist.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:13 am
MW: No Mary. Otherworldly would be like Hooverphonic or Portishead.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am
So, Delilah’s special thing with her husband is (are?) Rogers and Hammerstein musicals? How delightfully rare and otherworldly! As a musical theater fan myself, I can only hope that this Mary Worth reference might give R&H that one big publicity *boost* they have always needed to become more mainstream and successful, and not just an obscure source for secret pillow whispers between two geniuses in love. Maybe this Mary Worth testimonial will finally garner some Hollywood interest, too! Who knows?–perhaps someone someday might actually make, oh, say, a MOVIE out of one of their musicals! Now wouldn’t THAT be exciting!
June 29th, 2009 at 7:06 am
9CL: Problem is that they already are cockroaches.
yStripeyButt: Captain! Fan Service! Second panel, after the StripeyPose!
Today’s FreshStripeyButt: That’s StripeyButt and his StripeyFarts.
Luann: Derfy?
RMMD: Yawn. No June in a bikini.
GT: My feelings on the strip as well, Thorp.
MC: As written by Darrin Bell and Bill Watterson.
MT: “A Few Good Men” quote in 3… 2… oh hell, you said it already.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Martin needs to get into a new line of competition. When my daughter was a newborn she’d regularly go through 52+ diapers in 48 hours. But then, I used those flat cloth diapers correctly and changed her immediately and Martin is regularly left to sit in his own waste.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Naturally I meant to write “Rodgers”, not “Rogers”. Duh. Must have Fred on the brain. Even Mary Worth got THAT one right…
June 29th, 2009 at 8:07 am
*kicks the Chron page for B&W comics to appear*
*wants to go back to bed*
*thinks being still tired two days after a birthday bash means it was a good birthday bash :) :)*
June 29th, 2009 at 8:11 am
After reading today’s Baby Blues, I’m finally convinced that the writers of the aforementioned are teaming up with the writers of Marvin to help convince people of childbearing age to never, ever procreate. The Zero Population Growth movement lives, and is flourishing in the comics.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:13 am
EEEAaaagghh! Mary’s pointing at me! And her dark, piercing eyes are staring directly into my soul! AAaauugh! Aaugh!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Fuck you, Marvin.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:33 am
MW – Let me get this straight: the music of “Rodgers and Hammerstein” is “our thing, that special something between us” to which Delilah is referring? Is she talking about sex games? I’m trying to imagine a sex life based on musicals and I’m having a hard time getting past the wedding march (”How Do You Solve a Problem Like Delilah?”). But if true–although why you’d ever admit it to another soul is a mystery to me!–it’s no wonder that Lawrence is always on the lecture circuit, trying to earn money to support their habits–just THINK of the expensive costumes! (”Lawrence, I’m feeling…you know! How about you be the King and I will be…I!”) And speaking of costumes, Mary’s and Delilah’s matching attire in today’s strip suggests that an otherworldly musical number could be about to commence in Mary’s kitchen.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:50 am
NEXT: A MUTANT IN MANHATTAN! And what has the past 4 weeks of strips been? A mutant in lower Bronx?
A3G: “In a word, diplomacy.” This is agonizing to Margo, who was so looking forward to an exciting press conference instead of this lame “diplomacy” thing. Not that Margo would have been involved in the press conference by asking or answering questions, but as a professional event organizer, she just wanted to arrange for the catering.
I’m disappointed, too, to be honest. A press conference might have answered some basic questions about this vague, meandering story line.
What was Tim Mills doing in Tibet, and why was he incarcerated?
Why did Tim Mills leave his diary at home when he went to Tibet?
When we finally see the Mills Brothers, will we be able to tell them apart from Margo’s dad?
What if Margo was right about everything?
Um, Mary, you know that you’re not supposed to put CDs into a toaster, right?
Oh, and nice artwork, putting Del behind Mary in panel 1, then suddenly Mary is behind Del in panel 2. Yeah, that works.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:51 am
What did I miss?
June 29th, 2009 at 8:58 am
MW: What is this, “Mary & Jamaal”? How much vaguer can you get than “Rodgers and Hammerstein music”? Could this soundtrack possibly have a, you know, TITLE?
June 29th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Derfy. adj. Positioned incorrectly in relation to one’s eyebrows.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:11 am
If ‘rare’ means ‘nearly raw and bloody’, and ‘otherworldly’ means ‘hellish’, then I can kind of see where Mary’s coming from and why she’d be into that.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Rogers and Hammerstien are “otherworldly”, because they’re really aliens. Like that dopey story line in Non-Sequitur about the parallel Earth opposite the sun. No other celestial body exists in this way, but speculation knows no limits.
Rex: Sort of awkward to just pop out of a doorway and loudly introduce yourself. Hi, I’m ESTELLE KIRKLAND, and I’ve been sleeping with your husband!
And Peter’s jacket is a bit long. Fashion Police, what do you make of that?
What I don’t get in Sunday’s Mary Worth is what kind of a quote is “Only connect.”?? Given that two words is all it takes to get entered into the canon of quotable literature – and it doesn’t really even have to make sense – I thought I’d try my hand at it:
“Be heart”
“Always act”
“Merely join”
“Also love”
“First, think”
“Simply attach”
“Classics: Otherworldly”
Moy, I fully expect that some of these will end up in your strip, preferably thrown down by the great maven of mottos herself. It would be an honor, Ma’m.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:26 am
#166 – Amatuer, I thought about that. If you got “The Sound of Music”, you’d refer to it by the title. But if you got “The Best of Rogers & Hammerstein” (or some variant), you’d refer to it as “Rogers & Hammerstein”.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Hey you guys!!
In other death news:
The narrator for Love of Chair (”And … what about Naomi?”) has died.
RIP Ken Roberts
June 29th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Mark Trail:
I want the TRUTH
You can’t HANDLE the TRUTH. Sis, we live in a world that has profits, and those corporate profits need to be guarded by men without scruples. Who’s gonna do it? You? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Lost Forest and curse our toxic waste; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that the death of Lost Forest’s tiny creatures, while tragic, probably saved some money, and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, reduces expenses. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want the waste to end up in that forest, you need the waste to end up in that forest. We use words like greed, avarice, cheapskate. We use then as the backbone of a life trying to defend our fat salaries. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a woman who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the plausible deniability I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said “thank you,” and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a barrel of lead based poison and dump it off the side of the highway. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
So Marvin can count to 23, and understands the concept of 48 hours, but can’t keep from shitting his pants.
And – cloth diapers? Who uses cloth diapers? It’s supposed to be all eco and all, but day cares aren’t going to have piles of stinking cloth sitting around causing a health hazard. So I had to go with disposable for my kids.
But the real pet peeve that I have is that this is a prime example of wasting all that Sunday full color space to present a joke that could have easily been handled in a daily strip. Artists are always whining when their space gets cut down, and for some artists, deservedly so. But look at all the filler that we get. The title panel is Marvin’s relatives, all wired out on coke, with Marvin and his trademark ennui, probably daydreaming about a pleasant case of diahrea with excessive flatulence. Then, we get a Polaroid instamatic of Marvin’s mom & dad, looking just as chipper as the last panel, and still just as worthless. The three panels that encompass the second line are wordless and worthless. Ah, the third line conveys the message that Marvin is watching Mom hang his diapers out to dry (also very eco-friendly, and banned by my neighborhood association rules). He has now surpassed his previous efforts to generate more filth than can reasonably be excused due to the fact that he’s a toddler. Ah, a banner day in Marvinland.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:07 am
MW: So this, apparently, is Mary’s plan: to take every opportunity to remind Delilah of how special her bond is with Lawrence.
“This is a healthy plant.” “It IS healthy! Just like your relationship with Lawrence.”
“This is a pretty salmon-colored dress.” “It IS pretty! Just as pretty as your love for Lawrence!”
“This is a tasty orange casserole.” “It IS tasty! Just like your oral sexual relations with Lawrence!”
SM: I like this new direction for the strip. From now on, Wolverine will be brash, tough, and capable—and Spidey will watch him, exclamation points jumping from his forehead.
NS: “You never hear the phrase ‘men are a mystery’”? Who’s never heard that? Leaving aside whether men are a mystery or not, I’m sure I’ve heard those words. In fact, I’ve SAID those words. My friends have said those words. Wiley, if you’re going to go for “haha it’s funny because it’s true” humor, you gotta start with something that’s actually, you know, true.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Mary Worth, X File: I suppose any piece of music can be rare and otherworldly when placed in the context of horror. Mary’s creepy Cryptkeeper smile combined with the Jack Webb/Joe Friday hand gesture in the second panel makes this a shoo-in for best use of show tunes by a vampire.
I can only imagine what Mary Worth could do with the theme from Music From A Summer Place…
June 29th, 2009 at 10:12 am
172 Hogenmogen: See, now I was just thinking that Joey didn’t have time to deal with the toxic waste because he was too busy sculpting his hair. Your “A Few Good Men: LoFo” (”A Few Good Squirrels”?) take is far more inspired!
133 Dingo: THAT’S the kind of thing I’ve been missing in my daily reading. Glad you’re back, and in good form.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Let’s look at the clues.
100 lbs over weight.
Boobs have fallen so far down her nipples are on her kneecaps.
Not a tooth left in her head
One kid, about 6 years old
Loowezy must have hit the big 2-0
June 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
GT: “But that’s not the worst of it. He…he pulled the salt-shaker trick!”
“I’ll alert the police.”
Luann: Going on the context, I am going to assume:
derfy: (adj.) 1) having a peculiarity in appearance that is not immediately apparent, 2) unnecessarily self-conscious and awkward, see: Luann.
Marvin: That explains it–this entire comic is an outlet for Armstrong’s repressed diaper fetish.
MW: Mary’s one of those people who dismisses Sondheim as being unmelodic and incomprehensible, isn’t she? Hell, she probably considers Frank Wildhorn to be esoteric.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:45 am
FW: Okay who is it? Barry Bonds in a wig? He’s not doing anything these days. Never mind – I don’t care. they’ll end up beating the team they lost to earlier and that will cause their old gezzer of a coach to die of a heart attack right on the field despite Les’s daugther’s attempts to give him mouth to mouth. There will be a funeral – the coach will be the only one to show up – guilt ridden he will leave the gravesite, quit his job and retire to the woods to live as a hermit until he dies of cancer brought on by eating irradiated acorns.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:54 am
When I make my visit to Mary Worth’s, I’m going to give her some CDs by the Sun Ra Arkestra, Klaus Nomi and Yma Sumac. That should really butter her toast!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Anne: Jeez. I was just starting to like this strip. They had a good story line going with Annie traipsing around the Southwest with a couple of troublemakers and Daddy Warbucks has returned with some kind of feud with the dadburn gummint and then they start a third story line about a stupid mechanical head that’s been dumped in the ocean.
Love Is: Letting him talk you into something you’ll later regret. Especially when the pictures hit the Internet.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am
The Chron is being obstreperous today. After about 15 or 20 refreshes, I think I’ve read all my comics finally.
Get Fuzzy: “Danger Humps in (the) Road” would be a great title for a noir-themed porno.
Gil Thorp: “Amazing. And Pathetic.” That should be the subtitle on the strip.
Luann: Shouldn’t Delta be harping about the pollution and waste and poor nutrition of fast food restaurants? I thought she only showed up to show off her social conscience anymore.
Pluggers: Just no.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am
The B&W strips are down again. Why the hell does the Chron do this? I would believe it’s a mere failure if the strips just weren’t working, but they’re actively disabled. Chron, you make me mad.
A3G – “In a word, dipomacy. And no, my sudden transformation into Kim Jong-Il is not in any way foreboding.”
A.D. – Uh, actually no, they do not say that about spiders. Bears, yes. Spiders, no.
BBlue – The “fantasy/reality” thing is just begging for a Dean Boothing.
BrS – I swear that is Inara.
DT – Wow, a gun? Isn’t that a little pedestrian for you, Dick?
FW – Please be Clambake…
GT – Yeah, the salt shaker was just the epitome of wrongness. The getting two people suspended by the principal with a stick up her ass over a not actually obscene picture and straining their relationship? Not so much.
JP – Yeah, people who see you as a figurehead in some sort of ridiculously petty class struggle are totally your friends, for real.
Luann – Bernice, you’re wonderful. Could you please spend the entire rest of the week continuing to elaborate on exactly how stupid this plot/Luann’s behavior is?
MW – Rogers & Hammerstein music has a rare, otherworldly quality; this is due to the propensity of people to burst into song in perfect, lockstep unison, as though their minds are all guided by one master songsmith. Mary finds this very appealing, for reasons that should be obvious.
MC – Oh God. That is just wrong.
RMMD – Another plot? I can barely keep up with the breathless pace of the current one!
SF – Ted Forth: a man of impeccable taste.
SM – Ah, yes, the famed mountain lions and bears of Westchester County. Vicious creatures, they.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:40 am
@Commodorejohn-I was able to access the Chron B & W strips about 1/2 hour ago…before you wrote your post. Try again….
June 29th, 2009 at 11:43 am
MT – Hey, but the company I’ve got handling our Hazmat now gave me this cool Jack Elrod ball I can carry around!
June 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am
6/29
GT: “Excess sodium killed my old man. The salt shaker makes it personal.”
9CL: Edda and Amos enchanted the world with their televised schtupping. Francis and Diane have made the Supreme Being himself pass out with an erection. Dare I ask how Juliette and her button down leather slave will one-up them?
C-Shaft: That… makes no sense.
MC: Ooh, can he keep the Frank Miller tribute going for a couple more days? Ashley T Bengal with fishnets and a whip should be classic.
MW: Mary points and smirks at her most blatantly cruel and mocking. “You’ve got a special bond with Lawrence. And you can’t get rid of it. Nyah nyah de nyah nyah!”
MT: If he tells her “You can’t handle the truth!” I’ll jump in and punch him myself.
DT: Why did Big Ace’s face turn black when he got mad? Is he hoping to be played by Ving Rhames in the movie adaptation?
Shoe: Grey hair. A distinctly avian preoccupation.
Luann: The Wowieweenie with extra pickle. Sold exclusively at sexual frustration burger.
Marvin: Welcome to our world, Marvin.
A3G: Already bored with diplomacy, Margo scans the classified section for hot deals on cruise missiles.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Re: Little Guy @ 156:
“MC: As written by Darrin Bell and Bill Watterson.”
Read tomorrow’s strip and get back to me. ;)
June 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
#184 Deena in OR – Yeah, it finally cleared up, but by then I’d already gotten the B&W strips from other sites.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Dean Booth, are you out there?
I see Dean’s parody of Family Circus was taken out of his comicbooth.com site.
It was one of his best (If your’s is “manure”, then mine must be “woman-ure”)
Any legal trouble going on, Dean?
June 29th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I was sort of baffled by today’s DT so I flipped back to take a look at Sunday’s. You’d think Big Ace would have picked up something fishy about a guy who brings his (three quarters | half | three | one quarter) million dollars in an official Smurfs lunchbox.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Someone said earlier in the thread that it was announced that Gale Storm – star of the hit 1953 TV show “My Little Margie” – had passed away. They ran a picture of her in our local paper, and she’s a dead-ringer for Cherry Trail. I always thought that Cherry, and well, every other female that appears in Mark Trail (since they all look alike, just with different hair styles/color) had to be based on someone, and now I know who that special someone is. Rest in peace, Gale Storm. You live on in Mark Trail!
June 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Wolvie?? Really? I would think that would get Spidey an adamantium claw through the jugular.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
#47 – Happy Birthday! It’s fun to be legal, now isn’t it? : )
#128 – Mark Trail should hire Dolly to do some punching.
#169 – Re: RM – *snorts*
MW – “Only Connect” is the binary command for Mary to reboot, but without any meddling updates/add-ons.
She looks like she wants to be on a Vegas stage today, though. “Hey, yeah, wow! I’ll be here all week!”
June 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
C-shaft — Hamburger marinating in Beano for six days. Hello, emergency room.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
JP: Later this week, Sophie learns an important lesson when the cheerleader spot is won by a developmentally challenged teenager from Canada and her friend’s uncle’s hosaphone.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Little Guy @195: And then, a Canadian cartoonist files lawsuits to stop Sophie’s cheerleader challenge, Godiva’s naked ride through the school and the publication of Judge Parker.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Shoe: Anatomy lesson #1: Hair does not grow on birds.
Shoe: Anatomy lesson #2: That thing you’re sitting on? That’s your ass. That bendy thing in between your hand and your shoulder? That’s you elbow.
Marmaduke is hilarious today because he’s A BIG DOG! Get it?
H&J: I thought that this guy was the stand in to represent high earning rich white guys. Now we find out he’s a philosopher. Yeah, that’s a money making racket, all right.
I thought Phantom was supposed to be all slick and stuff, but he couldn’t even sneak into a private residence without tripping over the cheap, off-the-shelf alarm system.
9CL: Still with that damn kiss? With a bunch of pervies staring at you? Exhibitionism meets voyeurism and it’s a match made in HELL.
And they called it puppy love…oo-oo-o-wee-oo…
June 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
A3G: Let’s see here. Since Eric left New York, leaving Margo in charge:
- She’s let a junkie sell drugs out of the art gallery.
- Said junkie was brutally murdered in the middle of the gallery.
- She failed to notice that none of the work for the next show was being done
- Handed over the only copy of Tim’s journal – containing incriminating evidence against the Chinese government – to some guy she just met.
Next time, instead of leaving Margo in charge, Eric should just place all his possessions in a big pile, douse them with gasoline, and light them on fire. There will be less damage that way.
DT: I know this could be said for every Dick Tracy strip ever, but: What’s going on?
In anticipation of Big Ace’s brutal murder by Dick, I guess Locher and Brozman accidentally skipped a day or two of panels in some kind of testosterone-induced frenzy.
GT: “Amazing. And pathetic.”
Apparently while Gil was learning about Facebook, Youtube, text-messaging and everything else that’s happened in the last fifty years, he’s also discovered a comic strip named “Gil Thorp.”
JP: What happened to that Rocky Lane guy, anyway? And when did Geddy Lee show up?
MW: Rogers & Hammerstein have an “otherworldly” quality? That statement is so weird and inaccurate, I’m having trouble processing it.
And how old is this couple supposed to be, anyway? Rogers and Hammerstein is their “thing?” How many young couples in 2009 form bonds over musicals from the 1950s?
Phantom: Hey Phantom, here’s a little hint: Phantoms don’t set off burglar alarms. Do you know who do set off burglar alarms? Middle-aged white guys who dress up in spandex and pretend to be super-heroes while they hide in strangers’ kitchens.
RMMD: Is that caption right? Are you my husband?
I guess so. Neither of us have appeared in this strip for around a decade, so I don’t really remember who we’re supposed to be. Apparently this Estelle chick is a new character. And since someone drew surprise marks over my head, I guess I’m supposed to be having an affair with her or something.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
MW — I wish Rogers and Hammerstein did have an “otherworldly quality,” in that I wish certain songs from SOUND OF MUSIC could be transported into another dimension, nevermore to be heard in this one.
# 198 Darkefang — I like your A3G comment enormously.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
That’s kind of an unfortunate coincidence in Pearls before Swine today… “Famous guys who died tragically.” *cough*
June 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Dick has apparently thrown some kind of disappearing ink on the face of Ace. And then – it’s gone. If only the rest of the ink used for the strip shared the same fate.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
#200 – Yes. Weird. Strange. Even … dare I say “otherworldly”?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
9CL: Huh. It’s funny because a couple of dirty old men are violating a beautiful act of love between a wife and husband for their own sick, pathetic, titillation.
MW: “Rogers and Hammersteins music has an otherworldly quality”. wtf? “I Enjoy Being a Girl” is otherworldly? “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair”?
MW: Maybe the Right Fist O’ Justice is expanding to include bad hair in general in the list of sockable sins.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Damn, I forgot the “d” in Rodgers too.
DT: What IS the deal with Big Ace’s face in panel one? I had to go back and check the Sunday to make sure Tracy hadn’t squirted him with a ketchup pack or something.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I consistently misread “money” as “monkey” in this Spiderman. I’m a little disappointed, now—god knows that strip could only be improved by some simian shenanigans. I hear a chimpanzee can rip a man’s head clean off.
(And wow, if you think the paperwork on returning money is bad…)
June 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
DTracy – Big Ace, the crooked gambling boss who’s never witnessed sleight of hand before. What the deuce?
Mduke – Marmaduke’s a big dog. A really big dog! So big he eats off of a little table! All of which makes me question the size of the bucket. Wouldn’t he need something a bit larger than that? Especially with Dottie’s leftover gravy in an ice cube tray?
After dinner mint, sir? It’s waffer-thin!
Ghost-who-breeps – I told you that Phantom has a problem with high-pitched gaseous emissions.
SSmif – “Wah!! Wah!! Waaah!! Great balls of fire, I’m bodacious!”
Mibbitmaker @143 – I liked Grady better than I liked Fred, for the most part. Though I confess the glasses routine and “Elizabeth! I’m comin’ home!” were funny pretty much every time.
Darkefang @198 – What happened to that Rocky Lane guy, anyway? He was the voice of Mr. Ed for a while, then he got old and died.
Uh oh, shouldn’t have mentioned Mr. Ed. Now they’ll remake it as a movie with Will Smith.
Did somebody say – The Sound of Music? Here’s those nice Bonzos with a brief palette cleanser (auf YouTube).
June 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
#170 — I thought of that, but the use of the word “soundtrack” seems to imply that it comes from one movie.
(Of course, if it turns out they’re committing the egregious sin of referring to a Broadway cast album as a “soundtrack,” then I’m REALLY going to have a kitten.)
June 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Chron Comics — Now in glorious black & white:
666CL: “Naw… just Brooke McEldowney.”
GT: The Amazing — and Pathetic — Spider-Man!
Luann: Derfy? This strip is dumber at coming up with fake teen slang than FOOB.
Marmadupe: “And, this time, we didn’t forget the graay-veeee!” — Chow Hound (Chuck Jones, WB)
NS: Why you never hear the phrase “Henpecked men are a mystery” …nor, “Wiley’s male characters are a mystery”
PBS: The last panel, by itself, could easily be a moment in an Adult Swim show. It’s kinda Aqua-Teeny.
GF:
Scene: police at the crime scene
Cop1: “Seems like the man just snapped. Those poor animals never had a chance.”
Cop2: “I still say his pets drove him to it.”
Cop1: “Maybe. There must be some accounting for the stuff he scrawled on his own wall. ‘Danger, humps in road’… Danger, indeed.”
Cop2: “Yeah. Kinda like that Beatles song… you know, from the White Album?”
Cop1: “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road. I just don’t like killers scrawling White Album stuff on walls. Too eerie, too 1969.”
Cop2: “The guy had his problems. Some say he’d often live out flashbacks from 2 years ago. For a whole week!”
Cop1: “I may be wrong, Joe. That guy just had your basic mental problem, and took it out on those poor animals. How can someone slaughter their pets like that, Joe? Pets are lovable companions in my book!”
Cop2: “I agree, Ed. Like family. By the way, how’s your mom, Ed?”
scene fades into idle chatter
June 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
H&J: Ah! So this is an origins story, now!
Pluggers: Yesterday, it was revealed that the Shoe birds are Pluggers. Today, in Crossover Land, we find out that Marvin is a Plugger, as well. I wonder who it will be tomorrow?
@Darkefang #198: MW: Ah, but you forget, this is only a half-young couple. We still haven’t seen
Mr. DelilahSamsonLawrence yet. For all we know, he could have grey feathers!June 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
179. Professor Fate: well. um. Somebody in a wig…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3670993106/sizes/o/
180. Ned Ryerson: have you ever heard the album “Stay Awake”? It’s a collection of Disney classics performed by an even more interesting collection of artists (Tom Waits, Sinead O’Conor, etc.). It was the first time I’d ever heard Yma Sumac or Sun Ra…
And for the rest of us, to get through the next week of RMMD:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3672876970/sizes/o/
June 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Today’s Luann – 06/29/09
“DERF? No,no I MEANT ‘DEF’. You, know? DEF? Like ‘LIL’, ‘FLY’, ‘DOPE’, all those terms I thought at least YOU’D be FAMILIAR? Aw SCREW you then, Delta!”
-Luann
___________________
DEATH to TJ!
June 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
210. bats:[: Yes, I have. I’ve been a big fan of Stay Awake. That album was produced by Hal Willner, who is responsible for most of the handful of really good “tribute” albums. His Kurt Weill tribute, Lost in the Stars, is really excellent. And and and he put out his own album called Whoops, I’m an Indian which comprised many of samples from old 78s warped into something truly otherworldly (he said rambling on into the dark recesses of the comments for a superceded post.)
June 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Let us pray that someone gives Loweezy a bra to lift and separate for her “big, round numbers”.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
#210 Bats :[, there’s a whole CD of Sun Ra taking off on Disney tunes, great fun. A little expensive at http://www.amazon.com/Second-Star-Right-Salute-Disney/dp/B0000281VF, but you can download it legally for much less at http://www.lulu.com/content/460031.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
#189, UncleJeff: The wo/manure strip is still there. I do worry that one day the syndicate hammer will come down on me, but so far all is well.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
# 204 Brick — Nyaah nyaah, I forgot it first.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
# 213 sully — I can understand why Loweezy might not want to wear a bra. Why she wears that headgear is beyond me.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I can’t be the only one who thinks that Sunday’s Keane kids were HUGE. Thel’s scowl must be from the dog being scared all over the floor.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:10 am
I would think Thel’s scowl would be still left over from when she passed those melony heads through her birth canal. (It was seeing “HUGE” in bold that set me thinking that, of course.)
June 30th, 2009 at 9:54 am
sorry this is late, site was a bit buggered yesterday when i tried to comment.
marvin deeply unsettles me today. first, that as a cloth-diapering mom, i have something in common with marvin’s progenitor. second, that soiled diaper number is way too low. my mom, who was also a cloth diapering momma who washed her own diapers, said that i was known to go through 24 diapers in 24 hours. i was…more poopy than marvin? hell. damn. &c.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
@rocketbride
Don’t be silly, you were just a normal baby with functioning kidneys. Marvin, OTOH, has made it clear that his parents don’t change him until he poops.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Aren’t June and Rex supposed to be rich? Why, then, is she wearing the clear plastic sheeting “wrap” homeless Alice rocked so hard in early-’80s Doonesbury?