THE CYCLOPS LOVE SONG

May 6, 2010

The Cyclops Love Song (to the tune of R.E.M.’s The One I Love)   This one goes out to my one-eyed love This one goes out to my one-eyed porcupine A pimple pop has occupied my time This one goes out to my one-eyed love

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THE DAFFINESS OF DILLS

May 3, 2010

These particular dills are daffy because they insist on blooming before Mein Herr Kapitan Winter has headed for more southerly climes. These fellows here were buried twice by snow after this picture was taken.

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23 LOON FAVORITES BY CATEGORY

April 20, 2010

cartoonist – Charles Addams sub-atomic particle – muon video game – Earthbound baseball score – 3-1 in eleven inning stand-up comic – Steven Wright playing card – 4 of diamonds grain – oat comic novel – Cold Comfort Farm by S. Gibbons opera singer – Maria Callas american romance – W.R. Hearst and Marion Davies […]

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LOON AXIOM

April 12, 2010

The grain elevator of hope often comes a cropper when faced with the fidgety fingernail of despair.

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GENERAL MALAISE

April 8, 2010

General Malaise was to review the troops, but he couldn’t bring himself to get out of bed.

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UTTER NONSENSE BASED ON FACT

April 7, 2010

Why did the New Zealand beekeeper climb the highest mountain in the world? He thought its height might cure his hives? No. He climbed it because the queen bee he loved promised to marry him if he would conquer Everest. He didn’t realize she meant Dave Everest, the local innkeeper.

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THE REELING PSYCHOTIC

April 5, 2010

The reeling psychotic tossed aside her fishing pole and paused to get her bearings, which had tumbled free when her charm machine smashed to pieces against the antique Sherman tank. Rolling this way and that, the bearings bore down taken from the finest geese. The psychotic scooped the bearings protectively into her mouth and swallowed […]

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CARTOON FRIDAY 44

April 2, 2010

“A haircut, you say. By God, then, sir, I’ll do my damnedest or die in the attempt.”

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ANGER AND SHAME AND IDIOCY

March 31, 2010

“Anger is often the mask of shame,” said the learned frog to the empty shampoo bottle. “But desire is the quotient of temptation over the availability of a parking space,” responded the bottle. “Nevertheless, shut up,” commented the frog.

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A SENTENCE BY ROBERT BENCHLEY

March 27, 2010

‘It would be impossible to stoop all about the cellar picking up the vagrant pieces that had flown away, even if the blow of the shovel against the furnace had not temporarily paralyzed your hand and caused you to devote your entire attention to the coining of new and descriptive pictures.’ This fine sentence takes […]

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