Ramblings

This supercell wasn’t around for too long before it dissipated, but it was a pretty little thing while around. I don’t say this too often, but I think I like the photo I took with my phone better.  At least you can get a sense of the storm’s size.  Here I was so focused on getting that damn barn in the shot, I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. 

a tornado is created when the cooler downdraft of rear midlevel winds combine with the updraft of warm, moist and horizontally spinning surface level winds, which condense into a funnel as they’re drawn upward into what is called the mesocyclone. (video)

Happy grinder is a full grinder

After I tweeted this, Coldstone contacted me and agreed to donate $10,000 to Inner City Arts. I just received word from Inner City Arts that the payment has gone through. I’m glad Coldstone did the right thing!

Barry is still hungry! SO IS WANDA!

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💚 puff, puff, pass 💚

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The early 1940s programs opened with Raymond Edward Johnson introducing himself as “Your host, Raymond” in a mockingly sardonic voice. A spooky melodramatic organ score punctuated Raymond’s many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond’s closing was an elongated “Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?” His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow. Beginning in 1945, Lipton Tea sponsored the series, pairing first Raymond and then McGrath with cheery commercial spokeswoman Mary Bennett, whose blithesome pitches for Lipton Tea contrasted sharply with the macabre themes of the stories. She primly chided the host for his trademark dark humor and creepy manner. The program’s familiar and famed audio trademark was the eerie creaking door which opened and closed the broadcasts. Its campy comedy notwithstanding, the stories were usually effective little chillers, mixing horror and humor in equal doses. Memorable episodes included “Terror by Night” and an adaptation of “The Tell-Tale Heart”.