ZED for da toones!

Hi, Suzanne. I’m hoping it soon warms up enough for you to resume your “Springs” into the Lake. Hope your spring in Oregon is lovely.

Oh. Another classic!

tonight, it feels more like january the way the storm is blowing hard cold sideways rain.

g’evening pups – how is it in your corner of the world tonight?

Digg it right here!

Suzanne!

thanks for opening the digg nahant (and congrats on the zed)

Tis very nice down here Suz…. We are supposed to get the tail end of what is pounding on your door, but no rain out of it just a cool down for a few days..

Nothing like a cat with a W. C. Fields schnoz on a Saturday!

‘evening, all!
Nice down here too, Suz. 85 today. Rain and a cooling trend starting tomorrow. Where are you, nahant?

it is not anywhere near the worst storm i’ve had up here but it does feel like january instead of just a few days away from april.

That was fun, Suz. Never saw that one.

glad ya like it newton – it seemed the perfect toon for a financial filled week. dodsworth reminds me of those wall street banker fat cats who like honest work — done by others.

i had not seen it until i found it surfing the utubes.

Beautiful weather here in SD, Suzanne. Just magnificent.

One of many reasons I can’t live up there Suz!
My cousin called from Mass today to say hi, I told him it was 79 at the time… He said it was only 40 and was supposed to rain… Told him he could keep it!

Dodsworth is Sylvester’s son after 50 years of the NeoCon reich.

;>)

i gotta admit, i love staying inside when it is stormy and/or raining. i can sit for hours watching the trees sway in the wind and seeing the bands of rain coming across the bay towards me.

You know, growing up on WB cartoons and so forth, it is always like finding a little treasure when I see one I have never seen before. A little piece of childhood left laying around, that I somehow neglected to pick up.
Or something. Crown Royal philosophy.

oh, i agree :) i also love that realization that it has been decades but that i have seen a cartoon before. can take me back to sat mornings in my jammies eating cereal in front of the tv or a weekend afternoon at the matinee enjoying popcorn, jujubees and a soda.

Great work downstairs … dare I ask what inspired you to do the Condi/McCain one ? *g*

I have always loved to watch mother nature when she is showing us mortals who IS really in Charge of this planet! At the coast is where you get the best shows!

ca weather was so boring in comparison. especially when i was living in the east bay. here, every day is different and i am enjoying each season as it comes. i hope this is the transition between winter and spring that makes the spring worth waiting for.

In all of my travels, I have never seen anything like a FL lightning storm…or a hurricane coming ashore. Having the eye pass over, wind and rain disappear like magic…everyone goes outside, dark, power out…and the wind rising, along with the noise of the approaching eyewall.
Awesome. I hope I never see it again.

Well,P., in most cases it comes down to deconstructing preconceptions. I did something similar earlier in the election season, albeit removed of the psychosexual context. One of the prime motivators for me has been observance of rank dishonesty…Public denunciations of private pleasures, as it were.

;>)

i was visiting a friend named dallas who lived in lawton oklahoma one late spring. saw my first tornado that afternoon. felt like what i had always imagined the wizard of oz was like, the winds blowing, the sky changing colors. forking magnificent. and i don’t wanna see one again.

O.M.F.G. … Brilliant !!!

I’ve been gone all day to a conference/annual board & membership meeting, and to another annual board & membership meeting.

Ash just now beginning to fall in Wasilla. It has been falling in Anchorage for four hours.

My friend hig from erin & hig took some great Redoubt pictures.

I have been in a few of them back on the coast of Mass in Nahant, Mother nature sure puts on a show with those Hurricanes.. The ocean gets real wild with the monster waves crashing on the rocks. You are really exposed out there on Bass Point!

egad, et. that totally sucks. does this mean you have to stay inside or wear masks outside?

incredible

wow, those photos are amazing et

Bobby Jindal should fly up for some first-person monitoring. Unreal pictures.

at his personal expense and not the government’s

Bobby can’t come out to play, sorry.

;>)

If Jindal went up there and gave one of his b-o-r-i-n-g speeches, Mount Redoubt would go dormant again !

Suzanne, in your career, did you ever hear o someone dying from being shot with a pellet gun?

I feel an urge to sacrifice Sarah Palin to appease the local volcano goddess. Maybe Darkblack can conjure up an image……

Savagely perfect.

Awesome!

It has happened up here … as recently as last year.

That might just piss her off more. She could see that offering as an insult.

i think so rond – iirc, it was a powerful air rifle and the round was accidentally fired at close range.

I LOVE it!

i had no direct knowledge – it could have been a cop urban legend tho rond

That’s what I figured…someone shot me on stage last weekend with one, hard enough to punch through a shirt, break the skin, and give me a bruise about 5 inches across. Been wondering a lot about potential lethality this week.

Brilliant idea!

judas forking priest rond. that totally bites. jeebus, i’m so sorry. after all that has happened this year. jeez.

If it can be done with a hunting slingshot, a pellet rifle could certainly be lethal also.

We’re supposed to get some cold weather too, I hear. Love the toon.;)

two words bro: tetanus shot

Yep, they’re as powerful as a .22 caliber gun.

Thanks…just a freaky thing to have happen. Seen a lot of weird shit onstage, but this was a first.

yeah – guess it depends on the mass and velocity and where on the body the projectile strikes.

hey margot – snow?

Assholes…As a survivor of myriad items thrown at stages coast to coast, my sympathies.

Thanks…”usually they just throw things at me..”

Back in the ’70’s, I had a cop friend demonstrate the stopping power of a Falcon II wrist rocket on the firing range…equivalent to a duty-issue .38 @ 25 yds. A kid got killed in my hometown from a headshot by such a device. Not mah daddie’s Wham-O.

;>)

It was nice down here in South California today. I know that we’ll eventually pay for our Paradise by going without water and probably having heat waves to put us in our place…….but for now I’m okay with it.

dayam, not the sticking outta the hip pocket slingshot of my childhood

sounds like socal and florida are the places to be for those wanting warm idylic days.

All the harmless fun of days gone by done been took.

;>)

it’s been chamber of commerce weather in central FL…I almost feel guilty watching the national weather.

sigh – the freedom i had as a child. certainly different that that of a child now.

Yep, as a kid, we didn’t have locks on our front doors.

Even going away on vacation, there was no worry about break- ins, etc.

yup. i would go for walks and be gone for hours – only requirement was that i be home in time for dinner. it was expected that kids were gone playing outside every day, all day. it really meant something when i got grounded.

Of course, when I was a kid in the Bay Area, we had plenty of duck-and-covers for earthquakes. And later in Houston we had plenty of duck-and-covers for potential attacks from Cuba. And there was polio to worry about and lots of other diseases. Maybe it’s just a continuum of crap; know what I mean? I loved the line: Want some cheese with that whine?

Same here…I’m lucky, in that I live somewhere with no need to lock the door now…but that is far more rare than when I was a kid.

as a kid, we didn’t have locks on our front doors

That’s cause everybody knows everybody else in the Big Smoke, capital of Newfoundland – One big happy,eh?

;>)

Dugg it

anybody home?

i was living across the river from n’orleans during the cuban missile crisis. we did a lot of those duck and cover drills. i didn’t realize how serious it was at the time.

neurophius!

hey neuro

Neuro!!!!
Have you shoveled all the walks and driveway yet?

And, to fill in the blanks, we didn’t have seat belts back in the day. Kids didn’t wear helmets while riding bikes. Most did fine, but I did know a kid with a closed head injury from crashing on his bike…. he is probably still being supervised by his parents. A guy I loved turned out to be sterile from having had mumps as a kid. I mean, let’s face it, every generation has its ‘challenges.’ My own kids seem to be pretty happy to be living in the here-and-now……though they are really pissed off by the oligarchs. Well that makes sense.

The more things change, the worse they get.

;>)

Don’t know, just heard “get ready for colder weather.”

true dat – and we do tend to remember the good and not the bad.

Amazing photos, ET

Stay safe

Well, maybe. Those of us who suffered the wacko parents of the 1950s are maybe a llittle less prone to remember the good. I found it all rather terrifying and tend rather to remember it less fondly. I think my own kids had it a little easier and seem to be a little more balanced. But they are going to suffer anyway so the greed-meisters can have their huge mc-mansions. Perverse, really.

That was pretty much the deal for us. Be home for lunch and dinner and all was cool. We had bikes and were pretty mobile – could get to the town center, the library, etc. Once drivers licenses came into play, more questions were asked (and more fibbing occurred).

Can’t recall ever being grounded, but my driving permissions were revoked until I paid to repair a huge dent in my mother’s car. My babysitting money, gasp!

we did not get that foot of snow the “experts” were predicting. what I saw of it looked more like about an inch. 35 now, low 20s tonite, and they are saying sun and 40 on sunday…

We got taken on a tour of a bomb shelter someone built in their back yard (I was a Brownie).
Made a very big impression on me, and I told the troop leader “better dead than Red.” She got very mad at me.
I think what I meant was “Help I’m scared make it stop.” Because we didn’t have a bomb shelter or a basement, I thought we’d have to drive to Oklahoma to my grandparents’ storm cellar!
I remember thinking, “So the bomb drops. We get into our car and drive 600 miles as fast as we can…” Seemed a little iffy as plans go, so I concentrated on learning the Twist.

Well, I have to go out to the airport, folks. Stay safe, stay warm, and stay off the towers you crazy kids.

;>)

Suzanne, I was thinking about that childhood-has-changed thing while reading the comments about the toons. When I was a kid the grocery store we went to had a little movie theater where kids could go in, push a button and watch a toon. Mothers would leave their kids there while they did their shopping. No adult supervision, I suppose a lot of moms would hesitate to leave their kids like that now…

WooHo a whopping 40! Same temp as as my cousin back in Mass!
We only hit 79 here dam!

g’nite db – safe travels

soak up a few rays for me, nahant :) hey, maybe I can do that too here…if I’m willing to brave the 40 degrees…

‘night, darkblack. Stay safe.

I wish I’d been as smart as you, Margot! You did it right.

Make sure you have your woolies on!

Did everyone enjoy their Earth Hour?

looks like the only day i am predicted to have any sun in the next week is monday – and that is partly cloudy with chance of showers. i can procrastinate about getting a pair of sunglasses for a while.

Still waiting for word from Senator Inhofe. Will advise.

was no change in my view teddy. the street lamp on the road was still on and i could see the light that comes on every nite across the point.

inside, tho, it was dark except for the fire going and my computer screen.

We participated, but it didn’t look like many others in our neighborhood did…

And, just musing here, I wonder if we’ve all just been terrorized by too much news? There were crazy kids in the neighborhood and nasty kids and nasty adults, too, while I was growing up. But there were more of the good guys, and I think there are still more of the good guys. I don’t mean to be thoughtless, but if a kid in, say, Kansas, gets snatched up by a pervert, does every kid in America have to go into terror mode? I think not. Maybe too much news about bad stuff. My kids had pretty nice childhoods, all in all.

I did. turned everything off and plugged in the iPod. by the time I felt sated, it was 11pm.

i found the tone of the news up here way different than the news in the sf bay area. the fear fear fear all the time seems to be gone up here – its more local stuff, car accidents, the occasional gang violence but not story after story after story of man’s inhumanity to man that i got in ca.

hey jacqrat – how ya been?

Too much junk news…I think there’s some validity to what you’re saying. An overdose of sensationalism and a media echo chamber, everyone fighting to pump up the ratings through lurid details, and in the process just scaring the shit out of parents, for decades on end.

I’m so glad to hear that. My Montana girl seems to be having that same experience. I grew up in 1940s-50s-60s suburbs mostly. News was local. I think that makes sense for the day-to-day. Important to get a sense of what’s going on in the world, but no sense to personalize every affront to humanity.

Somewhere in a rural town of 2-story buildings is a family fully equipped with those emergency parachutes designed for escaping flaming and collapsing skyscrapers.

eh, one foot in front of the other.

I have been turning off news and blogs lately. too much.

gotta be prepared when going on vacation yanno.

‘night, all.
The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

Right. On the other hand (just to be provocative) I have to admit that I was a bit shaken by Brazil’s Lula blaming blue-eyed white people (I still haven’t seen the ‘real’ quote — one source says he blamed ‘blue-eyed white bankers’ but another clip shows him blaming ‘blue-eyed white people’ in general) for the financial meltdown. My blue-eyed daughters married brown-eyed men, and I still ended up with three blue-eyed grandchildren. I e-mailed my girls: get those kids learning Portughese and Spanish and Chinese and whatever other languages they can handle cause there are people who are going to think ill of them.

glad to see ya again :) i’ve not seen network news other than ko and/or maddow since i moved up here. the local fox station reminds me of what ktvu used to be when i was much younger and i try to catch it daily – and if i don’t, well, that’s ok too. i’m not obsessing over the news like i used to either.

i check the tillamook headlight herald online each week – tis our local weekly – and only read the other online papers (nyt, wapo) when i’m reading a link to an article.

g’nite rond

Nite RonD …. I am outa here also.. Nite Pups stay warm and snuggle with your sweetie if ya got one(:>))

g’nite nahant, give my regards to sweetie and tucker

I’m reading the SF Chronicle cover to cover, as I always have, but with a special focus. It is one of the papers on the brink.
I have always read it – there hasn’t been a time ever in my life when a Chronicle wasn’t delivered to my door, even when I lived a hundred miles away in Davis.

It’s not so much that it is a better source of news – Hell, I read breaking news in places like this all day – it’s that one day, the only thing we may have to read that’s actually printed on paper is a cereal box. I will miss our paper, and there’s something important about watching its last gasps.

nite nahant

nits RonD

tis like watching an old friend die. one of the ways i knew i was leaving childhood behind was when i started reading the oakland tribune every afternoon when it was delivered. i’ve always taken the local paper and it hurt when i had to unsubscribe from the santa cruz sentinel when i got hard pressed for money.

i wonder if the people before us mourned the loss of the always had in their lives. i grew up on stories of folks who hung onto their horse and buggie not trusting those newfangled automobiles. but that was not the paper. we’ve always had papers in our country.

Yep. Gutenberg was timeless, but his adherents didn’t have the sense to see what they were doing to his legacy.
I like trees as much as the next guy. I only wish that if the papers had to go away, it would be because it was the papers or the trees, but not both. But this death-rattle is awful to watch, and we will not realize its import until it is behind us.

time for me to head out pups. thanks for enjoying the toon tonight and spending time with me. g’nite all.

nite suz. i’m heading out too

niters all

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo, Friedman and Kristof today. Frank Rich is off this week. MoDo uses a story about the president of Brazil as a jumping off point on a weird rant called “Blue Eyed Greed?” in which she says with the Obamas in the White House, brown eyes may finally — and rightfully — overtake blue as the windows of winners. I have blue eyes, which I guess makes me either evil or a loser, or maybe an evil loser. MoDo needs to have her meds checked, and maybe increase her therapy sessions. The Moustache of Wisdom gives us “Mother Nature’s Dow,” in which he says if Mother Nature had a Dow, you could say that it, too, has been breaking into new (scientific) lows. Mr. Kristof, in “A Boy Living in a Car,” says if slum-dwelling Haitians can share what little they have, I hope we can be equally generous during this downturn when needs are greatest.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I picked up some chocolate croissants yesterday. We had rain yesterday evening and almost all last night. The newspaper Savannah Daily Disappointment (can’t really call it a newspaper) says 1.3 inches, but they went to press before most of the rain was over. I’m going to have to get a rain gauge… Have a great day.