I’m running late today, but I am here! The above A&J from five years ago is a good example of something I mention here rather often. Regardless of what one thinks of the joke itself, it’s a good example of the essential comic strip, one where the words and the art are equally important. Take one away, and the other doesn’t work. No less than Charles Schulz said, it is what makes a comic strip a comic strip.
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Hi Dave!
Not being able to log in here and see how everyone’s day went is almost like being locked out of the house, all the good stuff denied!
I am the worst packer ever! I’m dragging stuff out from every room and all corners and hidey-holes. Blacklight is so confused. I am determined to off-load some of this junk before I move. As much as I love them, I think just about all of my clocks are going. I have at LEAST seven battery operated analog clocks and not one of them has ran in years. Yes, years. Once the batteries died, I’ve never bothered to replace them.
Wow! I, too, just managed to get here for the first time today. I wonder what happened.
Good idea, Jackie, to be complimentary to others on the basis you mentioned.
Mark, I wanted to say I enjoyed the “how the comics got to your paper” article from 1964. Then I went on and read all the ads. Who else noticed the greatest names in R and B world, all playing together, Jackie Wilson headlined and B.B. King, Irma Thomas, The Drifters, Gene Chandler, Gladys Knight, all were opening acts!
Tickets were $2.50 for adults and kids were $1, so it was a family act.
Amazing! Both, the article and the ads.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, glad you enjoyed it. It’s part of a website called Birmingham Rewound. For the This Month series, they post samplings of items from the local newspapers in ten year blocks from the 1970’s back to the 1940’s. So right now they are covering 1944, 1954, 1964 and 1974. If you go to the bottom of that page you will find a link that says Back To This Month. Click it and you will have the chance to read the rest. For me the prime years are the 1960’s and 1970’s when I was old enough to notice this stuff. I think this is a great idea and wish more people would cover other areas of the country. Got to be some fascinating history that is currently lost.
Oh, Jackie, I forgot to mention that the music event says it was at Rickwood. That is the oldest professional baseball stadium in the US. It’s no longer in regular use, but has provided locations for several movies and special ball games.
You know what I said above about telling people what they have meant to you while they are alive, to be thankful for their friendship or inspiration? Well, just as the A and J site went down for the day, I got one of those letters sent to me and I sat here stunned.
It said exactly the same thing, the people who had inspired and not ever been told or written. And the author was writing to those who he wanted to thank today while alive.
And I had to read it twice to comprehend that he truly meant me.
And then I guess I cried a tear or two. The company he had placed me with was just too exalted to believe he meant me too.
Love, Jackie Monies
Judging by the time-stamps, Jackie must have been the one who broke the blog this morning. 🙂
Based on your posts and replies so far, I think you qualify for exalted company. emb
Amen, emb.
Debbe 🙂 Our version of 9 Chickweed Lane’s current story arc…
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Martine is the squirrel? No jokes about the fuzzy appendage for which squirrels are noted, please….
Arlo should learn how to call a squirell. I can get most squirrls to come right up to me. We only have grey squirrels with exceptipn of albinos. I saw one that was white in his back half and grey in the front. I also saw a complete albino several years also I have pictures of a black squirrrel in the Thousand Islands
I was working on my recipe collection this afternoon, and I found one I haven’t prepared in years. Lily will probably think I made this up, but it’s for Bacon Marmalade. It’s easy to fix, goes well on sandwiches, or on toast with cream cheese, or tossed with iceberg lettuce and crumbled blue cheese. You can even spoon it over ice cream.
And who hasn’t tried a schmear of cream cheese on a fancy wheat cracker, topped with pepper jelly?
Have a blessed day Villagers…..
…I too agree with you, Jackie
GR 😉 love the cat 🙂
later…………………..
Oh, Mark, checked out your link….back to school clothes styles sure have changed since the seventies.
Ghost Sweetie, I prefer my cream cheese and sweet pepper jelly on a toasted bagel. I save the fancy wheat crackers for good Camembert cheese. 😉 And yes, great cat picture!
Jackie, you’re absolutely right!
JJ, your Sunday offering is a gem of insight and wisdom.
Bagels would be good, too, Jean dear. And I also have a recipe for what may well be the world’s most culinarily decadent sandwich…a Bacon Marmalade and Brie Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Perhaps not for the faint of heart, though…nor the coronary-artery-clogged of heart. 🙂
Every time I think of Jerry’s “white in his back half and grey in the front” squirrel, the phrase “Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirrel” immediately pops into my mind. 🙂
Yes, I confess, it was me who broke the website and I am feeling awful and guilty about it. Have no idea what I did, of course, maybe Sandcastler knows?
While it was down I was feeling totally lost and alone out here in world and was reading all kinds of weird stuff. I even read/watched the news story on the new Texas burger from Hardees with the return of Paris Hilton to reprise her car washing ad as their “first” celebrity model. I confess I watched it to send it to Ghost and others of that persuasion and then computer was down! There are two super models involved and I also watched the “making of the ad” video, then lost whole thing!
Love, Jackie Monies
Heck, just google Texas hamburger ad from Carl Jrs/Hardees and you will get a ton of articles! All with photos and videos. Plot is that Texas swimsuit model from Sports Illustrated is washing big ole’ muddy pickup truck wearing almost nothing while eating a Texas heart killing hamburger, she drops some on the truck and Paris Hilton walks in wearing equally little and says “You missed a spot.”
Now, see, you won’t have to watch it, you know how it ends!
Lots of soap and skin involved and a big hamburger!
Love, Jackie Monies
Mark in TTown
Thanks for the link. the ads brought back some memories from the 60’s! Robinwood Drive In.
The drive in that always had the movies that the adults whispered about. Got caught as a teenager (very young teenager) sneaking in there in the trunk in 1968. Oh well, I guess the adults were smarter than we gave them credit for! Thanks for the memories!
Jackie, I haven’t seen the hamburger ad [yet 🙂 ] but I can surmise from your description that it will likely appeal to the good-ol’-boy-that-likes-shapely-and-scantily-clad-women-and-thinks-a-loaded-hamburg-is-a-five-course-gourmet-meal demographic. In other words, most of us guys. 🙂
Good morning, Villagers. Wow, Jackie, I have lost several church friends to old age amd a couple of acquaintances to trauma (car, four wheeler) and a fellow employee to Hepatitis C, but never anybody to AIDS. We did have a HIV-positive man in our practice but The Boss Of My Life referred him to Dallas.
We had our Woman’s Institute Tea yesterday, and yours truly got to model some stuff from local stores. My favorite was what the emcee called overshorts, a denim overalls-inspired little outfit with short pants legs and a kinda revealing top section. I wore a pink tank under it. The last round was supposed to be cowgirl stuff and I flatly refused to wear the boots (with colored insers for the front) that they wanted me to so I borrowed a pair of short rough-outs fom a friend with the same shoe size and wore those. Not popular with the Powers-That-Be. I did kinda make it up to her by buying the overalls short set.
So, Lady Mindy, should we classify you as a “battery operated analog clock hoarder” and call in the people from a reality TV show? 🙂
Good to see your modeling career is proceeding apace, DM.
Guess I’ll have to google “overshorts” as soon as I finish checking out the hamburger ad. 🙂