Archive for December, 2009
Xmas in Sheldonia
Posted in art, tagged cat, humor, Magus, papa Joram, series, spray job on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
killer whales
Posted in art, tagged marine animals, orkhas, pastel on black paper, pod on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To All my friends,visitors and WordPress
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas 2009, seasons greetings on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sheldonia#18
Posted in art, tagged Archie, black and white, bloodhound, cats vs dogs, comic strips, fritz, homegrown Kim, humor, Kim, series, streetsmart Archie on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After Friederich
Posted in art, tagged landscape, Large Enclosure near Dresden., watercolor on December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
wolverine
Posted in art, tagged animals, bear, North America, watercolor, wolverine on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sheldonia! second childhood
Posted in art, tagged comic strip, humor, knowledge, old age, papa Joram, series, sheldonia#17 on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sheldonia!-that woman thing
Posted in art, tagged AuntyMolly, b&w, comic strip, drudgery, neighbors, Prissy, series, sharing, Sheldonia #16 on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh Only In America!
Posted in anecdotes, Uncategorized, tagged art of conversation, Irish, jukeboxes, morons, national character, old age, wits, youth vs old on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oliver St. John Gogarty(1878-1957) is the original for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses. He was an unusual character and he, as a surgeon, poet and conversationalist impressed his contemporaries as an original. There are quite a few anecdotes. In 1939 shortly after the outbreak of war he went to live in the USA. Till 1957 he remained there and he didn’t quite enjoy there. But it was the exciting time what with music becoming livelier. Rock and Roll, Elvis, Chubby Checker took over the music scene while jukeboxes (‘ Wurlitzer’) kept many a teenager on the toes. Ah to be young and in America!
On one occasion Oliver St. John Gogarty was sitting in a bar on Third Avenue, in New York with some six other fellows. Gogarty kept them amused and in rapture with some wonderful stories. ( Story tellers get their second wind at the reception they get and he was raring to go.) ‘Now l want to tell you this,’ and he started with another story. At that time a teenager went over to the jukebox and dropped a coin. All hell broke loose. The story teller’s face changed and he became sad, and with a touch of regret and anger he said,’Oh dear God in heaven, that I should find myself thousands of miles from home, an old man at the mercy of every retarded son of bitch who has a nickel to drop in that bloody illuminated coal scuttle.’(Ack: Brian Aherne)
benny
Sheldonia! #15
Posted in art, tagged aliens, comic strip, faceless, Haneef, humor, Matthew, outlaws, series, small town blues on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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