Jonah

My pastor went through a series in Jonah and it's really good so you should check it out on Sermon Audio! The fish colors are a little inspired by a Pixar movie. We went to Sight & Sound when they did Jonah and it was a really good production that helped bring the story to life! I recommend going to see their shows. 

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B: I just want my kid to be great!
O: Well, we can't all swim around swallowing wayward prophets.

And a bonus comic based on my childhood of watching Veggie Tales! Wow, looking up the Jonah movie enlightened me so much - did not realize Phil Vischer voiced half of the cast and Relient K sang the classic song "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything." Also, while my pastor has been preaching on Jonah, I got the song "Second Chances" stuck in my head and couldn't remember where it was from but now I know! It's this movie. 

Arugula to Mars

DID YOU KNOW that the lettuce 'arugula' is called 'rocket' across the pond in England? I found this out when reading a British recipe and the next step was 'add one cup of rocket' and I was super confused. I really like arugula - it has a nice peppery flavour (ha ha, going British there).

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S: This beautifully coloured arugula will get us to Mars!
**Image of a rocket on an easel**

Loner Hornets

So this one time my husband opened a dresser drawer which is used every day and a hornet flew out and it was super unexpected and this comic happened. It has only happened once. I don't know where he loaned it from.

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L: Did you check for hornets?
M: No, that last one was a loner.
L: Who did you loan it from and why?

Linguistics Society

Did you know there are word pairs where we just use the one half but technically the other side is still a word but it's become archaic? These are called Unpaired Words and I find this fascinating.

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L: How are we feeling today, folks?
Crowd: Corrigible.
Kempt.
Couth.
Whelmed.
Gruntled.
Ruly.

Unicorn vs Capricorn

I know next to nothing about astrology, but I'm pretty sure that's not what a Capricorn is. But I like it - a nifty way for a horse to be more than a horse while not quite attaining the level of unicorn.

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U: Are you a unicorn like me?
H: No, I'm a Capricorn.

Blended Sayings

Well, maybe? The sayings are "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step" and "death by a thousand cuts" so I figured they could be combined. Neither of those thousands sounds pleasant.

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A: You know what they say about the journey of a thousand miles -
B: It starts with a single cut?

Medusa

Continuing on the Greek theme, but mixing in a little Casablanca. Medusa had her hair turned into snakes and could turn people to stone by looking at them (or rather them looking at her). That guy in Casablanca said "here's looking at you, kid" for whatever reason (I've watched the movie but the phrase still doesn't make sense to me).
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! This was my only recently drawn comic with green in it. Also, it's my half birthday! So I'll try to enjoy half of today.

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Medusa: Hair's looking at you, kid.

Percy Jackson Musical

  So a few weeks ago, we went to see a musical "The Lightning Thief", about the first book in the Percy Jackson series, which is about Greek mythology set in current times. The musical was very creative, had only 7 actors playing all the roles with minimal props and sets, and did a good summary of the entire book in two hours.

 The main actors, Percy and Annabeth, played only their roles since they were in nearly every scene. And they did a great job! The actor for Grover also played Mr. D, which worked because usually one of them was in a scene. The other four members of the cast played everyone else, and had a creative enough wardrobe to differentiate between the characters.

 The set pieces were very minimal but creative - you had to use your imagination for some (there was a piece of rolling scaffolding that was everything from an elevator to a bus to really anything that moved) but the actors made it believable. 

 It definitely helped to have read the books to fully understand what all was happening, and I saw a lot of fans in the audience (orange t-shirts, PJ books, etc). It was a one weekend only show in the Kennedy Center, but it was in a side theater not the main huge one. I highly enjoyed my afternoon!

It Is Over Mate

This is based off a song by Dean Lewis "Be Alright" and I like that you can hear his accent through the song and I thought of chess because he says 'mate' when referring to his friend. I was thinking about a 3x3 board and how the knight is the worst piece for that (other than pawns since they only go one direction). He can't get to the middle but neither could a black square bishop. Actually the bishops are rather limited too. Actually most pieces other than the king and queen are bad for this.

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Knight to King: I know you loved her but it's over, mate.

Sparking Joy

We watched one episode (the first one) of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, and she has some good points but her religion (Shintoism) really shapes her delivery so be prepared for that. I do agree that staying de-cluttered is important for stress relief and she has many good ways to organize.

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M: I heard about your electrical accident while tidying up with your friend.
L: I sparked Joy.

Nobody Likes Excess

There's a TV show on CW called The Flash, and the main character (Flash) has a daughter (XS) whose superhero name is pronounced "excess." I tried drawing a frown on Flash to show his anger (even though I don't usually add facial features) but sadly my computer has been having this issue where it has a 'sharing violation' and won't save my edited comic. It's annoying and I'm gonna solve it eventually but currently we're dealing with taxes and family vacation planning and the Awana Grand Prix!!! 

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D: Doing that would be excessive, and nobody likes excess.

XS: **Horrified**
Flash: **Angry**

Looming Equipment

I feel like anyone that has a loom would be an interesting person to meet. I have a ... decent amount of yarn that I use in my crocheting but it's all in a little shelving unit so fairly compact. I think a loom would take up a bit of space. But it could be interesting to use - very home-made stuff, especially if you have your own sheep :)

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L: I put my weaving equipment upstairs.
A: It's looming over me!

Nuevo Testamento

My church has some Spanish literature as we had an ESL ministry at one point, and we currently have a children's ministry, and so this happened. I later saw the NT left on a back pew - apparently the child still wanted to try to read it? We had the English copies right next to it but they have a different cover so maybe weren't as interesting. I guess the child hadn't heard that saying about judging a book by its cover.

And a super Happy Birthday to my Dad tomorrow!

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C: Is this free?
L: Yes, but Nuevo Testamento is in Spanish.
C: ...oh.