Do you remember Top Cat? I suppose Hanna Barbera cartoons were among the first animated cartoons produced exclusively for television as opposed to airing repurposed movie cartoons. I’m not saying they all were great, although many of them were clever, but they were ubiquitous. As a professional cartoonist, their influence on me probably was far greater than I realize. I wish you a contemplative, restorative and happy Memorial Day. Tomorrow, I will try to return to a more reliable routine around here.
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Hello all – Sorry I’ve been absent of late. For a variety of reasons I fell behind on posts, and felt guilty for not catching up again before reposting. Still not caught up, but stopping in anyway.
Thank you all for sympathy about Blacklight. I shall not go into detail, but it was a traumatic passing. On a brighter note, she somehow taught Thunder most of her bad habits before she passed. I grumble, “Really Blacklight? You had to teach her to do *that* too?” About once a week.
Work is still going well. It has its moments, but so does everything. Now that the weather is warming for fair, working in a refrigerated building becomes more enjoyable.
Hope everyone had an enjoyable Mother’s day. My aunt had a combined party for her mom, my grandma (her stepmom) at the nursing home where she works and they live. Wonderful gathering. Everyone had left, and as my aunt turned down the covers for her mom (Marie, the blind dynamo), she caught her foot in a cord the staff had carelessly allowed to loop across the floor. My aunt fell and broke her hip. Surgery was the next day, and now she is rehabbing in the same place she fell. My cousin is making sure the establishment is covering the bills – not workman’s comp, but negligence. Looped cords in a blind resident’s room is a huge oversight.
Will do better about checking in (and getting caught up again). Hope everyone is well.
Welcome back Mindy! We have worried.
Take time to have some fun. Do things for yourself.
“Frog sticks”? WOuld that be slang for frog legs? or something else? whatever, the important thing is Janis is having fun. 🙂
French fries. French people are called frogs. The sticks refers to the way potatoes are cut into stick shapes for fries.
ah hah!
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Mindy, it’s so good to see your post! My niece and SIL have three cats between them, and when they speak of them, I think of Blacklight and Thunder. Sending prayers and good thoughts to your aunt.
Jimmy, I loved Top Cat when I was a kid. My best friend lived next door. We would get washed up and into our jammies, then she would come over and we’d sit on the floor watching the program together.
Morphy: The USAF Club version of Little Annie Fanny was almost frighteningly true to the Playboy version. Although my memory of her facial features has dimmed a bit, either due to the number of years that have passed or because they are overshadowed by memories of her “other” features, I do recall that she had the same wide-eyed expression, the same pouty mouth, and the same blonde hair-do. And of course the “other” features were comparable as well.
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this, but one night at closing time our LAF, wearing her brief black two-piece fringed go-go outfit, approached a buddy and me, said her ride couldn’t make it, and asked if we could give her a lift to her apartment. Being the gentlemen we were, we of course agreed. No hanky-panky ensued, but we did learn that our LAF and Playboy’s LAF seemed to have similar intellects.
Ghost has been a wonderful nurse rehabilitation custodian. I am down seven pounds from pre-surgery weight and am back doing all my leg exercises for not yet operated on right leg. I need to have him dig out my hand, wrist and leg ankle weights.
Have been looking at recumbent bikes for house here at recommendation of my physical therapist. After I finish with in home therapy we start the out patient and with Ghost driving me I plan to go to Tulsa for rehab at the therapy center owned by my orthopedic surgery group.
I already consider this a success.
About Little Annie Fanny. I do not look like her nor ever have. The real Playboy Bunnies I have known did not either. In early 60s we were all natural, no surgery enhancement. Clean cut sweet girl next door types, the kind of girls you saw running for campus beauty Queens or Miss Mississippi.
We were college girls, not typical waitress material. Janice could have been one.
When my youngest daughter put on her “Looks Like A Bunny” suit as a cocktail waitress for the casino, those suits had BA, MA and PHD bodies often filling the push up bras.
Humpbacked whales are back. Peace,
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Busy day back at it, after the weekend, so came by later than usual. Pattern is to read here, then drop the counted link here for Jimmy, to get to GoComics. Think he said that may be worth a ten-thousandth of a cent or so. Am looking forward to learning about ‘Frog Sticks’.
But had to say, Ghost, your fond recollection of a true to form LAF had me LAFfing in the reading, thanks.
And Jackie, I always thought the drawings were pretty well gravity defying, in the way helium airships just don’t look right. In the case of the fictional LAF, that may be where she stored her resupply for being an ‘airhead’.
Comedy sells because it’s funny, not because it’s accurate or fair.
Glad to read you Mindy! Expected you were busy. Hope that has been mostly a good thing.
Hah! Thanks for the heads up.
Now I have the diner scene from Five Easy Pieces in my head. The one where Jack Nicholson gives very specific directions for achieving dry toast without regard to cost. Classic bit of work. Fundamental to my image of Jack Nicholson. Can’t recall the actress who played the stubborn then flustered waitress.
Am feeling so much better that I am getting involved helping Ghost slice and dice, plan food. A woman mixing with his cooking is a new Ghostly experience I think.
Tonight we are having oriental shrimp and snow peas stir fry that includes mushrooms, water chestnuts, green and sweet onions, ginger, garlic, carrot sticks.
Tomorrow we are having stir fried chicken breasts and turnips, red peppers and similar goodies topped with peanuts. Here is recipe.
http://www.tasteofthesouthmagazine.com/stir-fried-chicken-turnips/
I am definitely losing weight and Ghost appears to be as well. And I feel so good. That is not pain meds speaking.
Kind regards to Lorna Thayer, she did not have an extensive career, but I hope she enjoyed it.
The variety involved in the menu makes tonight a bit of a disappointment here. I’ll have to do more shopping and try harder tommorow.
Just found a great recipe for Vietnamese noodle bowl with lemon grass caramelized chicken, very fresh and healthy.
http://www.recipetineats.com/vietnamese-chicken-noodle-bowl/
Ghost and I love Vietnamese food but Tulsa has been closest source. I just found out that Fort Smith, Arkansas which is 60 miles away has more Vietnamese restaurants than Tulsa with more extensive menus. So guess where we are going soon?
In meantime I learned to cook their foods when I moved here 20 years ago out of desperation and hunger.
We will get fresh bean sprouts in Tulsa for this and lots of herbs, basil, cilantro. I add cucumbers, radishes, crispy onions, peanuts. Love it!
Time sails on, and leaves nothing but illusions in its wake.
He was standing there, posing for a reissue of the real nickel, but then hunkered down, apparently for a cud-chew. Prairie dogs in backgr. Peace,
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Jackie:
Thanks for the yummy food photos. First one says, ‘Crunchy turnips stand in for water chestnuts in this Southern-inspired stir-fried dish.’ I’d prefer turnips to insipid w. chestnuts any day, and also suggest girasols as a good substitute. We had a perennial grove of them at our old house.
Peace,
I love Jerusalem artichokes, also known as girasols. I used to grow them and cook with them a lot including as a side dish with herbs as I recall.
Today Ghost told me I had learned a new word with my surgery and narcotics involving digestion, “flatulence.”
I told him I’d known that word a loooong time.
It well may have been girasols that taught it as that is result of eating them!
Here are photos of Ghost and my stir fry tonight. It was pretty and delicious, plus we have lunch in leftovers.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1793197250992008&id=100009052528502
I never knew that meaning of “girasol”; I had been limited to its meaning as a kind of opal. Thanks for the broadening.
Here is an article that explains all about the “fartichoke” as the Gira sole or Jeruselum artichoke is known. In the 1960s an American farmer invented the name Sunchoke and popularized them among the 60s hippy natural foods eaters.
I got turned on to them by Weight Watcher’s back in 60s who allowed no bread or potatoes in the diet back then. The Jeruselum artichoke was allowed however.
Read the article. Girasole is from sunflowers.
http://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/do-jerusalem-artichokes-cause-diarrhea.
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Like a bad penny I’m back.
Adult Truths
1. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong
19. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
Morning musings… what has happened to Ghost’s all-girl staff? Or was he just “funnjng”us?