Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 04, 2016

Hitchcock would be proud!

Best comment ever, how can we top that? lol

Glen Campbell

Yay it worked! Thanks Bev.Glen Campbell now has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t know anybody or recognize his own music anymore.Such a shame.

Todd better watch out, the Birds of Ballard are particularly aggressive, and don’t like mockery, at all. No siree……

Lots of bird-brains on Ballard Street.

I am not sure what info is being exchanged between Bev and Rose, but I suspect we are going to get more youtube videos in the future. How will we ever get to bed?The Glen Campbell Wm Tell Overture was great!

I hate birds taking advantage of me.

Those finches appear to have put him in a pinch.

A couple of Ted’s finches relaxing with Rusty Boy

No More Hanging Out At Ted’s For You Mr. !

@Last RoseGlen Campbell was certainly a gifted musician. Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease that decimates its victims. To me the saddest part of it is that the sufferer knows what’s happening to them, at least at first. There is a wonderful film called Iris, about the last years of the author Iris Murdoch as Alzheimer’s took its toll. It stars the great Judi Dench in the title role. Well worth watching.

For anyone who doesn’t know, the Lone Ranger theme music is only the last few minutes of Rossini’s William Tell Overture. The whole thing, which is the overture to an opera, lasts about 12 minutes and is absolutely beautiful. It opens with an extended, mournful passage featuring at least 6 solo cellos (I forget the exact number). For this reason it is a favorite of orchestral cello sections, where opportunities to solo are rare. A pastoral section featuring an extended English Horn solo follows. The English Horn is very similar to the oboe, but slightly longer and with a bulbed “bell” at the end. It’s played by one of the oboists. THEN you get the fanfare used for the Lone Ranger. It is a very popular piece, often put on “pops” programs, and great fun to listen to.

My “thing” with rabbits here on GoComics is just a running gag for me. When it comes to wildlife, for me, birds is IT.I have had a life long fascination with birds. Mom told me that it goes back to before i was a toddler.Apparently, when i was just learning to stand upright i would hang onto the bars of a crib that my parents put in a bay window and watch the birds in the bushes out the window.Its not surprising that i care for six birds as well as my dog.

Finches take advantage of Grinches by inches. In the clinches, Ted flinches when it pinches…

I like the upside down one on his collar……that made me laugh.That is one comfy finch.

Ted flinches with the finches.Good afternoon, Ballardeers.The comments are A-1, as usual.Well, back to work. Sigh.

BevThe “Jazz Baby” ………I’m jealous! The beaded dress, the pearls…….just wow!

@Happy, Happy, Happy!!! http://www.gofundme.com/z6x6×4vs

Happy Brubeck Birthday !

At first I thought that was Patrick Swayze portraying Dave in a made for tV biopic. I guess I’d better Take Five…

BTW Today’s is also my First Maite’s Feliz cumpleaños. I won’t say how many years but she’ll always be 14.5 years younger than me !

“Four dead in Ohio…” I remember it well, I was a student just like them when it happened.

I uploaded a documentary showing footage of the murders. that is what it was. out right slaughter. other links at this site I have, you can see Mark Kitchell’s Berkeley in the 60’s.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6E1n3fAclpZICaXOXd