Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 09, 2018

Music about receding gum line — something I can relate to.

Raw, unprocessed emotions are not the exclusive province of the young, nor is poor health exclusive to those of us old folks over the age of 19…

Or gaps.

And for her next album? It’s all about the heat break of having a prosthesis put in!

Continuing a discussion from yesterday, if you were making a Doonesbury movie, whom would you cast as the various characters? I had suggested Amy Adams as Boopsie. Today I throw in J. K. Simmons as Uncle Duke. Your ideas?

Bridge over troubled gums

Can’t wait to see what he does with kidney stones.

Some musicians just work for scaling…

Bleeding Gums Murphy on alto sax?

sigh. From drumline to gumline —-whoosh…that was your life, mate. Hope you liked it. (thank you, Basil Fawlty.)

That chair Mike is sitting in is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

♫ I love Rock n’ Roll, so put a hundred dimes in the jukebox, baby… ♫

NOTE: I wanted to say “a million dimes”, but due to the economy…

I forget who the obscure real U.S. singer is that Douglas Adams mentions in the book “Last Chance to See” that had become a sensation in Asia, but he reminded me a lot of Thudpucker, who Trudeau had become a sensation in Asia in later strips.

“And for my next song, ‘Born to be Mild’.”