Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 24, 2011

You are perfect as you are?

“But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well.You see, ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself.” Garden Party, Rick Nelson

I’m going to improve myself. Can you teach me to shower?

How about a bitter me?

Blog: Ernie Kovacs…original Laundromats…always depressing YooHoo!

I love the juxtaposition on the Blog of the Holiday Dance Club, (where mature men and women can “get into the happiness swing”), and the utter ennui in the laundromat post below it. Very cool stuff.

thanks Mz B, for the trip back to Riverview… that was the “Bobs”, a bobsled roller-coaster, at the time the fastest thing there, it started out as a regular coaster but at the top of the first drop the tracks ended and you were shot through wooden “half-pipes” at high speed after a few 360 turns and tunnels the walls closed in until you were back on regular coaster tracks…

just like Fonz when he stops at the mirror to comb his hair and finds it’s perfect the way it is……

heyyyy

Lotsa cool stuff on the blog today!! I love the pointillist background today, Mz T!

…but I wouldn’t be adverse to you becoming a better you!

You’re losing your touch Teresa, didn’t you know that the men in tutus are typical gocomics readers!

Well said, 3HT. (Because, if you’re the Ford Pinto of comic strips, progressing backward is probably NOT a very good option) 

Ah Riverview, the Holy Grail of childhood in Chicago.

If I better myself, people will still expect things from me other than what I am. So I will stay as I am to piss them off and continue to have my own fun….

Holy shit. Bob Dylan turns 70 today. I feel old.

The picture of the ride at the Riverside Amusement Park post on the blog looks like “The Flying Turns” ride at Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland, Ohio that I rode as a kid in the 1960s. It was exciting because it was as high or higher than any roller coaster in the park. It went up on a chain, and was then released at the top to free-wheel down inside of an open wooden chute. I found a YouTube video of it from 1929 at http://youtu.be/_CBXJEMydQU .

Her cheeks at the Walter Cronkite entry are perfect

well Dorney Park ain’t got nothing on that ride, jtp.

I didn’t see the connection before but the woman in the laundromat better get to the Holiday Dance Club and fast.

i like laundromatsmy local one has an ugly mural and fake wood panelingships and rainbows with half dead houseplantsplus it smells chemically great