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Wrote column on the Think-Off. This year's topic: "if loving you is wrong, do I want to be right?" Or something like that. http://is.gd/er3M |
This must be a 1st: got flamed in a Shorpy comment. People can be such *wonderful* creatures. |
Semi-demi vacation mood still prevails. Weighing column ideas. Sifting through playlist of tonight's "jam session" - Neil Young. Ugh. |
Sleep schedule completely destroyed by the holiday fortnight. I couldn't go to bed before 3 if you put Megan Fox at the top of the stairs. |
Seeing Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park is always a surprise. The world's baddest computer programmer. Smokes 9 cigarettes per scene, too. |
@StC Yes! That's the sound. |
@harrymccracken Yes indeed - it's amusing to think of the Termite Terrace gang do-see-do'ing. Doubt Leon was invited. |
@Mr_Fastbucks Yes, but the Kramden Hamana-hamana is a different style than the WB one. Diff. between shaking off a blow and a panic-stammer. |
BTW, this is my fav Bugs bit. http://is.gd/eo74 Love it when the song changes key when Bugs takes over & kicks it into overdrive. |
@sassone The RR probably had no recollection of anything that happened. The Coyote, OTOH, remembered all, and was constantly perfecting. |
@sassone I don't think Roadrunner was cruel. Fate was cruel, and Fate sided with RR. The RR was stupid. Couldn't read, and proud of it. |
Bless my child: she has more sympathy for Wile E. Coyote than the Roadrunner. |
@AskMaridee the hamana-hamana sound was frequently uttered by charcters struck a severe cranial blow; can't really pin it down. |
@ GLHoffman I walk past your sidewalk boxes everytime I go to the office. ;) (Can't DM unless you follow, BTW.) |
At some point in the 60s, WB cartoons stopped using the hamana hamana FX; wonder which was the last cartoon to have it. |
Listening to an old Orson Welles radio show. The guy's so good he sounds like he's wasting his talent in ANYTHING he does. |
Just for fun, I've started contributing to Shorpy, the greatest site on the internet. http://www.shorpy.com/ |
@ markinct Alas, my DeSuckifier was custom built. If only it went up to 11. |
Column is in. Ran this one through the DeSuckifier with the "bittersweet" and "nostalgic" filters turned off. |
I beg to differ, Mac OS; this disk is not in use, and it can be ejected. It has no open files. It's not being indexed. Let my thumb drive GO |
