Jul ’04 31
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently conducted their annual comics poll to help determine which comics to drop in order to add some new strips. For some unexplained reason, they dropped Funky Winkerbean, a popular strip according to the poll. I complained via email that day and apparently so did many others. Last night I received an email from Jim Hanselman at the Post that said, “Funky returns soon.”
Now if we can just convince them to bring Opus back.
Jul ’04 27
The doctor gave me the OK to wear regular shoes again. I’ve been wearing a hard soled shoe on my left foot for about a month after fracturing a bone. What a relief! My arch was begging for support and now it finally gets some. I’m thankful it wasn’t more serious. Another month of healing and my foot should be back to normal again.
Jul ’04 20
Yesterday we returned from a road trip through the south. As we have done in previous years, last Thursday we took a short vacation to attend the annual Dingler Family reunion. The reunion was held in Rome, Georgia this year.
We drove to Nashville on Thursday, staying there for the night. We spent the afternoon at Opry Mills, a Mills outlet mall at the Opryland complex. We ate dinner at Aquarium, a unique restaurant by “Landry
Jul ’04 7
Over on the Monty Python site, PythOnline, I noticed a link to a new song by Eric Idle. (We saw Eric last year while he was on tour, an incredible evening of humor and song. If you missed seeing any of his shows, you really missed out.) The song is called “The FCC Song” so you can imagine how it goes. As it says on the site, “if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.” Head over to IDLEwild (Eric’s page) and give it a listen.
If you dislike Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft and the rest of that worthless bunch, you will love this song.
