san francisco #4- secrets
Monday, November 10th, 2008I ranted a little bit here and then found out this, so, there’s hope still?
anyways, looks like I’m headed back to multiple airports in early december when I had for Chicago, then California and Arizona, a trip destined for disaster and many nights sleeping on airport floors. I’m going to start packing astronaut ice cream, or whatever newfangled creepy transportable food is out there.
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November 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
You could have an Oregon Trail Bloody Mary-
You take a highball glass, add 3 jiggers of buffalo blood (preferably fresh, neck vein if you can get it) and fill the rest of the glass with corn mash moonshine. garnish with a tall stalk of prairie grass.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I love airports. I have a job now where I spend terrible amounts of time in them. Favorite still is my home airport Las Vegas. I get to gamble and drink before a flight, and if I am lucky, and I leave out of the D gates, I eat at Wolfgang Pucks. BUT favorite food to date, is the Japanese place in terminal 3 in SFO. Chicken Curry and a Kirin, that will keep your seat mates from talking to you… that and the exhibits down the moving walkway are cool to look at. Only other favorite is Carolina Blond at the end of the D gates in CLT.
after re reading this, I guess it’s all about food for me. It’s like a buffet where the stations are 500 miles apart.
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November 10th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Lol! Hysterical Julia, hysterical!!!!
November 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I love airports because I’m either off to somewhere exciting or going back to my comfy home.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it… JULIA, You should definately write a book. I think you have a nack for narrative description. (or whatever you call it) I don’t know if anyone ever suggested it but I’ve read some things you wrote and you are great. Keep up the good work and maybe one day you’ll look back and say some dork said i should write and it worked out so thanks… or it could be a complete waste of time. but give it a shot dammit!
November 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
That’s nice of you to say, and while I won’t go into detail, I have lots of stuff up my sleeve. Fart Party is about 1/5 of the stuff I do, the other 4/5 is what takes up all my goddamn time but I don’t put it on the internet.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Agreed. Airports are still pretty interesting places, even after the strip search and some cop-lady presses the back of her hand to my bra (and announces it REALLY LOUD).
November 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Hey Julia,
Any Quimby’s appearances? If you need help getting around the city, let me know. I figure you will probably be staying with Laura and be in good hands. If you do need anything though, just holler.
You’re coming to Chicago?! Sweet
November 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
aahh, laughs in every panel!
“Right Wing BS Daily” haha
speaking of which, I DO hope those as-of-yet-uncounted votes will overturn this prop 8 bullshit.
I could go on, but…just…argh. too much anger and confusion for this little comment box.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
If you haven’t, check the comment I posted on your last comic about pro #8. Might make you feel a little better.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
glad to hear!
November 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
November 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Will the other 4/5 rear its ugly head to the public someday?
November 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I agree with JDHP, you really should try your hand at narrative. maybe even do a graphic novel!
and people watching is ALL i do at airports. that and read chapters of books in the bookstores, but never buy. i making enemies out of sales people all across the country.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
*ring ring*
“Hello?”
“Heeyyy, I’m back.”
“Hi! How was your trip?”
“Good, pretty tiring.”
“Are you home now?”
“Yeah. I mean, yes, back in Adelaide, no, not AT home - still at the airport.”
“Oh good.”
“So … could you give me a lift? I’ve got all this heavy stuff …”
“It’s a bit late - can’t you just catch a cab?”
*sigh*
November 10th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
um…huh? if those are you’re friends calling you asking for a ride, they are pussies. get some new friends.
the 4/5 will rear its ugly head sometime around 2010
November 10th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Airports somehow make me feel more mature for some reason….
November 11th, 2008 at 2:13 am
’serious life issues’ has me crying tears of laughter, jeez!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Friends?
That was my parents!
November 11th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Dude, airports are the shit. And yeah, generally not a good idea to mouth off to security. Once, I forgot the no-liquids rule and brought a brand-new, $5 (which is expensive when you’re in college) bottle of face wash with me in my carry-on. When the security guard took it away, I muttered, “Good work! That brand-new, $5 bottle of face wash was actually one hundred bombs!” He glared, then made me go back to the end of the line. In retrospect, I guess I deserved it.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Penelope, you got off easy. It’s a felony to make false claims about bombs at airports, and many people have been charged, however unlikely their joke was (google felony bomb joke airport for some examples). I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s the way it is.
Julia, I think you’re off the hook, at least legally. No false claims, and I don’t think it’s a felony to annoy security.
And just so you know my sentiments, I love your cartoons. And I like airports too.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Every lawmaker responsible for our current airline “security” policies should be tied to a cart and pushed through the streets while citizens who actually understand and deserve their freedom pelt them with garbage and empty moisturizer bottles.
Just sayin’.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Yeah, it was way better back before these measures were in place when people could crash commercial airliners and kill thousands of people.
Good point.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’m not aware of any measures having been put in place that have been shown to to a better job of preventing that from happening.
I am aware of policies having been put in place that give the illusion of safety with none of it’s benefits and all of it’s lack of freedom.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I should point out that I’m specifically referring to the TSA and it’s search procedures and it’s carry-on regulations. Reenforced cabin doors and federal marshals on planes with weapons are both great ideas, but also aren’t what I’m talking about.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I totally agree about the jewelry in PHX Sky Harbor…bleh. Nothing like a blob of turquoise and silver to remind you of your trip to the desert.
If you ever need a place to crash (or an airport pickup) in Phoenix let me know!
November 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Airports are great. The people watching is unequaled. I like watching doe-eyed first timer couples have their stress arguments.
On a side note, I thought it might have been my imagination that I get the trots from garlic. Hmm…..good to know.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
When I flew to Arizona to see my sister my roommate told me to check out some bar in the Midway airport. I just said whatever but sure enough I got off my plane and there was the bar. It may have been 7:30 in the morning but I had some beer and then ate a huge breakfast. I always drink on flights too (whiskey), no matter the time or length of flight on that same trip I spilled a full drink all over my suit jacket. Love traveling.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Dude, you’re fucking brilliant.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Ha, I thought I was weird for not minding airports too much. Any place where you can fucking fly into the air as people have dreamed of doing for hundreds of thousands of years can’t be all bad. And they have coffee!
November 13th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Hi Julia! I am the guy from germany that talked to you in NY during the Shannon and the Clams concert.
I just wanted to second the idea of you writing a book since I really love reading your stuff (and I even quote you regularly
).
Look at Melissa Plaut ( http://www.amazon.com/Hack-Stopped-Worrying-Started-Driving/dp/1400066042/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226570682&sr=8-3 ) she wrote a book based on her blog and while it is o..k. to read you could compile one from the stuff you already wrote which would be 10 times better!
November 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I love airports too! Well. Hartsfield, Pearson, and the Seattle one.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
that baby drawing is AWESOME.
March 14th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
that last panel must become a t-shirt
May 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Airports are fun because they’re so… transitory. Aside from boring businessfolk, most people there are doing something unusual — vacationing, visiting relatives, moving, whatever.
Also, you get to fly! Flying is awesome, even if the actual sitting in uncomfortable seats packed like meat with a stranger at your hip sucks. Flying at night with a window seat is amazing. Seeing London after that long, dark ocean, or the lights over New York…
June 4th, 2009 at 1:46 am
At first I thought that said “I ordered a turkey rub” and was really, really intrigued… then I discovered it was just a lowly turkey sub, and disappointment came crashing down upon me like a boot on a daisy.