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Dog of Love

By Jimmy Johnson


There are no visual “trailers” this week, but I do warn you to be prepared for weirdness with next week’s new Arlo & Janis strips, available here and, of course, in newspapers everywhere. Well, not everywhere. If that were true, I’d be driving a much nicer vehicle.
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218 responses to “Dog of Love”

  1. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Being from the Mississippi Delta I grew up on the best of the legendary blues like this one.

    https://youtu.be/mEu8DrO9PbY

    Of course, this was during our bad years of Jim Crow when we were not allowed to hear their music on the radio, not allowed to buy their records, not allowed to hire them for dances or in night clubs.

    Of course we did anyway defying being forced to listen to white musicians cover the music.

    How far we have come. Not just on trains.

  2. Steve from Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Jimmy, since when do you have to warn us about “weirdness”?

  3. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Jackie….cause two out of three ain’t bad when it comes to Mister Meatloaf

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s

  4. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Smigz, being here in town I hear the whistles blowing and the tracks rumbling as Dad’s place is just three blocks away from a cross section here in small town USA. They are not as frequent as they were many years ago, but the ‘beat’ is still there.

  5. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Oh, and Smigz, I’m going to copy down your Dad’s ‘poem’…I know Dad will get a grin from it.

  6. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Ursen…glad to hear the thrill is not gone 🙂

  7. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    On reflection, I do not believe I have ever lived anywhere in CONUS where I could not hear a train pass. As Debbe said, not as frequent as in the past, but still there, even if just in the distance in the night.

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Debbe, that was a great song. This man is about as unattractive as they come but he can certainly sing. I am going to have to Google him ad see if he is touring.

    By the way, Ghost Kitty has two broken bones in his foot and a torn ligament. We think he fell out of a tree or off metal roof onto concrete deck. Or he jumped out of a perfectly good airplane without a parachute.

    Vet says not possible to cast it. He is hanging out in potting shed.

  9. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Well, damn. I was hoping Ghost Kitty had more sense than Ghost.

    Still killin’ it years later. He passed away 10-10-2010.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_XgkjBezuo

  10. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    If you change “Sally” to “Jackie”, it still works pretty well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8R5nNMdN0

  11. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Another version, I’d never heard. About as black as one could expect a white band to sound. Can’t fault the backup singers, either. The one with the short blonde hair closely resembles my favorite dancer partner among my Managers Harem. 😉

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TQtREyhSM

  12. emb Avatar

    Just ran into this. Nice natural nest; don’t know who they stole it from. Peace,

    http://explore.org/live-cams/player/great-horned-owl-cam

  13. Smigz Avatar
    Smigz

    emb, do great horned owls usually build sloppy nests?

  14. emb Avatar

    Smigz: Owls don’t generally build nests, though some may add material. GHOs use old nests of, e.g., Red-tailed Hawks, or suitable other sites, natural or man-made. If you go to the Cornell webcam GHO site, you will find a pair of Ospreys about to nest. They are a pair who apparently had a nest failure in ’16, and built a nest on top of a GHO nest well after the owl young had fledged. Have seen no evidence of the owls’ attempting to return. Good site for ospreys, in well-off developent on GA coast nr Savannah

    URL below is part of a wiki site / Bubo virginianus. You can scroll / rest of site. Peace,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl#Reproduction

  15. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    That is my favorite Van Morrison song right now.
    My theme song as it were. Took fifty years. Never too late for a first time.

  16. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    I’m in trouble here….Ian gave me his Boze headphones…… 🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrJK19dADI

  17. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Oops, sorry….never say this movie, but it is done very well…..got headphone Jackie?????

  18. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    OK, ladies; don’t get too worked up by the music. 😉

    But headphones are great for listening, especially Bose.

  19. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Oh, now GR 😉 can we have just a little fun??? And I thought Boze was spelled with a ‘z’….silly me, but it still sounds the same 🙂

  20. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Jackie….I did at one time….but, long story

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vye_tNZYL8

  21. The Man Formerly Known as sandcastler™ Avatar
    The Man Formerly Known as sandcastler™

    Sounds great with either Bose or Boze headphones, but never use Booz, they don’t make headphones. https://youtu.be/v3zSp_uhjcI

  22. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Sandcastler….wanna play???? In my other ‘life’ I was Sherry 🙂 and that road still goes on forever…..

  23. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Ok, GR 😉 I’ll five Chesney a 4 star….but that’s only because I’m an Indiana girl and a Cougar!!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KUmm0XsLY

    Yeah, change yur mind and change yur life……