Comments on: Crouching spider, leaping tiger

By: jstwndrng

jstwndrng — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:14:48 +0000

Gotta do whatcha gotta do, right?

By: Marni

Marni — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:36:06 +0000

What’s embarassing is not that you picture it as a sitcom episode but how sitcomy it really was- the pizza delivery person shows up, but it’s not a big burly guy all prepared to step in and save the damsel in distress from the puppy-sized spider on her wall- no, it’s a petite little woman pizza delivery person…who I still asked to kill the puppy-sized spider on my wall. And she did. I tipped her $20. The shame. The shame.

By: jstwndrng

jstwndrng — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:02:53 +0000

For some reason I picture that as an episode of Friends, but now I think about it, it sounds more like you

By: Marni

Marni — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:11:08 +0000

I once had a pizza delivered just so the delivery person could kill the spider on my wall. In my defense, it really was as big as a Volkswagen…I’m just sure of it. Thanks for the laugh Matthew! I love your cats- I miss my next door cat who used to visit every day and “talk” to me; he looked alot like “creamsicle” and I called him Kitty even after I found out his name was Tommy, because that just seemed too obvious and wrong!

By: jstwndrng

jstwndrng — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:06:29 +0000

Glad to help a fellow inmate get up on the right side of the bunk, eh.

By: jstwndrng

jstwndrng — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:09 +0000

Oh, and we were a Lucerne family.

By: jstwndrng

jstwndrng — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:04:06 +0000

Over Edom, quite right. I hadn’t even realized the connection (sharp of you, Lou!), and doubtless our little fly-catching friend missed it too, or he’d have been less eager to tresspass the domain demarcated by the reach of our slipper.

I see what you mean about the orange cat. I do call him “creamcicle” sometimes. Angela thought up the post title.

The VW bit is my homage to the fact that at one time it seemed everything in comic writing was compared in size to a Volkswagen. When I drove across the U.S. in my ’67 Bug and encountered potholes in Illinois that actually were the size of Volkswagens, this became problematic. It’s also a nod to W. Allen’s line (in “Annie Hall” I think) about “a spider the size of a Buick in there!”

By: scott

scott — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:26:56 +0000

Wow this makes me want a cat.
And this post made me laugh out loud–and I don’t usually laugh in the mornings…

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:42:08 +0000

“and over Edom I will cast my shoe”

Honestly, that spider had no business being in your kitchen.

The title of this posting is brilliant. The spider’s comparison to a volkswagen made my day…and it just started!..

Remember the little containers of Lucerne (or was it Darigold?) which featured a swirl of vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet? Willougby reminds me of that ice cream.

Well done recreating this hilarious moment of chaos in your kitchen!