Buddy's Blog

From yesterday – 1989 was my first trip to Sweden, first to Stockholm, then I believe we stopped over night at Jonkoping on our way to Göteborg for the Book Fair. Peter Grannby of Bulls Press was the zoo handler in charge of me and Frau G. At the fair I was a luncheon guest of the Svenska Seriakademins where Sture Hergfors, president of the academy and principal founder of the book fair, presented me with the Adamson Award for best international comic strip.

Of course I was wearing a coat and tie, and at the luncheon I was talking to Lasse Åberg, and the topic of neckties arose. He said how stupid they were. He was wearing stupid little tie. He took it off and gave it to me.

Both Lasse Åberg and Sture Hergefors are marvelously talented and accomplished men, and it has been a privilege to know each of them.

This is from 2008, the Piranha Club election of treasurer with the usual results.

OK, you Swedes, guess what this is and the story behind it. Good luck, but you won’t get it. (Hint: It was given to me during my first trip to Sweden at the Göteborg Book Fair)

And guess who’s in town.

No bananas this time, but he tried to load me up with a couple tons of carambolas. That’s all I need is the runs.

You people who aren’t privileged to live in Florida have probably never seen a palmetto bug, which is just a Godzilla sized flying cockroach. And when you stomp them they really, really stink. You haven’t lived until one has flown into your hair. When I was a kid in Anna Maria Elementary, there were palmetto bugs in the cafeteria kitchen. But Mrs. Miller had a plan to keep the numbers down. The kitchen had a herd of giant monkey spiders.  You’d be eating your creamed spinach and watching a giant monkey spider bring down a giant co0ckroach. There was never a dull moment.

Tom B sent me this in Comments. It’s a hot dog on a hot day.

Hot enuf fer ya? We hit 95 today.

Uh-Oh. All you UFO nuts and celebrity gossip nuts, don’t miss the next three weeks. Remember, you heard it from me first. This is an early appearance of who would become Dwayne the frog guy. From 1995…

This particular orchid has been in bloom since February.

Like the cheap mermaid?

And yet another Date Night. Meanwhile…