After much tramping about and drilling two holes in the back of my apartment building (the first of which went into a side wall rather than through into my unit as intended) by a Comcast tech and much restraining of Ari the Humongous Tabby from getting in his way by me, I finally have cable television service working. Now I don't have to worry about whether I can get the Heroes season premiere live on Monday night or have to download it. A small thing, in the grand scheme, surely...but it means another nagging problem has at last been solved.
Sep. 22nd, 2007
Today's Meme: Recipe for one crazy Cajun
Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:25 pmGastronomically gacked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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not_the_pope:| ThatCrazyCajun - a teaspoon of romance - a pound of honesty - a gallon of ambition Serve hot. | |
| 'What is your personality recipe?' at QuizGalaxy.com | |
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redaxe for the tip: It is my sad duty to report a television icon of our childhoods (at least, if you're younger than about 50) has died. Yesterday, the world lost Alice Ghostley, veteran character actress best known as Samantha Stephens' eccentric-but-lovable Aunt Esmerelda on Bewitched, and later as the Sugarbaker sisters' equally dotty friend Bernice Clifton on Designing Women. She died at 81 in her Studio City, CA home following a series of strokes and a long battle with colon cancer. The Associated Press reports the story here.
So beloved were she and her most famous role that not one, but two later shows featuring witch characters paid homage to her by offering her guest spots: NBC's over-the-top daytime soap opera Passions and ABC's long-running prime-time sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, based (loosely) on the Archie Comics character. IMDB.com's page on Ms. G. also offers that she accepted her pal Maggie Smith's Academy Award for her in 1969, the latter being in London filming at the time she was honored for her perf in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Probably the closest the poor old girl ever got to winning an Oscar® herself, which is a damned shame.
One hopes that her old Bewitched castmate Agnes Moorehead (Endora) will look her up for tea when she gets to heaven. Thanks for all the laughs, ma'am.
redaxe for the tip: It is my sad duty to report a television icon of our childhoods (at least, if you're younger than about 50) has died. Yesterday, the world lost Alice Ghostley, veteran character actress best known as Samantha Stephens' eccentric-but-lovable Aunt Esmerelda on Bewitched, and later as the Sugarbaker sisters' equally dotty friend Bernice Clifton on Designing Women. She died at 81 in her Studio City, CA home following a series of strokes and a long battle with colon cancer. The Associated Press reports the story here.So beloved were she and her most famous role that not one, but two later shows featuring witch characters paid homage to her by offering her guest spots: NBC's over-the-top daytime soap opera Passions and ABC's long-running prime-time sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, based (loosely) on the Archie Comics character. IMDB.com's page on Ms. G. also offers that she accepted her pal Maggie Smith's Academy Award for her in 1969, the latter being in London filming at the time she was honored for her perf in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Probably the closest the poor old girl ever got to winning an Oscar® herself, which is a damned shame.
One hopes that her old Bewitched castmate Agnes Moorehead (Endora) will look her up for tea when she gets to heaven. Thanks for all the laughs, ma'am.
Today's Editorial Cartoon of the Day
Sep. 22nd, 2007 08:09 pmJust had to pass this one along after hearing all the foofaraw over recent books by Alan Greenspan, George Tenet et al. Courtesy of Politico.com via the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists website:
Matt Wuerker Politico.com Sep 20, 2007 |
