[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]
Monday, August 2, 2021, 6:58 pm — A 1955 treasure trove! … Celebrating the original cast of tv’s Lassie … George Cleveland as Gramps … Tommy Rettig as Jeff … and, of course, Lassie! … Plastic playset figures by Robert Maxwell Associates, 1955 … On a TV Guide … July 2, 1955 … Lassie and Tommy Rettig on cover, with Lee Aaker and Rin Tin Tin … more photos on My Photo a Day Adventure blog …
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:18 am — Perkins … and awaaaay she goes! … sorting junior high, high school papers … from old cardboard box to sturdier plastic container …
… wonderful movie re-discoveries … pages from Mad Magazine, Oct. 1967, no. 114 …
… Mad’s “Late Show” Cliché Movie Script: The “Society” Movie, p. 42 … stars bordering the script: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart …
Look closely … the swirls between the drawings are names of other movie stars … a galaxy of ’em! ...
Monday, March 31, 2008, 6:24 am — Retro Perkins … 2008 … almost 1 year old … 11 years ago … the original wire toy … in the days of recording movies to DVDs … newspapers … horse magazine subscriptions …
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:17 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … ignoring all the boffo publicity about Brian Donlevy and his movie, The Great McGinty, 1940 … they’re focused on something more important at the bottom of this post … a dog! …
Brian Donlevy, 1901-1972 …
“The GREAT Reviews! Hey OSCAR!” … director, writer Preston Sturges’ first film … “Hey OSCAR!” is right … won Best Writing, Original Screenplay! …
“He’s got SEX APPEAL! … He’s got BOOOMPH! … He’s a Record-Breaker!” …
Tamed by a Redhead … “The screen’s meanest “heavy” is really putty in the hands of the girl he loves! It was the redheaded Mrs. Donlevy who insisted that he accept the leading role in The Great McGinty – the part that made him famous.” … Hollywood, 1941, v. 30, p. 50 …
… the doggone dog … a dachshund … that Perk and Teeny Tuxedo have their eyes on …
The Great McGinty … trailer …
Saturday, November 9, 2018, 11:41 pm — The usually affable Teeny Tuxedo … has reached her affability limit … she’s channeling the reclusive “Swedish Sphinx” … Greta Garbo ... “I vant … to be … ALONE!” …
“I vant … to be … alone!” … or maybe not … Greta Garbo, John Gilbert … Flesh and the Devil, 1926 …
“The most famous quip attributed to Greta Garbo is short and sardonic: “I want to be alone.” But the actress, who made a practice of shunning reporters, premieres and fan mail, claimed that she had been misquoted. “I never said, ‘I want to be alone,’” she explained, according to a 1955 piece in LIFE magazine. “I only said, ‘I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”
Monday, October 23, 2017, 12:29 am — Teeny Tuxedo and Perky think the new tv box is even better than the new tv! …
Perky says … “Mitts up, ya big lug … Don’t try messin’ with ME!” …
New tv! … livingroom … Best Buy, Cascade Park by PDX airport … 55″ Samsung – LED – 2160p – Smart – 4K Ultra HD, Model: UN55MU6300FXZ … $628 (was $799) … moved old 55″ Samsung Smart (sometimes no so very) to bedroom (yippee!) to replace 50″ Samsung (for L) … RAINY day … fit perfectly in L’s Prius hatchback.
12:33 am … A fragrant distraction … flowers! …
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 8:44 pm — After Perkins did some heavy-duty playing with the catnip sock, she was ready for a movie break … Hey, there’s the Turner Classic Movies schedule … I wonder what’s on right now?
Wow! Perk’s whiskers have shadows … Click for larger detail …
Sunday, November 23, 2014, 10:57 am — Perkins is ever ready to help me get my DVD card catalog organized …
While Perk was busy helping … Teen was busy keeping herself warm under the newly laundered comforter on the sofa …
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 9:35 am — Perk and Teen change positions relative to the movement of the sun …
11:35 am … Can you tell who’s in the lower left corner? … Douglas Fairbanks, Thief of Bagdad, 1924 … TCM November 10 schedule …
11:55 am …
Thursday, November 6, 2014, 2:23 am — Perk is serenely oblivious to the three remotes, stealthily creeping around her … Is she cat-atonic?
Turner Classic Movies’ Now Playing schedule, November 6 … Red arrows point to That Hamilton Woman, 1941 and Dodsworth, 1936 … rewatched most of each with greatly renewed appreciation …
Sunday, April 14, 2013, 12:45 pm:
This is one week ago, April 14 … What a cozy picture, with the sun radiating on orange Perkins … What are their 4 ears aimed at? … A cheery, industrious robin, safe from feisty felines on the other side of the window.
The trees are getting greener and greener. See how less leaf-ified they were two weeks earlier, March 30, in There’s a New Monitor in Town.
And speaking of computer monitors and getting leaf-ified … There’s a bloomin’ bigger “new monitor in town”. The 24″ Dell was so immensely impressive, with color clarity and clear glass screen … It just needed to be a tad larger to more easily read a 2-page spread in Media History Digital Library’s Motion Picture magazine, for example.
So, off to Best Buy online to jump up to a 27″ Dell. Picked it up at Jantzen Beach April 8. Just like its little brother (which was returned), it’s a winner!
Notice who’s on the monitor desktop screen? … It’s larger than life size … Perkins!
Now that I’m satellite-tv-free, this is just the right size to watch PBS shows online … free! The second season of Call the Midwife began a few weeks ago, and voila, there it is a birthin’ online. Other over the air, broadcast channels do the same, so I’ve got NBC’s The Office and Parks and Rec at my keyboardtips for a limited time after they originally air (the only two I regularly look forward to on the non-PBS networks).
I’ll leave you with a few fine feathered friends fotos … two robins and a Steller’s jay just outside the bedroom window … from May 5, 2006. Maybe the robin Teeny and Perk were staring down is related … Enlarge the fotos and you’ll see the the robin on the left has a curly topknot of feathers … and the jay has a dark round seed in his beak.
Sunny Saturday, March 30, 2013, 6:15 pm – Hey cats! Lookee here! Look .. how crisp and clear … the new monitor screen … Look behind you …
They’re more interested in the crisp and clear real world outside. They’re don’t care about Windows XP or Windows 7 or even Windows 8 … THEIR window never crashes or needs updating … Cats … smarter than the average person!
Here’s the tale of the new monitor, a 24″ Dell:
Silhouette of Perkins this afternoon … looking out the north-facing kitchen window …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 