Thanks for that laugh! I never would have noticed. And who is Nelli York, anyways??
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Ahhhh ! ! ! !
A really good alternate history film from the basset dimension.
The fun part of these types of movies is you can put your brain on hold and enjoy the story.
In basset years, this film is set in that alternate history about 168 basset years ago now.
I particularly like reading the credits knowing that Alexi “Dean” Kakos was cast as a “brilliant engineer.” 😜 😎 🤓
With a cast and crew this incredible, this is a ”must see”. I especially enjoy seeing Ms. Cleo carry out the major role, She is such a believable actress whenever fire arms are called for in the script.
I guess I was extra tired last night, and forgot to mention that it’s always such fun to see my name in lights in one of Stel’s movie posters! Thanks, Stel.
“Hyde Park Grille” is currently listed as “Temporarily Closed.”
The full article at the link contains photographs of old time Cleveland Heights as well.
Thanks, Alexi… The reason I knew for sure that it was closed is that I’d actually googled it not long ago…
and I’d even read that article.
….
Mrs. Newmark was our landlady, and next door neighbor in her duplex, when I was in early elementary school.
For some reason, I’d been trying to recall whether her name was Newmark or Newmeyer….
I was only 10 when we left Ohio forever… the military life, with a lot of people and places to try to remember.
…
Her granddaughter, and I, and my little sister, would often walk miles across town by ourselves, in those innocent times, to get to her bakery, on a weekend or summer day.
We’d be given a cookie and allowed to play in the huge back room, with its enormous mixer, and giant bags of flour and sugar…
where of course “nobody noticed” little hands dipping into the chocolate chip barrel.
…
Can’t imagine that today…
Or even that the white-haired, smiling Mrs. Newmark, always wearing an apron, would look the same in 2021, in what must have been at most her early 60’s.
Sacrilege! LOL, But pumpernickel is ok, so you are off the hook! there are lot of good delies in and around Cleveland, I go to Corky & Lenny’s, look them up!
Neither. Behold the eye line.
See my comment above. Wood duck is yet another possibility.
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That Rotty Tailwagger was a real slave driver on this production. Constantly setting fires that we had to put out. I heard you had to put out to make it in Hollywood, but I though that meant something else. But in the end, I guess he made a solid movie out of it, thanks to a stellar cast of Ballard Street regulars.
A cast can either make or break a movie. He does seem to have a certain talent in choosing the right canines!
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It is now 02:55 hrs. E.S.T. and I finished watching “Escape From New York ( or is that Nelli York?) about an hour ago.
Yes, your brain does need to be put on hold; but it’s a fun movie.
Then I did some research.
The Wikipedia article says it was shot mostly in St. Louis, not New York and credits Jamie Lee Curtis with the opening narration which sets up the dystopian society in which the story takes place.
Her voice is recognizable.
I also had no idea that the “World Trade Center” was completed at the time of the movie.
More research:
You won’t be able to read it all because, I suspect, National Geographic (rightly) wants subscription money, but the article opening gives the gist of StelBel’s owl picture.
I thought it was the former because we have those in the English Garden here in Munich – they raise their young inside trees.
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Ssssssssssssquirrel!
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I consider this movie my escapist masterpeice.
However, art is subjective.
The reviewer for the Burptown Bugle said, “it gives us too little of too much.”
Ms. Barko was so incensed she piddled on that reviewer’s geraniums.
“If you don’t like Cleo Clifford in Escape From Cleveland, then you and I will have some trouble seeing eye to eye-patch in our taste in movies.”
Billy Bob Siskibble, Turkey Scratch Times
The recipe says “tart cooking apples,” but there’s really no reason you shouldn’t make a“NEW-TIME” version with any sweet apple you like. The cooking instructions remain the same; adjust the sugar any amount you want. Me? I’d always use the full cup because of my sweet tooth.
From: “Woman’s Day Collector’s Cook Book (revised and enlarged)
Published by: Simon and Schuster, New York
SBN: 671-21986-3
FLAKY PASTRY
(Note: The apple pie recipe below just needs a 1/2 recipe made.)
With fork, mix the first 4 ingredients.
In small bowl, beat 1/2 cup of water and remaining ingredients together.
Add to first mixture and blend with fork until dry ingredients are moistened.
With hands, mold dough in a ball and chill at least 15 minutes.
Refrigerated dough can be rolled at once.
Dough can be stored in refrigerator up to 3 days, or frozen until ready to use.
Makes two double-crust 9” pies and one 9” shell.
And now, on to the pie….
OLD-TIME APPLE PIE
1/2 recipe Flaky Pastry
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon or nutmeg
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
6 to 7 cups sliced peeled tart cooking apples
1 1/2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Cream, ice cream, whipped cream or Cheddar-cheese slices (optional)
Line 9” piepan (sic) with pastry.
Mix next 3 ingredients, add to apples and mix well.
Heap in lined pan and dot with butter.
Adjust top crust and cut slits for steam to escape.
Seal edges and flute.
Bake in hot oven (425°F.) 30 to 40 minutes, or until crust is well browned and apples are soft.
If edge gets too brown during baking, cover with foil last 10 minutes.
Serve warm or cold with cream if desired.
“THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY”
AND OTHER SKETCHES
…comes to mind.
I never particularly liked that story. I always realized it was the humour of the times he lived in, but Mark Twain’s casual recitations of betting on animal fights never sat well with me, and loading quail shot into a frog’s stomach causes a sick feeling every time I think of it.
Our mother was a softie when it came to animals, and through her we kids (my late sister and I) got pets and pets and pets; all at the same time.
Our dad tried to play the “gruff” card when it came to animals, but it was through him we got three pets he deemed in need of rescuing: Polly, the macaw, Minnie, the tapir, and Sonata, a horse that had very probably been mistreated, and was so skittish that we had to eventually give him up (but Dad tried).
(human version)
…
ESCAPE FROM NELLI YORK??? Who is to blame for those graphics?
LOL
It’s the font. Fortunately, there is no “W” in Cleveland!
g’night!
And, also fortunately, the “V” in that font isn’t half a “W”.
Indeed!
Thanks for that laugh! I never would have noticed. And who is Nelli York, anyways??
Ahhhh ! ! ! !
A really good alternate history film from the basset dimension.
The fun part of these types of movies is you can put your brain on hold and enjoy the story.
In basset years, this film is set in that alternate history about 168 basset years ago now.
I particularly like reading the credits knowing that Alexi “Dean” Kakos was cast as a “brilliant engineer.” 😜 😎 🤓
I always enjoy a Perkypup production!
As do I!
It always takes me a minute to figure out who “Joey Pup Stevieboy” is…
C’mon…………get with the program, JPS! Geeeez!
I’m still trying to figure it out. ;>)
Yess’m…
With a cast and crew this incredible, this is a ”must see”. I especially enjoy seeing Ms. Cleo carry out the major role, She is such a believable actress whenever fire arms are called for in the script.
Goodnight Everybody.
I guess I was extra tired last night, and forgot to mention that it’s always such fun to see my name in lights in one of Stel’s movie posters! Thanks, Stel.
Yeah….I haven’t done one of these posters in a while. I must keep it in mind.
Gosh….wow….
What can I say, but thanks, Stel!
But tell me… who was a bad dog?
Who got us in so much trouble that we had to escape?
…
Oh well… Cleveland is eminently escape-worthy anyhow..
I know… I lived there…. well, OK, in Cleveland Heights..
and I was a kid, and it was long ago.
I’m sure they’ve rounded up all the dinosaurs by now,
and the kids have other school supplies besides our chalky rocks and cave walls.
..
But it’s probably not that different.
Mrs. Newmark’s bakery is probably gone, though.
No more sneaking back to her barrel of chocolate chips.
Sorry 2021 kids.
The following quote…
“You know where that steak house[Hyde Park Grille] is on Coventry? That used to be Newmark’s bakery.”
…comes from here…
…Link to: “The Cleveland Heights Oral History Project”
“Hyde Park Grille” is currently listed as “Temporarily Closed.”
The full article at the link contains photographs of old time Cleveland Heights as well.
Thanks, Alexi… The reason I knew for sure that it was closed is that I’d actually googled it not long ago…
and I’d even read that article.
….
Mrs. Newmark was our landlady, and next door neighbor in her duplex, when I was in early elementary school.
For some reason, I’d been trying to recall whether her name was Newmark or Newmeyer….
I was only 10 when we left Ohio forever… the military life, with a lot of people and places to try to remember.
…
Her granddaughter, and I, and my little sister, would often walk miles across town by ourselves, in those innocent times, to get to her bakery, on a weekend or summer day.
We’d be given a cookie and allowed to play in the huge back room, with its enormous mixer, and giant bags of flour and sugar…
where of course “nobody noticed” little hands dipping into the chocolate chip barrel.
…
Can’t imagine that today…
Or even that the white-haired, smiling Mrs. Newmark, always wearing an apron, would look the same in 2021, in what must have been at most her early 60’s.
Great memories, for sure!
Why, a certain rottweiler, of course!
So where do you get “The Best European Rye Bread In Town” now? Or what’s its equivalent?
Well… if you read my post to Alexi, above, you’ll see that I haven’t been in Cleveland since I was 10… and actually, barely that.
So I guess they’re on their own.
The next stop was Libya… try to find rye bread or a bagel there.
…
I was 18 when I came to northern California…
And I’m still looking for a decent bagel here too, outside San Francisco.
But something that gets me in real trouble in a deli (and in my family) is that I’ve never liked rye bread… though I do enjoy pumpernickel.
Sacrilege! LOL, But pumpernickel is ok, so you are off the hook! there are lot of good delies in and around Cleveland, I go to Corky & Lenny’s, look them up!
OK, I know my eyes are probably playing tricks…’
but up in that tree trunk…
Are we sure that’s a baby owl…
And not a Mallard duckling?
I think the owl’s just keeping it around for a snack.
Usually, birds of prey don’t hunt close to their own homes.
Isn’t Nature grand?
Noooo!
It does look like a duckling, but it has a mean stare.
Neither. Behold the eye line.
See my comment above. Wood duck is yet another possibility.
That Rotty Tailwagger was a real slave driver on this production. Constantly setting fires that we had to put out. I heard you had to put out to make it in Hollywood, but I though that meant something else. But in the end, I guess he made a solid movie out of it, thanks to a stellar cast of Ballard Street regulars.
Fire is the devil’s only friend.
I was motivating you.
That’s how empresarios do things.
It worked.
Ah, Motivating……..good word.
yep…I agree….that’s what he was doing……“motivating”!
Isn’t it fun being a ‘Ballard Street Regular”?
A cast can either make or break a movie. He does seem to have a certain talent in choosing the right canines!
It is now 02:55 hrs. E.S.T. and I finished watching “Escape From New York ( or is that Nelli York?) about an hour ago.
Yes, your brain does need to be put on hold; but it’s a fun movie.
Then I did some research.
The Wikipedia article says it was shot mostly in St. Louis, not New York and credits Jamie Lee Curtis with the opening narration which sets up the dystopian society in which the story takes place.
Her voice is recognizable.
I also had no idea that the “World Trade Center” was completed at the time of the movie.
More research:
You won’t be able to read it all because, I suspect, National Geographic (rightly) wants subscription money, but the article opening gives the gist of StelBel’s owl picture.
…link to the owl and the duckling …
It’s always nice to know the ‘back story’. Thanks, Alexi
“The Owl and the Wood Duck put to sea in a beautiful pea-green tree…”
Thanks for your research, Alexi!
Oh; one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_duck
I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_duck
I thought it was the former because we have those in the English Garden here in Munich – they raise their young inside trees.
Ssssssssssssquirrel!
I consider this movie my escapist masterpeice.
However, art is subjective.
The reviewer for the Burptown Bugle said, “it gives us too little of too much.”
Ms. Barko was so incensed she piddled on that reviewer’s geraniums.
Ummmm…Ms. Barko would be me…………. He deserved it. Harrumph!
So, what did the folks at the Turkey Scratch Times have to say??
“If you don’t like Cleo Clifford in Escape From Cleveland, then you and I will have some trouble seeing eye to eye-patch in our taste in movies.”
Billy Bob Siskibble, Turkey Scratch Times
Just saw this! (THIS JUST IN!!)
Sounds like a rave (ravin’?) review to me!
Good morning, Cleophans!
Loved this filum! Almost as much Big Doggie in Little China
Add some ice cream and I can really get behind today’s National Apple Pie Day
Y’all stay well. (((((HuGz)))))
Thanks you, Plods!
Oh, and by the way, I have a poster for Big Trouble in Little Cleveland. I’ll have to post that soon. I think it might be the same movie!
and…
The recipe says “tart cooking apples,” but there’s really no reason you shouldn’t make a“NEW-TIME” version with any sweet apple you like. The cooking instructions remain the same; adjust the sugar any amount you want. Me? I’d always use the full cup because of my sweet tooth.
From: “Woman’s Day Collector’s Cook Book (revised and enlarged)
Published by: Simon and Schuster, New York
SBN: 671-21986-3
FLAKY PASTRY
(Note: The apple pie recipe below just needs a 1/2 recipe made.)
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups solid vegetable shortening (not oil)
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 egg
With fork, mix the first 4 ingredients.
In small bowl, beat 1/2 cup of water and remaining ingredients together.
Add to first mixture and blend with fork until dry ingredients are moistened.
With hands, mold dough in a ball and chill at least 15 minutes.
Refrigerated dough can be rolled at once.
Dough can be stored in refrigerator up to 3 days, or frozen until ready to use.
Makes two double-crust 9” pies and one 9” shell.
And now, on to the pie….
OLD-TIME APPLE PIE
1/2 recipe Flaky Pastry
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon or nutmeg
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
6 to 7 cups sliced peeled tart cooking apples
1 1/2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Cream, ice cream, whipped cream or Cheddar-cheese slices (optional)
Line 9” piepan (sic) with pastry.
Mix next 3 ingredients, add to apples and mix well.
Heap in lined pan and dot with butter.
Adjust top crust and cut slits for steam to escape.
Seal edges and flute.
Bake in hot oven (425°F.) 30 to 40 minutes, or until crust is well browned and apples are soft.
If edge gets too brown during baking, cover with foil last 10 minutes.
Serve warm or cold with cream if desired.
Mark Twain’s collection…
“THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY”
AND OTHER SKETCHES
…comes to mind.
I never particularly liked that story. I always realized it was the humour of the times he lived in, but Mark Twain’s casual recitations of betting on animal fights never sat well with me, and loading quail shot into a frog’s stomach causes a sick feeling every time I think of it.
Our mother was a softie when it came to animals, and through her we kids (my late sister and I) got pets and pets and pets; all at the same time.
Our dad tried to play the “gruff” card when it came to animals, but it was through him we got three pets he deemed in need of rescuing: Polly, the macaw, Minnie, the tapir, and Sonata, a horse that had very probably been mistreated, and was so skittish that we had to eventually give him up (but Dad tried).
Calaveras County is in California.
We always had lots of animals around, too. It’s a great way to grow up!
Great animation! It tires me out, though……
I find my eyes bouncing up and down, up and down. If he jumps any higher, they might just roll back in my head. 🙂
Oh!
Of course… Jumping Frog Day means the opening of the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jubilee!
The jumping frog contest is world famous.
https://www.gocalaveras.com/business/festivals-events/calaveras-county-fair-jumping-frog-jubilee/
In 2020 it didn’t happen due to Covid-19, but I see that a partial event is back for 2021.
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Good morning Balladeers, ((((( Plods))))) and Miss Susan.
Still waiting for you to join up with us and become a member, Dry……
Let us know if you need help to do it.
Love the picture of the Owl and Duck. Cute.
Love it that you stop in here everyday and share your thoughts
Awwww….
She blushes.
I thought so, too.
I don’t know whether I’m embarrassed or glad that it really IS a duck and not my imagination.
Shatner and Nimoy…pre-Star Trek:
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That’s a very persuasive poster. Although I have to say, I can’t imagine why anyone would ever want to escape Cleveland.