Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 03, 2014

Preview of coming attractions?! ;)

Where’s Auntie Lu when you need her?

“Tune In, Turn Up, Drop Off”

“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Sitter”“Am I My Brother’s Kid Keeper?”“Drop Zone”or “Ding Dong! The Baby Sitters, Instead”

So, our beloved little girl’s father actually acknowledges her sometimes?! ;)

Come to think of it, Jonah and Tiff could make a good couple once Tiff ages another couple of years.

How do people have more then one kid? “Put them to bed and hope you have energy left by that point.”

Since ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ are still common words, most couples seem to somehow have more then one.

Hey, Brad! I have an idea: play with Shannon really hard and she’ll get exhausted and want to take a nap! ;)

Wasn’t it Bill Cosby who said, you’re not really a parent until you have two? Up til then, it’s never a question of, “Who broke this?”

It’s easy Toni. Make whoopee while the kid is sleeping.

“How do people have more then one kid,” Toni?All that playing, of course!

Brad is marrying a single mom who isn’t actually a single mom.

“Why would anyone have even one kid?”

You won’t truly understand until you have one yourself… ;)

I hate people who think kids are stressful when it’s really just their attitudes making it stressful.

I don’t get these people at all.

An audition at night?? Who’s Jonah trying to kid?

Or maybe he’s auditioning for a play called “Party”…..

Re: getting kids tired enough so they’ll go to sleep…I guess I got hood-winked by my son when he was little! I’d try to tire him out, but he only got out of bed after I put him there. He’d get some toys and play with them under the covers LOL Wishful thinking, I guess! ;)

Just in case, here’s two proofs that it is possible to audition at night… – here – And here ……

Hehehehe… ;)

Yes, and we usually don’t figure it out until later LOL ;)

Just in case you didn’t see yesterday, I tried out MC,, and it worked to a tee…. -And there’s also a hidden gem if you type in “beam me up scotty” (without any quotes) in the search bar, and a “transporter” effect happens when each result pops up…

Beam me upstairs, Scotty! ’nite all… ;)

Sponsored by… – Paul’s Bunion Cream… "Don’t get ‘Hoodwinked’ into thinking there’s any other substitute!…..– Grease… “It’s the word!”… – and by… – ‘Mis-adventures In Sudden And Unplanned Child Supervision’… the musical, based on the fan fiction, based on the failed sitcom, based on the movie… "Just written the day before, and coming to ‘Pitts Last Chance, No Other Plans This Evening Community Theatre and Arcade’ "… “Starring Elizabeth Shoes…. and maybe Jonah Daytona”..

True…. true….

Just like Library books… you can check ’em out, enjoy ’em, and then return them, and check ’em back out, again!…..

Nice. I’m one of 13.(well, 9 living).

Oh wow. I can’t imagine what that would be like.

Ages ago Life magazine did a feature in which they had a male athlete – college age, top physical condition – play follow the leader with a four year old girl for a day. HE COULDN’T KEEP UP WITH HER!!!!

We know how, the real question is why?

They were going to playIn such a wayChildren might come to benow Bwad speaks disappointedly

Bwad and Toni used to be the only thing exciting about this strip….now even it has become mundane. It’s like a very boring ’tween soap opera.

Better Get USED to THAT, Brother Brad.

Because SOON. Toni’s Brother is Going to Drop the Little MONS…,Er I MEAN Dear Sweet Little Stormtroope…., Uh I MEANT “Angel,” Off PERMANENTLY.

Oh not the brat again! Can’t STAND that snot.

Not “how” but “why” is the question.

OK…. So this looks like “family planning” week, then. Do they adopt Shannon or not? Do they have any of their own, either with or without Shannon?

My hope is that they do, eventually, adopt Shannon, but not at first. I hope they get to enjoy life as a new married couple, just for a little while. Do a little traveling, maybe… Just enjoy life together and get to know each other better. Having a kid in the house changes lots of things and lots of priorities.. And it’s non stop until they’re off to college… or beyond. If they want their own, then add that kid at the proper time, as well.

I just get the eerie feeling that Shannon will be foisted upon them, well before they’re ready for her.

You are my love in my lifeAnd you are my inspirationJust you ‘n meSimple and freeBaby you’re everything I’ve ever dreamed ofYeah, yeah

Simple and three, rather…

Dude, take it easy on Toni. She was in a bad relationship before Brad. I can’t blame her for taking it slow and easy. Brad shows he’s an awesome guy by respecting her boundaries

Hey, Jonah’s probably such an inferior actor that he can’t tell a convincing lie!

They will, this one they will end up adopting, and the one they will end up creating.

Jonah’s “go to” solution, dropping Shannon off with Toni, will have to be changed somehow. Time for Bwad to act like an engaged man and stop putting up with this repetitive charade….

“I prefer the mostly pre-Cetera horn era.”^That’d be a rare sight, since they had horns and P.C. since they were at DePaul, though P.C. left in ’85…

It’s funny how they were at first a “cover band”, then “socio-political”, then “pop”, then “pop ballads”, then…. the dangerous territory of “80s pop ballads”…and worst of all, “the pop sound, even without Cetera writing them”… – Don’t get me wrong, though…. I love Chicago…. but I mostly love their days when people kept confusing them for “the band that did ‘Spinning Wheel’ (BS&T)”….

I’m just waiting for someone to call her “Tony” ….

Most comments have been made already.

Is this where Johah disappears, leaving Shannon with Toni permanently?

You know that Brad and Toni will eventually be raising her. Better adopt her to keep Jonah from coming back to re-claim her later.

I’m sure that when Toni and Brad eventually marry, that “Grandma” DeGroot and “Aunt” Luann will be babysitting during the honeymoon. Also, when Brad and Toni are working dual shifts.

I understand. Especially when he went solo…..

Robert Lamm does seem like the better singer. – That’s the same set of albums for me, too….

The plan was for “playing”, sounds like B and T have “played” before.

There are many wonderful things about raising kids and many awful things too. Most people have more than one child so there is sex after kids, but notice that most kids are 2 or more years apart. So the sex may be sparse, but it still exists.

One more thing, I also think it changed drastically when Terry Kath died. Out of the first 5, I especially enjoy CTA, with “South California Purples” and “Poem 58”. Kath’s guitar work there is what I enjoy most with those songs. – “Beginnings”, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” is fine, too. I’m on the fence about their version of “I’m A Man”. – I don’t necessarily think it’s bad, it’s just that I like the Spencer Davis Group arrangement of it a lot more.

I’m disappointed that the arc with Bernice and Delta ended without resolving the issue of whether Delta will go to the prom or not.

Ways to have a second child—— Sex in the shower, middle of night, lock the bedroom door, hire a sitter, kid at grandma’s. Babies and small children sleep a LOT, you just have to plan around their sleep schedule to do whatever you want, like sex, sleep, or chores.

There should be no reason for “accidents” in the bedroom, or where ever, for producing children. With 7 billion people and growing we need to stop with the children and instead adopt.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. One of the three basic instinctive “animal” drives (not even human, but “animal”)… is to pass on one’s DNA, or die trying to. “The Devil” with “societal obligations…”

Continuing on, with the “Blood Sweat & Tears” references:

♫♪ And when i die… and when I’m gone… They’ll be one child born… in a world… to carry on…. to carry on….♪♫

“How do people ever have more than one child?”*Toni, by dropping their first child off with a brother/sister first. Or by conceiving the second while the first still sleeps 10 hours/day.*In your & Brad’s case, you can have your own child when you quit being Jonah’s pawn or else when Shannon has grown up and gone to college.

Cetera was in the band from the very beginning, until he left. HE was PART of the HORN era you speak of.

Well, not “precisely” the beginning, according to the Wiki Article, but very close to it (ie. before they gained national popularity

-With 7 billion people and growing we need to stop with the children and instead adopt-Children born in the poorest nations are also born into nations that are, at best, suspicious of efforts at adoption from overseas. Sometimes, efforts at international adoption meet outright hostility from the population as well as their government.-For example, there is one South American country where would-be adoptive parents were attacked (and one woman was murdered), because of the belief that their children were not going to be adopted, but would instead be used as organ donors. -And some of the poorer countries oppose international adoption because they see the children as eventual assets. There are no jobs in many of those countries, so the children have to migrate elsewhere (legally or otherwise) for jobs, and send money back to their parents at home. The economy of those countries benefits from that. This happens in Europe as well as the US.-And finally, there are countries that feel that western efforts to adopt their children are really efforts to eliminate a particular religion by raising adopted children in the religion of the new parents.-So it’s not simply a matter of deciding you want to adopt from a country that is rich in children and poor in everything else. And for those who long to have children, suggesting that they wait on long lists for adoptable kids in this country is almost like telling them they will never have children. Fewer and fewer kids are put up for adoption in the US now; partly because foster care programs reunite families (even when it isn’t in the interest of the children), and partly because a lot of unmarried folks who once gave up children are now keeping them. (And no, it’s not because of the availability of termination; in absolute numbers, that procedure is declining.)

I especially liked Kath’s vocals on “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World”, arguably the two most memorable parts of the “Buchannon” suite. – I’m not the biggest on live albums, but their set as featured on the “Live at Carnegie Hall” album is actually pretty decent.

Are you this mean and hateful in person too, or just anonymously online?

Maybe they are about to broach the subject of children, their own.

Cetera was fine in small doses, but under his “leadership” the music went so pablum as to be nauseating. And, like I said, his voice in ballads tended to sound whiny to my ears.

I have to concur. Sadly, it became the signature sound for Chicago, at least in the time I was listening to it.

Still, there are some things that weren’t all that bad. Perhaps if Lamm or Kath (if he were still around) had been “lead” on them…

“I’ve Been Searching…”

“Wishing you were here…” (Actually I don’t think PC was lead on this).

The only thing of PC’s solo career that can actually stand to listen to is “Glory of Love,” but only because I really liked the movie (Karate Kid II).

I’ll be honest, there’s a hard argument for both sides, as far as Genesis was concerned. The “Gabriel Front” was the ‘creative’ years, and many would say they weren’t a ‘sell out’ during this time. When Phil took over (reluctantly, according to his accounting after P.G.‘s departure), they were the most commercially successful, but also had the most ’schmaltzy’ songs… sort of a “boon/bane”… – I’ll add a ‘tick’ over to the Collins side, as they still had pretty decent output with “Lamb…” and “Wind and Wuthering”. the eponymous album (“Genesis”) and “Abacab” had some hidden jokes and riddles (such as “Dodo/Lurker”,). I think it got too commercial once “Invisible Touch” came out. – To me, some bands are better in their relative obscurity, as they are in their creative best, but personally speaking, due to Genesis’ output from 1978-86, more people were able to appreciate their earlier catalogue, and it helps when they pick the right songs for their box sets and compilations. Plus, both Gabriel and Genesis benefitted from parting ways.

I agree about Cetera. My wife likes all the “love songs”, so for her, she’s more apt to enjoy all the ballads they kept churning out after Greatest Hits onward. That lets me know that they went for their “bread and butter” at that time. I prefer CTA up to VII.

What about species obligations? In the end humans en mass act no better than deer.

Proving only what seems self-evident anyway… that humans are animals just like all those other species. We all have the same “primordial instincts.” Maybe our ability to exploit natural resources and use “industrialized” tools is a little better, but other than that….

Fleetwood Mac is another one with a “conundrum”. When they were led by Peter Green, they were a blues band, and saw only moderate success, and had a different sound. Once turnover happened, and Lindsey Buckingham came along (and said that he and Nicks had to be an "all or nothing’ package when Fleetwood considered them), they got A.M. friendly for sure, with their most successful period being ‘76-83, but was also could seem to be their most difficult, too, with all of the excesses and crazy tabloid-like goings on between the members. – I always wondered how they could function when they each were fighting amongst themselves, cheating and the like, and yet still performing and choosing each other’s songs.

-deal with the adoption of children in this country first.-I already pointed out that this has become increasingly impossible, which is why potential adoptive families are turning overseas. We have two people in my generation who were adopted into our family, and two others in my parents generation. Since we have genetic dispositions for some dangerous illnesses, many in my family wanted to adopt rather than pass those genes on. But in our next generation, our family members found that they waited on lists for such a long time that they became ‘too old’ in the minds of those managing adoptions. There are fewer children being put up for adoption in the US.

What a varied discussion today!- Talk of the strip- Talk of bands- Talk of overpopulation.*Does this indicate we have a varied readership or just that we don’t listen to each other?

Some people keep having kids until Mom or the mitochondria wears out.

She’s back to “Bwad” again.

I think she’s well aware of the difference by now. I think she now deliberately reverts to “BWAD” when she needs/wants to for “emphasis.”

Many readers. Many interests and viewpoints. Plus Tower of Babel effect (we hear what we listen for, ignore what bores us ).

“Kid bursts into the room”?? Lock the bedroom door! No kids allowed in the parents’ bedroom ever!!

To wit:

1) Kid continues banging on the door until you’re forced to stop and answer;

2) Kid tells the teacher the next morning that “Mommy/Daddy kept me locked out when I had a tummy/head/ear ache…” at which point teacher calls DCFS…

3) Both.

OK — SHOOT me for saying this – are there no orphanages?

— Ebenezer Scrooge

I seriously doubt Toni would let that happen if it came down to it. Shannon is “family” after all. And, with just a little TLC (the kind that “Bwad” seems to have for her), she could turn out to be wonderful. Maybe all she needs is a little attention and direction.

…kinda reminds me of the scientist in the SF film who says about the alien invader “maybe he’s just trying to communicate. Maybe we have common ground …” just before he gets vaporized or eaten.

I guess I was thinking more like the tiny tree from “A Charlie Brown Christmas…”

“Maybe it just needs a little love.”

Flowergirl was talking to “Milania”, but it got deleted (what Milania was saying)….

No, I think that one got zapped. She doesn’t usually do that sort of thing. Especially in considering the content of the one from today. Would seem “tame”, but from her, it may have been “one too many”. – Plus, I’ve had some zapped of mine in the past, and still the others were left.

Some (but not all) posters have their e-mail addresses on their GC “Profile” page.

I was thinking more like “private mail” as with other “V-Bulletin” like forum software. This way, people can “PM” each other without even exchanging e-mails. They can still remain “cloaked” in their “GoComics” ID. If they choose to go further and exchange personal emails, that’s their choice.

“Soon, I will be the only one left of our original family.”

So sad to read that. It must have been difficult for you to lose both your mother and your sister so close together… ;)

My “Carnegie” set was nice and “minty fresh”, but the box that all 4 discs came in wasn’t…

Flagging just seems so sillyIt might hurt our beloved milania’s sensitive feelings

The War of The Worlds, the book, the mayor meets the heat ray(First example I can think of)

The real question is not “how,” but “why”!!!

Adults don’t come firstThey go first