little miao’s Neighborhood

Fuckity FUCK. I just tried to post and upload a video. I got the following existential error message from Vox:

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That sounds very, um, Protestant.

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I'm taking an extended break in my 25 minutes-on 5 minutes-off schedule today to post an FSotD to prove that I have been writing today! 

With the goatee grown in, David now looked like his own evil twin.

(I stole this from real life -- the same is true of Cappy when he has one.) 

Okay, break over, back to it.

Oof. I hurt. Took us 6.5 hours to get out today, with a few rest stops on the way.

I'll post more tomorrow, including oodles of pictures.

In one word: spectacular.

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My transporter? Coming in VERY handy. And they said Star Trek technology was fantasy. Pshaw!

I love the OUTDOOR GIRLS series books by Laura Lee Hope.

I couldn't even begin to wish you love them as much as I do or for you to have even heard of them, but in case you do, &/or have - or don't but still love camping out or the "good old days" - these other Turn of the Century books might really interest you.

I found two (non-fiction) books that might have been read by the girls and boys of Deepdale, had they (the boys and girls of Deepdale I mean...) been real:

On The Trail, An Outdoor Book for Girls

(1915) by Lina Beard & Adelia Belle Beard.

and Camping for Boys

(1913) by William Henry Gibson.   (Both also available on Google Books)

If I can't live one hundred years ago - and I do wish I could, I can still wish my friends and I could take a month off and camp out like this:

All images and content used withOUT permission.  Please visit Gutenberg.org, Shorpy.com, and the best site of all - Series Books for Girls - Jennifer really knows her vintage books and I LOVE LOVE LOVE her site, blog and Bonanzle booth.  I admire her work so much and hope she doesn't mind me lifting an image from her site.

It looks like a perfect day! Starting out at 50 degrees and sunny! November has turned out to be just lovely!
I'm off to physical therapy...can't wait til this is done. It's not difficult or painful or anything...just an hour three times a week that is rather inconvenient and intrusive. But, all for a good cause....Mobile Toes R Us!

I am having Mom, Dad, sis and three kids, brother and nephew, over tomorrow for Mom's birthday dinner.

So after PT it's to the grocery store. Then a quick clean up of the house. Hopefully I'll see sis and kids tonight...depends on how long it takes them to get here from Chicago!

Ok...time to get a move on! Y'all have a nice weekend!

back in the olden days of b&w TVs, Friday night was fight night.  thus,

Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.

Rocky was a labor of love, the little movie that did, a personal tale that became a multimillion dollar enterprise. it is also the movie that has spanned the most sequels (Rocky II, III, IV, V, VI aka "Rocky Balboa"). what's the name for this? a hexology?

the taglines for the movie are interesting, if a bit confusing.

You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest bicentennial in history! *

A Philadelphia fighter who never made the big time...He showed he could take on a challenge...and won something bigger than a championship bout.

Meet the "Italian Stallion": a small-time guy with big-time guts who yearns to be a hero...just once!**

He's a has-been battler with one dream left...and one last chance.

His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

* Rocky was released in 1976.  references to the American Revolution of 1776 Bicentennial are everywhere.

** a small-time guy with big-time guts.   I'm a 12-year-old at heart. I won't tell you what I thought it read.

Silvester Stallone gets mucho credit for writing the movie (in a 3½-day bender as legend has it) and more so for refusing to sell it to several studios that were interested in the story but wanted to cast their own choices (including Robert Redford. Robert fracking Redford. damn), but Stallone stood firm on his demand to himself play the role of Rocky Balboa.

no doubt Stallone was Rocky, but much of the movie's success was due to the fine supporting cast. Mickey, Adrian, Paulie. Apollo Creed

check the patch on Paulie's shoulder on the third pic.  Philadelphia represent, yo.

(damn. for the second day in a row I can't embed from YT.  is not just me, teh SO had the same problem)

here be the links to watch:

Trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DlBN_LLiA

Cut me Mick  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYosdIQ9JA&feature=related

Gonna fly now (theme from Rocky)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4  

                          

and because is not something I expected to find while searching for Rocky pictures: