All that effort and determination…. I wouldn’t be surprised if this bit ends up with him sawing right through the strings and then cutting the whole thing in half with the bow.
I put it that way because, for me, it was more of an experience than a movie.
…
I made a big mistake… I saw the first film in the series, when it first came out, and loved it…. then a few years later, I saw another…
I think it was the second one, but I’m not sure… so it could have been the fourth…
but I know it wasn’t this one, which is the third… and I didn’t like it much.
…
It was the one with gruesome underwater characters. Oh wait… that was all of them, you say?
….
After that, I said I wasn’t going to see any more of them.
But, of course, a few years later still, a local theater showed a “Bassets of the Caribbean” marathon, and I saw this one and another one (don’t ask me), the same day, with some friends.
They’d seen them all, up to that point, in order, and somehow knew almost all the characters, and even most of the plots, which I think number about 223, or perhaps only 179, stuffed into five(?) movies… my confusion may have made it seem like more.
So of course they talked all through the movie and pointed out characters and reminded each other of who was who and who had done what….
while I was lost in merely trying to remember what everybody had done just two scenes before.
…
So a lot of it, in my memory, is one, long pirate extravaganza, with interwoven plots, characters coming and going, prisons and swords and monsters — the Kraken!… live people, and people lost in time, or in the sea… “Is that you, ___?”
Great battered hats and beautifully layered and tattered costumes, fabulous jewelry, and more little pigtails and braids and extensions than you’d think could be braided into basset fur.
It was fun, it was a carnival, a ride on a pirate ship.
….
This one does stick out because of the female “King”, and because of Keith Richhounds, and Paulie, the Beagle.
I think I liked it best, except for the very first one, which had a bit less of the supernatural and a more straightforward plot.
Then again I liked the beautiful witch-dog, with her cluttered shop and her lilting bark.
Great line: “How’s Mummy?”
…
If we go see it this time, I’ll bring a pen and a pad… nah, too dark in the theater, and it’s hard enough trying to follow 200 characters.
I’ll just fall in again, and be carried away by the pirate tide.
Officially called Enhydra lutris, and unofficially known as the cutest creatures that float, these sea otters in Sitka Sound, Alaska, are doing what otters do, showing us that it truly does take a village, in this case, a flotilla. Groups of either males or females (sometimes with pups), are appropriately named rafts. Male rafts tend to be larger and can number more than 1,000 individuals. Sea otters’ buoyant bodies indeed work like literal rafts, standing in as cradles, dinner tables, or any kind of solid surface. That’s handy because otters spend the vast majority of their lives in the water, even giving birth in the sea. Although they seem to live carefree lives, frolicking and grooming, and diving, they also serve an important role in keeping their aquatic ecosystems healthy, something to remember this week as we mark Sea Otter Awareness Week, observed every year during the last week of September.
Otters keep the giant kelp forests of the Pacific Ocean healthy by eating sea urchins, which would otherwise decimate kelp, an important habitat for many fish and other sea creatures. Otters also eat crabs, shellfish, squid, and other invertebrates. They’ve learned to crack the shells of some of their shellfish prey by smashing the crustaceans and mollusks against a rock (fetched from the sea floor of course) lodged on their bellies. An otter’s caloric needs are huge. It must eat a quarter of its body weight each day to keep up with its cold-water metabolism.
The key to an otter’s aquatic lifestyle is its fur, the thickest of any mammal, with about 1 million hairs per square inch, so dense its skin never actually gets wet. Otters need all those gazillion hairs to stay warm as they don’t have a layer of blubber like other marine mammals. Their luxuriant coats made them favorite targets for 18th- and 19th-century trappers who hunted otters to near extinction before they were protected by law. Although sea otter populations have rebounded, they are still considered endangered. Otters live along the Pacific Coast of North America, from California up to Alaska. Although they can walk on land, they almost never find the need or desire to, even when it’s nap time. When they’re ready for a snooze, they’ll raft up, wrap themselves in a strand of kelp to keep them from drifting away and recline on the world’s biggest waterbed.
OMG, That’s funny!
LOL!
Buster Keaton
All that effort and determination…. I wouldn’t be surprised if this bit ends up with him sawing right through the strings and then cutting the whole thing in half with the bow.
Great poster, Stel, and thanks for the music clips!
so easy to enjoy them all this morning!
What a superb poster today, from our very own resident postermistress!
Whew… “Bassets of the Caribbean”.
A film-going experience if ever there was one.
I put it that way because, for me, it was more of an experience than a movie.
…
I made a big mistake… I saw the first film in the series, when it first came out, and loved it…. then a few years later, I saw another…
I think it was the second one, but I’m not sure… so it could have been the fourth…
but I know it wasn’t this one, which is the third… and I didn’t like it much.
…
It was the one with gruesome underwater characters. Oh wait… that was all of them, you say?
….
After that, I said I wasn’t going to see any more of them.
But, of course, a few years later still, a local theater showed a “Bassets of the Caribbean” marathon, and I saw this one and another one (don’t ask me), the same day, with some friends.
They’d seen them all, up to that point, in order, and somehow knew almost all the characters, and even most of the plots, which I think number about 223, or perhaps only 179, stuffed into five(?) movies… my confusion may have made it seem like more.
So of course they talked all through the movie and pointed out characters and reminded each other of who was who and who had done what….
while I was lost in merely trying to remember what everybody had done just two scenes before.
…
So a lot of it, in my memory, is one, long pirate extravaganza, with interwoven plots, characters coming and going, prisons and swords and monsters — the Kraken!… live people, and people lost in time, or in the sea… “Is that you, ___?”
Great battered hats and beautifully layered and tattered costumes, fabulous jewelry, and more little pigtails and braids and extensions than you’d think could be braided into basset fur.
It was fun, it was a carnival, a ride on a pirate ship.
….
This one does stick out because of the female “King”, and because of Keith Richhounds, and Paulie, the Beagle.
I think I liked it best, except for the very first one, which had a bit less of the supernatural and a more straightforward plot.
Then again I liked the beautiful witch-dog, with her cluttered shop and her lilting bark.
Great line: “How’s Mummy?”
…
If we go see it this time, I’ll bring a pen and a pad… nah, too dark in the theater, and it’s hard enough trying to follow 200 characters.
I’ll just fall in again, and be carried away by the pirate tide.
pepperoni pizza
nighthawks chose pepperoni pizza for “Pepperoni Day”.
Here’s a different way of serving it.
fried rice
Love the film clip and the behind-the-scenes with McCartney… even if they are no match for the basset versions.
I never knew Paul was in Pirates until today.
I’ve learned more reading C&C today than I did watching Captain Kangaroo all those years.
I couldn’t miss it, with my annoying friends telling me for 20 minutes ” Oh wait… here comes Paul McCartney”.
I believe I already knew he had a role… And IIRC it was only that short scene in the clip.
I like to think I would have recognised him without the “Greek chorus” and their running commentary.
i always say i learn more from reading C & C and all the comments!
i remember all of these movies quite well! and thanks to you i’ll hear them all day long!
dah dum dah dah dum dum!
Another excellent poster. Captain Jack Basset is a handsome devil…dog.
SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK
Sea Otter Awareness Week
Officially called Enhydra lutris, and unofficially known as the cutest creatures that float, these sea otters in Sitka Sound, Alaska, are doing what otters do, showing us that it truly does take a village, in this case, a flotilla. Groups of either males or females (sometimes with pups), are appropriately named rafts. Male rafts tend to be larger and can number more than 1,000 individuals. Sea otters’ buoyant bodies indeed work like literal rafts, standing in as cradles, dinner tables, or any kind of solid surface. That’s handy because otters spend the vast majority of their lives in the water, even giving birth in the sea. Although they seem to live carefree lives, frolicking and grooming, and diving, they also serve an important role in keeping their aquatic ecosystems healthy, something to remember this week as we mark Sea Otter Awareness Week, observed every year during the last week of September.
Otters keep the giant kelp forests of the Pacific Ocean healthy by eating sea urchins, which would otherwise decimate kelp, an important habitat for many fish and other sea creatures. Otters also eat crabs, shellfish, squid, and other invertebrates. They’ve learned to crack the shells of some of their shellfish prey by smashing the crustaceans and mollusks against a rock (fetched from the sea floor of course) lodged on their bellies. An otter’s caloric needs are huge. It must eat a quarter of its body weight each day to keep up with its cold-water metabolism.
The key to an otter’s aquatic lifestyle is its fur, the thickest of any mammal, with about 1 million hairs per square inch, so dense its skin never actually gets wet. Otters need all those gazillion hairs to stay warm as they don’t have a layer of blubber like other marine mammals. Their luxuriant coats made them favorite targets for 18th- and 19th-century trappers who hunted otters to near extinction before they were protected by law. Although sea otter populations have rebounded, they are still considered endangered. Otters live along the Pacific Coast of North America, from California up to Alaska. Although they can walk on land, they almost never find the need or desire to, even when it’s nap time. When they’re ready for a snooze, they’ll raft up, wrap themselves in a strand of kelp to keep them from drifting away and recline on the world’s biggest waterbed.
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