Even though Quinn is Italian — the youngest son of Anthony Quinn — the pictures at this LINK seem to confirm that “Support” is its name (a quick Google search says support translates to sostegno in Italian). The article gives more details about the sculpture, and some photographs of the crane work used to install it.
BTW… so Lorenzo Quinn is an “Italian” sculptor… but Anthony Quinn is notably Mexican.
Lorenzo must be one of his kids with his Italian wife, who must have raised him in Italy.
No time to look it up at 3am.
…
He had an “ethnic” face… and was an equal opportunity actor…
getting awards for playing roles including Italians, Mexicans, Arabs, a Chinese person, and famously, the quintessential Greek… Zorba… even though he wasn’t the least bit Greek….
…
IIRC, he had about a dozen kids in his 80 plus years… several each with 4 or 5 women, including four wives… and they were not brief marriages.
My mother used to get angry reading about him… leaving his wife of 30 plus years and having children with the next one…
I thought of her when I read that he fathered a couple more in his 70’s. LOL
Your copy of the official video is “unavailable” in Canada.
The only copy I could find that was playable is very poor quality; so I’m posting E.L.O.’s Wembley Stadium performance.
A thinly disguised Steppenwolf ripoff.
(remind me to tell you my Steve Miller “connection” story some time when it’s not a Monday morning)(Hint: what do Steve Miller, Boz Skaggs, Stuart Margolin and my former next door neighbor (who once fixed a speeding tick for me in Haskell County, Oklahoma) have in common?)
I’ve heard Herman’s Hermits version of “Leaning On a Lamp Post,” but I didn’t remember the slow opening. I was expecting the same as George Formby’s version.
Anyway, here are five other Herman’s Hermits videos: …
… “I’m Into Something Good” — “Henry The VIII, I Am” on The Ed Sullivan Show — “No Milk Today”— “There’s a Kind of Hush” — “Dandy” …
…with George Formby’s version of “Leaning…” at the bottom (just click on the videos as usual to play)
The Crystals- Susan, I still believe that my interpretation of “I gave him all the love that I had” is correct. Young people were having sex and songs were written in a way that got things by the censors.
Martha and the Vandellas – I love this song, always have! Memories of summer nights!
In my day, high school girls were virginal… except the ones who ….somehow… got pregnant, which left me totally shocked…
so of course I wouldn’t hear sexual innuendo in “Till He Kissed Me”. Only the Crystals knew for sure.
….
I do know that some lines we take for sexual now, have been absolutely denied by the songwriters….
Ie, Melanie reportedly laughed about “I’ve Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates”, when interviewed after some radio stations banned it… saying she roller skated all the time as a kid, and this song was about a childhood crush, and skating… but she understood the unintended interpretation.
“Good golly Miss Molly, sure likes to ball” was reputedly from a time when “ball” meant only “party.”
Etc.
…
The same is true of drug references… of course neither “Puff the Magic Dragon” and its little Jackie Paper, had anything to do with dope, nor did “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” reference LSD.
Then again… what else would they say.
…
(Though a few years later, there couldn’t have been any doubt about the meaning of “Let’s Spend the Night Together.”
Only Claude could find an electric recliner with a “Do Not Touch” button on its own remote.
Oh… maybe he got it at the Big Lots Outlet Store’s Christmas Clearance sale… you know… huge markdowns on unsold merchandise from the store that sells only rejects from the Big Lots discount chain.
You can get some real deals there on things like bicycles that run backwards, battery drainers… and maybe…. recliners that pitch you off.
I thought there was a problem with the Crystal’s video, so I opened it on YouTube to find out why the voices were so out of sync with their movements.
The fellow who uploaded it, and apparently remixed it, said it was because he couldn’t find any video of them singing “Then He Kissed Me” … so he matched the audio with video of them singing a different song. Um… thanks?
….
And I think I posted here not long ago about seeing Martha and the Vandellas live, singing “Dancing in the Street.”
It was a large event, sometime in the late 70’s… with lots of acts… they weren’t the headliners, or the biggest stars… wish I could remember more about it.
I think it was outdoors, but it wasn’t Altamont, or any scruffy gig like that…. they were in evening gowns under bright lights.
…
I think their set was just that one song, or possibly they had sung another one before that… but I can tell you this:
They owned that audience, and maybe that show.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd so intensely mesmerised, on their feet and clapping along together before it was finished, roaring approval at the end.
I must have switched dimensions again.
I clearly remember a Bonomo Candy commercial for a liquid cherry centre chocolate treat.
The treat came in a cube box about 1.5 inches on a side.
The commercial was a cartoon tugboat towing a Bonomo cherry chocolate box under a bridge, with the box getting stuck.
I know I found the commercial on the ‘net (2005 or thereabouts) but I can’t any longer.
The tag jingle was Bonomo’s “Oh, oh, oh…” one.
We were living in Connecticut at the time it first came out.
Am I nuts or what?
Edited at 12:32 hrs. E.S.T.
When my subconscious kicked in….
But the only thing I remembered correctly was the tugboat, ahh well, at least Chunkys (it’s a brand name, Word) were in this dimension.
My then sister in law and I used to make these, years ago… But MUCH better….
Our annual project.
The above ones have maraschino cherries.We’d go to a produce stand and buy a whole flat or two of fresh red cherries to share, instead.
We’d wash and stone lots of them, pack them loosely into Mason jars, and fill the jars with brandy.
A month or so later, we’d make vanilla fondant, not pink, and wrap brandy-soaked cherries in it… using far less fondant than above, but it has to completely seal the cherries..
Then we’d dip them in dark chocolate, which would come out thicker than those.
….
Ours didn’t look so perfect, and neither of us mastered dripping lines over them for decoration.
But after a few weeks, the alcohol dissolves the fondant, and you get a sweet brandy syrup inside, and a whole brandy-preserved cherry.
I have no idea of the alcohol content. It’s diluted with sugar and cherry juice…But certainly not zero.
….
Some of the fun is checking the batches for leaky ones, because of course they must be eaten immediately.
We’d wrap them individually in foil and give some for gifts… and still keep plenty.
Saturday: Off and on rain and record 76°.
Sunday: Warm and showers. I picked a few straggler tomatoes and had to open a window because it was stuffy in the house.
Today: Snow.
.
I love this picture, and apparently, it’s an actual art installation along the Grand Canal in Venice.
“Support” 2017 Lorenzo Quinn
Even though Quinn is Italian — the youngest son of Anthony Quinn — the pictures at this LINK seem to confirm that “Support” is its name (a quick Google search says support translates to sostegno in Italian). The article gives more details about the sculpture, and some photographs of the crane work used to install it.
It’s gotta be Venice. Holding up the building from sinking.
Venice, California?
Yeah. Let’s go with that.
Lights! Cameras! Action!
Expensive upkeep… I mean, what do they have to pay that giant to stand in the water 24/7?
BTW… so Lorenzo Quinn is an “Italian” sculptor… but Anthony Quinn is notably Mexican.
Lorenzo must be one of his kids with his Italian wife, who must have raised him in Italy.
No time to look it up at 3am.
…
He had an “ethnic” face… and was an equal opportunity actor…
getting awards for playing roles including Italians, Mexicans, Arabs, a Chinese person, and famously, the quintessential Greek… Zorba… even though he wasn’t the least bit Greek….
…
IIRC, he had about a dozen kids in his 80 plus years… several each with 4 or 5 women, including four wives… and they were not brief marriages.
My mother used to get angry reading about him… leaving his wife of 30 plus years and having children with the next one…
I thought of her when I read that he fathered a couple more in his 70’s. LOL
Anthony Quinn certainly had a lot of progenies… Very prolific…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Quinn
Your copy of the official video is “unavailable” in Canada.
The only copy I could find that was playable is very poor quality; so I’m posting E.L.O.’s Wembley Stadium performance.
..
Found it.
OK – back to bed it is.
That is what i saw. What is it that Tigressy found?
I found the same one you did…
The Cleo strip hasn’t opened for me yet.
Back soon.
I see what you are talking about. I found something different.
As did StelBel. It’s 3:43 AM here…
thought you back off to bed
That was before happyhappyhappy hour.
I’m going to bed myself. 4:30 in the AM is going to be too soon. For me.
There’s a purring cat at my feet…
Got that! And the dog. Best bed warmers ever. 🙂
Sleep tight. Good night!
I’ll go to bed again, too.
…that would be me…
Wow! I found it!
I found it! Hooray!
Oops. It wasn’t the real one. Back to the puzzle,
That was a red herring.
I found StelBels broken tool.
Yippee!!
I had to copy it and enlarge it in Paint. It’s a definite find, and now I know where it is, it’s obvious.
The one that is in my hands.
Susan Sunshine says:
😀
<3
❤️
Just a great, timely photo.
Hey, I DO them, don’t I?
And I did this one too. Hmphff.
In fact I always do them, cos I can’t resist a puzzle…
even the
stu…I mean, the ones that aren’t as great as the others.I usually even post solutions…. this time Stel beat me to it again.
…
So don’t forget to make one for next weekend.
Yours aren’t stupid.
They’re usually better than these outside ones… and if there’s a rare problem, we have a source for the correct answers.
You.
LOL
This was quite the rabbit hole.
The pilots of those now ex-aircraft even have a CLUB!
A thinly disguised Steppenwolf ripoff.
(remind me to tell you my Steve Miller “connection” story some time when it’s not a Monday morning)(Hint: what do Steve Miller, Boz Skaggs, Stuart Margolin and my former next door neighbor (who once fixed a speeding tick for me in Haskell County, Oklahoma) have in common?)
,
There sits one cool surfer dude.
,
QTπ’s attention span isn’t long enough for fetch. 😀
I realy like this guys work.
He makes history interesting.
That is one of the best history lessons I’ve had in a long time.
I’ve heard Herman’s Hermits version of “Leaning On a Lamp Post,” but I didn’t remember the slow opening. I was expecting the same as George Formby’s version.
Anyway, here are five other Herman’s Hermits videos: …
… “I’m Into Something Good” — “Henry The VIII, I Am” on The Ed Sullivan Show — “No Milk Today”— “There’s a Kind of Hush” — “Dandy” …
…with George Formby’s version of “Leaning…” at the bottom (just click on the videos as usual to play)
Claude, Claude, Claude. How many times do we have to tell you…..look, but do not touch!
I’m wondering why they even have that button for the chair. Probably just for people like Claude. Keeps life interesting.
This reminds me of Claude…
As near as I can tell, this is a version of a Daihatsu (lifted) Hijet.
Too funny!!
The Crystals- Susan, I still believe that my interpretation of “I gave him all the love that I had” is correct. Young people were having sex and songs were written in a way that got things by the censors.
Martha and the Vandellas – I love this song, always have! Memories of summer nights!
On the Jersey shore they used to have dances with a DJ on the tennis courts on summer nights. Cost a quarter, I think.
I’m not at all certain I would want to dance with the DJ. At any price.
Maybe I was just too innocent back then.
Maybe I still am, but probably not.
In my day, high school girls were virginal… except the ones who ….somehow… got pregnant, which left me totally shocked…
so of course I wouldn’t hear sexual innuendo in “Till He Kissed Me”. Only the Crystals knew for sure.
….
I do know that some lines we take for sexual now, have been absolutely denied by the songwriters….
Ie, Melanie reportedly laughed about “I’ve Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates”, when interviewed after some radio stations banned it… saying she roller skated all the time as a kid, and this song was about a childhood crush, and skating… but she understood the unintended interpretation.
“Good golly Miss Molly, sure likes to ball” was reputedly from a time when “ball” meant only “party.”
Etc.
…
The same is true of drug references… of course neither “Puff the Magic Dragon” and its little Jackie Paper, had anything to do with dope, nor did “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” reference LSD.
Then again… what else would they say.
…
(Though a few years later, there couldn’t have been any doubt about the meaning of “Let’s Spend the Night Together.”
And I’d …um… matured … enough to know it.
Or later still… “One Toke Over the Line.”)
Only Claude could find an electric recliner with a “Do Not Touch” button on its own remote.
Oh… maybe he got it at the Big Lots Outlet Store’s Christmas Clearance sale… you know… huge markdowns on unsold merchandise from the store that sells only rejects from the Big Lots discount chain.
You can get some real deals there on things like bicycles that run backwards, battery drainers… and maybe…. recliners that pitch you off.
They might even have turnip twaddlers.
I’ve been looking for a good turnip twaddler.
I thought there was a problem with the Crystal’s video, so I opened it on YouTube to find out why the voices were so out of sync with their movements.
The fellow who uploaded it, and apparently remixed it, said it was because he couldn’t find any video of them singing “Then He Kissed Me” … so he matched the audio with video of them singing a different song. Um… thanks?
….
And I think I posted here not long ago about seeing Martha and the Vandellas live, singing “Dancing in the Street.”
It was a large event, sometime in the late 70’s… with lots of acts… they weren’t the headliners, or the biggest stars… wish I could remember more about it.
I think it was outdoors, but it wasn’t Altamont, or any scruffy gig like that…. they were in evening gowns under bright lights.
…
I think their set was just that one song, or possibly they had sung another one before that… but I can tell you this:
They owned that audience, and maybe that show.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd so intensely mesmerised, on their feet and clapping along together before it was finished, roaring approval at the end.
Their power was electrifying.
Since it would be a sin to waste any of those …
I must have switched dimensions again.
I clearly remember a Bonomo Candy commercial for a liquid cherry centre chocolate treat.
The treat came in a cube box about 1.5 inches on a side.
The commercial was a cartoon tugboat towing a Bonomo cherry chocolate box under a bridge, with the box getting stuck.
I know I found the commercial on the ‘net (2005 or thereabouts) but I can’t any longer.
The tag jingle was Bonomo’s “Oh, oh, oh…” one.
We were living in Connecticut at the time it first came out.
Am I nuts or what?
Edited at 12:32 hrs. E.S.T.
When my subconscious kicked in….
But the only thing I remembered correctly was the tugboat, ahh well, at least Chunkys (it’s a brand name, Word) were in this dimension.
My then sister in law and I used to make these, years ago… But MUCH better….
Our annual project.
The above ones have maraschino cherries.We’d go to a produce stand and buy a whole flat or two of fresh red cherries to share, instead.
We’d wash and stone lots of them, pack them loosely into Mason jars, and fill the jars with brandy.
A month or so later, we’d make vanilla fondant, not pink, and wrap brandy-soaked cherries in it… using far less fondant than above, but it has to completely seal the cherries..
Then we’d dip them in dark chocolate, which would come out thicker than those.
….
Ours didn’t look so perfect, and neither of us mastered dripping lines over them for decoration.
But after a few weeks, the alcohol dissolves the fondant, and you get a sweet brandy syrup inside, and a whole brandy-preserved cherry.
I have no idea of the alcohol content. It’s diluted with sugar and cherry juice…But certainly not zero.
….
Some of the fun is checking the batches for leaky ones, because of course they must be eaten immediately.
We’d wrap them individually in foil and give some for gifts… and still keep plenty.
So good!
I want one of those!
Had a work buddy that had a regular lift chair. Took 2-3 minutes in either direction.
Good morning Cleophans!
.
.
.
Y’all toss some if you can lift them. (((((HuGz!)))))
This contest would be a complete waste of my mother’s dark (or light) Christmas fruitcake.
I’ll try to remember to post the recipes in September.
But you gotta admit it is phunny.
some are not really worth eating.
But drinking…
Reminds me of “punkin’ chunkin’.”
Saturday: Off and on rain and record 76°.
Sunday: Warm and showers. I picked a few straggler tomatoes and had to open a window because it was stuffy in the house.
Today: Snow.
Hope you had closed the window!
Yes. Only had it open for an hour or so.