holy fucking shit dude, it's just the monkee's paw -- let's cheese it before it moves or someone makes a wish on the thing
I just found a text file of notes about hidden features I found in Microsoft Paint over the years I used it to make the old monkee strip. I'm never using the program again, but I thought it would be good to pass these tips along:
Stamp tool -- select part of the image and hold CTRL while dragging it.
To draw straight or diagonal lines with the pencil, hold SHIFT and move the mouse in whatever direction you want.
Image-selection rescaling -- select part of the image using the Select tool, then press CTRL and either + or - to scale up or down. Doing the same thing using the drawing tools changes your brush size. Don't go too crazy enlarging it, tho -- it's Windows so it crashes easy.
7 What Say Youse?:
You know, I love the old radio links (any "Lum & Abner"?), but the new fonts and colors you're using make my rods and cones shimmy like pachinko balls. Change the look of your blog to suit me, ME!
hey mitchell,
I was wondering when someone would complain about the new colors and my abuse of the Courier font. I'm struggling to decide whether or not to launch my own site, where I'd have fine enough tools to make the blog look like and do what I want, or continue to make hash here. [Blogger's platform doesn't even let me make the blog as ugly as I want it, dammit! I have HTML hand-coding skills and a contempt for legibility that could turn your pubic hair white.]
Best metaphor: This blog = Replacements live shows. My own site = Paul Westerberg's solo albums.
YOU PEOPLE DECIDE.
[Holy shit, LUM & ABNER mega-archive. I've never gotten into them, so I gots nothing to say. Sorry. It's on my to-experience-someday list, though.]
Thank you, Mr. George. I really haven't listened to much Lum & Abner in actuality and know them mainly from the series of early 40s L&A programmers that TCM airs once in a blue moon.
Surely some middle-aged nerd with OCD is thinking even now of putting together a site devoted to movies from the 30s and 40s that are based on radio shows (double bonus if the film has the same actors). I used to have a (licensed, non-bootleg) tape of CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK, the Amos & Andy movie, which I think I got because it had an early appearance by the Duke Ellington orchestra. Horrifying, fascinating, and boring in equal measures.
Hey, I see you giving out with some solid old-time radio recommendations on your Twitter feed, so leave me ax you something. I'm going to the World Cup in South Africa next month--soccer, music, and good food being the things that keep my world turning, you know? It's an 18-hour flight (with a brief stop in Dakar for refueling) from DC to Johannesburg. I will try, and fail, to sleep in my little economy-class seat (apologies in advance to my rowmate for drooling on her sweater set), read until my eyes fuzz out, relive old indignities in my head, then bust out my (non-Apple because, you know, fuck Apple) mp3 player. The thriller/mystery radio programs you recommend sound good, and I like Fred Allen, but what else, son, what else? Is there, like, a good place to download some Bob & Ray? Also something with now-obsolete ethnic humor, done in broad dialect? Eighteen hours, man, 18 hours!
Huh, I thought I posted an archive.org print of CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK for a movie night already. Maybe not -- even I'm not that much of a sadist. The FIBBER MCGEE & MOLLY programmers are surprisingly not-bad, especially that WWII one that TCM aired a few weeks ago.
How many GB does your mp3 player hold?
Sadly, only 6 GB; it is exquisitely tiny. (If I could only find an unlocked GMA phone so small.) But I'm also taking a little laptop, so I can shuffle things around...
6GB's pretty good -- I did four days in a car with what was on my phone's 4GB media card and only had a few repeats -- I'll focus on OTR/audio links with your flight in mind this week.
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