I’m listening to AM radio and reading a print newspaper.
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The Little Generator That Could
We’ve had the second storm of the season that, in the past, would have been a blizzard. Instead, it’s 60 degrees with high wind and heavy rain.
The power went out this morning and the utility doesn’t have an estimate when it will be restored. I fired up the portable generator and recharged my phone, which is now running as a Wi-Fi hotspot for the new laptop PC.
Yes, the garage floor needs to be resurfaced. It’s on the list.
Der Bingle in Davis Dorm
On the MOVIES! channel, now back on Boston OTA TV, I was intrigued when catching a bit of High Time, from 1960. In this Blake Edwards farce Bing Crosby, showing his age, starts college 30 years too late. Rodney Dangerfield would do the same thing in the 1986 remake.
Just knowing that Tuesday Weld and Yvonne Craig are in High Time was enough to pull me in, but seeing Bing in drag made it a must-see. Thanks to some fan’s hard work, it’s available in HD CinemaScope splendor on YouTube.
I’ve just started watching it, with the opening 20th Century Fox fanfare that will forever be associated with Star Wars. I had to laugh when Bing was assigned to Davis Dorm, because that’s where Denro and I met at Westfield State.
I’m only two degrees of separation away from Blake Edwards. I’ll explain later.
Fireplace Burns
This photo from Christmas, 1939 was taken in the living room of George Burns and Gracie Allen, with their adopted children, Ronnie and Sandra.
That is the second photo of the Burns living room I have seen. The first was the one my mother had. It was taken in late 40’s or early 50’s.
Mom’s dear lifelong friend Ted, who was gay, was George and Gracie’s personal secretary for almost 20 years. After Gracie died in 1964, George financed Ted’s successful interior decorating business.
In 1996, when my parents were preparing to retire in Arizona, Ted, who was retired in Tucson, took my mother house shopping. One of her visits had to be postponed because George Burns had died, and Ted was in charge of the memorial service, as well as some matters of the estate. After my father died, the Sun City West, AZ house I sold in 2018 was the one that Ted helped my mother find.
The Sunday Funnies – Surprise
As mentioned here not too long ago, Gannett/USA Today has standardized the selection of comic strips its member papers can use. By chance, last Sunday’s local Gannett paper included a surprise. In addition to the regular comics, shown on the left, there was the comics section for the Burlington Free Press, on the right.
And lookee at that. Burlington has four pages of Sunday comics, with the first two pages being identical to my local edition.
The long, slow withdrawal from printed newspapers in general, and syndicated comic strips in particular, continues. It’s just a little bit less painful in Vermont.
