![]() Up dinner parties with napkin rings and assigned dining table seating. He loves parties, but prefers sitting around with buddies, drinking margaritas and watching ‘Airplane’ on Netflix, to grown. Jim’s few remaining friends believe he is well-organized and compulsive, but in truth Jim leads a chaotic life devoid of self-discipline. Nevertheless, he is now quite unsympathetic to his students who act the same way he did, seeing them as undisciplined and lazy. In college, Jim was an erratic student, easily bored, who spent his time daydreaming or arguing with his teachers. In the next room, Jim’s mother sobbed softly, her body convulsed with pain. “My God,” his father said, when the nurse carried his infant son out to him for the first time. The wind howled out of the west, and tree branches flailed like enraged birds against the windows of the small country hospital. It was stormy and dark the night Jim Garland was born. Then she looked at your bio, nodded approvingly, and said, “Why don’t you write your own bio? Maybe Jim George would have suggestions.” So, Jim, here’s my first attempt, though I’m not one hundred certain this is what she had in mind: Jim, I never miss your commentary, and always find it interesting and insightful. *Both books now are available in Print, eBook, and Audio Book formats at all major Internet retailers or from my web site as an personally autographed copy in any print form. You can buy direct at my website’s link for a personalized copy. In addition, many Barnes and Noble stores nationwide carry it in stock, and they, as well as Book People in Austin or any independent bookstore can order it. *Contact Sport is in stock in hardcover print format at any of the thirteen HRO (Ham Radio Outlet) stores nationwide as well as at DX-Engineering and the American Radio Relay League. It’s under consideration for a movie, and a screenplay now is under active development! * Reunion is available in stock at Tamarack on the West Virginia Turnpike as well as at and other Internet retail locations. Any and all comments are welcome either by email to my return address, or to the website in the comments section after any blog. Also, recall that I’ll travel to any book club or radio club within two hours of Austin to discuss either of the books and answer any questions. * Check out my books and blogs on my author website: Make your observations below, or send them to me via email at Email commenters will not be identified.Įnjoy life it's the only one we will get. I’m either too old, too literal, or too stupid to get this one.Ĭomments are welcome and will be published, pro and con. By the way, I try and understand Phoebe and Her Unicorn. To be Gary Trudeau must be every kid's dream. I understand this maybe half of the time. You have to read it for yourself.ĭilbert. You wear the colors and emblem of the soverign and are a trained killer with a very cool hair style and a lovely wife. To be a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table must be a fantastic gig. ![]() They actually are assisting a warrior from this group, a man they had captured, by cleverly negotiating that they “claim his orphaned family” as a prize for slaying him after they were attacked. Val and Gawain are outsmarting some ruffian soldiers of a rival land baron in the outer realms of the Misty Isles. The current little story line is one of the best ever. Some are long time stalwarts, and others adopted a bit more recently. Some only to ponder who might be the target audience others to wonder what they even mean! To be honest, I do not read the daily strips … too small … no color … just not appealing to me. It's in color! The current collection of thirty-five (did I miscount one or the other?) in the Sunday papers are favorites of someone or they would not make the cut. The Sunday paper continues to be the superstar in terms of comic strips. I am old fashioned and prefer to read my newspapers and my books in a favorite chair in a quiet room. New strips apparently are designed to catch more eyeballs than this seventy-eight-year-old long-time subscriber: younger eyeballs, more diverse eyeballs. Yet the comic strip coverage seems to be more robust and zanier all the time. ![]() Newspapers are struggling and have cut back on news coverage, while losing the number of advertising pages. Who doesn’t read ‘em? There are 34 daily "funnies" - the archaic term I grew up with - comic strips in the Austin American Statesman.
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