Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In case you’re wondering, there really is such a thing as a “clurichaun.” I mean, there’s such a thing as a mythical Irish fairy called a “clurichaun.” I tell you: the things you have to know to be a cartoonist! Mostly, you have to know how to get to the Google search page. If it seems I’m chronically nostalgic for all things pre-digital, let me tell you how cartoonists used to do things. They actually kept catalogs and files of clippings at hand, just so they’d know how to draw, say, a lawn mower. Now? Pffft! Google “lawn mower” and instantly see images of just about every type of lawn mower ever invented or imagined. Also back then, every good cartoonist’s shelves groaned with dictionaries and thesauruses and encyclopedias! Now, it’s dust and old Beanie Babies.
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Ghost Sweetie, maybe not cancan height yet, but working on it!
I didn’t wear my skirts quite that short, but still several inches above my knees. I went to a small, country high school, and the principal was rather strict about things like that. And later to a college affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. At least there I could wear blue jeans to class!
Up early and sorting laundry. I should do it more than once a month! Don’t need clothes but need to wash them. Have a basket ready. All cold water dark gentle black underwear! And a car load to go?
Trapper, yes I will do exercises and rehab. Nurse Ratchett will see that I do. Can’t not work out or as I remember it she punished?
Debbe 😉 and emb: It seems cheating on skirt-lengths was universal among HS girls back in the day. One of my all-female staff (the one who wore what was basically a tiny bikini with cowboy hat and boots when she was on her college dance team…and had the figure for it…and had pictures to prove it) told me her mom enforced her Louisiana high school’s dress code skirt length*, but she thought that was much too long and by the time she got to school she had always done the roll-up-the-waistband thing, too.
*With arms at side, the hem of the skirt could not be shorter than the point where the fingers met the palms of the hands. That still seemed rather short to me, so I used a tape measure to determine that on her that was about four inches above the middle of her knees. (No, that’s not weird that I did that. Why do you think that was weird? Inquiring minds want to know. 😉 )
My youngest daughter is shorter than me and got so tiny during her anorexic period we could only sew skirts for her. I could make her an A line skirt with 3/4 yard of fabric and sometime just a half.
My skirt lengths during college were a whopping 20 inches at times. The longest were 27 inches.
Dennis, you sound like a true book lover, seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and realizing you can read by it. 😉
Ah, the seventies, when legs were long and skirts were short…and the skirts sometimes even had side slits.
Was it just me, or did the two guys look like the belonged in “Spinal Tap”?
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Doing laundry, load after load. That’s the boring part. I moved on to towels just now until I go get the bags out of garage that no one carried into house. And yes, I pay people to carry bags of dirty clothes for me.
Here is good part, I have been bingeing on Raul Malo and the groups he played and sang with, Los Lobos and the Mavericks. I love his voice. He is hard to categorize, he is Hispanic from South Miami and does so many types of music. He isn’t exactly any one thing.
Right now he is singing Gentle On My Mind better than Glen Campbell ever did. Now El Pass better than Marty Robbins. He’s a chameleon of music. https://youtu.be/Vqpj17GmVMc
Dennis I looked up the Callahan books on Amazon because I remember enjoying the first one so much long ago. I didn’t know it had become such a long series. The second shock was the price even for Kindle editions. $6.99 for a Kindle book? Really? Put the unread ones on my wish list and will buy them a couple a month as more money shakes loose from the budget. Something to look forward to.
Abba dear Abba. Mama Mia.
The girls wore matching satin panties and the boys wore jock straps.
Under the costumes.
Ursen how about checking library?
Here’s Raul Malo and the Mavericks with the sound they are best known for, a blend of horns, cha cha salsa beat.
https://youtu.be/ypJ3dP7qCpE
ursen, try Half.com. Used ones are quite cheap there.
Mom also rolled skirts in 30’s
emb
Heard your request on FF good one tor St Urho.
Chided Steve for not saying so.
Jackie I go out to very few places. I haven’t been to the library since my mother died. Yes I have valid library cards, and access to two library systems, but I just go to church, a few restaurants at dead times, that’s about it. Really, really tough to go out anywhere.
ursen, some libraries are able to lend e-books. (Not sure about the selection.) Even the library on the Redneck Rivera where my late friend lived out her last years did. Of course, they are a resort area and in condo country, so they probably have fewer budgetary restraints than most communities.
Ruth Ann would probably know more about how that works than I.
“Naked and Afraid”…where a man and a woman bravely try to survive in the wilderness for 21 days with no clothes, no shoes, no water, and minimal tools…in fact, nothing but a camera crew with satellite phones and four-wheel drive vehicles, and access to a helicopter. Amazing.
I love Marty Robbins’ version of “El Paso”, but Raul Malo makes it his. He’s not too shabby on this one, either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqpj17GmVMc
That is the one I was listening to when I started linking Raul Malo. Isn’t it beautiful? He doesn’t just sing country. He has done duets with some amazing performers.
He is performing in Austin pretty soon and I think north Texas. Despite living in Texas all those years I never got to go to any of our legendary dance halls or honky tonks. So many things I have missed in life that were just so easy to have not to.
Savannah osprey site. Site refers to he and she. Think I’ve found a difference. This female has a broader black patch on her forehead than her mate does. Still no eggs. Maybe they’re getting hostile vibes from the deprived owls. Remember, all we know is they showed up last yr. well after two young owls had fledged, presumably after a nest failure of their own. That failure may have simply been / a sterile osprey. Peace,
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/
ursen: a short series of books I greatly enjoyed. Here is a collected edition of all three. https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Master-Li-Number-Ten-ebook/dp/B005ISOYLK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1489965466&sr=1-1&keywords=barry+hughart
Have I ever told osprey story about Mike and Andy hitting the osprey nest on top of channel marker in Everglades and making her mad? She actually chased them next morning when she recognized them, diving at cockpit.
Possibly useful info. Peace,
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/lessons-from-yahoo-hack-simple-tips-to-safeguard-your-email/
emb: We also know that the tree lost some branches in a storm, making the nest more attractive to ospreys than to the owls.
“The greatest rock n roller who ever lived. He belongs on Mt Rushmore, and this should be our national anthem.” – David Burge @iowahawkblog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCJ5j7oVWc
Debbe 😉 If Nicks is good, and Petty is good, a duet would be better, amitire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ