13: What’s Hangin’?
1. I’ve just now started watching Mad Men, the award winning series about an ad agency in 1960. It’s appealing in a period piece way, the way Downton Abby is to so many. While watching recently, I thought to myself, oh, so that’s what Bewitched’s Darren was doing when Samanatha was home being a housewife.
2. I saw the idea for the above hornet-nest-looking paper bag stuffed with plastic shopping bags on Facebook. It’s supposed to fool bees and hornets into thinking it’s a hornet’s nest so they won’t take up residence on your porch. So far, I can report that it works!
3. Sometimes you can’t build a better mousetrap. The one year I didn’t use a scarecrow, the crows pulled up all my corn starts, and the fake owl we sometimes put on the window sill really does keep the birds from smashing into their reflections in our windows.
4. I’ve never played the Lottery or game of Frisbee.
5. It was like seeing my face on a billboard when I first saw the cover of THIS book.
6. THIS story of a woman named Airwrecka Mcbride has recently been all over internet and has caused people everywhere to say: I’ve been spelling Erika wrong my whole life.
7. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much is a video clip worth, like THIS one from the post in which Bryce and Liam help Joe build a chicken coop floor and learn the meaning of the word pro?
8. From what I recall about the early ‘60s, movies were flicks, fun times were a blast and tattle tales were called finks. We played paper dolls and worried about cooties, danced the jerk and set our hair in spoolies. We wore baby doll pajamas, clam diggers, kilt skirts held shut with big pins and said things like “Go jump in a lake.” Hairdos were called the bubble, the flip and the shag. Neat was good before cool and the Beatles were better than any boy band today.
9. “All you need is love” turned into “Don’t believe the hype” about the same time that the greeting “What’s happening?” changed to “What’s up?” which later became “What up?” then “Wassup?” and “Sup?”
10. Apparently David Bowie paper dolls is all the rage. See HERE.
11. In our small town of Floyd most people wave when you pass them on the road, but the kind of waving while driving pictured above is disturbing.
12. “The problem isn’t that Bernie Sanders is a crazy-pants cuckoo bird, it’s that we’ve all become so accustomed to stage-managed, focus-driven candidates that authenticity comes across as lunacy.” Jon Stewart
13. Hey, how come they don’t make shoes like that for grown-ups?
June 4th, 2015 12:42 am
Darren was mad in more than one way.
June 4th, 2015 4:39 am
What?! No Frisbee?! Girl, you have not lived!
My Beloved Sandra was also not a Mad Men person. I’d been a sporadic viewer, catching it occasionally in reruns, often out of order, etc. Over the late winter, we both sat down to some extended binge viewing to see the entire series in order (much better commercial-free) and then watched the final season as well. Excellent writing throughout, eh?
re #11: Oy. I’d be dizzy.
June 4th, 2015 10:07 am
#8 brought back a lot of memories.
#9 made me think of how other word phrases have been shortened. For instance, our grandmother used to talk about getting a “permanent wave” to keep her hair curly. Later in our day, we called it a “permanent.” When my kids were young it was called a “perm”.
I’m not sure what they call it today – maybe a “per.”
June 4th, 2015 11:40 am
I thought it was a hornet’s nest. I fooled me, but #6 is to scary for me. The guy with a chainsaw and blood all over him. I am not sure I know what that means? I love those shoes too and Sophia and Chloe have them!
June 4th, 2015 11:51 am
Oh no, that picture link changed. Weird. I hope I fixed it.
Yes Ron, I think the writing on Mad Men is really swell, to use a ’60s descriptive!
June 4th, 2015 2:48 pm
I have not watched Mad Men. Maybe one of these days.
Don’t remember much about the 60s, but much of the same goes for the 70s. Except we all had Farrah Fawcett hair.
June 4th, 2015 5:17 pm
I have never seen Mad Men, and LOL at number 12. Mine
June 5th, 2015 12:41 am
#9 really cracked me up. So true! I find changes in language interesting. Hard to believe you’ve never played Frisbee. I’m not good at it. They say it’s all in the wrist, well, I must have weak wrists!
June 5th, 2015 7:22 am
Love this list and so glad to be back and have time to read it!! I think Jon Stewart is a genius.