Monday, December 08, 2008
Let the freakiness commence.
I have been angry/depressed/moody recently, with no clear cause. General work/upcoming holiday stress, I suppose. Shrug. The holidays also mean that comic strips ramp up the craziness for some reason. I guess the writers are in the same mood as me. Check out the following:
In Mark Trail, Mark broke up a fighting ring in which they chained raccoons to a log and had their dogs fight them to the death. Mark punched out the head hillbilly. But then the hillbilly was approached by a shady land developer who wants Mark out of the way on an unrelated matter, so the developer offers hillbilly $5,000 to kill Mark. Hillbilly conks Mark on the head and gives him to his buddy: the hillbilly with a boat. Hillbilly #1 tells hillbilly #2 if he'll kill Mark, he'll give him half the money he got from the developer. I guess hillbilly #1 is so lazy he's subcontracting the job. Anyway, that's why there's a tame raccoon riding that dog like a horse in the second panel above.
In Judge Parker, Sam "work it like a claw" Driver was on a golf course conducting a business deal when the guy he was golfing with took a sniper's bullet to the head. Then that guy's friend was also found dead from a bullet. Above is the big reveal. Dixie, the exotic dancer who was living with the guy, was going to leave him. But the guy said he was keeping their dog. So she killed two people to get custody of the dog.
Dick Tracy is a little harder to explain, so here's the short version. Bad guy named "Braces" (because he wears braces on his teeth) has a huge robot that robs banks. As luck would have it, the police department just got a big robot of their own! How convenient! The two robots fight each other. Then for some reason the bad guy's robot is disappointed with Braces, so the robot electrocutes him.
Well, not so much electrocutes him as fries his head to a crisp. You might recall last Christmas, when the bad guy was run over by a bulldozer. The first panel says "Holiday greetings from the Tracy Crew!" The next panel reveals that bulldozer is actually parked on the guy.) I blogged about it HERE. Nice to see they're keeping the tradition of upping the body count as the holidays approach. Fits my mood.
In Mark Trail, Mark broke up a fighting ring in which they chained raccoons to a log and had their dogs fight them to the death. Mark punched out the head hillbilly. But then the hillbilly was approached by a shady land developer who wants Mark out of the way on an unrelated matter, so the developer offers hillbilly $5,000 to kill Mark. Hillbilly conks Mark on the head and gives him to his buddy: the hillbilly with a boat. Hillbilly #1 tells hillbilly #2 if he'll kill Mark, he'll give him half the money he got from the developer. I guess hillbilly #1 is so lazy he's subcontracting the job. Anyway, that's why there's a tame raccoon riding that dog like a horse in the second panel above.
In Judge Parker, Sam "work it like a claw" Driver was on a golf course conducting a business deal when the guy he was golfing with took a sniper's bullet to the head. Then that guy's friend was also found dead from a bullet. Above is the big reveal. Dixie, the exotic dancer who was living with the guy, was going to leave him. But the guy said he was keeping their dog. So she killed two people to get custody of the dog.
Dick Tracy is a little harder to explain, so here's the short version. Bad guy named "Braces" (because he wears braces on his teeth) has a huge robot that robs banks. As luck would have it, the police department just got a big robot of their own! How convenient! The two robots fight each other. Then for some reason the bad guy's robot is disappointed with Braces, so the robot electrocutes him.
Well, not so much electrocutes him as fries his head to a crisp. You might recall last Christmas, when the bad guy was run over by a bulldozer. The first panel says "Holiday greetings from the Tracy Crew!" The next panel reveals that bulldozer is actually parked on the guy.) I blogged about it HERE. Nice to see they're keeping the tradition of upping the body count as the holidays approach. Fits my mood.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Because you demanded it!
Well, because one of you asked for an update...
While the missus, the better half, was deciding what ingredients to combine for dinner, I opened the box for the range hood and started reading the directions. I did this and that, finally stopping at step 12, which called for mounting the hood in place (Don't get dirty. Yes, I said "mount") and completing the wiring. Since the old one is still in place, and there's no hole in the wall yet, it's as far as I could go.
Since deciding where the hole goes is just a matter of holding the hood in place and tracing the rectangle opening on the wall, I'm certain I can have Laura do the outline tracing. In other words, I'm toying with the idea of doing it myself. I have the drill and the jigsaw. I can do it. Just a matter of convincing the wife of that!
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Oh, I wanted to share these from the moment I saw them, but I forgot. At Christmas, all the comic strips make mention of it, even if the strip isn't currently in a holiday story line. This can have unintentionally bizarre results. Here are the Christmas Eve and Christmas day strips of Dick Tracy:
While the missus, the better half, was deciding what ingredients to combine for dinner, I opened the box for the range hood and started reading the directions. I did this and that, finally stopping at step 12, which called for mounting the hood in place (Don't get dirty. Yes, I said "mount") and completing the wiring. Since the old one is still in place, and there's no hole in the wall yet, it's as far as I could go.
Since deciding where the hole goes is just a matter of holding the hood in place and tracing the rectangle opening on the wall, I'm certain I can have Laura do the outline tracing. In other words, I'm toying with the idea of doing it myself. I have the drill and the jigsaw. I can do it. Just a matter of convincing the wife of that!
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Oh, I wanted to share these from the moment I saw them, but I forgot. At Christmas, all the comic strips make mention of it, even if the strip isn't currently in a holiday story line. This can have unintentionally bizarre results. Here are the Christmas Eve and Christmas day strips of Dick Tracy:
Notice that on Christmas Eve, a man falls and is run over by a bulldozer. On Christmas day, in the same panel in which someone says, "Hey Mac! What's going on? Bodies are fallin' all over the place!" they included a box that says "Holiday greetings from the Tracy Crew." The next panel reveals that he's actually parked on the guy. Happy Holidays!!!
Awesome.
Awesome.
