Moving On
Traffic in San Francisco is a nightmare at times… LA is worse, but either way… YUCK!
It’s sort of ironic that The City won’t let him go.
Traffic in San Francisco is a nightmare at times… LA is worse, but either way… YUCK!
It’s sort of ironic that The City won’t let him go.
Back in my go-to-college-while-working-two-jobs days, I would drive a 9-ton bobtail truck from Garden Grove to Long Beach a couple times a week to pick up bundles of newspapers from the press. The traffic along the I-405 was so bad that I could literally do my calculus homework while snarled in the jam. I’d open my book out on the big steering wheel, do some work, creep up five feet, do the next problem, creep up five feet…
They say that humans can adapt to any condition and that was a pretty good example of how true that statement is.
I wasn’t sure at first if that note said “stuff” or “sh*t” I think I need better glasses.
Okay, leaving those boxes out like that was just plain RUDE. Someone could have easily trashed or stolen Ryan’s things. He is SO better off now!
Dawnie,
Guess that depends on who left the books out there. If it was a friend/servant of Emily’s it may have just been thoughtless. If it was Emily herself, it could be rude, but I’m guessing it was probably just thoughtless thoughtfulness. Emily moves in a different world; she no doubt figured the books were completely safe to be left there and that it made it just that much easier for Ryan to load ’em up.
If Emily gave up the appartment, the Landlord probably sent her stuff to England. If he was told that Ryan would be by to pick up his “stuff”, he wouldn’t have cared because he would get to show the appartment sooner. Therefore…
I have received the Genesis Live 1973-2007 CDs/DVDs. I am now listening to the first CD: Genesis Live. It covers their first live concert and it is full of the experimental rock of their early days: Watcher of the skies, Get ’em out by Friday, The return of the giant hogweed, The music box, and The Knife.
I have not heard any of these before.Very interesting!
Let’s give them something to talk about… a little mystery to figure out.
I am not certain if it was mentioned in a much more previous cartoon, but Emily has sublet her apartment (more will be said in the future)… And I agree, Dawnie, it was rude. Although, if that person(s) had to work and that was the only way to get Ryan his “Stuff”/books… a heads up would have been nice.
Joe… Congrats and much happy listening. I’ve been listening to old Vincent Price recordings… which is appropriate for this time of year.
Pete… I am glad I warn’t around you on the 405! Who knows… maybe I was!
Brig,
Vincent Price?! I did a rewrite of Edgar Allen Poe’s: The Raven. It was for the Pibgorn comments site and it was a favorite amongst my fellow commentors.
brig- in answer to your question yesterday: yes! 6 kids and 40 years later, they are still very much together.
Joe… Wouldn’t it be cool to have Vinnie himself read YOUR version? On that site that I’m on, there are some sampled Price recordings from his cooking show… where someone has made a rap entitled “Rub my Roast”… funny stuff… and there’s one about cooking up boy for dinner.
Chug… AH… a true test… 6 kids and they still love each other. Next question: do the siblings love each other?
She dog-eared all the pages of his journals! The conniving, little…
One of the best readings of The Raven was – of all things – on The Simpson’s, when a modified version was read by the awesome James Earl Jones.
For anyone living in or near Pennsylvania; the Theater in the Mansion will be doing their annual “Poe Evermore” nights. We’ve been to two and will be going again this year. An actual mansion where the rooms are used as locations to perform among the furniture. Four Poe stories in four different rooms. Some are normal rooms, others have been changed to micro-theaters. MAJOR fun!
http://www.parenfaire.com/poe/main.php
dada… GAH! FUH! and other exclamations!
Pete… THAT looks like fun! … and … Location, location, location!
Being in the apartment business myself, the boxing up and leaving outside is really not rude or unusual. When a tenant clears out, they are required to remove all their belongings by the given date. In the rare case that people move and leave stuff, we either donate it or it goes to the owner’s storeroom or one of us–the alternative being, chucked out. The fact that the journals were boxed and stacked neatly is actually above and beyond the owners/manager’s responsibility. After all, Ryan’s the one who tripped off to England and left them there. He should be thankful they didn’t end up in the recycle bin.
Perspective, folks, perspective.
Oddly enough, given how much we tried to kill each other as kids, yes. We are each other’s best friends. I live with my sister because we’re just about the only room-mates either of us can stand.
EofO… good to see the other side of the coin, there… but remember, Ryan left them there at the apartment because Em gave her blessing.
Chug… you are fortunate, indeed.
So many notes! Ryan must have filled the front seat, the back and the trunk…er…hood.
OK, this is hitting a bit close to home, but I must ask…
Does Ryan actually write, or does he just take notes?
Slug Bug! *BAM!*
Brig: Of course Em gave her blessing, but that’s not the apartment manager’s problem. 😉 He’s been back for awhile.