The Saturday Picture Show, June 18, 2022

 

As youngsters, we always seemed to have colored pencils to go along with our crayons. My goal was always to learn to draw an acceptable picture of Fred Flintstone. I never reached it.

This week we had a June Strawberry Supermoon up in the sky, and if you're thinking of starting a 1960s tribute band, you could find a worse name than "Strawberry Supermoon."

I love a practical animal, and this fella is a California Scrub Jay, and he carries his lunch around with him!

Homemade Kermit for the yard? Please!

So who can tell me what this picture has to do with country music? Well, it's a scene from the silent movie "Safety Last," and the comedian you see here is Harold Lloyd, one of the great stars of the silent film era. He was so popular back then that in 1933, a couple down in Helena,  Arkansas, named their son Harold Lloyd Jenkins in tribute.  And that son decided to choose a name for himself later on when he became a singer. He picked the name of a town in Arkansas and one in Texas and called himself Conway Twitty. Musical theatre lovers will recall the show and movie "Bye Bye Birdie" whose story revolved around an Elvis-ish singer getting drafted. They called that singer "Conrad Birdie." 

Wherever I went to school or worked, I loved having a locker to keep my stuff (I need a lot of stuff, from pencils to tooth care equipment to Alka Seltzer). But it would set off my OCD to be assigned the one yellow locker in a sea of orange ones.

Nature will find a way to deal with things. This mama made a home for her family out of a tire that once supported a Buick! We evolve.

You know what, 26 years ago, they said the paint would last 25 years...

These "circus peanuts" are only to be called candy if you would also call an opera "entertainment" and falling off a roof "transportation."

In some southern states, faced with a dire shortage of utility linespersons, they have developed a forest where new phone and electric workers literally grow on trees. These guys will be ready to hook up your telco line by mid-July.