Now, don’t be offended. You know I’m not talking about you, but this old cartoon from five years ago is an example of the problems I sometimes cause for myself. Arlo’s words in the last panel, “I figure grape jelly/wine…,” makes the joke very subtle. The reader must fill in a blank. I know—I certainly hope—that many readers would have no problem doing this, but looking back I know a lot of readers probably were left thinking “I don’t get it.” This could have been avoided by having Arlo say, “I figure grape jelly/wine, what’s the difference?” I have had to learn over the years that a cartoonist can’t be too obvious.
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ex-prof, I have long adored Shelby Foote, for the very same reasons you’ve just remarked on and more. To hear him discussing Faulker is a real treat. To hear him discuss any Civil War battle makes it come alive. May he rest in peace.
Rick, I hope you’re wrong as well. Things tend to cycle, the pendulum swings, it’s just the way things roll. I’m sure you remember before Y2K the frenzy of doomsayers predicting the downfall of civilization and a brutal world where all would have to beg, steal or barter for goods and services. A little austerity probably wouldn’t hurt this country, but I tend to be an optimistic person.
GR 😉 ..saw that…and I’ll raise you five:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-w9OclUnns
As one commenter stated…it was one of Scorsces’s underrated achievements….
Last one….GR 😉 …you mentioned “making out” music referencing Teddy….I beg to differ…this is the ultimate “making out” tune….the emotion rises as does the tempo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-w9OclUnns
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…and to all….a good night
Debbe, I didn’t know the drummer in The Band was the vocals guy until I watched that video. 😮
Meh, I hate reading about the Civil War. Depressing. And once again I shall go to bed with NO MUSIC. It is distracting to us reading types.
Mark…..would you like to get that one from DellaMaie…Cannot get his name at this time….
I’m trying to stay up a little longer…a little little later…than usual. 🙂
I hate sleep deprivation…..and I have it every couple of ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Went to Rio 😉
I wonder what a Welch’s Flintstone grape jelly jar is worth these days?
Never mind they are between $5 -$20 on e-bay.
And just to tie The Band, the late Levon Helm and the Civil War all together…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
About children and music: I LOVE the Eagles. My oldest daughter won four front row seats for their reunion concert in Houston. Had to scrounge around to find anyone to go with her.
I found out later and said I would have given anything to have seen them live.
Daughter said “Do you know who they are?” When she and first husband broke up she played “The Girl He Left Behind” until she wore it out.
Love, Jackie Monies
DellaMae: “I’m sure you remember before Y2K the frenzy of doomsayers predicting the downfall of civilization and a brutal world where all would have to beg, steal or barter for goods and services.”
The “frenzy of doomsayers” was largely media hype Iit is well to remember, however, that there was a Y2K problem, and more than a few hours and dollars were spent correcting systems to avoid failures here and there. But those hours and dollars spent solved the problem never made headlines.
The problem would not have existed if certain govt. employees had not been so short-sighted that they didn’t want to waste extra bytes on digits 1 and 9 at the beginnings of dates. If we had been entering the full year, 1999, instead of just 99 into files and programs, the Y2K problem would not have existed. And what short-sighted group within our socialistic govt. insisted on just allotting two digits for the year?
Eagles were great… sorta before my time but that didn’t stop us from listening to them in high school.. a lot. Classic!
Jackie, I love that story you told about being in Vicksburg Park, and feeling like you’d traveled back in time. I love doing that. For a very long time I stood in the field at Gettysburg where Pickett’s Charge occurred, looking across and up the hill where so many had to make that insane ill-fated stampede. Looking at it now, it’s hard to imagine why Lee ever thought it was a good idea, it’s uphill and totally in the open. My understanding is Lee was somewhat sick at the time, though. And he never planned for Gettysburg as the battlefield to start with.
Good music choice, Ghost.
Lily, sorry you don’t like Civil War history or music. I feel like there’s a lot about life to be learned from each. 🙂
Thanks Ghost! Great song. I have always loved it.
History is what makes us who we are. Without sounding like an ad for Ancestry.com, when you start to find out who and what you came from it often answers questions about yourself.
I, for instance, discovered a branch of my family so famous they are taught as part of Black History. They became school teachers, educators, abolitionists, writers and editors of newspapers. Streets and public buildings are named for them. I never knew they existed until I began to learn my own history.
Lots of times you will discover things you feel are wrong and unpleasant in history. But this ancestress also made me proud. She bought her father’s slave, whom she moved to Tennessee with and freed, their children and descendants made a difference in history and their own lives.
Her children and family fought in the Civil War also. So did the family in the Carolinas. Some on one side, some on another.
Love, Jackie Monies
DellaMae and Debbe, according to Wikipedia ( and Ghost) that would be Levon Helm.
It was in the media a whole lot, emeritus, but I knew people who became completely unhinged about it, hoarding food and medical supplies. It really seemed to crack wide open some neurosis in our country at the time.
Jackie and Debbe, here is one I really like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jqKrcCKU4
I didn’t hear this till after my marriage broke up, but once I heard it I found it fits well.
Re:, I was surprised to see that instead of the economy growing by .1% last quarter it shrank by 1% but it’s no big deal:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/29/investing/gdp-economy/
So, don’t worry, be happy!
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Here’s a lovely video making the rounds:
http://www.cnet.com/news/kids-react-to-a-vintage-apple-ii-computer/?ttag=fbwl
I remember it well. I even bought a 5 MB drive for it at one point to create a database for a pharmacist friend.
In the 1960’s our university computer took up an entire huge room. My cousin got his doctoral degree in computer analysis and we thought he was crazy. Where and for whom would he work? Actually that was a problem for some time. He died very young and that is sad, as he never saw what the computer became.
How soon we become part of history! Just about the time the clock ticks off another hour.
Love, Jackie Monies
Found my favorite A&J cartoon on computers. http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/08/22#.U4gQIWOWCO
And I hope that finds it!
Love, Jackie Monies
While attending an upgrade/training conference for our in-house computer system in the fall of 1999, someone asked the provider company’s lead support rep, a feisty redhead, what were her plans for December 31st. “I don’t know about anyone else,” she replied, “but I’m going to party like it’s 1999.”
You older folks and/or pop-musically literate folks will get that reference. 🙂
Ghost – oh yes, The Artist Now Known As Prince Again. “Two thousand zero zero, party over, oops, out of time.”
Which has always bugged me because actually if you add two zeroes to two thousand… 😉
Math obviously wasn’t TAFKAP’s strong suit.