Happy New Year! If this cartoon seems familiar, it’s because it ran only two years ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays. I like years when Christmas and New Years Day come on Friday. It’s as if everyone tacitly agrees the official holidays will be stretched out for an extra two days. However, Monday can be a hard landing. Brace yourselves!
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GR 😉 almost posted that link yesterday…sorry, no time this morning for a comeback.
Debbe 😉 Is it already time for The Dance of the Seven Zippers™, hon? Oh, boy! 😉
While we’re discussing Footloose, did you know that Kevin Bacon still has it going on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T2FpCDlyNg
I just realized that we had another loss in our music culture. Jack Ely, the lead singer of the Kingsmen (Louie, Louie) died last week. Seventy one years old! I feel like I’m in some kind of movie. I stayed up very late Saturday night watching tv. It was exactly 2 am as the program opens with a woman sleeping on her bed, The telephone rings and, as she answers it, the alarm clock shows the time. It’s exactly 2 am and we’re in-the Twilight Zone. Hello Rod. It’s been awhile.
Ah Janis! You missed a great chance! A look over shoulder and a crazy half-smile, they’d have run screaming! 🙂
That exact thing happened to me once in college at a girl’s dorm.
OF due 1203-1223 CST. One bison in view now, about to disappear behind a conifer.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
What exact thing?
Peace, emb
As far as I am concerned Kevin Bacon has always had it. Tom Cruise but I wouldn’t want to know him. Kevin I would love to be friends with.
Debbe that is Ok, I don’t like ice and snow either. Later, gator.
EMB, I’m guessing the running and screaming part. 🙂
Does anyone remember a Twilight Zone episode where old cars were put out to pasture? A visitor tried to drive one away/steal and all the cars (driverless) gathered, honking, slamming doors and hoods, and finally chased the man to his death.
I’ve searched but, short of reading every single plot on the episode listings, haven’t found anything. I even seem to remember that the protagonist car was named Francine or Christine.
Then again… they say the mind is the second thing to go.
“Christine” was the demon-possessed ’57 (or ’58) Plymouth Fury in the Steven King novel of the same name and the later movie.
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Sorry about that link; blame it on keyboard flatulence. Try this…
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David in Austin, I don’t remember that one. There was one though, about a man who hated anything to do with modern machinery. In the end his car chases him around his yard and finally forces him into his pool, then drives in on top of him to ensure he drowns.
“A Thing About Machines”. My brother gave me the entire series on disc for Christmas a couple of years ago. Still haven’t watched them all, but that was one I remembered seeing as a kid. So I made a point of finding it on the set to watch again. Still spooky.
After a little more research, I realized that I’d telescoped the name Christine (as Francine) into the plot for the Isaac Asimov short story “Sally.” The cars are “positronic” (robots) and drive themselves. That, combined with Twilight Zone episodes, “A Thing about Machines”, and “You Drive” all blended in my mind to give me a memory of a surreal sort of episode about autonomous cars and hapless drivers.
I first read the story, “Sally” in the collection “Nightfall and Other Stories,” published it 1969. I missed in in the May-June 1953 issue of “Fantastic” magazine. [I’d not yet been born…]
Jerry:
It looks like Jack Ely died in April. I remember seeing a show on TV about Louie Louie and he passed away shortly after that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ely
I usually drive by a billboard for a ca s in somewhere in America and go “I didn’t know _______was still alive!”
Casino Hal. I typed that right and read back over it before I hit send. Talk about Twilight Zone.
David: Your mention of Fantastic magazine reminded me of a book I read last year that fans of that mag might enjoy – The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont.
Jackie, a casino is a casa. To be exact, la casa de los pobres.
That’s how I view them anywsy, Sand. Apparently the casino circuit has become Branson on the Road. They know their market.
Eating first meal of day, fresh steamed dumplings. See what else my friends put out. Wish they’d do healthy but it doesn’t sell here.
Thanks, Jackie; you’ve made me hungry for some gyoza.
http://images.food52.com/b51HyNSRzk-OxOV5CioVma000Fo=/753×502/5167ce82-64ab-4fae-ac64-f9fd287a593b–food52_04-24-12-2277.jpg
Jackie said “Branson on the road.” That is a good one, given all the roads leading to and in Branson are clogged with RV’s.
GR6: I love gyoza! I’ll have to swing by the local oriental market to get the wrappers tomorrow… Totemo subarashii yo!
Do you make your own? I might have to make an indecent proposal. Not you Trucker, you’re ordained.
Moi? Doesn’t everyone make their own gyoza?
How indecent? 😉
Thought for the Day: If you can’t do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.