Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 22, 2010

ROTFL!

The next Siskel & Ebert?

Ah, the joy of the season …

I see a punishment coming - they have not even finished the first page of music, much less the piece… Surely then Alice and whatserface will be BFF…

that is exactly how our kids band sounds!!!

Poor Andre – I think he’s ready to graduate to an adult violin!

LOL….. love alicia

That answers the question of whether Sophie is Andre’s sister. But now that we see her brother, do we have a new character? And will Sophie now become a regular? Oh, the questions an elementary school concert can raise. (other than, what the heck were they playing?)

I went to one of these last night, but as a Dad I was not allowed to laugh. I envy Alice and Sofie.

The image of the three boys and their instruments makes me feel happy.

cdward, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the brother, but maybe RT has figured out what to do with Smurfie. (He’s blogged that he didn’t really have much of a plan when he introduced her last summer.)

As marvelous as the visual of Andre with his teeny weeny violincini IS, it seems to me he’d be better suited (tempermentally) to percussion, maybe cymbals or tympani.

(My posting total has just reached 5678.)

And a good time was had by all. The End.

fritzkringle, it is amazing how quickly the posts add up.

I love that Andre has 4 ears because the hat doesn’t fit.

This is my 21,547th post.

Merry Christmas to you and yours…

SG, they’re Statler & Waldorf, not Siskel & Ebert. (Muppet Show reference - the pair in the box seats that heckled the acts on stage.)

Radio Tom they were the best part of the show!!!!!

@cdward I thought Sofie’s brother was the guy next to Petey. In any case, it’s good to see her and Alice getting along and having a good time. (Anyone experiened their browser crash when trying to load Gocomics? It’s happened dozens of times to me.)

(My browser’s just hung a few times.) How does one know how many posts one has made?

Topaz, if you click on somebody’s avatar it takes you to their profile page, and the box at the upper left tells how many comments that individual has posted. You, for instance, had posted 6 as of just now.

Of course, to see your OWN profile page, you can also just click on your sign-in name at the top right of any page.

hahahahah, love it!

My kids’ string band doesn’t sound like this at all though - do listen to their White Christmas rendition here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tZDn-yrp8 (it’s really good, I promise :D)

Yet another for the double reed cult that loves this story line - OMG a contra, in cartoon - FAB FAB

HEENK HEENK HEENK

Can’t believe how perfectly the printed sounds of these instruments come out. Hysterical!

The guy between Petey and Andre is probably Soapie’s brother. Unless there’s another contrabassoon up there!