parley view parsnip... the day of retribution

Retribution, arbitration or  payback

it is all the same to The Square Dogs.

It means they win and I lose as usual.

hahahahahahaha

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Friday is ALWAYS  Square Dog Friday.

But I had a blog hop that day (I rarely do  blog hops)

Do you see the problem here ? 

It is in The Square Dog contract that Friday is always their day !

so any change in their contract went to arbitration.

They are very diligent about these matters.

I really don't know why I bother with arbitration because I always lose.

They have the Judge on speed dial.

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So for Monday here is the Square Dog Friday post.

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 woe 

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 oh woe is me

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 thehamish is watered again

from the water that jumps up from the earth at me and gets me watered like the grass.

woe is me

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 so sad and woe

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 woe is thehamish

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 luke i am your father

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 Don't feel so sad for thehamish.

Many times this is what I see. My little diabetic dog slurping water from 

the sprinklers off the bricks.

But in the house he turns away from  tap water, like it is poison.

Only the filtered water from the frig will do

Argh ! ! !

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 hahahahahahahahaha thehamish is so funny !

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 As part of the arbitration here is one of the new requests (demands) 

homemade chicken strips on call !

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Here is your pretty for the start of the week.

 Sunday night sunset

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Monsoon season should be starting but not quite here yet.

Three weeks of 100+ days and finally some moisture appears.

But as you can see it did try to rain but it 

dried up in the heat before it got a chance to hit the ground.

as thehamish would say

woe oh woe is me !

arbitration. . . parsnip

music. . . Manic Monday,  The Bangles

Square Dog Friday. . . Square Dogs look on as The Armchair Squid takes over !

I have joined Armchair Squid on a blogfest called Then and Now.

Write about a movie you loved when you were younger and have come to see differently over time. . . for better or worse.

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Can any of you who know me guess what movie I picked ?

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GOJIRA !

As a child of the 50's I grew up with the atomic and hydrogen bombs, bomb and their destruction. Growing up in Tucson, I can remember seeing safety movies in school and we had to learn to cover our heads and get under our school desks.  Not that I really understood any of this it was all very vague. But I knew the bomb was bad.

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The first Gojira movie I saw was,  

Godzilla, King of the Monsters.

It is the US version  of the original Japanese movie Gojira.

Cut and pasted re-edited a different narrative and structure. With American actors and voice overs. Most of the anti-nuclear theme is gone or glossed over.
It is a monsters movie pure and simple. 

The reason Godzilla awakes is nuclear testing in the ocean outside of Tokyo.

I remember asking my mother about this and we had a very interesting talk about the war, bomb, destruction and maybe this is the way they/we can understand what happens with a nuclear weapon.   I was young and I think she handled this great for my age.

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Then I saw the original Japanese version.

What a difference, Gojira is an anti-nuclear story the whole embodiment of what happens because of the atomic/hydrogen bombs.
A tale of caution.
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In the endings we have the heart of the movies.
Godzilla, The King of the Monsters,  is a monster who dies and his death ends up a memorial to Dr. Seizawa (had to look this name up) and his sacrifice to save Japan.
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The emotional dramatic sacrifice at the end of Gojira is complete cut from the US version.

In the Japanese version Dr. Yamane's (had to look up the name) comments on the fact if we don't stop nuclear weapons  more wars, destruction, deaths
another Gojira could arise.

The intent could not be so different.
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Godzilla, King Of the Monsters is a really good monster movie.

Were as Gojira is a cautionary tale with a very human, dark and intelligent Gojira.

I have remembered this all my life and I think my feelings about war, hate, destruction
and what is left after wars has been formed by this movie and my Mum.

I think this message is relevant  today as it was 50 years ago.

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For me, this movie holds up today. Not only because of the anti-nuclear weapon tale but because of all the small thing that happens in the movie.  Unlike all the very bad/fun movies that followed with bad Godzilla suits, wires and cityscape of later movies. This Gojira suit is well done. The camera use and angles and very good special effects (1954) show all the menace of Gojira. The musical score is very good and was later used in the many of the later Godzilla movies.

Several things that impacted me when I was older is the Gojira does not shoot out a fiery death ray but a radioactive mist that set people and places on fire much like what it might have happened after the bomb was dropped.
 He is walking living Atomic Bomb.

Several people react to Gojira by saying, 

I lived through the war and now here this is all over again.
Words and vision to live by.

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As this is The Square Dog Friday

The Boys wanted me to tell you that the movie I should have talked about was 

"The Lady and the Tramp"

We have talked often about this movie and how I though Lady was just OK, Tramp was interesting, Trusty was fun but JOCK was FABULOUS. 

Because that is when I fell in love with Scotties.

The Square Ones LOVE this story !
And request it often.
They are very much like  Jock and even better.
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Watson. . . this movie is Scotty love.
Just bring the chicken strips, and enjoy. 
thehamish ... movie gud thehamish gud chkikin' gud.
yert !

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And with that said
The Square Ones must never be left out especially on their day
I give you not the Famous Two Headed Scotty of Tucson but,
 SCOTTYZILLA !
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gojira. . . parsnip
music. . . Gojira,  Akira Ifukube 

update....
 Yes, we did meet in arbitration over this.
We have the judge on speed dial !
They now have next Monday post and several (homemade) chicken strips 
added for the next few days to make up for them giving up their day.
wahahahahahahahaha.
I am in so much trouble. I never win in arbitration. 
Never ! 

Wednesday In Japan... Revenge of the TAKO !

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TAKO

or 

Octopus to many.

Much like squid, cuttlefish or calamari, unless it is battered and fried

 many people will not eat it.  And squid ink pasta oh the horror !

And octopus, I  mean who eats octopus ?

Me !

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I thank my fabulous Mum who exposed all of her children to eating wonderful,

nutritious and different food. Fish was one of them. 

Not just that battered fish like food called fish sticks of the 50's 

In fact I usually will pick a fish dinner over a meat one.

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Octopus oh no !...  but really what person outside the UK doesn't look aghast

at something called Spotted Dick ?  hahahahahahaha

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Anyways, what got me on this ramble was " The Happy Whisk" blogger

was very excited to find a "Babycakes Cupcake Maker".  A round small cake ball maker.

I have a Takoyaki pan that makes the small savory batter round snacks

filled with a small piece of tako.

I was wondering if I could use a cake batter to make a sweet round cupcake.

And yes, not filled with a piece of tako. 

I hear you William !

 

Many of you have seen this "Cooking With Dog" already but who can resist Francis ?

Tako Tako Tako Tako

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And just because I can

Here is your pretty for midweek.

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mememememememememeememe

toytoytoytoytoytoytoytoy

mememememememememememememe

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tako. . . parsnip

music. . . Octopus's Garden, Ringo Starr

Parley View Parsnip. . . just a weekend

Just a weekend, nothing special.

Everyday stuff.

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 Of course any weekend begins with a trip to the vet

for thehamish.

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 Here is what thehamish has to have two times a day, after eating.

Everyday morning and evening  no days off.

The small pill bottle on the very right are Watson's.

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 Sometimes I find a pill that someone (thehamish) has spit out.

Naughty naughty naughty.

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 My much needed headache pills

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 Along with all the pills I take everyday.

Maybe thehamish and I have the same problems

or

maybe having the hamish is the problem ?
yert !

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 Everyday no matter what.

le sigh

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 Oh my goodness Sunday was only 98 !
Break out the sweaters.

Tomorrow back up to 105.

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 My new walker (Italian) lalalaaaaa is a small tank and I love it.

The Watson is not so sure.

But I am, it is fabulous !

zoom zoom zoom !

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 Working on a special project.

I keep getting new ideas and working out all the problems one runs into.

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 Birds are always very interested in what is going on my side of the studio window,.

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 Told thehamish to clean up his toys in the pool.

and yet...

 as you can see...

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 here they still are.

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Oh please.

I know this didn't come from the pool !
Your beard is dry.

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Here is your pretty for the start of the week.

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After the blooms, the Prickly Pear fruit appears.

Birds and all critters love to eat them.
yummy

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everyday. . . parsnip

music. . .  2 Wicky,  Hooverhonic

Square Dog Friday... so what eles is new !

It is Friday.

They know what day this is.

You know what day this is.

So lets woof it.

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Over the years I have found thehamaish in super strange burrowing positions.

What can I say... he is always entertaining and never a dull moment.
yert !

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 Yesh, it is i gud dug thehamish

im' likin' to hunt for stuff

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 thehamish is digging under pillow

it gots syuck on me

mum tall person who feeds us is laughin' at me.
not caring just walkin'
 woe is me
woe

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 sometimes gud dug Watson hidin' cookies under stuff

thehamish is liken' tha 'cus i gud at finding cookie

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 sometimes thehamish get tired so tired huntin'

havin' to sleep now

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 hidin' under blanket on mum nice tall person who feeds us bed

no findin' thehamish
thehamish gud at hidin'

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 sometimes i thehamish on the grass when water comes 

not knowin' why this water comes from ground not likin' it and gots all wet

and it was breakfast eatin' time but this not stoppin' thehamish

from fud

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 sometimes the Watson needin sleepin'

he not diggin' understuff like thehamish but he is coverin' eyes with pillow

he is  gud dug

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 here is thehamish not bein' a cabana boy not knowin' what that meanin'
im' gots to chase lizards

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And just because I can 

here is your pretty for the weekend.

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 Castles in the sky

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and a Prickly Pear bloom.

hiding. . . parsnip

music. . . Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs,  Hooverphonic 

Wednesday in Japan. . . phone charms

I posted sometime ago about phone charms.

And I was asked what are phone charms ?

Just a fun fad from Japan.

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Old cell phones usually had a hoie on the top right side on the case.

What real reason it was here for I have np idea
but the phone charm craze in Japan was born.
Loop a small charm through the hole.

In fact in the height of the craze I remember seeing teen girls whip out their phone and they had so many charms and small stuffed animals that you couldn't see the phone.

Then the phones evolved and no space for a small hole.  The Japanese found another way to have more fun with the phones. Plugs that fit into the earphone jack.

Hello fun.

This craze is just about over in Japan but I still love it.

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 I really need to straighten this up but here is some of my collection

phone charms, key rings plus some other stuff tossed in.

Oh My Goodness I am that crazy cat lady from down the street.

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 I usually pick up one (or two maybe three) from most of the places I visit.

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 Goodness, this is a mess.
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 Tokyo Tower... Sailor Moon was there a lot !

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 Tako !

On the right of the giraffe there ia a tako (octopus) eating a 

little tako One of my favorites.

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 Kumamom
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 Moyasimon, Tales of Agriculture
Best manga ever.

 Astro Boy
Fabulous museum.
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Moyasimon, funny TV series too.

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 Hello Kitty Hanshin Tiger, my favorite Baseball team.
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 Tokyo Tower, Osaka Tower and Mt. Fuji

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 Takoyaki

Street food at it's best.

 Pretty soon my wall with look like this....
so much neater.

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 What is so bad, is I have many of these.

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 Here is one of my old phone with charms

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 My phone today has a diamond ball in the earphone jack.

I have many others but that is for another post.
hahahahaha

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Here is your pretty for the day.

Or possibly a funny for mid-week

Parsnip Muffins

yert !

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hahahahahahahahahaha

yum. . . parsnip

music. . . Arrietty's Song,  Cecile Corbel