Have a safe July 4th

From Girl's Love Stories #1 (Aug-Sept 1949).

And once again my wife, son and I are working the evening of July 4th, so if you want to go "OOOH" and "AAAH" at the pretty lights then pull the [expletive deleted] over and off the road.

Sealed With A...What?

My real-life true Valentine's Day story while at work and my conversation with one of the bakers as they set up a table of holiday cakes.

"So, what is this?"
"I dunno. They told me to decorate the heart cakes like those candy hearts. With words like Be Mine, UR Gr8, Luv You and SWAT."

"Yeah, SWAT. So what does SWAT mean?"

"Dunno. They just said SWAT."

"Maybe that was supposed to be SWAK."

"That doesn't make any sense."

"It does if you are saying Sealed With A Kiss."

"Oh, yeah. Well, they said SWAT."

"Sure they did. Okay, what's done is done. You can discount these tomorrow after Valentine's Day, right?"

They wonder why everything I say is prefaced with a heavy sigh.

Happy New Year 2011

The Post of Christmas Past

A few links to some Holiday stuff of latter years from Lady, That's My Skull.

Aw, cute!

Thor and the Christmas Miracle!

The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping!

Frosty the Golem!

They should never have called him Mutie!

Lazy, crappy Holiday comic strips!

Sorry, kids!

An oldie but a goodie from MAD Magazine, If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys!

Links from other places:

Retrospace Christmas Music Mix Tape!

A Riverdale Christmas by Bully!

20 Geeky Xmas Decorations (NSFW sidebar)!

Golden Age Comic Book Stories has lots of nifty Xmas images and stories!

The Monkees sing Xmas acappella!

And last but not the least from LTMS, an old Silver Age comic book favorite: Invaders from the Ice World!

Happy Thanksgiving in 2010

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #15 (December 1941). Art credit Al Taliaferro.


Since a few people asked what the deal was with the cover because the gag had little context, here is the original cartoon that inspired it as reprinted from the daily newspaper comic strip for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #12 (September 1941).

Happy Easter

See what you get when you trust somebody who purports to speak for the Universe? Decades and decades of lies and corruption through every level of the church hierarchy because those in charge are just thieving, grifting users of gullible or desperate people.

I can't help but think that the ROBOT POPE would rather delete its hard drive than overwrite the truth about child-molesting members of the church.

Yeah, "Happy Easter".

Reason for the season? Gimme bunnies, ducks and chocolate.

One Hundred and One Just Won't Do

HELL YES, Sheena.

Some wild talent, obsession and unbridled passion for your Valentine's Day listening pleasure. Way better than Bolero. Enjoy, you crazy cats!

From 1989.

Gonna party like it's 1956

Nugget (February 1956).