tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post6379823767519388383..comments2024-03-28T20:53:54.312-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: “Bon Appétit!”Michael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-84946878884329226732017-12-03T22:23:50.443-06:002017-12-03T22:23:50.443-06:00Thanks, Fresca, and thanks, Bink.
Fresca, you mea...Thanks, Fresca, and thanks, Bink.<br /><br />Fresca, you mean you haven’t seen<i>Lost in Space</i>? June Lockhart is in that series too.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-81180177108480573132017-12-03T21:07:51.029-06:002017-12-03T21:07:51.029-06:00How strange---that mushroom soup ad is the first t...How strange---that mushroom soup ad is the first time I've seen June Lockhart---she reminds me a lot of British actress Samantha Morton.<br />--Fresca<br /><br />also-- bink couldn't find where to leave a comment here, so she left a comment for you instead on my photo collage post:<br /><br />"Bink said...<br /><br /> Nice story...I didn’t see a place to leave a comment on Michael’s page...but maybe he’ll see here that once again he nails the characters and spirit of the show."Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-14227320483949182632017-12-01T16:09:17.339-06:002017-12-01T16:09:17.339-06:00Hilarious!
Had I known about this commercial, I m...Hilarious!<br /><br />Had I known about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2j_V3x6iQ" rel="nofollow">this commercial</a>, I might not have written about morels.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-80408972271546087102017-12-01T16:00:46.228-06:002017-12-01T16:00:46.228-06:00NOT as easy a match as Robert Frost, but I made a ...NOT as easy a match as Robert Frost, but I made a photo collage for this one too--<br />gugeo.blogspot.com/2017/12/lassies-mrs-martin-on-julia-child.htmlFrexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-13674416978480319442017-12-01T12:56:10.873-06:002017-12-01T12:56:10.873-06:00Well, thank you, Fresca. I love the small details ...Well, thank you, Fresca. I love the small details of the <i>Lassie</i> world.<br /><br />No sex in the original. June Lockhart, quoted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Martin_(Lassie)" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia article about her</a>: “In six sexless years of playing a country wife and mother, I was hardly ever allowed to kiss Hugh Reilly on the cheek.”<br /><br />Uncle Petrie’s inappropriateness (remember his ee-clipse story and limerick?) is my own invention, unless there’s something in the show that I’m not remembering.<br /><br />There will be more — at some point. :)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-47974404970147838642017-12-01T12:21:08.691-06:002017-12-01T12:21:08.691-06:00You know, Michael, you are really, really good at ...You know, Michael, you are really, really good at writing these stories!<br />They always take an absurd turn toward danger (I assume like the original show?) yet and even a soupçon of sexuality(is <i>that</i> in the original?)--warm eggs + morels, not to mention the more blatant French girls.<br />(Of course, food is all about reproduction, so innuedno might be hard to avoid, but still...)<br /><br />I was just reading Penelope Fitzgerald's <i>The Beginning of Spring</i>, which is as much about little things that make up daily life in pre-Revolutionary Moscow as anything--<br />--and I thought of that reading your story---you catch the little things of daily life, such as the list of thank-you notes Mrs. Martin has to write, for instance, not to mention that the Martins feel it will be effective to talk to a boy's parents about his irresponsible use of firearms, for shame!<br /><br />You've caught Julia Child so well--I can just HEAR her, and see her dropping the shotgun shells in her apron pocket. Heh.<br /><br />My mother always used to follow that "you're alone in the kitchen" rule--I had forgotten that until I read this, so thank you for that.<br /><br />I guess you are the Penelope Fitzgerald of Lassie fic. <br /><br />More please. <br />--FrescaFrexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-86091226687784007062017-11-29T15:30:18.470-06:002017-11-29T15:30:18.470-06:00Maybe you can come back after sup — I mean, dinner...Maybe you can come back after sup — I mean, dinner. :)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-82957123668898013562017-11-29T15:14:42.186-06:002017-11-29T15:14:42.186-06:00I must read this work on genius again carefully---...I must read this work on genius again carefully---just skimmed it--but had to comment immediately on the naughtiness of how they saw Mrs. Child really knew her morels... Ha!!!<br />So much hidden goodness tucked in here & there.<br /><br />(I shall return.)Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-46865986610978764882017-11-29T12:07:17.731-06:002017-11-29T12:07:17.731-06:00I’m laughing inwardly too.
I hope you noticed tha...I’m laughing inwardly too.<br /><br />I hope you noticed that when Timmy is talking to the hunters, he goes back to “me and Lassie.”Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-821734291596531882017-11-29T11:20:03.436-06:002017-11-29T11:20:03.436-06:00I chuckled inwardly as I read Timmy's self-cor...I chuckled inwardly as I read Timmy's self-correction from "me and Lassie" to "Lassie and I" in light of your NSA Grammar Geek post from yesterday. The first page in that trove provides this exchange:<br /><br />***<br /><br /><i>Dear Grammar Geek,<br />Between "a" and "an" and improper use of "I", I am about to lose it! If I hear another senior leader or GS-14/15 say, "With X and I", or "sent it to X and I", I'll croak!</i><br /><br />Dear Kermit,<br /><br />I am ending my career as Grammar Geek with your statement as it reflects so perfectly my frustration with this particular mistake. It is made so frequently and with such aplomb that I am occasionally tempted to follow suit for fear of being judged illiterate.<br /><br />Ladies and Gentlemen of all grades and ranks, <b><i>"I"</i></b> is a nominative pronoun and is used as the <b><i>subject</i></b> of a verb; <b><i>"me"</i></b> is the objective form and is used as direct or indirect <b><i>object</i></b> of a verb or the object of a preposition.<br /><br />Therefore, the example above should be "with X and me" and "send it to X and me."<br /><br />You will easily avoid this mistake if you just <b><i>think about the sentence without the first noun</i></b> in the combound object. For example, you would not be tempted to say "Mary went to the store with I" or "send it to I," would you?<br /><br />I think this particular mistake is made by the overly conscientious speaker. Having been taught to be sure to say "Mary and I went to the store" instead of "Mary and me went to the store," the speaker (or writer) reflexively uses that pattern whether a subjective or objective pronoun is needed.<br /><br />It is a mistake that none of my readers will ever make again.<br /><br />***<br /><br />It is gratifying to know that the gently sarcastic lessons imparted by the NSA's Grammar Geek have reached Timmy Martin. misterbagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316365896791523757noreply@blogger.com