sep 24
First sitting on a new small drawing (roughly 4 x 6″), ink on gray paper, duh.
The drawing is from a waste field/nth generation wooded regrowth in College Station, TX. The kind of place where there are a lot of mosquitos and you get really muddy. It is not any sort of idyllic refuge with an abundance of warm fuzzy nature connotations. But it is the kind of place where you find cool birds and snakes. You decide. It’s probably better left alone anyway. Though I’m sure it will get turned into denuded impacted earth (housing) soon enough.
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September 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
From twittering today: a birder just reported that a Blackpoll Warbler flew down to the water in the Ramble, Central Park, Manhattan, and was promptly swallowed whole by a bullfrog. Yikes! But for followup, fellow tweeter @ecotravelTV provided this video:
watch out for bullfrogs! http://tinyurl.com/3e89jk
September 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine.
I never understood a single word he said but I helped him drink
his whine. He always had some mighty fine wine. Sing it Joy to the
world…all the boys and girls now , joy to the fishies in the deep blue
sea and joy to you and me.
And if i were the king of the world , i tell you what i would do. Id throw
away the cars and the bars in the world and id make sweet love to you.
Sing it now : Joy the the world , all the boys and girls , joy to the fishies
in the deep blue sea , joy to you and me.
Yah know I love the ladies , love to have my fun … Im a hard knock
flyer and a rain bow rider … a strait shootin son of a gun , i said a
strait shootin sun of a gun.
Joy to the world , all the boys and girls , joy to all the fishies in the
deep blue sea , joy to you and me.
Joy to the world , all the boys and girls , joy to the world joy to you
and me
Joy to the world , all the boys and girls , joy to the fishies in the deep
blue sea joy to you and me.
Joy the the world , all the boys and girls , joy to the world , joy to you
and me.
Joy to the world , all the boys and girls , joy to the world , joy to you
and me.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
RE: Blackpoll/Bullfrog
see: http://www.juliezickefoose.com/slideshow/display.php?img=123
My pet Bullfrog through HS, Froggie the Gremlin (your Mom will remember the source of that name) ate mice, and not just pinkies.
Mark
September 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Frogs of yore: If you want any insight into why I am so screwed up, THIS is what passed for “children’s programming” when I was a wee tyke:
And locally we had this guy in Boston, named (I kid you not) “Big Brother Bob Emory”. See:
http://www.tvparty.com/lostboston.html
And scroll down. He looks like Dick Cheney and referred to all kids as “small fry”. I was on his show once. He was a nightmare.
Mark
September 25th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Plunk your magic twanger . . .
September 25th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Nagel! The web just gave me the name that I couldn’t think of many weeks and posts ago. He’s not one of my favorites, and this didn’t change my mind:
http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/news20080924.html
September 26th, 2008 at 5:40 am
MARK: Wow, and I thought naked ThunderCats were bad (scroll down to #1):
http://www.bspcn.com/2008/03/26/the-10-most-insane-child-warping-moments-of-80s-cartoons/
September 26th, 2008 at 11:02 am
CLH: Isn’t it funny that that phrase once heard is lodged in your memory for (apparently) forever? EVERYONE who lived through that, knows that conjuring phrase. There are people who seriously believe it was the anarchy of Froggie that laid the foundation for the protesters and Yippies of the 60s and 70s. With my luck, it’s what I’ll utter on my deathbed as my brain shuts down. Then there was Midnight the Cat. Oy!Andy Divine is about the least likely host for a kids program as I can imagine. AFTER Big Brother.
THUNDERCATS: ALL Hannna /Barbera stuff creeps me out. Only that craven duo would do a full length animated treatment of the LAST CURLEW (about the last Eskimo Curlew) and put a pro-hunting spin on it. My animation classes were renown for my endless anti-Hanna/Barbera rants. “Stop the pigeon!!” Now the Marty Kroft stuff. THERE’S perversity I can enjoy.
RAIN: almost tropical showers here. Just finished interviewing the author of a great new bio of jazz horn player LEE MORGAN, who led a cinematically tragic life that ended when he finally kicked heroin, totally redefined his life, was playing better than ever, then his past amour shot him dead on stage in NYC in a club known as SLUGS. Perfect weather for that story. You can almost hear the mournful horns in the background. Crane shot of wet city streets and silhouettes weaving slowly among the cars. Credits roll. Music swells. Blackout. FIN.
Mark
September 26th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Cathy, you aren’t coming to tomorrow’s wine + cheese + games get-together, are you? Rob just cancelled, so I’m reconfiguring.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Mark: Yes, that phrase is burned in my old brain. What I can’t remember, however, is the name of the show. Help an old lady out? When I was LISTENING to the show (pre-TV days) was the host Andy Divine or did he come later?
September 26th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
CLH: OK, here is most of what I can personally remember about the show (Catherine, Jesse et al: bear with us)
1. Originally it was called SMILIN’ ED McCONNELL AND THE BUSTER BROWN GANG.
2. Gravelly voiced and hefty ANDY DIVINE took over in the mid 1950s. Andy had been a “sidekick” in a lot of westerns including the classic STAGECOACH and as a cop in the jazz film PETE KELLY’S BLUES (with a miscast Jack Webb (Dragnet) in the lead) and had also been a bit player in the TV show WILD BILL HICKOCK as Dept Marshall “Jingles B Jones”.
3. Andy still hawked Buster Brown Shoes on the show that was now called ANDY’S GANG: “kids! buy Buster Brown shoes and don’t forget to tell ‘em Andy sent ya!!”
4. Besides Froggie the Gremlin, who is burned into the depths of my being, there was also the rather disturbing (in retrospect) MIDNITE THE CAT, an all black cat that when you pet her emmitted a slightly erotic “niiiiiiiiiiice!!” It was years later that I found out that the voice of Midnite was one of my culture heroes JUNE FORAY, reknown in animation history as the voice of ROCKET J. SQUIRREL in ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE and many other characters.
5. Froggie used to torment a sort of frenchified character played by VITO SCOTTI, classic character actor, usually making him stuff whip cream down his pants et. much to the amusement of the kids.
6. On ANDY’S GANG, they showed a lot of SABU THE INDIAN BOY shorts as well as BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY films.
7. It had at least the soundtrack of an audience of kids. When they cut to a shot of the kids in the audience, it often seemed the same shot of a bunch of kids laughing wildly.
I know all this because as I started to recall the hallucinagenic nature of the show in my teens I dilligently researched the show and found out it was indeed every bit as weird as I remember it. Maybe more so.
Markie the Gremlin
NEXT: Schoolhouse Rocks: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly! Get Your Adverbs Here!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
“My name’s Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That’s my dog Tide. He lives there too.”