Remember “More” magazine? It was a magazine dedicated to telling women how great it is to be old. “More” ceased publication in April. Gee, imagine that. This is a special Saturday edition of arloandjanis.com. As I told you earlier this year, I will be in New England for the Boston Comic Con, Aug. 12-14, and for the Vermont Comic Con, Aug. 27=28. I have a lot of readers in New England, and I am looking forward to meeting some of them. I just learned, however, that the Boston Comic Con potentially could sell out of tickets before the event, meaning buying tickets online beforehand is the only way to guarantee entrance. If you’re interested, you can visit their Web site. I thought I should mention it. Exhibitors (That would be me!) don’t get a direct share of the gate. They just sell things. At the A&J table, autographs and conversation will be free. I hope to see as many of you as possible.
140 responses to “Continued Beach Erosion”
Today, 27 June, is Helen Keller Day.
http://www.alternet.org/culture/helen-kellers-radical-vision
Peace,
I always thought that the term “stacked” meant that a woman was well put together, had a nice figure. Just a slang word. Am I too innocent?
Nope, Sweet Charlotte, that’s my point as well…”stacked” is a slang word that refers to the package in its entirety, not just a couple of its components.
However, when it comes to busty females, the French, as usual, say it best: “Elle a le monde sur sa balcon.” (“She has the world on her balcony.”)
Ghost, Sand, Steve, Dave. Any of you remember the Trinity comedy westerns of the 1970’s?
The co-star, Bud Spencer, has died.
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/notable-deaths/article/bud-spencer-1929-2016
Ghost, the problem with those is that sometimes they need to keep the shutters closed until they’re in private. Had a coworker built like that who cost me a lot of attention to what I was trying to do.
That is why the European bras are called balconies I suppose?
Discovered European bras. They cost a fortune. They are well made and pretty. They come in sizes E and F. I need a double F.
The boat in Canada is named Stella Maris. You like French, I like Latin. Can’t speak either.
Serious moment here. I am worried about you Ghost and your mother. You have always been here in good humor and now you go missing or seem stressed too often.
Just a note to say I wish there were something I could do to help. And no breast remarks. I can imagine my own jokes.
Take care of yourself along with your mom.
Jackie, with the pound taking a pounding, now would be a good time to buy British bras, at least. Unless British bras compare to French bras the way British food* compares to French food.
*Jay Leno always said that the British cook and eat all the parts of the animal that everyone else throws away.
Yes, I remember the Bud Spenser and those films well. I did not know that Spenser was a pilot, much less an Olympic swimmer. In his Spaghetti Westerns, one would not exactly look at him and picture him in a Speedo. (May have had something to do with the Budweisers.)
Jackie, rough guess at boat’s name: Ocean Star or Star of the Ocean. Stella=star, Maris=sea or ocean.
Ghost, yeah. He looked like the barrel the Bud came in.
Jackie, the notion of European bras being called balconies gives a whole new light to the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet.
Ghost, that description of British cooking would also fit soul food too.
Mark, it also describes a large percentage of Chinese food, especially Cantonese. It’s said that in Canton they’ll eat anything with four legs except a table, anything that swims except a boat and anything that flies except a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78J-6PbhVo
Some kites are birds.
*Jay Leno always said that the British cook and eat all the parts of the animal that everyone else throws away.
Unfortunately, you can rarely get those parts in supermarkets today. You could, in two Bemidji supermkts in chains that have long since gone belly up. Sweetbreads, kidneys, hearts. And they more often had lamb on hand than they do today. Elaine made topnotch kidney stew. And Leno apparently was unaware of the variety available in France.
Nighty bunch [volunteer early demain]. Peace,
Mark, had no recall of Bud Spenser, had to do a Google. “Call me Trinity” was out during my dark years, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Conditions were not often conducive to civilized recreation. Can recall only two movies from those years; Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Phan Rang AFB, and some B grade British film, Long Bihn.
Those Cantonese are probably picky eaters compared to my Cajun friends. As I like to remind them, at a Cajun zoo each exhibit has a placard that gives the name of the species; a recipe for preparing it; and a suggested wine to serve with it.
sand, saw the Trinity films, and others, while in the Navy during that time myself. But as a crypto op they had me in school in Pensacola until April 1974 and then shipped me off to Wahiawa, HI. If you weren’t a drinker or woman chaser you went to movies, museums and bookstores. But there was sure good scenery on the beaches and I don’t mean water.
And that stint in Hawaii was the first time I ever wished I could speak a foreign language. I was in a McDonald’s down by Waikiki and two very pretty flight attendants came and were trying to order. No communication was taking place between them and the cashier. I wanted so bad to know what language they were speaking so I could get into the conversation.
GR6, from our time in China, we found many of the “meat” products to fit into the mystery meat category. Meat dumplings all tasted the same, even when advertised as: chicken, shrimp, and or pork. In country airline flights served box lunches with pickled veggies, a bun, and a round slab of pinkish mystery meat. Loon would eat only the bun and veggies, I was lucky and always had two meat patties.
Bacon in China comes uncured. After tasting it once, you appreciate the person who invented curing.
Mark, was not aware that sailors ever had commo problems with young females.
Ordering food can always be done using the old point an order method. Pointing and hand signs have saved me on several occasions.
Such stimulating conversation tonight!! Goody!
Gary is going to take Leslie and me to eat pulled pork poutine at a famous restaurant even I have heard of in Oklahoma. I love pulled pork and I discovered while building boats with Lezlie that for a small petite cutie she can pack in chow enthusiastically. It’s the fitness level.
We are going to stop at Loras in Carthage and go on to St. Louis because I love it and something is always happening there and great food. Then to Quincy, IL and across through Indiana and Debbe and Mindy in Indy.
We cut up toward New York through Ohio and to Niagara Falls which must be seen from Canadian side for views and landscaping and gardens. We have to go through wine area of New York because Lezlie loves wines and I can drive.
We have a fantastic female boat builder friend outside Niagara Falls to visit and Gary in Ottawa. I think we will ha e a blast and would love to stop and see anyone we end up near.
Jackie, if you get near Hyde Park, New York, stop at this address for lunch, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park, NY 12538. Will only tell you they have a great restaurant andvthier initials are CIA. 😉
Jackie: In east central OH, about 6 mi. west of Dover, find Broad Run Dairy [you can google them] for incredible local Swiss cheese as well as many other cheeses, wursts, etc. That’s where I buy imported Danish Blue for several dollars per pound cheaper than any market here. Last wheel ran only $4.50/lb. It’s worth buying a cooler and bags of ice, as needed, to keep the wheel of blue or slabs of Swiss cool…we do so every time we drive by. While the usual Swisses are local, they also sell varieties made elsewhere: I am currently finishing a loaf of smoked Swiss. I melt it on bread since I still don’t have usable choppers.
The problem is all those cheap cuts of meat when we were kids are the
ones that cost most now.
For an area that has quite a few flocks it is hard to find Lamb around here-
Other than ground frozen