Saturday, March 25, 2017

Intro of Second Half

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

Let's hope they don't need to leave their billet anytime soon

Greetings, out there in podland, the 96th exciting episode of The Big Enchilada is here, so weep no more. We have wild new sounds from He Who Cannot Be Named, Alien Space Kitchen, Sex Hogs II, San Antonio Kid, a couple of Swedish bands, Rattanson and Fezz, classic punk rock from The Germs, The Eyes and Skull Control, a strange ditty from rockin' Rod McKuen and to celebrate episode 96, some sweet sounds from the 9,696-year-old Perfect Master himself, Question Mark (and the Mysterians).

Download here: archive.org/download/BigEnchilada96/BigEnchilada96.mp3

Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Honey Rock by Barney Kessel)

96 Lagrimas by Los Shains

"8" Teen by Question Mark & The Mysterians

Losing My Mind by Alien Space Kitchen

MDManne by San Antonio Kid

Wandering Black Hole by Rattanson

I Dig Her Wig by Rod McKuen

(Background Music: Banshee by The Derangers)

Lovedoll by He Who Cannot Be Named

Pigtails by Sex Hogs II

Magma by The Scrams

Demolition Man by Skull Control

Ugly by SA90

I'm Your Witchdoctor by The Chants

Around and Around by The Germs

(Background Music: Straitjacket by Bill Haley & The Comets)

Fezzalized by Fezz

I Want You to Be My Baby by Grace Chang

Kill Your Parents by The Eyes

Hellbound by Sinners

There's a UFO Up There by Travis Wammack

Money Changes Everything by Ought

(Background Music: 96 Tears (en Espanol) by Question Mark & The Mysterians)

Saturday, March 25, 2017

John's Prolog, and the handing out of the new 2.0 SAPS Cards

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

I don't know what it was the bleeding or the exhaustion. Whatever it was, it made me lose consciousness. When I woke up, I was still being dragged around by two ninjas. The wound on my arm was at least wrapped up. Still, some of my ribs are no doubt broken, something in my leg is out of place, there's some swelling around the left side of my face. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised this was all. Hell, I'm lucky to be alive. But I don't care. All I care about right now is Steph. I need to be there for her right now, no matter how busted up I am. And these Mortal Kombat rejects aren't gonna stop me.

"Let me go...now. I'm not asking again..."

"Be quiet, child!"

"So that's how it is..."

Can't say I didn't warn them. I was a struggle, and I hurt all over doing it, but I was able to weasel my arms out of their grip and slam the back of my fists in their noses as hard as I could. I hit hard enough that something in their faces at least came loose, so their pain was enough to distract them. They weren't very well trained, I guess. Now that I was out of their grip, I grab the backs of their heads and slam their skulls together. I let the go and they fall to the floor out cold. Then I let out a pained grunt and fall to my knees as something in my chest switch places. It wasn't jut a sharp pain either. It was the kind that lingers and makes you feel horrible for a good 20-30 seconds before it gives out. Injuries...just a setback. Not gonna stop me from getting to Steph. Neither was Talia, who was blocking my path when I recovered from the pain.

"Timothy, you must be reasonable. Let us help you, you're injured!"

"You think that-*ah!*-that's gonna stop me? Get out of my way unless you wanna end up like these guys."

"Why are you doing this to yourself? You've passed the first trial, you've already proven your strength. There's no reason to go on."

"Yeah, there is. I gotta be there for her..."

'What are you thinking? This is her challenge, not yours. You can't help her."

"I never said help. I just don-*ugh*- just don't want her alone. Now scram."

"Stubborn like a mule. Just as he is..."

She starts walking towards me. Well, I warned her. I take a swing at her, aiming for a nerve cluster in the side of her neck. She grabs my hand before I make the hit,though. Instead of kicking my ass, though, she puts my arm around the back of her neck and starts walking me to were I was gonna go.

"The hell are you doing?"

"Stephanie's Trial is a long walk from here. You'll collapse before you get off this floor."

"You're helping me?"

"You have to be there. You said it yourself."

"Thank you..."

Dope Folks (2018)

Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit about hip hop. In the late 80s and early 90s hip hop ruled my musical life. During this often called 'Golden Era' I discovered so much incredible music. As I am slowly replacing the CDs I've had for twenty-five plus years with vinyl copies, I'm going to talk about some albums that had a really important impact on me during some very formative years.

Kaotic Style seemed to have mostly been active in the 1990-1996 era and only really had a few underground singles to their name. They aren't a group I ever heard about back then as my only exposure to hip hop where I lived was Yo! MTV Raps and The Source. I'm not going to say it was out of the question that they may have gotten one of their EPs written up in The Source at some point, but I certainly do not remember it.

Dope Folks is one of those great labels that are digging deep to find the forgotten gems of early 90s hip hop. They've put out some really interesting releases, though I have to say that this Kaotic Style record may be my favorite of the bunch. The production is really strong with interesting samples, some familiar, some not, but all used in a really cool way.

Lyrically, the two main MCs (Big Grand and Scram) can hang with all but the elite of golden era lyricists. They're not out of this world wordsmiths, but they are both steady, creative and more than hold their own over the excellent beats they are working with.

The only thing about this LP that I think is odd is that the song "Intro" is at the beginning of the second side instead of starting off the album. I assume that's to maintain the integrity of the track order of the EP version of this that originally came out in '94, but it strikes me as being kind of weird from a flow standpoint. That minor critique aside, this is definitely a record worth checking out if you're looking for new-to-you golden era tunes.

Kaotic Style - A Diamond in the Ruff (This is just the 5 songs from the EP that came out in 94, this LP has 10 songs in total):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUlUNcHxXc0&ab_channel=Rare%2...

Immature Black-crowned Night Heron looking a bit defiant. This is a very big crop and I'm surprised it doesn't look more grainy than this. The herons (these and greens) are starting to show up here and about now. I'm hoping to get some better shots before they scram :)

Monday ... what can I say? It's over!! Ha, just kidding, it wasn't really half bad for a Monday.

To view the photo, see the original version of this real photo postcard.

This rotated version makes it easier to read the handwritten message:

"We tended the Iowa Picnic here last Saturday. Saw lots of folks from Iowa that I knew. 10,000 people there. I can't tell when we will leave here. Too many places to go & too much to see to get away very soon. We expect to visit an old friend of mine that lives at Santa Ana, 30 miles south. We may move out here some time. Love to all. Goodbye, Leni & Mame"

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Info taken from whats written on the back of the photo.

"I see some woman trying to take our pictures ... we better scram"

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

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pudl . scram . tiger

May Lane, St Peters, Sydney

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

Bergen Arches (down in "The Cut")—train approaching. It was about this point that we decided we had reached the end of the inactive ruin. Time to scram—and so we did up the embankment to Tonnele Avenue.

Photos taken by at least two of my Cub Scouts, whilst at SCRAM 2013 using my spare camera. They both took quiet a few pictures of the birds of prey display!

SCRAM is a Surrey County Activity for Cub Scouts, held on the 15th June 2013.

Surrey is a county in the south of England.

Hey you! Yeah, you! Who you lookin' at? Get outa heeah! Beat it! I said Scram!!

//Like Flies

// ENTER //

: : Sgt. Raven's Log : :

My men seem to be dropping like flies, now. First I lose Mark under the poor leadership of my second, Ears, and now he goes and gets himself killed, too.

: : Sgt. Raven's Log : :

// END //

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

Amazing texture from a very simple recipe: recipes.anovaculinary.com/recipe/heston-s-sous-vide-scram...

Fifteenth of May. Cherry blossom. The swifts

Materialize at the tip of a long scream

Of needle. ‘Look! They’re back! Look!’ And they’re gone

On a steep

Controlled scream of skid

Round the house-end and away under the cherries. Gone.

Suddenly flickering in sky summit, three or four together,

Gnat-whisp frail, and hover-searching, and listening

For air-chills – are they too early? With a bowing

Power-thrust to left, then to right, then a flicker they

Tilt into a slide, a tremble for balance,

Then a lashing down disappearance

Behind elms.

They’ve made it again,

Which means the globe’s still working, the Creation’s

Still waking refreshed, our summer’s

Still all to come —

And here they are, here they are again

Erupting across yard stones

Shrapnel-scatter terror. Frog-gapers,

Speedway goggles, international mobsters —

A bolas of three or four wire screams

Jockeying across each other

On their switchback wheel of death.

They swat past, hard-fletched

Veer on the hard air, toss up over the roof,

And are gone again. Their mole-dark labouring,

Their lunatic limber scramming frenzy

And their whirling blades

Sparkle out into blue —

Not ours any more.

Rats ransacked their nests so now they shun us.

Round luckier houses now

They crowd their evening dirt-track meetings,

Racing their discords, screaming as if speed-burned,

Head-height, clipping the doorway

With their leaden velocity and their butterfly lightness,

Their too much power, their arrow-thwack into the eaves.

Every year a first-fling, nearly flying

Misfit flopped in our yard,

Groggily somersaulting to get airborne.

He bat-crawled on his tiny useless feet, tangling his flails

Like a broken toy, and shrieking thinly

Till I tossed him up — then suddenly he flowed away under

His bowed shoulders of enormous swimming power,

Slid away along levels wobbling

On the fine wire they have reduced life to,

And crashed among the raspberries.

Then followed fiery hospital hours

In a kitchen. The moustached goblin savage

Nested in a scarf. The bright blank

Blind, like an angel, to my meat-crumbs and flies.

Then eyelids resting. Wasted clingers curled.

The inevitable balsa death.

Finally burial

For the husk

Of my little Apollo —

The charred scream

Folded in its huge power.

Ted Hughes

I love this poem. Richard Mabey quotes it in 'Nature Cure' - which makes me love it even more. Obviously you can't quite see the swifts in this photo but they are there - all wearing speedway goggles.

:-)

321.365 ~ My Year TtV ~ November 17, 2009: "Sleeveface" shot, done as a November challenge for the TtV365 Group.

puff pastry, smoked salmon, whipped chive creme fraiche, dill, and salad

Toronto, ON

scram

tiger + scram

Asking $1700 for a gently used machine with some accessories.

MacBook Pro 1226A

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SCRAM

15.4-inch (diagonal) glossy screen

160GB Serial ATA hard drive

8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, two USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard/34 slot

Built-in iSight camera

Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11n)

Built-in Bluetooth 2.0

Apple Remote

Full-size, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor scrolling trackpad

Comes with bonuses:

Freitag sleeve

iLap party stand (brand new)

Expresscard CompactFlash card reader

Extra AC adapter (key if you are planning to work in multiple

locations, like office/home)

Excellent working condition. Tiny cosmestic flaw on the inside lid above screen: a small black dot can be seen here, that's about the only thing wrong with it. Otherwise, it's fine since I never really took it outside the apartment. Available for pickup in the East Village to a loving home!

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

Asking $1700 for a gently used machine with some accessories.

MacBook Pro 1226A

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SCRAM

15.4-inch (diagonal) glossy screen

160GB Serial ATA hard drive

8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, two USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard/34 slot

Built-in iSight camera

Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11n)

Built-in Bluetooth 2.0

Apple Remote

Full-size, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor scrolling trackpad

Comes with bonuses:

Freitag sleeve

iLap party stand (brand new)

Expresscard CompactFlash card reader

Extra AC adapter (key if you are planning to work in multiple

locations, like office/home)

Excellent working condition. Tiny cosmestic flaw on the inside lid above screen: a small black dot can be seen here, that's about the only thing wrong with it. Otherwise, it's fine since I never really took it outside the apartment. Available for pickup in the East Village to a loving home!

Lot of tall tales and myths regarding the water moccasin. I'm 66 now and I used to catch cottonmouths as a kid in Coosa County, Alabama. As an adult? No way. But I've photographed hundreds of them. Never felt threatened by any. Never been chased. Florida is cottonmouth heaven. They're everywhere. Sometimes I lay on the ground to photograph them. They either pose...or scram.

I wish Flickr would let us put notes on our pictures again. I'd like to mark the single Pintail duck taking flight. I think he wants to scram out of the way, because he hears the flapping thunder and knows what is coming. He is on the left 1/3rd of the photo and headed to the viewer's left.

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This isn't the best photograph, technically or artistically, but I was still happy to capture it. The moon burst out of the clouds as the seats lifting people to the top of the tower was ascending. This was the instant when they were at the top and about to be dropped for their brief trill ride.

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

Ryan Helbach, a Hypersonic Research Engineer, holds a flight test model in Hypersonic Combustion Research Cell 22, used to research SCRAM jet technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, Jul 21, 2016. Helbach is the program lead for AFRL's Intellect to Intellect Exchange (i2i Exchange) which pairs AFRL scientists and engineers with innovative private tech companies and created the AFRL Entrepreneurial Program allowing scientists and engineers to take sabbaticals to pursue outside for-profit goals. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

Jill and I had a week in Scotland, staying at Seton Sands caravan site..

Lovely spot and whilst there saw our daughter and son in Law. Plus I had a day to myself and so hired a Royal Enfield Scram from Bikerbnb Adventures bike shop/dealer in Edinburgh.

Enjoyed 180(s)miles on that bike which is similar but different to my Himmy..!

That modest dance school on the edge of Siem Reap town produced top dancers through the years. Doing their stretching exercise combined with the form of Cambodian Classical Ballet, the novice was trying to imitate the senior pupil here. This was 2010.

My last visit, most of the best dancers had been poached from this troupe by the better funded outfits like Smile of Angkor or big hotel show with promise of better pay. Capitalism at its best of course, so the school has scramed for more trainees in 2012. It's a sign of producing good products I supposed.

photo by SHADE

We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

Cheesy tofu scram with slow cooked bourbon baked beans, cauliflower tater tots, and maple bourbon ketchup. Laryssa's entry for the diner cookoff back in January.

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