Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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BikeNBoatN said, 2 months ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Tom’s back! And he’s p* * * * * d!
Basqueian said, 2 months ago

at last!
azrach said, 2 months ago

OK, Nat didn’t put Tom out of the picture permenantly. Didn’t figure he had …. but it looks like Dru knows something Tom dosn’t (hopefully).

Meanwhile, Goeff and Maurice are doing … what? in reference to the frozen and vulnerable Pib?
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

All this talk about college dorm rooms brought the image of four prosperous Yorkshiremen to mind.

Let’s see - what game shows are left?

Well, the Pyramids…
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

Yay!!! Pib has come! –And thanks to BikeNBoatN for the brief lead…. Glad I stayed around just long enough!

What is behind Curtain Number One?

What a luscious Drusilla in panel 3!
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

Ginna be a long time till Monday.

And i won’t be at my computer - we’re going to visit the next two generations in Macon for the long weekend (very long - Kate’s Hall County monthly furough day is Tuesday…)
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

Armaggedon?
BikeNBoatN said, 2 months ago

Well, now it looks like Dru is about to get her question answered that she asked on Tuesday.

But we still won’t know what the answer is till next week!! Auuugh!!
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

TommyT looks almost pitiable; but, mostly, he’s a sadistic nuisance. I hope Dru’s dictum spells the end of Tom Torquemada, but am wary of what surprise he is about to reveal…

Monday cannot come too soon in the Pibverse!
Margueritem said, 2 months ago

The suspence is unbearable….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

“Armageddon”? The “Hill of Megiddo”?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Ahh, the moment has arrived.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090904

Gil will either be switched with Tarvek or become a new breakfast cereal called “Toasted Gerbils”…
mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

The Lady?
Or the Tiger?

I love classic story-telling devices…
mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

Also…the word ‘confinement’ fascinates me…
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

Indeed, Nabuquduriuzhur! Eric Cline has written a worthy book on the topic, The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age, 2000. (He has excavated there.)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

re: Sisyphos.

I’ll have to look up his books. Thanks.
Ladywolf17 said, 2 months ago

LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY

By ladywolf17

Part Five

Aaric watched as Big John walked back to the kingdom. Then he decided to continue on his way to his mother’s house. As he made his way to the field of white lilies he stopped and looked at the field where he had
buried his wife. There she was! Standing there and looking at him was the spirit of his wife. She was a vision of loveliness. He went to her, for even in death she was still a comfort to him. Tameara could see that
her husband’s mind was troubled. She took Aaric into her arms and held him in a loving embrace. “Be strong my love, and remember that our love shall last for all eternity.” Tameara said as she bent over and gave her husband a kiss. After Tameara vanished, Aaric continued on to his mother’s house.

Aaric’s mother who was the queen of Averlon, even though she no longer lived in the palace with her husband was outside in front of her house looking up at the stars. Aaric’s mother Queen Abigail greeted her son as
he walked up to her. “It is good to see you again mother.” Aaric said as he went up to her and gave her a hug.

Queen Abigail and her son went into the house and sat down in the den. She called for one of her servants to bring a couple of cups of tea. As they began to talk, Queen
Abigail noticed that her son’s mood was not his usual happy self. She decided to ask him what was wrong. Aaric explained to her all that had
gone down between his wife Princess Tameara, and his father. “You poor dear! it is not fair for you to have to suffer like this. Your father is a foolish man, especially making you his enemy.” She said to her son.

The servant came in and handed both Aaric and his mother their tea. “Mother, can I stay here for the night.” Arric asked and took a sip of his tea. Queen Abigail looked at her son and smiled. “Yes! of course you can stay.” she
said and instructed her servant to get the guest room ready for her son. The servant bowed and went about doing as he was told.

Fifteen minutes later the servant came back to the den and informed the queen that the guest rom was ready. Aaric kissed his mother and said good night. He
went into the guet room and closed the door. Instead of going to sleep, he sat at the desk and began to write a couple of letters that would soon be important.

After a few good hours asleep Aaric got up from the bed. He took both of the letters with him and made his way into his mother’s room where she lay sound asleep. He placed the envelope that said Mother on her dresser against the mirror. Aaric quietly closed her bedroom door and walked out to the living room. He then opened up the
front door and left into the early morning air.

TO BE CONCLUDED.
……………………………………………………………………………………………..
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

A ladywolf17 cliffhanger, too!
Ladywolf17 said, 2 months ago

Now i’m bummed. I have to wait till Monday to find out what Tom T has behind the curtain. I have school and work to do on Monday. I might not even be available on Monday. Depends on how tired I am.
The Old Wolf said, 2 months ago

Pib Ooh! Aah! We’re getting close to learning something… I hate Friday and Saturday nights - at least in this corner of the universe.

For something completely different, here’s a little clip from “The Museum of Animal Perspectives” - The Grey Wolf Cam.

http://www.sameasterson.com/GreyWolfCam.html

There are others, too.
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

I’ve looked back at 9CWL, and think I may have done Seth an injustice in referring to superciliousness in an earlier comment. He may have more profound motives for not monogramming the guest-pillowcases with Mary’s name: he is very aware of relationships (past or present) and their implications!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

The new 9cwl is up.

Is it good or scary that so many thought it would be Mary?
waycyber said, 2 months ago

Tom T fires our curiosity.

It’s coitens fer you, Nat and Dru
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Tom T was fired…
waycyber said, 2 months ago

It’s Insect Music Appreciation Day
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

This week’s video is about the non-religious doomsday prediction people out there, from asteroids to environmental to the 2012 stuff. (OK, OK, some of it borders on religion like GW/Climate Change.)

http://www.hallindsey.com/
Ladywolf17 said, 2 months ago

Sisyphos At least you don’t have to wait till monday to see what happens next in my story.
ejcapulet said, 2 months ago

This is getting more surreal than normal.
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

Speaking of the Global Warming question - an AP story and another about the same findings.

In essence, the findings indicate that there indeed should be an overall cooling trend due to long-term variance in solar irradiation (The cyce is 21,000 years, and the decline has been happening for about 8000 years).

However, the cyce should lead to a cooling trend in the Arctic continuing for about another 4000 years before the cycle swings the other way … and it isn’t.

In fact, the temperature trend reversed about a hundred years ago - and summer temps in the Arctic for the last decade are the warmest they’ve been in two millenia.

And continue to increase.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Fairportfan, you mentioned dropping a line to Baen books. I know it’s early yet, but had you had time to make an inquiry? Thanks.
AmriloJim said, 2 months ago

Insect Music Appreciation Day…

Flight of the Bumblebee / Rimsky-Korsakov
A Taste of Honey / Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Spiders and Snakes / Jim Stafford
Butterfly / Mariah Carey
Ladybug / Agents of Oblivion

(Cricket / Kinks does not count – it’s a sports song)

… and of course, the groups named after insects…

Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Papa Roach
The Beatles
Adam and the Ants
Barking Spyders
The Boll Weevils
Iron Butterfly
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur said

Fairportfan, you mentioned dropping a line to Baen books. I know it’s early yet, but had you had time to make an inquiry? Thanks.

I emailed Toni Weisskopf, the editor there who i’ve known since she was (oh, lord) eighteen, but she hasn’t answered.

Ironically, there’s a good chance she’s in Atlanta for Dragon*Con this weekend, and out of immediate communication.

I’ll let you know immediately i hear anything from her.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

If ever you’re in County Meath in Ireland, you may bump into Seamus O’Flaherty. He’ll be the one in the pub. An expert in everything is our Seamus. Or so he thinks. Whatever you do, don’t take directions off of him. O’Flaherty will get you nowhere.
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

AmriloJim said

Insect Music Appreciation Day…

“Spanish Flea”

I think the TJB’s “Taste of Honey” was a cover.

And groups named for insects - The Cockroaches: the Rolling Stones cover ID for the show they did at Atlanta’s 3500-seat Fox Theatre to kick off a tour in the 1980s - the rest of the tour was arenas and stadiums.

And the tickets for that gig were something like one-third the tickets for the rest of the shows on the tour.

Tickets had been on sale for a day or two when word got out as to who it really was…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Thanks, Fairportfan.
Ladywolf17 said, 2 months ago

How about the Green Hornet.
Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

Friday’s Fearful Frights!

QUIZ TIME

What did we see when the strip/page updated tonight?

9 Chickweed Lane:
.1. Edda’s girl friend from Highschool is running late.
.2. Edda’s friend arrives. Is it A) Mary, B)Someone else?
.3. She has a problem with Seth.
.4. Seth leaves the shower to answer the door in a towel. She has no problem.
.5. SQUIRREL!!
.6. She asks about Amos.
.7. She is not alone!
.8. And then along comes Mary… On Monday!

Pibgorn:
.1. Roger, Lena and Satori. Journey to the Center of the Volcano!
.2. The Volcano blows up/goes quiet/shrinks/turns to sparklies/vanishes.
.3. Pibgorn wakes up Geoff and Maurice.
.4. Oognat walks off with wolf.
.5. Lena interrupts, so does the volcano.
.6. More dirty talk about A) Merging files, B) Defragging a hard drive, C) Ctrl+Alt+Del.
.7. Drucilla confronts Tom T./Cloud monster.
.8. Igor has something to say.
.9. Mrs. Egg, poached and boilling mad!
.10. I have a mission, for I’m a Technician, to bring this program to life.
.11. I put in long hours, and though I send flowers, I wonder if I still have a wife.
.12. The webpages are hangin’, my fists I am bangin’, that is why I sing these laments.
.13. No wonder I’m sour, goes on by the hour, and each hour I earn 00110010 cents.
.14. None of the above.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

9CWL. You know, there’s something about Mary…
invisifan said, 2 months ago

AmriloJim said, about 1 hour ago

Insect Music Appreciation Day…
Spiders and Snakes / Jim Stafford

(Cricket / Kinks does not count – it’s a sports song)

… and of course, the groups named after insects…

The Beatles
Barking Spyders

Spiders aren’t insects, so they don’t count — And if Cricket (from sport) doesn’t then the Beatles are questionable.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

It was a SUnday afternoon in the middle of December. Hazel was so excited, all she could think of was her new job. No more teaching sniffly, screaming children. Her future was the fashion industry for a craeer in fabric production. Her head was filled with ideas for new colour combinations. For days now her food had gone uneaten and her untouched coffee went cold. Then she had a phone call from her best friend at the school.

“Hazel, we need you at the nativity.”

“I’m finished with school. I start my new job tomorrow.”

“Please. The person that was to play Mary has taken sick. We need you to replace her. You did it last year.”

“Please, don’t ask me. I’m feeling rough at the moment as it is.”

“I know how excited you must be. Have you been starving yourself? You do that when you’re anxious.”

“Yes. I haven’t had a thing for three days.”

“Please, Hazel. Just for me. Eat, drink and be Mary, for tomorrow you dye.”
wilorg said, 2 months ago

@waycyber
That may into Callahan’s all time favourite stinkers!

(Wilorg lifts his glass and 86s it into the fireplace) “To stinkers!”
wilorg said, 2 months ago

I’m always a bit sad that so much neat stuff gets discussed after I go to bed. And I stay up until 4 most mornings. Curse of living on the other side of the Pond, I guess.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

I am trying to remember a fantasy story. It concerns a man with extraordinary luck. He has what looks like a doll house. Children investigate it and find it contains fairy people who disappear. The man remains lucky, but it is messy last-minue luck. This is because some rougher, lazier fairies have moved into the house.

Any ideas what I am talking about or who wrote it? I think it may have been someone more noted for science fiction.
wilorg said, 2 months ago

@Sisyphos and KalahariNights (from last night)

I think your first doctor is very much you best doctor, and its always hard to warm as much to the others - I never warmed to Colin Baker, for instance, but then I never actually saw him much - his tenure happened at a time I was too busy to take in any telly at all. During that era I lived literally out of a suitcase, being on the road some 250 days of the year.

I urge you to hang in there with the David Tennant episodes, some of the finest writing and acting goes on in the Martha Jones era (available of DVD) - in fact, one episode, “Blink” won not only the BAFTA but also the HUGO - the first time a script from a British TV show ever won it.(“Don’t Blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t Blink. Good Luck.” )

There is a marvellous journey of the soul and of healing in this story arc, and also terrible hardships and epics ideas and stories. Well worth it on every count - by the end of the Martha Jones series, he’ll be your favourite doctor of all. And I challenge any of you not to be reduced to tears by the last fifteen minutes of the episode “Family of Blood”.
wilorg said, 2 months ago

@The Old Wolf (from last night)

Glad you liked Lebekaese. As good as it is in Zurich, I can’t ever wait until I get to either Konstanz or Munich and have some there - they do the best of any country. There’s a great little place in Vienna that does some really exceptional Lebekaese as well…
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

wilorg said

I urge you to hang in there with the David Tennant episodes, some of the finest writing and acting goes on in the Martha Jones era (available of DVD) - in fact, one episode, “Blink” won not only the BAFTA but also the HUGO - the first time a script from a British TV show ever won it.(“Don’t Blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t Blink. Good Luck.” )

“Blink” has been pretty universally hailed as having the highest behind-the-couch factor since “Terror of the Autons”.

And the great thing is, it’s essentially minus the Doctor and Martha, because they were filming the season-ender.

I really want to have a word with the happy so-and-so who had the bright idea of including fifteen seconds of shots of every stone angel in Cardiff to end it.
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

A leaked picture implies that Timothy Dalton will be playing a Timelord in the Christmas special that will end Tennant’s tenure.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

The weeping angels were actually actors. Can’t say the same about any others that appeared in the episode.
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

waycyber - let’s just say that i’m not going to respond to that comment.

Except to say that ”m not responding.

See me not responding?
wilorg said, 2 months ago

(Wilorg has no response to this - how could he?)

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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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