It’s been fun watching Mr. and Mrs. Goose taking care of their new family. I’ve wondered how they avoid the dogs and assume everyone jumps in the pond if danger threatens. And an angry, hissing mother goose can be intimidating. [Larger image]
Category Archives: Snapshots & Fragments
Missed opportunity
Please tell me I’m not the first person to see this mural (radio station in Chillicothe, Missouri) and not want to go inside, sneak upstairs, remove my shirt and lean out the window (closest to the street) and scream “Help! Help!”
Smile
Barb always gets better pix than I and brought back some nice ones from her recent trip to Destin. This is my favorite. Somewhere out on the web there’s a photo of Barb taking this picture of the man taking the photo of the family on the beach.
Apple gets retail
Roger points us to this New York Times story on the success of Apple’s retail stores:
“Mr. Jobs understood, however, that his stores would sell not merely products but also gratification. He told the trade magazine Chain Store Age Executive in 2001: “When I bring something home to the kids, I want to get the smile. I don’t want the U.P.S. guy to get the smile.”
Customer response is told in the numbers. Last month, Apple released results for the quarter ended March 31. More than 21.5 million people visited its stores, which now number more than 180. Store sales were $855 million, up 34 percent from the quarter a year earlier, and they contributed more than $200 million in profits.”
If you decide it’s time to buy your first Mac, take the time… make the drive… visit an Apple store. It is a unique retail experience.
PS: Received this little reminder while posting this from the home office Dell.
The Basement Diaries Redux
L-R: Richard Peck, Jim Bob Green, John Robison, Charlie Peck (seated), Jane Marshall, Joe Browning (seated), Lynn Strickland
I’m committed to the do-over for The Basement Diaries but I’m quickly discovering it’s going to take a lot longer than I anticipated. I keep discovering pages that had fallen behind the digital chest of drawers. I’m starting with just recreating all of the pages and getting them linked. I don’t want to think about re-scanning hundreds of photos. This is the signature image for The Basement Diaries. Everyone has a snapshot like this, that captured a time and place.
Next summer will be the 40th anniversary of “the basement summer,” so I’ll have to have the site back up before then. Which means even less blog time for smays.com.
Gun Spinning, Tomahawk Throwing & Trick Roping
Nice post and Flickr set on the Wild West Arts Convention by Dr. Everett Mobley. He explains this photo in his post. I love this photo. If I had an outfit like that, I’d wear it to work tomorrow. Well, maybe not the hat.
Clyde Lear: Mac Guy
Learfield CEO Clyde Lear proudly displays his new MacBook Pro. Clyde insists it’s for his lovely wife Sue. If that’s true –and we hope it is– Clyde will soon be trekking back to the Apple Store in St. Louis. I think it would be nearly impossible share a MacBook.
For now, we’ll add Clyde to our gallery of Mac Sliders. Someone call Cupertino, we’re gonna need more Kool Aid.
“Science Fiction Punk Psychedelia”
“I google-image searched “Hippy Witch” and came across this picture. I think it’s a fantastic image!!
Anyway, I’m a musician and I wanted to use it as the sleeve for a single I’m doing for a label called “HoZac.” The name of my “band” is Blank Dogs, it’s a home-recording thing and this picture fits the sound perfect. I guess I’d describe it as “Science Fiction Punk Psychedelia.”
It wouldn’t be used ironically, or poked fun at, I just think it’s a super-great photo and I was wondering if I could get your permission to use it. It’s an indie label and they wouldn’t be able to pay anything for it’s use, but maybe you think it’d be cool!”
Radio Announcers (John Mays and Mr. Rudy)
That’s what they called them when my father and Mr. Rudy (Pylant) were on the air at KBOA in Kennett, Missouri. Pop and Mr. Rudy have since made the transition to Pure Amplitude Modulation but the audio waves of their wonderful voices are still streaking through space.
I had never seen this photo of John and Rudy standing in front of the KBOA studio but, based on the automobiles behind them, it could have been as early as ’49 or ’50. The station went on the air in July of 1947 and my father started in 1949. Any of you car freaks able to ID the year of the car at the right edge of this photo?
Next stop: 60
