Dorie’s Different Reality

Not quite, but that’s what Friday was on The Mickey Mouse Club show when I was a wee’un. Sometimes Bobby would tap dance. I can’t remember, was it Jimmy or Roy that did rope tricks? Often they had special guest kid performers; like a 13 yr old ventriloquist-stuff like that. I tell ya- it was […]

I wish my life was non-stop Hollywood movie show
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die
-Ray Davies & The Kinks, 1972
And now Harvey Korman has passed on. The Lord said there were many mansions, and I like to think there might be some […]

I love that phrase! Lindsay Wagner (the original Bionic Woman) uses the term in a commercial for that bed that has the numbers. I don’t think I got my recuperative sleep last night. I feel a bit achy and could go back to bed easily. I have “weather dogs”- when it’s gray and drizzily, […]

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
No day is complete without a bit of trivia. I had to look this up: today marks my 14th leap year day- the first occured in 1956! Also, […]

My big American feet wanted some girly pink socks! And I’ve rounded the heel and headed for the home stretch! It’s a “diamond” pattern that repeats over 4 rows. I’m finding that lots of the lovely lacy patterns have so many different lines of pattern that they task my brain! 4 rows I can handle. […]

GGGGgggreeen Bay Lost! At least it was way close. I have to admit that the Giants come up with good kickers. (I used to be inordinately fond of Ali Hagji Sheik- I think it’s because I expected him to come onto the field on a flying carpet. ) Oh well, next they have THE […]

This blog is going to collapse on itself if all the YouTube videos disappear! This morning I was looking for Christmas carols. This is not one.
This is the first time I’ve seen this gal. Her name is Ruslana. She’s  from Ukraine.  She won the Eurovision song contest in 2004, and records in English too. Her sound and […]

Well, when this post gets published, it means I’ve made it through “NaBloPoMo”! It’s been fun. I’ve met some new people. I didn’t get writer’s block too many times. I’m not going away, but I’ll probably slack back to writing every 2/3 days as I did before.
In Celebrity News: Brett Favre got hurt in the […]

Columbus Day sure isn’t what it used to be. When I was in school, I recall a lot of films, poems, even the occasional reenactment by the kids of the Columbus story. How he crossed the ocean and discovered the New World for Spain’s King and Queen: Ferdinand and Isabella-darlings of the Inquisition. It’s not […]

Well after yesterday’s “Chinese taking over the world” post, I’ll try.
Film: Technically one was tv on dvd. It was the first disc in the “Best of Jack Paar”  collection. He was the king of late night before Johnny Carson. Back when there were only 3 networks, he was a very powerful cultural influence. This disc […]