Welcome to L. A., land of sunshine, smog, earthquakes, mud slides, riots, high rents, grid-lock traffic, and bubble headed bleach blondes trying to make it big as waitresses, um, actresses. Why do people want to live there again? Well, the gang has just “motored stately into big L. A.”, we’ll find out on Monday.
Foghat’s 1975 album “Fool for the City” was NOT their biggest album, it was their 1977 “Foghat Live” album that takes that claim. But “Fool” did spawn their most famous song of “Slow Ride”. At over 8 minutes long, we DJs loved the song as it gave us time to take a pee/smoke break without having to do it in under 3 minutes. My leg for an engineer back then who could spin the next record.
Sorry for the late final version. Wednesday was whirl-wind of comments, and it inspired me to create the “Thor” desktop and that ate up some production time for this comic. Plus, I just got tired Thursday as I seemed to drag all day. The cool days and constant rain in Chicagoland was the reason. Final version as soon as it’s ready on Friday.
I was reminded that the new desktop looks like a character from the Justice Friends. See for yourself below:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nL4yfoO5A3
It has always gotten me how animators switch guitarists from playing as a lefty to a righty given angle the character is at. Most animators show guitarists almost always as a lefty as they model stuff in a mirror and guess who a guitarist looks in a mirror… oh yeah, lefty. This clip shows Val Hallan playing it both left and right handed. Go figure.
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Was traffic that bad in the 70’s? How about the 1870’s. Sorry folks there is a stagecoach pile up ahead. We might as well relax and wait it out.
Let’s count the Shout Outs today … “bubble headed bleached blonde” is from Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry”, “stately downtown L.A.” is (sort of) from “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo” by Lobo, and the new Thor wallpaper looks a lot like Val Hallan from the “Justice Friends” cartoon (“Yea, verily, dude, begone lest I thrash upon thee with my mighty axe!”).
No worries! I like the pencils! 🙂
Pencils = good. It’s teh funny that I read for anyway, and you delivered that.
Wait, what? I thought L.A. was a *great big* freeway?
I don’t know what it is about the pencil drawings, but they always seem so much richer than an inked version! The raw artistic quality just draws me in!
Thats why moped were invented wasnt it? lol
Great strip! Wow, reminds ME not to drive thru downtown LA!!
LA traffic has only gotten worse since then. I’m literally an hour and a half away from there, but it takes me about three hours or more to travel by car. 🙂
Wow! I thought DC traffic was bad, but I guess you’re right. Slow ride indeed.
LOL, yeah this is very true 🙂
Yes Folks, LA traffic was that bad in the ’70’s, too. I was there with my band trying to conquer the world in the late 70’s, and at one point when we were living in Anaheim, I was seeing a gal who was in Santa Monica. Simple drive: take I-5 NW to LA, I-10 West to Santa Monica – about 35 miles as I remember… Except… LA traffic was terrible even late at night & in the middle of the day. Even if I went at one of those times it would be a minimum of 50 minutes to get to her house. God save you if you went during the AM or PM rush-hour. Then it was 1 1/2 to 2 hours.