Buddy's Blog

From 2000. How to make your marriage successful…

Howdy!

Last night I dreamed that Robert Crumb came and visited me. We had a nice conversation. I saw him in France at a book fair 25 years ago.

Sorry. My internet was out yesterday.

I’ll get around to the T-Shirt lottery. I’ve just been too busy with my book revisions. By the end of this week or the beginning of next I should be finished. Meanwhile…

I just came across this:

That’s, from the front, Mizell, Debbie, 19 year old Duce, Eagle, Pepsie, Dopey, Robin, Shorty and Twister. At one time Shorty was a pack mule, but he kept falling down. That’s U-No-Hoo third from the back. We went down about 1000 feet then back up. I gained a lot of respect for mules that day.

I’ll get around to the T-shirts. I’ve been tied up with the books. I’m trying hard to finish this week. It’s a heck of a job juggling about 10,000 comic strips.

Look what arrived today – My new ukelele.

It’s an Ohana TK-180M. It sounds so much better that my old one. Give me a little time to practice, and I’ll hit you with a hula tune. I might even get out my mother’s old grass skirt. She was really good at it. Dancing, I mean.  

I’m running behind, so I haven’t been able to get to my email. But I will. I’ve been working on the revised dailies collections, and it takes an awful lot of time. Hopefully I should be finished with it some time next week. In the meantime…

Don is a toaster nut. He sent me a few photos. This first one is his everyday toaster. He says it’s a Toastmaster Model 1A6 (ca. 1953). Don’t you just love the chrome.  One of the saddest days of my life was when they stopped making chrome car bumpers. If you remember it was (so they said) to support the independence of what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Most of the chromium comes from there. So why didn’t they start buying it after the country became independent?

This beauty is a General Electric Toaster and Toaster Oven Combination from the late-1940s

Perfect condition. And this one is the rarest of his collection. It’s the “Sweetheart” manufactured in 1929 by Landers, Frary, & Clark.

You can even work it while you’re holding your IPhone. Thanks, Don.