CARLTON GRANE
Raised in a spent howitzer shell, Carlton Grane developed an explosive temper. Fed only peanut shells for the first five years of his life, he was understandably nuts. Though insanity and rage ruled his every action, he managed to marry surprisingly well. surprisingly, surp to her friends, spelled her name in all lower case letters to honor her favorite literary characters, archie the cockroach and mehitabel the cat. The union of Carlton and surp was blessed with issue. The issue was prayer in schools. Carlton passed away while attempting to swim underwater from San Diego to China. surprisingly Grane went on to serve two terms in the British Parliament, a rare achievement for a passionate life-long citizen of Bakersfield, California.
BEFORE
This blank canvas meadow has been prepared by Mother Nature. She primed it with a coat of snow, and now She ponders the colors She’ll use to make it bloom. The loon will return to this spot in a month to examine and record Her work. I’m thinking orange, purple, and yellow. We’ll see.
A SENTENCE BY DYLAN THOMAS
That old Bessie would beeswax the lawn to make the birds slip.
That line is from the radio play, Under Milk Wood. If you read the drama aloud, you might hear the word music better than if you read it asilent.
CARTOON FRIDAY 47
BORIS KARLOFF KWIZ
Boris Karloff:
a. wrote his memoirs with a pencil clenched between his teeth while immersed up to his neck in a vat of ketchup.
b. ate a breaded veal cutlet for breakfast every day of his adult life.
c. once swam across the Mojave Desert.
d. tended bar to earn enough money to become a bartender.
e. mailed a giraffe to Truman Capote.
f. enjoyed Deborah Kerr playing his grandmother’s sister in ‘The King and I’.
THE TRIPLET PRINCESSES THREE
Here we have a very rough sketch of Wun, Tuu, and Thrii, the Triplet Princesses of Fiddleeebod. Scroll down a bit and you will see a sketch of young Prince Dale Lightly, who grows up to be a Kinng and the father of these bickering, laughing, screaming, ever energetic, incredibly exhausting creatures. They play starring roles, along with their little brother Forr and their cousin Jay Dot (Lady May of Orrun’s son), in The Land of the Rainbow Giants.
23 LOON FAVORITES BY CATEGORY
- 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
- tool – pipe cutter
- movie actress – Machiko Kyo
- historical romance novel – Lorna Doone by R. Blackmore
- musical instrument – zither
- short story – ‘A Dreary Tale’ by A. Chekhov
- comedy duo – Laurel and Hardy
- element – tungsten
- painting – The Bar at the Folies Bergere by E. Manet
- Marx Brother – Groucho
- composer – Maurice Ravel
- country music singer – Patsy Cline
- bible – Ulysses by J. Joyce
- number – 23








