Papa's on the house top won't come down
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pjthompsonQuote of the day:
"It's what you learn after you know it all that's important."
—John Wooden
Other quote of the day:
"There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back."
—Elizabeth David
Interesting sight of the day:
I'm driving down Speedway Avenue in Venice to get around the bottleneck on Pacific that always occurs in the two blocks leading up to the left hand turn onto Venice North—one of my standard traffic evasions these days. As it happened, there was a bit of traffic on Speedway and I had to stop rather than driving right on through as I usually do. This gave me the opportunity to look around and soak in the scene. For some reason I looked up to the top of a three-story apartment house just ahead of me. I caught just a glimpse of a figure up on the roof near the ledge. I could only see "him" from the waist up—but unmoving and canted at a thirty-degree angle. Then the chump behind me was blowing his horn to get me to move and I didn't get a chance to study it in detail.
Well, of course the imagination engine started to churn. I was fairly certain it had to be a manikin of some sort, but I had a great deal of fun thinking what else he might be. Later, it made me think of the great old bluesy song, "Papa's On the House Top" (sometimes called "Papa's On the Rooftop"), which you can listen to here:
http://thehound.net/19900929/mp3s/start33.mp3
I told myself I needed to drive down Speedway the next day to see if Stiffy was still there, and he was. He was there every night last week that I drove down Speedway. I'll have to check it out again next time I'm down that way.
"It's what you learn after you know it all that's important."
—John Wooden
Other quote of the day:
"There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back."
—Elizabeth David
Interesting sight of the day:
I'm driving down Speedway Avenue in Venice to get around the bottleneck on Pacific that always occurs in the two blocks leading up to the left hand turn onto Venice North—one of my standard traffic evasions these days. As it happened, there was a bit of traffic on Speedway and I had to stop rather than driving right on through as I usually do. This gave me the opportunity to look around and soak in the scene. For some reason I looked up to the top of a three-story apartment house just ahead of me. I caught just a glimpse of a figure up on the roof near the ledge. I could only see "him" from the waist up—but unmoving and canted at a thirty-degree angle. Then the chump behind me was blowing his horn to get me to move and I didn't get a chance to study it in detail.
Well, of course the imagination engine started to churn. I was fairly certain it had to be a manikin of some sort, but I had a great deal of fun thinking what else he might be. Later, it made me think of the great old bluesy song, "Papa's On the House Top" (sometimes called "Papa's On the Rooftop"), which you can listen to here:
http://thehound.net/19900929/mp3s/start33.mp3
I told myself I needed to drive down Speedway the next day to see if Stiffy was still there, and he was. He was there every night last week that I drove down Speedway. I'll have to check it out again next time I'm down that way.
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