Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Saturday Picture Show, August 4, 2018

This picture rivals the photo of a rusty can of Rustoleum paint for pure wonderful irony.
I saw this, and before I even looked to see what it was, I knew it was a computer printout from the days when computers and printouts were all new things. It's a track listing for the audio communications, on the ground and in the sky, for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
If you like rock 'n' roll, you like Larry Williams, and you might not even know him. Williams (1935-1980) wrote "Bad Boy," "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy," and "Slow Down," that the Beatles did, "She Said Yeah" that the Rolling Stones did, and "Bony Moronie" and "Short Fat Fannie" that every teen center band ever formed did. His original versions of these songs are often even better than the famous covers by the far more successful artists. Larry was a close friend of Little Richard, but Richard lives on, while Larry died of a gunshot wound in 1980 that many took to be self-inflicted.

I saw this on the news, and maybe you did too. This fellow was down and homeless, but had the chance to be hired at a McDonald's in Tallahassee if he could pull himself together. He found an electric razor but couldn't get it to work. A Tallahassee police officer came upon him, and actually shaved him and fixed him up with some better clothes, and now the man is working and on the way back to being part of society. It's easy to put all homeless people, and all police, for that matter, into one category, but there are as many stories about homeless people, and about police, as there are homeless people and police. There are good ones and bad ones. Cheer for the former and hope for better from the latter.
You don't see a lot of color photos from 1935, nor do you see a lot of people brave enough to stand on the foundation cables of the nascent Golden Gate Bridge. Here are both!
It might take a second, but think about it, and inuit right here for you.
This is a picture from Canada, where the homeowner(s) thought it better to build a path than a fence or a wall. Oh, the symbolism, eh?
"OK, Housekeeping? We need a basket, some gloves, and the completely wrong lopper instead of clippers for today's public relations stunt. Wardrobe? Put her in a flannel shirt, skinny jeans, and blue Jack Purcells that have never been near garden work and never will be again as soon as we get this picture to show she's the equal of MRO in every way. Forget the hat; we paid a ton for this hairdid, might as well let it hang down."

No comments: