Buddy's Blog

Phil B has some good advice for some of you:

The invasion is imminent…

Steve A asked me to post my favorite comic strips. I told him I’d do it. First, here’s his list:

Overboard, Family Circus, Baby Blues, Sherman’s Lagoon, Drabble, Pickles, Hi and Lois, Crankshaft, Bizarro, Argyle Sweater, Norman, Brewster Rockit, Doonesbury, Pearls Before Swine

Here’s my list:

Pogo, Lil’ Abner, Thimble Theater (Popeye), Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smokey Stover, Nancy, Krazy Kat, Barney Google, The Katzenjammer Kids

Maybe I’m living in the past, but I loved those old strips. Maybe the new ones are good, but they’re just not the same.

If you ever see this in a used book store, grab it:

BTW, I have a framed 1913 Sunday Little Nemo page.

Phil B hit the nail on the head:

Sid doesn’t want a new TV. This is from 2009.

Howdy

And guess who stopped by.

Yes, folks, Banana Bob came through town. That’s 13 brand new fresh mangoes. Add that to the 22 that Frau G has in the refrigerator and the 11 in the freezer. That’s 46 mangoes. Actually 44. She just now made a pitcher full of mango daiquiris.

Happy Midsommar to all my friends in Scandinavia! For those of you who don’t know, in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, at the summer solstice people go nuts and put on white dresses or white shirts and put flowers in their hair and dance around flagpoles. It’s a good idea. When I was in grade school we did that one time. There was one more girl than there were boys, so the littlest one, Gigi Gabert, in her white dress and flowers in her hair, ran around and threw flowers in my face. I got quite a few laughs from the grown ups. I never looked back.