I like this one, even if it is from just last year. Plus, it somehow seems to fit our ongoing discussion about content and advertising on the Web and about changes coming to the GoComics Web site. Probably you think I know a lot more about these changes than I’m telling, but I don’t. I don’t know more than you, although I am a lot more curious, believe me. I will admit to a brief conversation with Aaron Weber, the young man in charge of developing the new site, and he stressed that the changes will be far beyond cosmetic. Whether they are fooling themselves remains to be seen, but I do believe the folks at Universal Uclick are serious about exploring the future of “printed” comics. I am excitedly trepidatious, or trepidatiously excited. Mostly, as I stated yesterday, I will wait and see.
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(Interesting, no comments yet? Did I fall into a black hole?) I would call it cautiously optimistic.
‘Separate bedrooms can be good.’ In the real castle [Hohenschwangau?], down the hill from Prince Ludwig’s in Bavaria, the boss’s bedroom had a hidden stairway to his wife’s chambers, accessible only from his own. We saw it, in ’85, I think. Peace,
I hope Arlo enjoys his new 38-liter hat.
Reminds me of a hat an older gentleman was wearing yesterday. It looked like something you would get if you crossed a stovepipe hat and a high quality cowboy hat. As old as I am I had never seen anything like it. It wasn’t stovepipe, but a felt cousin to it. Very classy, he was definitely styling it and was used to wearing it.
Last night the legendary Ramblin Jack Elliott who is in his 90s and weighs about 90 pounds was wearing one like this and the hat was bigger than he was.
At home, bored, surfing the web, found Giada making what appears to be Biscotti di Zucca con Scissione.
Reminded me I’m hungry. My new panini press came; thinking of making a Panini Sandwich #4 (deli ham, provolone, and Swiss) with some pumpkin bisque I have in the freezer.
A little late morning food porn for Jackie. 🙂
I too am home for awhile. Have to get medical releases from my five most significant physicians to have my knee replaced, so I have made appointments with them to get the letters mailed to my orthopedist. In other words, if things go wrong she will have someone to share the liability with?
Just worked on filling in my calendar with concerts, events and doctors appointments. Everything is in Tulsa or Tahlequah, Oklahoma. My surgery is set for November 30 and I am getting releases done from today through November 16, so lots of back and forth.
There are three male cats and one female who will no longer be reproducing to turn loose today in yard. The two kittens have to grow a little but they will be Ghost Too and Ghost III. Lots of black cats.
How can you be bored, Ghost? I just had grapes and a Diet Coke for breakfast. People working on stone patio and my cache of tulips, daffodils, iris, hyacinths and crocus. Maybe these will actually come up and bloom!
Still in pajamas. Have to get dressed for Tulsa, go see my endo guy. He is one of my favorites. Actually I may pick doctors for looks, they are pretty hunky older men. The females are too, in truth, except one.
Buy my tickets in pairs so if you show up here there are always things to see or do.
This culturally bypassed geezer still doesn’t know what about the Dick Van Dyke show caused Arlo’s comment.
Peace,
“I am excitedly trepidatious, or trepidatiously excited.”
I prefer the term “cautiously pessimistic”.
Ghost:
She mentioned Giada and then mentioned the Biscotti….And you’re hungry for food? 😛
Those biscuits of hers cost a lot.
In 1950s and 1960s all television shows made married couples have twin beds. Apparently they did on Dick Van Duke as well. I have no idea who first was to sleep in one.
Google says 1947 on Dupont Mary Kay and Johnny. Ozzie and Harriet in 1950s.
I did not watch television until 1960s and didn’t own TV until 1972 when in laws introduced the devil into my home.
I’ve agreed to be a beta tester for the new GoComics site and they say there will be something to test by the end of October. I’ll keep you posted. I wish them lots of luck figuring it out – it is the future, after all . . .
I wonder how the candidates are polling among people like me who do not answer their phone if they do not recognize the number on Caller ID. They probably have an algorithm to decide our preferences for us.
Cynical? Who, me?
Am I invisible now?
The candidates scare me for different reasons. One is the fan base of one who appear dangerous to me.
Jackie, as was recently mentioned here, if one has problem deciding which candidate to vote for, one can perhaps more easily decide which candidate to vote against. I’ve done so myself in the past.
That may not always work, however. If some day, hypothetically, both major candidates prove to be, say, corrupt, statist, authoritarians, one might have a problem deciding which of them one least wants to be president, no?
Speaking of TV series couples, Robert Read, the actor who played Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, was born on this date in 1932. Had he lived, he would be alive today.
I never watched the show enough to recall what Mike and Carol’s sleeping arrangements were. Does anyone remember?
Now here’s my idea of a great idea. Take a cute young Asian lady, put her in a sexy dress, and have her play Tchaikovsky, well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yue6Cb5OULM
Never watched it, so inane and cloying sweet. Of course had I known Florence Henderson was having sex with her oldest son on show that might have made it at least trashy. Trash stuff learned in retrospect is just trash.
Jackie intends to vote using that criteria. Maybe vote several times?
Bought a new bigger and heavier mallet for chicken fried steaks. Talk softly and carry a big steak tenderizer.
Cooking mushroom stuffed pasta with mushroom and spinach. Pasta on top of spinach and sliced mushrooms, mushroom wine sauce atop it all.
Food porn. Going to Aldi for produce and nursery for plants.
In Tulsa for endo guy so hope to make it to nursery before they close.
Now here’s my idea of an even better idea. Take that same cute young Asian lady, put her in an even sexier dress, and have her play Beethoven, well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itLAlTJt8cs
Here’s even better, make her a scantily clad concert pianist AND an even scantily dressed ballet dancer.
Wait, that sounds familiar, like a cartoon strip I saw once.
Robert Reed and Florence Henderson had some very cozy moments on TV and definitely shared a bed.
http://www.bionicdisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Robert_Reed_Florence_Henderson_Brady_Bunch_Bedroom_1973-500×368.jpg
Although Reed married for a while and had a daughter, his alternative lifestyle was well known on the television set. He was a pretty good actor.