Someone mentioned this early series recently. I suppose it was inspired by my own first car, an old ’56 Chevrolet Bel Air. I chose a ’57 model for the comic strip, though, because it was the pinnacle of the iconic ’55-’57 line of Chevys. This was perhaps the first series of Arlo & Janis strips on a theme. I will show the others over the next couple of posts.
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Vivaldi on a lute played by Julian Bream. What a tranquil end to a not always tranquil day.
Hal changed Vivaldi to big on something. What? Illiterate teens determine Spell check ‘s preferences?
That’s how I got into in-&-off classical announcing gig on BSU FM sta. Some unwilling teens taking Mass Comm. radio course had to host M-Th evening classics show, and were murdering it. Couldn’t tell Ormandy [cond.] from Respighi [comp.] / LP record jacket, thought a “faun” was a young deer, etc.
Figured I could do better, and did, 1 evening a wk, 3 hr. Developed quite a following, incl. [mentioned here before] var. women of an age that fell for what I’ve since ID’ed as a “radio-announcer bass voice.” They phoned in requests. Love it, and don’t misuse it.
Peace,
Funny, that is how I became a classical and opera announcer on our university radio station as well.
Well, no bass voice but I didn’t have a Cajun accent, as did most of the other students.
About today’s current A and I and the meat we est.
Fifty years ago I noticed one of my Hindu friends in compressing down on a hamburger in cafetetia. I asked if he was supposed to eat beef? Wasn’t he afraid he was eating one of his acedtors?
He replied, “One of yours maybe, not mine.”
Chomping down on hsmburger.
This made me go read about Hindu diet and food, fascinating. One of my sailing friends in India is an obesity surgeon and doctor. He has huge practice in a country where moderation in diet is part of religion and obesity is a sin.
Large amounts of their holy texts deal with diet and how to eat properly.
Good morning Villagers….
I remember our neighbors having, I believe it was a Dodge, that had push buttons to put your car in gear…..who else remembers that?
Jackie, we’re coming to your house for Thanks giving 🙂
Need to get Dad ready for appt. with nurse practitioner at 9:15.
God’s blessings on all.
debbe
We had a 1962 AMC Ambassador with the pushbutton transmission. I learned to drive in it.
My neighbor bought a 67 Dodge Charger, new, when he got his first job. Thought it was too nice to drive every day so he bought a cheap car to drive to work. That Dodge now has 10,000 miles on it, sits covered in his garage and looks like new. He takes it out once a month for a short drive. Probably worth at least $60,000.
My first car was a 64 Dodge Dart. It had the push button transmission and a slant six engine. I got stuck in the the snow a few times and had to push the buttons with my left hand to rock it out. I enjoyed having bench seats….however I didn’t date in HS, so I really couldn’t take advantage of it!
Bald eagles, crows, wh. pelicans, other water birds.
https://explore.org/livecams/falcons/falcon-nest-cam
Peace,
@ all with their links, Symply kewl never realized so many liked the fusion bands,,,still my fave Celtic Rock is Enter the Haggis….example from their younger days here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CDA6f_zijQ
No, they do not look this way anymore, they seem like 40 year old fathers. Canadians eh!?!
The band was LOUD, lots of millennials and a huge mosh pit with security all around it to catch the crowd surfers as they got to the edges of the floor….seemed Fargone ridiculous, but it was fun….saw some others my age there too!
In today’s A.Word.A.Day, clicked on the Yiddish “kibitz”, two lines down in paragraph 1, and learned [or was reminded] that kibitz is derived from the German word for pewit or lapwing, a large Eurasian plover that I saw flocks of in the UK in ’52-’53, and on later trips to there and the Continent. Was fun introducing Elaine to stuff I’d seen during that long early 13 months of our marriage.
Wiki has a good site on lapwings. [Pronounce o in plover just like o in lover: pluhver]
Peace,
FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifnpcy6Yd4 Peace,
One of my friends just sold their classic wooden sailboat cruiser that was named Plover.
I of course knew it was a bird and how to pronounce it. Sailors like birds, marine mammals and are familiar with them.
Honestly we usually own dogs and cats too and travel with them.
Ghost has a birthday today. Happy birthday Baby.
No one puts Baby in a corner. Good analogy.
These strips remind me of the show American Pickers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pickers) where a pair of men go around the country picking over collections of antiques, old cars and other things that most folks would consider junk, looking for things they can sell to collectors for profit. You’d be amazed, probably, to see the kind of things people have packed away, including an old car made completely from wood, including the engine. And yes, it was in running order.
My grands also had a ’57 BelAir wagon, in turquoise, of course. My grandma drove it until the mid 80’s. Every time I see one I am reminded of them and the pleasant times we had in that car.
I don’t know if any of you follow the comic strip Betty. Right now, Betty and Bud are on vacation in Italy, and the artists are doing a great job of drawing the famous buildings, paintings and so on. Yesterday, however, I think that they were trying to earn an Arlo: http://www.gocomics.com/betty/2017/11/05
Heads up: http://www.newson6.com/story/36771352/new-email-scam-using-fake-netflix-website
Symply have a ’56 Chevy in the family, used to be Gayle’s father’s and he gave it to his son in law MIchael who keep sit garaged all the time…white and turquoise color Gayle says….Had a friend named Animal 6’3″ 300+ lbs. with a mohawk haircut and a chain saw pewter earring, he had a ’56 yellow and white Bel Air with a Hurst shifter, the clutch was so hard to push in I had to use the seat to push against one time when I had to Fargone move it….Animal(real name Richard Kennedy) played in a punk band, one day they needed to clean up their practice room and said we need to have a vaccum party, hence with Richard as their front man they came up with the name Big “Richard” and the Vaccum Party(hope no one is offended).
Searched “Big Richard Vacuum Party” and got a bunch of male/male porn sites. Decided I was not curious enough to open any.
Peace,
The Village seems quiet this evening.
I just found out I have 3 friends all born on the same date (year, month, and day). That’s certainly against the odds.
No doubt there will be scads of replies thereto….
I spent the evening babysitting my grandsons while their parents celebrated… My Stephanie was hired to be the Special Ed teacher at the local middle school for the rest of the school year. She had been working as an assistant to the full-time teacher who was hired away by a charter school in her home town.
Stephanie will probably be able to renew the contract for the next full year since she already has her state teaching certificate and will be taking the relevant classes this summer. She really knows the subject since 3 of her sisters are autistic (2 high functioning) and one has DS.
I have an on-line friend who was born on the same date as I, also worked as a trucker, and also has a defibrillator in his chest. I doubt we’ll find a third.