Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…!

Aloha, Suz and LLN pups…! ;-)

Suz!

armstand forward somersault, pike position, no splash (‘natch)

who put the forking shark in the water *looking at tut* did your cousin the bulgarian judge put you up to that young man?

newt! how ya doing tonight?

Hi, CT and Suz. Suzanne, are you ready for your trip to see the divine grand-girl tomorrow? Enjoy!

*heh* I wouldn’t put it past him, Suz…! It closed down the whole Kona Coast for a day or two…! ;-)

hey dearie — how’s the so central ca coast tonight? i am so looking forward to seeing my girls tomorrow :) and snagging some pics of the 4 generations: jujube, jen, grammy, and jujube’s great aunt mary

Very well, thanks.
And 1943 – that’s some old ‘toon. The detail is pretty apparent.

Aloha, Dearie…! I’m back atop Mauna Kea for my last scheduled nite…!

The coast is fine….I always love it when people are out on the beach….it gets kinda quiet around here in the winter. I hope you get some great and memorable 4 generation shots. What fun!

it was the first bertie and hubie cartoon — tis from 1943. what i found appealing was that bertie and hubie’s voices were done by two of the most famous cartoon screenwriters in the warner bros studio.

Oh, enjoy, CT. Hope you get on the schedule again soon.

a forking shark is a good reason to enjoy being up top of the mt tonight dood

I swear…! ;-)

They said it was about 15 ft in length…!

Aloha, newt…! Cutting edge for the times, tho…! ;-)

My babyboys got to see a 5 foot shark hauled right up on their Santa Barbara beach. The fisherman unhooked it and set it free again. The boys were fascinated. My son-in-law won’t even put his toes in the waves because he saw Jaws at a wrong moment in his life. :)~ To his credit, he did not once say, “I told you so!”

any landsharks up there?

tis like the shower scene from psycho…. i forget the # but remember that there was a lotta women who refused to shower when there was no one else in the house after seeing that film

Hey tut-
I was suggesting that back in the olden days, cartoon audiences would never have tolerated the lo-res, ugly frame rates of today’s televised ‘toons.
Back then, it was all done lovingly by hand.

I sure wouldn’t drive that roadster up here, ya need a Land Rover, or another 4wd vehicle…!

I’m a tough old broad….but, still, I get that. I also wouldn’t let a pregnant person (as I was at the time…shit) ever watch Rosemary’s Baby. I mean, sheesh!

and they were made for the big screens at the movie houses and not the small tv screens.

i think each generation has one of ‘those movies’ that strike at some deep primal fear that resides in each of us

Well, once again I’m on the first shift, time for me to suit up and head out for the bottom of the hour…! See ya’ll in an hour…! *g*

Hello All from Pennsylvania, where we are here to celebrate the 85th birthday of MrCE’s Mom.

we’ll keep a light on for ya

hey ce — hippo birdies to mr ce’s mom! how ya doing tonight?

Mine was the banshee at the end of Darby O’Gill & the Little People….

PA is beautiful, but as usual, no rain in weeks and weeks. The 7 hour drive was fine, and we had a beautiful sunset.

hey robert — how was your day? not zombies?

Feeling much better about today than yesterday. Still….

Wal-Mart Goes Nuclear Over Chicken Necks; Newlyweds Lose House; Husband Deported

Newlywed shoppers claim Wal-Mart’s false accusation that they tried to steal $2.90 worth of chicken neck bones caused the wife to be falsely arrested and lose her job, her husband to be deported, and both to lose their car, all their possessions and their house – though Wal-Mart’s security video showed they had paid for the damn chicken bones.

As a result of being in jail and being accused of being a thief, plaintiff Mary Hill Bonin lost her home, her car, all of her personal belongings and her husband was deported. After all the false charges were dropped, Mary Bonin says, Wal-Mart refused to refund the $2.90 she had paid for the neck bones.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/26/38455.htm

That movie scared me. The one that really did it, though, was The Exorcist. I couldn’t go home after that, had to go to a friend’s house where there were people. A nurse I know said she went to Mass for years after watching that.

jeebus – that makes my forking sick to my stomach….

hey margot — how ya doing tonight? i had to go sit in the lobby for a good part of that movie. i still h-a-t-e that movie above all other movies

I purposely never saw that one. Rosemary’s Baby convinced me that I’d seen enough!

evening, firegods & firegoddesses

And I avoided all those slasher movies and worry for the young people who grew up on that nastiness.

hey ppd — how was your day?

I remember, also, seeing that 1960 B&W movie Jack the Ripper. “Mary Clark! Are you Mary Clark?”

It was the first time I began every morning thanking God for making me male….

I’m fine but now I’m kinda weirded out just thinking about that movie. After I saw it, walking home with a friend, the sky looked gray and scary. The trees loomed ominously. It was like a different world.
My younger son saw it and didn’t think much of it, didn’t scare him at all.

Did you see the film, Blair Witch Project? That scared the pants off chez Edmonson.

my house motto is no scary movies. i don’t mind a good suspense film but no slashers, no head spinners, no chainsaws. i saw enough of man’s inhumanity towards man when i was working in detectives as part of the crimes against persons unit.

tis one movie that stays with ya — even if ya did miss most of it like i did. it really turned my tummy against the entire genre

The Aristo-Cat(food) Commission!

My daughter was about 14-15 then. She asked me to take her to see Blair Witch. It didn’t scare so much as the jittery camera work made us both nauseous…

hey teddy — was hoping someone would pick up on that (laughing)

how ya doing tonight?

I’m with you. I learned plenty about what people do to people as a juvenile probation officer….how kids are victimized and then become victimizers. I don’t like any horror movies. Obviously not all victims lack empathy…but enough get lost in the madness. I don’t promote it.

if i want horror, i just have to turn on cpan.

We had teens the same age, and the next day we drove by those woods (on the turnpike) on our way to Lewes, DE. We were all all, “ooooh.”

pretty good, thanks Suzzz – how’s everything up north?

That made me think of that poor little 10-year-old girl AOL News has been headlining today: smothered for taking a popsicle out of the refrigerator.

Jesus Christ….

4th day in a row of sunshine busting the old record of 3. supposed to have showers and grey skies tomorrow

My fear is that as people get more desperate, things will get worse. We are in for some very unsettling times.

No! I know myself better now. No more scary movies for me.

We did see “Midnight in Paris” the new Woody Allen film. It was wonderful.

reality is forking scary enough for me — i don’t need extra

Torturing and murdering kids goes on every day in this country, even in good times. I’ve always been adverse to capital punishment, but dayam, stuff like that popsicle story can really shake my Progressive spirit….

i’ve been seeings ads for the new movie coming out soon the help… it looks like it may be a good one

Oh, that looks good — will look for it here. When I’m depressed from political theater, I have to go to the movies. Perhaps more than one in a single day.

i tend to escape in some good fiction. nothing like a good beach book or a bodice ripper romance to give ya a calgon ‘away’

When I need a movie to perk my spirits up, I put the musical Oliver! in the DVD….

food, glorious food

hiya CE

Oh, we have so many favorites — I love “Amelie”, “Local Hero” and “Once.”

Shameless Saturday night plug: Circle 8 Writers Group anthologies make great beach books:

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“Consider yourself one of us!”

Hey PPDCUS,
from PA. So late tonight! I’m still awake because all I did was navigate from Cleveland to PA all day. Yay for not working.

My all time favorite movie is To Kill a Mockingbird.

how the latest book doing?

I liked the book that movie is based on very much.

I LOVE that film. As a teen, it made me the liberal I am today. Wow, you are so right.

Haven’t a clue. Mothers & Other Strangers hasn’t been up long enough for a report….

Goodnight, all:)

i didn’t read it but i hope they stayed true to the book. so many times, the film adaption of great books totally fucks it up

That was a great one. I love Indochine. And when I want to wander: Scent of Green Papaya or Babette’s Feast.

g’ite margot

“Stand at attention, children. Your father is passing.”

how are the wedding plans coming along, CE?

Oh, I don’t remember that — just Boo Radley and the tree.

Oh, right. For a moment there I got a rush of The Great Santini. A whole different take on respecting one’s father, for sure.

Boo Radley, for sure

The best part was that the movie really was true to the book. Wonderful book, wonderful movie.

It was in the courtroom right after the jury’s guilty verdict. Atticas’s kids were sitting up in the balcony with the black spectators, and they stood in respect as Atticus passed below them….

sounds like a Robert Duvall fest, Dearie

Evenin Suz an pups. The lord of the flies comes to mind about now.

hey homeroid — how’s homer tonight?

Oooooh I think well. The wedding will take place in the garden at the Hagley Museum. I have a dress and shoes that MsCE made (helped) me buy. I feel that all is well, though there are issues with grandparents that are so old.

I loved it. Wow.

Wow, yeah. I’d forgotten that Duvall played Boo Radley…..maybe my subconscious just dragged me through movie history……what fun!

Where is Hagley Museum, CE?

That film really moved me, and is still with me today.

Boo Radley was probably Duvall’s first major film role.

That movie laid the foundation of my desire to fervently represent my union members when I was union president. I remember one management toad trying to urge me not to get involved with the case of a pregnant nurse he fired. I told him I thought he was viewing me as insincere when he should see me more like my hero Atticus Finch.

For ten years I defended with Finch in mind. That image helped me pull off some real miracles….

Wilmington, DE. Shoot, I thought that I linked it. Let me try again. I grew up on the grounds there.

Glorious two daze of stellar weather. I spent time this morn looking at our work space with all the machines scattered about and tried to see the new layout. I left and took the trike for a ride it was just too nice to deal with that crap.

Isn’t it great how such a wonderful piece of writing, turned into a great movie, moved so many of us to do good stuff. I used to teach the book to high schoolers, and everyone loved it. I hope it moved them over a lifetime, too.

And that Dill was Truman Capote in real life still amuses me.

His best role was in a TV movie Lonesome Dove: probably the best TV movie of all time….

sometimes ya gotta get away to clear the mind so ya see the solution. how far did ya ride?

You know, it’s interesting, I don’t remember Duvall doing “celebrity”, though I may just be forgetting. His body of work is stellar. Apocalypse Now, for example.

Yes. Did I forget this?

Chit, I’d forgotten Harper Lee used to play with Truman. Such enormously talented writers came out of their southern experiences in those days….

if you’ll hold the ladder

Congrats on the 100! Worth staying up for…. :)

congrats on snagging the happy lucky 100 ce!!!

with emmylou

Well I tried but lost the link in to MrCE’s computer here in PA. The Hagley Museum in Wilmington, DE is the most wonderful place. It is the origin of the DuPont Company.

In a western, certainly. But Tom Hagen in The Godfather trilogy — “…and all that’s left is our friendship, Senator.”
And Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now — “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

Tender Mercies & The Apostle — quite an extraordinary body of work.

Duvall played Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove, a TV miniseries….

I only got a couple miles when i had the idea to fix my other trike. Which worked and i sat and enjoyed a fine local ale in celebration. Now the “chopper” trike will be on the bike path in daze.

I like a good horror movie. The reason I like them is that they make me feel safe there on the couch snuggled into a blanket. No other film genre really captures that. The trouble is, there just aren’t many good horror movies. I think the last good one I saw was The Conjurer (old school ghost story). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896533/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/

hey vmt — how ya doing tonight?

woohoo — a good day capped off with a fine ale

Good. Just checking the news. Hope you’re having a good one.

good for what ale’s ya, Suzzz

Yeah, I know, but I don’t remember him being all over the news….and just wiki’d him and he’s been married 4 times, no kids. For all the amazing work he’s done, I don’t recall him being glam-rag fodder. Good. He has really had some amazing roles!

i yam — headed over the coast range tomorrow to see my girls — a bright spot on what is forecast to be an overcast day with showers

Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates: my lifetime favorites….

Cool. Have a good trip.

Man, I loved this film. And I cried like a baby. It was amazing.

Aloha, teddy, CE, PPD, homeroid, VMT, and, the robert…! ;-)

It looks like the Perseids are active tonite(saw 3 in the last hour)…!

thanks — looking forward to having 4 generations together

Favorites of mine, too.

Because in real life he has protected his privacy and lived a low key personal life. He has said the one charactor he portrayed closest to his true self was Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove….

welcome back tut — am hoping to see some tonight…. but there are clouds moving in :(

We are lucky to have very nice local ale. Something everyone here should have.

Capote lost his will to live after his high society friends shunned him after he wrote Answered Prayers….

Relax and enjoy it.

Hi, again, CT. I love the Perseids…..thanks for reminding me.

Smart man.

One of them seemed to shoot straight across the whole sky…! ;-)

We saw such stars in Gloucestershire, England. Amazing. No light pollution.

Isn’t that great! I’m wondering if that was what I was showing the Girl Scouts those many years ago and just didn’t know it?

I am dreading the eventual passing of Gore Vidal: the very last of the great 20th century writers.

I can’t think of any non fiction or fiction writer today who even comes close to Vidal and his generation….

They only happen in the Summer months…! Otherwise, it would be your regular meteorites…!

Hey, CT, you’re the expert here….one time while camping in a non-electrified area of Wisc. we saw a meteor…or meteorite (I wouldn’t know the difference) that went across the sky and actually seemed to “sizzle”….and when we took the Girl Scouts in early August one year to that area, we saw falling stars by the dozens. What should one expect to see with the Pereids?

Goodnight All. Happy weekend. See you next week.

g’nite ce

Could’ve been a hunk of space junk burning up in the upper atmosphere, hence, the ‘sizzle’…! ;-)

Sweet dreams, Chris…!

Hiya CT – are you manning the mountain top observatories this weekend?

tis about time for me to turn back into a pumpkin peeps. thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight and i’m looking forward to seeing what tut has in line for lln.

g’nite all

Have a great visit tomorrow! Thanks for being such a fine hostess here on LLN.

Aloha, PPD…! Tonite is my last one for awhile, I hope to see some runs in August, tho I’ve not heard of any yet…!

night, CE – take care

Sweet Dreams, Suz…! Enjoy little Jujube..! I’ll be expecting some more new pics at your site…! *g*

time for some sleep — be well, all

Pleasant dreams, PPD…!