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Big Shot

By Jimmy Johnson


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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.

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402 responses to “Big Shot”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Perhaps Madonna’s next film will be “Desparately Seeking Attention”. Co-starring Miley Cyrus.

    Thanks for asking, Llee. The doc finally made it here just a few minutes ago. The morning x-ray report was “stable”, so it’s no worse but no better. We decided it would be best for her to stay again tonight and repeat the x-ray tomorrow morning. Nine chances out of ten she’d have been OK to go home this afternoon, but to me that’s like saying, “Well, if someone shoots at me ten times, they probably won’t hit me but once.”

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Lily, if you object to me calling you “Munchkin” I will stop doing so.

  3. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    They matter, Lily, because they are part of history and whether we like it or not, they will be our future. Arabic, Oriental and Hispanic people have rich and complicated histories, traditions and religions. We are already a minority as Americans, but we don’t realize it.

    This is not a rant, simply that we can’t be ugly Americans who believe we can dominate because of “who we are.” There are more America’s than the United States. More ethnicities, more colors, more beliefs and we just can’t say we are it and that’s how it is.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  4. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    …and you know what…Madonna and I share the same date (different year though) of birth…don’t believe in astrology, but we Lions do Roooaarrrrr!!!!!

    Oh…and I don’t wear metal ‘pokies’ 🙂

  5. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    When I finally walked out of the hospital to get a late lunch about 30 minutes ago, my phone rang. I could tell it wasn’t a local number, but with my Mom in the hospital I decided to answer it.

    “Hello, Ghost,” the rather heavily accented voice said. “This is Windows Support. We got into your computer and we found a problem.”

    Well.

    Usually when I get those calls, I exclaim. “OH MY GOD! A PROBLEM? OH NO! NOT A PROBLEM! HELP ME, HELP ME, OH GOD, PLEASE HELP ME!”, just to see if the caller has been provided with a script card to deal with that response.

    But I was tired and hungry, so I said, “What the #@$* are you doing in my computer? Get the #@S* out of it and stay the #@$* out of it!” and hung up. Relieved some stress, anyway. 🙂

  6. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR…glad the cat photo caught your, …..hum…attention…just wanted to put a smile on your face this morn….hope your mom comes home tomorrow.

  7. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Good. Not at all impressed by metal pokies. Sort of reminds me of something in “This is Spinal Tap.” 😉

  8. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Thanks, Debbe. I hope, too. And that photo has been my best smile today.

  9. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    …and to this day, the devil is still running amoke:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXGsPBUV5g

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    amuk….is that right, no wait it’s amok…Iran amok…something I remember from the Reagan years…..

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    JACKIE…..Madonna singing “don’t cry for me Argentina’, possibly the best of her voice range.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpbRIP–r-o

  12. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Haven’t the stage props gotten incredible from the early years? Talk about entertaining the Romans in the coliseum?

    Circus Maximus.

    Love, Jackie

  13. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Debbe, actually Iran ran amok during the Carter years.

  14. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Sean Penn and Christopher Walken did a movie called “At Close Range” in which Madonna did sing the only song I really liked….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAO9A9GjgI

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Yup, Jimmy it was….but, there may be a tie between him and the present one residing in WH…oops…sorry….

    heading back to the recliner….tired, early day tomorrow. Today they delivered 7 canisters of CO2 for the 13th….when my hens are ‘retired’, takes about three days to ‘retire’ about 75000 hens….it’ll be a sad day for me.

    Think I’ll let the roosters out loose in the cornfield next to the hen house…..let’s vote on it??!!

  16. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Here is a little video I just watched on planting fall spinach. I thought it might brighten Ghost’s day, as this chef has more cleavage than Giada.

    htt;://www.ehow.com/video_122777775_growing-spinach-fall-crop.html

    That may not be right, mama talks while I type!

    This chef seems to maximize all the space she has been given.

    Love, Jackie

  17. Lilyblack Avatar

    Jackie: have you ever heard the rule that the further away from you that a disaster occurs, the more casualties it takes to get your notice? I don’t really care whether the future belongs to the Chinese or not. I’ll be pushing up daisies long before it happens. It should take a good fifty years for someplace to build a Navy or Air Force that can beat the USA’s. By that time, in Lord Liverpool’s words, “our interest in it will doubtlessly decreased.”

  18. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe, you probably know which way I’d vote on the “free the roosters” question. But I hope there is not a serious coyote issue in your area.

  19. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Free Rooster Cogburn and Others!

    Ghost, I give up, I can’t get that link right! And she was on her knees and leaning over the dirt to dig holes while wearing a VERY low cut blouse and a lot of wiring. And I don’t mean she was mic’d for sound either.

    Love, Jackie

  20. David from Austin Avatar
    David from Austin

    Ghost look for The Chef’s Garden, Teca Thompson…

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Thanks, Jackie! (And David.) I’d already found her…Teca Thompson…planting her spinach crop. And yes, she is quite pneumatic, isn’t she?

    And “…maximize all the space she has been given.” Good one. 😉

    Debbe 😉 I’m afraid Jackie has met and raised your cleavage bid. Would you like to bid again? 😉

  22. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    David in Austin, I suspect you are a better and more serious gardener than I am!

    I am in soaking lima/butter beans so I can sprinkle some inoculate on them and see if I can persuade them to make beans before it freezes here by gaining on germination. While reading about spinach (and wouldn’t that woman persuade Popeye to eat even more? Remember Olive Oyl?) I hit this “Put spinach seeds in freezer for one to two weeks before planting a fall crop”.

    That was a new one on me. Didn’t explain what that did to increase germination? I often get poor germination on spinach anyway.

    Anyone have spinach for fall crop tricks?

    Love, Jackie

  23. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Found the answer on spinach in the freezer with seeds. I don’t have time for that! Maybe I can soak the spinach seeds too?

    The beets and swiss chard are soaking for morning.

    Dang! I need to keep a serious gardener’s diary like you are supposed to do! Like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington did when they weren’t fighting for independence and declaring our rights? I start one and it ends up me never getting what I am supposed to do done on schedule! You are supposed to plant the seeds, then go forward two weeks and put “Side dress with compost, nitrogen fertilizer and thin half the plants out” and then do it.

    Good thing I sold silk flowers and plants as a wholesaler!

    Love, Jackie