If you visited this space yesterday and were horrified to find no post, I'm sorry. I got a late start because our granddaughters spent the night, and Leya insisted that Agnes and I both be in bed when she got up so that she could wake us up. Naturally, she slept late, and consequently I got a much later start than usual and never recovered my normal schedule. On the plus side, it is nice to be awakened by your grandchildren (even if it consists of them jumping on the bed and screaming BOO!), and we did get the Christmas tree up and decorated. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
But now it's time for Cartoon Saturday ...
An 85 year old American veteran of the Korean War, arrested during a visit to North Korea, is said to have "issued an apology" for his actions*; US airlines are being told to comply with a Chinese air defense identification zone, even though the US government does not recognize its legality; a man evidently set himself on fire before entering a church in Maryland, where the resulting blaze killed two people and left a third critically injured; four people were killed when a small plane crashed in a remote Alaska town; and in Afghanistan, a two year-old boy was mistakenly killed and two women injured in a drone strike.
It's been a long month, and we need the cartoons as much as ever ...
This week's theme cartoons concern those wonderful software packages we just can't live without ... apps ...
You can carry sexting a bit too far sometimes ...
During the Industrial Revolution, workers were upset at being replaced by machines. But now there's an app for that ...
We can wax metaphysical on the subject ...
Had Edgar Rice Burroughs lived in 2013, might things have been different? ...
These were state-of-the-art apps when Mike and I first started calling ...
Congress works to different metrics than the rest of us ...
Your clever pun cartoon for this week ...
I think this is where Leya gets her jokes ...
Finally for this week, this is how I would do it** ...
And that, as they*** say, is that for the last edition of Cartoon Saturday for November of 2013.
I hope you all had a grand Thanksgiving. We had two, the second of which featured an alternative menu necessitated by the fact that we were all still pooping feathers from the first one ... on Thanksgiving Day, by unanimous request from Leya and Elise, Agnes made a huge pot of her ever-popular Creamy Goulash, accompanied by her creamed spinach and a pot of homemade spaetzle courtesy of our daughter Yasmin. I think we have decided that future Thanksgiving feasts at Chez Bilbo will be goulash-, rather than turkey-based. I also hope that you avoided the urge to spend Thanksgiving Day**** shopping, rather than spending the time with family and friends.
Tomorrow is December 1st ... if you haven't gotten your Christmas tree up, your cards addressed, and your shopping done, now would be a good time to start. If you need a copy of my Christmas wish list, just e-mail me and I'll send you one.
Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
* Yeah, right ... we know all about North Korean-style "apologies."
** Although I would keep the whole "off with their heads" thing, because it can be very satisfying.
*** And just who are "they," anyhow?
**** I actually heard it referred to as "Gray Thursday" on the radio. Oy.
3 comments:
It's great to see a sampling of cartoons on apps, and really funny one's at that!
I'm glad you had a great Thanksgiving!
My decrees were largely ignored, so I blog.
It's nice that humans have the same kind of apps also, as in the first cartoon!
'...my normal schedule...'
If you were retired you wouldn't need a 'schedule'.
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