Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 29, 2009

Now she knows. Every man, and his dog, has a mobile phone.

I made the observation in 2001 while walking downtown at the mall…..”In a few years everyone AND their dog will have a cell phone”………. wish I’d bought more shares of ATT and Verizon back then….

For Cleo & Company, see http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Noooo!!! Anything but overripe broccoli. Run, Claude, Run! Go get Cleo and her bazookas and anti-tank guns!

So in 2009 every man and his dog had a flip phone. In 2019, have dogs made the transition to smart phones?

Susan Sunshine, please tell us you are well!

Claude needs to dress up in that Halloween costume as a large potato. It’s the only one that will fit him. They would pass right by him.

I’m here! I’m here!

Sorry… don’t mean to worry anybody.

I had a couple of things to do this evening, till after the turn.

First time I’ve driven in several days, cos of trying to stay off the roads.

I had to eat late when I got home….. and took an unplanned nap

In fact…. I didn’t know about it till I woke up.

 

Don’t worry, anyway.

No one can say, in this disaster, to be perfectly safe, but I’m not in immediate danger and hopefully won’t be.

The fire still rages, but containment has grown back up, if only to 15%. And it seems to be growing more to the northeast, rather than south and west towards Santa Rosa, where I live.

It’s still about 8 miles from the northern border, and would have to burn another 8 miles from there…. all the way through the city without being stopped… to reach my neighborhood at the southern tip..

 

Those who live in areas to the west… small towns and enclaves, country properties, farms and forest, stretching 25 miles out to the coast…. are being allowed to go home, while still on alert for another evacuation.

Large areas to the north are still evacuated, and power is still out,

It’s very weird, knowing most of town is dark in the evening, without streetlights, stores or gas stations….

I feel it, and I smell smoke, and it’s eerie… but I can’t see it from here, and they ask us not to drive into those areas if we don’t have to, especially because the traffic lights are out.

I’m lucky to have lights, and to be able to use my computer…. so… onward to the comics!

For a little while anyway… it’s very late.

Let’s see… today, a brand new strip by Nighthawks….

instead of a Tuesday poster by StelBel….

who created a great new basset sci fi poster for Monday, and promises another poster (new or not) for Wednesday.

And Nighthawks says this weeks animation will fill the Thursday left open by that.

 

Will Friday be empty??

I hope the Saturday puzzle doesn’t fall into that big hole, and leave a gap in the week.

 

Anyhow… a beautifully drawn comic, Nighthawks.

The veggie-bassets are almost … dare I say it?… cute.

Without those vegetable growths, they’d be adorable pet bassets…. except… you know… kinda pink, and yellow, and green…. and a little unpredictable in the mass destruction department.

But then, so is Cleo.

 

This reminds me of an OLD joke…. kinda hard to tell here, cos you have to answer as I go…. so I’ll have to fake it:

Me: “What do you call it when you have a growth removed from the back of your throat?”

You: “A tonsillectomy?”

Me: "Right. What do you call it when you have a growth removed from the right side of your intestine?

You: “An appendectomy?”

Me: “Right. And what do you call it when you have a growth removed from the top of your head?”

You: “Um…. er….”

Me: “A HAIRCUT! Hahahahaha!”

 

That’s right… a corny old barber joke…. c’mon, it’s funny… if you cut hair for a living.

Um… hahaha?

 

Why did I tell it?

Because for once… ONE TIME in the history of the world….

We haircutters could save the planet!

You’d all have to look up to us, for a change!

After we removed those vegetable growths, maybe made a giant stew… you’d…. respect us.

 

You wouldn’t cancel your appointments 10 minutes beforehand,

or whine that Supercuts has an $8 coupon.

You wouldn’t…

Nah. Never mind.

It’s as likely as Veggie-bassets.

What Susan said. Well done on both days.

New cartoon! New cartoon!

Very fun, Nighthawks! I’d even want to read this story. No hiding on this one!

So this must be what happens when I put all those over-ripe veggies out for our deer. They develop legs and chase our neighbors away!

What a fun week this is turning out to be! ❤️

I’m across the country in Arizona this week people using the comics on my iPhone. Not very handy looking at these tiny little comic strips, but I dropped my iPad at the airport and shattered the screen. I should have had a tethered to my wrist like a little kid’s gloves

Anyway I wanted to say that I’m grateful everybody showed up to check out Cleo and Company today. I won’t be around this much this week, but I’ll pop in whenever I can to make some forgettable comment or two.

Thanks Susan for the compliment on the comic book cover today. But it is anything but beautiful though. Prince Valiant oh, now there’s a beautifully drawn strip

Friday we’ll have an animation as usual. But the scary stuff will be put up on the on the Shelf for another year. We usher in November on Friday…That was the fastest year I ever saw. But I’ve been saying that every year lately

Those Veggie Bassets are looking for some meat to go with those vegetables! Even Claude is running scared.

Is that Ace as a pup?

Bring on the vegematic.

Drooling Basset tails love it!!!♡♡♡