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Jumping Jack Flash

By Jimmy Johnson

It’s Tuesday: Reset Day. Today’s old A&J is from 2010. Cats are not into vigorous exercise. That’s one reason I like them. I watched “Casablanca” for about the 100th time on Turner Classic Movie’s Sunday-night program, “The Essentials.” I realized I don’t watch TCM as much as I once did. I rely on Netflix’s streaming catalog more than anything else. Sometimes I watch movies on Amazon Prime. I suppose I could watch movies on demand from my cable company, but I never have. As for the myriad other options out there, I’m rather clueless. Weather permitting, I sit outside most evenings or go out somewhere, but with the approach of winter, I’m studying my entertainment options again. Which leads me to my point: what do you watch, and how do you watch it?

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94 responses to “Jumping Jack Flash”

  1. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Can’t sleep. Sitting in dark listening to waves plopping against the rocks below, lights reflecting off water.

  2. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Miss Charlotte last posted on her Facebook page on September 3 but I can’t tell she is home? She has reacted and liked things I did here at show including today I believe.

    Hope to hear she is home and better soon. She is a dear.

  3. Llee Avatar

    “…Marx brothers on DVD…how to get them off” 🙂 Badumdum rimshot
    Jackie, stop pushing yourself so hard. You don’t have to prove anything. Stella is in repairs??? Was DIckens driving again without his glasses? okok bad joke. But really, what’s up?
    So THAT’s how to make the dash. Thanks!
    Hope everyone’s feeling better and the crud (or whatever ails you) is soon gone.

  4. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    There are some repairable issues with Stella. I will write you directly Llee and tell you. She is a beautiful work of art and I intend to keep her that way. And we are going to make some modifications for safety and ease of sailing her for a munchkin like me.

    Dickens and I are lying her looking out on ocean from bed. I have thought of you constantly. Port Townsend is your kind of town. I wish you were with me but I will just come see you. Carthage is my kind of town too.

  5. Mark Jackson Avatar

    Currently working our way through Midsomer Murders on Netflix, one episode a night. We’re at number 55 (of at least 110).

  6. Lost in A**2 Avatar
    Lost in A**2

    Netflix and Hulu, some DVD and BlueRay.

  7. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    I love Midsummer Murders but feel I have seen all. I love them for fact that the number of Murders exceeds the number of residents in village. And ways to kill people creatively exceeds Agathie Christie.

  8. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    I can second the suggestion of Longmire on NetFlix! Also a British show-Death In Paradise. It’s a crime show about a British detective sent to a Caribbean island to solve a murder. The problem? He hates sand, sun, and sea. Good detective series with touches of humor.

    We dropped cable and dish several years ago, and truthfully have not missed them. We use NetFlix and HULU for most of the shows we want to watch, and I get NCIS off the CBS site.

  9. emb Avatar

    Today’s ‘Herman by Jim Unger’ is a repeat. He’s gone; are ‘his’ all repeats now?

    I don’t get today’s A&J, about the candles. Maybe the denouement [thank you, speelczech] comes tomorrow, or later.

    Peace,

  10. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Trapper Jean: We had lunch in Dahlonega last Thursday. I wore my A&J Luddite shirt just in case we crossed paths.

  11. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Luddie, not Luddite! I think Jackie’s HAL has a cousin here.

  12. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    emb, if you check internet sources about Herman, the strips now appearing are a combination of reruns of Unger’s and new ones by a different artist. If in doubt which are which, try to find the original copyright date on the strip. Herman has been one of my favorite strips since I first saw it.

  13. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    I’ve been giving some thought to discontinuing my cable service, in a desultory sort of way. A couple of days ago, my TV apparently made the decision for me, by giving up the ghost, so to speak. #truestory

  14. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    emb, about today’s strip. Many couples use candles as accessories to “romantic” moments. It would seem that is true of A&J. And Arlo’s relating of the candles to other activities lead to the question about “you just bought them?” and his blushes.

  15. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie: The cure for old memories is to make new ones.

  16. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Thank you my porcine aviator. Working on that and getting younger and fitter. Although nutty bread, whipped butter and Diet Coke not way to go.

    See you soon.

  17. emb Avatar

    Mark: I knew about the ‘2014’ in that Herman cartoon, but just didn’t think / the A&J candles/romance thing. We managed w/o them. I’ve much to be grateful for.

    Ghost: As to making new ones, I’m 86. However, many sorts of memories are still practical.

    Peace,

  18. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    I too watched Death in Paradise. Most British murder and sit coms are gentle humor and violence but not all. Except for NCIS I suppose all I watched was PBS. Since I have not turned on a TV sinice z December 2014 I obviously don’t miss.

    I had to go watch moon landing on a neighbors TV and missed Upstairs Downstairs because I refused to own one. Certainly I could afford. They snuck one in with baby when I gave birth. Hard delivering the square box she was in.

  19. Steve from Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    emb:

    I guess that makes sense but frankly I did not get it either.

    I think that it might be a generational thing with TVs. A lot of people of my Dad’s generation bragged about how little TV that they watched and a few shamed me for watching. I know that my parents thought that I watched a lot of TV. Funny thing is that my daughter is sans cable and my son is close to giving it up. However, I will probably keep it.

    I still have a landline as it comes bundled with the internet. If someone urgently wants to contact me, the landline will always ring, but our cell phones often are on silent. However my wife’s fitbit will vibrate when someone calls her, so maybe I don’t need that excuse anymore.

  20. Bryan Avatar
    Bryan

    I should really be watching Longmire. It’s filmed where I live, I see the “set signs” all the time during filming. I’ve also heard it is quite good.

  21. David in Austin Avatar
    David in Austin

    I admit I’m a cable slacker… I watch college sports, especially the Big 12 and the SEC (Woo Pig Sooie!). I watch NCIS, Criminal Minds, and a couple of other dramas. I also enjoy the “reality” contest shows like The Voice and America’s Got Talent. Normally anything on cable is recorded on the DVR so I can skip commercials. I like Science Channel, Smithsonian, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel as well as Food Network, and occasionally “History” Channel for the Ancient Aliens show.
     
    I don’t believe Ancient Aliens, but it is fun to watch some of the “ancient astronaut theorists” expound their theories. According to them, pretty much everything on the planet is due to alien influence. No explanation for why anyone would travel many, many, light years (5,878,499,810,000 miles per light year) to have anything to do with the brutish inhabitants of the mud & water ball the inhabitants simply call “dirt”.
     
    I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime. Both are used for movies and TV shows. During the past few years, of necessity, I’ve spent quite a few hours indoors.

  22. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Seems to me that the candles’ dimensions indicate simple burning for light/effect. Maybe candlelight is Janis’ way to indicate “the lovin’ light is lit”.

    Candles have not played any such role in my household, so I accede to the thoughts of you who are more versed in these matters.

  23. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    TV: cable, no extra channels nor programs. Movies are constantly being shown on the channel known as “MOVIES!” out of Chicago; it may be related to Fox and sometimes I watch. Have not seen anything like a current movie since making it a point to view the Bond [Connery only] movies as they came out.

    Slight exception: we saw “10” back in the 1970s while it was current, though that was accidental [the movie we thought we’d see was not available for one reason or another].

    TV, again: Like TWC; sciences, documentaries, and the like; some sports for some teams. Would not watch anything labelled “reality” even I were paid to do so!

  24. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Bat Guano Crazy Lady loved H2…Vikings and Ancient Astronauts. Further, the Affiant sayeth not.

  25. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Candles all over my house now only had one purpose when husband lived. I got it instantly.