Hokey Smoke!

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Growing up as a kid I loved cartoons. I was a decidedly in the "not Disney" cartoons camp. I opted for the "in your face" humour that the other studios were producing. As a kid, Disney always seemed to dang wholesome for me.

I was a Looney Tunes man. I was a Wacky Races man. I was a Grape Ape man. And I was also a Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends man.

I recently bought the complete Rocky & Bullwinkle box set and have now watched, in order, all 163 episodes, or 59 hours, or 3562 minutes or 213,720 seconds worth. And I loved every repetitive second of it.

There are two things that I want to share… First, one of the more famous screen captures. This one from episode 11 of Jet Fuel Formula. The book Sex on Planet "X" is on the bookshelf. 

And secondly from season 5, episode 23, the Fractured Fairy Tale: Three Little Pigs. The wolf, surrounded by Racing Forms, Babes magazine, Beauty's Women magazine, Girl's magazine, is reading "Gay Boy" magazine and later in the same episode, he is reading "Gay Boy Annual".  

I know that gay meant something completely different back in the 60s… but it does make for a more interesting story if the wolf was, in fact, gay.

Pull to the Shoulder

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I'm getting old. I know that. And as I always say getting older beats the alternative. But what I don't like about getting older is that various parts of me are now starting to fall apart.

Case in point: my shoulder. I'm not sure what I did to it or when I did it but I somehow pulled it. Had I pulled it while pushing a car or lifting a safe or trying to bench press 200 lbs it wouldn't bug me as much as a sore shoulder that just sort of showed up. I'm certain I did something, said "ow", continued on, and completely forgot about it. But here I am some two months later in pain.

My doctor thinks that it is tendinitis. My physiotherapist thinks that it is "frozen shoulder". Yes, that really is a thing. So I'm now I've done ultrasound to shed some light on the subject and to see who is right.

At this point all that I know is that my shoulder hurts. I have only 120 degrees of movement (as opposed to the normal 180). And I want the pain to go away.

So physiotherapy it is. Physiotherapy and hope that ultrasound doesn't find much other than "you pulled something." Though the ultrasound tech did seem to be marking a whole lot of stuff as he went along. :/

I'll keep you informed.