We Have a Wiener.....

Mr. James Farrell was the first of many in this week with the
one and only John Franklin Candy.

Candy's B-Day was today on Halloween.....
died 10 years ago at age 43.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Caroline Rose....

Saw her last night in Franklin, TN.....
she's the real deal....at 24 years old.

Marty
Nashville, TN

OK-Go.....

....hometown boys done well.

Nice camera work with the new Honda Copter-Cam.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Boo.....it's Trivia Tuesday.

We have a very scarrrrry TT for you this week.
The first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name
Mr. Niagra Falls above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE
and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.

Hints...
--Born in northern North America
--Died in southern North America
--Was part owner of a Football team
--His father died at 35 from a heart attack
--Has his own postage stamp
--Never had a bad thing to say about anyone

Marty
Nashville, TN

Only 30 more shopping days until.....

......my birthday.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Sunday Funnies....

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Marty
Nashville, TN

The Shining.....

IKEA style.

Marty

Back when I was a kid.....

.....we would just flunk Algebra.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Singing Album Art......

Marty
Nashville, TN

You know you're from Indiana when.....

....this is you on moving day.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Ka-Boom.....

Your tax dollars at work.
Pretty accurate.....from up to 25 miles away.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Give me a beat.....

Marty

Pullman

. . . . .also, check your closets.
This hanger is going for $30 on Ebay.

Marty

Mmmmmm.......beer.

Stop #1.

Marty
http://www.openhousechicago.org/

All about that bass.....

Marty

Marco.....

......Polo.

Marty
Elkhart, IN

Calling Dick Tracy.....

Stocking Stuffer Idea.

Marty
Litchfield, OH

Happy Columbus Day.....

No TT today.....
resting after resting all weekend.

Marty
Barnesville, OH

Im sorry....you'll have to check the baby.

 During the 1950s, engineers at the British Overseas Airways Corporation
(what we now call British Airways), developed the "skycot."
The picture is Airline BOAC's ‘skycots', 1953

Marty
Dayton, OH

Sunday Funnies.....

Marty

Get some nuts.

Marty

Waaaa....waaaaaa....waaaaaaaa....go jump.

Sorry....no winners this week.
....and really no close calls.

Mr. David Lee Roth would have brought home the prize!!

Marty

And you thought deer and coyotes were bad.....

Marty
Nashville, TN

Nickel Creek Twofer....

Once every year or so....comes an album that I play over and over and over and over and over and over and over and.....well you get it.

Nickel Creek's "A Dotted Line"

Marty
Nashville, TN

Trivia Tuesday......

So here we are with the first TT of October....
The first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name
the lonesome rider above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE
and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.

Hints...
--a Jewish Hoosier.
--saw a psychiatrist for most of his H.S. years.
--lived and worked on a ranch for troubled youth.
--appeared on The Sopranos
--never married........mmmmmmmmmmm?
--fluent in Spanish
--studied to be a NY EMT.
--helicopter pilot

Marty
Nashville, TN

Take my wife......

Didn't know Henny was so funny.
Special thanks to RK contributor.....K.O'C.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Sunday Funnies....

Not really the comics.....but "Injun Summer"was a mainstay from my youth as a paperboy.
I know it was time to find the gloves and hat when this was published.

The famous cartoon first appeared on Sept. 30, 1907, on Page One, the answer to a looming deadline on a slow news day. John T. McCutcheon, inspired by a string of beautiful, warm autumn days and remembering his youth in Indiana, conjured up the illustration that became one of the most popular features in Tribune history. 

 The Tribune reprinted it in 1910, on page 4, in response to readers' requests, and then annually this time of year from 1912 to 1992. As early as 1919, the "famous" cartoon had become a "much-loved" annual event, the Tribune said in promoting a high-quality print — "ready for framing" — that the newspaper included in an upcoming Sunday edition. The cartoon wouldn't be contained to its annual appearance on newsprint. 

 The Indiana State Fair reproduced it as a feature exhibit in 1928. At the Century of Progress World's Fair in 1933-34 it was a life-size diorama and was reproduced in a fireworks display. In 1920, the Indiana Society of Chicago presented a dramatized version of the work to honor McCutcheon. His son, John Jr., a future Tribune editorial page editor, played the boy. Neighborhood, school and social groups acted out "Injun Summer" scores of times, as recently as 1977. One of the biggest dramatizations involved 1,100 children performing it at Soldier Field in August 1941 as part of the Tribune-sponsored Chicagoland Music Festival. 

A very popular display with mannequins appeared every year at the Olson Rug Co.'s park on the Northwest Side. McCutcheon's original black-and-white drawing is in the collection of the Chicago History Museum. Over time the cartoon came to evoke anger as well as nostalgia. As early as 1970, readers wrote letters complaining that the Tribune was running an ethnically insensitive feature that misrepresented the brutal reality of Native American history in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Letter writers also were unhappy with the idea that "they ain't no more left," pointing out that Indians still lived and worked in Chicago. In the 1990s, Tribune editors decided to end the annual tradition. Douglas Kneeland, the Tribune's public editor at the time, said, "'Injun Summer' is out of joint with its times. It is literally a museum piece, a relic of another age. The farther we get from 1907, the less meaning it has for the current generation." Still, the cartoon has a powerful hold over many Chicagoans. For generations of readers, "Injun Summer," despite its flaws, became synonymous with the magic and peacefulness of those last warm days of the season.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Alice & The Muppets....

Marty

We Have a (Cheesehead) Wiener!!!!

Proud to say that ever several weeks of trying.....
Mr. Tom Asher sent in this week's correct answer.....
with the correct spelling to boot....
and nailed down Frances Elizabeth Bavier....aka Aunt Bee.

--Big fan of Studebaker cars....even drove her own in Mayberry RFD.
--Died at 86 from heart disease and cancer.
--House was littered with cat piss from her 14 cats when found.
   No curtains on the windows and the cats using the basement
   shower stall as their cat pan......
   enjoy your breakfast.

Marty
Nashville, TN

Costume Shopping....

Mask....
http://mcphee.com/shop/bald-eagle-mask.html

Talons.....
http://mcphee.com/shop/eagle-talons.html

Marty
Nashville, TN

The eyes have it.....

Marty
Nashville, TN