When the umpteenth variation of “Dead of the Living Night” comes on television, it’s tempting to deride the caliber of entertainment available today. And I do, but as human beings we’ve always had something of a spotty track record when it comes to spectacle. Imagine a huge tent filled with people waiting for somebody to be shot out of a cannon. Not long ago, that was entertainment. Before that, it was bear-baiting and feeding people to wild animals. Maybe we’ve come further than we think.
Big Shot
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402 responses to “Big Shot”
Mark: Yeah that is the one that is in The Boss Of My Life’s book.
Peanuts is great today. I am making an album of “Snoopy Fighter Ace” comics. Those are my favorites!
Lilyblack, did you put Jose Cuervo in your keyboard? I’m seeing double!
Jerry in FL
And one for the cat people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx14ohE6nHs
Mark, it’s a little early for me, but, as Spike would say, I wouldn’t say no. 😛
Have been over reading PBS Stephen Pastis blog. That guy is not only fearless but says and does pretty outrageous things. Also funny. I had never read him until some here recommended him and also that Bill Watterson collaboration which caught me.
Since he is a lawyer I guess he knows how far he can go. Although I thought the Garfield stuff was going pretty far, it seems that one wasn’t as bad as some others.
I intersperse cutting and dumping seed packets, laundry, working on my boat festival, reading blogs and coming back here. Depends on which gets most boring fastest!
Dirty dishes piled in sink haven’t attracted me yet.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I have already washed and dried the dishes and glassware and put them away in the cabinets, cleaned and polished the dining room table, put the leftovers in their cunning little “Tupperwares” (they aren’t really, but we call them that anyway. We must all bow to tradition in our casa) and put the place mats and napkins in the washer (they only get washed once a week or they fade: you mess yours up, you live with it or use paper towels). And I can truly say, without just the required minimum of Susie-snark (as it is known around here) that I would rather do all that all over again rather than read a Steven Pastis blog. That strip gives me, not a headache cause I don’t get them except for slushie-headaches, but a mild nausea. But, then, I dislike Calvin and wasisname too. And Zits. And Garfield. Never mind, I told you I am weird.
I have a personal rule that used dishes, glasses, flatware, pots or pans are not allowed to reside in the sink for more than 30 minutes without being washed, then dried or placed in the drip rack.
Have I dinged my macho facade again?
Actually, I learned long, long ago that the first rule of bachelor housekeeping is “Never get behind.”
I just had to watch the Christopher Walken video again. Thanks, Jean.
Also, one of the reasons why I love Amy Poehler…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nT9YR7mOJo
Drunk again, drunk again…good night, all
Good morning Villagers…
Jean, thanks for the Linda links. I bookmarked them both in my Ronstadt file. Love the sound of the frogs in the background in “Blue Bayou” 🙂
Also, Christopher Walken is a favorite of mine….the man can dance. Clicked on a couple of links while there….watched him read the Three Little Pigs…hilarious…then there was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSrMdsJagM4 I’m not a Gaga fan, but this one one funny.
Saturday night my son went fishing with a couple of friends (a married couple he went to school with). Anyhoo, as they were trying to dock, the boat went backward, my son missed the dock and he fell in…with my cellphone. My husband reminded me that they had closed that lake a few years back because a man had died from a brain eating amoeba, and drained it. I told him I can always replace a phone, but not my son. Oh, and they only caught two catfish, and I personally would not eat anything out of that lake.
Busy week, trying to find extra help for the clean-up after the hens are gone, and the last of them should be going out Thursday night at 10ish. Boss man want everything cleaned by the 22nd so it can be disinfected for 24 hours. New chicks on the 25th. God have mercy on me.
as usual, GR 😉 Mom doing ok?
….and it’s MONDAY and may it be a blessed one at that
GR click on your last link…pretty good of her…..gonna check out the Kevin Pollack impersonation of Walken…
Mark, thanks for the ‘cat’ link. And Jerry, I clicked on your link, a got a 404…will google later. I love watching the “happy returns” from pets. No better way to say ‘thanks’ to our women and men in service.
…and the cell phone works….laid it in dry rice overnight, or is it lied in dry rice….it rhymes better 🙂
Went to a HS reunion (class of 1974 but I graduated in 1975) this weekend and toured the school (which had changed dramatically). I was the 2nd or 3rd person there and eventually abut 15-20 people showed up for the tour. What was funny is that nearly every person that walked us said “I wasn’t sure if this was the right place, all I saw were a bunch of OLD people in front of it!)
The other frequent comment was “If we did that today, we would have been in jail or worse!” The best thing about these events is that our school had a lot of cliques which limited some of the friendships. As the memories flowed, all of that melted away. We all realized that life is very short, especially when looking at the memorial DVD of the classmates that had died. I summed it up by saying “Life is like a roll of toilet paper, it goes by really fast near the end of the roll.” (I stole that)
Jackie, Jesse L. Martin, who was on Law & Order opposite Jerry Orbach and is also a Broadway actor, has often said that one of his favorite things about working with Orbach was that while they were waiting for scene changes on the sets he and Orbach would start singing songs from various musicals. He said that Orbach’s knowledge of Broadway musicals was incredible.
Ghost, I’m glad to have made your day a little brighter!
I do not know how Ghost has escaped the clutches of some woman? I think he’d have been snared in a tiger trap by now.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I’ve been clutched by several women…just never permanently. 🙂
Jean 🙂
Debbe 😉 Good morning, hon. I can tell that August is not going to be a great one for you. It’s not my favorite month, either, what with it being the month my father died, the month I had surgery one year, the month I got laid off another year, and I suffered various other personal traumas, plus some pretty significant hurricanes over the years. And now there is my Mom’s situation we are having to deal with in another August.
Speaking of my Mom, she is feeling well today, thanks. She says she thinks her hospital stay actually allowed her to get some rest she needed. (She is one of those people who is always very active and to whom the concept of “pacing one’s self” has never really occurred.) Placed a call to her pulmonologist about two hours ago and am waiting for a call-back about a follow-up x-ray and evaluation. (And I know…being a Monday, good luck with that.)
Steve, odd that you should mention “classmates that have died” this morning. Just last night I for some reason thought of a particular college classmate, wondered what he had been up to lately, and googled him. I found from Wikipedia (yes, he was that kind of classmate) that he had dropped dead at home from a massive heart attack…over four years ago. That didn’t surprise me in one respect…he was the hard-living, fun-loving, hyper-creative type in college, and he never changed in that regard. (And it probably didn’t help that he lived the first 25 years of his life in the shadow of his nationally renowned father.) But still…four years ago? Geez.
Good morning, Villagers, and a lovely morning it is! Got eight miles in this morning. The Boss Of My Life was already dressed and patting her foot when I got back, so I had to jump in the shower and pull on my scrubs with wet hair. Lucky we have a drier that plugs into the d/c outlet in the suburban or I would have had to make rounds looking like a drowned rat, or, as The Boss Of My Life would say, “more like a drowned rat than usual.”
Lily you could be like my oldest daughter used to be and look like a starving hollow-eyed waif on a poster suffering from malnutrition who needed a shower and some clothes that fit? And despite that still was an outstanding employee and won employee of the month so many times I thought they’d eventually disqualify her?
It isn’t all about appearances.
Love, Jackie
Two days in our 48 year anniversary and I wonder if the other half will remember? And is there anything I haven’t bought and given to him yet? I usually wait for him to order it, as my surprise gifts aren’t always well received. Like the collectible John Wayne doll because he was a huge fan but he gave to Goodwill?
I suppose I should ask.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I don’t know about the “hollow-eyed part,” (though The Boss Of My Life is given to getting snarly when she deems my temples overly sunken) but she has told me many times, when I have done something clever, like institute a card file for every procedure she does to be handed over to the billing clerk each day, that I am a treasure. I glow for weeks. But my clothes fit, darn it. Even if I have to make the clerk root around in the stock room for Extra Small.
As for your anniversary, The Boss Of My Life told me a long time ago never try to buy something for a man that goes with his hobby, because if he wanted it, he would have already have it if he had to sell his eldest son to get it. So, I get them clever old things off eBay or that I find in second-hand stores.
Jackie, I don’t know about the “hollow-eyed part,” (though The Boss Of My Life is given to getting snarly when she deems my temples overly sunken) but she has told me many times, when I have done something clever, like institute a card file for every procedure she does to be handed over to the billing clerk each day, that I am a treasure. I glow for weeks. But my clothes fit, darn it. Even if I have to make the clerk root around in the stock room for Extra Small.
As for your anniversary, The Boss Of My Life told me a long time ago never try to buy something for a man that goes with his hobby, because if he wanted it, he would have already have it if he had to sell his eldest son to get it. So, I get them clever old things off eBay or that I find in second-hand stores.
Lily, my daughter wore an company uniform in those skinny days and they’d find the smallest ones they could which still hung on her! Then she’d throw the uniforms in back of her car and drag one out to wear and borrow an apron that was 10 sizes too big and wrap it around a few times.
Whole Foods does not wear uniforms and she isn’t that skinny now but she was awful bedraggled as a teen or in college.
Actually, I was wondering if there was a waiting list to adopt you?
Love, Jackie
Lily, Would you do me a favor and just drink a little less tonight? Drink whatever you like, but just not quite as much as usual. Ok? Thanks.