Mischief Musings

When I was Very Little, Here's Lucy was a television show...

And the intro always terrified me...


*has an unnatural fear of mannequins, marionettes, and ventrioloquists' dummies*
*goes to hide in the closet*

they're from shangrala, but they were *cute* and queenb23more wanted something peppy   :)






Okay, I *love* the Lucy running in circles one....

so I'm playing in ImageReady...

  Charlie Brown Christmas...


 A Christmas Story...

  Charlie Brown Thanksgiving...

  I just liked this one; it's Norman Rockwell SEP from September 16, 1916 and the title is "Redhead loves Hatty Perkins". I must have been around in 1916 in a former life to enjoy Rockwell so much. Either that or I'm just a sucker for Americana...which means that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye can only be so far behind...

Anyone want anything? I've got time and Google...

:)

EDIT to add: No, I'm not finished here. The article under the cut is *directly* from Salon.com, it's interview with Berkeley Breathed. It's *profound* reading, and, much like Milo Bloom when he went off on a Quest for Lost America, Breathed explains where we are as a Nation in our Rhetoric. And you're warned, it ain't pretty. Funny, thought-provoking, but not pretty. 

( Salon.com interview )

Because it bears repeating ...
"Bloom County" had five times the edge of the work I do now. In 1986 I had a cockroach scream, "Reagan sucks!" in print size that took up the entire cartoon box. Nobody blinked -- 1,000 newspapers, quiet as a mouse. Now I draw a woman wearing a Muslim scarf, and the frantic publisher of the Washington Post Co. is on the phone at 9 p.m. telling me -- I am not making this up -- to adjust my character's hair so she doesn't look too unkempt.

 

 

"Fear doesn't so much rule the wood pulp news industry. More like pee-on-themselves existential terror."

--Berkeley Breathed, Salon.com 2008 Interview (above in cut)

*blinks* am I the only person who finds politics un-dramatic? Really?!?

Wow. Okay....

'Cos harrysmom  and natertatersmom  said so...and because I love them and harrysmom  is *evil*  :D

I'm making tea. I'm making tea so that I can munch on a Maple Shortbread cookie and watch ...well, we said no drama, so we'll just leave it at tea and biccie...

Whilst at the WalMart last weekend, gathering supplies for the wedding cake and Groom's pudding I'll be making, I also found some new tea towels in nice fall colors and it came with a maple leaf cutout.

Thus, an idea was born...

Here's the recipe:

 

( And since Elisha also asked for a recipe :) )

Oh, and here's what the wedding cake'll look like....
 I went out and bought a 13 inch offeset spatula just for this behemoth, as well as several dowels and cardboard separators...

I also found a *cute* box made especially for transporting 9" pies and cakes wihtout damage to the cake. So Aymes, I'll arrive in CT with applecake intact, and won't mess up your kitchen in the process   :)

In a fit of thinking over the past several days; here is the workings of mine mind...

 

I missed Angela, so this came out; because she's not your average Southern belle.


It's my concerted opinion that no one has actually learned anything in this country since Schoolhouse Rock stopped showing. Which led me to...



This one that I will be using for the duration of the political season, and I'm not telling anyone who said the quotes unless they ask.  

Improved Alabama icon:



and even though he never uses them; this one's Joe's:



I'm working on Tennesee and Florida and even Georgia for anyone who wants them...

AL had mentioned a couple of weeks back that the Quote of the Day thinger had gotten on her nerves. With that thought in mind, here's today's quote:

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."Mark Twain  US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

PS is open and I have a slow day at work...who wants to guinea pig to the futherment of my computer education?

( further proof that I love Angela )

This is a rare public posting on what is mostly a Friends Only blog...

It is a political rant of a local nature, and while I don't condone airing the soiled linens publically, it seems that only public scrutiny, and a sincerely hacked off voting public who, one can only hope, will send these jokers packing, will achieve results.

Remember folks: Politicians are just like cockroaches; they prefer to do their business in the dark while you're not looking....

 I don't live in Jefferson County, Alabama. I pay taxes to *work* in Jefferson County as well as taxes to the City of Birmingham...though I don't live here and cannot vote in the local elections (Taxation without Adequate Representation, anyone?) 

I digress..There were "public hearings" this week for the residents of the county to hear three plan options. They were "public" as people were allowed to come: they could not ask questions, the commissioners themselves were not part of the panel, and more than a few protestors were asked to "leave".



The deal here is, the RSA can only buy the system if the County declares bankruptcy, thereby putting the sewer in recievership and taking control from the County Commission. Which appears to be the sticking point: Mr. Bronner has offered to sell the system back to the County, with no profit margin built in. But this quote, from one of the Commissioners really REALLY steamed me: "Why would we want it back?" Collins said. "Who would want to repurchase the sewer system unless he wants to pump a lot of cash into it?" (News article below--bolding is mine)



"Why would we want it back?" Collins said. "Who would want to repurchase the sewer system unless he wants to pump a lot of cash into it?"

*blinks* So, Madame Commissioner. The ONLY way you'll want this back is if more money is pumped into it? Why? So you can take somethign with value and trash it like you do everything else good in this county?

 I stand corrected: the Commission is a Haggling bunch of whores. 

Here's the truth: there is only so much time to get something done. The County's bonds have been downgraded to Junk--who's going to buy muni bonds here if they don't declare bankruptcy? Who in their right mind would see this bunch of con-artists as something to invest in? Bankruptcy is ugly, but bear in mind it's not the same as personal bankruptcy--and the time is coming very soon where bondholders will no longer grant you extensions and the bill collector will come knocking....