Packages of Spit... is it just ME??

Ok... every time I see the stinking Yoplait commercial about how they'll donate 10 cents for every lid you send in the mail to them... blahhhgggg.....

IS IT JUST ME OR DOES THAT NOT GROSS YOU OUT??

People are LICKING these lids, IN THE COMMERCIAL, and then PUTTING THEM IN ENVELOPES.... IN THE MAIL....

Who is opening these envelopes?? Would YOU want to open envelope after envelope of spitty licked pieces of tin foil?? Seriously??

It makes my skin crawl every time... :oP

edit: COME ON NOW... Can I get an AMEN?? :o)

William Joyce

... has been a favorite of mine forever.

I read him to my nieces... they're married now...

I read him to my daughter. we started with George Shrinks.

Then Shoes. Who can forget the line "... your very own, skinny boned, wiggly-toed feet!"

Something about his art is just mesmerizing. For ME, it was the precursor to Shag Art... it was the art that got me excited first, and then I saw Shag and it continued my love for this kind of eye-catching super cool art.

He went on to do Dinosaur Bob, The Leaf Men, Santa Calls, A Day in the Life of Wilbur Robinson- which, of course, became Meet The Robinsons. He did Robots... shall I go on?? He also did Rolie Polie Olie which was on the Disney Channel and was SO cool back in the day!

Unfortunately, he's gotten TOO popular... his art has gotten watered down. Just look at George Shrinks on PBS... it's terrible. Mr. Joyce's original artwork for that book is seriously gorgeous... someone has gotten hold of it and made it bland. I hate the thought of that happening to any of his other works... although he has some new cool things coming out, I hope they don't go awry!

why does that have to happen to some things??

Why does perfect art have to change?

Why does a character in a book ever have to change...?

this has nothing to do with books but why couldn't the commercial paper market continue on?? well, I know the answer to that one but I still wish it could have... with some regulation, of course.

why can't everything just have a pause button, so that we can have a minute to figure it all out??

* sigh *

Some Swell Pictures :o)

I had a craving to add a few pictures that I just really enjoy... I've always had kind of a "thing" for cool images...
this car, above, is SO cool... I really wish ads looked like that nowadays, don't you?

this one is just adorable... :o) it reminds me of our dear friend, Mr. Alan Anderson, who started out as just a neighbor and ended up as a close member of the family. His pipe smoke would waft it's way over to our backyard. When I smelled it I knew he was happy; he seemed to smoke his pipe when he was in a good mood. He died a few years ago and it was one of the saddest days of my life... I think of him almost every day and miss him so much my heart hurts.

what a beautiful, tiny little impossible house... I picture myself as a child staring at this picture and wishing I had a house just like that but then trying to figure out where all of the rooms would be in a house shaped like that...

just a really beautiful image, i thought.

what a goofy title for such an amazingly dark and mysterious painting (the title came with the image)... maybe it's not supposed to be mysterious, that's what I think when i see it- it's really beautiful, though. What do you think when you look at it??


i've had this image for years... it's, of course, a 50's drawing of the Jungle Cruise ride. I love the whimsy of it.

THIS is advertising a new "executive" car that had a phone in it!! Remember that there were old cars that would have these?? Very few and far between... this was the beginning, though...


there's the sleek, polished look of those cars above, and then there's THIS... a BEAUTIFUL art-deco style ad from the 20's. Just Gorgeous!! Look at that diamond on the top of the ad, the little filagree work around the bottom edges and the choice of colors... pure poetry... *sigh*

I had to add some photos, of course!! :oD
Here's Fred & his sister Adele, before he got famous with Ginger and other partners, he started dancing with his sister. I can't remember what happened to her but I seem to remember she got married and quit show biz...

Isn't this a gorgeous picture of them?? It's funny that Betty Grable was such a star in her own right... but then you put Marilyn next to her and she just sort of fades, hmm? and Marilyn seems so happy here. It was during the filming of "How to Marry A Millionaire", one of my absolute favorite films... I've always loved the dress she wears in one of the last scenes; it's at Page's wedding... it's just gorgeous. Next time you watch it, notice and then you tell me if you think I'm wrong! :o)