So, the next time one of you smart alex has something to say about my many stacks of books - (Read, Unread, Re-Reading) I can just smile and say "Tsundoku!"
I was fortunate enough to be around for both times Shari Lewis and her sock puppet family (including Lamb Chop, above) were famous. She was all over TV in the 50s and then burst back into the spotlight in the 90s with "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" on PBS. Although Shari (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz in 1933) died in 1998, Lamb Chop's image is still popular as a chew toy for dogs. I would have given anything to learn ventriloquism, but everyone says it's better for them that I didn't.
When you see Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg) performing this scene in "The Ten Commandments," just remember, five minutes earlier, he was hooving on a Lucky Strike, see?
A nice double rainbow over Citizens' Bank Park in Philadelphia. That's got to mean good luck, right?
From the lemonade-out-of-lemons playbook - if the giant hurricane last fall left you with a toppled tree in the yard, make a chair out of it! Looks like there's enough for an ottoman, too.
You don't get to be as old as the man born Willie Hugh Nelson 92 years ago as of April 29 without acquiring some essential wisdom, and he knows, and we know, that our blessings far outweigh our problems - and we wouldn't trade either with anyone.
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| You know him better as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, but to Central Pacific Divers of Lahaina, Hawaii, he is known as Steven V. Tallarico, Certified Diver. |
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| I have to find some excuse to go to Greenville, SC, to see the home of Shoeless Joe Jackson (Joseph Jefferson Jackson), the great baseball player over a century ago. It's a museum now. |
As the Secretary of Education would say, this must be A1. Apparently they're bringing a new season of The Simpsons to British TV and they wanted Big Ben to look like Really Big Marge. Cheerio!
An experienced cat gets at least three naps a day, and just fools around the rest of the time.
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