Heh, Ms. Crabby Pants… I tinkle a little every time I say that… 🙂
Beware those damn BIC lighters… they can set fire to just about anything. Hair burns fast and stinks up the place as well. Robyn is gonna want to move in with Bud and Jeff when this is all said and done.
Monday, Lorraine gets a job and, well, trouble ensues. Toon in for that!
The past three weeks have been super busy for me and luckily I spent July drawing comics so I was able to stay on time here and get a ton of work done as well. The buffer is now shot and I’m caught back up. I actually prefer doing the comics closer to the time of their release (just not like at 2:00am) so I can respond better to read reactions and comments. So, Summer vacation is truly over as my sons all go back to school next week. Yes! I can watch porn during the day now with them out of the house. “Bambi Makes A Buck” looks interesting…
Today starts off a little nod to the one and only Mr. Joe Cocker. Besides having a last name that immature little boys (me) laugh at, he’s one helluva singer. Joe also holds a special place in my rock and roll history as his “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” live album was one of my first “real” rock and roll record purchases. When “Cry Me A River” cranked up off my little Sears all-in-one phonograph (with TONE control!), my parents knew that their little boy had just found crack cocaine. I absorbed that album, listening to all the tracks, all the background instruments, singers, noises, etc. Taking in how it was performed, and also starting a life-long addiction on liner notes. It was then I realized that rock and roll really only had about a dozen or so real players and they all just moved from group to group or tour to tour. Anyway, here’s Joe’s version of today’s comic title!
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Boy, she’s getting to be a real HOTHEAD!
Hope she doesn’t BLOW HER TOP!
Don’t go to work like that or you’ll get FIRED!
[Those jokes might be funny if you have some weed.]
Everything goes better with weed… I’m sure the Coke people are happy about that. But you can’t smoke Coke… snort it, but not smoke it!
Oh, we’re on a roll this morning! Papers that is! Ba-da-bing! Another one!
I’m exhausted… 😛
You can’t toke a Coke, but you can…uh….damn it, thought I was onto something there.
Actually, smokeable coke (aka “crack”) is only a few years away — much to the glee of a lot of drug kingpins and the sorrow of innumerable addicts…
Hmmm… and you know this *how*? 😛
I lived in a Mission for homeless men for several years during the ’80s and knew several recovering addicts. (And, no, I never touched the stuff myself.)
With reference to Joe Cocker’s name, I have a friend whose name is Stuart Hiscock. One day, he asked me to order a book for him, and I was dreading it, because I’d naturally have to give out his name… This is how the conversation went with the saleswoman:
“What name, please?”
“Stuart Hiscock.”
“How do you spell Hiscock?”
“Yes…”
Oh… My… God… Hiscock? Soooo many childish jokes forming in head… must let one out…
Man, that guy must have been teased to death as a kid… hell, as an adult too!
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Just to add my ha’peth…a RL friend of mine went to university with a girl called Jenna. One day about three years ago, during exams, my friend noticed this girl’s full name on her exam paper, before she realised he could see it and she rushed to cover it with her hand. There was nothing odd about her surname, but her middle name… oh dearie dearie me… what was her mother thinking… was Talia.
No, really.
Another close friend of mine works in the local registry of births, deaths and marriages, and she looked it up and confirmed that this poor girl’s first name plus middle name really is Jenna Talia.
What are parents thinking? That’s so freaking obvious too, that couldn’t have been an accident. Man, I thought I was tortured as a young man being teased about my name (Byron was not popular in the 60s when everyone was name Paul, Steve or John).
They should have just named her Pussy Galore for fuck’s sake…
Couldn’t have been an accident? – well, one never knows. Take our friend Holly, who was born on Christmas eve. Her mum wanted to give her a seasonal name, so she chose Holly. Trouble is, no-one stopped to think about how it would go with their surname: Costa. I burst into gobsmacked laughter ten years ago when she first told me what her surname was…and at first she didn’t get what it was I found so funny! Cue more gobsmackery: ‘What? You never noticed that Holly Costa sounds like ‘holocaust’?!’ ‘Huh? – ohh! Ogod. Ahahahaha!’
Apparently I was the first one ever to notice, or at least the first to mention it. She now jokingly calls herself the patron saint of disasters 😛
I forgot to mention: Stuart and I worked in an amusement arcade as bingo callers/floorwalkers… and our manager was Peter Woodcock…
Ohh-kayyy…Lorraine seems to have acquired some scary accidental powers! Did Liz Hurley Devil Woman rub off on her? Or could this be the beginning of the Devil’s reven-, erm shutting up now in case I’ve accidentally stumbled on to spoilage…
‘With a Little Help…’ is one of those rare songs where I love both the original and the best-known cover almost equally. Career path/cover/inspiration, as mentioned in teh previous strip’s comments!
Oh, here Troublesome talents have popped up here and there in the comic. Maybe she can exorcise them out here soon… maybe *that’s* the spoiler! Hmmm…
Yeah, Joe’s special in my life too, so I wanted to share that little trivia of my life with the world.
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“Heh, Ms. Crabby Pants… I tinkle a little every time I say that” I tinkle just reading that line.
Stop it! I gotta get clean pants now!
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Remember the Saturday Night Live John Belushi/Joe Cocker duet where John looked more “Cockeresque” than Joe did!
Brilliant stuff!
And I’ve met a few people like Lorraine, can’t turn round without breaking something! It’s a damned expensive way to live!
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Belushi was dead-on with his impersonation of Cocker and it should what a great guy Joe was to actually come on and do that duet. Takes a big person to make fun of himself. SNL in the 70s was the best. The 80s crew did a fair job, but nothing like those first few years.
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Oh and seeing Robyn like that reminds of the Top of the Pops live performance by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Fire! Where he was prancing about the stage with his head on fire! 😀
“Elf and Safe Tea” would have a blue funk fit just thinking about that now! LOL
I think you shared a video of that (or someone did) and it’s hilarious if I’m thinking of the same thing (and these days, who knows…).
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Oh, yes, I remember that!
The only other band I remember really putting on a show for Top of the Pops was Wizzard, and I’m sure Roy Wood did that just to show how stupid it was to stand up and mime to a recording (as was required) in front of kids who would even scream for Jimmy Osmond. As I recall Wizzard often didn’t even bother to try and play, just wandered around the stage in gorilla suits and stuff.
and that is why they say medicinal marijuana is bad. Occasional hair fire.
The weed had nothing to do with it… wink, wink… 🙂
Just good ol’ Lorraine’s “troublesome” curse. Of course, Robyn will need that joint more than ever now.
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In a case like this, how exactly would she get the carpet to match the newly flaming drapes?!? o.O
By the looks of those flames, I get the feeling she’s going to come out of this bald. And of course you have to match, so….
Perhaps Robyn invents the bikini wax job now… 🙂
As far as doing comics closer to the time they go up goes, I’ve wondered about that too, but I don’t trust myself to keep less than a 15 comic buffer. I’ve had issues in the past and I don’t want to go in that direction again.
Commenters seem to be doing just fine without me, though…
Yeah, I was ahead 3 weeks and it was nice not to have that pressure on. But, then all this work hit me (for the first time in years) and I was glad I could focus on the work and not worry about the comic. I’m still ahead because the storyline is written and all I have to do is just draw them now.
I had a friend who used to make the flame as big as he could so when he was at a party he could find his lighter. He forgot to mention this to a girl who used more hairspray than an 80’s hair band, needless to say, it took a while to get used to her newer shorter hair. She misssed her mile hi hair.
Hairspray makes for one helluva a flame thrower if you do it right. I wouldn’t recommend doing it as cans have a tendency to explode around flames, but those short bursts will give you a thrill ride…
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My buddy with the problematic name was Paul Bates, who all his mates referred to as [snort, chortle,… tee hee] Master Bates.
We won’t mention the ex-girl friend whose las name was Cox, until she got married to a fellow named Swisher. What an improvement. LOL
The star of the Mad Dogs and Englishmen Album in my mind wasn’t the front man, Joe Cocker, but the piano player and master of mysteries Leon Russell. I think the first album I have with LR on it is the original Veronica and the Ronettes from about 1963 (also has Sonny Bono and Larry Knectel palying in the band). LR was one of those guys who worked forever to become an overnight sensation , ala Willie Nelson.
Leon Russell was everywhere back then. On the Mad Dog’s tour, then with Harrison for the Bangladesh concert, plus his “Up on a Tight Wire” hit he had. You couldn’t miss that long hair and top hat he wore.
I remember Larry Knechtel from “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and all the other great stuff he played on. Like I said, I’m addicted to liner notes. He just died last year it seems. I missed that. Damn… another one gone.
I heard Larry Carlton died too (?), another name that seemed to be everywhere on liner notes. the man must of lived in the studios. although I think he toured with Ricky Nelson (Garden Party era).
AFAIK Carlton is still very much alive – maybe your source is confused because he did nearly get killed in a drive-by shooting about 20 years ago. And yes, he was always a solid – and constantly booked up – session player 🙂