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I really dig telephone wires and poles. There’s a lovely one at the corner of my backyard… it looks a lot like this one. In fact, I was staring at it when this idea popped into my head.
I really dig telephone wires and poles. There’s a lovely one at the corner of my backyard… it looks a lot like this one. In fact, I was staring at it when this idea popped into my head.
And good advice it is, too….
And I thought I was weird for seeing artistic merit in telephone poles.
Many years ago, I was captivated by an unusual artist who painted telephone poles and laundry lines set in on lonely, grassy hills. i think his name was Meisenholder, but I haven’t been able to find him since. It was not exactly decorator art, but it wasn’t terribly abstract or bleak either. Kind of a A. Weith atmosphere. I totally loved it!
If you go to the Squid Row Flickr site, you’ll see the backyard telephone pole that inspired this toon.
I’m very fortunate in that my mum learned how to use a computer, particularly for email and IM, and so she’s able to keep in touch with both myself and her pen-pal (a former school-friend who emigrated to New Zealand).
Mum’s even addicted to a computer game, now. I’m so proud *snif* 🙂
This strip made me think of Shel Silverstein, don’t know why :).
In entirely unrelated news: Many thanks to Brig(and Ryan) for making me decide to pick up Cannery Row from the library! Definitly one of my new all-time faves. Oscar Wilde will always be my literary soulmate, but John Steinbeck is now a close second :D.
Meghan: Brig did that to me, too… I also ended up reading Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row’s sequel), and re-reading Of Mice and Men. That Brig has a lot to answer for 😉
Ah, I’m glad Meggie, that Squid has inspired some Steinbecking. I hope that you now can see some of the threads between Cannery Row and Squid Row.
Make sure you have tissues for Of Mice…
I, too, like Oscar Wilde… on my last trip to Europe, I stayed right around the corner from the hotel where Mr. Wilde died. They’ve remodeled quite a bit since that time of Wilde’s death. The place was quite swank.
Astragali: What game is your Mom hooked on?
Brig: I didn’t need tissues for Of Mice and Men, but I definitely appreciated it more when I was reading it to myself, rather than the joint reading at school…
And Mum’s got herself into Bejeweled Twist… I’m not quite so hooked, but I am further along in the challenges than she is 🙂