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Oldies But Goodies Respite Thread

by Cheryl Rofer|  June 30, 202111:02 pm| 81 Comments

This post is in: Nature & Respite, Something Good Open Thread

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Let’s try this again. For some reason (Watergirl?) FYWP thought this was an “On The Road” post, which it isn’t.

It’s been a big news day – I haven’t posted everything I’m following – and tomorrow will bring two big Supreme Court decisions and a lawsuit against the Trump Corporation.

I’ve been working through my naturecam pics and thought I’d share some of my faves. What are your oldies but goodies? Music? Film?

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  1. 1.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 30, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    Taking the train home today I listened to Orff’s Carmina Burana, which always does it for me.

  2. 2.

    dopey-o

    June 30, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    “Into The West” a small film set in the Dublin projects mostly.
    Two boys meet horse, two boys lose horse, two boys get horse back.
    Simple but elegant.

  3. 3.

    Wag

    June 30, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    Rereading Catch 22 forty years after I first read it. It is an amazing book. I didn’t recognize it at the time, but it is a brilliant description of PTSD before PTSD was named. I guess at the time they would’ve called it “shell shock“

  4. 4.

    Wag

    June 30, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    … and Bobcats are the coolest.

  5. 5.

    ruemara

    June 30, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    Fat, since i am ballooning. *sigh* the new meds means new diet.

  6. 6.

    frosty

    June 30, 2021 at 11:22 pm

    @Wag: ​
      I need to do the same. I read it multiple times in my teens, then saw the movie. The flashbacks didn’t translate well, but it was cool seeing all the B-25s in the air.

  7. 7.

    CaseyL

    June 30, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    Cheryl, where do you live that you get so many amazing wild animals dropping by? Bobcats and lions and coyotes and bear, oh my!

    My oldies – I have so many, so I’ll focus on one genre.

    The original Murder on the Orient Express is a movie I can, and have, watched over and over again.

    During the earliest, and most stringent, lockdown, I binge-watched Columbo. 

    Now that I think about it, my “comfort” go-tos all seem to be murder mysteries: Thomas Perry books, early Martha Grimes, vintage TV cop shows (Columbo, as noted; also L&O, and L&O:Criminal Intent).  Why I consider those to be comfort reads is a puzzle:  maybe because Justice (usually) prevails in them…?

  8. 8.

    Benw

    June 30, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    @Wag: that’s a great observation.

    @ruemara: ugh. Be kind to yourself. Hugs.

  9. 9.

    ruemara

    June 30, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    @Benw: I’m going to kindly scream.

  10. 10.

    Cheryl Rofer

    June 30, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    @CaseyL: No lions yet on the naturecam, although a neighbor says she’s seen one. I’m in Santa Fe, a twenty-minute walk from the plaza.

  11. 11.

    Lyrebird

    June 30, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: … I listened to Orff’s Carmina Burana, which always does it for me.

    How glorious!

    Not sure if I should listen to that on public transit though, since I always want to do air percussion along with O Fortuna.

     

    From the sublime to the ridiculous, I got a good laugh out of teh replies to this.:

    @KMOVLooks like a normal teen’s bedroom, right? Think again. Coming up on
    , we’ll show you what parents should be looking for so they can identify signs of drug use. I was shocked at what I found in this room!!! #stl #n4tm

  12. 12.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 30, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    @CaseyL:

    I second the Columbo pick. This show is timeless for me.  So many great guest stars as murderers.  Among my favorites were Patrick McGoohan, Ricardo Montalban, Hector Elizondo, Dick Van Dyke, and Johnny Cash.

  13. 13.

    Benw

    June 30, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @ruemara: I hear you. I wish my meds didn’t have “puffy face” as a fucking side effect

  14. 14.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 30, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @Wag: world war 2 PTSD gave rise to some amazing advancements in the world of literature. Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five…

  15. 15.

    Citizen Alan

    June 30, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  My favorite was Ruth Gordon, because the “victim” totally deserved it, and I kinda suspect Columbo agreed with that and wished he could let Gordon off.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    July 1, 2021 at 12:13 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:  A friend of mine is headed for a long weekend in Santa Fe in August (yes, August!). I’ll tell her there’s wildlife in them thar hills!

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  It’s fun seeing the casting-against-type, like Nimoy, Landau and Joyce Van Patten. I like the actors who kept coming back to play villains – Jack Cassidy guest starred five times!

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 1, 2021 at 12:19 am

    @Lyrebird:

    welcome back, 1980s Satanic Panic!— shrimp eating mammal (@walruslifestyle) June 24, 2021

    LOL!

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    July 1, 2021 at 12:24 am

    @Gin & Tonic:  All 25 movements? That must be quite the commute!

    The Princess Bride. It’s amazing how I have almost the entire movie committed to memory and to this day I still find it both delightful and amusing.

  19. 19.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    July 1, 2021 at 12:29 am

    @CaseyL:

    @Citizen Alan:

    Interesting anecdote from Suzanne Pleshette about Peter Falk being a problem on the set.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9qjn18ohR0

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 1, 2021 at 12:35 am

    Say it again! We have a T Rex!

  21. 21.

    Jay

    July 1, 2021 at 12:42 am

    In the wake of the heat wave, in BC, with records deaths, we now have forest fires everywhere.

  22. 22.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    July 1, 2021 at 12:43 am

    @Yutsano: The Princess Bride?  You and me both :-) it never gets old.  “Have fun storming the castle”!

  23. 23.

    Wag

    July 1, 2021 at 12:49 am

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): 

    One of my all time favorites, as well.

  24. 24.

    frosty

    July 1, 2021 at 12:50 am

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Wow that’s a great lineup of murderers! I watched it when it was new but I don’t remember Johnny Cash or Dick Van Dyke.

  25. 25.

    piratedan

    July 1, 2021 at 12:54 am

    for me, one of the small things that I still treasure is the awesome amount of cool TV show themes that we had in the 60’s.  It was like 75 seconds of bliss and awesomeness… who knew that Jazz was so functional in this format?

    I’ll post some here to start and will let others add on if they see fit to do so…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhEpjnaNlo – Jonny Quest

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10QW3Az1FTw – The Avengers 1966 version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5gbwUrIgw – The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

    yes, I know I’m missing Mission Impossible, but that’s for someone else to post…

  26. 26.

    frosty

    July 1, 2021 at 12:58 am

    I watched Notting Hill so many times I memorized the dialogue from the whole movie. One other one I won’t turn off if it comes on is League of Their Own. My toddler watched it every day and I would always sit down and watch it with him. I was sure he would grow up thinking baseball was played by girls.

    Madonna watching Tom Hanks: “Wow, that’s some peeing.”

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    July 1, 2021 at 1:00 am

    @Wag:

    I’m pretty sure you are the one who mentioned that when I made a Lt Scheisskopf reference the other day. It’s my favorite novel by an American and I’m pretty sure I’ve read it at least ten times. I’m going to put it in the queue – aka the pile next to my bed – and re-read with your thoughts in mind.

  28. 28.

    James E Powell

    July 1, 2021 at 1:04 am

    @piratedan:

    Not jazz, but a cool song

    Secret Agent Man

  29. 29.

    Achrachno

    July 1, 2021 at 1:09 am

    Even if I had a proper wildlife camera I’m sure I couldn’t compete with your image diversity.  Here in my part of suburban southern CA I only see 2 of the mammals you have in your yard, but some others you didn’t photograph are common: notably striped skunks and raccoons.   I bet you have those too.

    Coyotes move through my neighborhood nightly catching or scrounging what they can.  They saunter right down the middle of the street with no apparent fear.  Them I could do without, but I don’t really mind them much.  If I had an outdoor cat perhaps I’d feel a bit differently.  I often see signs on lamp posts looking for missing cats and fear that I know what happened.

    Gray foxes are around here permanently but I see them infrequently on my nightly walks: always a pleasure when I do.  They’re spectacularly quick, agile and cat-like.  I suspect they live mostly on black rats (aka fruit rats, roof rats) which are awfully common in landscaping & seem to particularly attack citrus & pomegranate fruit.  I’m sure the foxes are quick enough to catch them.  The foxes can easily climb trees and bound onto the roofs of houses from nearby walls and fences, though what they find there I don’t know since they’d need to get into attics to find rats.  Anyway, foxes are most welcome to me, along with the other rodent munchers like owls.  One year a female fox made a den under my tool shed and raised 2 kits in my yard.  That was  good, for sure.

    There is one big mammal I have that you didn’t report in your neighborhood — feral burros.  There’s a herd of c. 15 that appear in various combinations.  Last year they ate all the lettuce that I was trying to grow in my front planter bed.  Like the coyotes they’re pretty fearless and brazenly walk down streets and sidewalks.  I wish they’d leave but know they won’t.  Lawns are more attractive than dry hills.

  30. 30.

    piratedan

    July 1, 2021 at 1:11 am

    @James E Powell: true! It is a cool song!  Does have the secret agent tie in tho!

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 1:14 am

    List of items can contentedly consume repeatedly, subject to revision as interior Rolodex gets up to speed. Some overlap but not necessarily the same as would be a list of all time favorites. In no particular order:

    Music:
    Shostakovich 9th
    Beethoven 3rd
    Lt. Kije Suite
    It’s a Beautiful Day (eponymous album)
    McDonald & Giles (eponymous album)
    On the Twentieth Century (soundtrack)
    Something Rotten (soundtrack)
    Akhnaten (soundtrack)
    Anything Goes (soundtrack)
    Excitable Boy (album, Warren Zevon)
    Nilsson Schmilsson (album, Harry Nilsson)
    Knnillssonn (album, Harry Nilsson)
    Verities & Balderdash (album, Harry Chapin)
    Court and Spark (album, Joni Mitchell)
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer (eponymous album)
    The World of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (album)
    Something/Anything? (album, Todd Rundgren)
    Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (album, Spirit)
    Satisfied (album, Mother Earth)
    .
    Movies/TV/Radio
    Citizen Kane
    The Stunt Man
    Wonderfalls
    The Jack Benny Program
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
    Car 54, Where Are You?
    Vic and Sade
    The Palm Beach Story
    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
    The Prisoner
    The Twilight Zone
    Misfits
    Rumpole of the Bailey
    Wild Boys
    ReBoot
    Charlie Jade
    Four Star Theater
    Keeping Up Appearances
    I, Claudius
    Patriot (Amazon original series)
    The General (Keaton)
    Being Human (British)
    Real Humans (Swedish)
    .

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    July 1, 2021 at 1:25 am

    @frosty:
    I remember that one of the players in A League of Their Own had difficulty reading,and Madonna’s character gave her porn to use for reading practice.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    July 1, 2021 at 1:32 am

    Nature, but not something good – fires in NorCal and Canada are really getting out of hand. Lytton, the town in Canada that hit the record high of 121 yesterday, is now evacuated and on fire. A fire to the west grew large enough to generate pyrocumulus clouds which generated thousands of lightning strikes, some of which are believed to have caused the fire in Lytton.

    I’ve driven through Lytton twice – it’s right on the transcanada highway. I have no recollection of the town though. Reports on the ground is that the town is a complete loss. Residents had little warning either. Small town, only a few hundred people.

  34. 34.

    Jay

    July 1, 2021 at 1:43 am

    Lytton, the town which set Canadian heat records during The Bubble, is gone.

    https://vimeo.com/569655524#at=7

    https://vimeo.com/569678188

    Video from an Indigenous band member,

  35. 35.

    frosty

    July 1, 2021 at 1:44 am

    Deleted a non-respite comment. Another time, another thread.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    July 1, 2021 at 1:48 am

    @piratedan:

    Dreadful show, but Barnaby Jones had a pretty good theme song.

    Peter Gunn had great jazz—not just the theme but incidentail music and occasional songs by Edie (Lola Albright). “How High the Moon.”

  37. 37.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    July 1, 2021 at 1:52 am

    @frosty:

    If you’re a Columbo fan, you have to check out those episodes with Johnny Cash and Dick Van Dyke.

  38. 38.

    Jay

    July 1, 2021 at 1:57 am

    @Martin:

    Lytton is famous for the mixing of the two waters, the clear Thompson, and the muddy Fraser. It’s also where you choose to turn east, and go inland, or north. It’s seen hard economic times, the Highway of Death killed their road traffic, and the pine beetle and the mill closures hurt hard. It was a great place on the road to top up the ice, top up the tank, get some good food and coffee, stage up for a whitewater rafting trip on the Thompson, or head east or west on the FSR’s into the back country.

  39. 39.

    Martin

    July 1, 2021 at 2:00 am

    @frosty: Yeah. Siberia has been burning pretty badly the last 2 years. Guessing the condo collapse in FL is also partially attributable to climate change – rising water table.

    I don’t think the southeast knows what’s coming at them. 120 degree temps out here in the west with relatively low humidity is dangerous, but at least your body can cool itself because the air is dry enough to let you sweat and have that cool you. But if this stuff hits Florida and comes with the usual humidity – everyone is going to fucking die. ACs won’t be able to keep up.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 2:06 am

    @Steeplejack

    A few more obscure catchy TV theme tunes:

    T.H.E. Cat
    Cannon
    Journey to the Unknown
    .

  41. 41.

    Jay

    July 1, 2021 at 2:11 am

    @Martin:

    and the actual town, with many historic buildings, and cool shops, neat art, was down below the highway, which few leave.

    the Dairy Queen in town, had the best fast food french fries in the whole world.

  42. 42.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    July 1, 2021 at 2:14 am

    Oldies but goodies? Music? Film?

    Music

    Carnival of Animals – Camille Saint-Saëns

    Gnossiennes – Erik Satie

    I Talk to the Wind – King Crimson

    The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic

    In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington, John Coltrane

    Stolen Moments – Oliver Nelson

    So What – Miles Davis

    Welcome – The Who

    Jigsaw Puzzle – The Rolling Stones

    Two of Us – The Beatles

    French Connection score

    Z Score

    A Man for All Seasons score

    Movies

    A Face in the Crowd

    Paths of Glory

    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

    The Conversation

    The Parallax View

    A Man for All Seasons

    Any Film by Frederick Wiseman

    Television

    The Sopranos

    Breaking Bad

    Better Call Saul

    Columbo

    House

    The West Wing

    Monty Python’s Flying Circus

    Fawlty Towers

    The Burns and Allen Show

    The Jack Benny Program

    Star Trek Next Generation

    The Prisoner

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 2:16 am

    @NotMax

    One more:

    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

  44. 44.

    prostratedragon

    July 1, 2021 at 2:24 am

    Terrible news about Lytton. Apologies for tying in my personal silliness, but one of my favorite touchstones is the Twin Peaks saga. One reason for this is that it touches on a great many other subjects in a way that rewards attention to details.

    One thread of details is the wider Northwest, from about Montana to the Pacific coast, and extending into the Canadian Rockies. Following some of the story details, one can learn a little about the Revelstoke to Eagle Pass area, and the nearby site of Craigellachie, where the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven. Lytton is, or was, not terribly far from these sites.

    The Wikipedia article on Lytton has an interesting note about the origin of the name:

    In 1858 Governor James Douglas named the town after Bulwer-Lytton “as a merited compliment and mark of respect”. Bulwer-Lytton served as Colonial Secretary. As governor of the then colony, Douglas would have reported to him.

    Yes, that Bulwer-Lytton.

  45. 45.

    Martin

    July 1, 2021 at 2:27 am

    @prostratedragon: It was a dark and stormy night indeed.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 2:31 am

    @NotMax:

    Noted. Got me to look up The Saint and the original Danger Man theme.

  47. 47.

    prostratedragon

    July 1, 2021 at 2:33 am

    @Martin:  Alas. Pyrocumulus is a new word I’m not sure I wanted to learn.

  48. 48.

    prostratedragon

    July 1, 2021 at 2:35 am

    A respite from the Peter Gunn soundtrack:

    “Dreamsville”

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 2:35 am

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    “Stolen Moments” is my favorite jazz song. I love Oliver Nelson’s original, but I also love Ahmad Jamal’s version.

  50. 50.

    JWR

    July 1, 2021 at 2:40 am

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    If you’re a Columbo fan, you have to check out those episodes with Johnny Cash and Dick Van Dyke.

    Ah, two of my favorite episodes! I also like the one with, I think, Robert Culp, the one where he plays some sort of motivational speaker who uses a tape recorder to accomplish his dirty deed.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 2:42 am

    @Steeplejack

    Mention of The Saint led to seeking out the theme for Ellery Queen.

  52. 52.

    Tehanu

    July 1, 2021 at 2:46 am

    Blazing Saddles. We’ve probably seen it 60 or 70 times. I remember we went to the 25th anniversary screening at a large theater and there were only about 30 people there — but after about 3 minutes I realized that everyone there, including me, was reciting the dialogue along with the actors.

    Lord of the Rings, all 3 volumes.
    Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 2:48 am

    @prostratedragon:

    “Lujon.” Should have been used at Jackie Treehorn’s party in The Big Lebowski. Hell, it might have been.

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 3:03 am

    @NotMax:

    You’ll remember this one: Checkmate.

    And I’m out with Route 66.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 3:11 am

    @Steeplejack

    Was an avid viewer of Checkmate. Sebastian Cabot, sporting one of the few and far between beards seen on the tube.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 3:20 am

    @Steeplejack

    Bonus boogie.

    ;)

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 3:21 am

    @NotMax:

    I would love to see reruns of that. I always thought the footage was lost (like Wally Cox’s Mr. Peepers), but they got the credits footage from somewhere. ?

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 3:30 am

    @NotMax:

    77 Sunset Strip was a good show for its time. I watched it on MeTV a year or two ago. And Edd Byrnes was a better actor than his “Kookie” image. He got a raw deal from the studio that pretty much crippled his career.

  59. 59.

    MisterForkbeard

    July 1, 2021 at 3:37 am

    I don’t know if anyone’s still around, but I’m about to attend a remote wedding in the Philippines for a friend. This covid thing is interesting – they set up a google meetup for locals who weren’t vaccinated and for guests who couldn’t make it. Welcome to the future, I suppose.

    Should be fun, though I don’t think I’ll stay up for more than the first 30 minutes or so. :)

  60. 60.

    Mary G

    July 1, 2021 at 3:40 am

    ACAB

    #BreakingNews LAPD Bomb techs trying to safety dispose of several Improvised Fireworks inside the Dept Total Containment Vessel miscalculated and resulting blast destroyed containment sphere and blew out windows for blocks. At least 3 people transported. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/AEOUw60fwH— Pete Demetriou (@knxpete) July 1, 2021

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 3:41 am

    BTW, Columbo trivia.

    The show’s creators’ first choice to play the part?

    Bing Crosby.

  62. 62.

    opiejeanne

    July 1, 2021 at 3:49 am

    @NotMax:  That’s hard to believe.
    Peter Falk was the perfect choice. I remember the fuss that we never got to see his wife that he mentioned all the time.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 3:53 am

    @Mary G:

    So, there were explosives, and they weren’t exploding, and then you put them all in a big hot metal truck and tried to move them, and they exploded.

    Ima let you boys figure this out.
    https://t.co/4Mj0qJd1m8

    — SuspendedHat (@Popehat) July 1, 2021

    Comments are ?.

    “Well, at least now we know the gender of the new police station.”

    “Tired: defund the police. Wired: defuse the police.”

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 3:53 am

    @opiejeanne

    Straight from the horse’s mouth, as it were.

  65. 65.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    July 1, 2021 at 4:01 am

    @James E Powell: In the Johnny Rivers version, it always sounds to me as if he is singing “secret Asian man”.  One of my favorite monegreens.

  66. 66.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    July 1, 2021 at 4:08 am

    @MisterForkbeard: My wife has been “in Italy” this week attending an academic conference via Zoom. She “flew” over Sunday night by moving her watch ahead 6 hours and then making a fairly successful attempt to live the week on European time.

    Listening to today’s session 2 rooms away, heard people introducing themselves from Australia, South Africa, Europe and the US.

  67. 67.

    Amir Khalid

    July 1, 2021 at 4:09 am

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):

    Secret Asian Man, did you say?

  68. 68.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    July 1, 2021 at 4:09 am

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Reportedly Patrick McGoohan hated that song. Fortunately for us, he didn’t get a vote.

  69. 69.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    July 1, 2021 at 4:12 am

    Best Colombo was episode S5E3 were he ingeniously outwits the CIA to nab a double agent/murderer​

    Most charming episode S10E7 were he has a romance with Faye Dunaway (at her best) in a twist of “Chinatown”​ (forget it Lieutenant, it’s Chinatown)​​

  70. 70.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 1, 2021 at 4:17 am

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):

    In the Johnny Rivers version, it always sounds to me as if he is singing “secret Asian man”.  One of my favorite monegreens. 

    Hehe

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 1, 2021 at 4:23 am

    This news is so quiet I almost missed it: “Ivanka quietly helped out after Surfside tower collapse.”

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    July 1, 2021 at 4:30 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    My wife has been “in Italy” this week attending an academic conference via Zoom. She “flew” over Sunday night by moving her watch ahead 6 hours…

    Is she ordering Italian takeout?

  73. 73.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 1, 2021 at 4:40 am

    RudePundit’s tweet is Something Good.

    Now we can only drop W, Dick, Condi, Colin and every other “Why do you hate the troops?!” bastard into Iraq for the WMD hunt.

    Fuck Rummy!

    You get sodomized in Hell with the demons you have, Donald Rumsfeld, not the demons you might wish or want to have.— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) June 30, 2021

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 5:12 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Whoa, talk about dropping a skunk into the pea patch. So much for the balm of respite.

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 1, 2021 at 5:35 am

    @NotMax: I thought MaryG broke the barrier with her ACAB post.

    Anyways, I’m sure I’ll curse more about war criminals tomorrow.

    Good night.

  76. 76.

    Gvg

    July 1, 2021 at 6:20 am

    @Martin:  Florida is a peninsula. That means large water bodies on both sides. Oceans moderate nearby land temperatures. We won’t get it as bad as the rest of the southeast. That isn’t fair, but it is reality. We have long hot summers but we don’t get as hot as say inland Georgia or even some days in the 90’s are unusual.
    We are actually in danger of more winter freezes. If the Gulf Stream stops, which they say is possible, it could mess up a lot. And of course hurricanes will get worse.

  77. 77.

    WaterGirl

    July 1, 2021 at 7:31 am

    @mrmoshpotato: It was comment #73, after all!

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    July 1, 2021 at 9:41 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    The primary difference being hers was an of the moment breaking story.

  79. 79.

    opiejeanne

    July 1, 2021 at 9:54 am

    @NotMax: Oh, I believe you. There are other unimaginable first choices for iconic roles in lots of movies.

    I should have said “it’s hard to imagine him in that role. “

  80. 80.

    Miss Bianca

    July 1, 2021 at 10:30 am

    @Amir Khalid: Late to this thread, but now I think I’ve got to see A League of Their Own – sounds like it might be the only Madonna performance I’d really get into besides Desperately Seeking Susan (one of *my* “oldie but goodie comfort views”).

    @Tehanu: And I’m with you on Blazing Saddles. It may have replaced Monty Python and the Holy Grail in my personal pantheon of “movie I’ve seen so many times I can chant the dialogue along with the actors.”

  81. 81.

    J R in WV

    July 1, 2021 at 11:59 am

    @CaseyL: 

    Cheryl, where do you live that you get so many wild animals dropping by? Bobcats and lions and coyotes and bear, oh my!

    Pretty sure those are pics of a red fox, which I caught with my handheld Lumix in our little piece of desert as we departed the building site years back in the dusk on evening.

    If it’s a Sonoran Red Fox, a pack of them can carry and lift a small desert deer up into a tree for safe-keeping and private dinner. Huge tail, not coyote-like at all. That’s my $0.02 on wildlife ID.

    The bobcats are also swell. Don’t think this set includes a lion, could be wrong, lions don’t have spots, do have a huge long tail.

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