May14

Snuffy! Run down t’ th’ store

by Greg Cravens on May 14, 2013 at 10:12 am
Posted In: Dirty Pictures

The lure of Shelby Forest isn’t just the disc golf, or the camping, or the hiking, or the fishing, or the miles of roads you can bike on.  Not even just the raptor rehab project in the nature center.  Heck, some people don’t even know half that stuff is out there.

But everyone knows about the General Store.  Taxidermized critters, snakeskins draped on the rafters, every kind of soda you could want, hamburgers made to greasy order, and all the rest. ALL the rest.  Name something you imagine would be in a hundred-year-old store.  It’s got a good chance of waiting on you there at the General Store. Name something you’d like from the average quicky market any time in the last twenty years.  Probably in there somewhere.  Fishing lures, VHS tapes, used paperbacks, bent-nail-puzzles, snacks, pickled eggs, candy bars you’d have sworn they don’t make any more.  Go check it out.

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May11

Fore!

by Greg Cravens on May 11, 2013 at 10:45 am
Posted In: Play Nice

Disc Golf.  There are a couple of courses around here.  Two I’ve played now, but they may count as one.  See, years ago, there were eighteen ‘holes’ at this disc golf course, and about the time I quit going regularly, they’d added three or four holes to the ‘front nine’, which seemed nice.  Rough holes.  Lotta undergrowth and stuff.

Anyhow, flash forward to lately, and now behold!  Where there had been eighteen holes, and then twenty-odd holes, now there are thirty six.  Two whole courses, the East and the West.

The other course in town is in a more open park.  Not so many trees, not so much erosion, and roots, and bridges, and fallen timber, and poison ivy, and mud.  You can see why I haven’t rushed over there to play.

I expect the ‘crack’ of a disc smacking a tree at full force, thirty feet from the tee.  Being able to SEE the hole from the tee?  Crazy talk.

So, if you’re in the Memphis area, get yourself to Shelby Forest, out there North of town.  Enjoy the time you spend in the shady forest, looking for where the heck that disc landed in all this… Hey, is THIS poison ivy, or is THAT stuff poison ivy?

Ah.  Both.  Good to know.

So, here the shot after my drive.  It was a good drive.  Can you spot the ‘hole’? It’s a metal doohickey with a basket and some hanging chains you can throw against.  See it?  You could click on the image, which will take you to the same image, then click on it again to make it slightly larger, then click on it again to magnify it in frame to make it bigger and easier to see.  Wish I could do that on the course, of course.

 

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May09

Kayakers in the News

by Greg Cravens on May 9, 2013 at 4:59 am
Posted In: Dirty Pictures

DebRebel has been kind enough to supply us some more internet links to crazy kayak goings-on.

Here they are:

Kayaker rescues family after car accident

Not what you want landing on you when you’re out in your kayak, Helmet or not.

Children of the CornFed greet kayaker

I think I’ve been on this river. It’s the one next to the cow pasture, right?

Kayaker gets the Oogies after shark appearance

Ask “Are they biting today?”… You don’t usually get the answer “God, I hope not!”

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May04

Free Comic Book Day Free Comic Book Day

by Greg Cravens on May 4, 2013 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Play Nice

Here’s a fine article the local paper had me ‘write’ about today- Free Comic Book Day.

You might have to click on the image a couple of iterations to get it up to a legible size.  Who knows how these computers decide to display anything.  It didn’t offer me the size option I wanted.  Baffling.

 

So if there’s a comic shop near you, go in and see what they’re willing to do for you!  Different shops have different deals.

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May02

Team US

by Greg Cravens on May 2, 2013 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Dirty Pictures

I am not an orderly person.  My studio, my mind, and my personal abilities are disordered and chaotic.

Consequently, not all of the Team Us folks have made it into the Hubris cartoons yet.

Part of the reason is that I didn’t want to clump everyone in on the first ‘day’, and part of it was that I had some other gags to tell.

Part of it is that the image below is my ‘notes’ so far.  I think only Molly isn’t on my sheet.  Molly, and maybe others who got lost in the shuffle of emails with attached photos being saved into a folder, which then proved to be a bad idea.  The emails were saved in some flakey format where the photos didn’t show up, and I had to go back and match things up and made a mess of it.

So, if you haven’t appeared in the strip so far, and you’re NOT on this page (click and maybe click again to zoom if necessary), then you may have to remind me.  Also, if you are, or if you know the lovely young lady on the right hand side of the page without any name or sport noted, remind me who you (she) are (is).  I can’t seem to match up the proper info for an identification.

Or, of course, if you haven’t sent me a photo so that you can be part of Team Us, well, Now might be a good time.

Back to the action!

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