Man, the month I’ve had since we last chatted! This old fart came down with COVID after three years of avoiding it. Not sure how my family contracted it, but it sure puts you on your ass. I had one really bad night of the shivers, then just aches, pains, and some minor coughing. My wife and son had it much worse and longer. Still it ate up about two weeks of February. To say the least it put me even further behind on doing comics, but the good thing is I survived it which wasn’t true three years ago for lots and lots of people, so I consider myself lucky, especially at my age.
The next page of “Taking On New York” posts next Wednesday as I’m back to the drawing table. Today’s drawing took me forever with the many, many interruptions I’ve had over the past three months, as well as going in several different directions with the clothing they’re all wearing. I even considered doing them in a Full-Monty pose, but it just didn’t feel right, even though they have played at a nudist colony.
A one-hit wonder from 1979 is The Tarney/Spencer Band’s “No Time To Lose” single, which is in my collection of scratchy, old 45 RPMs. Great guitar lick once the song picks up speed. This video is from WLS-AM89 in Chicago, a clear-channel AM station that could be heard throughout the USA at night when it cranks up the wattage-in-the-cottage to 50,000 watts to blast its songs into your living room back in the ’60s, ’70s, & ’80s. I grew up listening to WLS (and WCFL) on the car radio and at night on my tiny clock radio. WLS -AM is a talk radio format now and it sucks the big one. Anyway, I have no time to lose to get some comics ready!
Love it Lorraine looks great in cut offs just like mine go go boots and bikini top (I’d go for a halter top but I have a tummy). Robyn looks good too as does Bud and Jeff wonder were Bud gets hot red sneakers. But Lorraine dresses the best so I’ll thank you which is the next best thing to driving or busing to North Carolina to thank you personally wearing a halter top, hot pants and go go boots.
North Carolina is actually very nice. Not too hot, and not too cold. We’re just east of the mountains and helps keep some of the storm fronts from hitting us head on.
Glad you liked the way I drew Lorraine’s outfit. A combination of Go-Go boots meets Daisy Duke. 🙂
I even have a pairs of Daisy dukes one blue and the other purple they are fun wear in the summer with heels and sneakers. One former room mate even said where’s the dukes of Hazzard but he wore paint covered jeans with holes in them and the other crocs and socks so who cares what they say. I hope you are over your COVID given I thought I had it last year the day after Halloween went to a party but caught a cold not COVID. Dressed as Casey from Hack and Slash halter top, mini skirt, skull panties and boots it’s fun dressing sexy but its easy getting a cold in the winter that naked. The bright side was the building near mine offered easy to get COVID shots so I took advantage just so my mom doesn’t get sick. Last time I bleed so I said you hit pay dirt but not then the cold slow it down. Last weekend I had a dream involving the mystic frog it seemed I owed a property with a pond that had small bullhead catfish, minnows, some weed, water bugs and a live action mystic frog. The little guy was 21/2 pounds olive green with pudgy limbs and a friendly wry smile. It never croaked nor sang but happily swam away enjoying my company. So now I’m wondering what my subconscious is telling me. Incidentally I saw a red fox in searching in the snow but kept my distance don’t want rabies.
Well, the Mystic Frog did not croak as he could speak, so your dream was accurate of the character. We had fox that would come near our home in Illinois as we had a corn field behind us and they’d walk the perimeter during the colder months. One slept under our deck for a while, but soon got annoyed with us coming in and out all the time, so it left.
Good to hear you survived Covid! Hope you don’t have to suffer from long-term effects.
I have managed to stay clear of it so far, even if my wife finally had it on January 2. Was a bad feeling having to wear masks at home. Fortunately she got off with very light symptoms and could go back to work 10 days later.
And hah!, there is that weird tailpiece on the bass again. Since we talked about it, I smile every time I see it.
Glad your wife is okay! I decided to leave the bass as I originally drew it. Maybe I’ll update some day. 🙂
Noooo! Leave it, please! I like it that way, even if it is not anatomically correct (like some other features of your pictures).
Which variant ? covid ‘original’, delta, omicron, or the new ‘we’re not going to bother naming the flu this year and just call them all covid in perpetuity’ ?
I had the flu last year, not the worst case I’ve ever had but not pleasant, like all the rest of the times I’ve had it.
Here’s a tip though, pretty much all flus and colds are ‘coronaviruses’ and always have been, ‘covid’ is just a marketing name fora multi billion dollar sales pitch for a ‘vaccine’ that doesn’t work…well, it works, it’s good at giving previously healthy people massive blood clots.
I have no clue what variant I did or didn’t have. The tetst merely said “positive.” COVID may be just another type of flu, but it sure was deadly. I’ve had the flue a few times in my life, but nothing like what hit me last month. That was nuts. For the rest of your comments, well, I live and let live.
If you’ve had the measles vaccine or a case of the measles you can test ‘positive’ for ‘covid’, it also registers colds, other flu bugs and a good protion of random false ‘positives’, but if it makes you feel better to ascribe the current fad to something and it makes you feel better then that’s fine.
I got luckier than the young strong athletes dropping dead all over the place after getting their ‘vaccines’ in order to be allowed to play, I managed to live through it and I’ll settle for that.
Covid does suck when you get it, wife son and I went to New Orleans for a week, came back and the next day got hit with Covid, same symptoms, that was over a year ago. glad everyone is feeling better and everyone can rock on.
Yes, it seems we have COVID at least a bit under control. I’ve had all the shots and I do believe it helped me have a mild case of it. And yes, I’m ready to rock 2023. Good thing too, as it’s already March. Time flies, man…
My partner had it. With the shots all it was to her was some sniffles and a headache. Worse for me, but it kept it out of my lungs, my blood oxy was great the whole time.
Good luck with your recovery. I didn’t get the shots, but, far as I could tell, I didn’t get COVID either. Social distancing is how I live my life, so that probably helped.
My mother claimed nobody in our family ever got the flu. I was dubious, but I can’t remember if I ever did have the flu—however, a cold can lay me low for weeks or months.
I have had the flu maybe three times in my life, if that. I never get the flu shots either. What I do get are nasty inner ear infections that just knock me on my ass. We all have our Achilles’ heel.
Glad I was vacciated. After three eyars I got sloppy. Had it a few months back . A little Paxlovid and I was back on my feet. For once being old paid off!
Yes, I agree with you, being over 60 throughout COVID did help. One, I was already social distancing because we’re retired and just don’t go out that much, and two, as an old fart I was able to get the shots earlier on.
Paxlovid. If you ever get it again go on Paxlovid. You will be glad you did.