Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 26, 2024

Yep!

Arlo just oozing knowledge. I prefer the quick and easy. In like a Lion. Out like a Lamb.

I don’t fully agree but then I don’t fully disagree so why am I even wasting any space saying this question? Now that’s what we REALLY need to consider and contemplate and meditate upon.

(Or not.)

I always thought the wasteland was about television.

Was Arlo an English professor in an earlier life?

I’m with Janice on this.

♪ The winds of March, that make my heart a dancer..♪

Yep. All the trees bloom and the Temps drop from the 70s to the mid to low 20s. I’ve got two peach trees that bloom every year. And they get frozen.

Taxes are due

C’mon Arlo, you are in the South. ANY month can be the cruelest. Just depends on what you think is.

He must be a hoot at parties

This is me talking with my girlfriend, she listens and I do most of talking, unless we are arguing, then she does all the talking :)

I’m voting for February.

I hear The Who singing Teenage Wasteland.

Those are some deep thoughts, said Jack Handey

Why does Arlo hate Women’s History Month?

I’d have to vote for August or September. And so will they if they move.

Only one of my 35 Mason bees emerged so far. The Hollywood plum is done blooming, so I guess there won’t be many plums this year.

LOL! “Well aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”

I once did a compilation of disasters that occurred in April… it’s a Long list.

I’ll drink to that.

April is a pretty nice month in FL. Pollen season is almost over and the temps are still mild. May starts the long, hot summer season which lasts until October.

because you have to file taxes

Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore.

Sadly, the Key bridge is down today.

Strange how the commentary went off on a tangent, completely ignoring the fact that the strip was about Eliot’s poem. Weird Margaret, as Jonathan Winters used to say.

And they say an English literature degree is useless.

Mansplain much, Mr. Johnson?

What an impressive strip. Adult themes and comedy….with some thought provoking concepts. WWI in many ways completely destroyed Britain. The army mistakenly encouraged people to enlist and serve together. Entire small towns sent off every young man to serve together at the front. With horrific battles killing 40,000 allies in a day’s fighting….towns lost their entire future generation. The army took in regiments made of plumbers, mechanics, mine workers and led them to slaughter. The last effect, only aristocracy could be officers. Not enough of them, so 4th and 5th sons of Lords and Ladies were drafted to be officers. Imagine Bertie Wooster as your captain. Unexpectedly they proved compassionate men. You can find photos of the daily foot inspection by the officer (looking for problems that would prevent marching) the soldiers lying on their back, bare feet waving in the air, like small children. These new untrained officers saw them as children. These surviving officers returned home deeply committed to the welfare of their lesser brothers. Many served in the depleted legislature and formed the core of what became Socialist Britain.

I heard one time that Eliot gave a public reading of The Wasteland. When he finished, he received questions. Someone asked what the poem meant, so he read it again.

Pretty clearly, April is cruel because it mixes memory and desire.

Good news to those of you in NE Ohio. Warm weather is on it’s way.I FINALLY got my furnace running and giving of heat, after almost a month.

That will all change with a Nuclear Winter which we appear to be headed for…..

good one…

It’s been pretty good here in the Detroit area…one snowfall that only lasted a day.

“God created March lest eternity prove to be too short” – P.F. McManus

For me, the cruelest month is August. It is the hotttest month for us, and I certainly do not appreciate the dry heat.

I don’t get the concept of a cruel month. What is cruel depends on your expectations, not a calendar.

“The Waistland” would be a good name for a belt shop…