Better late than never. This was drawn in November, 2014. It is one of my favorite time-change cartoons. This cartoon is notable in another way: it employs a benday pattern, the dots that produce the large uniform gray areas in panels one and three. For more than a century, newspapers printed with only one color, black. Any white was the color of the newsprint itself. All between shades of gray (and gray is all there would be) were created by breaking down areas of black with the use of dots which would vary in size and pattern. This is the benday pattern, named for its 19th-century inventor, illustrator Benjamin Henry Day Jr. Benday patterns have been integral to printing ever since, including the printing of color images, a varying but similar process. I say it is notable in this case, because I seldom have used shading to achieve gray in Arlo & Janis. Usually, it’s just black and white.
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And here is Jerry Lee lewis playing the Hadacol Boogie trademark song about the addictive tonic.
https://youtu.be/dy45wq9SX_A
From back when my family and I were singing these on car trips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pM9PlteO9o
Peace,
emb, that’s one of my favorites, too. I imagine you folks were also singing this one:
https://youtu.be/aP1bvY7IqZY
Here’s another, one of the few songs I could easily pick out and sing harmony to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7gyyi-FV4
Peace,
We were still singing this one by the Kingston Trio at the end of Mike’s life. We loved the Kingston Trio, had all their albums. They were first concert I ever saw, at Penn State in 1959, huge audience. They are also the recording I accidently blasted out during my opera show broadcast hour in college.
https://youtu.be/hkCwY9kdgDg
Boy, that got me traveling down some dusty, rocky roads of memories. So many folk singers, so many songs. This is one I never forget as it is as applicable now as when I heard it in 1959. Nothing ever changes.
https://youtu.be/bp6dsKleGpU
Jackie, Merry Minuet is the one that immediately came to my mind when you mentioned Kingston Trio. (Sloop John B is another of my favorites). Jim and I still hear something on the news and start singing “They’re rioting in Africa…whistle.” Isn’t it awful how appropriate that still is, from the 60’s!!!!
Also still too true is this one from South Pacific: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZ8yOFFbAc
I agree on both songs. They hit me hard at the time both were released about same time. I never forgot either one and yes, little sseems changed. And yes, I have always sang along with the news the song’s lyrics, “There’s hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain” whistling.
Ghost is so missed but his spirit kitty is making up for it out in my yard. Everyone has been recounting cute Ghost kitty stories of his latest mischievous behavior. Wish his namesake would report in. Hope he isn’t on a honeymoon with a long lost love from his past. That would be the final straw.
Back to the past my friends.
By the way, someone at Lowe’s found my fridge which was in warehouse for delivery since Sunday morning and they are delivering it tomorrow. So, I will cook Thanksgiving dinner here. For my crew. I will pull something out of freezer for meat, seem to have most everything else and I think they are bringing some food too.
Was standing in line to get booster shots (Cuber missile crisis the year before)
at Fort Dix.
There was all sorts of elixirs for “female problems” that were 80% or more
alcohol. Yet the lady would not have Demon Rum in the house.
Walking in the past dredged up this incongruous bit of trivia. The character of Oliver, the hero of Love Story, the best selling book of 1970 and the movie, was based on a combination of vice president Al Gore and his Harvard room mate Tommy Lee Jones (the actor) who the author had known at Harvard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(novel)
This is even more bizarre than all the rumors about who The Graduate is based on (real people) and The Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurty (real people) because it was written when Gore and Jones were young and both went on to prominence
Rough night here. Heavy thunderstorms, lightning and the sound of storm warning sirens to spice things up. But we finally got much needed rain. Should be hitting Alabama today and wetting things down for Jimmy. Y’all stay safe.
emb, Jackie, Nancy, and Ruth Anne, you’ve got me singing this morning. Hopping into the shower to do a little more.
Mark, hope you and Jimmy get wet and stay safe.
Good morning Villagers….
Raining here all day, and I do need to get out in it. aauurrgghhh!!!!
But I have taken some much needed time off.
Smigz, yes I have a cat, white at that her name is Snowee and she sleeps on my left side every night, and she purrs, lays her head and paws across my left chest…hears my heart beat, I think. Very territorial, she’ll slap any of the other cats who jumps up.
Boy, you guys have dug up some old songs here. Bil and husband were talking about Earl Pitts..anyone here heard of him? See if I can pull up some U tube on him.
I’d say stay dry, but some of you need this stuff.
Glad Jackie is getting her ‘fridge today.
later…
http://cheezburger.com/8988166912
GM Old Bear…..Demon Rum, haven’t heard it called that in a long time..
Should you need to change the subject during a family gathering – but maybe not at the dinner table – you could discuss where this fits in the great scheme of things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37-3v7DyYs
The friend who made me aware of this ad said that at first he thought this might be a spoof. I found it on Air-Wick’s webpage so I guess it’s real.
After spending most of night loving on me and licking my face to keep me alive and breathing, Dickens has curled up on a pile of blankets at my hip and decided to go back to sleep. I seem to have lost the cat from the bed that started here.
Good morning. Dogs barking in back yard. Lowe’s?
I’m finally sharing a cat video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvDFnQnxbs
Resolution not good enough to see birds’ markings, but who but Black Skimmers would fly just over the water and leave a trail behind them? Close expl ore before clicking.
http://expl ore.org/live-cams/player/orcalab-base
Peterson says they are common locally in bays along both coasts. Hanson’s I. is in a strait btw. N. end of Vancouver I. and archipelago to the N. Some whales may have left for the winter. This particular vista seems to be a default when nothing is going on to follow in other directions.
Peace,
Just heard this on Pandora. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnivJb3Rv5A
TR: jump followed by the “I meant to do that” expression 🙂
Overcast and cloudy here, not raining but dismal. It was not Lowe’s. Couple of cats came in since winter seemed to have arrived.