We seem to be making progress. I see yesterday’s comments still are with us, although older comments are nowhere to be found. I have learned they’re out there somewhere, and when I have time I’m going to look for them. Until then, I think we can manage, don’t you? Remember Freecell? Of course you do. You probably remember paying AOL to go online. As for today’s comic strip, it admittedly was one of the last drawn during an uninspired week. However, I can say it is based on a true story. Remember the olive trees? I made a big deal out of planting them last spring. Both of them are dead. They did not survive an uncommonly harsh Zone 8 winter. I remain convinced they’d have survived 9 out of 10 winters here, and if they’d had a few years’ to grow prior to this year, who knows? However, luck was against us.
Red on Black, Friend of Jack
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122 responses to “Red on Black, Friend of Jack”
…just spreading a little sunshine here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g
Virgin Mindy, you and I have very different definitions of ‘boring’.
…but then are there those of us here that feel this song…..never knew KK wrote this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcPW6R9yRzE
The way I look at it TR, there are several words that rhyme with “boring”.
Ms Charlotte….you are right….it is addictive….u tube that is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfY9GRe7SI
GR 😉 doesn’t get any better than this….no better sax player than Clarence…and will never be, God bless his soul:
your morning playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCxqhu9cio
Concur, Debbe. It’s still hard to believe The Big Man is gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYpA2YamqPA
Hello, Dearest Virgin. I’ve missed you. Has your unicorn run away?
Debbe, I really like the way Richard Parry plays on Pink Floyd’s albums. Did not like the replacement they used on the first non-Roger Waters tour.
Here you go Debbe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mePkmVz3SJE
Well, humm hmmm….Mark, never heard the difference…thanks for the link…and, yes, good sax solo….bookmarked it….
What’s going to happen to my bookmarks on April 8th..ELO for XP?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11t5mj9FOk
ELO for EOL…can ya tell what direction I’m heading into….
Jackson Browne…back when….he collaborated with a lot of headlines, wrote quite a many songs sung by others…He and early Elton Jon (let me stress, Early Elton John) wrote a lot of the songs on “Brick Road….or am I wrong here Mark?
Sorry Debbe, never was into Jackson Browne or Elton John much. Listened to them on radio but never bought any of their music.
Debbe, another great loss of a great talent…this one hits my “mood” playlist just below Linda’s “Blue Bayou”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
Mark…E.John’s “Madman Across the Water”, I feel, was one of his best..yet!!
GR….did you have to link that song….I’m in a very poignant mood now… ;(
Debbe 😉 Sorry, hon. Then I’ll not add the one I was just about to…
Debbe – That was the song that Kris delivered to Johnny by helicopter. He had been trying to get Johnny to listen to his songs for some time, giving him copies on cassettes (remember them?) and Johnny would just throw them in the lake at his house. If I remember right this one went in the lake too, but Johnny picked up on it later.
I’m old enough for this to make me sad:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mickey-rooney-golden-age-box-office-giant-dies-at-93-1201153308/
Good morning Villagers….
Radgrad…thanks for the background story. I have some of The Highwaymen music…good tunes there.
TR…I remember going to the theater to see the movie “It’s a mad, mad, mad world”. I always enjoyed Mickey Rooney. Never knew he was married 8 times. How many times was Elizabeth Taylor married?
More rain today…..
Back to work today….gotta shake this ‘mood’
GR 😉
Ya’ll have a blessed day….
Re: Mickey Rooney – sad loss. Got to see him live on stage in the musical tribute to Vaudville “Sugar Babies” back when I was in college (although the “tribute to Sally Rand” part seems to have been the most memorable for me…). 🙂
Debbe and Radgard, those in Nashville claim KK wrote his best music before he started his acting career. In those day he was sweeping floors in RCA’s studio and flying helicopters out to the offshore rigs. Was during the tig weeks that he wrote his music.
Rig weeks
Mickey Rooney: He was 9 years my elder, so was doing teen roles when I was a kid. I don’t remember seeing him then, but decades later, in a team-taught freshman honors course, saw him as Puck in a ’30s [I think] film rendition of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Again, today’s TIP is a [good] rerun, but the blogspot http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/ is new, at least to me. It’s really Cupid and Psyche, Cupid looking like he’s had a very good time. Psyche looks quite content, too, and is presumably sleeping. Enlarged the picture, and yes, he is modestly covered. You’d think those big wings would be a problem, but they might have protectd his back from her fingernails. Painting also follows a common 18th-19th century convention: women have lighter skin than men, everybody of course being Caucasian.
Does Cupid have a Rooney-like expression on his face?
Thanks, Mark. I do enjoy FreeCell and have not a clue how to play MahJongg, though my mother used to have a game every Wednesday for her ho rid friends. All I remember is “Pong!”
Mindy, that is sad. I hope you get a rest and let your nerves unwind. When I was undergoing rehab (long story) my counselor told me that most things happen at random, even criminal assault, and I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It could have been somebody else. I have got to the place that I am glad it wasn’t anybody else, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. I survived, she might not have.