Lola's Salon

I´m busy with the go-go dancers Diane though it´s odd that I was singled out for "The letching man in crowd" role.

Africa - a bully idea (ooops--a filter needs to be put on the Livable Countries thread England obessession). Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Well, actually, no bears. I could change the Wizardmobile into a safari wagon a la "Hatari." We'd have to wire Red Buttons to see if he wants to join us -- I don't think John Wayne is in good condition for the ride.

Excuse me -- E mail Red Buttons...

and hope there's lots of baby elephants awaiting us.

baby elephants? Somewhere outside of NYC? oh dear.......take us away LW

Do you think we could convince Red Buttons to come with us? That would be incredible! I loved Hatari, including the score by Henry Mancini (The Baby Elephant Walk is meandering through my mind right now).

Since this is a fantasy, could we ignore the terrorism and focus instead on the beauty of the country and the people?

BTW, before I forget, dear Hebba, I didn't mean to imply that you were the resident letch--just that you were being polite and tipping 20%. LOL.

The Wizardmobile as a safari wagon sounds perfect. What will we need for the trip besides Spam and General Hospital scripts?

Peace&Love whips out her laptop computer and clicks into the internet.

"I'm going to search for a site about giraffes, to find out what they eat. I want to have something to feed them, from the hotel window. What fun! A Safari, with wild animals!"

Peace&Love starts singing, and everyone joins in, singing harmony and the high parts, playing a low drum beat on anything they can find....

"In The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle, The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

Did someone mention Hatari Safari? A walk with the Lions? Booorn Freee

Good Brownies....

We got the spam, general hospital scripts, but wait - we need clickers for the Nile Trip <or do we make a right at the Gobi> who's got the map? Do we need a map - <gosh those brownies are good> opps we gotta stop for a second - there's wild shrooms growing in yonder pasture..........

Ooh, Born Free, the origin of me name!

Gotta go commune with the lions, though they might want me for lunch. Probably a lot safer to commune with the zebras (or, as my brother called them when he was a toddler, bezeberts).

On to a place where it's warm and there are large exotic critters and hopefully not too many large exotic insects!

Tally ho in the footsteps of Hemingway and the cast of "The Gods Must be Crazy"!

We don't need no steenkin' map . . . i know where everything is . . . an effen i doan, we doan need to go there . . . uh, who's drivin' this rather odd-lookin' vehicule?

Alright! A trip with someone who knows where they're going. This is very nice. We don't need a map......other's who know what we're going to see......a wizard mobile to take us......all we need is some spam and soap operas.....brownies. funny how these brownies make me feel sure that we don't need a map.

Ooooo, brownies . . . yum ! ! ! Take a left at Alaska, and then drive really, really fast, so's we doan git too wet . . . somebody mentioned they wanted to see the Gobi . . . When you hit the Yellow River, head straight on toward the sunset, then take another left in the middle of the Kansu Corridor . . .

Careful Setanta, don't eat too many of those brownies, they're magic, ya know. And too much magic may not be the best for our navagator......or maybe you operate better when magicified.

Well, long as we hang around the Gobi fer a . . . geeze, buddy, watch out fer Vancouver--damn, you almost hit it . . . hang around fer a while, the effect should . . . the effect should . . . the ef . . . sorry, effendi, what were ya sayin'?

Okay, an African destination sounds great but exactly where in Africa? Lake Victoria and Victoria Falls is beautiful this time of year and I promise to abstain from the Brownies until we get there. Meanwhile, is there anyone we left at Lola's to watch things? I left my laptop there.

Never fear, GW, we left Fifi, Jeffers, Withers, Prudence (Prudy) and a few cats to watch the place. I'm sure Withers has taken care of your lap top.....top priority at my place, second only to the happiness of my guests.

Oh my ~ are those coke bottles falling from the sky ~ where are we?

Shouldn't have eaten the shrooms ~ Lola, please pass the seltzer ~ pyramids along the nile brightly colored ~ zebras dapple gray, Arabian horses stripped ~ I'll just sit for a moment... was that a Yeti!

Stradee believes nap appropriate ~ she's seeing northern lights and we've not entered Alaska yet..........arn't we supposed to take a right at Bozeman, then straight to Canada, left at Victoria, then right to Alaska? or is it North to Alaska.......

Uh, as navigator, i refuse to answer on . . . the uh . . . the grounds that it . . . uh . . . might . . . uh . . . be a . . . definite buzzkill. Africa, i was . . . uh . . . (pssst, any more brownies left ???) . . . under the impression that . . . uh . . . we were agoin' to the Gobi, which am . . . uh . . . definitely in Asia . . . wow, dig that glacier ! ! !

Are we in Alaska yet ? as Stradee looks through Wizardmobile window. A glacier looms...there sitting in the noonday sun a Polar Bear wearing boots
a hat and fishing gear...seals sitting on lounge chairs with umbrellas...

Stradee blinks, then returns to napping..........

It appears we have an endless source of Brownies, a little gift from Heaven.........I was going to tell everyone something...........but I forgot what it was.......let's see, it had to do with something about how good it feels to step into a nice warm shower when it's cold outside and you've been out in the snow and your clothes are all wet and you're hungry and a peanut butter and banana sandwich with tomato soup would taste really goooood, but first you have to pull off the wet clothes and ...............yeah, Stradee, look at that glacier.........wow....hummmm.........wow....what was I saying?

That's now the WizardSUVAfricatrekkermobile (and it's not using any gasoline!) We are bumping along the African veldt trying to think of countries we can attack to secure their supply of Spam and old soapopera scripts (guess where? -- I see a UN Resolution in our future). Okay, I'll get the hell out of the poltical threads (more leakage -- Craven must be sleeping).

The cats will probably be sleeping on top of my laptop -- I've caught one of mine there when it's closed for the leftover heat.

Look -- there's a lion, and a panther and a hippo and...Marnie.
Marnie? Hope someone will pick up on that.