This classic A&J is from five years ago, 2012. I’d like to take credit for pioneering bathroom humor in the newspaper comics—I should stress bathtub humor—but I can’t. No feature has explored the disrupted bathing experience longer or more often than that storied and staid grand dame of the funnies, Blondie.
156 responses to “For Whom the Bell Tinkles”
testing one, two, three.
Two Grevy’s.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-animal-lookout-camera
good morning. This ought to wake you up; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAMdE5RuLo
I didn’t even realize they had a possible tornado in Tulsa overnight. I did notice the thunder and lightning when I woke up during the night, but went back to sleep. Touchdown was about 3 miles away from my apartment.
I slept through most of storms, heard thunder and heavy rain but never really awoke fully. Ghost has that reassuring effect on me.
That and knowing the stone millstream in front handles the storms and I won’t have a river coming through the house.
But mostly Ghost who I know will get me up if we need to go to storm shelter.
Just read, about 25 in emergency room and roofs and power poles down. That isn’t first time that Academy was hit. That is very busy part of Tulsa with mall, restaurants, big stores like Academy so early morning touch down when few were there saved injuries to more I am certain.
I was in that Academy once when sirens began going off and asked where to go and they said get out!
Jackie, your new La Quinta there got hit too. I was just over in that area yesterday. Glad I was gone way before that storm came through. Was playing board games with some guys at one’s house up till about 830 last night.
Mark, we are staying at LQ Broken Arrow tonight. It wasn’t that one that was damaged, was it? Or the one new near Academy Sports in Tulsa?
Ghost, I believe your LQ in Broken Arrow is fine. The tornado hit this one:
http://www.newson6.com/story/36072238/la-quinta-inn-guests-recall-moment-storm-barreled-through
The one near the Academy Sports store.
So, the La Quinta Inn & Suites Tulsa Central, at 6030 E Skelly Drive, Tulsa, is the one that was hammered by the tornado. The one in Broken Arrow is fine.
If you need a laugh tonight:
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=45313131&nid=1017&title=have-you-seen-this-japanese-man-attempts-to-defeat-massive-fan
When checking in the La Quinta at Broken Arrow this afternoon, we met two Native American gentlemen who were on their way from Chicago to a national IA annual conference at Red Rock State Park outside Sedona AZ. They had the misfortune of being at the LQ in Tulsa when it was hit this morning. The brand new Subaru SUV they were driving was throughly trashed…rear window shattered on driver’s side, rear window completely broken out, moon roof broken out, exterior paint beaten up by flying objects, and other damage, including a totally missing rear-view camera. Jackie is posting photos on Book of Face.
They had a pair of beautiful rescue dogs with them, which neither of us could identify by sight. They were Austrailian shepherd mixes.
Good morning. http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2017/08/03
Impala.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-animal-lookout-camera
Elands. We saw ONE in ’87.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-animal-lookout-camera
Lots of damage in tulsa to many businesses I patronize. Everyone agrees that had this happened at 1 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. it would have been a major disaster with hundreds of injuries, not 30 laceration cases.
I saw something on Facebook that I am going to assume is fake. Someone is organizing a Solar Eclipse Viewing party on Monday, the 21st. In the comments, someone writes.”Most kids go back to school that day. Can’t it be done on the weekend?”
Steve: Pardon my cynicism, but don’t be too sure. Same people who think deer-crossing signs are placed inconveniently.
Peace,
Some years ago, my employees stepped outside to observe a solar eclipse. One of them asked me, with a slightly puzzled expression on her face, “What is the purpose of this?”
I don’t remember exactly what I told her, but it may have been that it was something NASA was doing. Coincidentally, she was a blonde.
…And there are some folks who think “deer crossing” signs are placed so that the deer can read them and cross more safely!
I shared this a few years ago here at A&J, but it is worth repeating.
http://spiralbound.net/blog/2007/04/25/arkansas-woman-blames-heat-on-daylight-savings-time/
The lawyer that wrote that letter to the editor loved to write satire. I’ve heard some decent hard working people say some pretty dumb things but I may have seen more “intelligent” education people DO some stupid things.
This may be more peaceful, but also addictive.
https://explore.org/live-cams/player/falcon-nest-cam
Won’t be posting when site is interesting, because savvy operator moves too fast. Nesting season is over, but adult[s] still roost nearby. Cam is on MN side of Mississippi, looking NE across WI, dam and locks to SE, occ. bald eagles soaring, barges going through locks, etc. You can troll through the last few hrs. along the red line at the bottom, as you also can at numerous other Explore sites: Kenya, with 3-4 alternative sites at bottom, Orcalab [same], Grasslands NP, Sask. [2], etc. Mgt. not responsible for time wasted, burnt toast, or appts. missed.
Naughty lawyer, but close enough to factual; there are sincere letter people who write letters just like those, or who reveal similar thinking on college essay tests and many websites, some secular.
Peace,
I wonder how many college-educated folks will damage their eyes during the solar eclipse by failing to wear appropriate eye protection when looking at the sun before and after totality? And how many more will have severe damage from trying to use an unshielded telescope?
Just because you’ve got that diploma doesn’t mean your are really educated. Somebody said, ‘Education is wasted on the young.’ I was pretty knowledgeable about a lot [as of ’51], but lacked much in experience, and a lot of what I’d now regard as a liberal education. Much of what lib ed I have now I acquired as part of a teaching team [I’ve mentioned this before] that included a psychologist, a Shakespeare scholar, and me, and much I’ve acquired, starting in JHS, as an insatiable reader, mostly of periodicals. Still at it, listening to history, theology, etc. CDs while driving. [I turn them off when in complex situations.]
Society [and the details differ, society to soc.] puts lots in the way of a real education. Some of those stumbling blocks are secular.
I plan to watch the eclipse online.
Peace,