Had quite a surprise yesterday when Bil Keane came knocking on our door. His car got stuck in the mud down the road a spell, and as that fellow at the south pole almost said a hundred years ago, "What the mud gets, the mud keeps." We are in fullblown mudseason hereabouts and I wld not recommend anyone take a scenic detour on a dirt road, even if you are a world famous cartoonist.
Anyway, i and jake tried to winch his car out but it was slow going. Travis came by to help with the winching by standing around on dry ground and pointing a lot. Then we yoked up that beefalo we have yet to slaughter and set that thing to pulling and we eventually got Bils car out but he cldn’t drive anywhere b/c he’d just get stuck again, so we invited him to stay the nite and try to drive out in the morning when the road had frozened up again. That is the only way to drive in mud season. You have got to hit the roads after they are frozened at nite and before they unfreeze in the morning.
For dinner we had some macaroni and pumkin pie and b/c it was a special occasion to have Bil Keane for dinner Jake brung over the last of his pork screech he made back in the holidays, and one thing led to another and we busted out the poker cards and i will tell you this: Bil Keane is no good at poker. I took him for a good $372.53 when he thot his three 8s wld beat my three jacks b/c he thot i was bluffing when i leaned over the table and said, "Bil, I have got 3 jacks and an 8 and a ace and i think that beats whatever you got in yr hand," which it did. It is a fact that i have always been a very honest poker player. Anyway, Bil was light in the pot and said he wld send me a check, but we will see abt that.
While we were playing cards word got out that the famous bil keane was at our house, and Cpt Slow stopped by w/ his Estonian ebay fiance and btw me and dody and jake and travis and cpt slow and oola and the screech, i think Bil had a fine time b/c he really let his hair down. He hit the screech pretty hard and it hit him right back, and before too long he was quite loaded and then he started talking trash abt Marmaduke and the Lockhorns and Heathcliff and Garfield. He does not like that fellow what draws Dilbert one bit, I will tell you that. And then b/c Travis had called Big Tiny to tell him that we were entertaining Bil Keane who happens to be Big Tinys favorite alltime cartoonist, Big Tiny showed up w/ his Golden Edition Collectors Volume of Family Circus cartoons which if you know Big Tiny you know is real special to him and Bil Keane autographed it all right but he also wrote some crude and insulting things in it that made Big Tiny real upset by this and even tho we asked Big tiny to see what Bil wrote in his book he wld not show us but you cld kind of tell that his book wasnt so special anymore.. Then Bil started talking abt iraq and the president and how the editors at King Features are a bunch of sissies and he went thru the stack of newspapers we keep to start the fire in the woodstove and he took out a little thing of whiteout from his shirt pocket and he wrote new captions to his cartoons, which since I saved them i have pasted below and in the gallery thing to your left.
So it was quite an evening and then this morning when the roads were froze we put Bil keane back on the road and told him to drive on top of the ruts to avoid bottoming out. All in all we were happy to have met him and i hope he remembers to send me $372.53 he owes me but i bet Big Tiny wld pay me $373 if I cld make it so last nite never happened.
