Clockwork Chap

My Life Without A Jetpack - The Death Of Time

http://nojetpack.thecomicstrip.org/comics/318



Alright, I didn't actually react this way, but I did think it, and it was a fun thing to use for a strip. This happened during my "pocket watch phase", a time when I bought a handful of cheap-ass, retro-looking pocket watches, complete with chain and all. I used to carry the watch in my jeans thumb pocket, and wear the chain in addition to my wallet's chain. This lead to this strip back then:

https://nojetpack.thecomicstrip.org/comics/106/

I still use my pocket watches now and then, mostly when I'm wearing a vest for a wedding or something like that.

Music this time is "Fragments of Time", by Daft Punk with Todd Edwards, from the French duo's 2013 album Random Access Memories:

https://youtu.be/_ScM9pKlCfo

My Life Without A Jetpack - Top Brand

http://nojetpack.thecomicstrip.org/comics/316



Back in the nineties, my parents bought groceries at a wholesaler, which made sense because there were a lot of people at home... and one of them was me. I had a voracious apetite as a teenager (I still do, but I digress), and they had to buy boxes and boxes of cornflakes, for example. Still, they usually stuck to brand name stuff (store brand was not a thing here yet), either local or international. For the most part. Once, my mom bought this very cheap mayonnaise, that came in a five kilo package. She paid less at checkout... but we all paid way more afterwards.

Music this time is Rock and Roll Is Dead, from Lenny Kravitz's 1995 album Circus. This was a hard choice, because 1995 was a very prolific year in music, a year in which I listened to a lot of different bands, many of them fairly new to the music scene, or new to me. Circus was the album that introduced me to Lenny Kravitz, who would become one of my favorite musicians. I recently saw Lenny live again, and he didn't disappoint, but he didn't play any songs from this album. I guess he doesn't like it, as it's on record that he wasn't very happy while making it, and its darker sound and mood doesn't fit the image he generally likes to project:

https://youtu.be/yw8_5OYKQNA

My Life Without A Jetpack - The Volunteer.

http://nojetpack.thecomicstrip.org/comics/312



You know when you volunteer for anything, just to get out of class? Well, that's what I did. It's not that I didn't like class, but I got a bit bored sometimes. This time, I didn't last, because I like to dance, but spontaneously, not with rehearsal, and much less folk dances.

But... you know what? One of my ancestors Pedro José Viera o Pedro José de Vieyra was a 19th century Brazilian military officer who fought in the independence wars of Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Perú, and Rio Grande do Sul. He was friends with José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguay's foremost national hero, and together, they smuggled cattle before being revolutionaries. Pedro was quite the charmer and the life of the party, he loed to dance... and was nicknamed Périco el Bailarín, Périco the Dancer, because of the Pericon. Périco introduced the dance to his homeland of Brazil and, supposedly, created the traditional choreography they tried to made me dance in school over a hundred years later.

Check out some schoolchildren dancing El Pericón Nacional:

https://youtu.be/baMwZSjeONU