I took the above photo from a balcony at the Cuban Club in Ybor City a couple of years ago. It’s so terrible it transcends crappy phone photography to approach the realm of art. What are you up to this evening?
ETA: I think my dog may have broken her tail. She’s been acting weird for the last couple of hours…her tail is hanging straight down, and she’s been clingy. I thought maybe she was feeling sick. My kid came home a little while ago, and the dog didn’t wag her tail, which is HIGHLY unusual.
So we were examining the dog, seeing if her abdomen felt distended, etc., and my daugher said maybe the dog’s tail was the problem, not the symptom. When she felt the tail, the poor dog yelped! It’s the tail, alright.
So what do you do about an injured tail? I’m not sure I can find a vet open this time of night. Would it be safe to wait? The dog is lying down now and doesn’t seem to be in acute pain, but she’s not happy, poor critter.
SteveLCo
Actually, you are correct. You should say you did this on purpose. I think this is a very good photo!!
satby
I’m going to be packaging orders to the wee hours. And there will be singing, which the dogs will regret.
schrodinger's cat
Artistic Betty is artistic! I miss your illustrated stories, the one with your sister dressed as the cockroach was the best!
skerry
I don’t know the backstory, but I enjoyed this
Shia LaBeouf
gogol's wife
I just watched a couple of clips of that Peter Pan that you all were talking about last night (but I didn’t see the thread until this morning). Wow, really bad.
ETA: And I didn’t see it because I was watching Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in Easter Parade. How we have declined since 1947 or whenever it was.
Gin & Tonic
I’ll probably have someone jumping in to question my suspicious travel history, but the only two places in Florida I could tolerate were Ybor City and Key West.
aangus
@gogol’s wife:
Yup and yup! :)
gogol's wife
@aangus:
I guess Peter Pan was on Thursday night, not last night, my bad. Can’t remember what I was watching then, but I’m sure it was better.
JPL
Betty, it’s a really nice photo.
Yatsuno
@skerry: Shia LeBoeuf link no work. Doesn’t seem to be a typing error though. Looks like it’s just down.
Abo gato
It’s a fucking awesome piece of art.
lamh36
Not doing nothing right now. Just surfing the net and watching Golden Girls.
So I was just checking out the new song by John Legend and the rapper Common for the soundtrack to the new MLK movie “Selma”. It’s called “Glory”.
You can check it out here: http://www.mtv.com/news/2017053/john-legend-common-glory-selma/
Anyway, it got me to thinking bout the protest today and the CR era protest. I was just interested to notice that it seemed like there was a bigger presence of some big-named celebs and athletes of color and non celebs of color, supporting and in some cases, locked arm to arm with the CR protest back in the day.
I’ve noticed that there seems to be an absence of that with today’s “stars” . I mean I guess it’s all about bottom line to some folks or maybe they just don’t want to be the next “Dixie Chicks” vs GWB type bullshit, but still, to my eyes anyway, there seems to be a noticeable absence.
Anyway, IMHO it’s so noticeable, that when you do have overt actions like what we saw from the STL Rams or tonight this from Derrick Rose (Derek Rose wears #ICan’tBreathe tshirt during warmups.), it makes a splash.
But then maybe it makes a bigger splash since there is an absence of it?
satby
I started watching this HBO Asia series called Sangoon Road, set in Singapore in 1964. Really good, too bad it was only on one season. It’s on the Acorn TV channel.
Baud
@efgoldman:
Cole didn’t make it into the 1% by giving his grunts comp time.
ETA: or, you know, paying them.
Tommy
@gogol’s wife: Gosh I worry I might be the guy that yells “get off my lawn.”
I am not much of a musical guy, but that Peter Pan remake was a fucking train wreck.
Oh and you said Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.Those are two nice things to have in the same sentence.
skerry
@Yatsuno: I don’t know the backstory, but I enjoyed this
Shia LaBeouf
This is the direct youtube link.
gogol's wife
@Tommy:
Easter Parade doesn’t have much of a plot, but it has so many incredible dance sequences. Steppin’ Out with My Baby! And Judy is great all the way through. You really believe Peter Lawford fell in love with her at first sight.
Corner Stone
I’ve been thinking a lot about pay phones. They stole them from us, in the name of the War on Drugs.
Why did we let them do that? Some few hundred number of people across the nation used them in ways that may or may not have been beneficial for society. So what? Why can’t I pull into a gas station, deposit some change and make a call?
It seems like they wanted to force all calls to be tracked to an account. You know, they. “Them.”
It’s kind of bullshit if you think about it.
Tree With Water
It would amount to a cosmic joke to be a bore from Ybor. Great photo, wonderful effect. Its vibe puts me in mind of the very famous painting of that nighttime corner cafe in 1940’s NYC (whose famous name escapes me).
Ruckus
@lamh36:
Today it seems that celebrity really doesn’t last as long as it used to, so many maybe don’t want to give that up if they attain it. Plus money for sure. And the noise machine is today used to cut down anyone it doesn’t agree with, Dixie Chicks being a perfect example.
jl
Thanks for transcendently awful phone pic art, and informing me of Ybor City, that I had never heard of before. Sounds like an interesting place, at least to visit.
I have absolutely no agenda for this evening.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
I thought cell phones killed pay phones. Like how video killed the radio star.
Ruckus
@Tree With Water:
Was that Philly’s?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Tree With Water: Hopper’s Nighthawks, I presume. :-)
Betty’s shot is very nice.
Cheers,
Scott.
Corner Stone
That’s a photo? And not a 20th century painting?
Corner Stone
@Baud: Well, they kind of did of course. But why aren’t pay phones still available? Why do we just accept that every person in society has access to a phone?
ISTM, that in some small part the death of the pay phone by law enforcement mandated personal phones. AKA, it’s you calling that guy we’re watching.
jl
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Thanks. That cityscape does have a Hopper-opolis feel to it.
Corner Stone
I remember one time when I was young I had a flat tire while driving my dad’s truck. And I walked to a gas station to call him and tell him.
Good luck trying that now.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
Uneconomical, since so few people use them nowadays.
Obamaphones!
On the TV, all the bad guys use untraceable burner phones.
Karen in GA
@Baud: @Corner Stone: I think the War on Drugs just caused TPTB to disable incoming calls on pay phones? Or something like that.
Could be wrong, though. I often am.
lamh36
@Ruckus: True, but I respect that the Dixie Chicks, in particular Natalie Maines, took a stand they believed in. I always happens when its “our side” though. All the BS we here form “conserv” musicians and celebs I don’t recall them ever getting the Dixie Chicks treatment. I mean people still like Nugent, Voight, Woods, et al and not that I see, I don’t recall them being run off the rails.
But as I say, I respect someone who can take a stand to support that. But there are some big named celebs who could come out in support who’s “bankability” won’t be affected by the “controversy”. Now a lot of celebs of color arent’ on the radar, but a star like Beyonce or Halle Berry, or Oprah, or say Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, to name true blue big named stars, who’s support would more than likely NOT affect their ability.
Also too, the big difference with the Dixie Chicks, is the advent of social media. Stars have a better means to counter entertainment shows and such where they can reach out the millions of followers who, as it has shown, will put up both support for the celeb, and also back them up.
IOW, It’s a new era, of image control…
Karen in GA
Can’t edit for some reason, but here’s some proof that I’m probably wrong.
gelfling545
I have fruitcake baking & andouille sausage & white bean soup simmering. I am actually wrapping Christmas presents (which I never do this early) to while away the wait.
eemom
@Corner Stone:
As one who frequently forgets my cell phone, I have also lamented the disappearance of pay phones on more than one occasion.
However, I think the reason for it might be more innocuous that you’re suggesting — i.e., it’s no longer economically viable to maintain pay phones, given the ubiquity of cell phones.
Baud
@Karen in GA:
I’m impressed that the LA Times has archives on the Internet going back to the 80s.
Karen in GA
@Baud: Yeah, I was pretty surprised to find that.
Tommy
@lamh36: That is hard to listen to.
Common rocks IMHO!
I live a few miles from Ferguson. It is hard to explain how mad I am. Where I grew up. live, we don’t kill people.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
All true.
Have any ideas why other than money?
lamh36
Welp, surprising no one, Mary Landrieu has been defeated by Bill Cassidy.
As someone who currently lives in NOLA and who now has 2 Republican Senators rather than Mary hanging on, I find no real pleasure in her defeat.
Though, I know some will feel differently.
Now the surprise for me is that Edwin Edwards didn’t win his election bid. It really is a different Louisiana
Corner Stone
@Karen in GA: If one reads that article it’s pretty clear what the War on Drugs has brought us. It’s really a shadow of the war on the other. The disenfranchised, the poor, the people that have been left out or behind.
Read what those people in the article 30 years ago were saying.
ETA, awesome get by the way. That’s an awesome article.
Baud
@lamh36:
I’m with you. I’m not one of those people who wanted to see her lose.
mai naem
Years ago, I worked for a temp agency where there was another employee who used to have 3 pagers (This is pre-affordable cell phone)because he worked for three different temp agencies and each agency wanted him to carry their own pager. This guy was a good worker and places requested him all the time. Anyhow, one of the places he went to requested he not be sent back because they thought he was a drug dealer because he had three pagers.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
She was for sure better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick and I’d bet you wouldn’t say that about Cassidy.
lamh36
@Ruckus: I mean it could be a number of things, or its just simple ole they don’t agree with the protest and so what’s the point of speaking up.
But I do think it is interesting that a number of the people i mention have overseas charities and stuff that they are def willing to stand up and represent.
So yeah, my bet is on money or just don’t really care?
Ruckus
@mai naem:
I like how people can’t seem to see any other rational behind so many innocuous things in the world than the worst. I wonder if this is an American trait, or just a conservative trait? And it may be exacerbated by the wars on drugs and terror but it has existed in conservatives for at least the last 70 yrs.
Tommy
This is why I do not bet. I called the Bama game to almost the point. I was totally wrong on the Ohio State game.
satby
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: love that painting. There’s a great music video modeled on it that I was trying to find to post, but I forgot the band’s name.
lamh36
Someone on twitter made a comment that Landrieu was defeated thanks to rurual old Louisianas, while NOLA voters were unaware of the election and were out “partying”.
That pissed me off. First of all, in this climate, Mary Landrieu was gonna lose. Bill Cassidy as disgusting as we find him, just didn’t bleed the cray like some other candidates.
Secondly, people have to understand, NOLA is a pinpoint of blue in a sea of read. There is only SO much that a pinpoint on a map can do in an election like this. Couple that with the fact that NOLA’s numbers haven’t been the same since Katrina, between people moving to another parish, or people staying where they landed after Katrina, and that pinpoint of blue that was NOLA then, is even smaller now.
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: Voice of the Beehive? Or OMD?
Baud
@lamh36:
Landrieu’s loss was more excusable than many of the other losses we suffered this year.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36:
Some people are idiots. Others are making barely veiled racist sneers.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: I hoped you’d know Omnes, yes Voice of the Beehive. Now I need
To go play that on repeat a couple of times. Thanks!
Rob
@lamh36
“Now the surprise for me is that Edwin Edwards didn’t win his election bid. It really is a different Louisiana”
That surprised me too.
From nola.com, a landslide. Sigh.
U. S. Senator
2228 of 4018 precincts reporting
“Bill” Cassidy (R) 60% 447463
Mary L. Landrieu (D) 40% 302484
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: You’re welcome. Glad to be of service.
Rob
@Betty Cracker, your photo is really a piece of art! I love it.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: yep.
I mean, the numbers that voted this time around is embarassing. Someone said there was more volunteers than voters, but still, I’m not too sure how much NOLA would have helped with her deficit. I mean even her last re-election bid, Mary just squeaked by I beleive.
Also to the comment I read was from an “all\y”.
NotMax
@gogol’s wife
Being re-aired next Saturday, the 13th.
Still don’t know how I completely missed* coming up with what some other wag did regarding the portrayal of Hook: Christopher Sleep-Walken.
*Blame it on old(er) age. And Obama. :)
NotMax
There’s nothing amiss with that photo, Betty. In real life, Ybor City looks exactly like that.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
If we had to depend upon these New Negroes back during the CRM, we’d still be drinking out of COLORED water fountains. Damn near every famous Black person back then has a CRM story to tell. Damn near ALL of them. While today’s New Negroes are absolutely pitiful.
SatanicPanic
@efgoldman: I have had moments where I’d thought they would be useful, but they’re rare. Making charging stations available makes more sense to me.
Betty Cracker
I think my dog may have busted her tail. Really. See update above.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Poor baby. How do you think it happened?
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: Good god. I have no idea what the appropriate first aid for a broken tail might be. Google offers this.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: I don’t know. They were running around in the yard this evening, but we never heard a yelp or anything. We’re always saying we’re amazed she doesn’t break her tail because she wags it so hard and is always whapping it into things, including our shins, walls, table legs, etc.
lamh36
@rikyrah: but I’m not even talking just celebs of color. I mean you had celebs who weren’t who were out there with the protestors and arm in arm with the CR era protestors.
Pogonip
@Betty Cracker: Can you splint the tail until Monday when you can get her to a vet? Some of the big pet stores sell Elizabethan collars if you don’t have one on hand. Have someone firmly restrain her while splinting; you don’t want her to feel bad later about snapping while in pain.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Poor pup. Sometimes anal glands can cause droopy tails but I don’t think the tail would actually hurt in that case.
Calling all vets.. I know there are vets that visit the site so maybe they can add something.
donnah
How could that have happened, Betty? Do your boxers have docked tails, or are they long?
That has to be painful for her. Our dog talks with her tail; having it broken would be terrible.
You could probably wait til morning, but even then it’s Sunday. We have an emergency vet here where we live, but it’s really expensive.
Good luck and I hope it’s not serious. Poor puppy!
max
@Betty Cracker: I don’t know. They were running around in the yard this evening, but we never heard a yelp or anything. We’re always saying we’re amazed she doesn’t break her tail because she wags it so hard and is always whapping it into things, including our shins, walls, table legs, etc.
Keep her away from the other dogs and any kind of collision with the tail. There can be serious nerve damage otherwise. Otherwise let her be until the morning if possible and then take her to the regular vet.
They’ll have to X-ray it and see if it’s actually fractured. You just don’t want to aggravate it any before you can take her to the vet.
max
[‘Going to the emergency vet is expensive and not necessary unless it’s actually bleeding or something.’]
Barbara
@Corner Stone: I could swear I noticed that there were still phone booths in Manhattan the last time I visited — that was last May. And can’t you still find phone booths in airports?
But I have to say, every time we are somewhere with phone booths I point them out to my kid because I’m afraid it’s his only chance to see one.
Tree With Water
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Exactamundo. I don’t believe I ever caught the name Nighthawks before, or if I did, I had forgotten it.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Have you seen this?
Betty Cracker
@donnah: It’s a long tail. No idea how she could have injured it, but we were outside, so it could have happened out of our earshot. She’s lying down now on the floor at my feet, which is unusual. She normally piles up on the couch with us.
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: Poor puppy, I hope she feels better soon.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Can you isolate the injured area? My dog hurt his leg recently but it was muscular and he worked it out on his own after a few days. He wasn’t sensitive to touch, however.
Tripod
Things that are not conspiracies by the man: Cost of the pay phone rig, cost of maintenance on it, cost of collection, cost of placement, the low cost and convenience of a burner and prepaid phone cards.
Culture of Truth
There are a couple of phone booths in Manahttan. I would say they’re covered in germs, but no one uses them.
As far as as the dog, there are late nite vets around, but if not, I guess keep the dog as still as possible…?
NotMax
@efgoldman et al.
Pay phones fewer but still found at plenty of spots here. Always in a mall, also outside of the Post Office, among other places.
As for coins in pocket, still carry around plenty of change as a matter of course (even though pay phones take cards now, BTW). But then, I pay almost exclusively in cash when shopping locally, except for utility payments and Costco which are always paid by check. More times than care to remember, waving a cancelled check at the flunky across the counter immediately put an end to all dispute. Costco is especially convenient because one has only but to sign the check and their register fills all the rest in, then the completed check is shown you to verify the amount.
skyweaver
@Betty Cracker:
My coworker’s dog (lab) broke or sprained her tail a few years ago after a long day fetching balls out of a lake. If I remember right the vet diagnosed it but said it would just heal on its own. The vet said he could x-ray it but whether it was broken or sprained wouldn’t affect what he did to treat it, which was nothing (perhaps it’s like a human’s broken coccyx?) Anyway they didn’t splint it or anything, they were just careful and gentle with the dog for a while. The biggest problem seemed to be on the dog’s end, who seemed sad that she couldn’t wag for a while.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Is there a vet that you can see in the morning?
poor pup…
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: yep, I posted a link to another tweet at #13 I think.
Good for him. Funny enough, there is a great history of athletes giving support to protest and issues of the day. And to my mind, it was more courageous to do so then when the impact on your life and work could be costly.
Tree With Water
@Betty Cracker: I knew a dog that somehow got it’s tail sucked into a vacuum cleaner and twisted up something ugly. Never seemed to bother Aristotle, though (admittedly, I never saw a vacuum cleaner switched on in his presence).
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@satby: You inspired me to do some searching.
Wim Wenders – The End of Violence / Nighthawks (2:50, some bad words)
I can’t find a video that seems to fit. Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” seems like it should have been inspired by the painting, but I don’t know if that’s the case. […] Actually’s “Tom’s Diner” is a real place and was the inspiration for the diner in Seinfeld.
Weird. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@satby: Should have known OO or someone would know the answer without searching.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: For some of those athletes, simply being in the sport at all had political connotations. Jackie Robinson, obviously; but Jim Brown is another.
fleeting expletive
Hello, out of the blue here. Is there any archive of television broadcast schedules for, say 1975 or 1974, in the stations at the time (PBS and the big three, or maybe one or two more). I had a black and white clunky tv, and a wired remote control–my sort of boyfriend called it “remove control”. I would get off work at 4:30 and break my neck to get home to get 22 minutes of my b+w tv show that might have been Star Trek in black and white, but maybe it didn’t exist. English wasn’t his first language.
gogol's wife
I hope doggie feels better. I have no wisdom to offer (cat person). It sounds as if you’re getting good advice above.
Elizabelle
@skyweaver:
I vaguely remember one of our dogs injured her tail, and we were told it would heal on its own; to keep the pup quiet. It did; she was fine. Been a long time, so no other details remembered …
Suzanne
My friend had a dog that broke its tail. They ended up amputating it, because it’s really hard to get some dogs to stop wagging their tails, and the pup re-broke it. Dog was much happier afterward.
So on the ceramics front, I have been working for the last three months or so on a sushi-and-sake set for four, for Mr. Suzanne, who is learning to make his own sushi. The kiln got unloaded today, and I picked up the first batch of the stuff. I am still waiting on the plates and serving platter. Anyway, it looks great. I invested in a glazing airbrush after having troubles getting my glazes applied the way I want them, and the results look very consistent and awesome. I also made a pitcher that I may enter in some art shows. I am super-excited. In many ways, it feels like Christmas.
We had a birthday party for Spawn the Younger today. Lots of fun, but I have a raging headache now.
NotMax
Waiting to see how the rabid right twists this into a pretzel of hate:
Anne Laurie
@Baud:
It was a two-way process. Pay phones, run by the phone monopoly, relied on government tax breaks — and to some degree, advertising in the phone book — to be profitable. Once the monopoly was broken up, the local companies could no longer count on that base, and private operators tended to take over the most valuable spots for pay phones (at bars & bus/train stations, for instance), where they’d promptly price-gouge — charging 50 cents instead of 25, for instance. So a lot of paycheck-to-paycheck customers, like me, got our first clunky cellphone-bricks because we could no longer count on finding a pay phone or having enough change if we found one, when we needed to call for a ride or touch base with our kin. And the more of us had cell phones, the cheaper those phones could get, while keeping the pay phone kiosks running only got more & more expensive.
The War on Some Drugs, as Corner Stone complains, was pretty much the final straw — even the price-gouging “pirate phone” kiosk operators, relying on a transient & financially desperate customer base, got pushed out in the name of Security Theatre.
fleeting expletive
I know it was something 30 minutes in black and white at 4:30. Early Three’s Company? Possibly. I wish I remembered very much of what I was passionate about in 1974. I was bored. I was so bored until I bailed in 1976 or 77. Buying a motorcycle, buying a house. I was bored in under a year with the house although I think I decorated the best bedroom I ever had, after refinishing the wooden floor.
I garaged saled everything I could and gave it away. Moved to Austin under the cover story of going to law school. One didn’t leave a sort of regular job to get off the treadmill in those days, or I didn’t know anyone who did.
Actually in the fifth grade I told my dad I just wanted to quit going to school, quit for a day and he said I’d like to too. But it didn’t register with me because he was not a good dad. I guess a lot of people would like to get off of their treadmills.
donnah
Betty, I hope she feels better soon. I would imagine that there would be a lot of nerve pain from the tail up the spine for an injury like that. Nothing sadder than a sick or injured dog. They just look so miserable!
Good luck, and let us know how this “ends” up.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I am so glad to live close to the University of Minnesota Small Animal Hospital. Open 24 hours for emergency service, and I love the way both I and the cats get treated. It’s more expensive than my old vet, even at non-emergency room rates, but worth it. I no longer go anywhere else.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: true
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
Has the dog been swimming, by any chance? Our lab had similar symptoms after a day spent swimming, and it turned out he’d just overstresses the tail by using it as a rudder – it’s so common in the breed that it’s called “lab tail,” and recovery just requires rest.
Apologies if this was asked or answered upthread; I didn’t read the whole comments section.
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker: It’s been 20+ years, but my friend’s Great Danes used to damage their tails on a regular basis. IRRC, if it’s just a break or a muscle sprain, it’s not dangerous, but your dog will be as miserable as a human would be with a broken finger — every time she unconsciously tries to communicate, she’ll hurt herself. Keeping her quiet & taking her to the vet Monday (to be sure it’s nothing more serious, and maybe get some painkillers) should be okay…
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@fleeting expletive: Google has a Newspaper archive. Maybe looking in your city paper of the time would help?
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty Cracker
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: No, she didn’t swim today. I’m going to keep an eye on her and see if I can find a vet tomorrow unless she seems much better. I can tell she’s miserable, poor thing. And she’s usually the happy dog!
Anne Laurie
@fleeting expletive:
Star Trek was shot in color, but many of us first watched it on black & white broadcast television. And if you were watching it in the mid-70s in the afternoon, that would have been a local station which had paid syndication rights for a reel-to-reel copy of each episode, which the station could then chop up to fit their time slot / advertising needs. (I was a Trekkie in those days, and there was a huge market for ‘original cels’ from those mutilated reels.)
So, yeah, you might well have been watching a 22-minute version of Original Star Trek on a black-and-white set!
mtiffany
(Sorry if someone beat me to it:) From PetMD:
Chris T.
I’m not sure how much of this applies to dogs (I only really know about cats), but: tail damage is relatively harmless unless it’s close to the base of the tail. Important nerves run there and damage there can lead to incontinence. So the main thing is to locate the problem, and if it’s close to the body, determine severity and whether to splint etc. (It’s possible to splint a tail, it’s just normally unnecessary.)
Edit: by “damage” I mean sprain or break; “degloving” is another matter entirely…
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Betty Cracker: She sounds like she uses her tail like our Sophie. Sophie winds up her tail like a helicopter when she’s excited and happy. Here’s hoping your little girl feels better soon.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Trying to summon up the name of the Roddenberry-affiliated outfit which put out those catalogs of collectibles. Lincoln Enterprises?
Pogonip
@Tree With Water: Glad to hear Aristotle took it philosophically.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: Nice.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: Something like that, wish I could remember!
But even before the catalogs, enterprising Trekkies would go and befriend a technician at their local tv station, and offer to take the excised bits of film “that they were just gonna throw out anyways”. The black-and-white catalog enterprise, I think, was an outgrowth of that scavenging — I remember it as being based in Hollywood, where the founders ‘knew people who knew people’ who were craft service workers or extras that had access to script copies and discarded props and ephemera they could get autographed.
Karen in GA
@Omnes Omnibus: Voice of the Beehive! I haven’t thought of them in years. Just watched the video for “I Say Nothing.” Funny how the same thing can simultaneously make me feel so young and so old.
eemom
@Betty Cracker:
Dogs have a high threshold for pain. If the doggie is visibly miserable I would get her to a vet ASAP.
/love doggies
Omnes Omnibus
@Karen in GA: The drummer for Voice of the Beehive is also the longtime drummer for Madness.
satby
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I can’t seem to play you link on the kindle but I’ll check it out on the laptop tomorrow. A whole Hopper genre I never knew existed, love it!
Anne
Our Lab mix had something similar once with her tail. Basically I ran her too hard when she wasn’t used to running that long, and she sprained the muscles where her tail meets her rear. It’s known as “drop tail” or “dead tail,” and it’s common in Labs (as Tara mentioned upthread) and other dogs who suddenly work hard after a period of relative inactivity, such as the start of hunting season. It looked like she was carrying it slightly away from her body and then just limp from there down. She was in pain when sitting down and when wagging the tail.
The vet gave us Rimadyl (puppy ibuprofen) and had us rest her for a few days, just until she felt like herself again. She was up and energetic as ever after about two days.
The most pathetic part of the whole thing was that it hurt to wag, so she’d get the most pathetic look on her face. Then we’d try to comfort her, which would make her want to wag it more, and the cycle continued.
Whatever it is, whether drop tail or something else, I hope your pup feels better soon!
Betty Cracker
@eemom: Now she’s stomped out a nest for herself in a blanket on the couch and is snoozing away, so I’m going to watch over her and see how she does.
Omnes Omnibus
@Karen in GA: Also, from the era and general genre, I always like this from Book of Love.
satby
@Betty Cracker: hope the poor baby feels a bit better in the morning and it turns out to be a sprain.
Gvg
Do you have a vet school near you? They often run better emergency off hours care. another possibility is does your vet pool with other vets locally to have weekend call in advice? maybe check his phone book internet listing.
my sisters elderly dog is into senility and no longer bothers to sneak around for her scavenging. she woke me a little while ago with midnight munchies lead to her breaking a casarole dish she may have thought had food left. On the counter to be washed. I had to drag her away so I could clean up the pottery shards. she acts like we aren’t here and the rules no longer apply to her when she thinks there is food. former stray always looking for food. She hides cans and silver wear in her bed which we remove daily. Try to keep her away from them altogether but she is fast and stubborn. does not understand about broken ceramic being bad for doggy feet. well I think I have it all up and she wants out of bedroom.
The Other Chuck
@skerry: I just watched the first Transformers movie tonight, and after watching that crapfest, I too would love to decapitate Shia LeBeouf. Actually pretty much every acting job in it was uniformly terrible, but if I had to hear him say “nononoNO!” one more time, I was hoping Bumblebee would transform while he was still riding in him.
I read all the comics, I watched all the animated movies, and that flick still made no god damned sense.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
Ahem…”states factually”. tyvm.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Is there a difference?
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
What are you talking about? I’m always on the lookout for a good Galaga arcade machine.
*chang* *chang* *chang* *chang*
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, cornflake boy. There is.
kindness
Give the pup pain meds Betty.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Cornflake boy?
Corner Stone
@Barbara:
I haven’t seen a pay phone in any of the last 20 or so domestic airports I have been in.
Corner Stone
@Tripod: That’s the rationale “they” want you to think. You know. “They”. “Them”.
Corner Stone
@fleeting expletive:
What does that mean?
SWMBO
@Gvg: Use a damp paper towel or napkin to wipe where the glass was broken. You won’t get any small slivers in your hands (or feet) and you can throw it away.
@Betty Cracker: One of our dogs had some ant bites near the end of his tail. Got really bad and painful. He kept chewing at it until he had it raw and inflamed. The cone of shame didn’t work because he could get to the tail anyway. The vet rigged a splint by using a syringe (a big one) and slipped it over his tail and taped it on. He had to wear it over a week but it did help keep the tail straight and unchewed. If you don’t get to the vet’s office tomorrow, you might try splinting it to see if it helps. I would suggest a small piece of plastic pipe and tape it on til you see the vet. Also check the tail for any bug bites. Couldn’t hurt. If you see anything that looks like a bug bite, slather it with antibiotic cream and see the vet pronto.
Keith G
Betty, I am sorry that one of your pups is hurt, though undoubtedly the tail will get better soon.
I am not sorry that your seemingly ungrounded dislike of the OSU Buckeyes went unfulfilled last night. They are a good group of young men doing a great job playing a game. Ease up and enjoy them performing at such a high level.
Go Buck!
ixnay
Re: painful tail – I am one of the vets here, and all the above advice is good. If she is able to urinate and defecate, albeit with some discomfort, Monday would probably be soon enough. If she seems incontinent, then that makes matters more urgent.
Please note: Rimadyl is an NSAID, but is not ibuprofen; DO NOT give ibuprofen to a dog unless advised to do so by your regular vet. AFAIK, there is no safe ibuprofen dose for dogs (or cats, for that matter). No Tylenol either. And you don’t want to use aspirin on the off-chance that there may be surgery involved (leads to bleeding issues).
Here’s hoping for a prompt recovery!
JGabriel
Betty Cracker @ Top:
At first, I thought it was art – some sort of pointillist paiinting in the Seurat tradition. I didn’t realize it was a photo, Betty, until you mentioned it.
Hunter
@SteveLCo: It’s beautiful. The foreground reminds me a little bit of some of Edvard Munch’s paintings.
woodyNYC
Late comment chiming in, yes. I immediately thought it was one one Tom Levensons posts and I was looking at a Charles Sheeler.
Betty Cracker
Thanks for all the dog tail advice, everyone. She’s better today, able to both poop and pee and even move the tail in a limited way, so maybe it’s just a sprain? She’s still a bit clingy and subdued — not her usual bouncy self. I plan to have her checked out tomorrow if she’s not markedly improved by morning, but she seems to be on the mend.
Thanks also for the validation regarding my accidentally artistic photo. I’ve always been tempted to blow it up and have it framed because something about it appeals to me. Now I know I’m not the only one.