Good night, everyone! Old women are evil!

Listen to This!: Gruff Rhys ~ "Gwn Mi Wn"

My husband was talking to me about a friend of his who drives a commercial truck:
"He collects wood chips and sawdust, and do you know what he does with it?"

"He puts them in his underwear?" (Followed by lots of giggling.) My husband didn't get it.


You can wait for years for a straight line like that. Its kind of like waiting for someone to make a disparaging remark about Thunderdome.




PS. Boringly enough, the friend sells it to a place that makes cheap pressboard furniture. I liked my idea better.

i have no riff, but i have to declare this to the world. joel hodgson changed my life.

and today i got to give him a hug at the san jose super-con (expofestarama):


he, trace, j.elvis and frank will still be here tomorrow -- drive up to san jose like NOW.



that's not my shirt, though i wish it was.
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So they are all in one place, the icons I made

Beatles or Beatle-Related [1-57]
Led Zeppelin [58-66]
Album Covers (Black Sabbath)-[67-68]
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (including cross-overs) [69-84]

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If you can't get to it, let me know. It's at my personal journal so it might be set to friends-only.

Mood Ring: productive
Listen to This!: telegram sam-t. rex

For those of you who have been wondering where I went (which is probably a whomping 0% of you), I've been busy with my new dog! His name is Nibbler and he's a rescued Boston terrier.

We'll take more pictures of him soon.

You Are 48% Bitchy

Generally, you're an average woman, with average moods. But sometimes... well, watch out! Sometimes, you let your mean side get the better of you. And you enjoy every minute of it.

What Guys Think of Your Short Hair...

Superconfident, independent, party girl. The kind of girl he pines over - while secretly wondering if you want him back.

Dude, that's my exact hair!

Your English Skills:

Grammar: 80% Punctuation: 80% Vocabulary: 80% Spelling: 60%

Mood Ring: creative

Had to make me an icon from yesterday's amazing flowers!

No TV shopping today, alas. Mom woke up this morning with a cough and sore throat (hopefully the very last lingering bits of her cold), so we postponed until next weekend. To tide her over, I gave her the little 9" TV from my bedroom to watch until we can replace her big one.

I've been puttering around the apartment and running errands, and will now attempt to make a tuna-noodle casserole from my old, fat Joy of Cooking recipe book. I looooove casseroles, and haven't made one in years.

Wow, it's Really Warm today.

My mom and I both have very ancient television sets, which we've been pretending would last forever. Well, last night my mom's TV finally went black, and entered the big electronics graveyard in the sky. *sigh* We have to replace it immediately, because TV is to her is like the internetz is for me. Soooo.... we're both taking a deep, deep breath and will try to shop for a 21st century (flat screen) TV today. We're nervous and scared and have no idea how they work, how to hook them up to her equally ancient VCR, or how much $$$ this is going to be, but as this will probably be the TV she has for at least the next ten years, it's time to get a nice one. It'll have to be a LITTLE one, though, since it will have to sit on a little table in her living room (not on the wall).

*nervous*

Otherwise, I hope to spend part of the weekend finding my teensy tomato plant a real (nice and big) pot to live in, and try to start chapter 3 of my story. Chapter 2 was posted yesterday, in case anyone missed it or is interested! I'm having such fun thinking about stern!Frodo and sick!Aragorn and Cormallen stuffs.

*Saturday hugses*

Tags: household

sue_denimme wrote me a charming drabble which I love, as a prize for winning her weekly LOTR trivia contest. I asked for: "How about Frodo exploring Bag End's pantries and rooms for the first time?"

"Investigating", Rated G
Frodo and Bilbo
http://sue-denimme.livejournal.com/113039.html

"Saturday Morning Cartoons"Dept.:

They had me at the first shot of the pterodactyl with this one when I was a young'un. We didn't have on any of our local stations when I was little but I remember seeing a few while we were vacationing in the US and it blew my mind. Folks - this is what a kids cartoon opening in the 60s was all about - the promise of adventure and swinging jazz music, villains with henchmen who carry rifle sized particle-beam weapons and wear goggles and bullet-proof unitards as they float over a canyon in an anti-gravity Dixie cup that holds three of them at a time. Shortly after this it moved to the "Four Kids And A [fill in the blank]" format (Scooby Doo, JabberJaw, The Funky Phantom, even Speed Buggy...), but this was as good as it got for a while.

Dig the jazz flute around the point where Jonny's name shows up on screen!



Thurl Ravenscrofft is someone who's name I often mention out here. He was the singer for "You're a Mean One,Mr Grinch" and "Grim Grining Ghosts" (the Disney HAUNTED MANSION theme) but was best known as the voice of Tony The Tiger for almost 50 years. Thurl did the patter singing in the opening for Atom Ant.




Allan Melvin did a lot of cartoon voice work - hear him here as the evil "Big Fats" (and in a very strange way sounds like Gilbert Gottfried on steroids). Howard Morris (Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show, and also the voice of Jughead in the Archie TV cartoons an a lot of other characters) is Atom Ant.




The financial success despite critical drubbing of SPEED RACER last week still means that we might still see a movie version of THE WACKY RACES. Paris Hilton as Penelope Pitstop, anyone? Remember - monkeys and apes make everything better.

Tags: saturday morning cartoons

The Bat People, known as MST3K as It Lives By Night. Checking out its entry on imdb, I learned that Stewart Moss' co-star, Marianne McAndrew is also his wife in real life.

Current Location: HOME.
Mood Ring: amused
Listen to This!: Suede - Animal Nitrate

I got the latest album from Steve Winwood today. I believe it was released in late April. Anyway, it sounds like vintage Winwood. Eric Clapton adds some hot guitar work on the track Dirty Sea.



And yes, I called it an album. The format is CD. A collection of music is properly called an album, no matter the format.

Mood Ring: chipper

I'm watching the original Yours, Mine, and Ours from 1968 for the first time in ten-odd years, and who should show up playing one of the teen daughter's boyfriends?

BEN MURPHY.

Not only is his dialogue littered with ridiculous slang, as always--"Hey listen, the gang is going to have a freak-out tonight down at the beach house...You're so hung-up."

But the daughter astutely says to him, "You know what you are? You're a sex maniac!"

Unfortunately, digital watches had yet to be invented, so he didn't turn invisible.

Mood Ring: okay

I walked around downtown today with my camera, and wanted to share these shots with you. Hope you enjoy!

( seven pictures under the cut )

Tags: picspam