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Tuesday, 8 December 2009

The Weather

by Firstdog

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7 Comments

  1. paddy
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    Pure Zen FD.
    That worrying sound of blood on a hot tin roof.

  2. Ern Malleys cat
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

    My mum’s always been frightened by the weather.
    Just missed by lightning as a kid.
    Later having to evacuate on foot in the middle of the night while 8 months pregnant as a cyclone took the roof off.
    Still cowers at every summer storm.
    She’s more scared of the current weather than the future weather.

  3. Tom McLoughlin
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 8:16 pm | Permalink

    Man, professor James Hansen from NASA Goddard Institute on Lateline last night was … as you say scary as in his quiet methodical way.

    Must be tough for the parents out there smart enough to get this. And for the others yeah, just angry I guess at that annoying silent voice in the subconcious that won’t get out of their head.

    You know if it all turns to crap, then like the convicts we will envy those that have left before us. It will seem quite rational.

    Bob Dylan has line in Masters of War which goes something like this ‘You that made the worse fear that can ever be hurled, fear to bring children into the world’.

    Gulp.

  4. Tom McLoughlin
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    On a happier note, the job of cartooning will never be more important like a jester in the riven royal court.

  5. kmo
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

    I distinctly remember only 10 years ago when a spring/summer thunderstorm was the chance to dance in the rain. Now, after the dance, it brings angst and fire warnings and the sight of my furniture being blown hither and thither. No matter what anyone says, it is not the same….

  6. Venise Alstergren
    Posted Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 11:06 pm | Permalink

    My ultimate weather nightmare came to pass on a very small ferry in the South China Sea. I was with a friend and a relatively calm crossing was suddenly turned into a maelstrom of sodden skies, lashing rain and a ferry being tossed around like a cork. It was then I heard the cry from hell. “Venise, I can’t swim.”

  7. ed_said
    Posted Friday, 11 December 2009 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

    I like the 80s hair and jackets