Saturday, August 05, 2006

Saturday morning cartoons

Well, yesterday was full of housework and homework, mostly. I did go out for a ride and wound up catching a flat out by Archie McPhee's, so I'm going to have to deal with that later. It was in the evening, though, that we had the main event:



We had Mighty Mel over (before her early start this morning - she's likely on her way to Oregon right now) so that Otis, Johnbai, Dingo and I could could give her a send-off for her trip to Ireland (which starts in less than week) and her 40th birthday (which will happen when she is in Ireland).

Here's the guest of honor, clarifying a point:



Here's Johnbai on his third Guiness:



Dingo and Otis taking the "Mel Quiz" (with killer cupcakes in the foreground):



Me, teacher-y:




Happy Birthday and Bon Voyage, Mel!

Another member of the gang got a well-deserved brush with local fame recently. Take a gander at this, from the Seattle Weekly's latest issue, the Best of Seattle 2006:



No, we don't know Paula Oliver; look down the sidebar that lists her favorites. Eagle-eyed Otis spotted this:



Go, Scotty! You haven't been around for a while - I hope this notice finds you wherever your vagabonding ways have brought you.

And lastly, here's a link to the stevegerblog (he's a comix writer but comments on a lot of stuff) that I thought would be timely and fun for some of our gang: it's a South Park ad.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks much for the fun party and chance to eat, drink and be merry.....instead of just slogging through more work.

Oregon was gorgeous. My son works in a fantastic sandwhich shop which has lots of yummy organic ingredients, and a great group of colleagues. Being 16, living near the beach, and having cool people to hang out with- I think he is doing exacty what he should be!