It's such a temptation to fill this page every autumn Saturday with ten pictures of beautiful fall leaves, but I try to stick with just one. This one is from southern Michigan. I love the yellows and golds.
This was from my New Yorker calendar just the other day, drawn by their great cartoonist Liza Donnelly. Any cat lover will get it at once.
We've seen the results of this 159 times. That's how many black-and-white episodes of the Andy Griffith Show featured Andy and Opie walking down to the ol' fishin' hole for the opener of the show. Interesting perspective!
How beautiful, the front porch of this grand old mansion with chaise longues (or lounges, as you prefer) all set up...but no. This is the inside of a Steinway grand piano.
This is not a photoshop frame...this is a picture of a crossbuck out west that just happens to frame four beautiful pictures naturally.
Young people will be fascinated, or at least confused, to see that in the 50s and 60s, it was quite the thing-to-do to have Sis pose with her prom date in front of the 17" General Electric cabinet TV.
"Animal House" was set in the fall of 1962, and the action peaked at the same time that the real world was on the edges of their seats, worried about Kennedy and Khrushchev that November, with the Cuban Missile Crisis. From the real crisis, we got the word "Brinksmanship," as the two world leaders engaged in a game of nuclear chicken (Kennedy didn't flinch). From the movie, we got the term "double secret probation." And we've all been there.
Tell me you can think of a cooler vehicle than an old fire engine. This one is from out there in Sequim, Washington. I can't tell you the make and model but I have a feeling that some eagle-eyed fire buff can!
On the other hand, a classic we don't care to keep around is the now-standard Abandoned American Mall. Look at this one, and no matter where you live, you can say it looks just like the one where you used to go for jeans and shoes and Yankee Candles and Hickory Farms and I don't know what-all else. Malls used to be the future, now they're the past, and it's not really a shame.
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| My admiration for Isaac Hayes is boundless. There are days when I spend the entire afternoon listening to his music. A lot of people think his greatest song was "Theme from Shaft"- the one where he says "You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother" but there was so much more, like the Sam And Dave records he produced and the other Stax Records he and his songwriting partner David Porter came up with. Someday when you're noodling around YouTube, check out his version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" or his take on the Jerry Butler song "I Stand Accused." But also, give yourself a treat and look for the movie "It Could Happen To You" in which Isaac plays Angel Dupree, a small but pivotal role in that story. |
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