Comics synchronicity

[Nancy, November 26, 1949.]


[Henry, November 26, 2016. Click either image for a larger view.]

See also Mark Trail and Nancy.

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All OCA Henry posts
All OCA Nancy posts

[I don’t know how old today’s Henry really is, but an April strip seems to date the reruns to the 1960s.]

NPR, sheesh

Heard yesterday, an NPR reporter interviewing a Wal-Mart rep: “Are you guys, like, becoming a bank?”

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Domestic comedy

[Singing, earlier this week.]

“Autumn in New York, why does it seem so expensive?”

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Florence Henderson (1934-2016)

Good night, Mrs. Brady. The New York Times has an obituary.

A related post
Canned Heat and the Brady Bunch (With a photo of Florence Henderson)

Domestic comedy

[On the interstates all day, cops, and more cops.]

“Blue Friday.”

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From an old notebook

“What a pile of dirty dishes!”

Snow White, in the 1937 Disney movie.

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“Do I look different yet?”

Betty Aberlin, as the rollers are removed from her hair in the beauty shop (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood).

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“I hear footprints!”

Rachel, age six.

Also from an old notebook
Alfalfa, Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, metaphors : Alfred Appel Jr. on twentieth-century art and literature : Balloons, poetry, teachers : Barney : Beauty and the Beast and kid talk : Eleanor Roosevelt : John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch : Plato, Shirley Temple, vulgarity, wisdom, Stan Laurel : Square dancing, poetry, criticism, slang

National Sardines Day

It is not only Thanksgiving: it is National Sardines Day. Go fish!

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Thanksgiving 1916

[“Thanksgiving Plans Take Usual Couse: Institutions to Serve Turkey and Fixings in Spite of the Advance in Prices. Vaudeville on the Island: Sing Sing to Have Music and Pictures and the Salvation Army to Gather Its Inebriate Crop.“ The New York Times , November 29, 1916.]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Previous Thanksgiving posts
At the Waldorf Astoria, 1915 : In jail, 1914 : In jail, 1913 : Thanksgiving and mortality : In jail, 1912 : Competitive eating, 1911 : A 1917 greeting card : A found letter : Sing Sing, 1908 : Sing Sing, 1907

MetaTV

We often tune into MeTV at night for a small serving of Perry Mason . We rarely watch a full episode, and we rarely follow the plot. Mason , as we I insist on calling the show, is all about atmosphere: car telephones, clothing, furniture, hairdos, office accoutrements. And it’s about television. MeTV is MetaTV — and movies. For instance: the recent episode “The Case of the Mythical Monkeys” (first aired February 27, 1960) brings together Barbara Harper Douglas, Mrs. Steve Douglas, of My Three Sons (Beverly Garland), Nurse Ratched of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Louise Fletcher), and Stanley Roper, Mr. Roper, of Three’s Company (Norman Fell). Dig we must.

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[Elaine says this is all about me. MeTV.]

Ambiguous drop

A New York Times headline: “Trump Drops Threat of New Investigations Into Clinton.” Meaning that he is abandoning, giving up the threat? Or that he is uttering or mentioning the threat in a casual way? It’s the first possibility that fits, but I couldn’t be sure without reading further.

[With definitions of drop paraphrased from Merriam-Webster.]