Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 18, 2016

Well, NYC is also nicknamed “the city that ne’er sleeps.”

Big City ways versus smaller town habits!

And I’m glad that this arc is continuing!

Who goes to bed THAT early, ANYwhere?

10:30? They are just getting started at that time in NYC. It’s late to bed early to rise there. Not much sleep. Definitely need strong coffee.

A hat stand? Wow

Get up and out of bed, you wont need the extra panties if you sleep through the adventure

This week, Luann and Bernice go to Club Foote (I see what they did there), and meet Pru’s friend Molly.

it is time to party. turn up the heat

what kind of college students are these 2 if they think 10:30 is late? Late is like….there is no late, there is only early: you go out for the night and spend time until its 3-4 am and by then its early in the morning

Give them a break they have been out walking in the city and sightseeing. Ever hear of jet lag, either?

Last poll up: One last poll

If you went to New York City this summer, where would you visit first?1) 35 votes – Other2) 18 votes – Central Park3) 17 votes – A really good deli4) 17 votes – Times Square5) 15 votes – Broadway6) 13 votes – MOMA7) 6 votes – Staten Island8) 4 votes – Rockefeller Center9) 2 votes – HarlemOther: The 9/11 Memorial (many votes for this one); JFK so I could leave again (a few votes for this one); The Village; Ground Zero; I don’t want to go east of Chicago; Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; Flushing Chinatown; Any deli piling the pastrami more than two in. high on rye!; Bronx zoo; Try a pizza at Di Fara; 5 Star Hotel!; Freedom Tower – 9/11; The New Whitney Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (not the modern art one); The Cloisters; B&H Photo Store; National September 11 Memorial & Museum; The WTC Memorial, then lunch al fresco at the South Seaport

Aaaaaand her transformation is complete!. Bernice is a completely new person!

It’s a family strip so the slinky outfits won’t be too slinky. Unfortunately the party panties will probably be left to the reader’s imagination.

I puzzled over “Club Foote” for far longer than I should have, and when I suddenly got it, beer came through my nose.

A lot of clubs deliberately keep a line of people wanting to get in to maintain the illusion of being popular

They are still exhausted from the trip up and no time to rest. I think it’s rude of Pru to make their schedule on the spur of the moment. They’ll stay up all night tomorrow. Let them rest

Luyank will love NYC yet wont miss it when she goes back. as for Ms. Ra, we can Z she don’t care for it a bit already.

Hopefully, Pru"Who Can Help Loving Her?"Dence has started outliving her lovability.

Lots of people who have to leave for work by 6:00 or 6:30 need to get up by 5:00 or 5:30, and the lucky ones among them still manage to get up to 7 hours sleep by retiring at 10:30. (Most of them routinely make do with 5 to 6 hours sleep, though.) Dunno about the DeGroots – Luann certainly doesn’t strike me as an early riser. Bernice maybe gets up early to start her R.A. busybody routine at first light.

Hey Bernice, sleep on your side so that you don’t snore. I can’t imagine sleeping on my back. I have to be on my side.

“I want to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep…”

An hour past my bedtime. But I get up at 12:00, 2:30, 4:30. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

This rings true for me. When I visited NYC and stayed with a local yuppie friend, dinners at 9 PM and fun after that were the norm. Pru has just forgotten that most of the world doesn’t live like that. Nonetheless, if Pru is making all these arrangements from the West Coast, it’s 1:30 a.m. back there. She’s looking awfully chipper (and dressed) for 1:30 a.m.!

So….what are you calling her so EARLY for?

Well….“Time to make the donuts!”….

Yay, the arc is continuing!

7I can understand the feeling of being tired from the airport travel itself, so I can imagine a relatively early night the first evening. Something seems odd about the drawing style of the gape-mouthed Bernie and the similar drawing style of the gape-mouthed Stacy from last week. Not quite sure what it is, but it seems IMO distinctly different from Greg’s normally wonderful, clean, very pleasant style. It seems almost as if the gape-mouthed drawings were done by someone else. I sincerely doubt they were, but…. it really to me just seems “different” than the usual manner and detail of Greg’s drawing style. Perhaps it is some sort of homage to Charles Schultz? :) It has (to me) more of a “Peanuts” sort of look.For me, the nicest part of the drawing in the last panel today is the showing of the outline of the lamps of the room in white. I think that was done really in an attractive, interesting way that highlights Greg’s drawing skills. He had to make very careful decisions about the color and style of that drawing to still allow it to imbue the feel of a darkened room. I think that was wonderful.

It’s like Evans has never met or seen a teenager…

Oh good grief!

“Early To Bed, Early To Rise”“The Night Is Still A Late Teen”“She’s Just A Small Town Girl…..” (♪)“Don’t Start Believin’ " (♬)“Shakeup In Your Wake up”“In The Dark"“No Sleep For You!”“One Good Nocturn Deserves Another”“Don’t Be Alarmed!”“One Pru, Over The Cuckoo’s Clock”“Moonlighting”Or…“Adamant Evening”

If they just went through all or most of the museums on Museum Mile, I’m not surprised they’re wiped out.

Typical New York day for the go-getter

For the Type 1 Diabetics here (given there are at least two very kind ones in the Luann community) there is a major advance:

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2016/Pages/Islet-Transplantation.aspx

A short nap before hitting the town again may not be a bad idea!

As a one-time New Yorker, the expression “Museum Mile” is new to me, but I assume it was borrowed from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. It would have to refer to the museums on or shortly-off Fifth Avenue: The Frick Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, going north, and I assume the Museum of Modern Art, a bit to the west. Not sure where the new Whitney is, and I have no idea what else would be included in the guide books. Only a guide book for newcomers to NY with very limited time would recommend seeing more than one museum in a day. Maybe two for the indefatigable.

Anyway, museums tend to have very hard floors, and standing on them in front of art works can be hard on the legs. Even if you keep moving, serious museum going can be exhausting, even if you are only twenty and eager. My point is that of course Luanne and Bernice are going to be tired. If Luanne wakes Bernice and they respond to Pru’s urging I will think less of all three of them. I think L&B should decide their own movements in New York. Serendipity and adventure leading to their own discoveries might be a lot better and more fun than going on Pru’s remote controlled tour—especially with revisions on short notice late at night.

Luann should go by herself, and since she has a connection for 2 select a good looking guy from the line to go in with. Live a Little Luann!!

Anyone who wakes up at 5:30 am goes to bed before 11 pm.

I think these girls need a crash course on what it means to be young college women…sleep when older.

I’m retired and a night owl. The world is a quieter place in the wee hours and mornings always seem so bleak. Now, if Pru straightened her hair and got some eyebrows, she could be a pretty hot lady and a lot of guys would be trying to “convert” her to the hetrosexual way of life.

It literally is the city that never sleeps, been there done that. Some streets are just as busy at 3AM as they are at 3PM

This is at least their third night in NYC. They got in and went out to dinner with Ex-stacy, the next day to the bakery, art exhibit and zip for two hours, and today they spent all day on Museum Mile.

If Lu and Bern are going to run into Delta at a primary political rally, they’d better see her tomorrow!

In bed by 10:30? That’s not realistic; today’s young folks stay up at least until midnight, mostly texting each other.

The whole concept here is to portray innocent, wholesome, sweet, “good” Pitts girls as they are confronted by the NYC den of iniquity that is the breeding ground of wicked theater people like Pru (and soon, Quill). When Luann and Bern do get out of bed and go to this hot club where Pru has arranged for them to get in, they will go to the bar and order a glass of buttermilk.

pointspread said, about 3 hours ago@JimT8Was up in NYC last week & part of 5th avenue is signed “museum mile”, and you are right, it is where the Guggenheim, Met, etc are..Thanks, Pointspread.

LOL! Puzz, I have bilateral skew z clubfeet with varus ankles and did not mind the joke at all. In fact, i coukd see such a club having a footwear requirement of colorful hitops with low heels or low wedges! I would wear my wedge hitop sneakers that have multicolor stripes along with dotted socks that match two of the colors.

JPuzzleWhiz… sometimes, when I am unsure, I ask questions that may seem obvious and foolish to others. But, it is the only way I learn and try to improve… so:In your “Club Foote” post…. were you being satirical or serious?Usually, I can “read” whether something is meant as satire or serious fairly easily. But that post where you were talking about Club Foote….. not so sure. I could see your comment being meant both ways.So, until you tell me otherwise, I am going to presume you were being satirical.

Opps, the ANKLES fold over and sprain a lot…Sorry.

I get it. Luann lets her friend sleep while she goes clubbing on her own. She gets lost on the sub way and is never heard from again. Strip ends.

Here you go. Here is the Boston MTA song that was perhaps triggering your imagination:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0

Now where did I put those party panties?

Seriously?! College kids, in bed by 10:30 PM?Never, that’s when! Ever heard of Second Wind?Ever heard of Party Hearty, then sleep in the next day?

This trip to The Big City has taken an unexpected turn. The buildup started out with portents of a Walk On The Wild Side (with “party panties”, slinky dresses, weird museums, theater people with strange names) but it’s devolved into a literal snooze-fest.

there was no “itinerary” or “plan”, there were suggestions.

club foote?lol

Here’s the song’s political background.

For a sprinter, until the ankles go, bilateral flexible clubfoot that has been approached w PT and bracing early on is a distinct advantage due to the springiness of the feet. Not every difference is a shortcoming in all ways.

That was a typo, read it as 1:30, I am.

Has anyone ever laughed at a “bald joke”? Has anyone listened to a song parody (Weird Al/Collections curated by Dr. Dimento/Stan Freberg/Alan Sherman/They Might Be Giants,etc)? Then chances are, we’ve all listened to/been entertained by/still reference something similar to what was mentioned, today.- If one was actually or directly teased in the joke, made to feel inferior, that’s one thing. But if someone mentions a joke where a life situation is mentioned, only in general, perhaps we should check and see if we’re drawing too many lines in the sand. Maybe soon, the mere mention of the words themselves would get banned. Then, nobody would be able to make a joke about anything …even if someone, somewhere (even unbeknownst to us) didn’t mind….someone who perhaps appreciated it, as their own coping mechanism, in dealing with it….

That particular episode of “Walker” (The Big Bingo Bamboozle) is on right now on INSP channel (#259) on DISH.

A fitting tribute to her.

R. I. P.

Most people nowadays now the song from its use in the musical 42nd Street (which was based on a compilation of old show tunes). Here’s the famous rendition by Jerry Orbach.

Now, passing “mile 140" on the “Intercomment-al Hwy”….

SPOILER ALERT

Late night activities are, ahem, a foot. A good idea? We shall see.

Spoiler: if exhaustion appears blasé, then Bernice will be a hit.

C-PAP for Bernice! Breathe-Rite Strips For Bernice!

Suddenly Prudence has a rack