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POPEYE’S PIPE

March 30, 2005 9:16 am

Not to prolong any debate about Popeye’s politics, but we just received this missive from Dana Larsen, editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, who offers some fresh evidence in making the case for the sailor man’s spinach high:

Hi there,
I am Dana Larsen, the author of the article you linked to reply you posted from Bobby London, denying that there was any connection between spinach and cannabis. Of course, he is not the creator of Popeye and there’s no reason he would have any more insight into the thought processes of Popeye creator Segar than anyone else. I thought your readers might like to see this Popeye cover (at right) from October 1939, drawn by Joseph Musial. I only came across this cover recently, after I had written the original article posted on Alternet. The comic cover shows Popeye lounging among pillows in an Arabian sort of tent, smoking out of a hookah labeled “Spinach.” This cover illustration shows that, to at least some people involved in the early formation of the Popeye comics, the spinach/marijuana connection was obvious, and not something they were ashamed of, as King Comics put it prominently on the cover. Thank you for your attention.

Oh no! My last Doris Castle kit.....

Today, I downloaded Doris Castle's newest kit, LeJardin! WOW is it ever great! The papers are beautiful... and so ornamental that you can just post a photo, add some journaling and a title... and ta-dum! You have a page!

I love that most of her kits blend so well together. So sad... this is my last day of being Doris Castle's Guest CT! She is such an artist!

My cat, Shebie, was wandering around the porch today, so of course, I snapped a couple of hundred photos of her. I put her in the flower garden, and she quickly decided to go find critters... some diva she is!

This is the sum of my endeavors today... I love the look on Shebie's face, and the kit was perfect for the look I wanted. I love the journaling block as a frame for my baby Shebie's face.

The things you find on the internet!

I've got a few more minutes at work... not time to start anything. So I starting surfing the internet highway... and found this poem. I remember my mother quoting the 'refrain' of this poem since I can remember! She read this poem on stage when she was a little girl.

The poem? "I've got a pain in my sawdust." I found this at this site.

"There's a songbook that has the lyrics and score for that song. Go to your local library and ask them to interlibrary loan it for you - there are 37 copies of the book in the US. Here's the info:
Songs From the Golden Eras, 1900-1929
ed. Ronny Schiff MCA/Mills OCLC 1894095 "
[posted May 2, 2003, by KellyG629]

A prior post mentioned it had been available as a player piano roll.

And then another post gave the full lyrics from sheet music in the poster's possession:

" A little bisque doll and a little rag doll
And a dolly imported from France
Were sitting one day on the shelf of the store
With a doll that could wind up and dance;
When all of a sudden the shopkeeper heard
A scream that rang out thro' the store,
And this was the plaint of the little bisque doll
That made such an awful uproar;

I've got a pain in my sawdust,
That's what's the matter with me;
Something is wrong with my little inside,
I'm just as sick as can be.
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan,
Someone else run for the medicine man,
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can,
I've got a pain in my sawdust.

They took her away in a hospital van
And the whole town was filled with the blues,
For ev'ryone thought it was quite an odd thing,
And the papers all printed the news;
The surgeons looked wise and they all shook their heads
And asked her just where she was sick;
"I think it's 'appendisawdust'," she exclaimed,
"And won't you please do something quick?"

I've got a pain in my sawdust,
That's what's the matter with me;
Something is wrong with my little inside,
I'm just as sick as can be.
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan,
Someone else run for the medicine man,
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can,
I've got a pain in my sawdust.

Oh, sad was the day for the little bisque doll,
For they cut all her stitches away,
And looked for the seat of the terrible ache;
"'Twas a delicate task," they all say,
For none of the surgeons had ever before
Performed on a dolly's inside,
They tried to restuff her but didn't know how,
And this was her wail as she died;

I've got a pain in my sawdust,
That's what's the matter with me;
Something is wrong with my little inside,
I'm just as sick as can be.
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan,
Someone else run for the medicine man,
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can,
I've got a pain in my sawdust."

Golden Spring!

I don't believe that I've ever seen as many spring flowers in bloom at once. Or see forsythias as beautiful as they are this year! They are so full and so bright! Our crocuses & jonquils are in bloom, and lilacs and redbud trees are budding up.

Of course, I don't believe I've ever had a 'spring' as hot as this... in the 80'sF! If this is spring, I am very afraid of summer.

Busy Weekend!

It's been a great week! The weather is warm and the flowers are blooming. The jonquils were just a few inches out of the ground, and in two days' time, they lunged up and bloomed! I have never seen anything grow as fast as they did this week. Well, maybe Kudzu!

I am so stiff today. When the weather gets warm, I want to go outside and get my fingers in the dirt! (I wish I'd remember to wear gloves!) Yesterday I was out hoeing and shoveling and moving plants around. Today, I can hardly turn my head. (Good reason to stay on the computer?)

This week's tutorial is from TechEBlog. So many of my photos are in black and white, and I wanted to add a bit of color. The process is the simplest one I've every tried. Here's my hubby when he was 4-6 years old. I thought about doing it all in color, but ech!

I wanted to use some of Sausan's little animals. They are so... happy looking. But I couldn't find anyplace to put them that I liked. So, I ended up deleting them... maybe next time! (Hubby, the retired policeman, especially likes the pig. You DO know that 'pig' stands for "Pride, Integrity and Guts"?)

I love this kit!

I've been watching this kit for about a week. It never did anything... but get cuter! Finally I bit the bullet and bought the sticker part of the kit. I think this will be a lot of fun! Although I still wish there was a cow in the mix!

Here's my Grand-Niece, Candy. My brother keeps sending me photos of her, with food all over her. Men have a weird sense of cute. Anyway, I like this layout, although I think I will make the frame and Candy a bit smaller... someday.

How cute is this?

I just downloaded Doris Castle's new kit, Whispers. Isn't it so Victorian, with it's little birds and flowers? I just love it. I've got a dozen layouts to do ahead of Doris Castle, but hey... This one was fun.

I am interested in making an 'opposite' or 'different' type of layout for my second one. I'm thinking about it!

Note to me...

NEVER take a handful of pills with a V-8 again! uck!

The More Things Change...

I've been worried for a few weeks, because when RAKScraps divided it's creative team up into groups... they left me out! (I hate being picked last!) I kept waiting for someone to tell me what I was supposed to be doing... but nothing! I finally asked them, and they put me on the Sponsor's Team. Making layouts to feature that month's sponsors... Not bad, just four layouts a month. AND a lot better than making kits!

Then I took a look at this month's RAKScraps Newsletter. And they picked one of my layouts to do a scraplift on. I made this layout for a quote challenge, and I was practicing a new blending technique. Personally, I think it would be a hard one to scraplift... just photos and no papers, element or anything else. But I am really looking forward to seeing the entries!

One of my most favorite things about digi-scraping is that, almost every day, I learn something new. Sometimes I can't retain things very long, but then I just have to learn it again until it sticks! Old age keeps picking on me!

The Rule of Three

On one of my forums, a member asked.. "What's wrong with this layout? It looks disjointed" hmmm... don't ask ME if you don't want an answer. People say I am a touch to blunt sometimes. 'donno'

This member has a great lo idea and some good elements already in place. But they had too much space between them. The only rules I know of in scrapbooking is the rule of three and grouping or touching. Well.. they are more suggestions! I found this great article on the rule of three. Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three

Of course I don't always follow it; like Emeril says... "Who makes up these rules?" Scrapbooking is what makes you happy. You do it the way YOU want to, and the way you think is pretty.

1000's of photos!

I've noticed... as I go to my albums to find pictures of my children... what a difference there is between then... 60's & 70's.. and now.

When my kids were young, film was very expensive. And to develop them... WOW! Not everyone even had a camera. And if they did, it was probably a little point and click.

I know that is unbelievable, but true! So, when I took pictures of birthday parties... it was probably one or two pictures. This year, Michael only got a picture, because Hubby had to send a roll of police film to develop, so took a photo for me. Black & white, but a picture that I treasure.

But now, people have digital camera and computers and printers. They take 100's of photos without a blink. Things that were not even dreamed of in my childhood, except maybe by Dick Tracy.

Now I, too, have a wonderful digital camera, and the 100's of photos I can take at one event, will probably be of flowers, dogs & cats, or hubby. Occasionally I can take some of the kids... but they are old now, and not nearly as cute as they were twenty or thirty years ago. My kids refuse to reproduce... although that might be good for the gene pool. ;)

Here is the layout I made from the one photo of his birthday. The kit is from Laura Pitman, with the cake from Doris Castle. I cropped three photos from the one picture... making the layout a bit more balanced. I was tired of all those one-photo layouts I've done lately.

ho HO!

Found a nice site today. Adobe Photoshop Killer Tips From what I can tell, they have short videos teaching one tip at a time. Cool!

Enough Harleys

My son got a Navy Edition Harley-Davidson Motorcycle for his birthday. He's been wanting one for years, and this year he started saving for one. He ordered it to be in by May... but his wife surprised him and moved up the date to his birthday.

Of course, they sent us video and lots of pictures. And I had to scrap them. I used Doris Castle's "Its a Guy Thing" kit. Lots of manly and grungy papers and elements! I've posted two and got one more to go... then I am through with grunge and motorcycles for a while!

But doesn't he look like a kid in a candy shop? He ordered lots of extras and pretties.

Now they tell him not to ride it yet, too much salt on the road, and that will eat the chrome up. hehehe!