Vital Viewing (Miracle Whipped Edition)

 

Oh, Gawd, there's ol' Sigmund again, trying to bore the hell out of us. Well, I'm not going to let him. You want wish fulfillment? I'll give you wish fulfillment:

If I remember the rest of the story correctly, the prince asks Cinderella to try on the slipper and that's how he knows she's the one he danced with the night before (you'd think he'd be able to tell just by looking at her face, but, who knows, he could have been boozing it up at that ball and so his memory's kind of fuzzy.) The both of them reportedly lived happily ever after. 

However, it's the unintended consequences of a wish fulfilled that we see in this next video:

To be on the safe side, make sure that fulfilled wish comes with a warranty.

Pat Oliphant 1935-2026

(Here's another post I did on Oliphant--Kirk)

Paris Is Burning

 

Looking for something to blog about, I checked to see if there were any holidays/observances today. I found two.

 In France, it's Bastille Day.

And the other holiday/observance?

Let's hear it for liberation--in whatever form it takes.

 

Quips and Quotations (Fernwood Femme Fatale Edition)

 

1939-2026

...Louise Lasser's Mary Hartman was lethally funny. She was the mirror image of a stretched-beyond-reason reality, to help the viewer see what the media and consumer culture was turning us into.

--Norman Lear

(I wrote about Lasser here--Kirk)