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
Recent Posts
Ghost of Christmas Past
This holiday Arlo & Janis comic strip from 2022 is similar in concept to the new strip that ran yesterday. I thought the latter ...
Spearhead
I have produced a number of comic strips related to Veteran’s Day. Especially in latter years, I have tried to emphasize the universal experience ...
Dark Passage
Remember: it’s that weekend. The return to standard time can be a bit of a shock in the late afternoon, but I rather enjoy ...
What’s old is old, again
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to build a web site, but there are similarities. Everything needs to be just right, or ...
Back to the ol’ drawing board
I don’t have a lot of time this morning. I wasn’t going to post anything, but I’m tired of looking at that old photograph ...
Thursday’s Child
On Sunday, I teased you with the suggestion there are more changes coming here. There are. They will appear soon, and I think you’ll ...
274 responses to “Movie Moves”
Lulu’s is now on the north side of the Inter-Coastal Canal and just east of where the canal bridge crosses it.
Yep. I’d recommend any of Robert’s three places in Hattieburg. And Letha’s BBQ to the west of town. I think I mentioned finding their original old-house-on-the-river-bank location when passing through Columbia MS many years ago. Some good places in the old but now gentrified part of downtown, too.
I got myself a case of the “hongries” thinking about all that good food. I think maybe I’ll put on a pot of marinara sauce. Some chicken parm would sure hit the spot tomorrow.
Speaking of chicken parm, another place I like in Pensacola is The New Yorker Cafe and Pizzeria. I’ve not even tried their pizza (though they look and smell delicious) because I can never resist their chicken parm…unless it’s for their Reuben sandwich.
Saw that location last time I drove past. Or noticed it? I think going east we didn’t have boat finished and rushing to arrive and finish in parking lot, going west we were worn out and ready to get home. I will not be dragging boats this year, just me.
Weight Watchers no longer meets in our town! Full of obese people but chapter has disappeared, see previous beginning of statement.
I guess I will have to sign up for the one 25 miles south or 25 miles north. Let’s see: south I will be in town with wellness center and pool, north I will be in town with Walmart?
Do you do chicken parmesan with flattened cutlets or with whole bone in chicken pieces? I like cutlets pounded thin, Mike always liked bone in. Ruebens should be declared a National Treasure, especially if they cure their own pastrami.
I am drinking a Diet Coke and had hummus and whole wheat pita chips, natural roasted almonds and a couple slices of bacon honey ham which I shared with ten lb. dog on my desk. I am getting hungry but going to bed with stuffy nose and aches and pains! And dog.
Love, Jackie
Flattened cutlets, for the chicken parm. Have a space-agey-looking metal mallet I use just for that.
I could never abide Diet Coke, but I do now drink Coke Zero and like it. I think I could have kicked heroin more easily than I gave up “real” Cokes
Debbe 😉 Back in the day, when I was working a hotel front desk shift at nights and working on my flight instructor ticket in the daytime, I also did some relief bartending. We had a good selection of oldies on the house juke box, and on nights when it was late and I was tired and the tips hadn’t been that good, I’d go over and play this song, written by a former Army chopper pilot and sung by a lady from Oklahoma. It seemed to always thin out the crowd, as most of the couples got up and left to go somewhere else, to do something else, I supposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLQAAxcBTQs
Oh, and Happy Pay Day, hon.
This house is full of good healthy food and I am fighting a tendency to not eat at all. Know I admitted to having gone through periods of anorexia in past, which seems strange, given that I love food, restaurants, eating out, eating in, cooking. Love to read cookbooks, recipes, restaurant reviews, blogs, all about food.
Would love your cutlets I know, Ghost. Is your mallet the stainless steel one with a round disk like face and a smooth surface? honestly, I like the chicken and sauce and can skip the pasta part, which is not to say I don’t love pasta too. Do you make fresh pasta? I miss being able to buy fresh pasta and I never mastered running the dough through the wringer!
My “staff” cooked pork chops and brown rice for me today in a slow cooker. Tasty but looked awful, even she said that. I did not let out a peep that she had used premium thick cut grilling pork chops in the slow cooker. She is having a good time and I am eating.
Love, Jackie
Yep, stainless steel, smooth on one side and “hobnailed” on the other. Used to make my own pasta, need to get another machine and do that again. No comparison between fresh and dried.
All new staff takes a little training.
And then there was the C&W “My Wife Done Left Me in My Pickup Truck and Tooken My Dog with Her, and I Sure Am Gonna Miss That Dog” type of beer-drinkin’ juke box music that was good for bar business. 🙂
You should be ashamed Ghost!I started listening to that and ended up with Waylon Jennings and “Are You Sure Hank Done It This A Way?” Natural progression.
I always enjoyed the “Perfect Country and Western Song”. How about “Prop Me Up Against the Jukebox?” Or “I’ve Got Friends in Low Places?” OK, I am an old time country and western junkie but I remember when Allan Jackson won for best new artist and George Strait a fresh faced new artist as well, now they are senior citizens.
Favorite “Trashy Women” and “She Never Cried When Ole Yellow Died”.
And to think I thought I’d go to Tulsa Symphony tomorrow before I caught this virus?
Love, Jackie
My nominee for Best Ever Name for a C&W Song: “I Don’t Want a Mansion Down in the Valley, I Just a Shack Up in the Hills.”
Don’t forget Ray Price. The man could sell a song.
Back in the 60s & 70s “hemp” grew wild as a “weed” in ditches and fence rows
(and might still) in southern MN – it was cultivated for rope during WWII.
All food is “genetically engineered” It just has been done over multiple generations
(animal & vegetable not human) as most of you know.
Jackie – I can listen to the stream and enjoy the “Village” at the same time.
I just open a new window on my Mac – must be the same on a PC.
This is Only For You ==https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rthj1nqfzgI
Well, blew that…“I Don’t Want a Mansion Down in the Valley, I Just Want a Shack Up in the Hills.”
Jackie, Anthony’s Steak and Seafood 1217 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, Miss. The outside is interesting because of the huge oak trees (you can see a picture on their website), the food is excellent and it probably has the best view of the water, boats, etc. that I’ve ever seen. It is a little pricey, but in my opinion well worth it. I’ve been there three times.
Remind me to tell you about the time I showed up at a car show about a month after I died and played “Prop me up by the Jukebox.”
Loved Ray Price, Ghost, actually saw him perform with Houston Symphony! See, two licks with one cow.
That might not be a country expression you’ve heard before? Or it may have been with one tongue but that didn’t sound right somehow.
Jerry in Fl, can you please tell us more about the story? It sure sounds interesting.
I want to hear that story too, Jerry. In the meantime, this was my anthem for awhile back in the 90’s but I have outgrown that phase of my life I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXsOm32A8E
Mike preferred “She Never Cried When Ole Yeller Died”
Love, Jackie
I’m familiar with “You need to lick that calf over.” In fact, I say it to staff fairly often.
Jackie, apparently YouTube hates you. 🙂
Dang, that was supposed to be the official Trashy Women video with all the band in drag! I will NEVER get that right!
Two licks with one cow is a variant one “Lick the calf over” which was used regularly by my Granny who raised me and others I grew up around.
And what would have constituted your 90’s “trashy side” look, Jackie?
Tomorrow, it’s just a day away.
Jackie, here’;s Old Bear’s link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rthj1nqfzgI
Wore size 8 bottoms and a large top, had Texas big hair, REALLY long fingernails, wore really high heels and often very short skirts! Or skirts that were long but not many buttons. And never left the house without full makeup.
Then I got really bad lupus/RA and everything went to double toothpicks and back. Just was looking at some old photos of me for encouragement, both the good and the bad.
On a positive note, has anyone seen the new Kirstie Alley as a result of Jenny Craig? News today. Sure looks like more than a 50# loss to me. That was encouragement but not enough for me to shell out for Jenny Craig food.
Unless you are Honey Boo Boo’s trashy mama you are going to aim for Kirstie Alley’s trashy woman look!
Love, Jackie
Is this what you meant, Jackie? Never having heard the song, don’t know if I found the right one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXs0m32A8E