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swordznsorcery) wrote2016-06-05 08:47 pm
swordznsorcery) wrote2016-06-05 08:47 pm
Further photography fail. Also stuff.
I have dug everything. Everywhere. If there was something you didn't want dug, sorry. It's too late now, you should have said. Everything is now planted in the allotment, but turns out that watering is accomplished by hanging over the riverbank, and dipping a bucket into the water. So that's my job, as there's no way my mother can do that. If you hear a splash, it's me.
Elsewhere (a different river), I was out walking again, watching the bouncing fishes, and look look!
Yes, I know, it's clearly terrible. But still - leaping fishy! You can just about see what it is, I think. Probably. Well, I've just told you what it is, and presumably that helps.
Aside from digging, I've also been raiding YouTube for ancient, crackly Western TV shows, and I found the pilot for a slightly ropey show called The Restless Gun, which apparently ran from 1957-8. Although quite how it managed that on the basis of the pilot is anybody's guess. Anyway, it guest-starred an hilariously young Michael Landon as the Wild West equivalent of a teenage hood. I don't know why he's so hilariously young, as it's only a year before Bonanza started, but maybe it's something to do with pouting in black and white.
Fig a: A cowboy tearaway:
Watched another episode of Laramie as well. It seems to be a running joke with the casting department that all crooks have to be bigger than Jess, but sometimes they're surely just taking the mick:
There was also an episode where the sheriff was Uncle Jesse from The Dukes Of Hazzard, so that was nice. They seem to have a different sheriff every week, and it amuses me, because meanwhile the saloon is being run by the sheriff from Bonanza. They should just ask him. I love how all the Westerns seem to have the same people in them. They all share bad guys, particularly. It makes it look as though the Wild West is being endlessly terrorised by the same few gangs, who take it in turns to hit each settlement, and then run away giggling. Immortal gangs, presumably, given how often they get shot. (Actually, that's not a good idea, is it. I've seen the Wild West flashbacks in Highlander. The Wild West and immortality do not go well together. The beards alone...)
Fortunately there's no awful facial hair in Laramie, but it does have one small flaw. There's three distinct types of episode of Laramie. There's the ones where Slim and Jess have adventures together (these are the best ones. Later, when the writers realised that the leads had chemistry, there were a lot more of them, but they're a bit thin on the ground to begin with). Then there's the ones when Jess goes off and has adventures on his own, generally involving dodgy ex-mates, or family members with a tendency towards tragedy. For an orphan who lit out at fourteen, he has a remarkable number of family members who pop out of the woodwork, including a sister who's younger than him and dead in season one, but older than him and alive in season three. I know they weren't big on continuity in ye olde TV days, but they could at least have used a different name, for flip's sakes! Anyway, those episodes are also good. But then there's the episodes when Slim goes off and has adventures on his own. And those episodes are just... there. Poor Slim. He's very nice, but sadly he's also a bit dull. It's not too bad if his little brother Andy is around as well, but otherwise, truth is he's just not Jess. And he is nine feet of giant and lumbering not-being-Jess-ness. So you really can't ignore it.
Anyway, all this nonsense isn't getting stuff done, is it. But Laramie is good, folks. Watch it! And now I have to go and fall in the river. Bye.
Elsewhere (a different river), I was out walking again, watching the bouncing fishes, and look look!
Yes, I know, it's clearly terrible. But still - leaping fishy! You can just about see what it is, I think. Probably. Well, I've just told you what it is, and presumably that helps.
Aside from digging, I've also been raiding YouTube for ancient, crackly Western TV shows, and I found the pilot for a slightly ropey show called The Restless Gun, which apparently ran from 1957-8. Although quite how it managed that on the basis of the pilot is anybody's guess. Anyway, it guest-starred an hilariously young Michael Landon as the Wild West equivalent of a teenage hood. I don't know why he's so hilariously young, as it's only a year before Bonanza started, but maybe it's something to do with pouting in black and white.
Fig a: A cowboy tearaway:
Watched another episode of Laramie as well. It seems to be a running joke with the casting department that all crooks have to be bigger than Jess, but sometimes they're surely just taking the mick:
There was also an episode where the sheriff was Uncle Jesse from The Dukes Of Hazzard, so that was nice. They seem to have a different sheriff every week, and it amuses me, because meanwhile the saloon is being run by the sheriff from Bonanza. They should just ask him. I love how all the Westerns seem to have the same people in them. They all share bad guys, particularly. It makes it look as though the Wild West is being endlessly terrorised by the same few gangs, who take it in turns to hit each settlement, and then run away giggling. Immortal gangs, presumably, given how often they get shot. (Actually, that's not a good idea, is it. I've seen the Wild West flashbacks in Highlander. The Wild West and immortality do not go well together. The beards alone...)
Fortunately there's no awful facial hair in Laramie, but it does have one small flaw. There's three distinct types of episode of Laramie. There's the ones where Slim and Jess have adventures together (these are the best ones. Later, when the writers realised that the leads had chemistry, there were a lot more of them, but they're a bit thin on the ground to begin with). Then there's the ones when Jess goes off and has adventures on his own, generally involving dodgy ex-mates, or family members with a tendency towards tragedy. For an orphan who lit out at fourteen, he has a remarkable number of family members who pop out of the woodwork, including a sister who's younger than him and dead in season one, but older than him and alive in season three. I know they weren't big on continuity in ye olde TV days, but they could at least have used a different name, for flip's sakes! Anyway, those episodes are also good. But then there's the episodes when Slim goes off and has adventures on his own. And those episodes are just... there. Poor Slim. He's very nice, but sadly he's also a bit dull. It's not too bad if his little brother Andy is around as well, but otherwise, truth is he's just not Jess. And he is nine feet of giant and lumbering not-being-Jess-ness. So you really can't ignore it.
Anyway, all this nonsense isn't getting stuff done, is it. But Laramie is good, folks. Watch it! And now I have to go and fall in the river. Bye.