1928-2024 |
Of course, we'll never know for sure, but she might have made one groovy First Lady.
Normalcy Reconsidered
For those of you who live in Ohio, the deadline to register to vote in the 2024 elections is October 7, this coming Monday. Above are all the things you need to know and do and be in order to register. However, it may not be all that easy to read as at some point the words shrink quite a bit (just what you need in an election where there's bound to be accusations of fraud and voter suppression: small print.) So as a further service I've included the following video provided by the good people at the Cuyahoga County Board of Election themselves in the hope of making things a bit more clear:
Actually, this cautionary tale takes place in the Queens, New York of the 1970s but I think it applies equally well to Cuyahoga County, Ohio of the 2020s as a man of many, many opinions suddenly finds himself unable to act upon a single one of those opinions. Watch:
Don't end up like Archibald. Register!
Maggie Smith (1934-2024) in 1952, a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
Rhodes Scholar Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024), circa 1958.
Keep this institution in your thoughts and prayers. It's been a rough week.
In 1937 anyway. By now it's all been digitalized.
Bugs Bunny is who we want to be. Daffy Duck is who we are.
--Chuck Jones
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable–this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
--Chuck Jones
Real sex wouldn't have been nearly as funny (though arguably still attention-getting.)
Ritter talks about the sitcom that made him a star and other things in this 1997 interview with Conan O'Brien:
Conan mentioned that John Ritter fell down quite a bit on Three's Company. Though I didn't want the man to hurt himself, I would say that was a good thing, as Ritter was one of the great physical comedy actors of his generation. See for yourself:
No slapstick, though Ritter's character may have put his foot in his mouth.