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
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274 responses to “Movie Moves”
Debbie, the series you’re referring to is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, and to understand it, you really need to read all five books. As you’ll see here, http://loscon.org/42a/ the author is the Writer Ghost of Honor at LosCon 42 this November.
Jackie, be sure to let us know how to find your boating articles when they are posted. i’m sure some here would enjoy reading them. (Me, for instance.)
And if you change your mind about writing the “sex scandalous southern girl memoirs”, let me know where to find those as well. 😉
Denise, the transmutative power of the towel is its secret. 😉
Legal Washington cultivators report pot shops are over-supplied with their product. By like 80%. Wasn’t growing cannabis supposed to be a no-fail, get-rich-quick strategy? Hahahahahahah!
sideburns, don’t forget there’s a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009 with Douglas Adams’ widow’s permission…
GR6, there is a reason it is nicknamed “weed,” it is fast growing and easily spread. 😉 Guess you could classify this as another pot bust. 😉
Ghost, sounds like the liquor industry after the end of Prohibition, doesn’t it?
Anyone know the shelf-life of ganja? Will they have to have clearance sales? Inventory reduce sales? Start having January “Green Sales”?
“Inventory reduction sales.” And no, I haven’t been helping them with their over-stock problem. Hey, how about OverStock.com?
The retro cartoon of Susan getting closer and closer to Gene reminded me of something that happened to me a few years ago. Administration had “volunteered” management to attend a last-minute-requested photo op, ah, critical information communication stop on our campus by our local Congress-critter. (At least they didn’t make us stand behind him, prop-like, as POTUS seems wont to do.)
It was wintertime and so-spur-of-the-moment that the large meeting room at our annex had only had time to heat up to about 60 degrees, so it was definitely chilly in there, even with the addition of all the hot air coming from the podium. The room was also short of chairs so, gentleman that I am, I moved to the back wall of the room and leaned against it, doing my best to help hold it up, where I was joined by one of my fellow managers.
She was new with the organization, and I was just getting to know her. The next thing I knew, she was pressing against my left side rather closely, in an attempt, I assumed, to conserve body heat. Unlike Gene, I knew it wasn’t my imagination…she was soon leaning against me hard enough that I had to lean back toward her to maintain my balance. (Not that I minded, not being one to let a good lean go to waste when the leaner was pneumatic and pulchritudinous, and smelled really nice to boot.)
When the wind-up Congress-critter finally ran down and the meeting ended, we stood up straight and I looked down at her. She smiled knowingly up at me, and I smiled back. I never did figure out exactly what was going on there. Although I’d probably have asked her out if she’d not been married.
OF due in 20-40 miin., but fog city out there. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
GR6, what is the possibility that the “weed” surplus is a direct result of eliminating the predators from the loop? Over production was necessary to meet demand when law enforcement was actively chasing producers. Now it all lands on the store shelf.
sand, could be, although I understand one of the explanations offered for the surplus in stores is that many people seem to still be utilizing their sources from pre-legalization days. For sentimental reasons, I’m sure. And, oh yeah, because they don’t have to pay state tax on that product. Who’d have ever thought recreational marijuana users wouldn’t be good citizens and cheerfully pony up the government’s cut of the proceeds?
And on top of that, I believe that Federal law still forbids banks from allowing credit/debit card/checking transactions to pot sellers, so the shops are basically cash-only operations. The state tax people’s heads must be on the verge of exploding.
“When something sounds too good to be true…”
Good evening all, I am up, help left after they made sure I took my blood sugar and insulin and ate something. She cooked lunch for me, I crawled back in bed and she planted bulbs.She found some bulbs in one bed and I told her those were Charlie’s daffodils. Charlie is a fox hound and one year he got tired of waiting for me to ever plant anything, dug a hole and buried a bad of daffodils after opening them.
I get curiouser and curiouser as Alice used to say, Ghost what were you doing in that place of higher learning? Teaching English? I know what your coworker was doing.
Got my AARP magazine today. Do you by any chance look anything like Kevin Costner? That beard photo you sent of the model for facial hair had a beard that looked a lot like the one Kevin is sporting on cover of AARP. He is 11 years younger than I but I would risk being accused of stealing from the cradle.Which is what Mike always said I did, he being two years my junior.
Love, Jackie
Do free lance pot dealers take checks and credit cards? Here in Oklahoma they say all our paper money tests positive for drugs. The joke about people paying large amounts of cash is that it will smell like it has been buried in a can in the back yard.
When I was out paying for a coup[le thousand worth of fried chicken, in cash, in the parking lot, the owner who is a preacher suddenly realized we looked like a drug deal going on. I told him not to worry, the police would confiscate the “evidence” and eat it all while searching for the hidden drugs.
Love, Jackie
Just tried to get Urban Spoon to pull up best seafood restaurants in Mississippi and not one anywhere near the coast came up! The ones in Vicksburg, Natchez, Columbia, inland locations I have just about eaten in them all (or not but know) Are there no places reopened yet actually on water?
Trying Alabama next. Love, Jackie
Jackie, “campus” may also mean “a large, usually suburban, landscaped business or industrial site”.
Is this the Kevin Costner photo you saw?
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnfull/20141124/160625
No, I don’t have the “neck beard” part of his facial foliage; mine doesn’t have that much dark in it (didn’t when I was in my 30’s); and I wouldn’t say I look too much like him. But I don’t look like George Takei, either.
Have I mentioned that my favorite “modern” Western movie is “Silverado”?
Jackie, since the casinos moved in, probably no one else can afford to be on the water. You might try the Blow Fly Inn at Gulfport.
http://www.blow-fly-inn.com/
Yep, that’s it. Great Costner photo. I really have always liked Kevin Costner and I used to joke it was in his contract that he got to have a boat in every movie of some sort, even those set in Western locales. Still great facial hair. I have been known to actually watch Waterworld because of Costner. Of course, it helps that most of the men I know either love or hate Waterworld but have all seen it.
Forget urban Spoon, my kids “thing” I went to Coastal Living and found a great review of all Southern states coastal seafood dives, listed and giving locations. I was delighted to find out Lulus had barged that falling down building to a new location and not burned it down.
He does awesome acting too.
Love, Jackie
In the blonde and clueless category. Jackie cover your eyes! Oklahoma State University just released this food survey. 80% responded that they want mandatory labels on food containing DNA.
http://jaysonlusk.com/blog/2015/1/15/food-demand-survey-foods-january-2015
Will skip OSU (I read it Sand just now) comments. Ghost, that Blowfly Menu was great! Banana pudding with lunch! One of the photos flashing by looked like it might be calamari or onion rings al fredo!
Seriously, that one goes on the go to list for sure!
I totally love sea food over all else, so living inland here in the great ocean of grassland and no see food is a sacrifice I try to make up for by traveling.
Haven’t been in Biloxi Gulfport in a while, a couple years after Katrina and it was so awful I just couldn’t face it again. No casino fan here.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I remembered reading this last year. Robert is the owner of three good eateries in Hattiesburg MS…Crescent City Grill (Creole/New Orleans menu), The Purple Parrot (Fine Dining) and Tabela (Italian). This is his take on Lulu’s.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2014/07/01/st-john-lulus-incredible-restaurant/11924777/
Obviously Baby Sister isn’t still operating out of the waterfront shack I remembered! Thanks, Ghost. So Hattiesburg has good food too?
Long ago I used to have a good customer in the Pappas chain of restaurants in Houston. I can remember those kinds of waits for a table and the volume of covers they did, the money their waitstaff made. They solved the turn away problem by putting about three of their restaurants in same piece of property and would shift people to another with a shorter wait. Clever marketing.
Love, Jackie