Are_grits_groceries
Are_grits_groceries's JournalAll those climate change deniers won't shut up
until the water is over their heads and they are washed out to sea. Bless their hearts.
Tater, Moonpie, and Me
Tater
Moonpie
The kittehs are full tilt boogie. I think all cats live in a Maurice Sendak world filled with wondrous and at times scary creatures. They protect us from the Wild Things that would haunt us. It is an eternal wild rumpus.
One item that Moonpie and Tater saw as an enemy was a new loaf of bread on the counter. I found it in their major play area one morning. The wrapping was pierced in places but there were no tears. I think they considered it a very soft item to jump on. It looked like a bag of crumbs and 'croutons'.
Scat has reached some agreement with them. They only merit occasional hisses. Moonpie looks so hurt when she is hissed at. From time to time I catch Tater staring at a sleeping Scat. She seems to be considering the plus/minuses of a sneak attack. So far, the minuses appear to be too high.
They like to cuddle and sleep with me. Moonpie has settled down. Tater is still in the
squirm and nip phase. I think they see me as the 3rd sister albeit a slow and stupid one. They are very disappointed in me at times.
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This thread will probably be locked. My last one was and I received this supportive message:
(I'm requesting that you please post any additional kitty threads in the lounge, here is one the alerts the Hosts recieved)
Enough of this already. Losing a pet hurts, that first thread was fine, but this (update #10 by now?) isn't GD material. Put it in the Lounge or the Pets forum from here on out, pretty please.
(and the hosts concur with this, we've made similar requests of other DUers too)
I post in GD because that's where the people I know are. I had a very hard time after Mousie passed and the messages helped a lot. I still haven't found a new balance to my life. I still have moments no matter if some think I am carrying on far too much.
Thanks to all who have helped!
Al Feldstein has passed. We all owe him a huge debt of gratitude.
NEW YORK (AP) — Before "The Daily Show," ''The Simpsons" or even "Saturday Night Live," Al Feldstein helped show America how to laugh at authority and giggle at popular culture.
Millions of young baby boomers looked forward to that day when the new issue of Mad magazine, which Feldstein ran for 28 years, arrived in the mail or on newsstands. Alone in their room, or huddled with friends, they looked for the latest of send-up of the president or of a television commercial. They savored the mystery of the fold-in, where a topical cartoon appeared with a question on top that was answered by collapsing the page and creating a new, and often, hilarious image.
Thanks in part to Feldstein, who died Tuesday at his home in Montana at age 88, comics were more than escapes into alternate worlds of superheroes and clean-cut children. They were a funhouse tour of current events and the latest crazes. Mad was breakthrough satire for the post-World War II era — the kind of magazine Holden Caulfield of "The Catcher In the Rye" might have read, or better, might have founded.
"Basically everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read Mad, and that's where your sense of humor came from," producer Bill Oakley of "The Simpsons" later explained.
Feldstein's reign at Mad, which began in 1956, was historic and unplanned. Publisher William M. Gaines had started Mad as a comic book four years earlier and converted it to a magazine to avoid the restrictions of the then-Comics Code and to persuade founding editor Harvey Kurtzman to stay on. But Kurtzman soon departed anyway and Gaines picked Feldstein as his replacement. Some Kurtzman admirers insisted that he had the sharper edge, but Feldstein guided Mad to mass success.
One of Feldstein's smartest moves was to build on a character used by Kurtzman. Feldstein turned the freckle-faced Alfred E. Neuman into an underground hero — a dimwitted everyman with a gap-toothed smile and the recurring stock phrase "What, Me Worry?" Neuman's character was used to skewer any and all, from Santa Claus to Darth Vader, and more recently in editorial cartoonists' parodies of President George W. Bush, notably a cover image The Nation that ran soon after Bush's election in 2000 and was captioned "Worry."
"The skeptical generation of kids it shaped in the 1950s is the same generation that, in the 1960s, opposed a war and didn't feel bad when the United States lost for the first time and in the 1970s helped turn out an Administration and didn't feel bad about that either," Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis wrote of Mad in The New York Times in 1977.
Much more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/al-feldstein-dead-mad-magazine-obituary_n_5244595.html
To a life and a man that made a difference. Bravo!
Patron Tried to Ban Dr. Seuss’ ‘Hop on Pop’ From Toronto Library
A Canadian parent filed a complaint to the Toronto library last year, asking to ban Dr. Seuss’ classic children’s book Hop on Pop because it “encourages children to use violence against their fathers.” The complaint was revealed this week when the Toronto Library released its Materials Review Committee report for 2013.
The person suggested that the library remove the book from the library’s collection and “issue an apology to fathers in the GTA and pay for damages resulting from the book.”
The committee rejected the complaint and retained the book in the children’s book finding that ”the book is a humorous and well-loved children’s book” and has maintained its popularity since it was published in 1963. The committee also pointed out that, “the children are actually told not to hop on pop.” (Via TIME).
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/canadian-parent-tried-to-ban-dr-seuss-hop-on-pop_b85284
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