See?
The hair is shorter, but the noggin is still enormous.
I took a “before” photo of myself, which is horrifying.  I won’t post it; don’t ask.  And there’s another “after” photo that would’ve been better than this one, but it’s super fuzzy.  Just imagine it longer and scraggly.  Or you could just imagine how it looked [...]

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Bea Arthur died this morning. I’m so sad. Bea Arthur played Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls, of course, and she was my favorite Girl. I posted a list of favorite Sophia moments when Estelle Getty died last year, and I’m going to do the same now for Bea Arthur (and at [...]

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Picture it: Albany, 2008. I’m at work. I go online to check the news and read something very sad.
Estelle Getty died today, just three days before her 85th birthday. Anyone who knows me knows my love for The Golden Girls. Or you should, anyway. I can watch the same episode [...]

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The Pie is five today! She shares her birthday with America, which is great, because she looks great in red, white, and blue (and any other color, really). I can’t find a clip of Rudy on The Cosby Show saying “yay, five,” but I did find this fun animation from Sesame Street.

OK, maybe [...]

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This is mostly for Kristin, so she can see what the hell we’ve been talking about. (Everyone else who reads this blog already answered the question. Unless others are reading the blog and not commenting. If you’re doing that, comment already. If you’re not reading the blog, then you won’t see [...]

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Well, I’m not lost. I feel a bit lost, since it’s after midnight, I’ve been up since 4:30 a.m. yesterday morning, and I still can’t sleep. I’ve been wasting some time on YouTube, and I decided to watch (again!) this trailer for the new season of Lost, which starts next Thursday. I [...]

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The WGA and the AMPTP have agreed to resume negotiations on November 26th.
Besides all the other reasons, let’s hope this ends soon so this doesn’t end up in The Office’s time slot permanently.

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Writers are on strike. No, not me (although perhaps I should go on strike; it doesn’t seem like anyone reads what I write anyway). The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is on strike. Since Monday, November 5, they haven’t been writing. The most basic explanation I can give is that they’re [...]

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