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Swing & Miss(ile)

~ Jim Flanigan

We already covered Donald Trump’s disastrous summit in Vietnam with Kim Jong-un. Now we get word that North Korea appears to be rebuilding a nuclear missile test site.

North Korea nuclear test site rebuild

I can’t tell anything from that picture. That could be an overhead pic of a mile away from my house for all I know. But the experts seem to think it looks fishy. Regardless of whether North Korea is actually rebuilding its nuclear test site or not, I saw this on Twitter and thought it just so perfectly summed-up the Trump-Kim relationship.

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Well, this is a complete waste …

~ Jim Flanigan

Surprisingly, that title does not refer to this blog, although one can make a convincing case. No, I’m writing about this creation from my wife.

flower

I like it. She painted this spoon holder and placed it on the counter next to the stove for immediate use by the family. I can’t bring myself to use it. I would consider placing a goopy, drippy spoon that I use to stir my winter stew concoctions on what I view as a work of art created by my wife to be a desecration. You don’t see people intentionally destroying art, do you?

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Mite Be Funny #106 – YUGE Multi-Panel Edition

~ Jim Flanigan

Mite Be Funny #106a Bitter

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Winnowing the Candidates – Part 1

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There are already too many Democratic candidates for the 2020 Presidential race. So each month, I will reduce the field by one candidate through an announcement in this blog. If more keep joining the race, we may have to eliminate a candidate every two weeks. After my blog post, the candidate named in the post will be notified and expected to withdraw from the race. Maybe by the 2020 convention, we’ll have the field whittled down to a single, strong candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2020.

The first candidate I am eliminating from the race is …

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Calamari Appeteaser

~ Jim Flanigan

I am always eager to order calamari as an appetizer when I eat out. Yum. I enjoy the chewy texture which makes it seem like the calamari is fighting back a bit when I’m eating it. Give up calamari. You cannot defeat my jaws of steel and digestive juices.

Michael Cohen threw us a calamari appeteaser with his testimony when he dropped the name of Matthew Calamari numerous times. Who? Was Michael Cohen talking about a favorite character in Good Fellas or The Godfather?

Calamari is apparently former security muscle and now the COO of the Trump Organization. Do you think he knows some stuff that Americans would like to know? Get ready to see this guy Matthew Calamari in front of some House committees being grilled in the near future.

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Some Summit

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The Donald Trump – Kim Jong-un Summit in Vietnam is over quicker than expected. Trump left earlier than planned and looked grumpy. Maybe it was the chairs?

kim trump chairs

Were the chairs chosen to make Kim look slim and tall while Trumpy looks short and fat? If so, that worked perfectly. And speaking of fat, here’s an artist’s conception of possibly why they could not reach any agreement …

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~ Jim Flanigan

In what I can only guess was a 100% purely Pavlovian response, I literally started eating popcorn as the Michael Cohen congressional hearing began.

Flies On Washington Walls #143

~ Jim Flanigan

FOWW #143a Cohen

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More Random Thoughts – Mostly Musical

~ Jim Flanigan

When it comes to me, are there any other kind of thoughts? Oh well, here we go with a non-musical thought to kick this post off …

Random Thought #1

My oldest daughter tweeted this out recently …

knf tweet

I ate 5 pieces of garlic bread tonight. It really must be genetic.

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~ Jim Flanigan

The only reason I watch the Academy Awards is to get ideas for movies to watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video over the next few years.

Mite Be Funny #105 – Special Mite Anatomy Multi-Panel Edition

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Jumping Into a New Car Lease

~ Jim Flanigan

We’re picking up a new car today. I turned in our previous leased vehicle yesterday. In preparation for that event, I cleaned out the glove box. Curiously enough, I found absolutely no gloves in the glove box. I did find my missing earbuds, lots of straws, 20 bucks, and this …

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Tork Talk Redux

~ Jim Flanigan

I couldn’t quite figure out why Peter Tork’s death affected me so much yesterday. Then a friend hit the nail right on the head for me.

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Mite Be Funny – RIP Peter Tork Edition

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This special Mite Be Funny will not be funny, although that could be said for most all the Mite Be Funny cartoons. I am saddened at the passing of Peter Tork of the Monkees. I actually shed a tear or two typing this homage.

I was a bit too young to have been swept up in the original Monkeemania, but as I grew older, I came to appreciate the Monkees for what they were – a fun band. Peter Tork played the ‘dumb’ Monkee on their TV show, but he was a brilliant musician, certainly the most musically-gifted and trained of the four.

Peter tork

Don’t mention it, Pete. He got the role in the Monkees after his buddy, Stephen Stills, was rejected. If Stephen Stills had been chosen to be a Monkee, might we have gotten Crosby, Tork & Nash?

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Flies On Washington Walls #142 – Feel the Bern Multi-Panel Edition

~ Jim Flanigan

FOWW #142a Bernie

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New Music for Old Rockers – Welcome Back Edition

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My NMFOR posts have so far focused on newer musical talents. Not in this post. These are established talents that are finally providing us some welcome new music.

First up is Vampire Weekend. Six years since their last record. How does it take so long to make a record album? C’mon, you’re musicians. Make more music.

Father of the Bride is their upcoming release this Spring, and Harmony Hall is a single released from that album. I’m not sure that Harmony Hall is worth a six year wait, but it is a great tune. Take a listen.

Welcome back Vampires. Harmony Hall definitely doesn’t suck.

What does is the new single called Salvation from the Strumbellas.

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Unpresidented

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I thought a lot about President’s Day yesterday. I drove from Chicago down to St. Louis, and passed through Lincoln, Illinois as well as Springfield, Illinois where a young Abraham Lincoln lived and worked as an Illinois state legislator. I think Lincoln shed a few tears yesterday because of a tweet. Surprisingly, it was not a tweet from Donald Trump. No, this tweet came from Honest Abe’s own Republican party. Take a look …

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Puff, the Magic Fish

~ Jim Flanigan

I just read that dolphins get high when they manhandle puffer fish.

dolphin

It turns out that puffer fish emit a toxin when jostled as a defense mechanism. Dolphins have been observed messing with puffer fish seemingly in an attempt to get the puffer fish to emit just enough toxin to give the dolphins a nice buzz.

I wonder if they do that on porpoise?

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Surviving Day 2 of a National Emergency

~ Jim Flanigan

Donald Trump sought refuge at what appears to be a very crappy omelet bar at Mar-a-Lago as the United States bravely somehow made it through Day 2 of our national emergency of not having a big wall that Mexico refuses to pay for.

Trump omelet bar.jpg

Trump made good use of his Eggsecutive Time to decide if he wanted ketchup on his omelet or not. Two bottles of ketchup at the Mar-a-Lago omelet bar. Classy.

But something is amiss in that picture. Take a another look.

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