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For 6 years, beginning in 1975, when I was a young SAHM I started every morning with Regis. He hosted a 9am show in El Lay with Sarah Purcell for 3 years followed by Cyndy Garvey for 3 years (Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey's wife). My BFF and I scheduled our lives around that show. Room mother? Not until 10:30. Parent-teacher conference? Not until 10:30. Doctor appointment? Not until 10:30. Husband home on a snow day trying for nooky? Before 9:00 or after 10:00. Reege moved to the east coast in'81 or '82 and was off my radar for a few years but I was able to watch again when he went national. I enjoyed the Kathie Lee years (although her Frank-worship sometimes grated) and they were a great team. My daughter and I arranged the day off from work for KL's final show and we watched it at her house. I struggled through the early Ripa years but lost interest because of her and finally walked away. The Ripa snark here is always a pleasure. Have you noticed that her stammering happens only on this show? Never during her guest appearances elsewhere, never during the red carpet hosting she does? She pulls that stammering shit on her own show to hog air time. The more she stammers the more camera time she gets. Cannot stand the phony hag. Enough bad luck cannot come her way to satisfy me. Pffftt.

An idea for Janelle's next gig. Moldy Fruit Sculptures Formed From Precious Gemstones Challenge Perceptions of Decoration and Decay https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/kathleen-ryan-moldy-fruit/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/07/27/these-imaginary-scenes-depict-womens-struggle-with-domestic-perfection/ I came across this article today and the idea in general and the vivid colors caught my interest right away. She creates scenes and photographs them (and the scenes go on tour, which would be a fun outing). Sometimes the mannequin used in every scene is front and center but sometimes you have to look for her. LOL, Cat Lady. In the book, one poor lady is barely able to edge herself into the over-filled room where she stashes her purchases after Shopping. 😞 My sister likes "picture books" and spends hours poring over them so I ordered the book today for her birthday next month. My one quibble is that I am left wondering if women of color are represented in this book. There are four books in the series but I think the others are out of print. I wouldn't say I'm a collector but hoo boy I am an accumulator. From the site that sells the book: My work is about entangling women and home, leading to the phrase “housewife.” The photographs in “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise” comment on the mania of collecting, accumulating, and decorating a home, where the objects take over, and the woman is surrounded and/or crushed by her own possessions and obsessions, leading to disaster, mishaps and mayhem. All of the still-life, narrative photographs are re-imagined interior spaces of rooms filled with décor and objects, engulfing a lone figure of a woman, camouflaged with only bits of her visible. She is both a victim of her obsessions, activities and circumstances as well as the invisible creator of such; both satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous, silly and serious. The sequence of the book follows her path from glee to gloom, where her domestic activities take a dark turn, until the Anonymous Woman is wedged into the walls of her home. My influences come from many sources; colorful vintage movies, traditional still-life paintings, decorating magazines, a suburban upbringing, the game of clue, Victorian writing, etc. My intention with the work is to bring attention to unseen heroic women who silently run a home, family, and often careers. The figure symbolizes so many women, no matter what culture or background, with roots in consumer culture and how we use objects to provide continuity and tradition, yet how possessions can substitute for identity. While humor is prevalent in these narratives, the message behind them has darker implications about the role of women in all societies. Done in by a bag of rice: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/04/patty-carroll-anonymous-woman/ _ _ _ (Leave the gun, take the cannoli. What movie am I watching?)

Thank you to everyone for my birthday greetings. They lifted my spirits and were much appreciated. My thanks are delayed because I was without internet for nearly 48 hours. It's back now but still a bit spotty and Xfinity promised a pro-rated refund on the next bill. That was a nice surprise. Lots of reading to catch up on...

This is eerie timing. Watch for it tonight on your channel that carries Jeopardy. Reege and Carol Burnett, wowzer. JEOPARDY!' TO HONOR REGIS PHILBIN BY SHOWING 1992 EPISODE AS PART OF 'VAULT' SERIES The 1992 episode also features Carol Burnett and Donna Mills. As "Jeopardy!" airs classic episodes from its vault, the team a few weeks ago selected the first "Celebrity Jeopardy!" episode that ever aired, and it featured Regis Philbin. Monday night, the 1992 episode will be presented as a tribute to the talk-show legend, who died Friday at age 88. https://6abc.com/jeopardy-regis-philbin-celebrity-alex-trebek-vault-retro/6336868/

Khloe can't catch a break. Just as she gets it lined up with Tristan, bam, the Larsa rumor appears.

Happy Pandemic Birthday to me, holy hell I'm 70! Began the day with breakfast in bed while cranking vids on my TV via youtube. First, hair metal: Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Def, Quiet. Then Santana at Woodstock and Live Aid: Jagger, Pretenders, Dire Straits, U2, Queen! Next: Bob Dylan 30th anniversary tribute at MSG: McGuinn, Petty, Young, Clapton, Dylan, Harrison. Phew, took a much-needed nap. Beach Boys, BeeGees, Prince, Eagles and Journey are on the afternoon bill. Thank goodness for music because this is a sad and lonely birthday. Later: curbside pickup of gravel at Lowe's and entrees and dessert at Olive Garden. Will watch Dirty Dancing and sip Grand Marnier tonight, that's a tradition. You gals are the best! I love how we lean on each other and share and make each other laugh and cry. Thank you for everything.

New album not released this morning as promised. Hype and tweets followed by crickets.

Van Jones is aces! He's much too good for her.

In addition to the 950,000 advance copies? Wowzer.

Everything improves her digestion for five minutes.

It's an enduring mystery and sounds impossible, but it does taste like apple pie.

It will be entertaining to watch her troll for a new man, dragging along that big fat ass and four kids. Kanye worships her, it's not going to be easy to replace that.

Diseases and disorders create chaos. Addiction tells you that you are not ill, many disorders do as well. There's no halo of protection that guarantees endless patience or an endless number of chances. He's not living out of a shopping cart and sleeping in a cardboard box. He can afford the best mental care on the planet. He's been telling her who he is for many years, it's time to believe him.

I flove that movie, I keep watching it and noticing new things. Now I want the book, thanks for the tip. They are "small" actors who do everything with small moments and lines, which abound in that movie. Watching it usually puts me in the mood for Coming Home, where she starred with Jon Voight and Bruce Dern. Probably the finest Vietnam-era movie.

An op-ed in the Washington Post today. I don't think she's going to have time for a legal career because she is the new face of families dealing with mental illness. There are more than 700 comments, this is from the first one: Though I have never before, I went to "ye's" twitter account to read what he and his fans were saying. He was all over the place but mostly paranoid about his wife "Locking me up with a Dr.". By and large, his fans kept reassuring him that he was fine, and that it was Kim who needed help. Kim Kardashian West just performed a public service I never thought I’d begin a column by praising Kim Kardashian West, but I do so today. [snip] I suppose that to some that might sound self-serving: Kardashian West and her family have been monetizing their personal dramas for years. But by sharing her anguish, Kardashian West spoke for countless families in the same dire situation — watching a spouse, sibling, parent or adult child go through a process of self-destruction and being powerless to intervene. I hope she is able to persuade her husband to seek help. And I hope someday he realizes how lucky he is to have her by his side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kim-kardashian-west-just-performed-a-public-service/2020/07/23/fb02464e-cd0e-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-f-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans#comments-wrapper

I watched a couple Kim and creeper Ken episodes, including one in Hawaii. They each were using the other the entire time and had some strange conversations. They flaked on everything in Hawaii, her period was three months late (!!!) and Ken spent half his time talking to her through locked bathroom doors. Their shit was all haphazard everywhere, mounds and piles, and stacked on the floor. One of my exes many years ago (who I didn't know was formerly a tweeker) started a job with a moving company and I went to their office once and met the boss and a couple co-workers. I was not convinced I would leave in one piece. This was before cell phones and I remember thinking "No one knows I'm here." No overt threats but there literally was evil in the air and dripping down the walls. Can't explain it better than that. I found out pretty soon afterward that he got a job there because he was starting to use again. First clue was that he started "finding" things = people who are moving trust strangers with their possessions. I sniffed some of that evil on Kim and Ken.

Glad you enjoyed it. Summer is all about the Beach Boys and smelling Coppertone. I posted something for you in the Small Talk thread.

@geauxaway Wondering if you have seen this vid. There are a few more in the Lost Studio Footage series on youtube. The guys on keyboard, drums and upright bass are obviously not Beach Boys. They are from the Wrecking Crew, session musicians who played in El Lay recording studios during production (and quite often on the final cut) for hundreds of songs by numerous artists. Hal Blaine the drummer was highly in demand and holds a record for how many hit songs he backed. He died last year. Brian Wilson was a straight-up genius but my crush was Denny, on drums. He's the one who winks at the camera. He had issues later and some problems shaking the Manson family loose. He was homeless when he drowned, alone in the Pacific one night. The Wilson dad was an asshole and Denny got the worst of it. RIP, dude. Anyway, this footage is from 1966, enjoy...

Because of True she already has dibs on staying in his life after he leaves and with a second kid, so much the better. She can lord it over the next fling and the next fling and... Who's to say a second kid is the limit?

I was such a huge Beach Boys fan that I remember when the older Wilson sister was born during my senior year in high school. My ex thumped Mike Love in his front yard when Mike kept talking shit about his car from across the street. Mike and the three Wilson brothers are cousins and Mike was visiting an aunt or an in-law across the street and kept running his mouth. The ex kept saying Come over here and say that, come over here. Guys and their rides in the '60s, right? Muscle cars and warm SoCal summer nights. Mike finally walked over and that's all it took. He was 6 years older, a cocky punk picking on a teenager. But it was over right quick, LOL.

My eyes bugged out, which interfered with my vision for a couple minutes, was a power cord for that sign snaking down the wall? Because visible power cords send me into a jabbering frenzy. TIA if anyone noticed that detail.

Makes me wonder if his parents live in Saint George and if so do they spend time with them?

Well... they ARE the cookie butter recipe. I wonder how stale they are when they arrive, or how melted and stuck together? Can you imagine trying to lodge a complaint with that hag if you're dissatisfied?

The artist did a great job. If you look carefully you can just barely make out where Charlie was. Now you see him, now you don't, LOL.