Spitball!

Ptui, too.

hey larue — how’s sac tonight?

*G*

3?

Among the most mischievous and memorable overtures, the Marxie Heller hit from Prizzi’s Honor leaps to mind. Very nice, Suz!

Heh, ok, 2, howdy Suz . . . great toon!

hey newton — how was your day today? glad ya liked it

glad ya liked it larue :)

Evenin Suz and all. Still loading. Fine evening for us clouds lifting an perhaps some mountain glow.

hey homeroid — how ya doing tonight?

Great, Suz. Rain washed the… rain from the last few days away. Still good.
How’s your gigs?

are you sitting down?

86 degrees in portland today — and 86 degrees on my deck overlooking the bay. forking gorgeous until the high clouds came in towards late afternoon. supposed to be 80 again tomorrow and then rain next week.

Prizzi’s Honor was a great flick.

If I recall, that lovely n haughty Mz. Turner was awesome.

Damn I loved her work thru the years.

She had teh voice, like Lauren Bacall did.

“You DO know how to whistle, don’t you?”

*G*

tis the first 80 degree day since last year. we’ve only had 7 days this year where we’ve even hit 70.

Workin my ass off. The body is not happy. Should be gathering fiddle heads. But had to mow the frikkin lawn. Cant find a flippin teen worth a shit to mow. Perhaps i need to outfit the mower with a laptop.

Suz, we are still gettin rained on . . . . stopped at 7pm or so.

*G*

Here’s A Great Read About Climate You Might Be Interested In, Weather Gal!

Little Momma decided last week that we must water the lawn. I did not water it last year, and the gophers have been having their way with it. Even if we get the lawn to come back some, we will still have to find someone to mow it. I really am not into the lawn, but LM insisted. Lordy.

dood, the landlady had a guy out here today with a weed wacker taking down the waist high growth where there should have been grass. he was not a teen either.

twas the lawn’s first haircut of the year

linkie no good dood :(

Yes!
I regard the film as among the all-time sleepers, and Ms. Turner stepped up to Condon’s original book and John Huston’s expectations with seeming ease.

hey bg — how’s nm tonight?

Smokey from the fires in AZ. Very bizarre how much smoke we have here, creepy.

Yeah, fixeds it tho.
*G*

yuck — smoke filled skies have that bad mojo glow to them that always gives me the shivers

The other night it was really bad, and it did totally creep me out. I can’t say why, but the light was other-worldly. So strange.

Can we just agree she was hot?

*G*

Blue Velvet.

Hotter.

*G*

“Can I keep the panties?”

Special line in the movie . . .

thanks larue

If there were a way to make this stuff stop growing i would be into it. Alas i am stuck with it.
I grew up with 3 achers of lawn an swore-SWORE i would never mow a lawn again.
10 years ago my love SWORE she would help mow….

Yes, Ma’am, not often I can fix my own mistakes, I got lucky.

N sorry if I got a bit oversexy with my Kathleen Turner stuff n quotes.

She was great, n the voice . . . like Lauren B, just husky.

LeSigh.

Earlier today, LM was in front of the window. Me: “What are you looking at?” LM: “Dead grass.”

I read your diary, Larue. I remember pleading with The Sweety back in 1987 to not let them take The 5-year-old’s tonsils out. She thought I didn’t know what I was talking about when I explained I had observed so many of my friends and family start to rapidly put on weight after tonsilectomies.
Sure enough, The petite daughter began putting pounds on to where she now, at 28, weighs around 240 pounds.
Then, just last years, the studies in Norway, I believe, came out conclusively tieing tonsils as instrumental in metabalism, preventing weight gain….

i love her voice too…. that jewel of the nile film and the war of the roses are among my favs.

Just smile.

See, and I led you astray…
because there’s an even more famous movie appearance of this overture, accompanying one of the most memorable scenes in ‘A Clockwork Orange’

How could I have forgotten?

Later she asked me if I noticed any improvement since we started watering…It’s been watered twice. We are in a drought. Not sure I should be watering at all.

Yep, just smile.

another lantz musical miniature

wonderful
wonderful

the horsefly cracked me up

10 years ago my love SWORE she would help mow….

I met my love,
By the gas works wall.
Dreamed the dreammmmm,
By the old canal.

I KISSED my love,
By the factory wall.
Dirty old town, Dirty old town.

;-)

Me too!

hey larue — do ya remember that song on kpig sung by a guy who was singing about how his baby mowed his lawn… fork, i can’t remember the title nor the artist

Thanks for reading my diary Robert.

But I can’t possibly acknowledge yer posit regarding tonsils.
Or their removal.

Sorry Bob, it sounds a lot like stuff about flouridating general public water supplies.

N that gets into the crazy as far as I’m concerned.

We don’t often see eye to eye, do we . . .

;-)

So, check out this report about the relationship of tonsils to maintaining proper body weight: http://www.ketknbc.com/news/removing-tonsils-linked-to-weight-gain

And I urge eveybody with kids to do everything possible to help the young uns keep their tonsils….

Roosevelt Sykes had a few songs like that, but prolly not who you are thinking about.

Nope!

lol

Sorry, no clue here, ma’am.

Yes’m.

I gotta go, sorry if I got out of hand . . .

Sometimes I just gotta be me.

;-)

Larue, you’re always accusing me of putting crazy shit about things in comments. I’ve never made shit up except when I write short stories.

Was lookin for the right song but could not find. So what. I will be running crazy till the day i drop. Who cares what is with a lawn.

I hope the clouds lift here too. I was up at Hatcher Pass today, playing music at a friend’s 80th. It was drizzling up there, with lots of people parked alongside the road, out in the woods, looking for fiddleheads.

Now it is raining fairly steadily at home. Finished the new steps down to the lake yesterday.

every time lawn mowing gets talked about on lln, i flash to that song and never can remember it nor the details. when i try to recall the lyrics, i keep having jimmy thackery and the drivers doing my triple x wife come to mind, another kpig song that is not on utube

Ok, back fore this only.

I don’ see no pinchey Kathleen Turner in that clip dude.

*G*

Keep yer droogs to yerself.

*G*

N now I gotta go, nite Suz n Pups, hugs to all.

hey et — how ya doing tonight?

g’nite larue

Nice job, ET! That’s a lotta work.

I bid you all a lovely evening and a great tomorrow.

Doing fine, Suzanne. So many summer projects – so little time.

g’nite bg

Awesome. Bet the pass was nice even in the clouds.
Hope you nixed the treated timbers in the water.
Clouds lifted across the bay but a big black one moved over the bluff and it’s comin down now. Should be clearing by morn.

with this warm weather, i’ve been cleaning windows and making sure all the cobwebs are knocked down. was so nice today that i was able to open the doors and give the house a good airing out

I didn’t nix the treated timbers. I paint over it with two or three coats of marine paint. The timbers don’t sit in the water, but above it.

Soooo, speaking of short stories, excerpt from my time travel tale The Andre Peterson Conspiracy:

Peterson remembered his flight to Indiana to visit his own grandchildren was scheduled to depart in a little more than an hour. “Let’s get back to the mission, Lieutenant. We’ve lost too much ground since 1969. At the rate of one step forward and two steps back, it might be another hundred years before we even get close to the restoration of all we were prior to Robert Kennedy’s Administration. We think we can use Martin’s time device to change history.”
“You want me to go back in time and kill Robert Kennedy?” McQuaide muttered, clearly amazed.
The back of Peterson’s chair again touched the curtains. He opened a drawer, took out a gun and laid it on his desk. “This was the gun Sirhan Sirhan used.”
McQuaide stood and picked up the gun. “This is a .22 Iver-Johnson. Puny. No wonder he didn’t kill him.”
Peterson nodded. “He might have if he’d been trained properly, had taken his time to aim for a vital organ instead of twice hitting Kennedy near his right armpit. If we can figure out Martin’s time device to open a portal to the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel for midnight June 5, 1968, you will be able to use Sirhan’s pistol to inflict a mortal wound. Nobody in that pantry will be able to see you or the gun. Even the bullets are from the period. If you can get the barrel an inch or less from the back of Kennedy’s head and pull the trigger, you will change the course of history, and, according to our research, restore and guarantee the more timely success of our mission.”
“Damn,” McQuaide said.
“Just don’t drop the gun,” Peterson joked. “We borrowed it from the Los Angeles Archives and replaced it with a copy. If it gets lost in 1968, the overdue fines will be quite high.”

Where you live is one of the most beautiful places in the world, especially on those too rare nice days.

Finished the new steps down to the lake yesterday.

Sturdy much?
Hey ET

they have been very rare this year. i was putzing around the house barefoot, another rare event :)

Very sturdy.

Big eruption of Puyehue in Chile along a massive fault line. Could be a precursor to a 9 point something EQ.

its last eruption was in 1960 after a 9.5 per that article…. sure seems like its been an active geologic year in addition to an active weather year

Wow, Mom’s pissed. Again.

Have not felt a small rumbler in a long while.

A guy who influenced me heavily in the late 60s – Don Hamrick – gave a lecture on how the additional pressures the accumulation of everything people do exerts on the thin mantle upon which all life as we know it exists, will ultimately show evidence of a reaction from that pressure. Call it God or Mom if you must, but it is also something we might measure and evaluate, should we choose to do that.

I think the lecture he gave was called Absorption vs. Adsorption.

Ohh. That could be the build of a song….

Ms ET was home for a couple of minor winter shakers I missed ’cause I was driving or asleep.

Interesting. And the relationship would seem to be a lot closer than the old “A butterfly flaps it’s wings in Memphis and a monsoon forms in the South China Sea.”

If everyone in China jumped off chairs at once, would the earth be thrown out of its orbit?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/142/if-all-chinese-jumped-at-once-would-cataclysm-result

I got an email last winter claiming that and all Don Hamrick’s lectures are available on-line. I haven’t had a large enough bloc of time to dive into it yet. Here’s where I wrote about him at fdl.

I know it’s a farce that a small tremor is meaning the release from a big trembler. But it makes us feel good that a little get’s vented. Rather than we deal with the devastation. This to me plays like music.

Hamrick’s alien visitations are a bridge too far for me (as yet), but I’m glad someone had the brain-space to think hard about it.

earthquakes are one of the few things that terrify me — there is no warning

I’ve read where the best alert system for earthquakes are animals. Pets suddenly get wound up and try to run or hide….

Animals & Earthquake Prediction

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/animal_eqs.php

last quake in boulder creek i felt token bolted outta his bed at my feet about the same time i bolted out of my chair. he was no help

Well, we in Pennsylvania live on solid bedrock, and the only shaking I ever feel is the wave action of my water bed….

Speaking of bed, it’s almost 3AM here, so I best get to it.

Night all….

the cabin on was bedrock. i wasn’t going to buy anything in the santa cruz mts that wasn’t… i remember the loma prieta quake — which was about 8 miles as the crow flies from the cabin and it had held up fine during that. lotsa homes were knocked off their foundations in the mts

g’nite robert

My house is a pieced together piece of crap with a falling in foundation. Hope to hell i am at work when the big one hit’s. Other than that i don’t worry about quakes.

this house is over 100 years old and they were not bolting houses to their foundations back then. i don’t even wanna look to see what the foundation is like and how secure it is… or is not…

’bout time for me to turn back into a pumpkin folks. thanks for letting me hang out with you tonight.

g’nite all

KI would not worry. Back then they knew how to build.
Today as in 20 years ago ,they built what ever they wanted or could afford.
An old timber frame house may shake off of it’s foundation but i doubt it will collapse. Then i live in some thing built by homesteaders who used every recyclable thing they could find. I think your better off than i am in a big shake.

Nite Suz.