Out in the swamps drawing caricatures!

I helped Sandra take crowds out through the swamps of Big Cypress for the annual Muck-A-Bout. I did some sketching while out in the swamps, as to the right .

While in the swamps, I finished ‘Obama Nation’ which I think is a fair overview of Barack Obama’s life. Author Corsi has made his way into the dark and murky waters of Obama’s past. Since he has accomplished so little, you can see how Corsi struggles to find out just what a Barack Obama is. At first I didn’t like his sources being other publications. That is until I realized that the sources were The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune. Usually non-conservative publications that have unveiled a very scary portrait of the secretive Obama.

This is very well written and leaves alot for the reader to figure out. Some of the figuring out is remembering what was written earlier in the book and realizing what the two elements means. That’s a great writer!

We headed south to be a part of the Clyde Butcher Muck-A-Bout. We took backroads to get there. A stop we made was at The Cool Place, an ice cream shop in Bartow. There Sandra and I had sundaes (See above).

For dinner we stopped at the 75 year old Flora and Ella’s in LaBelle. I had great Southern fried chicken and Sandra loved the chicken and dumplings. We also finally found pecan pie. we’ve been looking for a year and a half for home made pecan pie throughout Florida and during our trips to North Carolina, New Orlenas and throughout Arkansas. All of the restaurants we stopped at had pecan pie provided by a store of food service. Flora and Ella’s has folks come in at 4:30 every morning to make new pies. It was great!

Above is one of the antique cash registers and adding machines at Flora and Ella’s.

We later settled in Everglades City to get ready for swamp trompin’ Friday.

It is absolutely staggering how MSNBC is delivering information. Through a prism of near hate of everything but the Democratic nominee a non-stop commercial for Obama continues on MSNBC. Shame on the National Broadcasting Company.

I saw the Illustration Friday word ‘routine’ and at the time sharks were being talked about on Glenn Beck’s program or Laura Ingraham or some such and this cartoon popped into my head.

I spent a good part of the day at McCain HQ putting together a ton of signs (See above) and various other chores.

I was busy at the cartooning board and the computer keyboard today finishing off many a project. One that I can show is this illustration I made of Jose Delbo for an event of our National Cartoonists Society Florida Chapter in a couple months. In That Jose draws lots of super heros, I posed him in a mix of that and the duties he and his wife Mabelle so kindly offered for our gathering, an Argentinian cookout. Jose will be cooking up a storm.

Taylor and Jacob haven’t made an appearance in awhile. Here they return figuring out their real estate holdings.

I’m not nutty about two page chapters and this book is pretty much all two page chapters. Something else I don’t care for is pretty much figuring out what was going on and who-done-it within a few chapters (or pages, as it is with this book). I think the story is very humorous and fun about mysterious deaths near a tiki bar somewhere near southwest Florida. It’s just very light on giving you a strong sense of setting, preferring dialogue take its place.

The book surrounds a well known former attraction, Tiki Gardens. Click here to learn more about that. What surprised me is the lack of writing about the location and really defining the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill as a place. I never could envision the bar while reading the book, so I envisioned the actual Tiki Gardens instead.

This ia a dual edge sword ecitorial. It’s not that conservatives might like Obama to define his views, but that Democrats should be terrified that Obama may not be as pro-choice as they thought. I sure found it curious that he didn’t stand up and make a stance. I realize the audience, but that shouldn’t have stopped someone firm in thier views.