Tag: Kilimanjaro

Kitty-manjaro

To borrow a comment from The Comics Curmudgeon:

Vanya
July 6th, 2012 at 8:15 am

FW: On some level I have to admire the incredible condescension of a writer who thinks a one-in-a-lifetime trip to Africa isn’t sufficient to sustain reader interest. Nope, better throw an abandoned kitten in there! Got to keep Granny Margaret reading.

But that’s no ordinary kitten! He’s able to keep pace with a Land Rover! Step on it, James!

Les is a Wimp

Behold Mount Kilimanjaro! Thankfully Batiuk took a little more time rendering its majesty today than he did earlier this week (see detail, right), and it actually looks quite impressive. Also impressive is the spear that James is toting; probably just something he uses to keep the tourists in line. And Summer, naturally, is representin’ in her Westview hoodie. Not shown in today’s tableaux are the 46 porters who will schlep all the gear for Les and his merry band. Les’ punchline, though lame, is met with appreciative smirks all around: are they smirking with him or at him?

Kitten: the Other White Meat

You guys already covered the whole “how the hell would a kitten survive a trip to Africa in a duffel bag thing“ yesterday. So today I’ll share an SoSF Exclusive: meet the real-life Dan. My trusty Google skills led me to this article on the Staten Island Advance website about Danny Messina, who was part of TB’s Kilimanjaro climbing party in February of 2010. Dan is senior vice president and COO of the CentraState Healthcare System, and is on the board of directors at Seton Hall University (where I found his headshot, above). The article gives some details about the trip, and there are some photos, too, including this one of Messina with the “Pulitzer Prize-winning [sic] cartoonist”.

Debagging the Feline

“Dan” has not been been having the best luck with the local wildlife. Yesterday a baboon made off with his passport, and now today another critter invades his tent. Make that three critters: a black cat (oh, great) and Summer and Les, who barge into Dan’s tent and proceed to go through his luggage.

Note: today’s post title was suggested by TB’s blog entry from 10/29/11.