Dear Abbott

DON'T EVER TOUCH ANY SIGN I PUT UP ON AN ELEPHANT
(THAT BELONGS TO ME)!!

it was a dark and stormy night. i was nearly blind in the darkness. i could only feel and see part of the elephant...the part that said "don't think of an elephant"...i wandered off into the forest and totally forgot about it, until now

reminds me of

http://www.zoestrauss.com/photo/gallery4/images/08.jpg

lol

notes

ha i must post that thing once a month here

Dear Abbott,

You still going to be in Tuscon October 6th and 7th? If so and if my friend and I were to drive up there (down there?) from Tempe, would you like to meet us for coffee/lunch/city exploring what have you?

Love,

Erica

Hey E!
Down there, yes! I will very much be here. The first week of October is vacay from work so I would love to end it with some Erica (and friend) time. So so stoked!

Awesome! I should know in the next couple days if we'll definitely be able to drive down but I think it's likely. You will like my friend Kate, btw. She's prettty much the nicest kindest person I've ever known and she's also an AZ public school teacher! :D

Will email you when I know more.

Kates are generally pretty awesome people, it's true.

:)

Abs we're on for Sunday the 7th. Will email you nearer the time to make actual plans but YAY!

FUCK YES

What is a "Georgia Tuck"?

Considering a tat....what should I get?

that style of bowtie?

Georgia tuck is when the ONLY part of your shirt you tuck in is the part behind your belt buckle. The rest hangs out over your belt.

I inherited a Freedom Arms belt buckle from my still-living Dad, of the .454 Casull – "the world's most powerful handgun." And I'll so the Georgia tuck with that belt buckle since there's really no other choice. Guns are awful and do nothing but inhale people's lives. I should really quit it but it reminds me of when I was six and lived in beautiful Star Valley. All I was doing was trying to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as beautifully as possible to whisk myself off to Oz/ Guess who just had a few vodka tonics. I should probably retire that belt buckle.

Wow, weirdly, wikipedia has a picture of the belt buckle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FreedomArms.jpg
My dad would bring us home blue foam rubber punchouts shaped like guns – the donut hole of the packaging depicted in this photo

Dear Abbott,

Why is it still so hot in AZ? I was sort of banking on it being cooler there in October ffs. Hmpf.

Anyway, I look forward to making your acquaintance later this week and will message you under separate cover with my contact details so that we might make actual plans to meet up.

Hurrah and all that sort of thing.

Yours,

ENBB

Hey!! Still stoked.
There are always a few days in October that will trick you into thinking its cool but I have to remind myself: it is going to be hot as shit until after Halloween. It's cool in the morning and evening now, though!

Dear Abbott,

I just want to say that I you're very sweet to be so kind to the rheumatologists.

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/31598BE3-4CE8-42A3-9BB4-9AA00950D8B4-17593-000015B04C969AB0.jpg

beer party at booth 1005!

my step mom used to work for abbott. she laid her off and i bet she doesn't even remember her >:(

if only she had been a rheumatologist

Dearest Steeve,
The rheumies are my homies.
<3 Abbster

Abbs, you should really play the pc game legend of grimlock
I think u will like it
It is upscaled etrians oddyssey with puzzles

Abbott-

have you taken a stroll/drive/hayride through Winterhaven yet?

Froks,
Duly noted!

gr80ster,
When I first moved to Tucson, I lived opposite (E of) Winterhaven on Country Club – I think there is a thing when you live so close to some attraction, it makes you never want to see it. It made me a Grinch with the traffic and whatnot, esp. as a pedestrian only at the time. It also seemed, from just peeking in via Ft. Lowell, that it was not so hot compared to my hometown's stilly xmas light neighborhood, Candy Cane Lane (which did not offer hayrides). I am guessing Winterhaven is fun with some friends and a flask.

dear abbott i heard a rumor that you have a good reading list on mao. is this true? would you share it with me?

I read a lot of Maoist struggle memoirs in my day, and a whole bunch of books on Mao –– basically everything in my hometown library (NB: this is not a big brag) ––– but this was literally half of my life ago. All the titles have slipped through the memory cracks except THE OBVIOUS ONES eg Life and Death in Shanghai. I was reading some teaching guide for Red Scarf Girl and it pointed out most of the Cultural Revolution memoirs we have in English are from detractors and obv won't paint it positively. I mean that sounds dumb and obvious but you gotta consider it's one voice of one person. I mean, you know that.

Oh, typing this ––– I recall one of my favorite graphic novels of last year, A Chinese Life by Philippe Otie and Li Kunwu. You gotta read it! The art is amazing and the memoir bridges 1949-modern capitalism.

Anyway here's some Cultural Revolution list, a list, not compiled by me because the rumors aren't true: http://www.morningsun.org/library/index.html

Here's a four-hour docu I watched over xmas break (also rec'ced by that teaching guide, v informative) China: A Century of Revolution [1911 -1949] Part 1 pt 2

Hope you weren't looking for a bunch of Mao/Nixon slashfic or something because I don't know where that is!
<3 running dog of crabbitalism

thanks! this exactly what i was hoping for!

abbott, it is crazy how the interview subjects in this documentary recount the most horrific things and then start giggling!

the graphic novel is great btw -- thanks again for the recommendation

unrelated: if i started a comic strip poll, would u participate?

abbott, it is crazy how the interview subjects in this documentary recount the most horrific things and then start giggling!

― Mordy, Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:42 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have experienced this in meetings and phone calls with manufacturers. The worst fucking news and then the giggling.

"in those days when someone disagreed we just killed them" <giggle, giggle>

Mordy, If you mean send in a comics ballot, then, sure ––– but you have to realize the results would be biased because T.K. Ryan has some compromising photos of me.

yes to ballot but also you have to chat too!

Pfft, no then, I don't have the time.

T.K. RYAN, YOU WIN AGAIN.

do you foresee a moment in the future when you may have the time? i honestly would love to run that kind of poll, but it wouldn't be worth it if you didn't comment

Over the summer, sure – late June, early July.

The best comics store in town had a 50% off everything sale on Saturday and I kind of went nuts ––– best thing I got was first 3 vols of the Segar Popeye books. Sooo stoked.

Tumbleweeds otm

Lockhorns have this one...locked.

My wife went to a big party of elderly cartoonists at Bunny Hoest's estate on long island (Bunny has boldly carried on the Lockhorns/Howard Huge legacy after Bill's death). There are some great stories from that party.

!!

I would have an undue bevy of questions for Ms. Hoest.

alright crabbits - i'm penciling this in for june/july

The 'Bunny Bash' gets held every year, maybe I'll get to go to the next one. When Karen went it was on like a Thursday afternoon and I didn't want to use a day off for it, which in hindsight was v dumb of me.

I would be very disappointed if a party like that have nine-foot tall blondes in its attendance.

http://www.hypocriticalmass.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/lockhorns4.jpg