Last week’s eclipse with associated travel and general disruption played havoc with my summer schedule here, abbreviated as it is. However, I’ll try to get back on track today. Longtime visitors know major hurricanes usually are noted here ever since Katrina. Now, we have Harvey, and I don’t have anything to add. It is truly awful. I can’t imagine what metropolitan Houston will be like going forward. We probably will talk more about this, but I stand by my statement: I don’t have much to add. It’s overwhelming.
150 responses to “…and whole milk!”
David:
Good to have straight scoop / history of my favorite window treatment.
Site’s author and newlywed Abigail Sawyer needs an update on New York’s ‘RCA Building, better known as Radio City,’ but I’d have to join Twitter to write her. I grew up in Manhattan, and Universal Pictures’ home office, where Mom worked from the late ’20s until ’62 or so, was in the RCA Bldg. for many years. I met her there often. Radio City was one name for the complex of bldgs. in Rockefeller Ctr., but I never knew anyone refer to the RCA Bldg. as Radio City.
The famous movie palace in the next bldg. N. on 6th Ave. was the Radio City Music Hall. First saw ‘Fantasia’ there, and later ‘Random Harvest’, w/ Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman, and a few other shows. And of course, ‘The Rockettes’ [now in my dictionary]. Greer had Rockettes legs and was a great actress.
Peace,
Found this on a business site the other day.
Wish I’d thought of it.
“Illegitimi non carborundum”
During my Young Americans in Concert tour we got to see a showing of Peter O’Toole in “Murphy’s War.” The movie was preceded by a Rockettes’ performance. Later that evening we put on our concert in Carnegie Hall, so I have played it once.
Aww! Short video of baby tamarins [dictionary]. Peace,
http://www.startribune.com/como-zoo-s-twin-tamarins-become-gophers/442381743/
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the road lately, due to traveling to medical appointments for Jackie. I wouldn’t mind anyway, but with Jackie’s new F150 King Ranch pickup truck to drive, I *really* don’t mind. I’m not saying it’s awesome, but it is awesome! Jackie says it’s the best-riding, most-comfortable vehicle she’s ever ridden in. As for me, the sound of that V8 engine is, well, let’s just call it an automotive aphrodisiac.
Dear Trapper Jean, I love the way you polished off the Pedant. I wanted to say something myself but couldn’t think of the right words.
Sweet Ghost and I are home in our own bed tonight but I have an early appointment so we seem to spend too much time commuting. I decided to do it in comfort. Bullet Ghost’s SUV was just getting too many miles put on. We never used the Honda van, so I traded it in.
Ghost is going to get jeans to go with the pickup. That makes me smile.
He is fun to see loving that truck. I understand, I loved Trigger so much. I drove my old F-150 Old Blue for about 15 years and it looked and drove like new. It had a big V-8 engine too. I love Ford pickups but these King Ranch ones are the equivalent of Mercedes or Jaguars in my opinion. Better than Cadillac or Lincolns.
Perfect for a big man like Ghost. Plus it adjusts for a short person like me.
Jackie and Ghost, it feels right to address you together, your response to adversity has been good to read. I have likewise been buoyed by 3 or 4 other tales of overcoming obstacles over the summer. It was good to read each of them, apologies for not naming everyone individually. Just know I have worried, prayed, and cheered in turn. And sincerely thank you all for sharing.
My humor has been tried here, and failed many times, so I won’t. But much laughter has come from surprising turns found here, and I hope it continues. Mark has credit for many of the latest laughs, and debbe keeps up her furry contributions, so good to see. It was the former GR6’s combination of narratives and one liners that hooked me to the comments section of Jimmy’s blog. And I know his brand of ‘non deficere’ [sp?, sorry] will have him back in top form. Jackie has often been the common link to so much content here, I feel like I am somehow not doing justice when I describe her as truly authentic. I hope you know that is meant as a high compliment. To other voices not touched on and thanked, it is not a lack of gratitude that omits your names, but fear of droning on to long. Those who may be reading and not posting, you too are missed. I hope the shorter days and coming holidays bring you back. [more follows]
I am not TRPedant, from ‘pedant’ and style I will assume masculine and refer as ‘him’. Maybe sexist, maybe profiling, if I’ve offended, I’m sorry. I assume he is the one Anonymous from 2weeks back and not the others that have been accidents, could be wrong. He caused me to write out some responses that I chose not to post, similar to another contributor I am forbidden to address. TRP’s approach was different from how I saw each of those issues, though I cannot dispute the points he made. What I found predictable was the response, because I have experienced it.
Defying the prohibition placed on me because, well, I am a free man. I was taught to treat people as equals, and that addressing them directly is polite, even and especially when you disagree.
emb, instead of flouncing with the empty threat or rhetorical device of ‘maybe he wishes me to leave’ [paraphrased, any mistake is mine]; would it be simpler to moderate the elitist need or desire to correct others? It is the Radio City comment that causes me to ask. Maybe it is a French Duck, but…
I have spent less than a fortnight on the island of Manhattan, and would feel best if I had directions and a map in hand if I needed to return. The holiday season of AD1999 was special to me, but it does not qualify me as an authority on things Gotham. What I do know is a few things about the former Radio Corporation of America, and its subsidiary the National Broadcasting Company created to provide content for the equipment it wanted to sell to the home consumer. Radio Corp. occupied so much space at Rockefeller Center that a cute and loosely applied associated reference to various buildings collectively, but especially 30 Rock, became ‘Radio City’. The music hall was easier for patrons to locate when they named it ‘Radio City Music Hall’ in reference to it’s proximity and related business.
I am not correcting your personal experience or questioning your memory. I am hoping you can see that other people experience the real world around them and retain memories that differ from yours. I acknowledge you are a special person of some importance. But are you so special, or so important to tell Abigail Sawyer, a woman you have not met, ‘You are wrong’ instead of ‘Is that right?’ That is part of what causes people to describe you as elitist.
Please do not blow up or flounce or sulk or accuse me in the circular way you accuse others in assigning motivations to you, because that is in turn assigning a motivation. I guess I can beg and place prohibitions too. Nope, that’s not fair. Just consider it, and keep it to yourself if you like. Or go ahead and deride me, that works too.
Of course, if you have family that are Rockefellers or includes any of the USNavy admiralty that leveraged the change of American Marconi into Radio Corp., then I bow to your history and retract my comments. [I yield the remainder of my time back to the chair. Apologies for any eye rolls suffered, hope no muscles were strained]
Forgot to give appreciation to Jimmy for the 31AUG daily, engaging The Dark Side in some of the most pleasant sharing. At least when I read it.
My daily commute often includes the Seven Dwarfs ‘Hi ho!’ Complete with the long held out first phrase and whistling. Long trips with children usually was a checklist of things to get at that gas stop before the freeway. Singing started after highway speed with whatever campfire style sing along came to mind. I do remember ‘Do your ears hang low…’ being a favorite.
Morphy:
I have often wondered why Jimmy’s daily site has become known as “The Dark Side.” Perhaps it was different at one time.
I have been reading the posts for the past several months and have found it to be congenial, usually apolitical, and topical.
By “topical,” I mean that the posters talk about the day’s strip and offer memories and thoughts that the strip engenders. There are no continuing conversations.
I like Jimmy’s blog for its chat-room attributes, and I like the daily site for its contemporaneous nature.
Today’s real time strip is right on the money. A trip to one of the big-box stores looking for one item feels like a treasure hunt with a faulty map. My own opinion is that the management keep changing their layouts to maximize the time we spend in their stores to encourage impulse buying.
Have a great Friday, everybody.
Morphy:
Thank you for reminding me that I also saw ‘Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs’ when it premiered at the Radio City Music Hall. I was either 7 or 8. Thank you also for confirming, in 2 ways, that you were not the ‘Pedant’. As to what people called the RCA bldg., my mother and her coworkers were obviously not the only New Yorkers that I heard speak of it. No one in my limited experience called the bldg. itself ‘Radio City.’ Of course, that’s only 20 or so years experience in the ’30s-’50s, + occasional visits since; maybe everything has changed since then. I am not likely to find out in this life.
Note also that ‘You are wrong’ has no relation to how I would have addressed Abigail if I had Twittered her. I learned, very early in my 36 years of college teaching, much more effective ways of correcting students. In fact, used those ways constructively with 2 different women just yesterday, one of whom [at church] puts up with me weekly. What hell she must put up with, having me bellow the elitist Oxford comma at her.
At worst, they may regard me as an affable old fart. [The other is a therapist at the local hospital; I do not know which one she is by sight, just email.]
Grant’s gazelles, guinea fowl.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Sorry: impala, not Grant’s. Peace,
Checking in. Loon and I are in Dallas with family. Thinking we might reload to Austin were Loon can be near a major client of hers.
We along with 152 other homes in our community evacuated by rubber boats on Sunday. Spent four days in the evacuees center. Made it to Dallas Wednesday night thanks to both friends and family.
First chance I’ve had to post. My phone took a major water hit, go figure.
Cats are doing okay for all they’ve been through. They got professional grooming yesterday, Loon getting hers this morning.
Not certain when we will able to return to the crime scene. All roads are still closed in our neighborhood.
SAND! Glad to hear from you. So very sorry about home.
Has anyone heard any updates on the After Dark book? Just beginning to wonder since it’s sneaking up on a year
Thank you, Miss Charlotte! That was something my father used to say to people who annoyed him.
Sand,
The Austin area is a pretty nice place to live. I’m not big on cities, so I live in the ‘burbs. Culture is different on different sides of town, but you can find somewhere you like easily enough. I live near farm country on the northeast. Hill Country to the Northwest & West, the most affluent suburbs to the southwest. Round Rock and Georgetown, both north of Austin are growing towns and some people there never go into Austin. Directly east of Austin varies between gentrifying city and rural. Southeast is similar to the northeast of Houston.
Fast post, The Dark Side came from Ghost who can explain.
Sand, Loon and cats, thank god you surfaced, literally.
Oh, my! This year’s college freshmen are the last to have been born in the 1900s!
https://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2021/
Morphy, thank you for the sweet and kind comments about Ghost and me. Yes, I consider authentic a fabulous compliment.
Ghost was what made me stay with the Village blog and fall in love with him. He is also totally authentic, he is what he writes and says. One of most highly principled and genuine people I have been blessed to know.
And yes, damned funny. His one liners can break me up at odd moments. Very odd.