August 17, 2022

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perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Great picture. The train is awesome, but that truck is awesomer.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  perkycat
2 years ago

awesomer??

(don’t ever change)

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Exactly!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Too bad about the graffiti on the stop sign.

perkycat
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Reply to  mr_sherman
2 years ago

You just can’t get away from it, unfortunately.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

a little cutie

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

These last two are both photos of someone who needs a hug.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Which one?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

A strange image search… both the filename for this image and a website called ArtStation, plus a couple of Pinterest “Collections”, credit the painting (and many others) to one Eli Fabien…

but it’s rather fishy.

For one thing, that signature looks nothing like “Eli Fabien”…

For another, the pages of “his” work that I found are crowded with images in several different styles, a number of which bear the same signature… but many others are unsigned.

His “resume” page on ArtStation says

“Eli Fabien
Designer,Illustrator,Christian
Guangzhou, China”

Yet I found no other leads.

The sign on the Coke machine looks like it was intended to say “Refresh Yourself”… which I have seen on old Coke displays, as their slogan was once “The Pause that Refreshes.”

But why would it be garbled, if “Coca Cola” is clear?

And the bottle isn’t shaped like a Coke bottle of the period.

….

Then when I googled “Eli Fabien”, I only found a French (music) composer named Fabien Ely.

I give up.

Last edited 2 years ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

“The little pueblo of Los Angeles”, eh? Either our narrator is being sardonic, or this was a LOOONNNGG time ago.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

I’ll go with option #2…

I don’t know how much later this tale is set, but according to Google and Wikipedia, “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles” was founded in 1781, originally occupied by just 44 Spanish settlers, including children.

There’s now a museum at the location.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

If i recall my “Two Years Before the Mast” correctly, Dana took a mule trip of several days to reach the pueblo high up in the hills.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 years ago

The museum and original site is near downtown L.A.

But I don’t know what the terrain looked like to sailors back them.

“Two Years Before the Mast” will remain forever in my memory as the very first book I ever allowed myself to return to the library unfinished.

I was eight or nine years old, and enchanted with sea stories, like the Admiral Hornblower books.

I’d seen mention of Dana in another book, that made it sound fascinating, and decided I MUST read it.

But slogging through endless lists of cargo off and cargo laded was just too much for a fourth grader.

I had to tell my teacher I gave up, and then i felt guilty for years.

Congrats to you for sticking with it.

….

I think I was in high school when another teacher said if she didn’t like a book, she didn’t finish it…

And suddenly, I felt free!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Looking at maps, “Downtown” is about 25 miles from San Pedro where Dana’s ship docked. That’s a pretty good donkey ride!

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

Perro loves his whip! Nobody gives him credit…

perkycat
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2 years ago

After that speech, they would never suspect him. Time to go to work. Perro to the rescue!!

Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

The carnage in the Godzilla Bassets video is horrific.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

Indeed it was! But I AM glad it was all caught by the camera, if for nothing more than to warn citizens in outlying areas.

(And, how well done that video was! Great production!)

dennisinseattle
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

Look out Cleveland!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

Especially the cardboard areas!

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

They knocked over a whole city, as though the tall buildings were nothing but cardboard!

Oh, the horror!

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2 years ago

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

¡Hola, Cleo amigos!!

Perro is back… and once again, we follow his great adventure… es muy beeootiful!

Yesterday…. a galleon on the ocean brought the dog we know will soon be our hero…

but hiding his secret identity…. traveling in the guise of his alter ego, the handsome, mustachioed Don Doggo de Basset!

Coming home to save early California from some serious problems…

One of them being the urgent need for a superhero.
 
Perro may not have X-ray eyes, or the ability to fly…
but he’s got enormous brown eyes…

and he’s a whiz with a sword, wears really tight pants, and can capture ladies hearts in a single bound…

and sometimes he even wears a cape!
 
Good enough for me.

….

So gather round, amigos, because now that Don Doggo has actually arrived on the scene… the saga begins in earnest!
 
The sight of a sweet, defenseless female being bullied by the merciless henchmen of El Comandante Slurez has stirred him.

Is his wagging tail a symbol of great control, the sign of a consummate actor, as his friend Fernando appears to believe…

or is it an unconscious and almost dangerous “tell”?


 
Whether or not he is tipping his hand… or his paw… the desire for action is obviously rising in his canine breast.

He may be managing to hide it from El Comandante…

But I think we shall soon see another side of him.

Viva Perro™!

Last edited 2 years ago by SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Not yesterday. Nononono…

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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Yesterday to him…. at least metaphorically.

He doesn’t take breaks for movies.

Then again, we may not be seeing him every day.

Perhaps it took him three days to get from the scene on the boat to the one in el pueblo…. or nine. Boats are slow.

In point of fact, I have no idea when it was…

I was merely using a literary convention.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Yesterday was “Silence of the Bassets”. Just saying…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Sigh…

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Of course Perro would have won if he had met that fava-bean eater!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I tried to keep it fit for young pups.
(Liver?!?)

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

See what I mean?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

I knew what you meant, Susan: “yesterday” in the context of the “Perro” strip — the storyline……not the real-life “yesterday”.

We should think of Tuesdays and Thursdays as commercials for movies being shown in the area! Then, the rest of the days are our regularly scheduled programs.

So…..back to “Perro”….our regularly scheduled program, but stay tuned for yet another commercial coming up in a few hours!!!

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2 years ago

BTW… I’m here late tonight, and probably a little goofy…

Yeah yeah, I know… but maybe goofier than usual, if it’s possible to tell.

We’ve had a three-day heat wave.

Not the worst we’ve had; today was the hottest at supposedly 99°.. but steady, not dissipating early in the evening like they usually do.

Tomorrow’s 84° is sounding quite refreshing.

Then when I got online, I opened a few pages and my internet quit… but it was doing something strange…

It said I was connected, but with “No internet”.

I could disconnect and reconnect… but not get to or refresh any web pages, until it finally changed its mind.

Gremlins.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Your computer was connected to your router (wire or -less) maybe?

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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

I use Wi-Fi, not a wired connection, because there’s no Ethernet port on my laptop.

(I was surprised by that…. but I’m told that’s the way it’s going these days. No Ethernet, no optical drive…everything by Wi-Fi.)

According to the Wi-Fi stats, I was connected to my ISP, not just the modem/router, and it diligently measured the zero throughput.

….

The router connection is shown in a different place in that window, at a constant rate, as long as it’s working…

kind of a less featured spot, as generally you’re there to choose or verify your network or maybe check for data flow.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I, for one, am gratified to learn that there is a Massachusetts Day. Slightly disappointed that neither Belchertown nor my little town are shown on that map.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

What’s your little town (if you’ll pardon me for being nosy–don’t feel obligated to answer)?? Just curious. Mine (Easthampton) is shown, surprisingly. That’s usually one that’s left out!

Yay for Massachusetts Day!!!!!!!!!!

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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

Dogsniff’s town isn’t shown either…

Nor the one he used to live in.

Dunno about Mudd’s cos I don’t know exactly where he lives.

I wondered how a little dot like Easthampton made the cut.

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

See?

Look at that second map!

I knew Massachusetts was trying to take over the whole country!

Last edited 2 years ago by SusanSunshine
StelBel
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

It would only be for the good of EVERYBODY!

Old Phart Plods
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2 years ago

Badass Basset…I like it.

Good morning bassetiers…. guess what day it is.

Y’all have a great day (((((HuGz!)))))

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

It’s my weekend day!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

it says ”nothing here”…..

MontanaLady
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2 years ago

oh no…

godzilla knocked over the bank!

MontanaLady
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2 years ago

gee. i wonder who don doggo has in mind who’s a bada— with a whip? i guess we all have to wait until friday.

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2 years ago

comment image

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

yes

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

Well, now, y’see, that’s not funny. There’s no cartoon in that answer. 😁

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