3/28/11
Hooray, a new plot! After reviewing the third panel, it’s clear it will involve a boy, his girl, her cleavage and the world’s biggest cup of coffee (a double C and double Ds?)…plus for comic relief: web-surfin’ Paul Prudhomme!
Oh wait, it’s gonna be about high-guitar-holdin’ Velma? Jinkies, nobody centers the plot around Velma!
3/29/11
“Al-Jo” Ames? Is she from the planet Krypton? Maybe she’d have better luck having people watch her act if she wasn’t performing during “Open Mire Nite” at the Coffee Craphole. Plus I imagine cleavage girl giving out free samples in the second row is getting most of the attention anyway.
Meanwhile, in a nearby basement… Someone is planning another Nutboy heist! After all, that professional criminal must be back on the street by now, right? Check that!
No seriously: Check that. Go on…start checking already. I’ll wait. I have nowhere to go.
Maybe she’d have better luck having people watch her act if she wore a short skirt and no underwear.
Comment by semperfi4evr — March 29, 2011 @ 7:52 am
What do you mean “she”?
Al-jo is obviously a gender-confused student.
Check out http://www.krups.com/Home.htm , “Beyond reason”.
Much like these storylines.
Comment by exmiscellanea — March 29, 2011 @ 8:09 am
Al-jo reminds me of Darryl Hannah in that movie where she wore the glasses.
Comment by Elmo — March 29, 2011 @ 8:36 am
While in a nearby basement, another would be Milford drug kingpin lays out his plan…
No, I’m serious. I found a formula for cooking meth on the internet that requires only two ingredients. One is Nutboys, which we got a hook-up for down at the Swifty Mart. The other ingredient is Krup, and I’ve got a pretty good idea how we can get our hands on some of that. I’m going to borrow my brother’s guitar. Does your mother still have that blond wig?
Comment by Ned Ryerson — March 29, 2011 @ 9:11 am
Al-Jo…short for Al Jolson. My guess is that she was conceived while her parents were watching The Jazz Singer on TCM. Call me when she starts doing her performance in blackface and singing “Mammy”. Check that!
I think based on the fact that she’s doing Woody Guthrie songs and that nobody under the age of 70 knows who the hell Woody Guthrie is, she’s going to be one of those angry, folk singer types that Gil (or someone that Gil hires for free to do his job) will have to talk off a ledge because “nobody understands where” she’s “coming from”.
Comment by Regina — March 29, 2011 @ 9:13 am
Check that…I think that’s Marty Moon’s apartment/meth lab in his mom’s basement.
Comment by Regina — March 29, 2011 @ 9:14 am
Pleeeeeeaaase let it be Gail Martin’s longlost daughter, conceived during the Milford stop on Gail’s infamous 1994 “Comeback: This Time For Sure” Tour. That’s the one where she sketched out a model Stonehenge on a napkin, and then… Oh, wait, I was thinking of some other washed-out rockers.
But really. If Al-Jo is Gail’s daughter, then I’m interested. And I’d be really interested if various hints were thrown around the Mudlarks’ athletic office about paternity probabilities. But that’s way too much to ask for.
Comment by John S. Walters — March 29, 2011 @ 9:20 am
Al-Jo is a ballplayer – got to be softball, no?
So we are getting Slim Chance II?
Since Derek is mentioned, we will have to be seeing the boy/girl singing/ballplaying storyline this spring. Wasn’t Derek with Cassie last spring however? Maybe we will get a girl/boy/girl storyline – not that it’s wrong, of course.
Hey, guy in left of 3/29 panel #1: some John Wilkes Booth is about to go ballistic in the back of your head.
Comment by Milfordian — March 29, 2011 @ 9:25 am
Al-Jo hails from Charleston, South (North?) Carolina, where she was born following a brief, torrid affair between Mr. Bakst and Gail Martin (she’s the rock and roll Carole King)! Check it! Count it! Bonk! HRONK!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — March 29, 2011 @ 10:04 am
Best way to turn off a crowd? Lecture them that the next song is about the “plight” of anyone. Unless it’s about the plight of the giant musical notes flying out of her guitar 3/28 panel 1.
Comment by Cody X. Ner — March 29, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
Did Woody Guthrie ever write a song about the plight of people like us who for whatever reason follow this frequently inane strip? Did Bob Dylan? I mean seriously, how many bad plots must a Gil Thorpreader follow?
Is Al-Jo Ames Marji Ducey’s daughter?
On the bright side, I’ve heard that you can get anything you want at the Coffee Cantina. Check that! Check it! Count it! Bonk! Hronk! I’m off to the Group W bench.
Comment by Dood — March 29, 2011 @ 1:13 pm
Think the characters in Thorp know that no one’s reading? 2 days in, and I’m bored already. Teens at the Coffee Cantina? Where do they find these people?
Comment by Rob — March 29, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
always knew gil was making bathtub gin in his basement . as for alpo james maybe shes just playing there so she can follow the big breasted girl home and kill her because how do you go through life looking like marcy darcy and playing lame folk songs.my plotline with cassie having done a gang bang with backyard tire fire is much better
Comment by mr120zcan — March 29, 2011 @ 5:30 pm
How many times can Wigham reuse the Marje Ducey model sheet?
Comment by billytheskink — March 30, 2011 @ 6:20 am
Pity the Coffee Cantina; they can’t afford a Krups coffeemaker, only the cheap knockoff Krup.
Comment by delvaldawg — March 30, 2011 @ 7:36 am
Al-Jo Ames-Ducey is killing us softly with her song.
Comment by Dood — March 30, 2011 @ 8:02 am
This is giving me the shakes: yesterday a whitebread folk singer, today the return of “Slim” chance and his bandie conflicts. This could be a very long spring, especially since baseball runs into July in the Valley Conference…
Comment by vaganova — March 30, 2011 @ 8:50 pm