boing boing back dive, half twist, straight position, no splash (‘natch)

g’evening pups — how’s everyone doing tonight?

Suz!
Wait, what? 1988?

newton! how was your day? yeah, tis the most recent cartoon i’ve featured. it was also the last voice work mel blanc did for a warner bros short — he passed in 89.

until you showed up i was really regretting my decision to feature something so recent… jeebus the echo this place has when empty is forking spooky

Love the dives! Good to be back. My dad had surgery and came through it well. My daughter was able to be with us on surgery day, and that was important for all three of us. And I — lucky me! — spent 4 days and nights in Santa Barbara with my daughter and her husband and the baby twins. I’ve never had so much family activity….I loved it, particularly since my dad came through the surgery well and is back to his independent life at 94. Good times.

hey dearie — what a wonderful report!!! thanks so very much for the dad update.

how ya doing tonight?

Not at all! That’s what fascinated me – Blanc in 1988? I mean, when’s the last time a studio did a ‘toon in the old fashioned style? I guess… 1988

what got me was they used mel torme to do the daffy voice singing the monsters song….

I’m good tonight! First time home since last Monday. Nice to anticipate tucking into my own bed. One loves the oldsters and worries for surgeries at advanced age. So glad it went well. My dad is verrry independent. I told him that I’d sleep over at his place if he wanted company. He gave that some consideration…..before sending me home. Still and all, I love that he is so independent at his age. More power to him! I loved being there for him during the doctor appointments, pre-op, the operation itself, and the follow up. I’m lucky to be able to be available for this stuff.

The fly… in a Tux… stirring sugar cubes into it’s coffee…
nice

there’s nothing finer than your own bed at home. i bet he loved having ya there just as much as you loved being there…

smogzilla

artist at work

mel does johnny

i had no idea they had instructional video for that *laughing*

Oh, god suz. I need to get you a new diving suit.

Wowsers, Dearie! Fantastic news.

In 21st Century America, privacy, truly, is gone

hey loohoo! how’s socal tonight? i’m eyeing those dry suits the surfers and divers wear… that water is forking cold!

Before I read that depressing tome, I was already deleting cookies nightly.

I have to have all of my passwords and idents at hand all of the time, but I’ll be damned if I will lie down and be bait.

Thanks, Loo Hoo. I gotta say that whatever spunk I have, I think I got from my dad. It was so good to be there to help him along the way and then to see him re-grab his independence.

For any with a sense of humor: he had some hallucinations from the anesthesia that troubled him. When he described them, I told him that some folks pay the big bucks for magic mushrooms to see what he was seeing and that he should just call out to me to talk him down. His doctor laughed out loud!

those forking supercookies are fucking scary

Multiple arrests taking place right now in Austin. Municipalities are just being petty and mean today. In Denver, they let the occupiers stay at their occupation, but dragged and threw away on garbage trucks all their tents, food & possessions. In Austin, they just demanded the occupiers remove their food table. I guess the new wave in policing is to prevent occupiers from feeding themselves.

Also, hugh hours long march in Oakland against police brutality. When cops form barriers at the ends of streets, the Oaklanders just do guerilla peace war by turning back and circling around the cops. After standing of a line of OPD at 14th St overpass, marchers chase off a group of CHP away.

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*laughing* what a great line dearie

I don’t see anything next door to desirable.

portland just had come across twitter that several folks are doing civil disobedience and planning on getting arrested at jackson park in the pearl district. occupy portland wants to occupy that park and the city is saying no

HA! Too funny. I love my dad too.

i figured they were easier to get than those cold water survival suits and would not have anywhere near the buoyancy problems when diving that those filled with air survival suits have

Cops leaving in Austin now, having removed the occupiers’ food table and making 5 arrests….

Problem in this is, if a person and/or persons aren’t arrested, how, then, legally can law enforcement confiscate their property? Certainly not for evidence, since evidence is only needed in an arrest.

portland occupy story

i’m not understanding how they are permitted to just trash the personal property… makes absolutely no sense to me

Well, you could shop here, I suppose: http://www.oneill.com/#/men/americacanada/home/

Aloha, Suz and lln pups…!

Serpentine! Serpentine!

Evenin’ Suz and the rest of the house! Dearie, I hope you got to enjoy the beautiful weather while you were in my neck of the woods. It’s been glorious.

Oakland march has returned to their Cantorville, now.

I’ve been recommending Occupations use a short pole as main support of each tent and attach the flag at the top of each pole. Let’s see if the cops will take tents down that are supported by the American Flag. The optics would be awful for them.

i get the feeling that even tho black is considered to be a slimming color, wearing one of those is going to be just as bad as wearing a bikini is at my age….

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight?

as the stomach churns… blap!

hey aitch — how ya doing tonight?

hey sb — how ya doing tonight?

hey sunny — how ya doing tonight?

Can’t complain, although I will if given half a chance. It’s been eons since I’ve been able to check in, so I’m enjoying just being here.

Well, for the past couple of days it has been beautiful! The fog and ongoing ‘june gloom’ has been a challenge. After innumerable gloomy days, we took my dad into Cottage Hospital on one of those glorious fall days that the area is famous for. Fortunately it was still warm and glorious when I took him home on Friday.

tis good to see your fonts again…

I was uncomfortable in a bikini at age 17, so there you have it.

October is usually gorgeous from start to finish, with the occasional heat wave of an Indian summer. This year is so topsy turvy, it’s hard to tell what month it is. Global climate change, I suppose. Sigh. Hope your dad had a good stay at Cottage.

Ditto seeing your fonts, although I’ve had the chance to see yours while following various FDL threads.

that was about the only age i had the body to wear one…. it’s been all downhill since then…

So was I, and I look at pictures of myself and have to slap my forehead. What the hell was I fretting about? My 17 year old self would be slurping gin from the cat dish if she could see me now!

Hitting it, firedogs. Have fun.

Well, there were glitches, to be sure. My grandbaby twins are also Cottage kids. I love the staff. Systems could take some oiling, but, hey, that’s me. I have never understood why folks can’t figure out how to make systems work efficiently and effectively. But, well, I’m the person who always arrives one minute early and has to hold back so that I walk in at the correct time.

Hey suz, I’m good. Love the toon!

Getting an error message on your link at 17 (ironic given the subject *g*).

I was uncomfortable in a bikini at 17, too, Loo Hoo. Nice to know I weren’t the only one….

We were just prudes, I guess!

g’nite loohoo

Sweet dreams, Loo Hoo. May you have all the best of Dearie’s dad’s hallucinations.

its working for me sunny — you can go to their main newspaper page and scroll down if that works better for ya. sometimes their site is funky and only partially loads and hangs — i hit the F5 to refresh and it quickly reloads for me

Amazing to me how many people just flaunt it all for no particular reason…

hey Suzanne, won’t complain and never owned a bikini, you’re okay, right?

Smiles! My dad was talking to me about what he was seeing, and I was going, “Wow, how interesting!” Kind of changed his perspective. He was afraid he might be having mini-strokes, but the doctors and nurses had assured me that they see this all the time as an after-effect of the anesthetic. Once my dad understood that, he was fine. He slept well and without hallucinations once he got back to his own place and got a good night’s sleep. (One gets very little sleep in the hospital, dontcha know!!)

When I was 17, getting into bikinis caused no discomfort at all.

For some reason, these days The Sweety only gets turned on when I walk around in my favorite torn pajamas….

Are you sharing that information with your own grandkids? :)~

I’m with ya on system glitches. I have a plaque that says “I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I could save the world.” It’s all I can do to hold my tongue when things aren’t efficiently handled.

other than the aches and pains of the colder weather, i’m doing good. had a good time today calling members and welcoming them to the members association. we have an absoforkingutely amazing buncha folks!

Hola, Suz and all. I was working tonight for a friend, a fundraiser.

Ha!

hey bg — how was your day?

funny thing is, now I no longer give a rip! If I wanted to wear a bikini, I would. But I don’t…

We had a good march today with America Works or something like that joining our Occupy. I winterized my sister’s swamp cooler, and then worked a fashion show to help a friend. She makes fantastic costumes. Not that you see much of what she does, but you can see what to do when the bikini is out of the question. . .

4sure good buddy! d’ja talk to anyone in the stormy Northeast?

i’m that way myself. to quote the sailor man, i yam what i yam

my mom asked me why i don’t wear makeup and i explained how i just have no desire to do so anymore… and even if i did, its forking hard trying to put on makeup while wearing those glasses i use for reading…

Right. I realize that I’ve calmed down a bit with age (or gotten a bit smarter?) At some points in my life I would have grabbed the anesthesiologist by the throat and said, “How dare you come in to take my 94 year old dad into surgery and say that his heart is a time bomb and he might not make it!!!” This was news we hadn’t heard from his heart doctor, his vascular surgeon, his primary physician. I didn’t know if the man was telling me that I should pack my dad up and take him home before surgery to avoid the bomb. CRAZY! We, my daughter and I, decided the anesthesiologist was doing major CYA. Why else scare the crap outta the patient and his family just minutes before surgery? Very weird. In time, I’ll find the right way to discuss this ‘glitch’.

i talked to one in MA but he didn’t mention the weather. i heard its been forking gnarly…

forking gorgeous corsets *sigh* i’ve always been drawn to corsets…

I’m getting a new scrip for glasses tomorrow. I left my specs at LM’s last week, and I have been wearing old forking glasses that really are not working for me. I have pretty much given up on contacts because I just don’t seem to be able to get anything that I can see with.

YIKES! I have many doctors on my beloved list, but an equal number on the shitlist. How could anyone say that? I’m glad it all worked out so that you don’t have to have that awful statement in your head. People, even the smart ones, just don’t think before they speak.

Portland is now being LiveStreamed on Global Revolution:

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

If you can go to her facebook, you can see the outfits from tonight. Wonderful.

i only use glasses for reading and doing detail work online. most of the time, the bumping up the size of the fonts does the trick for me. i tried bifocals back when first told i needed them and they drove me nuts. i decided to use to pair of glasses, one for distance so i could see license plates and house numbers at nite and readers for close work. when i retired, i went to just the readers.

*drooling* ohmystars she does wonderful work

thanks robert

Me, too. I have doctors whom I love…they have been honest and good. And doctors whom I really hope never to see again…careless and untrustworthy. The trick, of course, is to get the good ones when you really, really need them.

I don’t need them for reading, just for distance. I don’t think contacts work because the old eyes just don’t make the adjustment to see close with contacts, or that is how it seems. I have to wear only one or slide one to the side to read labels in the galleries, or look at my computer, or read a menu. I can’t stand it.

*pulling out my notebook* And what is the trick to getting the good ones when you need them? :)

does cottage have a patient ombudsman? that is where i would start asking that question about the anesthesiologist …

Everyone loves to wear the stuff, and it always looks good in the shows. I’ve worn them a few times, but I am too old. I have one that she made, it is wonderful.

robert, it was so good to get up today and see your post front paged at fdl! well done dood!!!

i had a friend who wore had trained her eyes to use one eye for close work and the other for distance — she wore one contact… said it was a bitch getting used to but once she was, she said it was the perfect solution for her

Yes, well, I am settling for glasses right now. I need new ones, and ya can’t get ‘em without a current prescription doncha know.

I know two people who’ve done the dueling contact route. It just sounds so tiring. I wear glasses for distance/driving and started readers for close work. I tried bifocals for a few hours and couldn’t hack it. I think my vision needs to deteriorate a bit more before it would be worth it.

and those are forking expensive *sigh* is why i’m still using my old readers — something always comes up to use the money for instead of the visit to the optician…

Grace? Luck? Dumb luck? What was so amazing about the goofball anesthesiologist is that ALL of the doctors my elder dad has seen were so good and understanding and straight-talking. Obviously there is a risk to surgery at an advanced age (or at any age)….but to be blind-sided at the last moment with ‘time bomb’ talk was just so unnerving. My daughter turned to me and said quietly, “Does he think Granddad is having heart surgery?…. has he got the right patient????” So, yeah, I’m not done yet. But so, so glad that my dad is doing fine. The surgery needed to be done, and he came through just fine (even with the hallucinations….. gave lots of talking time and jokes and big picture).

Cross-posted (here and here):

Eviction and arrests of occupiers at Jamison Park in Portland, OR begin in less than 15 minutes.

I see we are getting close to the lucky 99, Suz. Take care everyone, gotta take a rest.

I hope all the Occupys stay safe tonight. We have been going back and forth about our “name.” Certain people want the (Un) because of the occupation that has gone on in our parts since the Europeans came, and other people feel we can’t be different than the whole. The new solution is to call it #OWS Albuquerque General Assembly. I am def in favor of taking the GA to the public and start having GAs around the city so people can get involved in their own comfort zone. We are having a lot of new people every day, though that does not always mean our crowds are growing. It is a complex thing, and I really love it.

hey mzchief — how was your day?

Thanks. Really surprised me. Spent all night observing & taking notes on the Nashville raid & victory. Didn’t get to sleep until 8:30 AM.

This OWS thing is so critically important to me and millions of others. Failure will mean the permanent end of the United States of America as we of the retirement & near retirement years have known, and our kids will crawl to earn enough just to pay rent, while many more will being living in the streets like animals….

thanks for the heads up bg and g’nite

Long. Still at it. Stuff happening at Denver, Boston, Oakland, London.

congrats on snagging the happy lucky 99 mzchief!!!

Turning in ….long week. Love being back at the Lake.

Whew! Wonderful, dearie.

Thanks suz. I did get in finally. As you suggested, even the server was a struggle.

Well worth it. Boggles the mind so many don’t value their privacy at all – will trade it for one gee-gaw without second thought…. and are invariably pissed when others question or challenge.

That deserves a Scottish Nyan Cat!

g’nite dearie

its forking amazing… and scary just how much they know

ha! you did all the work — i was just congratulating you *laughing*

The best thing you can do is write a gracious thank-you note for the successful outcome, either to the surgeon or the hospital’s chief administrator, expressing your gratitude on behalf of your dad and the family. When (if) your dad has a follow-up visit, they’ll be grateful for your kind words, which will circulate.

tis about time for me to go g’thud myself. long day today but totally worth it :)

thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight. i’m looking forward to seeing what tut has on tap for sun and mon nites — hope to see ya there

g’nite all

Sweet dreams, Dearie.

‘night Suz & pups. It was great to hang out with you for a bit. I’ll try to drop in more frequently to enjoy it.