All Night Long at the Froggy Bottom Lounge
This is an Unhosted Cafe.
The bar is fully stocked, but it is self-serve tonight.
Don’t forget to feed the meter, this is a tow-zone.
(4s accepted in place of quarters)
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Newspapers? What newspapers?
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May the 4’s be with you
Late night showing of work from ej’s “Blue Period”
Hmm…well to tell the truth I’ve already posted all those pictures in one cafe or another. But, I guess if anyone missed them, here they are.
Northern Siberia :
Cherskogo Mountains, Siberia:
You only took 3 pictures on your entire trip?
Or … 3 pictures that were not of the wedding and related festivities?
No, but those are all I’d count as ‘the blue period’.
See below for a new one…
I haven’t seen the second image, ej — though I dropped you a comment at our last rendesvous.
I’m basically speechless. Such an alien landscape to your wilderness pond-mate!
What an amazing world we have — diverse beyond measuring.
It looks like a totally different planet, doesn’t it? That was my first thought when I saw it (the second being, Wow, I’ve got to take a picture of this!)
I’m so glad you did! Quite astounding.
A nice clean lounge. Somewhere the F’s are sleeping, safe and snug (though it’s only 7:47 PM where they are) in a Motel 6 in Nowheresville, UT.
Yes, I’m sure they are asleep (or at least in bed).
Or Andi is asleep and Jim is looking through the hundreds of digital pictures he took today.
He’s already planning which precipitous cliff he can make Andi stand on the edge of to take her picture tomorrow.
I hope Janet comes by to tell us about this amazing crowd.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing the link, maryb.
Looks like the typical lowball figure, too.
Thought I’d share an image from a quiet, balmy (30 F) Catskills day.
Not quite Siberia, ej — though it’s often colder here than in Moscow.
Thanks again for sharing your amazing travel photos! For me, it’s almost beyond imagining to go even as far as NYC — all of about 100 miles!
That’s nice. You can see the snow evaporating into mist.
That is a beautiful photo, WW. Goes to show that you don’t have to travel far to get great photos, but you do need to be aware of where you’re at 🙂
Yes indeed, ej — especially if you’re looking at a thousand foot drop into the river!
😉
Glad you like the image.
Of course, I exaggerate; it’s not quite that far — but I’ve got issues with heights, so every foot counts as three.
Does your acrophobia include flying? I have some friends with whom it does, and some that it doesn’t. For some reason airplanes seem to be different, for some people.
To be honest, it’s been so long since I considered flying that I’m not sure I can answer your question!
It’s been about 12 years now since my last plane trip, which was very short.
Well, if the idea of flying doesn’t completely terrify you, you’re definitely a leg up on some of the folks I know 🙂
🙂
I wouldn’t say I’m terrified — though the experience (as I remember it) does seem rather bizarre.
What could possibly be bizarre about joining up with a couple hundred other humans in riding inside a metal pressurized air cannister over an ocean or two?
lol
Truly!
I’m sure it’s no less bizarre, now that it’s all become inundated with paranoia ..
but I’m using your picture as my desktop wallpaper at the moment. It’s a beautiful picture.
Did you check out the last cafe?
Nope, I just got home. Should I?
The fact that you asked answers the question, actually . . .
Let me rephrase this for you elderly ears.
You should check out the last cafe.
Should I say that LOUDER?
;~)
I’m so sorry, Omir! I missed this comment completely !
Of course I don’t mind at all. It’s my pleasure to offer you a birthday gift.
I’m feeling post-geriatric after today; does that count?
Post geriatric blogger means all the geriatric bloggers have gone to bed. Since you’re up — you’re not (yet) geriatric.
Ohhh. But actually, since I have a two-hour time advantage (just after 7 pm here), the question is still open.
Yet another example of the special treatment people on the west coast get 🙂
Yeah, but it works the other way in the morning. By the time I got up today, there weren’t even any bagels left to complain about.
They left the coffee cart open for you ALL DAY. Stop you’re belly achin’
OK, OK, I admit it. I didn’t have a bad day, just a tiring one.
and feeling older than I was yesterday.
Actually, I’m feeling really old now that I know I was 14 years old when BooMan was born. :/
well you missed your party but …
I thought this was appropriate
Hahahaha . . . I’m not a drinker but I appreciate the sentiment. My guess is, since most people who would get one of those are older than 5, you blow the foam off the beer with the flame on the candles. Then you get another beer and another 5 candles. When you can no longer blow the foam off the candles, or your breath makes the candles flare enough to call the Fire Department, everyone else gets to guess how old you are. Am I close?
Sort of like my favorite drinking game. It’s a two player game. The two players get good and drunk, then one of them leaves the room and the other one tries to guess which one it was. This can go on for hours if done properly.
Now I know that it was the right decision not to post a comment in that thread accusing BooMan of being an old man 🙂
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Always a good idea not to rub it in that you have youth. Because your day will come …
True, but then you guys will be even older. :p
Cute bear, by the way. OK, I’m going to go check the previous cafe.
hmmmm
you got meaner when you were in Japan. You used to be such a nice boy.
Don’t you know that :p is the international sign of I’m just joshin’ you?
But if you really take offense, I apologize. Even if my statement is logically and empirically true :p
See, the nice boy is struggling to to come out 🙂
He’s not allowed out after 10pm Eastern time. It’s for his own good.
I thought it was the universal sign of “I’m sticking my tongue out at you.”
One of my friends used to make it pretty obvious:
;pbpbpbpbpbp,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,
this being the friend’s smiley for a Bronx cheer. Otherwise known as a raspberry, which comes to use via Cockney rhyming slang from “raspberry tart,” which rhymes with . . . um, “raspberry.”
Well yes, there is some ambiguity between the meanings of I’m just joshin’ and neener neener neener. I suppose that is a failing of not having enough meta-faces to express our emotions.
The joke’s on the youngsters, though, maryb. They’ll still be getting older while we become infantile!
😉
LOL
Here’s a picture from my travels in Japan that may be a little more in tune with what’s expected from such a trip. This is the Daigojinja shrine in the Happo-en gardens.
That sunny weather makes me ask if it was cold or warm while you were there?
Somewhere in between. Mostly in the 40’s, sometimes getting up into the 50’s. But it was a cold spell for the area, usually it’s a little warmer this time of year (or so I was told).
What a lovely peaceful place!
Thanks olivia…that was actually one of the things that amazed me while I was over there. Their culture places such a high value on having areas of peace and calm, even in the midst of the craziness that is one of the biggest cities in the world.
Haven’t been to Japan in something like five years, but I do enjoy it. And it’s as you say. One thing that struck me was a style that the top artisans perfect — they seem to work at placing aesthetically pleasing irregularities into their work. Near as I can tell, the irregularities are pleasing because they somehow echo the irregularity of nature. It’s a remarkable skill.
I can certainly ‘get into’ this sensibility more easily than I can the forced regularity of Western styles — which are basically so alien to natural conditions that we have to decorate!
🙂
I agree, there is almost nothing that you see over there that seems like it was placed there on purpose, despite the fact that, when you think about it, it must have been. Everything seems very ‘in place’.
Well, almost everything…
Oh no! The sign of the evil empire!
Get back, ye devil spawn! Back, I say, from whence you came! Arrrrgh!
The beauty of American capitalism. Slightly different from the beauty of nature.
Actually, this all brings me to a rather hilarious story.
My friend who got married in Tokyo (the reason for my trip) married a Japanese woman.
A couple of years ago, one of her Japanese friends visited the U.S. for the first time.
They were all driving around together, and they drove by a KFC.
Upon seeing it, the friend exclaimed ‘Wow, you guys have KFC here too!?!’
Did you go around saying “wow, you have sushi here too?”
No, but if I were more clever I certainly would have 🙂
Oh, dear. How depressing! lol
This is wonderful, ej. Just wonderful — in terms of both your artistry & the subject.
How great to see this!
I may have to have it alternate with Wilderness Wench’s grove.
You’re certainly welcome to my grove any time you like, Omir — especially since I’m closer to your age than to BooMan’s.
🙂
Did you guys know that they have an exact (but smaller) duplicate of our Statue of Liberty in Tokyo?
I remember reading about it a couple of days before I went there, but didn’t imagine that I would get a chance to see it.
That’s the Rainbow Bridge, then Tokyo proper, in the background.
Don’t let the Bush administration know this, they start shipping all of OUR immigrants to Japan.
They obviously don’t care what’s going on in any other countries, so I’m not too worried. Hell, they don’t really even seem to care what’s going on here…
But I admit I was surprised that it was an exact replica…even the date on the tablet (in French, of course) read July 4. Don’t know why, I just expected that it would be different.
Yet another amazing image, ej. Quite unreal!
It’s nice to see Lady Liberty again, though, now that the original’s left her pedestal. I hear she’s wading back to France.
LOL
That one took me a minute. 🙂
I got a CA story to tell having to do with cats, litter, etc.
I’m all ears, NDD, as long as no one’s mean to the kitty. Otherwise I’ll have nightmares for weeks.
Anyway, in N CA I met this very interesting guy who used to be a light man for the movie industry. And he told enough stories about his work I believed him.
So he used to live in LA, not far from the ocean. All of the above mostly unrelated to the story.
Turns out he had this fascinating old house, that so and so used to own, (if I could remember), with very nice wood work, which had been painted.
So one day they decide to stip the wood to get all the old paint off and go back to stained wood. So he’s scraping away, and a friend comes by (all CA residents have these kind of friends, I discoverd) and suggests that he sand blast instead of working so hard at it.
So they get the sand and rent the blaster. Only problem is the house is a couple hundred steps down from the road. So they haul sack after sack, lots, ’cause it’s a big house.
Well, I’ll skip a little, anyway, they do the sand blasting of the woodwork. Well, we all know sand is for bricks, so it’s no surpise to me when he says that it took considerable days worth of time and effort to smooth off all the gouges caused by the sand.
Eventually all is done. But now, what to do with the sand. Well, they look at the step and then they look at the downside of the house, (steep incline as it is on the side of a valley) so they decide to throw all the sand over the balcony and it falls down next to the foundation.
Here’s where the cats come in. Evidently they came from miles around up and down the valley to make us of this nice sand the kind homeowners had provided for them.
[Disclaimer: I know many highly intelligent, logical, etc, CA residents, nothing state below applies to any such folk.]
When I tell my ND friends my CA stories I always begin by saying well, there’s people who lack some common sense and the some with very little, and originally I had some of these CA folks pegged with ZERO. But my listeners get more of a kick out of the stories when I start out by saying, some folks have MINUS for common sense.
[did not run preview… I know the attention spans are short here…]
LOL!
That’s a great story!
Makes perfect sense to me ..
😉
Especially for Omir on his day.
Happy Birthday!
I really like it… almost as much as my favorite of yours, which is soon due for a trip to the printer, as I have a few more of my own to make it worthwhile.
I’m happy to send files of whatever you see here, NDD. Just say the word.
on this one is the trail of snow following a natural drainage, or compacted from a footpath?
The snow trails are actually iced-over brooks, covered with snow, that feed the pond, which is just beyond the trees.
I think it would be fun to see that one, if’n ya get around to sending it.
Wouldn’t you know it, too: I probably missed Omir completely! He might’ve gone to bed — as I should do (as a closet geriatric).
Have a good night, all. I’ll definitely see you soon — barring phone & power disorders.
good night!
Sacramento, California
March 18, 2006
Thanks for the support from BooTrib for my diary over in “the other place” It’s much appreciated… and if anyone’s in the mood to “hop over” to that other place, I can use all the help I can get… it’s been an upstream battle to get read over there…. but then again, not sure that numbers are all that important…. hmmm…… must go have a good ponder over yonder….
back soon for a Geritol Cocktail!!
always happy to do a rec at orange for a BTr, but ya know den a link vud help… for those of us who are unable to spend 24/7 here.
It’s in his diary.
Sigh
Someday he’s going to learn how to post smaller pictures.
It’s the diary I was trying to avoid looking for? But I suppose it won’t be too hard to find. Just too lazy to leave the cafe, I guess.
It’s not that hard to find, it’s right above this Lounge on the list 🙂
How was the concert?
too geriatric to find the diary, here’s the link to the orange version… 🙂
Heading for bed soon — spouse is still in the doghouse, but not as deep…
Thanks for asking. The concert was delightful. Really light and cheery if you don’t count the last piece. My friend just conducted the second to the last piece, but he showed me the sheets to this first one, really wacky beat, 3/4,6/8,5/8,7/8 etc, changine each measure. But it was my favorite of the evening.
Aegean Festival Overture……Adreas Makris
Arranged by Major Alber Bader
Concert for Band…………Gordon Jacob
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro con brio
Suite Francaise………..Darius Milhaud
Normadie
Bretagne
Ile de France
Alsace-Lorraine
Provenc
Variation on “America”………Charles Ives
& William Schumann
(which my 75 year old friend conducted, retired high school band teacher)
Les Preludes…………..Franz Liszt
Arranged for Military Band by T. Conway Brown
(my least favorite of the evening… OK, but just didn’t seem to fit the mood of the previous ones.
The Ives is the only one I know.
Franz Liszt arranged for military band … I probably wouldn’t have been wild about it either 🙂
Both conductors are great at giving a little bio on the composer. The Ives story is pretty amazing as to how young he was at the time, I think, 17. I may do a google on him some time, so I can visit more intelligently with folk like you!
378 px wide is too wide? I thought 400px was the limit, and if it was on the LEFT side it was ok…. is this not so?
might be the height, although I’ve never heard a recommentation on that.
if maybe it’s the file size that might be the problem for some of the dialup folks…
Meant to ask if one of those handsome men in the photo is you? 🙂
no, they are my family, not me … I am not handsome….. I used to be handsome… and I might become handsome again… but I am not handsome now…. aww shit….. I wish I was still handsome…. aww shit.
I don’t think width is the problem. This one is a height problem. But you’ll have to ask someone better at these things than me.
WHAT’S A COUPLE OF ZEROS?
New overnight cafe open; fewer pictures; faster for dialup users.