I’m still mining Sundays from 10 years ago. I thought you might be interested to know that the big Web-page makeover that I’ve talked about recently (and have talked about off and on in the past) might really happen this time. If it doesn’t, I just wasted money on a retainer I paid to some fine young people who’re going to help me put it all together technically. Of course, I learned I’m still going to have to provide the content. Sheesh! It isn’t scheduled to roll out until spring, possibly even late spring, and I have no idea what it will look like, because I’ve yet to come up with a concept and the artwork to support it—that “content” bugaboo I mentioned. However, I will keep you posted as events warrant.
Literary Achievement
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442 responses to “Literary Achievement”
I am from Louisiana and a part of it where hunting/guns/outdoor shooting is the second major economy after the massively large farms.
We seem to also have a lot of reality television shows that originate there, including those crazy guns from down in Baton Rouge where Doumalcan is from that customize and create heavy artillery.
Who do you all consider a reputable type gun shop? Anywhere in Oklahoma is within driving range, as well as north Texas, north Louisiana, southern Kansas and parts of Arkansas.
Jackie, it is easier to just be stupid. Forrest Gump certainly knew this to be true.
Not certain if all AF types have jumped. I know many AFA grads earned their wings in summer school jumps.
Always p……sed me off when a major tornado was bearing down on us to have the Weather Channel doing reality entertainment shows.
Before that, when they really did weather and often live, I would get concerned when Jim Cantore was standing in the parking lot of a shopping center just south of me because it had a national motel chain and we didn’t. You’d have Cantore and Seidel live and know you were in for it.
Gal, thanks from me also for sharing the obituary. Many times when reading the obituary of someone I did not know personally, I can’t help but wonder if they were really as great as they were made to “look on paper”. I suspect that Jerry was.
Lady Mindy, how is Amanda’s cleavage looking on TWC tonight. Also, when the power goes down for a week, are all those panic shoppers going to eat raw eggs, washed down with room temperature milk?
Jackie, Red Jacket in BR is toast. Their front man (he wasn’t the owner, one reason being he had lost his FFL dealer’s licence) is probably still in jail under child abuse charges. (His daughter, also on the TV show, has now admitted that he raped her repeatedly when she was a minor.) I knew just from watching him on TV he was an idiot and a blowhard, but I didn’t suspect the pedophilia.
Winter Storm Linus, because it’s going to blanket the area with snow, right?
Jackie, I share your suspicions about helicopters. I always found it hard to be comfortable in a aircraft that is continually trying to shake itself to pieces. And sometimes they do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1N70szHLg
One of those crimes I would support capital punishment for. Among many reasons I have never been selected for jury duty.
I didn’t say I liked the show. I just said I come from a long line of people who like guns and killing stuff. And mud. That Delta black gumbo creates a 10# foot in no time, even without a boot on.
You are an interesting person, Ghost. Pedophiles are rarely easily identified, nor do they wear big P letter in middle of forehead.
Love, Jackie
Once got to enjoy a helicopter flight through the towers of downtown Houston, which has some serious draft, downdraft and upward too.
Our local Tulsa weather team which are far better than the Weather Channel guys once blew a trailer apart using their weather chopper holding over the “house”.
And who ARE those big black birds that always seemed to go right over my house and the lake in the night?
Jackie:
A person’s name is theirs, of course. A person close to me had the middle name Janette, because, in fact, her Dad couldn’t spell Jeanette. He was a neat guy. As to St. Jacqueline, I did a search. Most sites said she didn’t exist, but one went into the whole song and dance / St. Francis, but also said her day was 1 April. Another said Feb. something. I was once told who my saint was, but now am of a different persuasion that doesn’t venerate saints. Come to think of it, I do venerate one.
“Peace, EMB (and no editor in the history of my life has EVER offended me. That is what they do, edit)”
A night editor or two have offended me. One column, posted here ages ago, ended in a punch line, “What if Mrs. Hitler had had a headache that night in 18–?” Idiot couldn’t see its relation to the preceding essay, so deleted it. I forgave him, of course, but commented on it to my regular editor, and have had less trouble since. Peace, emb
Peace, emb
I am reminded of Count Almaviva, in Il Nozze di Figaro, playing a tipsy monk, repeating the greeting “Pace, Pace” ad nauseam. Peace, emb, just once.
Gal, Jerry would have been someone I would enjoy meeting. You were blessed. I still love journalists and writers. Two heavy amount of credits for me in my first collegiate expedition were journalism and theater arts, speech because not just Richard Gere in “Chicago” knew that was what law was all about. Never have lost the love for the written word, nor the spoken as well.
Ghost – Don’t know, got mad and switched back to my “Soundscapes” channel – 100%, no commercials added, instrumental, new age, and world music. I can’t stop the snow. I have blankets and a cat. And I still have to make it into work tomorrow morning. And if those morons can’t figure out to put cap that needs to stay cold outside, that is their problem, not mine. Bed awaits.
P.S. Was in Peru, IN, near Grissom Air Reserve Base, where the local parade signaling the beginning of their local childrens’ circus (Yes, they have their own circus. The flying trapeze is a legitimate after school activity.) opened with a military helicopter flying only a few feet above the buildings lining Main Street. Both sides were wide open, filled with local reservists. If the flight wasn’t already impressive enough, the helicopter pilot then circled back around, as close to a 90 degree roll as possible – side doors still wide open, with the reservists waving and shouting to the crowd below. Insane, but so awesome. I am still amazed no one died and the elephants didn’t stampede.
Good night. Left y’all a tiny little link. 😉
About snow and ice storms for the southernmost members of the Village: you have a redundancy system in place. I have as much natural gas as we could put in, which does not require anything more sophisticated than a match. Also generator for electricity if necessary.
Last resort is safe camping gear that will not kill me with fumes or carbon monoxide. You insulate the water lines, fill containers with emergency water, make sure all the emergency supplies like dog and cat food are stocked. If toilets freeze (and they can) you use camping or boat versions, tons of toilet paper and stuff like that. Own a whole lot of camping and boating gear but normally maybe only main house would need to be moved to boat ice chests. I almost always have kitty litter but get lots additional. Forget milk and bread, I have a loaded freezer and pantry at all times. Candles and oil lamps for light, flashlights, camping lights.
Isn’t this what we are all supposed to do? I was here alone one past year when we got 14 inches of snow on my decks, tables, benches, yard. Went and measured it with yard stick. No one believed me, like Mike, until the Weather Channel covered it and mispronounced the town and Lake name.Since they don’t sand or plow rural roads you just don’t go anywhere.
Love, Jackie
Love, Jackie
Lady Mindy, that’s the kind of turn one learns to do when the ECM equipment tells one an enemy missile has acquired lock on one’s aircraft.
Yeah, I have the Soundscapes channel on my cable system, too. Playing “Heavensent” by Osamu Kitajima at the the moment.
sandcastler ™ it’s so tiny I can’t see it! I know I’m nearsighted but not blind.
Only helicopter I ever flew in was at the Smyrna Air Show in Tennessee. It only held two, had no doors and I never repeated the experience. Did I mention I am afraid of heights? Excepting airplanes and theme park rides. Oh yeah, and tall women.
We pretty well learned our lesson around here from Katrina. Prior to then, FEMA advised people to be able to meet their own needs for up to 72 hours. Hell, it took FEMA longer than that just to decide where all to go after Katrina. And then they had to get there.
Try number two. Little link.
Too tired to work on it tonight.
People flying helicopters for petroleum industry around Lafayette, LA. The guy who founded Petroleum Helicopters ended up being a big wine buff, so big that Mike had to build wine bins for him personally. Anyway, lots of pilots around in those days, also lots of smaller personal planes too.I became afraid of heights after that but we used to go fishing off the Gulf rigs way back.
That is interesting, the view off a rig down to water.
No military experience what so ever.
Ghost, we got stuck in Houston and Lafayette, New Orleans way longer than 72 hours long before Katrina. I think I sat out on highway by Moissant airport (now Louis Armstrong, right?) longer than that in a traffic jam with a small child and two cats in car one year!
Redundancy: Love, Jackie Love, Jackie
Jackie, Petroleum Helicopters. Did you ever know an ex Army Ranger Captain who flew for them who later wrote a couple of hit songs?
Yes, still up. Loon is struggling with a client server she is having to work remote. Not a pretty picture. She has a set of earbuds w/speaker connected to her phone. Headphones connected to a tablet over the earbuds. And two computers running.
You mean Kris Kristofferson? I am still a huge fan. He has aged well. Good looking man.
Done pretty well, too. There he is in Hana, where we wanted to be, and here I am in Oklahoma.
Boy, Loon can multi-task!
My uncle Charles Lindbergh (no not that one!) and baby brother developed all the offshore monitoring equipment used in Gulf, North Seas for the wells when completed. Baker bought out one, the other died. Anyway, my step dad was one of original exploration teams back in the day in Saudi Arabia, Denmark, South America. Germans took Denmark with him there, they were trying to destroy information and were last ones out when they turned out the lights.I have the New York times article to prove story is true.
Mama managed to spend most of the money or he hid it and I don’t know enough to find it. I thought your joke about your daughter tearing up the house was pretty funny! My youngest is convinced my two cousins who want to buy my mom’s old house know where the treasury bonds are and plan to do the same.
Since there are few people leftalive to embarrass, I don’t mind doing so. I am not easily embarrassed.
Love, Jackie
Thank you for your kind comments about Jerry. Yes, he was quite a guy. And the obit didn’t even get into his acting in, and directing, community theater, the time he met Francis Gary Powers after the U2 incident, his going boating with Robert Mitchum… I am not sure I could have kept up with him during his more rambunctious days!
Good morning Villagers….
Rain on it’s way in….
Yesterday was a _itch…..at the hen house …did not make it to my Great Aunt’s funeral because of the teenagers and their ‘hangovers’…The Boss will get an earfull come Monday.
Gal…you are still are in my thoughts and prayers….amen
later
Thank you Jackie. The only reason that I started posting music to You Tube was to offer words of encouragement to a friend who’s husband was in very critical condition five years ago. He is in his 40’s and is still disabled, so the music keeps coming.
If you type in Google “be with me lord when i am in trouble lyrics”, my 1st video pops up. I have had over 46K hits, which amazes me.
Old Bear last night I happened to watch a stupid skit about “teacher snow day” and their undergarments were mentioned. Sadly when I was in school we might have fantasized about a teacher or two, but never would a teacher act upon it. It is sad that our world is so messed up that something like this can happen. No kidding either