Someone please remind me which New York borough it is where every single person is white?Yesterday, I asked you to indulge my son's video of my messy garage. I have another video I want to ask you to watch. My sixteen-year-old daughter met a couple of A&R reps with two major recording labels who gave her a lot of encouragement. They were really kind to her and asked her for a recording of her singing, so she posted a video on YouTube. She'd like to generate some buzz for it, and although I'm completely biased, I think you'll like it. If you click this link to the YouTube video, and if you enjoy the performance, please click the "like" button, leave some feedback, or share it with a friend. It would mean a lot to her. However, I am not adding it to the Charterstone Jukebox. The Condo Board would definitely not approve.
Today's Full Strip
I love it when the secret message makes me laugh out loud. Thanks, Wanders.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness you are posting videos for our entertainment, Wanders. Otherwise the tediousness and seeming endlessness of this one plot point would make me want to claw my eyes out. It's now like a spectator sport - can Karen Moy draw this out for the rest of the week? Young love! Skateboarding! Mom jeans!
ReplyDelete...as Gina braced for the fall, suddenly the innocent love wasn't so innocent.
ReplyDeleteNice hidden message Wanders (and video)!
Do Gina and Bobby's parents know their kids put wheels on their panelling?
ReplyDeleteEven the mad skills of Wnaders, Jr. would have a hard time spinning one of those boards.
Gah! This story is making my brain bleed!
ReplyDeletePerhaps even Mary herself is comatose by now as Gina drones on and on and on....
ReplyDeleteI loved the secret message.
ReplyDeleteAnd poor Mary, listening to Gina's poor grammar, unable to construct a simple sentence.
And how odd that Gina's memory of her childhood very much resembles the pilot episode of JOANIE AND CHACHI.
I remember those days with my own great group riding oversized and poorly built skateboards down the middle of the street. Totally radical!
ReplyDeleteI am loving the last 2 weeks! We are experiencing artwork that we will never see the likes of again once Giella is no longer with us. Think of how dull this would be without drawings that have no connection with reality. This will later be recgnized as the golden age of Mary Worth!!
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ReplyDelete"A great group that was home to us on the street"? Huh?
ReplyDeleteUnlikely plot twist #939399
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I think Wanders Secret Message & "JAZZ HANDS' wins the internets this morning
The sentence structure and grammar in Mary Worth always reminds me of someone trying to learn another language. It's like when I took Spanish in the 9th grade. To a native Spanish speaker, I probably sounded like; ''Please, could you tell me where the street of the house of my aunt is?''
ReplyDeleteWhen did we leave Mary Worth and enter the world of High School Musical? Can we ever escape its cruel hands of fate??
ReplyDeleteWanders, just watched your daughter's video- Wow, she is gorgeous! Really nice voice, too.
ReplyDeleteLove the secret message today!
ReplyDeleteYour kids are really talented, Wanders! I enjoyed their videos.
however...these fist-pumping, pollyanna, all-white NY "street" kids are weirding me out! And those skateboards! Mary is probably wishing she could hit the "rewind" button by now.
Speaking of hands of fate, has anyone ever seen the movie called "Manos: The Hands of Fate" ??? I think, at this point in time, it's a toss up to see what is more excrutiating: this storyline or that movie?
ReplyDeleteSo we would all probably put Gina's adult age at, say... no older than 30? Gina's age in the flashback is maybe 10 or 15?
ReplyDeleteSo, 15-20 years ago, in New York City, there were no cars?
Just wide open roads, down which the kids took their primitive skateboards.
(By the way, skateboards ceased being primitive looking in the 70's.)
I laughed for 20 minutes at the secret message, Wanders. And yes, your daughter is quite talented and beautiful. Congrats!
And where, oh where, did Bobby's basketball go?
ReplyDeleteI do know neighbourhoods in New York City where everyone is white, but generally girls in those neighbourhoods are not allowed to wear shorts, or short-sleeved shirts for that matter.
ReplyDeleteJames in ND, I hope you at least had the MST3K version of Manos to make it a little less painful.
ReplyDeletedjangosmom - Of course I do! :-p
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the fun that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 could have with Mary Worth!?!?!?! (Although I think us on the message board have more fun)
Wanders, your daughter is quite talented, but I couldn't vote for her because I'm not registered.
ReplyDeletetuffenuf@2.12p - I've been questioning Gina's physical age for a week now (you never question anybody's EMOTIONAL or MENTAL age in the Worthiverse) and I can't figure out the time in which this back story is supposed to have occurred. Or the place, as Wanders points out. There is no place in New York - thanks god - that lily white, other than (possibly) the upper East Side. But economically this crew doesn't seem to measure up to the UES...
By the way, I can't seem to get the "secret message". Can someone tell me what it is? Thanks.
Wanders, your daughter is very talented!
ReplyDeleteAs for today's strip; why did Moy and Giella waste both of the panels showing and voice-overing the exact same thing? At this rate, those kids will still be on skateboards into September.
My neighborhood in Brooklyn was indeed all white...Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, Jewish. That was, however, in the 1960s. Very different now, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteMost inane Mary Worth storyline ever -- and best hidden message ever!
ReplyDeleteJames in ND: To get me through the rest of this storyline, I'm going to hum the haunting Torgo's Theme from Manos, Hands of Fate.
ReplyDeleteWanders, your daughter is lovely and talented. She must take after her Dad.
Does this storyline remind you of a sanitized Disney version of West Side Story, but only with the Jets cast?
The haunting Torgo theme! "I take care of the place while the master is away..." There are few things in life I truly regret, but watching Manos all the way through is most definitely one of them. Thank you, James, for reminding me that there is indeed something more excruciating than this skateboarding purgatory that we are in. Because I can just close my browser and look away. While there is no escaping Manos. (James and Peggy - there is some great background on Manos and its director in this article: http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m18/brandt.htm)
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing Bobby will take a header off his giant skateboard and die. How tragic. Still, what this has to do with Gina's father will never be revealed.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see the hidden message until this afternoon. Then, I preceded to almost die laughing for six hours. What a cruel blow that fate has dealt me! :-p
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