Nearly extinct

 

Paul Reubens / Pee-wee Herman ( 1952 - 2023 )

 

"I know you are, but what am I?" 

 

The unique, joyful, inventive

comic creator of his generation.

Below, in a classic bit,

Pee-wee takes Dave on a drive.

Germ patrol

 

    Cartoon: Tommy Siegel /  Facebook

 

Things I learned over the weekend

 

 

 

 

 

 

. Checkers may be the oldest board game, dating back to around 3000 BC. Checkers is known as Draughts in England.

. Fox TV may write off $237 million of its landmark $787 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting systerms as a biz tax deduction. A senator is trying to stop it.

. The difference between a cave and a cavern is entrances. Cave entrances are on the earth's surface, while a cavern has its opening underground. A cave has one opening, while a cavern may have multiple openings.

. The 420 miles to Denver sign on 1-70 has been stolen so many times, the new one says the distance is 419.99.

Generally speaking

 

Checking the AccuCat

 

One more month

 

   Image: Your Childhood Ruined

Penguin parenting

 

Weekend at Barbie's

 

   Bernie Sanders visits Barbie and Ken. 

 

Chess and Checkers

 

A Very Stable Genius plots his next move.

CREATIVE KITCHEN: Don on a bun

 

Unisex Coffin Designs

 

SUNDAY SAMBA: Still Time to Be Happy - Beth Carvalho, Zeca Pagodinho

Two ex-lovers meet. How you doin'?  

Not well. 

I live with no motive,  

I don't know where to go

I'm tired of crying

Too many sleepless nights   

comfort my pain
        and please make me …. laugh

Is it the only-in-Brazil happy-sad, sad-happy lyric? The earworm melody? The shuffle samba and strings? The audience sing-along?

All I know is I have watched this dozens of times in recent days.

Okay, it's the line about the laugh.

Make me laugh.

That's what the ex-lovers miss most.

Turn on the English subtitles (the little CC box at bottom right of video).  ( 5.46, song at .40)

Gotta love the Portugese triste and feliz ...

Performers: Beth Carvalho, Zeca Pagodinho

Song: Arlindo Filho, Washington Nunis

Clip: Ainda é tempo pra ser feliz [feat. Zeca Pagodinho] - Beth Carvalho

Weiners on the way to you

 

 

Call ahead for Bun Check.

 

Image: Paducah Insider

Ask your dentist about tooth devils

 

 

You hear them in your mouth at night.

 

 

Image: Museum of Curiosities 

It keeps the tourists confused

 

Saturday Night at the Cottage

 

Video killed the radio star

 

Twitter, Pining with the fiords

 

Human sushi

 

 

--Toshio Saeki, 1970 ink on paper

Router's night out

 

Go Touch a Bison Instead

 

Speed monitored by air patrols

 

West Gate, Algonquin Park 

 

Image: Caitlyn Grabenstein - cult.class

 

Or maybe a small town

 

Milk jerk

 

 

--Range magazine

Knock knock

 

Doin' the Tick Dance

 

Juicin' the janitor

Doing what The Donald does.

Clip: Donald Trump Tells Janitor to DELETE Security Camera Footage 

 

MAGA Indictment watch

 

Beggars can't be choosers

 

Instant art

 

He was asking for it

 

X marks the spot

 

Dogs in heat

 

Toe jam

 

On the beach

 

"It's so hard to relax, what with sharks,

jellyfish and an entire ocean out there." 

 

--Amy Hwang / newyorker.com 

 

LOST SONGS: Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphey

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Above, the rarely-heard seven-minute version of Murphey's most famous song. This Nashville   concert clip from 37 years ago, echoes forward on Youtube.

Michael Martin Murphey & the Rio Grande Band - "Wildfire"  1986

 

LINK: Murphey Wildfire on Letterman 

 

Bugs begone

 

Acquired tastes

 

 

Dasani is Italian for Hose Water. 

 

Moocow unplugged

 

Talks in a squeaky voice, too

 

Planet of the X's

 

 

Those goddam apes!

Trudeau's cabinet shuffle

 

Just another day at the kennel. 

 

--Aislin / Montreal Gazette

 

The Sesame Street Scream

 

Cook-eeee!

Leonard Cohen makes a cocktail

Canada's poet emeritus makes his famous Red Needle cocktail for Danish TV viewers. (3.00)

 

Clip: Leonard Cohen's Red Needle cocktail (Danish TV, 1992) 

 

My mom was a Crisco Cook

 

Rimshot. I'll be here all week

 

 

 

Breakfast neighborhood

 

Image: Tommy Siegel / I Hope This Helps

 

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