MVP! MVP! MVP!
HUGE CONGRATS STEPH!!!
The Daily News
1 Howdy!
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3 I said, "HOWDY!"
4 First, congrats to Steph Curry for not only being the MVP, but for also showing every reason possible in yesterday's Warriors' victory. What a player, what a team, what a season!!! And there's more.
5 Can't wait. Great fun. Like REALLY great fun!!!
6 Moving On, Part One: Well, lots goin' on, lots goin' on.
7 I made a pact with myself to work this year to the very end. Rather than dying on the vine; I want to go out on fire.
8 So. Retirement. Nice work if you can get it. I'm doing everything I can to go out valiantly, and with a touch of gentility and class.
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10 No, seriously. I could already be retired, but I wanted to finish what I began, which is to rest on my laurels, quit now and hop on a hammock.
11 I've got the trees...
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13 Anybody lookin'?
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15 Nah, just kiddin'. I want to finish out with a bang, and teach everything I ever wanted to teach.
16 My weekend was spent running from my own home because we had over a hundred people looking at our house.
17 From what our realtors said, we were visited by most of the people in the neighborhood.
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19 That was a bit odd. We had to make ourselves scarce so we chose to head to Mountain View on Saturday for a mini-Art and Wine Festival thingy. It was a wonderfully peaceful thing to do while in a tornado of stress.
20 I almost bought every piece of art in the place, including the wooden guitar wall decorations this one guy carves, whittles and burns using wooden logs that fall from the pines that are on his property in Placerville. He burns images of Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Paul McCartney, Jerry Garcia, etc. into the wood and then forges it into the guitar each guy plays. Great for an Old Brown Shoe Cave.
21 And then there was this guy who sold me a $75 Hawaiian shirt he designs.
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23 Nice work if you can get it.
24 Ah, it's all good. Sometimes you have to heave a little money around, just to ease stress.
25 Hawaiian-Shirt guy was awesome. It was like talking to the costume designer for The Beach Boys. I got a travelin' neon shirt, complete with neon signs and a Route 66 theme.
26 Funny what a simple IPA can do to a fella who hasn't eaten.
27 Great time, lots of laughs and giggles.
28 I got home yesterday from wandering the streets of Willow Glen, and remembering how much I love to hit nostalgic antique stores.
29 I got lost in all the cool stuff. Old hats, older magazines, square TV's from the fifties, Cagney hats, old rusty Pirate keys, and cloche hats for the wimminz.
31 Style man.
32 Loved every second of it.
33 They had a Mad Magazine collection to beat the band, prompting me to look for a Mad classic called The Phewgitive, a send-up of the inimitable QM production.
34 If you haven't seen the show, I've linked the entire series for you at the end of today's DN. I got WAY into it earlier this year, but eventually collapsed from watching so many episodes. Hope you enjoy it.
35 I searched a few months ago but couldn't find the Mad spoof online. I couldn't find it in the antique store either, but on a whim, I Googled it on my Iphone yesterday and viola!
36 Some online geek managed to grab the issue, which was Issue 89, September 1964, which had a cover featuring Frankenstein making a model of Alfred E. Neuman. See photo at the top of the page, hovering just above a very confused Steph Curry.
37 The Fugitive was the story of Richard Kimble (Janssen), an innocent doctor accused of killing his wife, and who was convicted and sentenced to death. He had an argument with his wife on the night she was murdered, but he left the house to cool down.
38 When he returned, his headlights caught a one-armed man, staring frantically into his headlights, and then vanishing.
39 Richard Kimble came home to see that his wife had been murdered, looked around nervously, but was caught by the police.
40 He was tried, convicted, and sent to be executed. His handler was Lieutenant Philip Gerard (Barry Morse), who felt that if a jury convicted the guy, then it was up to him to see that justice be done.
41 Each episode drew me in. They all began with a voice-over that explained what had happened, and then a visual of Gerard and Kimble on a train headed to certain execution for Kimble. In the opening sequences, Gerard and Kimble are handcuffed together.
42 But each week, fate steps in; the train derails, and the handuffs break, freeing Kimble from Gerard.
43 With a crazy series of images, Kimble escapes, and runs for his life, always falling into a mucky puddle, surely a foreshadowing of his ongoing destiny.
44 The premise of the show is Gerard's obsession with capturing Kimble, and Kimble's frantic running and twitching every time he hears a sound. He magically finds odd jobs in small town America, and settles in, always looking over his shoulder.
45 Each job takes him to different off-beat towns, where somehow he manages to fall in with a job, a beautiful woman, and the police.
46 They never know he's Kimble until around the middle of Act 2 (It is divided into four Acts, always followed by an eipolog) when someone thinks he looks familiar, usually a local police chief.
47 Great writing and fun stuff, The Fugitive became hugely popular from 1953 to 1967. Stealing ideas from Kerouac's classic novel On the Road and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, The Fugitive introduced America to it's own hypocritical darkness, often moving through dusty roadside cafes, rainy streets reflecting neon loneliness, and an expansive road trip through America .
48 The Mad Mag spoof was reasonably spot-on, written by the wry and sardonically talented Stan Hart, and illustrated by the great Mort Drucker. While a bit dated (the second frame, for example, has Kimble (called Thimble in the piece) looking at his reflection in the window of the train and thinking, "Is it true blondes have more fun?" a reference to a classic Lady Clairol commercial that played endlessly through many TV shows in the Sixties.
49 The rest was fun, but difficult to locate online. For your viewing pleasure, here is the link to that classic spoof:
50 One click and it's yours for the taking. It's a bit tricky, but you'll catch on.
51 Hope you enjoy it, and I hope you enjoy your week!
52 Gottago.
53 See you again. And congrats again to MVP Steph!!!
54 Peace.
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