Yesterday it was Milk Duds, and today it is popcorn. I sure hope they’re going Dutch! I’m running late; I have to go draw new cartoons now.
Movie Moves
By Jimmy Johnson
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274 responses to “Movie Moves”
Thanks Debbe, I didn’t know the “42” reference either. Never watched the TV show, although I know it was very popular.
Ruth – Am not familiar with “Firesign Theater” either. Gosh – I learn a lot here!
Debbe, that would be Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Yes, definitely read the book, or watch the 1981 BBC version. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/?ref_=nv_sr_2
I think the answer to the blonde joke is one-she holds the bulb and the world turns around her.
Mark, I’ve not read those books, so I can’t say. I think McEldowney just gets so wrapped up in his own artwork that he forgets where he’s going, if he ever had a map.
Ghost Sweetie, I know that joke. 😉
oh hey, thank you I’m here. I wanted to mention a couple days ago about I think Jackie and GR6 talking about grocery stores remodeling. The Kroger “Marketplace” near me took out furniture and put in clothes and in so doing apparently some Harvard educated store designer totally rearranged where everything is on the canned, dry, box middle shelves, and it’s INSANE and illogical and the craziest was I saw some suits actually taking out all the ice cream, tossing it in baskets while it was thawing a little just so they could slightly move the brands and stuff up and down the freezer row a little. …. …. …. .. With my wife gone, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go into a Hobby Lobby or Michael’s again without crying. …. … The first year will be really hard, time for the yellow rumped warblers, time for the chickadees, the thistle feeder, the first robin. .. and I’ll be by myself at the Texas gubernatorial inauguration Tuesday, we would always stop on the way home at “Must Be Heaven” in Brenham for pie.
Jean dear, I suspected you would. 😉
John, as I’ve said, remember the joy, forget the sadness. And as I also said, don’t let grief do weird things to you. It did to me.
Still praying for you.
Correct answer to the blonde joke; she smiles and a dozen guys willing change her bulbs.
John, every day I try to face another challenge and not just crawl back into bed in my pajamas but I think today I’m going to lose. I have managed to catch a virus or flu which isn’t hard for me to do, they usually catch me and I still don’t have flu shot. I am miserable, going to eat something so I can take my insulin and meds and call the pharmacy to see if I have a Z pack on file still. Yeah, two doctors write me Z packs to be used at my discretion.
Ghost is right, try and find things that are happy, things you can laugh at, memories that are funny or make you smile. Last night I sat here and watched the Village People who I had NEVER seen, then another guilty pleasure, listened to ABBA for awhile and yes, it made me laugh.
Yesterday I got the newspapers in mail with my mom’s and Mike’s obituaries and despite fact I wrote them, they were so hard to read. I was married to one of the best looking men who ever lived and one of the most beloved, a hard thing to lose, certainly irreplaceable. You may feel the same about your wife I am sure. But I love people and men are people so if someone makes you happy to be around them, don’t avoid them.
I made the comment I didn’t think I could ever go in certain restaurants or places again and my daughter (who has a psychology degree) said you can’t do that, you and dad and grandmother ate everywhere, traveled everywhere. You can’t just sit home and avoid where you went or what you did. So, I am trying.
But I still haven’t walked into the Boat Palace in the back yard.
Love, Jackie
OF due 1042-1102 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Information on 42 was absolutely incredible. I should have paid more attention to those mathematician friends who stood at the blackboards posting math challenges at each other and slapping their sides in glee.
I woke up this morning thinking about the television show “Lost” which I watched infrequently and could seldom follow for it’s intricate plots. Thinking maybe life really is like that show, it is all happening in the opening and closing of an eyelid. Checked to see if I had a fever to go with the cold hands and feet and if I was actually still alive?
Started a yellow legal notepad list of recommended restaurants for me to visit. Tore off the page that listed all the things I had to do for mom’s and Mike’s funerals and put it in trash.
Kept the list with songs I was considering for music for services. I am a list maker and always have been.
Feeling miserable and snotty ended my idea of going to Tulsa on Saturday to the symphony, that and having no earthly idea anyone who’d enjoy going with me outside of the residents of the Village. I hate today’s radio shows on commercial radio so listen to NPR when I can and am buying CD’s for vehicles. Need to get out the owner’s manual and learn to operate the radio and CD, heck I used to teach little old ladies how when I sold Lincolns!
Next project, set up Siruis radio or something like it as we seem to own one and membership.
I will have to rent a young child to teach me about tech today.
Love, Jackie
My last post went into moderation. Hmmmmmm
Cartoonist cartoon. Try number two.
http://t.co/4wXZxBdlXG
Sand, I didn’t realize those bulbs were headlights.
That is like the boat designer’s joke by the late, great Phil Bolger, (Thing Master and Commander) “Boat designers take a vow of poverty, like joining a religious order” and another designer friend added “But without the vow of celibacy”.
Love, Jackie
Who didn’t love Loni Anderson in WKRP In Cincinnati? The antithesis of all dumb blonde jokes.
Jackie, if you go with Sirius, read your bill carefully.
http://consumerist.com/2015/01/13/siriusxm-charges-customer-2085-for-25-subscription-shrugs/
Jackie
When on line go to MPR classics
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/cms/listen/classical/
They also have a “current” station
Re: 9CL like Life – it is the trip not the destination. Was it Calvin or Hobbs that
said it was not a race to see who got to the end first?
As for Pibgorn we used to have “The Couch” very much like the “Village”
We even got to meet each other while traveling.
“May you be in heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you are gone”
OB
Jackie, I pray it’s not influenza you have. I mentioned that my Mom’s PCP told us that this year’s vaccine had not been all that effective, and now indications are that it is actually spectacularly ineffective. And you have certainly been around many people in several locations lately.
Plus you can see how Oklahoma is doing with ILI cases…
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2014-2015/images/ILIIntensity01_small.gif
Ruth Anne, Trapper Jean, sand, and Ghost: I always have my towel. Right now it is cleverly disguised as a shawl. 🙂
Denise, having your towel is especially important when you exit the tub or shower. Just ask Janis. If she didn’t have hers then, Arlo would probably cause her to be “late for work” five days a week. 😉
Just noticed something on that map…the way the red spreads from Idaho roughly across the US to the northeast. I’ve been reading the “Breakers” series of novels, a pretty fair dystopian tale which begins with a manufactured virus that kills off over 99% of the world population. It was nicknamed “The Panhandler” because the initial outbreak occurred in the panhandle of Idaho.
Hope life doesn’t imitate art in this case.
John in Richmond, with time, bitter can become bittersweet; with enough time, sweet. Spoken from experience and the passage of half a lifetime.
Ghost, hope it’s not Captain Trips, either. (The Stand by Stephen King). At least we know it’s not the zombie virus of John Ringo’s books since nobody is ripping their clothes off and then trying to eat the people around them!
Alas, no update on Gene today. Like the protagonist in “The Pit and the Pendulum,” he is aware of movement… closer and closer. As Poe relates:
” …within three inches of my bosom! I struggled violently, furiously, to free my left arm.”
Sounds like Gene’s situation, all right… except I suppose it would be his right arm. I bet his Telltale Heart is beating loudly! 😉
I was excited when I learned you could listen to music on youtube and still write, read and type on computer. Duh! Dumb blonde for sure.
Since I am getting ready to start writing again I will enjoy that. No, not the sex scandalous southern girl memoirs a la Blanche Devorioux but a series of articles about sailboats and the Everglades Challenge down in Florida which I am planning on attending in March.I have an assignment now to do it.
I am like the talking dog, it is remarkable that I do it at all, much less well. If I ever run out of monohull sailboats to write about I could learn a new category like kayaks or Hobies.
Love, Jackie
Back to bed and two layers of blankets despite it being a beautiful day here.
Jackie – rest & liquids!