Category: Beartoons

Coloring Your Gray Hair Cartoon

Time to admit something in today’s cartoon. I have male patterned ~~baldness~~ grayness. Yep, I have a beautiful head of hair but for some reason I started turning gray long before my much older brothers. Turning gray (or “grey” for my UK friends) doesn’t bother me except for the fact that one side of my head has a larger patch of gray than the other side. So while I didn’t want to dye it back to remove all the gray I decided to try a few things.

First up was Just for Men which was fine but it became way too dark and much more than my normal hair color. Yikes. Then I tried Touch of Gray which did a better job of keeping toward my natural hair color but it didn’t last that long. With both these products once you open the package, you pretty much can’t use the tube of color again so it really was a waste of money since I used so little in one spot. Both of these products smell like the beauty shop my grandmother used to go to but the good thing is you immediately shampoo out the excess and for the most part the smell is gone.

Most recently I turned to Grecian Formula which promises to gradually remove the gray hairs. Put it in dry hair and let it go. Problem is, just like the other products mentioned, Grecian Formula smells. Since they encourage you to keep it in rather than shampoo it out the stench stays with you. Plus I noticed that if I didn’t shampoo it out each day that it seemed to transfer to my pillow. I move a bunch in my sleep so invariably I am going to end up at some point with my face (and more importantly) lips in the pillow. So I would wake up with a horrible taste in my mouth. Not sure what I was ingesting, I looked at the ingredients to find that the active one is “Lead Acetate”. Now I am not chemist but I can recall the ban on lead paint as a kid so ingesting lead anything can’t be a good thing. While the company states it has research that Grecian Formula is safe and continues to sell in the U.S. the formulation with lead acetate, back in 2006 the ingredient was banned in Canada and the UK as it was suspected of being a carnicogen.

On the bright side if no one comes near you because of the smell, they can’t see your gray hair. I think I’ll just use a Sharpie from now on. 🙂

January 20, 2014
Porcupine Dating

Miss me? Today’s cartoon was inspired by….. well I am not really sure. Just one of those things that pops into your head at 12AM when you are trying to sleep. Hmmmm…how would it be if a porcupine’s mating ritual including having to pick up a woman in a bar. Don’t ask, just be happy I posted something for you to see here besides a three week old Christmas cartoon.

January 13, 2014
How Egg Nog is Made

This cartoon is for all the Egg Nog haters in the world including my wife who instead of calling it Elf Piss, jokingly always refers to Egg Nog as Phlegm. I, on the other hand, can’t get enough of the stuff and wonder why consumption seems to be limited only to the holiday season.

Speaking of holidays, I am taking one so there will be no updates until after the new year here and I will be absent from visiting other’s blogs for the time being. So as a bonus, Michael Pohrer of Tooned In has updated his guest cartoon he did for me in a past year. Have a safe and enjoyable Christmas and New Years and I will see you in 2014.

December 24, 2013
Snow Balls

And here you thought snow balls came from the ground. Oh no my friends. The fresh ones come right off the vine…er snowman.

I have a feeling others have done this joke before me only cuz it seemed so obvious. I am sure my astute readers will point it out.

December 16, 2013
The Spirits of Christmas

Sure in a Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three Spirits/Ghosts. What if the spirits that were foretold by his deceased partner Jacob Marley turned out to be alcohol? May you all have a very spirited Christmas (or whatever you celebrate).

December 9, 2013
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow

Jon Esparza over at Jon’s Crazy Stuff put out a call for cartoons falling into several categories. I of course chose Frosty coming to life in my own twisted way. That dog was always around in the Frosty special and you can bet he relieved himself at some point in the snow. Why not right before he was built. Follow Jon at JonsCrazyTweets and check out all the other cartoon entries at Jon’s Crazy Stuff.

December 2, 2013
RIP Bo Lumpkin

There are some people you meet in life that will have little impact on you. And then there are those who you never meet face to face that have a great impact. Bo Lumpkin was one of the latter. Bo was the purveyor of Gatorhead and I’ve Been Thinking, where he most recently began posting his jewelry that he sold locally.

Bo’s encouragement and consistent commenting not only on my site but all over the webcomic sphere was very much appreciated and his nuggets of wisdom will be missed. Here is one of my favorites.

I recall an email conversation where he lamented about the lack of visitors he received to his sites. To which I had to explain to him that for all it seems, my numbers weren’t much better haha. But somehow that didn’t stop him from consistently visiting others site to drop a bit of Bo Wisdom. And then something amazing happened. Bo Lumpkin grew into his own character that others wanted in their webcomics.

Barry B made a YouTube animation using Bo as the main character. Michael Pohrer did his own version of Bo’s Creatures of Habit feature. George Ford had Bo make an appearance or two at Addanac City. And then you have JP Keslensky of Bug Pudding who named his recurring character of an alligator, Bo Gator. Michael Phelps of Life on 66 also named a character after Bo and even modeled the look on the real guy. I am sure I am missing others but you get the idea.

I know if there is something after this world that Bo is jabbing away at anyone that will listen bragging on his family and dropping some wisdom. If so, Bo put in a good word for those of us who can never live up to the example you set here in this world.

November 26, 2013
Hyenas LOL each Other

This tidbit of information came from my Google Plus friend Mary Zeman. She sent me this article that explains how bacteria left behind by one hyena can be picked up by other hyenas. And from this article: “Other hyenas that sample these leavings can sniff a wealth of information, including the animal’s sex, social status, willingness to mate and more. ”

The question is does this form of primitive (or advanced) social media among hyenas also carry over into other animal species (including Basset Hounds like Mary owns). And you thought your dog just liked to smell other dogs butts.

November 14, 2013
Music to my Udders

Here is something you probably didn’t know. Researchers have concluded and farmers have known for years that playing music to cows can increase milk production around 5%. Now some cows prefer hard rock and some prefer classical, but all cows agree that they won’t produce if Justin Bieber’s music is played. Ok I made that last part up.

November 8, 2013
Party Pooper

So what age is it that you can’t wait to leave your own party because you are tired. We hosted a party this weekend. I can remember in my 20’s when we didn’t even go out to the bars until 10PM. Now 10PM is the time we are coming home. I don’t know how many more years I have before I dye my hair blue and am eating dinner at 5PM (with a coupon).

In my 20’s I could go to bed with a dirty place after a party and deal with it in the morning. Now in your 30’s/40’s, somehow you get all responsible and feel the need to spend an hour cleaning up before you go to bed so you don’t have to deal with it in the morning.

October 28, 2013