Knee Deep

CAPTION: "ROOOAAARRRRR!Hey, I'm not LION  to you here."

And I don't expect you to take this LYING down.

But I think if we are going to get to the bottom of this?

 

We need to HANDLE the situation carefully.

 

 

And let us not READ anything into this.

 

 

I know that right now everything is a little SKETCHY.

 

 

To be honest? I'm not sure how we should HANDle it.

 

 

At this juncture I think we just need to put ONE FOOT in FRONT  of the other.

 

 

Say a little PRAYER,

 

Hoping our ARCH enemy doesn't want to take us on TOE to TOE.

 

 

 

We all know he can be a real HEEL.

 

 

And lets not FLIP FLOP on this whole issue.

 

 

 

If we can just get a LEG UP on the competition?

 

I think we can win this one HANDS DOWN!

 

 

Let us not get PONDEROUS about this.

 

 

Let's just KICK it around some more.....

 

....looking for some REMOTE possibility

 

We can NAIL something down before.......

 

Somebody gets HURT.

 

Let's face it. This is not a BLACK and WHITE issue.

 

 

So let's ARM ourselves....

 

 

GRAB hold of the LEASH.

 

 

.....keep our HAND on the WHEEL...

 

To see if we can't WRITE our way out of this TANGLED WEB...we've woven.  Because if we don't?

 

GOD HELP US!

Meow

CAPTION: Sometimes when there is controversy, you just have to dive right into the middle of it.

I hate it when people stupidly think I'm stupid. Huh, you say? Well for example, today I see this LOST PET notice taped to a stop sign a block away? These people are offering a reward, and they show a picture, for the return of their PET JACKALOPE.  Come on folks? How dumb do you think we are.  You can't make a PET out of a JACKALOPE. They're way too wild.  And I think they might be on the endangered species list folks.

 

[PICTURE THIS GUY WITH ANTLERS]

Besides a JACKALOPE wouldn't have a chance in this neighborhood around our pet cat, CHEETAH. We call her SWEET LIPS for short.

 

Peggy is constantly having to call sweet lips in from the South 40.

 

We used to get a lot of heat around here from the HOA (Home Owners Association) on a variety of issues. But since Sweet Lips came along? Those people have become down right nice.

 

You might have heard the Rockies didn't win the World Series?

Dear me!

Well just let me say this about that! "Donde Esta El Bano?" Carumba!

 

Have you noticed the Cheetahs don't seem to think we're very tasty?

 

If any of this is making any sense to you?

 

Get some Help

 

 

MOO!

Thanks

Just a quick thought. We all seem so in tune with the world on Thanksgiving. Could it just be that it's because we are so well fed?

I've had some time to try some new sketching media this past week. That makes me happy.

 

And I'm playing with some new themes....like what can I see crammed in 27 E on the flight from Denver to SFO.

 

And my muse is telling me to draw a whole bunch of hands and feet.

 

It's a whole hunk of fun. And one needn't search far for a model.

I guess there are many ways one can feel well fed, eh? Hope you get as fed up as me this holiday season.  Oh, wow I can hear a huge gaggle of geese flying by.

You know what? My old friend and colleague TV Anchor Anne Trujillo actually publicly and loudly acknowledged  ON THE AIR that the day after Thanksgiving is NOT the busiest shopping day of the year. Luv ya Anne.  That urban myth created by merchant spin masters has been around for at least twenty years. And for at least 20 years it has just been one of those little things that have bugged me awful.  Boy I am having a good Thanksgiving. You too?

What's a Tuffet?

Caption: "Won't you share your curds and whey?"

Tuffet? Stuffed Pillow as far as I can determine.

My absence from this forum can often be traced to just not wanting to share some of the darker sides of me.  But you know what? Dark isn't all bad. Sketching dark figures has turned into a real joy.  And it can be enlightening.

Patience Muffet, sat on her Tuffett in the 1600's. She was ingesting her " curds and whey."  And you remember. This spider comes down and sits beside her and scares the (*&^)($ out of her?

Well look at today's Patience Muffet.  She seems to be comfortably in the company of not one, but two arachnids. After spending a whole bunch of days with a bunch of 'Y" chromosomes I can confirm the fairer sex has evolved over 400 years.

Men we can rule out spiders as control tools. But there is hope.

 

A fear of altitude still seems to make them shake.

 

Boy there are a lot spiders on the planet.

I am not at liberty to name my model Miss Muffett. She'd kill me.

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