There's a shortage of snow blowers.
Monday, January 31, 2022
LOST SONGS: Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle's Girdle (1953)
If there is a Myrtle reading this, I'm sorry.
Enjoy the snazzy slide guitar break.
The Western Melody Makers.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Sundogs near Yorkton
--n.m.
Sundogs appear when sunlight hits clouds of ice crystals and the ice acts as prisms. Mock suns or rainbows appear at 22 degrees to either side of the sun...
The blue dot is a friendly UFO.
Jurassic skateboards
Yes, the velociraptors were way big on skateboards.
They knew tricks. Had skate parks.
Could do gnarly aerials with their tails. Check the fossil evidence, bro.
Actually, there's a Belgian artist who makes Jurassic skateboards. Check out Gregg Arts' inspired dino designs at the link...
LINK: Jurrasic skateboards (Bored Panda)
Gnarly, dude.
Boomer bait
_Whenever I get me a hankerin' for Balut, Pulled Duck Fetus, Chicken Feet or Hakari, I go straight to blog.to, the food-wise
Diary of Food Chemistry and Drake.
It's blog.to where you find cutting edge food news and where to buy dick-on-a-stick.
I urge blog.to to seek out where the desserts
at the top are available.
They scream nostalgia.
And so simple....
Graham cracker crust,
Miracle Whip,
and what appear to be
a stardust galaxy of Jell-O cubes.
Bring on green Jell-O
and chopped carrots.
If you opened
a storefront and called it Boomer Bakers,
I bet you could sell
these old-timey throw-back babies
to soft food seniors
for $50.
Get 'em teary-eyed for gram and Aunt Iris.
Okay. Maybe it's Reddi-wip and not
Miracle Whip. Any white goop will do.
_Saturday, January 29, 2022
Bedelbomb
"And it's Cabbage, second by a head ... they're neck and neck ... bringing up the rear, it's ... Bedelbomb..."
The Horse Race You May Remember, whipped along by Spike Jones' take on The William Tell Overture.
Larger than life
If you have four minutes, this is intriguing.
Up to five cruise ships a day visit a small Norway town. Each brings more people than live there.
I think of city condo towers, that bring 44 storeys of strangers to a residential block.
To stay.
LINK: Story behind this short (New Yorker)
Friday, January 28, 2022
Bug juice
I'm trying to tag that odd, funky smell of Irresistables Cranberry-Raspberry juice.
It took a full bottle, and a week.
"Have you tried the 'fruit' juice that smells like feet?" I ask friends.
Think socks. Winter toes. Breakfast.
A break-thru in food science.
I check the diet drink label for a clue to how a fruit juice can smell like feet.
Nothing suspect on the ingredients list til you get to the last one: cochineal.
Kinda familiar. I Google.
Cochineal (additive number 120) or carmine dye is a food coloring that is regularly used in foods such as candies, ketchup, soft drinks and anything that manufacturers think should look red – even canned cherries! Cochineal is made from crushed female insects found naturally living on cactus plants in South America.
Not a beetle, it is a true bug.
My search for the smell continues.
But you remember in kid-hood,
meals came with big jugs
of bright red Kool-Aid wannabee?
And the older kids called it "Bug Juice?"
How did they know?
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Happiest song on Spotify?
Who knew Spotify was ranking songs for "positivity?"
New research suggests that when a country is listening to happier songs, stock markets perform better, according to Axios.
Using the music streamer's database, they learn that users rank the Happiest Song on Spotify as this one.
Don't worry. Be happy. Click.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
FLASHBACK: The Wompom, Flanders & Swann
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You can do such a lot with a wompom,
You can use every part of it too...
Donald Flanders. Michael Swann.
As they defy the lyric speed limit ....
As Flanders once miraculously declared:
"We've had to switch over to the metric system to please the exporters. The temperature is now in Celsius rather than Fahrenhite. And it's been 32 degrees colder ever since."
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Diggin' in dad's socks
What were your craziest finds as a kid in the parent's bedroom?
Peter Alsop--best known as a kid's entertainer--inventoried his dad's drawer ... with this memorable result. It's a party piece for coffeehouses, when they were a thing.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
What would Walt do?
After criticism, Disney now says it's "consulting with the dwarfism community" about its remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey will be glad to hear the Mousehouse is newly concerned about stereotypes.
There's hope for Dopey, but what of Goofy?
Where is a mental health squad to challenge why the wit and speech-challenged Disney dog character has worn the same damn turtleneck
for 83 years?
It's Antonio Carlos Jobim's birthday
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Tom Jobim Ao Vivo Em Montreal (Show Completo)
It's Jobim's birthday.
Brazil's seminal tunesmith brought his roadshow to the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1986.
All his melodies are here, so familiar from hundreds of covers in so many languages, world-wide.
Jobim died in 1994, but his legacy, celebrated by Brazil's astonishing wealth of music makers, lives on.
To watch this hour on TV, you'd go to YouTube and put the very top line shown above in the search box. This same visual will appear.
Monday, January 24, 2022
LOST SONGS: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor...
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The Ultimate Trivial Pursuit Question...
The answer is Lonnie Donegan.
Bedtime story
"If I ever write a children's book, it will be just like this... "
--Stephen King book blurb
Check the engineer's eyes.
This train is going to the
Pet Sematary.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
A Disney dish?
A Disney horror movie?
Fresh, a new flick from the Mousehouse
previewed at Sundance,
features a sadistic charmer who
kidnaps women and feeds their bodies
to gourmet diners. WTF?
But to quote Timmy's:
It's Fresh, not Frozen.
Old Dog
The National Film Board has three short films short-listed for the Oscars.
This video may be blocked outside Canada.
Remember: All dogs are guide dogs.
The music goes 'round and around
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Said to be the world's most popular novelty song, this 1935 tune has been in dozens of movies, shorts, documentaries, ads, radio and TV shows.
Betty Boop (Helen Kane) offers her iffy take from the dawn of media. Many 2022 no-no's.
Factoid: the lyrics refer to a French horn, not a trumpet.
Tommy Dorsey had the original... Edythe Wright was his vocalist in the late '30s.
