I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
My nephew, whose home in La Crescenta is nestled between two areas under mandatory evacuation Saturday, told me at least one of the two was unnecessary. "Mandatory" is a term like "life sentence." It isn't what it sounds like. Lifers get paroled all the time, and mandatory means "stay if you want, but it's at your own risk." People routinely use "sort of" and "kind of," so why not "sort of mandatory evacuation?"
posted by John M Crowther @ 9:17 AM
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Artist, writer, filmmaker, actor. Wrote "The Evil That Men Do" starring Charles Bronson. "Missing in Action" starring Chuck Norris. Performed one-man play "Einstein" off-Broadway and in Europe. Tours US with "Meet Mr. Wright," his one-man play about Frank Lloyd Wright. Art exhibitions in Italy and U.S. His work as a cartoonist has been seen in MAD magazine. Illustrated the children's books "How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy" and "The Man In the Red Bandana" about his nephew Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, written by his niece, Honor Crowther Fagin, Welles's sister. Author of novel "Firebase," published in UK by Constable and US by St. Martins Press. For many years an avid student and reader of Tarot. Performs weddings as a Los Angeles County Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage.
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Mandatory or not... people should just get out. Look what happened here back in January. The fires were catastrophic. People given the option to stay in their homes... died.
Hope your nephew and his family remain safe and sound John and that an end to the fires is in sight.
So far so good, Jean, and firefighters are guardedly optimistic while declaring that things could easily turn bad again depending on the weather. Meanwhile, from where I live there was a strange beauty as towering white cumulus clouds pushed upward by the hot air rose above the yellowish-grey smoke that hung over the distant canyons and obscured the mountaintops.
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