Thursday was one long, grey, cool smear, ending with this, and a big Friday thread-busting question.
I feel like I’m not doing enough, somehow – doing everything all the time makes you feel as if you’re doing nothing as well as you should. That’s the way this week was, and I’m glad to see its end. I apologize for the lackluster Bleatage this weekend, but I guarantee this: at least two more updates today, including the inevitable “100 Mysteries.” Oh, there would have been more here, but:
1. Sis-in-law and niece came over for birthday cake for Natalie, and lo, the shriekage was sublime. It’s fun to see them have fun. Upon learning that the niece would be performing in a tot version of “Annie,” I broke into “Tomorrow” at high volume, sung like an idiot, and made her snort ice cream up her nasal passages. Mission accomplished. They ran off to play all sorts of spontaneous games, one of which involved being DJs in an “iron-glass window room” in China, which was “a very small country, but the largest country in the world.” Or so my daughter told me, rolling her eyes.
2. I had to write the Newsbreak for tomorrow – not a difficult job, but it means collecting and crunching video and pictures. I tell you, once you decide to preview TCM’s Harold Lloyd night, you absolutely have to find some examples of his 3D nudie art. You just do.
3. Had to write the morning blog entry, since I want this thing to work.
4. Had to take out the garbage. It’s recycling night. Recall I spoke of Coke / Mentos detonation experiments at Nat’s birthday party? Right. Six empty plastic bladders. They did not want to go in the bag; they did not want to stay in the bag, and upon being trotted to the curb, they leaped out and rolled down the hill. Then there was the giant cardboard boxes left by Boris, the Russian Dishwasher Repairman. He came yesterday to fix the appliance, and explained that he had not encountered any Electroluxes.
“Whirlpool, yes,” he said. “Many Whirlpool. I am surprise to see Electrolux.”
In a way, he almost spoke in LOL cats: “I can leaf box?”
Yes you can, and I can has fun time getting it all outside.
Hardly reasons not to produce a long wobbly Bleat, let alone a Diner (more about that later, he said, tantalizingly) but now and then I got a free moment, and did something that was not directly related to producing content on the computer for the internet. Now and then you need some time apart. Plus, I’m bored. All the projects and struggles and ideas and enthusiasms are over or stalled, and I’m just spinning my wheels. I hate this.
One long, grey, cool smear.
So: column is here. (Scroll down a bit; too tired for get the direct link.) Strib Blog, with new stuff of course, is here. See you later this afternoon with Comic Ads: Bikes, and later tonight with 100 Mysteries. And of course Newsbreak at Startribune.com after noon – can you guess how I’ll work in Harold Lloyd’s nudie pix? No? Well, then you’ll have to tune in.
Oh, right: Big Friday Thread Question:
Your First Celebrity Crush.
This should be interesting.
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YES to Julie Newmar as Catwoman. I even wrote teenage fanfic starring Capt. Kirk and Catwoman bumping nasties.
YES to Yvonne Craig as Batgirl and the Orion girl in ST:TOS
AND – France Nuyen in ST:TOS as Elaan of Troyus in that incredible Bill Theiss gown that had to be worn sans knickers – who knew the bare side of the hip could be so sexy?
My top ten, most from the 70s.
1. Jacqueline Bissett, circa The Deep. She hasn’t been mentioned yet, but the opening 5 minutes of that movie jammed me into adolescence with a vengeance.
2. I also had, as a kid, the Marlo Thomas “That Girl” obsession where I had to see every episode. I think it was the opening credits; the parasol and short skirts were quite something.
3. Cheryl Ladd. She seemed both more wholesome and more sexy than Farrah.
4. Tina Louise as Ginger. I’ve never understood why Mary Ann seems to win that debate.
5. Ann Margret. Tommy. Beans.
6. Juliet Mills as “Nanny”.
7. Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap.
8. Cheryl Tiegs.
9. Angie Dickinson. Ageless.
10. Mia Farrow.
@looneytick
Your daughter has excellent taste.
@femgeek
Waiting for your physics degree to result in a transporter-I’m so tired of wasting an hour a day getting to work.
Spock was my crush in high school, and I enjoyed Scotty’s exploits. But this was before they encouraged girls to do engineering, so after my BS in forestry/wildlife, it took another 15 years to realize I was meant to be an engineer (give me a nice technical paper and slack time to read it and I’m a happy woman!)
Later, I married a man who I realized looked like Tom Selleck (Magnum PI) would look if I fed him home made cookies like I did my husband. Still married to him after 30 years (my husband, not Tom Selleck).
Sorry I missed this. Have been on vacation with no internet. My first was Hayley Mills. Saw her in “Tiger Bay” with Horst Bucholz when I was 11. Was hooked immediately.
Not a TV star, but punk rock diva: Siouxsie Sioux
Reading other comments, I realize I had forgotten the mad crush I had on Mouseketeer Cheryl Holdridge before Hayley Mills. Cheryl later married Lance Reventlow, F1 race driver and maker of the Scarab race car. Reventlow was also married to another heartthrob mentioned in this thread: Jill St. John.
Dang, I keep forgetting all my early crushes. The youngest Lennon Sister (Janet) on the Lawrence Welk Show may have preceded Cheryl of the Mickey Mouse Club in my celebrity crush chronology.
@Seattle_Dave
Did you notice her in the recent “Race to Witch Mountain”? She and brother Tony had cameos. Her niece Paris Hilton looks so much like her.
Glynis Johns (The Sword and the Rose, The Court Jester, No Highway in the Sky); I had no idea she was older than my dad.
Inger Stevens
Julie Newmar
Not sure of the exact order, not that it matters.
@bellczar – I did not. I’ll have to see that. Also didn’t realize Paris Hilton was her niece. That could explain my strange attraction/revulsion response to Paris.
@Eddie Oh crap! I had completely forgotten about Caroline Ellis and “The Bugaloos.” Yeah.
Yeah.
Ditto to whomever mentioned Connie Hines as Wilbur Post’s wife. Yowza!
Also, Mary Anne as opposed to Ginger.
Also, Bailey as opposed to Jennifer on WKRP.
Also, the woman who played the fake nazi chick on that episode of Star Trek with Skip Homeier as the bad nazi.
To whomever mentioned the obvious Jacqueline Bisset in “The Deep”, I say, how about her “The Sweet Ride” with Tony Franciosa? huminahumina
And (and I know I mentioned this in a Twitter to you JL), Angel Tompkins from Search (and, subsequently, Playboy). ah OOOO gah!
Ok, back to being an adult. Kinda sorta.
@bgbear (roger h)
They were in an early episode of The Odd Couple together. Pamela would go on to play Felix’s daughter later on in the series. “Bunny is Missing Down by the Lake” is the episode. imdb.com/title/tt0664216/