Glad to find out there are some communities for the grownups on LJ,
don't know why I didn't search for them until the fifty_something community was spotlighted.
I have joined it a few years early, yo :-)

I found another groovy community, the over_forty list! Hello.

My most recent very fun synaesthesia poll got a great response but the
cohort is skewing a little young over there. You can fix that by
participating in my synaesthesia survey!


In honor of another currently spotlighted LJ community, toon_memories
here's one of my favorite toon memories from when Saturday Morning meant something.



Also, today's clip celebrates that two people I care about will soon be rolling along to better places. My faraway sister into a better neighborhood in our hometown, and my local friend fiLAh into a more comfortable place in which to make new happy memories.


If you've just tooned in, Welcome to the Sunshine Rewind Institute

Friend me here, friend me there
if you like. I haven't been making time to post here a lot lately, but I do always read my flist ;-)

Well, I haven't even bought or made more than a couple of holiday cards,
so i guess it'll be new years cards. or easter cards. Or Summer Solstice letters.

Or maybe i won't have anything to say to anyone. APRIL FOOOLLS


I love the description on this YouTube video: "Young to old, all is run."

Happy New Year!

I keep wishing people Happy New Year now, and last week it was Happy Holidays,
Earlier this week, I even said Merry Christmas to many.
What's wrong with me, is some of the jadedness wearing off?!

Betty is an Asteroid. Betty is, mentally, a drifter. Her mind goes where life leads, which makes Betty usually a very calm and content sort of person. That, or thoroughly apathetic. Usually, Betty keeps on doing whatever she's doing, and it takes something special (or iridescent) to make Betty change her mind. What Video Game Character Are You ?

Some folks say you shouldn't mess around with them
because they attract mischievous spirits and negative energy.
Some say the participants are just pushing on the planchette.


( Click here for a silly little ouija board story )
Juts told at least one super scary ghost story back in those days , another event that made my back and neck feel funny while sitting by the dark dark hallway. Maybe i'll tell that one also this month. There were a few other times I used my grandma's ouija board but none so funny as the above. Now you tell one!

The Ben Stiller Show was so fun. I'm all about Jeanine Garofalo to bringing cookies
to the seance, gang!




By Funnerz!

Bucky worked in a haunted place in Chicago,

several of my hometown friends used to live in a weird haunted place there in the 80s

About half the places I've lived have been haunted.


(  Click here to find out about one of them. )

The comments section is a great place to leave your thoughts, stories about where you've lived, or your questions and ideas about what ghosts are/ what strange noises we hear at night might be. C'mon don't be shy -- tell us a creaky stairway story!


My most recent exciting YouTubular discovery,
these grickle animations I like so much.



I got a lotta sleep today, but nonetheless... I'm making coffee
and then it's off to the relay plant, where we make relays.

Okay so in this case the intwr/ supervisor/ papershuffler at the lab who resembles this video character was not as interesting or appealing as the video character. His initials were similar to the initials of a labby that everyone loved, so i wont take a guess and get it wrong. Many of you will know who it reminds me of.

A Scanner Darkly is directed by Richard Linklater, the same guy who did Waking Life.
( Click here for more on rotoscoped animation! ) are a fine and fresh departure from what usually passes for animation, entertainment in these times, and even from Linklater's other films. Wish I had alretty scanned some pictures of my late friend Mark who taught me about animation and so much more. I'll show you him or evoke your memories of him some other entry here.




While he is currently the brother of Ben Arthur, Little Julian's first life was as a tree.




Betty Pipetti's second life persona
is a bit like her, except she can fly and doesn't know very many people in her area yet... Not sure when I'll get around to expanding my presence there.

Finally got my silver jalopy back from Larry. Alternator. But now I am ready to enjoy the long weekend and looking forward to seeing several friends next Saturday downtown! Got more wooden wine boxes to paint at Woodmans this morning. I think the first place to have cute violet shelving added will be the kitchen.


I wasn't sure what theme to do not having been on here much in the last few weeks. I think perhaps autumn will be the theme for September, then more Halloweenish stuff for October, then Gratitude for November since thats the month of Thanxmas. Even tho it doesn't officially start for three weeks, this is not only my and Laurie's birth month but is the first day of fall, on planette pipette.


( Click here for some clipalicious Boondocks goodness! )
I like Boondocks. It's very entertaining, and the creator is not afraid to make fun of racism within his own community. The episode where Martin Luther King is still alive is brilliant. Uncle Ruckus (no relation) is kind of hard to take but you can't help laughing every time he says something. The parody of how the Mumia case gets explained is very funny, although probably not as politically correct as I like to think I would appreciate. McGruder is more comfy with the "n" word than most of us here in Madison, likewise with grandad taking of his belt and swinging it at the kids every episode. But the characters are adorable and visually it is one of the best shows Adult Swim has offered in a long time.

Well, I must take time out to study the inside of my eyelids for a few hours and then get up and listen to Prairie Home Companion. Everyone have a happy holiday weekend!

The Big Snit is, in reality, Little and not so Snitty.




I guess I should go do dishes. For some reason the kitchen sink faucet is running so that must mean i started to do something?

This one has its ups and downs, sorta reminds me of what would happen if the cartoons Doug and Daria moved to Canada and had a cartoon kid together.

( neckless planet )
Only a Canadian would think it's hip and edgy to call something "daft." Awww.

nice like canadian but julipuli will like that its brazillian


In a great display of international goodwill, Detroit and Windsor celebrate our great country and our great neighboring country, on the historic occasion of last thursday! ( Together! )
Happy Independence Day, everyone!



If anything happens......it's their own fault for being red hairded
...don't let this happen to your family's circuit. Put your kids on a leash!

also today we have supernews fin, the comments

This was on the Simps reruns tomorrow. I couldn't find it by using the search term clockstopper, and the youtube uploader claims the idea came from an old twilight zone. But they also claim that Greg Brady "wrote" the songs he sings on the Variety Hour, so y'know...

Anyway some of you'll know right away which one of their old comic books got me rett 2 find the clip!



( Click here for today's animation clips. )



Probably it was no coincidence that little Laurie was looking at the extensive sled modifications my dad put on there -- rather, it's likely he is explaining them in detail while my mom was taking the photo.

As my regular readers might have noticed, I have added word-of-the-day and art-of-the-day community posts to my friends page. Always glad to see (and I do learn from) my individual friends and their postings, but also thought these would add something interesting that I also like to learn more about.


Feeling much much bettier this week, so i think some further nutritional and lifestyle improvements are in order. If i need to seek urgent medical attention I certainly will, but right now taking care of what i need to take care of is going to be a lot more helpful than overworked healthpoindexters telling me what I alretty know. And having to figure out how to (not ) respond to bogus assumptions on their part just isn't going to be a health booster. But if i have to do that i'll just grit my teeth and deal with it.


Now we must cher for your 2s day. ( Forward, Then Brak Again! )

One nice thing about navigating a blizzard is it always seems light out. Especially like Saturday night when there was actual lightning. I haven't been out since i came home friday night/saturday morn, but when me and tft were chatting Saturday, i thought people were moving stuff around upstairs, and she thought there were snowplows rumbling around outside, but it was thunder! And i had the tv on with the sound turned down and just thought it was a flash of a lighter scene on the tv here at the olde sauke branche but tft saw lightning from the weste towne branche, then we both saw it. It was very exciting. The plowers and shovelers came and then it snowed and blowed so much it was like they were never here. Then today again.


( Animated Marlo Monday )

And more snow this week! We love it we love it we're gettin' more of it!

Still snowing, but we still have Sunday ( animation clips! )

Lots o' snow. The nice relay plant supervisor let me leave a little early from work. I got stuck in my parking space, had to back up and forward and turn the wheels and junk, but i got out. Got stuck in the driveway trying to get out onto the street, where the plow had left piles of it. Had to dig out with my snowbrush, but i got out. The main streets were plowed alretty, and it wasn't snowing anymore, so that was okay. When i got to my road, it was flat but only one side was really plowed. I waited until a car coming the opposite direction went past, and decided to take the chance of driving down the wrong side of the road to get to my complex. If someone had come from the opposite direction, i could have gone over to the right side of the road but it was pretty deep there, so i am glad i didn't have to. Turning into the lot for the complex which houses the Olde Sauke Branche of the institute, the teeny slope from the street to the parking lot, which had alretty been driven through, had too much snow not to get stuck in. Rolled backwards into the street and got a bit of speed up and got over the teeny slope and got stuck a little bit but rolled forward slowly towards my building. Got home and thought there were too many drifts in front of the garage door so i was gonna park on the surface lot. Got stuck in the parking lot. Decided to dig out a place to park. Went to get a little plastic shovel from my storage unit, noticed the snow was not as deep in the slope down to the underground garage as it was on the lot. Little shovel falls apart in my hands. Got back in the car and decided to rock it back and forth enough to roll back down the hill (a very slight slope, but at times like these...) and try to get to the drive that goes down to the garage. Union cab minivan comes and goes around me just to make things more interesting, although he might have made it easier to navigate that part of the lot by rolling over it. The garage door opener doesn't work. Then it does, then i roll down quite easily and park my car. Apparently stress and exertion does not exacerbate whatever is wrong with me lately, but i didn't feel the exhilaration that i normally would feel about prancing around in the snow. A little of it, but not as much as usual. Oh well. I'm putting pleasantville on the tube and getting back under the covers until spring!


( Saturday morning, Saturday evening, Clips galore )

Maybe i'll get up in time for Prairie Home.

Can't believe it took me so long to figure out that this Love God's Way thingy is a fake!


Nothin' good on the television tonight?
Well, in case you get bored, here's some good
( Animated Clips, for A Bettyer Friday )

Oh yeah, a little more winter here at the SRI . Everyone stay safe and keep warm. I'm feeling pretty good and taking a hawthorne capsule before i go make relays at ye olde relaye plante!

( Animimation clips for a Thursday  )

So, one or two locals might be concerned about my health, based on things i said in recent days.
I think I'm okay now, and I will go be evaluated if need be, maybe even if i dont' feel an urgent need, to i might as well just because i have the insurance.
And i shouldn't hesitate, because my feelings that medical-people-will-just-be-mean-to-me,
and the lurking fear that amongst-people-who-know-me-no-one-will-care, is not even realistic,
not even based on most of my experience. And thanks for helping me figure it out.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little, in taking hold of it. -HG Wells

( Hey Now, get your clips on... )

Today is the birthday, i think of my great friend Rick! And also the birthday of my friend Mrs. Joan, who is in mequon or arizona or something and i don't think i have a photo of her. I must find out how to get in touch with them sometime soon and invite them to visit the insititute, and then we can update each other on our adventures. But in the meantime i'll just say Happy Birthday Rick and Joan, hope you are both well!


Betty Pipetti, patron of the artswith hometown chanteuse, Lil' Laurie.

( another day another green blue electric yellow dollar!  )



Havin' a laugh on 02-20-88.

( wake up and starch yer week! )

Wow, i'm having a productive-ish weekend, getting things done i always think i'll get done on weekends. I say "-ish" because there is so much i want to do that i won't complete nothin, but i'm having fun making a dent in a bunch of various projects and getting the institute more habitable, then tonight is good television, and possibly a good conversation or two!

( More Sunday Fun-Ease )


Guessing from what the uploader says Mr. Piper's real name is,
I believe our friendly Canadian brother Alan Crofoot might be native american,
which up there folks sweetly refer to as First Peoples.


We're having that 20 degree kind of weather that feels springish even though it's not a real thaw, just a break from the ganky ultra-cold times. My dad told me they had a record snowfall recently in the hometown. His nice neighbor told the guy who backhoes her driveway to do my dad's driveway too, and he went and dug out my sister's car. But fortunately her employer let her have a couple days off to just relax and watch it snow from inside the Land O' Lincoln Locale of the SRI. My dad says that her landlord's way of clearing their lot is to place a shovel by the door of the building. Perhaps the hometown doesn't have the ordinances that madison does, where the property owners have to at least get the walks clear within a certain number of hours of the snowfall, and most landlords (that we know of here at the sri) at least make an attempt to clear the lots and driveways. And the city plows like cRaZy!


( Adults! Adults-Only in the Pool!  )

Didn't make it to church today? Here's Madonna on the God & Devil Show

From back in the day, when product placement meant entertainment galore,
( Click here for lots of Saturday clip-viewing Fun! )

When i still had cable, Cartoon Network used to have ( Bullwinkle )
I always thought of Rocky and Bullwinkle as a couple. When i was a kid I didn't notice that they called them "the boys from Frostbite Falls," and I thought Rocky was a girl. Then as an adult I knew they were both boys and I still think of them as a couple, doesnt everyone?



One of my favorite parts of the Bullwinkle show was always the Fractured Fairy Tales. I'll be adding more clips of those to upcoming posts, for your up and coming clip viewing pleasure!

Used to be, you could go to old churches and other buildings in Champaign-Urbana, and old theatres
in Madison and see artsy animation or other short films on friday nites. A bottle would always fall
and roll across the floor each time at this one place in urbana. Then when i moved here it soon became
"sick and twisted" animation flicks, less imaginative & more politically incorrect which here at
the sri is not cool and refreshing, it's just, well, less imaginative, hence more dull and boring)
then you could rent cool old animation fests then you could get it from the library.
Now you can sometimes find good lil' films on youtube, after much sifting through all the other stuff.



Thanks again to Kevvy McKev for finding more cool clips! Kev must be using clever search terms
or just sifting through the right piles of clips because he is finding awesome stuff that i am really enjoying.

Now we get a few more flurries and then will we ever have snow again after this?
We just don't know. Not even Al Gore knows, so enjoy it while you can.
Here's ( Frosty b4 Rankin-Bass straightened him up )



Here are some amusements that you can watch or not watch.
( Choices, choices choices. )

Fantasia 2000 - Flamingo



It's Thursday. If I remember what day it is at seven tonight I'll watch Earl, if he's on. Then to work. That's it. I'm angry for no good reason for the last several hours.

( Click for some more clips, and a scant rant, if ya wanna. )

Blah. Blah Blah Blah Humbug. Tomorrow will be a bettier day!


YEAH MAN!

Lucky Charms from Hell


That's what I'm talkin about!

Cyberhugs, for when ya care enough to phone it in. Yaaaayyyy!
*HUGS* TOTAL!
give pipetti more *HUGS*

Get hugs of your ownYeahhh Mannnn!


From all of me here at the Olde Sauke Branche of the Institute,
Tons of Valentine's Day love to you all, ( Now In Convenient Clip Form! )

OH, a tuesday. Stood inside the relay plant while the car warmed up, but it really does seem warmish to have a very cold morning when we have been having very very very very fucking cold mornings. Welp, I am tired, but not asleep yet. Next Tuesday I am off wrrk, and soon will be the weekend, and since i like my job, the weekdays are just way fun too. So i should be deleriously happy, but there is that tiredness in the brain at the moment. Stopped at Cub this morning and got lots of fun flavors of coffee, one of which will delight me later today- that'll motivate me to get up out that futon while the sun still shines, by gawd.

Today's animation clips are a hodgepodge of stuff i thought was cute 'n' funny,
so, if you wanna check 'em out, ( click here for the hodgepodge.  )
Okay that's all I got for now. For extra health for ourselves and everyone else- it helps me to remind myself of this --- When Life gets ganky, let's all try to remember to be kind when we can.

Moonday, for many of us, means back to work, so here's a jobly clip for ya which you can see, along with another cool animation clip Kev found, ( by clicking here. )

Thanks for pointing out that fun clip Kevvy! That kid is awesome, and it will be fun to see what more fun things he posts on the Internets. Today I am having not very many memories of this time of year. I know that approximately 31 years ago, during the bicentennial year, people had parades every chance they got. And back then February was really cold, even in our hometown, which is in "the South." And those of us who were scouts had to celebrate Lincoln's birthday by staggering in formation up to his tomb from somehwere, (from Lincoln's home?, no it couldn't have been that far, it must have been from somewhere else in the cemetery, but it seemed far because it was so cold and we were) carrying flags. Maybe we didnt have to march but march we did. I think we had coats on but i know we didn't have pants on. Frickin girl scout uniforms did not include girlscout parkas or girlscout snowpants. That might have been the time that we all stood there while a limo skidded through the cemetary road, allegedly with President Ford in it and all the scouts had to wave at the bicentennial limo window, in which we could only see ourselves waving. I have left a voicemail query for Laurie about that event, because she is the one who remembers everything. I do remember all the scouts were frozen solid, but since we were all smiling like happy little harbingers of historical hoopla, all the scout parents decided to just leave us outside, like giddy scoutly lawn ornaments, until spring, at which point we thawed, and went back to school for a few weeks before summer. Good Times!

Here's something kev and a couple of other readers might recall ( from back in the day )



But, Betty, isn't there also a time-travel cartoon?!
Of course we gots to have one of those too, grasshoppers. ( Click for piece. )

The following story will probably, in a slightly different & much less-emotive telling, be part of a scene in the never-ending novel-primo, but here's a short glimpse ( of the daze of the week.  )


After Scott's first novel was published and read by people who didn't live in our hometown, which many of us probably thought was a uniquely ganky experience, he said lots of people (in Chicago?) came up to him and said that the scene he described reminded them a lot of the music scene in their hometown during the late 80s/early 90s. Does it make it better that we were not alone in the gank? Dunno.

Click here if you're not offended yet.

Now, I'm sure Lincoln was probably an okay guy who drank only in _moderation. And prolly Mary Todd was a nice lady todd. ( People Make Fun  )

I'll just say in case any of you know the name of that cartoon (on cartoon network?) a few years ago where they time traveled to correct famous historical errors or something, that I can't remember if Lincoln was in it or not because i can't seem to find it on YouTube. Maybe i'm not using proper search terms. If you don't use enough terms you get 9000 hits and if you use too many you get 0000 hits. Such a pickle.

Not much to say at the moment, everything's cool here at the Institute, so here are ( a bunch of ) animation clips that seem appropriate for the Sunday day of the week.

I should confess that I've always been more of an observer than a participant in Texas Womanhood: the spirit was willing but I was declared ineligible on grounds of size early. You can't be six feet tall and cute, both. I think I was first named captain of the basketball team when I was four and that's what I've been ever since. - Molly Ivins

From a saturday morning long ago, deep in the sher woods,
a delicious and well-balanced blend of clips, received on the same day,
from colleagues both local and kaugelt :-)

Brady Kids cartoon- Time To chYANGe



Viacom removed the brady kids cartoon episode we had there, so we added this video collage from YouTube. Made by someone named podmixture.



Gilligan's Planet cartoon YINtro



Nice pedal work there, Gilligan!