I don’t have a lot of time this morning, but I did want to post something, as service here has been spotty lately. I’m not sure my subconscious wasn’t at work when I chose today’s classic A&J. I’ve been fighting with my computer lately, plus the mockingbirds have begun their seasonal concert. Except, in reality, they sing about 3 a.m. For hours. I actually have gone downstairs in the middle of the night to flush one from the camellia bush below my bedroom window. I didn’t kill him, but I did scare the bejeebers out of him. Is that a sin?
The Mockingbird’s Shrill
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413 responses to “The Mockingbird’s Shrill”
Ghost, in the link you posted, were you referring to the crashed drug plane or the escaped mental patient named Michael W. Jackson? One story was right below the other. Either would make an interesting tale. Carl Hiassen would find a way to combine them into one, most likely.
I think that my favorite in that series was “The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything.” Not only a great change of pace, it’s SF, and done very well, TYVM.
OF quiescent; webcam operator wandering around NW. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
“Is that a sin?”
I don’t know.
Better ask a Finch.
Laughing at us all here. I heard a lot of jokes on that one but yours is best, Ghost.
No, NodaK Wayne, it isn’t that the rest of yall wouldn’t know the word. It’s just that Ghost is only one I could picture using it correctly in context of conversation being carried on.
Now when I really took a lot of jokes was when the non. English speaking seaman was shown on all the channels os Houston t.v. stations in a reinactment of being defrauded of 37,000 in cash in a taxi parked in my flower shop parking lot while taxi driver pretended to be checking on how soon one of the prostitutes would be available!
Unfortunately, both times coverage clearly showed and identified house and shop.
Sorry, Jackie. I’m sure that must have negatively impacted your shop’s “seamen” business.
TruckerRon, what a fun story about the bridal triplets! I have a feeling that the confusion is only just beginning.
Didn’t scare off any of my astronauts, however. They all have the right stuff.
😀
Debbe 😉 Because you ain’t seen me yet. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo
Jean dear 😉 Because you’ve been quiet lately. And because I always think of you when I hear this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ
emb is out of the loop again, likely / his aversion to TV. Who is the lummox on the latest New Yorker cover? On the contents page, the cover is titled “Everybody who’s anybody.” Are all the other little kids nobody?
Peace, emb
JJ: Are they MOCKING you?
If they are,then maybe My Cousin Vinny can get you out of jail.
Did a scan & have to get my ID back.
emb, I think it’s just a reference to how popular clubs will post bouncers to only allow the “right” people in the door. Cover art not supposed to represent any particular person, most likely. Hope your weather is quiet. Ours is rumbling and rainy right now.
A nice bit of Jethro Tull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qskwZyV0SYo
Doesn’t it just make you To Kill A Mockingbird?
There. I said it.
I’m sorry.
Speaking of nice music:
The greatest title music to a John Wayne film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcfGZhV1pYs
“The Sons of Katie Elder” composed by Elmer Bernstein, who was a genius at scoring. (He also gave us “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Great Escape” and “True Grit,” among many others.)
The film, while enjoyable, is not as epic as the title music, which is everything you could want for a John Wayne film. Bernstein said he really enjoyed scoring for a John Wayne film, “because then you can write big music.” Fifty years later, it is still big music.
Enjoy.
Just to prove I am here
If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed
Old Bear, that’s the spirit!
There was a scene where JW hit a man in the face with a pickaxe handle.
The next day the guy had no broken nose, no black eyes, no broken teeth, nothing.
Those cowboys were tough in the old days.
Mark, thank you so much for that link to Jethro Tull. I am home finally for a few days and have easier access to youtube and music and I just clicked on entire play list. Really enjoying it.
About John Wayne movies, I live on the banks of the South Canadian fork, as used in the original True Grit. I know very well what every scene in the movie should have looked like, I live there.
Of course, being a John Wayne movie is was NOT shot in Oklahoma or Arkansas where it is set but in some high Rocky Mountain locale that in no possible way resembles reality.
There is a true specific geographically verifiable piece of land, rock or water for entire movie but I must have seen it at least ten times with my dedicated JW fan husband and never realized what Oklahoma actually looked like!
Reality goes out the door in a JW movie.
Old Bear, do you know what the GI’s call the toilet paper issued with the MRE packs? John Wayne. Because it’s rough, tough and won’t take anything off anybody!
emb, agreed; that’s a generic doorman/bouncer keeping out the “nobody” kids. Makes about as much sense to screen the kids waiting to get into a birthday party as it does to screen older ones trying to get into an “in” club. (See Groucho Marx, re clubs)
OB, that was also “The Sons of Katie Elder”–search that title plus “hey” on YouTube for a clip of it. Good ol’ George Kennedy was on the receiving end of that handle, and as you say, we seriously underestimated how tough he was! 😉