I started to write, “I haven’t forgotten about Weird Wednesday,” but I realized it would have been a lie. I did forget about Weird Wednesday! It was fun that one time, though, and I will do that again soon. It’s kind of like going back over my own work and putting a silly caption over the original—probably making it funnier in the process. Today, however, is another two-fer as we continue rearranging the furniture. It’s Friday, and I must finish churning out new Arlo & Janis fare. I’ll try to post something over the weekend. Maybe “Silly Saturday.”
Rearranged Marriage, cont.
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140 responses to “Rearranged Marriage, cont.”
This series was a favorite of mine, both above are great! If I ever get done getting rid of stuff and giving away three lives worth of clothes I will rearrange and redecorate. Minion has great taste in most things it seems, if not in multiple husbands.
Denise – Glad wrap much more easier to grab the new roll and start it
OF due 1107-1127 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Just posted this at the bottom of yesterday’s posts:
emeritus mn. biologist on 20 Feb 2015 at 10:30 am #
Julia Richmond HS: First time I’ve thought about it since ’47 or so. I knew of it, but nothing else. Was it coed then? Maybe some in my Washington Sq. Pk. crowd went there. Will do a search.
Willoughby’s used to be the big photo store in NYC, 32nd St., btw. 6th and 7th Aves., just across from Gimbel’s dept. store. Later combined with Peerless, a newer big photo store.
Peace, emb
On wrap, we are Press- n – Seal kids. Besides, Loon looks great in things opaque. 😉
On the daily twofer. I am always amazed at how cats notice changes. Even those you would think are out of their line-of-sight.
On Weird Wednesday and Silly Saturday. JJ, it’s your sockhop, spin ’em as you like.
Apparently it was all-girls then, became coed in ’67, went defunct, status [/Wiki] is now uncertain. I’d spelt it wrong. emb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Richman_High_School
TIP comic, http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/ , is different from BlogSpot today. Is it Susanna and the Elders? emb
Yep, it is. But I don’t get the “Two and a half men” etc., bit.
Here’s the BlogSpot: http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb
Sand, when I had my flower shop in Nassau Bay, TX we had a delivery of a huge five foot tall roll of shrink wrap (we did tons of gift baskets), darned things/shrink cost hundreds of dollars per roll. Driver left it on back door entrance, we saw it, did not drag it inside. Went out again and entire roll was missing!
Were you working for NASA in the 1980’s? We were located a few hundred feet from main entrance to Space Center. We figured some kinky scientist hijacked it to wrap women in.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, my where abouts between 1967 to 1984 are on a need to know basis. Loon just refers to the period as my dark years; my knowledge of the culture during that time span is close to a total blank.
EMB,
Was that Willoughby’s any kin to the one on the Twilight Zone show? TZ’s was a mortuary.
d1: Not likely. You are new enough here to not know that emb is TV-challenged because he never watches it [Well, hardly ever.] I’ve heard of the TZ, but that’s all.
Peace, emb
emb, the reference is to someone who has recorded the show but not watched it yet, who is then told how it went. Spoils the fun of seeing it herself.
The Twilight Zone reference is to an episode called (I think) “Last Stop, Willoughby”. Man commuting by train to job in big city is miserable with modern life. Goes to sleep on train, wakes up to old train, conductor in old-fashioned uniform announcing “Willoughby”. Looks out, sees turn of the (20th) century town. Next trip he looks again and starts to get out, but stops. Finally he does get off train during driving snowstorm, into town with sun shining and band playing in the park. Then the scene reverts to the modern train, stopped, with conductor talking about crazy man who stepped off in the middle of nowhere. Last scene is stretcher with body being carried to a hearse. Name of funeral home is on the side. What name? Why, Willoughby, of course.
Changing utilities over to my name, setting up auto pay, all the stuff to take control of my life.
Not fun.
The original TZ was an amazing series, with some great performances by actors who were better know for other types of characters, such as Ed Wynn as a pitchman in the episode, “One for the Angels”. A fantastic piece of straight acting by a great comedian. Or Mickey Rooney carrying a whole episode solo in “The Last Night of a Jockey”. I need to start streaming it from the beginning again. Maybe while snowed in that will be something fun to do.
Lest anyone think I’m advocating a mass nasty end to the Village, I meant that it would be nice to be able to have everyone in the Village in a safe, friendly, caring, possibly slightly old-fashioned and charming small-town environment where nothing bad or troubling could ever happen to them again. Sigh. Just a little day dreaming.
Denise, that would be the Village in “Big Fish”. If you have not seen that one, it is fantastic movie. The town is called Spectre. Tim Burton directed and it is both mystical and Gothic fantasy all in one.
I WAS wondering about your choice, although Spectre might be no better.
OF due 1415-1435 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Denise: Sounds ~ Judy Garland’s “Somewhere, over the rainbow,” or a possible vision of a paradise, as in the last movement of Mahler’s 4th. This is one of those places where physics spoils it, or makes it more wonderful, depending on your viewpoint. If everyone in the Village were in one area, after a rain shower had passed, all of us with the late afternoon sun behind us, looking east toward the rainbow, we would each see a different rainbow. The closer we were to one another, the more similar the rainbows would be, perhaps overlapping, but no one of us would see exactly the same bow as the next person. It’s all geometry: you see green rays from those raindrops that are refracting green from sunlight at just the right angle into your eyes, the Cowardly Lion, to your right, sees green refracted from raindrops just to their right, etc. [Of course, cats are dichromats, so he cannot tell green from red.]
Anyway, we’ll find out when we get there.
Peace, emb
“Just a little day dreaming” or just a little theologizing. emb
Mark: Thanks for the TZ summary. I watched, and liked, the Twilight Zone. There was something about Willoughby teasing my mind, but I could not come up with it. NOW I remember! I did not think that episode was macabre… it made me smile… sort of like “stepping on the rainbow”…
Sand: I agree about the Press and Seal. Much easier to handle! When Jerry was doing dialysis three times a week, he had to apply a topical pain reliever ointment to his arm before the dialysis. Otherwise, those huge needles HURT. We would apply it at home, then wrap the arm in Press and Seal to keep all the goodies on his skin rather than on his clothes. It needed to be applied at least half an hour before they started sticking him. That wrap was much more manageable than Saran or the regular Glad.
I did not actually get out yesterday, but my daughter did run to the store for a few needed items. She said that the roads were in good shape. She did have to detour from the beaten-down tracks to get out of the parking lot. The unspoiled snow to the side provided much better traction.
It is actually up to 11 degrees currently! I really have a lot of sympathy for those like Debbe who have to get out and battle this weather. I know we are able to do what we have to, but it is still hard.
And… Debbe: I have been a Christian for several years, and I still struggle! So do not get discouraged. It sounds to me like you are doing a fine job!
Jim Cantore, having another thunder snowgasm, this time without the thunder snow…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU2yt6wOoK0
GR6, tried that thunder snowgasm thing in college. Young lady would never speak to me again.
Perhaps, sand, it was the two-tone wingtips that put the young lady off her feed.