Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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BikeNBoatN said, 1 day ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Oh, no! TT is in Satori! What a way to let a guy know he’s hit the mark! And I think that’s the most skin I’ve ever seen on Dinah. What’s the brown thing under Nat’s right arm and Dinah’s left leg in panel 1? Looks like a wooden railing?

9CWL: Yes, there’s definitely more to Gran than meets the eye.

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Margueritem said, 1 day ago

NO! Say it ain’t so, Dru!
Jim said, 1 day ago

Yessssss !
Sisyphos said, 1 day ago

Drusilla is so feminine, so hot; and Satori is a Young Wildthing! Wow!
desertdwlr said, 1 day ago

so in other words Roger got sent to living hell
Ladywolf17 said, 1 day ago

Aaarrrrgggghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever here of getting a hotel room. Sheesh!
Jim said, 1 day ago

Pib
I think Nat is sitting in a chair , in a noir office .

9CwL
Gran answers duty’s call .
AmriloJim said, 1 day ago

I’m sure Roger’s already mentally parsing Satori’s definition files, planning to make her a little less… vocal.
Ladywolf17 said, 1 day ago

9CWL: I love listening to the elders. Their stories are so wonderful.
Jim said, 1 day ago

Now , what will we see Monday ?

G’night all .
VicTR said, 1 day ago

O.K. Monday we find out about Pibby… right ? :]
Ladywolf17 said, about 24 hours ago

Will this story arc be over with before I return home from my trip?
Sisyphos said, about 24 hours ago

So, some of the OTC think TomTwit was “corked up” by Dru in Satori? –Well, her dialogue does sound rather Torquemadish….
The Old Wolf said, about 24 hours ago

Pulse: 165
BP: 170/125

Urgh! Gasp! Flop!
BikeNBoatN said, about 24 hours ago

From standing outside atop a stainless steel eagle 61 stories high to…….sitting in a wooden chair? I guess being demons you can transpose yourself anywhere you want in the blink of an eye. How convenient.
AmriloJim said, about 24 hours ago

Jim, I’ll agree with the office setting… note the slatted shadows from the blinds on the wall behind them.

Also, Dinah’s wardrobe change… this outfit has a neckline, a shorter hem and no seamed stockings.
The Old Wolf said, about 24 hours ago

And Geoff continues to plummet…
musicnut1986 said, about 24 hours ago

Yes, Dru and Nat are in Nat’s private dick office, where he was when Pib walked through his door.
The Old Wolf said, about 24 hours ago

Goodnight, everyone - rest well, or have a good day - depending on what time zone you’re in.
John Pelt said, about 24 hours ago

9CL: Since when did Gran turn into a female Crankshaft?!
waycyber said, about 24 hours ago

Well, we still don’t know about Geoff and Pib. However, I’m sure we will see them in a whole new adventure on Monday.

It’s Universal Children’s Day
Sisyphos said, about 24 hours ago

Satori has become too hot a Wild Thing for mild-mannered Roger; but if Tommyboy is corked up in her and already affecting her speech patterns, this could get scary really fast!
Jim said, about 24 hours ago

Peeking back in …

I’m thinkin’ next week , will focus on Pib and Geoff and/or Oognat .

G’night all , again .
musicnut1986 said, about 24 hours ago

Quick, Roger, where is your PDA?
Ladywolf17 said, about 24 hours ago

To everyone else that I missed. Have a wonderful week whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or have already done so. I will see you all when I get back. I must now say good night because I have to get up early.
musicnut1986 said, about 24 hours ago

Good one Sisyphos, with the Troggs.

I’ve only been following this strip for about eight months, but I have never seen as much skin and suggested action, as Brooke is showing in the second panel. My glasses just fogged over.
UncaAlby said, about 24 hours ago

I am just so happy that my prediction irt the fate of Tommie and Satori has been vindicated!

I WAS RIGHT FOR ONCE!

Huzzah! Huzzah!
UncaAlby said, about 23 hours ago

@waycyber said, 22 minutes ago

It’s Universal Children’s Day

Fudgesicles, where’m I gonna find a Universal Child at this hour?
Skyhawk_maintainer said, about 23 hours ago

There’s wild and there’s commercial. With the addition of Tom T., Satori has become wildly commercial.
MurphyHerself said, about 23 hours ago

About Satori–we did see this coming, didn’t we?????
Tara said, about 23 hours ago

UncaAlby, bring out the champagne and some glasses we should celebrate.
UncaAlby said, about 23 hours ago

Huzzah!
debra4life50 said, about 23 hours ago

I’d still like to know why we didn’t get to see the volcano go bye bye. We had to hear about it third person from Igor - isn’t that heresy?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 23 hours ago

This is good! One leaves and one shows up!
What are we in store for on Monday?
debra4life50 said, about 23 hours ago

Couldn’t there at least have been a couple of municipal workers standing there wondering where it had gone, wondering if it had all been a figment of their imagination, wondering if it was a subversive plot of Sarah Palin’s to strengthen her campaign when she runs for president of the good old US of A in 2012?
Sisyphos said, about 23 hours ago

In the Land of Pink Grass, where Roger and Satori+ are right now, would that be the Puerto Vallarta we know and love? –Or some slightly not-quite-right version (as Satori herself has seemingly become, with Essence of Tommy bottled up inside)?
Sisyphos said, about 23 hours ago

Did the Eggs ever finish dinner? How long a time has lapsed within the story, since the “end” of the Lena the Horrible arc?
Tara said, about 23 hours ago

I have yet to read the Lena the Horrible arc.
UncaAlby said, about 23 hours ago

@debra4life50 said, 12 minutes ago

… wondering if it was a subversive plot of Sarah Palin’s to strengthen her campaign when she runs for president of the good old US of A in 2012?

Or wondering if mayhaps it was a subversive plot of Barrack Obama’s to get all the Democrats to vote for the Senate Health Care bill?
UncaAlby said, about 23 hours ago

@Sisyphos said, less than a minute ago

Did the Eggs ever finish dinner? How long a time has lapsed within the story, since the “end” of the Lena the Horrible arc?

I thought it was Lena the Terrible ??

(I’m so confused)
AmriloJim said, about 23 hours ago

No, Unc, Horrible is correct. While setting up the reference site, I apparently misremembered the title as Terrible… there were a couple of months that I was incorrectly using the wrong title.
Gweedo Murray said, about 23 hours ago

John Pelt said, about 1 crusty curmudgeon ago

9CL: Since when did Gran turn into a female Crankshaft?!
.
I think we’re coming to that. Patience…
Fairportfan2 said, about 23 hours ago

“Yesterday”:

KalahariNight said

Cars – years ago cars weren’t just transportation, they were also a hobby and/or the thing that many people spent their Saturdays puttering with. I’ve wondered whether the lust for the automobile will fade as fewer cars can be worked on by the average person (and as the generations who did work on cars stop driving as the years go by).

Cartoon in Car & Driver twenty or so years ago:

Under the big tree in front of “Bubba’s Auto Repair”. “Hey, Leroy - bring me a 357zX2 engine control module, a turbo boost sensor and a pry bar!”

wilorg said

Of course you know the story of Julie Andrews, when making “S.O.B.” (a vastly underrated film)…

It gets funnier (as i’m sure you know) the more you know about precisely who they were taking revenge on … and for what.

I think it’d make a great double-feature with Truffaut’s Day for Night. Not sure which one i’d put first, though.

(I once had to explain to some nimno on an IMDB message board just why “Day for Night” is, in this case, a better translation of the title La nuit américaine than a literal one would be…)

“Madame - I am not a shyster. I am a quack.”

KalahariNight said

wilorg, thanks for the clips from S.O.B. - I hadn’t seen it. Clips of films are a little like truffles, though - it’s difficult to stop with just the one …

Rent it! Watch it! Remember that it’s Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews taking revenge on the studios and making them pay to be insulted!

MoonsingerFan said

I also have found that character shoes are better for my feet than regular street shoes if I must wear heels, because they have better support, and the strap keeps my foot from sliding forward and compounding the problem.

I first ran across the term “character shoes” in a story by Charlaine Harris (set in the same universe as the Sookie Stackhouse stories, but in a different city featuring a different cast; the protagonist is a young(ish) woman who’s hired as a dancer to dance with a vampire. (It’s rather complicated for a novella-length story.) It appears in a three-author anthology titled Night’s Edge - and, oddly enough, the Barbara Hanbly story in the same volume also features dancers. (The third story, while the lead, is inoffensively negligible, but the Harris and the Hambly are excellent. The Hambly is even morepowerful than it might seem, but you have to know some generally-unobvious history to fully appreciate it.) (nd, no, it’s not my story to tell…)

Sisyphos said

Pibfan868, Pigeon: Impossible is a hoot! I’m going to share it elsewhere….

Yup. I kept expecting to see Luxo Jr at the end. If Pixar made a Get Smart film…

AbbieT said

KalahariNight and MoonsingerFan: ooh, shoes. I fear I exemplify the stereotype “women love shoes.”

Have you encountered Maryjanice Davidson’s “Betsy, Queen of the Vampires” books? The setup is too complicated to go into, but Betsy was a model for a while before she became a vampire and was proclaimed Queen of the Vampires: she’s a bright (not to say brilliant) woman who works very hard to convince everyone (including herself) that she’s a complete ditz. (I sort of imagine Joan Blondell, if Blondell were a six-foot runway model type…).

But she loves shoes. (Like Charlaine Harris’ “Southern vampire” books, they have a title gimmick - all of the titles are of the form “Undead and…” The first is Undead and Unwed; after that we have “…Unemployed”, “…Unappreciated”, “…Unreturnable”, “…Unpopular” and “…Uneasy”.)

Jim said

Um , I got the same picture as the first link , in the second . BTW I’ve got a model of that bike somewhere around here

Oops. I thought i confirmed the links before i posted that. Lessee: http://electronictiger.net/avail/akira.jpg and http://electronictiger.net/avail/akira2.jpg. (Must have left the “2” off when i copied and pasted.)

People have been posting links to favourite guitarists - here’s mine. (That’s his actual wife on acoustic, BTW.) Not a hundred percent sure, but it looks as if a classic Telecaster and a National lap steel diesd to make that thing. Some years back, when he was going to be playing at the Star Bar (a great alt.country, alt. rock and general craziness joint in Little Five Points, but Small) a local music journo said “Get there early - because the joint’s gonna be full of local wannabe gutar stranglers tring to cop some licks…” Or try this video, as he tears through a surf medley.

From “Today”:

BikeNBoatN said

Oh, no! TT is in Satori!

Ummm, possibly a tad infelicitously phrased there…

And I think that’s the most skin I’ve ever seen on Dinah.

About the most skin in general. Wow.

What’s the brown thing under Nat’s right arm and Dinah’s left leg in panel 1?

Chair arms. Don’t know where they got the chair..

Sisyphos said

Satori has become too hot a Wild Thing for mild-mannered Roger…

Ah ha! The answer to one of my favourite musical trivia questions: “What hit single includes a solo played on a fuzz ocarina?”

AmriloJim said, about 1 hour ago

Also, Dinah’s wardrobe change… this outfit has a neckline, a shorter hem and no seamed stockings.

not to mention it’s off-the-shoulder with black trim.
Joe Minotaur said, about 23 hours ago

Friday’s Full-bodied Foreboding

QUIZ TIME
What will we see when the strip/page updates?

9 Chickweed Lane
.1. Gran: What a trooper.
.2. Gran: The war ends and none too soon.
.3. Gran: From “Edie Ernst” to “Edna O’Malley”. With this ring…
.4. General “Ike” attends a show. Sends complements.
.5. Dinner with General Eisenhower.
.6. Edda, Amos, Seth and Mark. All on speaker phone.
.7. Solange: We interrupt this scene for an important nap.
.8. Behind the shelter of a dumpster in an alleyway… Wait! What?
.9. …and then I joined the French Resistance.
.10. None of the above./You can’t have everything!

Pibgorn
.1. OOGNAT!! COME HOME!!
.2. A Fairie’s hand reaches for a falling Organist’s… um?
.3. Two people just went past that window. Downwards!
.4. Must be a board meeting.
.5. Roger? I think we’re wading in quicksand!
.6. Pull up, Pibgorn! PULL UP!!
.7. Igor: Nat and Dru are up to their old tricks.
.8. Igor: Pib and Geoff are down to the 19th Floor.
.9. Oognat: Would anyone like a cowpie? It’s fresh today!
.10. None of the above./Are you kidding me?

Added:
.11. OMG, WTH, WTFO, M.O.U.S.E.!
ejcapulet said, about 22 hours ago

AI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI!
Jim said, about 22 hours ago

I was still awake , so I’m peekin’ in again …

Fairportfan Thanks for the skinless bike pic . Talk about really committing to cosplay . I don’t care how practical that ride is , I’d still love to sport it about town , yelling at random people … KANEDAAAAAAAAA !
Jim said, about 22 hours ago

Third times a charm .

G’night/morning all .
Gweedo Murray said, about 22 hours ago

THE SURF TUNE MEDLEY ROCKS !
Tara said, about 22 hours ago
I find it hard to comment on the strip tonight. I mean I sat here and thought and thought and thought some more. Then I realized two things.
1. You all have said pretty much what I was thinking.
2. I’m on the verge of falling asleep because it’s late.
So I’m signing off now.
Joe Minotaur said, about 22 hours ago

BEE-ZAR dream
Think Paul Newman as an RV(Caravan to Brits) Salesman.
He wants my motorcycle as a trade-in.

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A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare, Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies her conviction that there must be more to life than depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms.

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