Snark It Up, FuzzBall!

Oh! Where was I?

Oh, yeah. Some crackpot in The Phantom is capturing bats and killing them for their blood!  W. T. F. ???  Do something, Ghost-Who-Snoops!

Nothing says “hospice regatta” like a bar-fight between the two most competitive yachtsmen on the eve of the Big Race!  Only KT from CC land dubbed it “Pruuuuuuuunefiiiiiiiiiiiight!”, and I damn near swallowed my tongue.  Golden, KT!

And of course, while I’m sure Lenore and Tweaks could’ve worked all of this out, the Yacht Club staff are understandably shaken by the potential of fractured hips.  (Me? I’m mystified at the thought that there’s a second string of color-monkeys for the Sunday strips vs. the weekday ones….compare and contrast.)

Finally, Rex and Lenore can get back to a quiet conversation that lasts all of 30 seconds before Rex wedges his foot into his mouth again.

Swearing high, cursing low,
Oh, how *$&#% happy we’ll be!

Hey! We’re outside! There’s water! There’s seagulls! There’s boats! There’s a crusty old salt! Can fun be far behind?!

Prior to Rex’s fortuitous appearance, he chatted briefly with June. And if I did NOTHING to the original strip, it’s worth checking out the original (7 September 2008) for Rex’s too-cute-for words response to June’s compliment:

And over at the Comics Curmudgeon, The Insectoid who Shan’t be Microwaved comments “I can all but hear Rex Morgan uttering a Goofy-esque “Gawrsh!”” You know, that’s a pretty clever Insectoid!

Need we go into what the “M” stands for?

Unfortunately, the pace of things is a wee bit slow in the office, and the old adage of “Pimp out your husband in haste, repent in leisure.” seems to be raising its ugly head:

Ah, but there’s no problem that Rex and June can’t work out together. “All’s well that ends well.” – now if only something would begin so there’d be half a chance of having an end!

Rumor has it that the creators of the real Rex Morgan, M.D. are taking a perverse interest in teasing snarkers, with vaguely filthy commentary, turns of phrases, and the like. Should we be upset? Enraged? Incited to riot?

Nah. I just like playing along. And as long as there aren’t any fart jokes, it’s fine with me. (Even if there are fart jokes, that’s one of those case-by-case issues.) More, more!

Who says you have to run a dull, boring medical practice? Face it, with Rex’s one-patient-a-week schedule, there’s a lot of down-time. Nevertheless, Rex and June are experts at making the most of those open hours.

Rex follows up on his hobbies…

…and June adds a little to their upcoming Caribbean Cruise “mad money”!

So I’m dinking around my blog, looking at statistics and such, and checking out where folks find me (most of them come my link at the Comics Curmudgeon). However, there is the occasionally very odd association, and this one is particularly unusual and very, very cool.

The link is a boating website in Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, with all sorts of interesting news items for the boating set. All right, I’m doing the snark thing with Rex Morgan and his yet-to-be explored adventures on the High Seas with a Caribbean cruise and a sailing regatta to benefit a hospice. Where’s the connection? Get a gander at this:

Lenore Foster, long time organizing board member for the TURKEY SHOOT HOSPICE REGATTA (October 10-12, 2008), is the “model” for a new character in the REX MORGAN M.D, comic strip by Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan. The daily strip already has introduced the story line, where Lenore, one of Rex’s patients, hounds him to “come sailing” with her in a special regatta in October. The regatta is the Turkey Shoot Hospice and the story line will lead up to and through the actual regatta. The details of the story are fictional (they say…). Wilson is doing this as a birthday gift to the real Lenore; they are long time friends. Wilson and Nolan are donating the artwork to the Hospice regatta to be auctioned for a donation to the Hospice cause. There are especially good unintended consequences – HOSPICE REGATTAS across the country will receive recognition – there are an estimated 30 million regular readers of the syndicated strip.

Isn’t this fabulously great?! Evidently hospice regattas are popular ways of fund-raising, but even more fabulously great, Lenore Foster is a real woman! Kudos to Woody Wilson for feting his friend, and for getting the word about this! (Yes, I feel kind of ashamed for making fun of her and the regatta thing. It probably won’t stop me, only I’ll just make more fun of Rex during it all (wasn’t I doing that anyway?)).

And how terrific would it be to own the original art of that EXTREME REX MORGAN CLOSE-UP??? Pretty terrific.

Anyway, read more about Hospice Regattas at http://www.broadbaysailing.org/

Nope. Not a mashup in this thread. Not yet, at least.

…only with sailboats instead of horses. It’s not so much the sport, it’s the Seeing and Being Seen. Everyone dressed to the nines. Everyone soused to the gills. Everyone cattily bitching about one another.

You’d think that the Regatta sailboat crews would be far removed from the petty goings-on, much like the Derby jockeys. Well, you’d be wrong…

SEE FOR YOURSELF!

Well, at least Lenore is laying her cards (her old, musty, crumbling around the edges cards) on the table…

…and the question is: is Rex a gambling man?

Maybe so, but I hope he can swim. I have a bad feeling he’s going to be in the water a lot more than on the water…

…none of us are getting any younger. Particularly Lenore.