To paraphrase the wonderful (and still extant) Jo Anne Worley… is this another Ravel’s Bolero joke?
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It’s a full flush of an update for the 17th, 1930 left me a fairly ‘clean’ Sunday page for a change. Suspicious… or SUPERstitious??
Shady Lane shows up with the first monthly allotment of beef, well… the allotment less what the agent is skimming off the top. Bob Wyer is creeping closer to the wrong side of the legal line by sending the “B” team of cattle.
Brenda is launching anything she can get her hands on to get the intruder(s) out of her apartment. An apartment building with a dumbwaiter? Maybe it’s a converted hotel.
Adam and Eve get entreprenurial and are just trying to make a few bucks. Maybe their inventory combines the wit of Larry “Bud” Melman with the artistic skills of xkcd.
Years ago, Radio Lab had a segment about neurological disorders that can cause obsession with repetition. There is speculation that Ravel had that when he composed Bolero .
Ravel said of Bolero that it was 15 minutes of orchestration with no music.
Minnesota Public Radio teamed up with Interlake Steamship Company to create a YouTube video of a view from the pilot house of the Paul R. Tregurtha as she departs Twin Ports via the Duluth Canal as Ravel’s Bolero plays.
Anybody familiar with this strip knows that Walt never took a bus ride, short or long, in his life. Cars all the way, all the time, with a few exceptions of taking a train. He’s shown here as a young man but those kind of bus seats sure weren’t around in the 1910s.
I’ve been waiting for someone more knowledgeable than I am to comment on the “score,” supposedly of Ravel’s Bolero. OK, the key of C is correct. But this is a two staff version as you would see if scored for piano. The ubiquitous Bolero rhythm is missing. And nothing about the notes shown suggest the tune or harmonization of “Bolero.”
snsurone76 12 months ago
I love Ravel’s “Bolero”—how the crescendo keeps rising with every repeat of its single movement until it comes crashing to the exciting final climax.
Dirty Dragon 12 months ago
To paraphrase the wonderful (and still extant) Jo Anne Worley… is this another Ravel’s Bolero joke?
- – - – -
It’s a full flush of an update for the 17th, 1930 left me a fairly ‘clean’ Sunday page for a change. Suspicious… or SUPERstitious??
Shady Lane shows up with the first monthly allotment of beef, well… the allotment less what the agent is skimming off the top. Bob Wyer is creeping closer to the wrong side of the legal line by sending the “B” team of cattle.
Brenda is launching anything she can get her hands on to get the intruder(s) out of her apartment. An apartment building with a dumbwaiter? Maybe it’s a converted hotel.
Adam and Eve get entreprenurial and are just trying to make a few bucks. Maybe their inventory combines the wit of Larry “Bud” Melman with the artistic skills of xkcd.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 12 months ago
Walt watches astonished as a mad man waves, gyrates and twirls with depraved abandon.
iggyman 12 months ago
Later on while driving through a storm, the man was struck by a lightning bolt, alas he was a very good conductor!
GaryCooper 12 months ago
I don’t agree with Skeezix. People don’t fight any more than they used to.
stu1nyrf 12 months ago
Today in the Facebook group: Gasoline Alley “years ago today” for December 17:
100 (1923) – Walt reads some great news
80 (1943) – Skeezix and Sarge escort Sunshine to their quarters; also, war news from this date
75 (1948) – Father Clock has a proposition for Skeezix
60 (1963) – Grandfather Clock has a proposition for Nina
45 (1978) – A recap of the Miss Elva story and Walt’s money-saving idea
Zepher 12 months ago
Reminds me of “10”
PoodleGroomer 12 months ago
We have some works where they have to towel off the timpani player and bring him water and a fresh shirt.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member 12 months ago
Ricard Strauss once advised a young, up-and-coming conductor, “Don’t look at the trombones – it just encourages them.”
Jogger2 12 months ago
Years ago, Radio Lab had a segment about neurological disorders that can cause obsession with repetition. There is speculation that Ravel had that when he composed Bolero .
Ravel said of Bolero that it was 15 minutes of orchestration with no music.
Jogger2 12 months ago
Minnesota Public Radio teamed up with Interlake Steamship Company to create a YouTube video of a view from the pilot house of the Paul R. Tregurtha as she departs Twin Ports via the Duluth Canal as Ravel’s Bolero plays.
Jogger2 12 months ago
Young Walt was a troll, decades before the Internet.
Uncle $crooge 12 months ago
Can anybody explain the joke? I just don’t get it. Why would anybody fight over Walt’s silly comment?
Uncle $crooge 12 months ago
Anybody familiar with this strip knows that Walt never took a bus ride, short or long, in his life. Cars all the way, all the time, with a few exceptions of taking a train. He’s shown here as a young man but those kind of bus seats sure weren’t around in the 1910s.
allangary 12 months ago
I’ve been waiting for someone more knowledgeable than I am to comment on the “score,” supposedly of Ravel’s Bolero. OK, the key of C is correct. But this is a two staff version as you would see if scored for piano. The ubiquitous Bolero rhythm is missing. And nothing about the notes shown suggest the tune or harmonization of “Bolero.”