Hi Guys!   It's Andrew the Bee , with a tale of triumph and tragedy from the early days of aviation !  I'm talkin' about Charles Oliver Jones , the pioneer aeronaut !  Jones, better known as C. O. Jones , or " Cojones " to you and me, was one of the first guys to exploit the commercial possibilities of airship travel !  Back in the early 1900s , it wasn't super clear if airplanes or lighter-than-air craft would rule the skies .  So Jones messed around with both .  For a time, he seems to have been working with Alexander Graham Bell and Glenn H. Curtiss on the experimental " June Bug ," a weird-looking airplane that won the Scientific American Cup , the nation's first award for for aviation !  He was also tinkering with blimps , in particular the airships designed by Charles J. Strobel .        Glenn Curtiss seemed to be getting all of the attention for his airplanes, so Jones focused more on the airships....

Most people have a good conscience and a bad conscience.  Billy Bunny has a bad conscience and a frightful conscience that is always telling him that he is a waste of vital resources and his presence on Earth is redundant and unwanted.  This morning he awakens from a dream of confrontation with them both.  The worst part about it all is that neither conscience will speak to him directly but only to each other, just like Billy is not even there.  

  Every single time I try to polish this old lamp I get this.  A major pain getting everything back the way it was, who needs the aggravation?  Again with the angry demon!  That old guy in the antique place down the street has a big sign out front offering to exchange old junk for new flashlights anyway, guess I'll go there tomorrow and just deal with this once and for all.

Krazy Komics # 1, July 1942.  Timely.  Stan Lee, Editor.  Timely became Marvel.  Some of the artist's in this I recognize, Chad Grothkopf, Al Jaffee (b. 1928, still with us), and Dave Berg.  Chad drew Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, and people of my generation will recognize Jaffee and Berg. First story, first issue. Hmmm... Issue the second.  I suspect this is Chad Grothkopf, the bunny looks like Hoppy. The f***king nerve.  If I got a box of matches I sure don't need ideas from Stan Lee on how to pass the time, I don't think anyone has been in that old barn for years! Tommy Toughcat.  He's from Brooklyn, note the derby.  As exotic as this accent is to me and everyone else west of Joisey it probably was standard stuff for Timely and the boys.  Bugs Bunny is from Brooklyn so dat's jake by me! Anyone care to guess who these guys are talking about? A sense of subtlety and understatement.    I really should be writing that boo...

The author of this blog has 20 dollars.  Cigarettes and wine for tonight will cost him 17 dollars and change.  His 4 cats will run out of food by lunchtime, and there will be no more money for a week.  Here we see Billy consulting with his inner accountants on the correct choice to be made. Two bucks will buy a whole lot of cat food, after all. https://www.topcartoons.tv/apple-andy/ Billy D Bunny.  Yes, That's A Rabbit.   Deal With It.  

  Another day on the beat.  I had a purse snatching, a missing mouse, and now this, a peeping tom.  From the description I knew it was my old friend Louie the Lip.  I found him hanging out by the Do Buzz In, an unlicensed fly joint.  We had him in the line up in no time, but frogs are notoriously hard to I. D., even to each other.  Louie skated but I had his number.  Every time he showed an inch of tongue I was there to make it stick, and stick hard.  We finally found Louie in a pool of blood, back legs gone.  He died before I could get a description, but I'm pretty sure it was the guy we call Frenchy, a mass murderer with no face or name, we just hung that tag on him in order to give him some personality. Some days ain't worth getting out of bed for.

Riddick Rabbit.   A long time between stops. A long time for something to go wrong.