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Suspended Animation Classic #615
First published October 8, 2000 (#41) (Dates are approximate)
Funky Winkerbean: Could Be A Book Deal Here
By Michael Vance
Dear NBM Publishers,
I wouldn't have been surprised to see Andy or Barney walk down the big front steps of Westview High as I read your comic strip anthology of Funky Winkerbean. That isn't because it's an imitation of TV's The Andy Griffith Show, but because both share a subtle small town feeling and a philosophy of quiet order and gentle humor based on human dignity. I like that.
I also like the sudden intrusion of hurt and tragedy made even more poignant by its irony and rarity. If it is true that Mr. Moors, the English teacher at Westview, reflects the even keel of his town, it is also true that he suffers its earned and unearned bruises.
He and the cast of Funky also read like real, complicated people, both talented and mundane, foolish and wise, beautiful and faulted. I really like that.
But I didn't like everything.
On the heels of my high praise, the idea of a radio talk show (Rush Limbaugh) making someone blow up the post office (the federal building in Oklahoma City) is worse than ridiculous. Rush has never advocated anything more violent than voting. And if the media were that powerful and people that malleable we'd all be as gentle and harmless as the folks in Funky just by reading the comic strip. Human beings are more complicated than that.
In addition, Funky's justification for his friends living together because it's the '90s' is just silliness. Pretending to be married doesn't guarantee happiness any more than pretending to be Michael Jordan guarantees one can hit a basketball hoop from half-court.
Although we are worlds apart politically and philosophically, I enjoyed the 127 pages of Funky Winkerbean: Could Be A Book Deal Here, and agree that Tom Batiuk is among the best cartoonists around. It is no surprise that Tom is as wise and foolish as his characters, or that this collection is worth every penny of its $9.95, and more!
Check out the new Funky Chicken Coop Tour® Headquarters on April 19, 2014, at Sunshine Community Gardens, 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, Texas 78756. Enjoy a full day of free family and educational activities, including live poultry, educational booths, and a new speaker series. Don’t miss our keynote presentation: “Economic Impact of Austin's Food Sector - and the Importance of Buying Local” at noon!
FCCT has partnered with urban food groups throughout Austin to build a community that supports making healthy, local food available to everyone, including partnering with Keep Austin Fed for a community egg drive on Tour day.
The tour will have 14 coops, including both backyard and community participants. In addition to schools, a community garden, and a farm, a Community First! Village is on the tour. Visitors will see how collaboration between volunteers, artists, and the homeless—and formerly homeless--work to create the Genesis Gardens program.
Maps are $12 each and can be shared with everyone in your touring party. Create your own custom tour, on two wheels or four. You can join the Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens, hosted by the Austin Cycling Association. Rides for various levels and distances will be available.
This year’s tour benefits the New Farm Institute, which is “working to inspire a new generation of sustainable farmers in the urban fringe.” FCCT in partnership with the Austin Permaculture Guild will create a food forest for our beneficiary. The tour is an event of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. and welcomes your donations.
Get more info at AustinCoopTour.org
Unusual cloud drifted over the house this afternoon. Black and white treatment with red filter using Silver Efex Pro
A Flyer I did for my good friend MrMire for his DjGig in FInland. Staring Preggy Belly Girl, Martin the Yet Unknown and Catking Lady
Check out the new Funky Chicken Coop Tour® Headquarters on April 19, 2014, at Sunshine Community Gardens, 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, Texas 78756. Enjoy a full day of free family and educational activities, including live poultry, educational booths, and a new speaker series. Don’t miss our keynote presentation: “Economic Impact of Austin's Food Sector - and the Importance of Buying Local” at noon!
FCCT has partnered with urban food groups throughout Austin to build a community that supports making healthy, local food available to everyone, including partnering with Keep Austin Fed for a community egg drive on Tour day.
The tour will have 14 coops, including both backyard and community participants. In addition to schools, a community garden, and a farm, a Community First! Village is on the tour. Visitors will see how collaboration between volunteers, artists, and the homeless—and formerly homeless--work to create the Genesis Gardens program.
Maps are $12 each and can be shared with everyone in your touring party. Create your own custom tour, on two wheels or four. You can join the Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens, hosted by the Austin Cycling Association. Rides for various levels and distances will be available.
This year’s tour benefits the New Farm Institute, which is “working to inspire a new generation of sustainable farmers in the urban fringe.” FCCT in partnership with the Austin Permaculture Guild will create a food forest for our beneficiary. The tour is an event of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. and welcomes your donations.
Get more info at AustinCoopTour.org.
Photographing empty public washrooms in the park at night is a perfectly normal activity, why do you ask? 15/365.
If you're red-blooded and somewhere between 35 and 50 the chances are that your first bike was a sports moped. This book takes you on a nostalgic full throttle trip back to the heady days of the 1970s and early 80s when these fabulous little superbikes were available to 16 year-olds. Packed with photos from past and present, this book will revive wonderful memories of the machines, the people, the fashions, and even the music of the time. Includes coverage of AJW, Batavus, Casal, Cimatti, Derbi, Fantic, Flandria, Garelli, Gilera, Gitane, Honda, Kreidler, KTM, Malaguti, Motobecane, Negrini, NVT, Puch, Suzuki, Testi, Yamaha and Zundapp.
Track Side Life Issue # 2 available now!
74 pages of freight train graffiti in black and white!
Freight hopping story and Ergot interview!
Pieces, monikers, throws, engine shots, old boxcars!
$4 at tracksidelife.bigcartel.com
Funky Deco is a company started six years ago with a vision to light people hearts, transform and improve reliability, quality and creativity in events industry. Funky deco is committed to providing the highest quality services that light people's hearts. Through experience and expertise, it is driven to offering services for all kinds of functions that you can rely on and surpass your expectations. Funky Deco offer the following, decoration services (Draping, Balloons etc) to the theme, Stages for, performances, presentation, display/exhibitions, Stage Lights I.e Parcan lights -Laser Lights, Moving heads -Smoke machines, LEDs lighting -Flood Lights, Strobe lights -Parking Lights, Trussing, Dancefloors, Tents, Chairs & Tables, P.A & Dj Flowers and Fairly Lights, Fast Transport Reliable, Competent and active Employees.
Just like us,only funkier :)
Quirky seems to be my thing...after years of creating it's about time I fessed up that I like to take the untraveled roads creatively.
Follow the link on my flickr profile to connect to my FB page to get a little sneak peek at my upcoming projects and anything random that I think my "likers" would find interesting ;)
Funky Deco is a company started six years ago with a vision to light people hearts, transform and improve reliability, quality and creativity in events industry. Funky deco is committed to providing the highest quality services that light people's hearts. Through experience and expertise, it is driven to offering services for all kinds of functions that you can rely on and surpass your expectations. Funky Deco offer the following, decoration services (Draping, Balloons etc) to the theme, Stages for, performances, presentation, display/exhibitions, Stage Lights I.e Parcan lights -Laser Lights, Moving heads -Smoke machines, LEDs lighting -Flood Lights, Strobe lights -Parking Lights, Trussing, Dancefloors, Tents, Chairs & Tables, P.A & Dj Flowers and Fairly Lights, Fast Transport Reliable, Competent and active Employees.
Meet Molly. Her home is one of the funkiest I know - under our bed. I spent all week photographing her in her funky abode - feeling funky myself, sliding on my stomach under my bed, in the heat, in a dress, with kids walking on my calves...Definitely a funky subject this week!
I have several more of her in my photo stream : )
gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
well I talk about it, talk about it, talk about movin'
gotta move on, gotta move on
won't you take me to Funky Town
won't you take me to Funky Town
take me, won't you take me
I wanna go to Funky Town
Utrecht, Leidseveertunnel & NH Hotel
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The Funky Meters with Art Neville, George Porter Jr, Russell Batiste Jr., and Ian Neville at Langerado Music Festival on March 9, 2008 at Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida - © 2008 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions concert photography archives - performanceimpressions.com
Glen kindly invited me into his suite for a short while, while there he showed me this really funky old radio (a Morse Electrophonic), gotta love those disco lights.
The radio was purchased by Glen's father-in-law in the early 1970's, and he and his wife have dragged it around with them ever since, through many different moves...
Check out the new Funky Chicken Coop Tour® Headquarters on April 19, 2014, at Sunshine Community Gardens, 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, Texas 78756. Enjoy a full day of free family and educational activities, including live poultry, educational booths, and a new speaker series. Don’t miss our keynote presentation: “Economic Impact of Austin's Food Sector - and the Importance of Buying Local” at noon!
FCCT has partnered with urban food groups throughout Austin to build a community that supports making healthy, local food available to everyone, including partnering with Keep Austin Fed for a community egg drive on Tour day.
The tour will have 14 coops, including both backyard and community participants. In addition to schools, a community garden, and a farm, a Community First! Village is on the tour. Visitors will see how collaboration between volunteers, artists, and the homeless—and formerly homeless--work to create the Genesis Gardens program.
Maps are $12 each and can be shared with everyone in your touring party. Create your own custom tour, on two wheels or four. You can join the Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens, hosted by the Austin Cycling Association. Rides for various levels and distances will be available.
This year’s tour benefits the New Farm Institute, which is “working to inspire a new generation of sustainable farmers in the urban fringe.” FCCT in partnership with the Austin Permaculture Guild will create a food forest for our beneficiary. The tour is an event of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. and welcomes your donations.
Get more info at AustinCoopTour.org