Smells like pine.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Chairs are people too
Alabama Supreme Court reception area
Take a seat.
The Justices will be with you in nine months.
I want my MTV!
Relax, don't do it ...
when you want to go to it
Relax, don't do it ...
when you want to suck it, chew it ...
Forty years ago, when you came home from school, raided the fridge and turned on MTV, they'd be playing this. #1 in many countries.
Your world might never be the same again.
Clip: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax ( 1984 )
I'm a little teapot, short and stout ...
Do you take milk ... or sugar?
... tip me over, pour me out.
You can hear a fragment of the teapot song every weeknight on TV's Jeopardy.
Creator Merv Griffin "wrote" the final answer music.
Uh huh.
Ride the clam
"Is that a Panope Generoso
in your pocket,
or are you just
happy to see me?"
Image: via shoes on a wire / facebook
Budget Bust delayed a week
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican grand turtle and veteran wizard, announces fall resignation.
Image: Mike Luckovich - Atlanta-Journal Constitution
Richard Lewis ( 1947 - 2024 )
"I'm paranoid.
On my stationary bike,
I have a rear view mirror. "
Image: HBO/Everett Collection via Deadline
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
VIDEO VAULT: Pigs in Space
"I looked ovary and ovary and there was no womb"
First Mate Piggy, Captain Link Hogthrob and Dr. Julius Strangepork fronted a beloved space soap opera that popped up on episodes of The Muppet Show from 1977 to 1981.
Pigs in Space lived aboard the USS Swinetrek.
Miss Piggy is threatened by space junk and the pun above; below, a belly-buster nod to Alien.
( 3 minutes )
Clip: The Muppets - Pigs in Space - The Gravity of the Situation
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Hey, it's just another ball game ...
_"Major League Baseball's new uniforms
are so transparent you can see the tag tucked in the waistband. Critics complain the new Nike gear
makes it look like players are wearing diapers ... "
And look at the floor by their shoes.
What if they pee on poor Twitter?
"How much does YouTube weigh?"
“Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?"
--Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Alito, 73
This question, asked of a lawyer for NetChoice, prompts a second question: should the U.S's highest court be stomping thru social media policy questions they may not understand?
But Philip Bump has figured out how much YouTube weighs for the Washington Post.
"If you wanted to get the entirety of YouTube delivered to your house, it would weigh about 100 million pounds, about 85 percent the weight of the Titanic. There would be a line of more than 2,200 trucks lined up to drop them off, a line of trucks stretching more than 30 miles, bumper-to-bumper."
Daily.
Bump's detailed calculation of YouTube's weight is HERE, about as fantastical as Judge Alito's much-ridiculed question.
Cartoon image: Ameen Alhabarah is IMOL
LOST SONGS: Drift Away
"Day after day I'm more confused
Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain … "
Clip: Drift Away by Dobie Gray
Song: written by Mentor Williams. ( 1972 )
"A little fun never hurt nobody ... "
Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain
A little fun never hurt nobody ...
Falco the Owl ( unknown - 2024 )
Falco escaped Central Park Zoo in 2023, charming New Yorkers with random sightings.
The media darling hit a building on the upper west side. Survived by Pizza Rat.
OFF THE GRID: Trainhopping the Moffat Tunnel
Who hops a freight thru the Rockies in winter?
Owen, for his train buffs' YouTube channel.
The railroad rebel's new video grabs a snowy ride from Denver to Grand Junction above.
Day breaks at about 03:00 ... and the rides thru the snowy canyons at 30:00 and 01.15.00 are spectacular. ( 2 hrs )
Owen's rides are Ambien for insomniacs.
Clip: RideOutOnARail - Denver to Grand Junction
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Monday, February 26, 2024
Cinderella Rat, Going to the Ball
Rat purse, Victorian era
"Just in case the Bubonic plague becomes 'popular' again ... "
Image: Tupelo Honey / facebook
VIDEO VAULT: Peter Sellers - Does Your Dog Bite?
Inspector Clouseau checks in at a cozy Alpine ski resort inn in 1976.
There were nine Pink Panther movies in the original series, five of them with Peter Sellers.
David Niven was the first Clouseau in 1963.
Clip: The Pink Panther - Peter Selleers - My Dog Does Not Bite ( 1976 )
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