Tag: Fun
I’m ba-a-ack…
OK, so it didn’t take me this long to eat lunch; I’ve had some other things to do, and wanted to let the first post settle a bit. Since I got that all out, some of my urgency has abated, though I still want to tie the subject up, until/unless there are comments where we can discuss and enjoy however long we want.
Lunch was brunch. My plate was frambled eggs with toast. I know I said it wasn’t a cooking post, and look what I’m doing. When I make frambled eggs, I cook the eggs as if for over-easy (yolks runny, whites cooked.) Turn the eggs when it’s time, let them get a bit of heat on that side, then gently drag your spatula through, to break the yolk and drag the white through the yolk. My personal goal is not a hard-cooked yolk, but what I guess they call a jammy yolk; you get a bit of liquid, even, but it’s not drippy. You just keep gently lifting and turning until you like the consistency of the eggs. I had whole wheat toast, and oatmeal that I apple-pie spiced, and sweetened with honey. We’ve been having a rain “event,” so I’d got the laundry to the laundry room to run and to dry between/before rains.
Our laundry room is at the front of our front carport, front being the direction the front end of the car points; we park in front of the laundry room. Our house is a whole post in and of itself, but not quite as Scottie’s and Ron’s house; they may run theirs by crisis and we rarely have a crisis, but their house is nicer and more modern than ours. Also, while Sat. and Sunday are fitness rest days, I still do 10 min. every hour on the rebounder to get my steps. So, lunch hour took a little while. It’s a rest day! 😎 And the first day of Standard time, so everything’s a little later because our bio clocks are still running on Saving time. 🕰
So, up till the 15th of October, I was all,
FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 03, 2024
But I’m past that, and have said enough about the election, really, I think. I don’t know who can’t use a Calvin fix, so:
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 03, 2024
I wonder if everybody has that one or two commercials that the last time it airs cannot come too soon. For me, right now, (and I know the winter holidays commercials are coming…) it’s that Wegovy commercial. I just want it to stop. Interestingly, while I’m not a big fan of Big Pharma, one of the ads I enjoy, all its versions, is the Jardiance ad! It makes me dance. Well, the newest one’s tempo is too slow for fun dancing, but it’s still a nice ad. This is neither a plug for or against either drug. Those have their place and may be discussed with a person’s doctor. This is just about the ads. The ones that use music from my youth especially tick me off, so I just ignore them and dance to their background music. I hate that King Harvest’s “Dancin’ in the Moonlight” is one that’s been appropriated. It’s been one of my top favorites forever, and they can’t take it away from me!
I turned all the clocks back last night, except one. But our son came out, noticed, and said, “Aren’t we supposed to turn the clocks back? The bathroom clock is an hour fast.” Truly, I’d turned the clocks up. I find the semi-annual time change abhorrent and stupid, but I disdain Saving time the most, because there goes another hour of my life, every year, that doesn’t come back, not really, so I guess changing the clock put me in a negative mindset and I went the wrong way. Anyway, it’s been enough years of my life now that I don’t care which we have, we simply need to pick one and be done. I don’t change the analog clock in the kitchen; it’s over the kitchen table, and I can’t reach it unless I stand on the kitchen table. Some day there could be a reason for me to stand on the kitchen table, but I’m not doin’ it to change the damn clock. The guys will get tired of it sooner or later, and I have the stove clock. And my Fitwitch on my wrist.
Well, that’s a sort of round up of trivia and drift. I hope readers have enjoyed it, at least smiled or giggled, and maybe feel a little better.
We can do this stuff. It’s still way too early to let Republicanism mess with our mental health.
Humor
In the spirit of laughter being the very best medicine!
Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 29, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2024/10/29
Close to Home by John McPherson for October 29, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2024/10/29
I hope to grow up to be this woman:
Free Range by Bill Whitehead for October 29, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2024/10/29
Not as funny, but …
Brian McFadden for October 28, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/10/28
WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for October 29, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/wumo/2024/10/29
I’ll just wind it up with today’s Calvin fix:
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 29, 2024
Stores Should Not Put Out The Christmas Merch until the Peppermint Bark is there to be sold, as well.
I love that stuff. That is all. For this post.

Starbox Dachshunds
The Black one looks just like our Chrissy, who lived to 21 yo before passing during April of 2020. This riff is so awful, yet so cute, and has the holiday spirit.
I bet Da Vinci had this same problem with cats. by Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)
(Quick, off topic, except for cats, distraction. Medieval art is part of this post, NSFW. But not gratuitous.)
Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) Oct 07, 2024 Read on Substack
This week I started a drawing that was all vines and flowers and it was fine, but a little boring and so I decided to add Hunter S. Thomcat to it because he’s always trying to add himself to drawings anyway. Exhibit A:

And it was a very good idea in theory but somehow it turned…weird? And I kept trying to fix it and it kept getting worse and I would like this to be one of those stories that ends with, “AND EMBRACING THE FLAWS MADE IT EVEN BETTER” but that did not happen because, well…look:

Why does he look vaguely human?
Anyway, I gave up and started another drawing but I’m not finished with it yet and I was feeling a little disappointed in my myself until I saw this collection of medieval cat paintings:

Turns out cats have been fucking up art for centuries because they are enigmatic and mysterious:

And comparatively, my cat drawing became slightly less unnerving.

It important to remember…they’re not all going to be winners.

Or…you know…always make sense?

But since I don’t have a finished drawing I do have this for you…a drawing a did awhile ago that I added color to before I realized that I’m actually not that great at color combinations.
It’s no medieval cat eating a dismembered penis, but then again…what is?

Hugs, sweet friends.
~me
There’s a Game for That!
So I did a thing a few days ago,
I do it now and then, hadn’t in a while but really liked one so I did it but didn’t turn it in. (It’ll become clear.) Then I got a bunch of GOTV postcards done, and there it was, at the bottom of that stack. It so happened that another came along that I really liked (this one below,) so I added it, then submitted it. It got posted today, and even though it’s really not at all good, it’s funny, it was fun, and I thought I’d share. I’ve sent in several over the past year; dotted amongst the posts. The best one was of two dogs discussing a thing; a similar scenario as below, but not exactly the same. And I might try this one, too. I can draw fish. Anyway, here is this.
Cartoon Eight Nine Four by Josh Lieb
Limits Read on Substack
Underwater. A group of fish laugh at a wild-eyed fish, who glares at them with impotent rage. One of the laughing fish says: “Go ahead, Throckmorton! Tell us more about the ‘land’ outside the pond.”
First they laugh at you…
It’s Two-for-Tuesday, and that means for the second day in a row, we’re graced with an Ali Redford original. Today she tries her hand at eight nine one:

It’s simple, it’s bleak — I love it. And I love what a great contrast it makes with Margreet de Heer’s version from last week. Margreet, of course, is one of the world’s great cartoonists; Ali is a writer like me (though she does draw better than I do). It’s fascinating to see what the same cartoon looks like filtered through two very different brains.
Margreet’s doomed souls strained helplessly to pull the lever. Ali’s sufferer merely looks at it, puzzled. It’s the same set-up, the same pieces of furniture, but the joke is very different. This is the beauty of collaboration.
Thanks, Ali (and Margreet again). It’s great.
The rest of you — get off your duffs (or, more accurately, on them) and draw. (snip)
So now you know I thing I do when I’m not writing postcards or congresscritters, or cleaning house, or walking Corky, and so forth. Once in a while, I “draw”, sometimes even manage to really draw a cartoon based on a professional writer’s scene.
Totally Off Topic, But It Could Be Fun (I think it’s fun)
One day back in early summer, I searched to see if that’s a real song that plays on the Allegra commercial with the young woman coming out with headphones belting it out. The first entry on my search page brought this blog, so I checked it out. I read a few entries, and subscribed, since it’s on WP. I’ve enjoyed what I read. I got this last night, and thought I’d share, in case someone would like to check it out sometime and enjoy some commentary on TV commercials.
(PS just in case: they named the song in the blog entry, so after I read on the blog, I went to YouTube to check the song. It is a real song.)
Last Kiss Presents-
I’m pretty sure it’s no secret, nor a surprise, that I read comics (considering I post several here.) I started reading Last Kiss on GoComics, and one day I had a little time so I went to the artist/author’s page, then went to his blog. I signed up for emails, even, though I read at GoComics most days in the week. Anyway, this one was in yesterday’s email. I thought of getting it and posting it, but I’m a little crunched with writing the GOTV postcards, and I didn’t get it done. I read the email again today, and decided Scottie’s is a good place for this one. I think everyone would enjoy these; they’re quirky but I haven’t seen a rude one yet.
